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2.13.0 (2024-04-03)

Features

• curl: Complete protocols for --proto-default (7051379)
• ip: Add completion for netconf subcommand (03a10ff)
• ip: Complete commands for netns exec (1f03796)
• ip: Complete help for unknown subcommands (21f7e32)
• ip: Complete ip link property (efa663c)
• ip: Complete link types for address show (ca5ea03)
• ip: Complete neigh show and flush (c7c3c03)
• ip: Complete stats subcommand (cd73e8c)
• ip: Create function to get link types (8e60245)
• rg: add fallback 3rd party completion loader (7e4cc2f)
• xmllint,xmlwf: also suggest *.rss files (a89cde2)

Bug Fixes

• available_interfaces: fix regression of unwanted trailing colons (c2f83e0)
• ip: Complete addrlabel add/del properties (ea07616)
• ip: Complete ip delete with type correctly (f3a9be3)
• ip: Complete more variations of subcommands (c8920c5)
• ip: Complete netns attach subcommand (bfb1de6)
• ip: Complete only relevant addrlabel subcmds (05147f1)
• ip: Keep completing after -netns name (1a5df4f)
• ip: Quote all instantiation of ip as "$1" (ef25163)
• ip: Quote network namespace names (216734b)
• Makefile: include api-and-naming.md in dist (fdd8048)

2.12.0 (2024-02-21)

Features

• _comp_backup_glob: add ucf generated backup files (351be1c)
• _comp_backup_glob: require dash in dpkg backup files (59a57f9)
• comp_compgen{filedir,set}: define exit status (7920c9d)
• _comp_compgen_commands: align return value with other compgens (9d3362e)
• _comp_compgen_commands: auto set -o filenames when appropriate (4d4839e)
• _comp_compgen_commands: include dirs (b9c7b5d)
• _comp_compgen_known_hosts: return 2 on usage error (43bb8f0)
• _comp_compgen: support -i cmd and -x cmd (39cc200)
• _comp_compgen: support -U var to unlocal var (b603535)
• _comp_compgen: support option -C (6b3dfa5)
• _comp_expand_glob: fail when no paths are generated (6b0a466)
• _comp_get_fist_arg: support "-o GLOB" to skip optargs (0f14cc0)
• _ip_addresses: auto ltrim colon completions when appropriate (ccdf953)
• add _comp_compgen_split (542bf73)
• add _comp_locate_first_arg (0384bd5)
• airflow: add fallback 3rd party completion loader (bf5550b)
• ansible:* add fallback 3rd party completion loader (5f8384e)
• apt-get: prefer apt-cache in same dir as command (a731bfd)
• b2sum: new completion (cd985df)
• bash_completion: add function _comp_compgen_ltrim_colon (ce5889b)
• black,blackd: add fallback 3rd party completion loader (47a1f05)
• carton: support exec command completions (0eb3a21)
• chezmoi: add 3rd-party completion loader (cobra) (31baa69)
• conda: add 3rd-party completion loader (argcomplete) (c0f5ba2)
• crc: add 3rd-party completion loader (cobra) (f10866e)
• cz: add fallback 3rd party completion loader (b7ba70e)
• dot: support filename extension .gv (be0010e)
• dprint: add fallback 3rd party completion loader (e201e0e)
• eog: add missing extension .heif (9e4a48f)
• eog: associate with *.avif and *.webp (#1005) (f1c04b8)
• eog: associate with *.heic and *.jxl (20c9cea)
• eog: associate with *.pbm (#1006) (5472cc1)
• feh: associate with y4m and heic/heif/avif (e252c73)
• feh: deassociate with avci/avcs (af46f34)
• flask: add fallback 3rd party completion loader (3e0d00d)
• hash: new completion (#1013) (4d0bffb)
• httpx: add fallback 3rd party completion loader (3f4861c)
• ip: Add completion for monitor subcommand (fa696e6)
• jungle: add fallback 3rd-party completion loader (c69845a)
• keyring: add fallback 3rd party completion loader (8082602)
• kontena: add fallback 3rd-party completion loader (5eef0ce)
• lefthook: add fallback 3rd party completion loader (dc9650e)
• mailman: prefer list_lists in same dir as command (a46ccf1)
• mysql: prefer mysqlshow from same dir (643886c)
• no empty command completion if no_empty_cmd_completion is on (faab292)
• npm: add fallback 3rd-party completion loader (f1c085c)
• nvm: add fallback 3rd-party completion loader (dea7e1d)
• oc: add 3rd-party completion loader (cobra) (26b5f09)
• pip{,3}: add fallback 3rd-party completion loader (e3cbfba)
• pipenv: add fallback 3rd party completion loader (#1020) (6ecf5bd)
• pytest: complete new --import-mode value (#1021) (2d636a3)
• rtx: add fallback 3rd party completion loader (0628e22)
• scp,sftp: prefer ssh from same dir to resolve options etc (d55f5e6)
• ssh-copy-id,ssh-keygen: prefer ssh from same dir (5c1d270)
• ssh-inscribe: add fallback 3rd party completion loader (7f2c197)
• ssh: complete RequiredRSASize (#1064) (de15205)
• tkn-pac: add 3rd-party completion loader (cobra) (d0f2604)
• tkn: add 3rd-party completion loader (cobra) (161fc5d)
• xrandr: comma separated --setmonitor third argument (8a76f3d)

Bug Fixes

• __load_completion: quoted compspec for variants (#1008) (0a2443e)
• _cd_devices: /dev/cdc-* CDC device false positives (5250728)
• _comp__init_set_up_service_completions: work around failglob (2529d40)
• comp{first_arg,count_args}: count - as argument (e23a79e)
• comp{first_arg,count_args}: count any arguments after -- (9bfd760)
• _comp_command_offset: Support complete -C (80450ca)
• _comp_compgen_fstypes: avoid unexpected expansions (a856d81)
• _comp_compgen_help: allow dots to connect names in longopt (79dadfc)
• _comp_compgen_known_hosts: work around bash-4.2 nounset (d2860cb)
• _comp_compgen_split: work around nounset (f488f96)
• _comp_compgen_term: replace completions by default (d3696a3)
• _comp_compgen_usergroup: avoid directly overwriting COMPREPLY (d380498)
• _comp_compgen: do not inherit -a for explicitly specified var (3c20766)
• _comp_compgen: explicitly exclude cur from the target variable (5fe98f3)
• _comp_count_args: check optarg correctly (874c503)
• _comp_count_args: exclude <>& from wordbreaks as _comp_initialize (521d2bb)
• _comp_count_args: ignore empty $3 (76eea74)
• _comp_count_args: perform optarg check also on $3 (21d3122)
• _comp_count_args: skip reassembling cword and words (3127703)
• _comp_delimited: treat delimiter as a fixed string (571a0f7)
• _comp_deprecate_func: argument order in usage error message (597f62f)
• _comp_get_words: empty prev if unavailable (localvar_inherit) (d8b8eef)
• _comp_initialize: fix completions of redirections without space (da16bf6)
• _comp_initialize: protect against "localvar_inherit" (0cc8d83)
• _comp_split,_comp_compgen: strip periods from error message (b3b6a7c)
• _comp_split: update error message for the correct options (3c4a89c)
• _comp_sysvdirs: work around nounset (da26178)
• _filedir_xspec: clean up unused variable tmp (67f1189)
• _get_cword_at_cursor,cvs: quote array length (201239c)
• _get_first_arg: remove invalid doccomment (eb40f56)
• _known_hosts: use array for options (work around SC2178,SC2179) (743d0a9)
• _mock,rpm: avoid icase flag s/reg/rep/i of GNU sed (33c18ce)
• _service: quote word (c2d7fb7)
• _slackpkg: do not scan after cword (ecd1384)
• 7z: remove redundant printf '%s\n' "..." (20c2e32)
• ant: work around custom IFS (584e567)
• apt-cache: check all the words (84cfeda)
• aptitude: do not use non-POSIX BRE \w (cd8c870)
• aspell: use _comp_expand_glob against unexpected splitting (58d5176)
• bash_completion: remove some unnecessary -a to _comp_compgen (636bb7c)
• bts: update functions to generators and fix variable conflicts (7d2867c)
• carton: remove a branch never happening (cd063f9)
• chgrp: fix typo _comp_compgen{d => _}filedir (#1063) (4c98ce5)
• compat: find compat dir for prefix-install (b6d06bc)
• completions/*: quote array assignments properly (848aa41)
• completions/*: scan until cword instead of ${#words[@]}-1 (17e0cc3)
• completions/*: work around localvar_inherit (e3a871d)
• curl,koji: use _comp_compgen_help (f37f221)
• curl,qemu: avoid using POSIX character classes for mawk (d60c530)
• curl: colon handling for IPv6 address completions (8508d1d)
• cvs,mutt,pkg_delete: quote prefix to remove for literal matching (533903e)
• cvs: avoid variable conflicts (0d145c9)
• dict: nounset error when host/port not set (57191e2)
• dict: protect splitting from custom IFS (b31fe1e)
• dict: work around bash-4.2 array nounset (d76dd9e)
• dict: work around bash-4.3 ${v+"$@"} with custom IFS (cc21298)
• dmypy: protect against "localvar_inherit" (768ce65)
• dpkg-source: filter completions by cur (dbcef6e)
• filedir: work around bash-4.2 compgen -f -- "''" (c8bb123)
• fix problems with set -o nounset (9c3e196)
• gdb: fix regression that fails to generate command names (ca8e240)
• gdb: remove duplicate candidates (532fc05)
• gdb: use POSIX-compatible find expression (73938cd)
• gdb: work around bash 4.4 ${v+"$@"} (41236da)
• get_words: work around bash-4.3 connected ${v+"$@"} (81affbd)
• getent: check noargopts (6143f25)
• getent: work around localvar_inherit (a12f438)
• gzip,isort: fix typo _comp_com{gp => pg}en (462feb3)
• iperf,puppet: use {m,n} instead of ? and + for POSIX sed (3f0322b)
• iperf: work around failglob with backslash in bash-5.0 (979f04f)
• ip: Remove non-existent route completion (3b9ce4d)
• isql: work around nounset (cb7007a)
• java,kldload: use _comp_compgen for filename-based mod names (81adc6c)
• java: localize cur (ec0068d)
• kcov,povray: quote array expansions to avoid extra processing (215edab)
• kldload,mplayer,mutt: work around nounset (5330fbe)
• kldunload: remove unused -X option (35017d2)
• known_hosts_real: match *.pub instead of *pub (470a644)
• known_hosts_real: use _comp_expand_glob to avoid failglob (672215e)
• known_hosts_real: work around nounset (07c619a)
• lilo,rpcdebug,slapt-{get,src}: work around nounset (cfc3eda)
• lvm: replace array slices with existing utility (ea49840)
• lvm: update call to sub-command (30494f7)
• make: handle multiple short options in skipping arguments (24c80c9)
• make: typo fix in a code comment (e72cc82)
• mdadm,update-alternatives: fix leak variable (14cd53b)
• medusa: filter completions by the current word cur (f3ae706)
• mr: avoid ${var/pat/$'...'} for compat42 in bash >= 4.3 (b5ae5fa)
• mr: exactly match command names (800b103)
• mutt: avoid unexpected word splitting (3183e67)
• mutt: fix use of regex in the glob context (63924e6)
• mutt: rewrite ${cur/#!/X} to X${cur:1} against patsub_replacement (6b8f82b)
• mutt: use _comp_dequote for safe eval (f98379d)
• openssl: avoid variable conflicts (a31906c)
• openssl: fix variable i leak (83844b7)
• perl: fix ineffective condition in an awk script (302dc52)
• perl: helper call regression from 01611dd3d (b85263a)
• pgrep: do not rely on uncontrolled IFS (99e38b2)
• portinstall: use awk and _comp_compgen to filter completions (791f56c)
• povray,sbopkg: check filetype (434eb08)
• povray: process each element against patsub_replacement (0afc2e4)
• povray: quote an argument properly (0a240bd)
• ps,ss: avoid extra expansions by -W "$(...)" in _comp_delimited (cb347cb)
• pydoc: specify -a to _comp_compgen_filedir (34a91e9)
• pytest: do not filter underscores from parsed option arg choices (ea13241)
• python: avoid variable conflicts (bef94c3)
• python: complete filenames for script arguments (#1018) (397a49d)
• python: complete micropython and pyston script args consistently (5b60ccc)
• qdbus: remove cur and all the rest arguments (531b751)
• replace \s with [[:space:]] for POSIX sed/awk (1989ba9)
• ri: avoid interference on existing COMPREPLY (0a9d931)
• ri: fix wrongly quoted options to compgen (5248bbf)
• ri: properly split methods (910a5a0)
• ri: split classes using _comp_split (c95baa1)
• ri: work around localvar_inherit (9d6ff68)
• sbopkg: add ; mandatory before } in POSIX sed (b286d53)
• sbopkg: work around nounset (9709bdf)
• scp: nounset mode error on unknown suboption, bash 4.2 (82ca8d9)
• ssh-copy-id: call ssh, not -copy-id for suboption completion check (473278f)
• ssh-keygen: call ssh, not -keygen to resolve supported protocols (d569ea2)
• ssh-keygen: first arg to ssh query for protocol versions (8a0a71e)
• ssh: avoid variable conflicts (f2df91d)
• ssh: fix wrong quoting inside compgen -W (febb3b3)
• ssh: remove -a of generators (55c5c45)
• ssh: remove unnecessary -a to _comp_compgen (992f28e)
• ssh: resolve relative ssh_config Include correctly (4ac86e8)
• ssh: use _comp_compgen for _comp_xfunc_ssh_identityfile (05e70ed)
• ssh: work around bash-4.2 nounset (4447f83)
• ssh: work around bash-4.2 nounset (d0695d0)
• sudo: use $1 (sudo) as $root_command (329ca0e)
• svcadm: fix ineffective IFS for splitting (1fd456e)
• svcadm: use the first matching name as command (1870d5e)
• sysbench: fix extraction of test-name option (cc246a1)
• timeout: always treat word after duration as command (0d0531b)
• tipc: remove filtered-out elements (75b36b2)
• update-alternatives: quote dirname (1205ed1)
• update-alternatives: suppress error for non-existent directory (adbdab8)
• update-alternatives: work around localvar_inherit (1d9e19c)
• upgradepkg: use _comp_compgen for _comp_cmd_upgradepkg (a0973d7)
• use _comp_compgen_split to avoid extra expansions by -W "$(...)" (49997d0)
• use _comp_compgen_split to split and filter words (158b8ba)
• use _comp_compgen_split while keeping filtering by $cur (a00ee19)
• use _comp_compgen for word list (83f033f)
• use _comp_split while keeping filtering by $cur (509e642)
• use compgen -P prefix -W '"${arr[@]}"' against patsub_replacement (45d036a)
• use XPG4 awk in Solaris (cdd6da9)
• wol: filter IP addresses by cur (c3505c5)
• wtf: quote array assignment (44c1d12)
• xfreerdp: support the new form of the option /list:kbd (d8cadfe)
• xfunc ssh identityfile: localize change to cur (76b5726)

Performance Improvements

• _comp_count_args: skip reinitializing cword and words (29398ef)
• mutt: return earlier on empty cur (a244587)
• portinstall: return earlier for -lLo and non-existent file (395e463)
• vncviewer: set nocasematch inside subshell (5ed0020)

Main things to notice in this release:

• 4.2 is now the oldest supported version of bash
• we should be compatible with nounset mode from now on

Other than that, the usual bunch of smaller items, see CHANGES or the git commit log for details.