v4.20.2 - Bug Fixes

• Fixed self assignment issue (#1107)
• Fixed bad capture groups with multiple matches (#1114)
• No longer auto-read from STDIN if there are files given (#1115)
• Added missing load_props operator

v4.20.1 - Date Operators + Decode property files

• New Date Operators (now, tz, add and subtract durations from dates)
• Can now decode property files!
• New flag to manually set expression if required
• ZSH completion bug fix (#1108) thanks @whi-tw
• Fixed SEGV error (#1096)
• Fixed Github actions issues (it pipes in /dev/null) for XML
• Fixed bug - handle expressions that match a directory (e.g. ".")

v4.19.1 - Eval Operator

• New eval operator that allows dynamic expression evaluation (e.g. from a env variable) (#1087)
• Adding new elements to array now automatically applies styling of existing elements (#722)

v4.18.1 - New features, more consice usage

• eval is now the default command, you can leave it out 👯 #113
• - no longer needs to be specified as STDIN, (unless you are also working with multiple files) 👯 #113
• Adding to empty maps / arrays now uses idiomatic yaml styling by default
• Fixed seg fault on bad input #1086
• New envsubst operator! (thanks @sciyoshi)
• Added support for *=, relative multiply/merge
• Custom tag types now autocast to there actual types #933

v4.17.2 - XML Support!

• Added XML support (#491)
• New merge flag (n) to only merge new fields (#1038)
• Fixed exit status bug for permission denied error (#1062)
• Fixed using multiple variables with union (,) operator (#1048)
• Bumped some versions of dependencies
• Fixed manpath issue (thanks @mr-pmillz)

v4.16.2

• Bumped go-lang compiler to fix CVE-2021-44717 (#1037)
• Dependency version bumps via dependabot
• Added extract-checksum.sh to make it easier to validate checksums (#1011)
• Report filename on parsing error (#1030)

v4.16.1

• Added csv, tsv output formats docs
• Added map, map_values operators docs
• Added sort, sort_by operators (#947, #1024) docs
• Fixed bug in collect
• Fixed permissions issue in Dockerfile (#1014)
• Fixed assignment operator to no longer overwrite anchor (#1029)

v4.15.1

• Added 'load/strload' operators for dynamically loading content from files
• Added 'key' operator
• Added 'parent' operator
• Smarter MAN page installation script (thanks @coolaj86)
• Dockerfile improvements (thanks @actualben)
• Error handling improvements (thanks @mmorel-35)

v4.14.2

• Fixed header preprocessing issue (#1000)
• Bumped version dependencies

v4.14.1

• Added group_by operator (https://mikefarah.gitbook.io/yq/operators/group-by)
• Added encode/decode operators (toyaml, fromjson etc) (#974), see https://mikefarah.gitbook.io/yq/operators/encode-decode
• Added flatten operator (https://mikefarah.gitbook.io/yq/operators/flatten)
• Added --split-exp, for splitting results into multiple files (#966) see https://mikefarah.gitbook.io/yq/usage/split-into-multiple-files
• Fixed json null array bug (#985)