v3.40.0

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• Fixed output of some functions (e.g. splitArgs/splitLines) not working in for loops (#1822, #1823 by @stawii).
• Added a new TASK_OFFLINE environment variable to configure the --offline flag and expose it as a special variable in the templating system (#1470, #1716 by @vmaerten and @pd93).
• Fixed a bug where multiple remote includes caused all prompts to display without waiting for user input (#1832, #1833 by @vmaerten and @pd93).
• When using the "Remote Taskfiles" experiment, you can now include Taskfiles from Git repositories (#1652 by @vmaerten).
• Improved the error message when a dotenv file cannot be parsed (#1842 by @pbitty).
• Fix issue with directory when using the remote experiment (#1757 by @pbitty).
• Fixed an issue where a special variable was used in combination with a dotenv file (#1232, #1810 by @vmaerten).
• Refactor the way Task reads Taskfiles to improve readability (#1771 by @pbitty).
• Added a new option to ensure variable is within the list of values (#1827 by @vmaerten).
• Allow multiple prompts to be specified for a task (#1861, #1866 by @mfbmina).
• Added new template function: numCPU, which returns the number of logical CPUs usable (#1890, #1887 by @Amoghrd).
• Fixed a bug where non-nil, empty dynamic variables are returned as an empty interface (#1903, #1904 by @pd93).

v3.39.2

• Fix dynamic variables not working properly for a defer: statement (#1803, #1818 by @vmaerten).

v3.39.1

• Added Renovate configuration to automatically create PRs to keep dependencies up to date (#1783 by @vmaerten).
• Fixed a bug where the help was displayed twice (#1805, #1806 by @vmaerten).
• Fixed a bug where ZSH and PowerShell completions did not work when using the recommended method. (#1813, #1809 by @vmaerten and @shirayu)
• Fix variables not working properly for a defer: statement (#1803, #1814 by @vmaerten and @andreynering).

v3.39.0

• Added Env Precedence Experiment (#1038, #1633 by @vmaerten).
• Added a CI lint job to ensure that the docs are updated correctly (#1719 by @vmaerten).
• Updated minimum required Go version to 1.22 (#1758 by @pd93).
• Expose a new EXIT_CODE special variable on defer: when a command finishes with a non-zero exit code (#1484, #1762 by @dorimon-1 and @andreynering).
• Expose a new ALIAS special variable, which will contain the alias used to call the current task. Falls back to the task name. (#1764 by @DanStory).
• Fixed TASK_REMOTE_DIR environment variable not working when the path was absolute. (#1715 by @vmaerten).
• Added an option to declare an included Taskfile as flattened (#1704 by @vmaerten).
• Added a new --completion flag to output completion scripts for various shells (#293, #1157 by @pd93).
  • This is now the preferred way to install completions.
  • The completion scripts in the completion directory are now deprecated.
• Added the ability to loop over a matrix of values (#1766, #1767, #1784 by @pd93).
• Fixed a bug in fish completion where aliases were not displayed (#1781, #1782 by @vmaerten).
• Fixed panic when having a flattened included Taskfile that contains a default task (#1777, #1778 by @vmaerten).
• Optimized file existence checks for remote Taskfiles (#1713 by @vmaerten).

v3.38.0

• Added TASK_EXE special variable (#1616, #1624 by @pd93 and @andreynering).
• Some YAML parsing errors will now show in a more user friendly way (#1619 by @pd93).
• Prefixed outputs will now be colorized by default (#1572 by @AlexanderArvidsson)
• References are now generally available (no experiments required) (#1654 by @pd93).
• Templating functions can now be used in references (#1645, #1654 by @pd93).
• Added a new templating reference page to the documentation (#1614, #1653 by @pd93).
• If using the Map Variables experiment (1), references are available by prefixing a string with a # (#1654 by @pd93).
• If using the Map Variables experiment (2), the yaml and json keys are no longer available (#1654 by @pd93).
• Added a new TASK_REMOTE_DIR environment variable to configure where cached remote Taskfiles are stored (#1661 by @vmaerten).
• Added a new --clear-cache flag to clear the cache of remote Taskfiles (#1639 by @vmaerten).
• Improved the readability of cached remote Taskfile filenames (#1636 by @vmaerten).
• Starting releasing a binary for the riscv64 architecture on Linux (#1699 by @mengzhuo).
• Added CLI_SILENT and CLI_VERBOSE variables (#1480, #1669 by @Vince-Smith).
• Fixed a couple of bugs with the prompt: feature (#1657 by @pd93).
• Fixed JSON Schema to disallow invalid properties (#1657 by @pd93).
• Fixed version checks not working as intended (#872, #1663 by @vmaerten).
• Fixed a bug where included tasks were run multiple times even if run: once was set (#852, #1655 by @pd93).
• Fixed some bugs related to column formatting in the terminal (#1350, #1637, #1656 by @vmaerten).

v3.37.2

• Fixed a bug where an empty Taskfile would cause a panic (#1648 by @pd93).
• Fixed a bug where includes Taskfile variable were not being merged correctly
  (#1643, #1649 by @pd93).

v3.37.1

• Fix bug where non-string values (numbers, bools) added to env: weren't been correctly exported (#1640, #1641 by @vmaerten and @andreynering).

v3.37.0

• Released the Any Variables experiment, but without support for maps (#1415, #1547 by @pd93).
• Refactored how Task reads, parses and merges Taskfiles using a DAG (#1563, #1607 by @pd93).
• Fix a bug which stopped tasks from using stdin as input (#1593, #1623 by @pd93).
• Fix error when a file or directory in the project contained a special char like &, ( or ) (#1551, #1584 by @andreynering).
• Added alias q for template function shellQuote (#1601, #1603 by @vergenzt)
• Added support for ~ on ZSH completions (#1613 by @jwater7).
• Added the ability to pass variables by reference using Go template syntax when the Map Variables experiment is enabled (#1612 by @pd93).
• Added support for environment variables in the templating engine in includes (#1610 by @vmaerten).

v3.36.0

• Added support for looping over dependencies (#1299, #1541 by @pd93).
• When using the "Remote Taskfiles" experiment, you are now able to use remote Taskfiles as your entrypoint.
• includes in remote Taskfiles will now also resolve correctly (#1347 by @pd93).
• When using the "Any Variables" experiments, templating is now supported in collection-type variables (#1477, #1511, #1526 by @pd93).
• Fixed a bug where variables being passed to an included Taskfile were not available when defining global variables (#1503, #1533 by @pd93).
• Improved support to customized colors by allowing 8-bit colors and multiple ANSI attributes (#1576 by @pd93).

v3.35.1

• Fixed a bug where the TASKFILE_DIR variable was sometimes incorrect (#1522, #1523 by @pd93).
• Added a new TASKFILE special variable that holds the root Taskfile path (#1523 by @pd93).
• Fixed various issues related to running a Taskfile from a subdirectory (#1529, #1530 by @pd93).