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Bugfixes

• A bug in the squeezing logic caused a wrong hexdump, see #62 (@awidegreen)
• Some colors are printed even if they're disabled, see #64 (@awidegreen)
• Fixed build failure on OpenBSD 6.5, see #61

Features

• Added support for squeezing where reoccuring lines are squashed together and visualized with an asterisk. A new -v/--no-squeezing option can be used to disable the feature. For details, see #59 (@awidegreen)
• Added a new --border option with support for various styles (Unicode, ASCII, None), see #54 (@dmke)
• The --length/-n argument can be passed as a hexadecimal number (hexyl -n 0xff /dev/urandom), see #45 (@Qyriad)
• Added --bytes/-c as an alias for --length/-n, see #48 (@selfup)

Changes

• Print header immediately before the first line, see #51 (@mziter)

Features

• Added a new --color=always/auto/never option which can be used to control hexyls color output, see #30 (@bennetthardwick)
• Use 16 colors instead of 256, see #38

Changes

• Various speed improvements, see #33 (@kballard)

Bugfixes

• Proper Ctrl-C handling, see #35
• Proper handling of broken pipes (hexyl … | head)

• Various (huge) performance improvements, see #23 and #24 (@kballard)
• Replaced 24-bit truecolor ANSI codes by 8-bit codes to support more terminal emulators, fixes #9

Initial release