v3.30.0

• Prep work for Remote Taskfiles (#1316 by @pd93).
• Added the Remote Taskfiles experiment as a draft (#1152, #1317 by @pd93).
• Improve performance of content checksuming on sources: by replacing md5 with XXH3 which is much faster. This is a soft breaking change because checksums will be invalidated when upgrading to this release (#1325 by @ReillyBrogan).

We're looking for feedback on Remote Taskfile on #1317. Don't hesitate to add your opinion.

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v3.29.1

• Update to Go 1.21 (bump minimum version to 1.20) (#1302 by @pd93)
• Fix a missing a line break on log when using --watch mode (#1285, #1297 by @FilipSolich).
• Fix defer on JSON Schema (#1288 by @calvinmclean and @andreynering).
• Fix bug in usage of special variables like {{.USER_WORKING_DIR}} in combination with includes (#1046, #1205, #1250, #1293, #1312, #1274 by @andarto, #1309 by @andreynering).
• Fix bug on --status flag. Running this flag should not have side-effects: it should not update the checksum on .task, only report its status (#1305, #1307 by @visciang, #1313 by @andreynering).

NOTE: v3.29.0 was skipped because of an issue on the release process.

v3.28.0

• Added the ability to loop over commands and tasks using for (#82, #1220 by @pd93).
• Fixed variable propagation in multi-level includes (#778, #996, #1256 by @hudclark).
• Fixed a bug where the --exit-code code flag was not returning the correct exit code when calling commands indirectly (#1266, #1270 by @pd93).
• Fixed a nil panic when a dependency was commented out or left empty (#1263 by @neomantra).

v3.27.1

• Fix panic when a .env directory (not file) is present on current directory (#1244, #1245 by @pd93).

v3.27.0

• Allow Taskfiles starting with lowercase characters (#947, #1221 by @pd93).
  • e.g. taskfile.yml, taskfile.yaml, taskfile.dist.yml & taskfile.dist.yaml
• Bug fixes were made to the npm installation method. (#1190, by @sounisi5011).
• Added the gentle force experiment as a draft (#1200, #1216 by @pd93).
• Added an --experiments flag to allow you to see which experiments are enabled (#1242 by @pd93).
• Added ability to specify which variables are required in a task (#1203, #1204 by @benc-uk).

v3.26.0

• Only rewrite checksum files in .task if the checksum has changed (#1185, #1194 by @deviantintegral).
• Added experiments documentation to the website (#1198 by @pd93).
• Deprecated version: 2 schema. This will be removed in the next major release (#1197, #1198, #1199 by @pd93).
• Added a new prompt: prop to set a warning prompt to be shown before running a potential dangurous task (#100, #1163 by @MaxCheetham, Documentation).
• Added support for single command task syntax. With this change, it's now possible to declare just cmd: in a task, avoiding the more complex cmds: [] when you have only a single command for that task (#1130, #1131 by @timdp).

v3.25.0

• Support silent: when calling another tasks (#680, #1142 by @danquah).
• Improve PowerShell completion script (#1168 by @trim21).
• Add more languages to the website menu and show translation progress percentage (#1173 by @misitebao).
• Starting on this release, official binaries for FreeBSD will be available to download (#1068 by @andreynering).
• Fix some errors being unintendedly supressed (#1134 by @clintmod).
• Fix a nil pointer error when version is omitted from a Taskfile (#1148, #1149 by @pd93).
• Fix duplicate error message when a task does not exists (#1141, #1144 by @pd93).

v3.24.0

• Fix Fish shell completion for tasks with aliases (#1113 by @patricksjackson).
• The default branch was renamed from master to main (#1049, #1048 by @pd93).
• Fix bug where "up-to-date" logs were not being omitted for silent tasks (#546, #1107 by @danquah).
• Add .hg (Mercurial) to the list of ignored directories when using --watch (#1098 by @misery).
• More improvements to the release tool (#1096 by @pd93).
• Enforce gofumpt linter (#1099 by @pd93)
• Add --sort flag for use with --list and --list-all (#946, #1105 by @pd93).
• Task now has custom exit codes depending on the error (#1114 by @pd93).

v3.23.0

Task now has an official extension for Visual Studio Code contributed by @pd93! 🎉 The extension is maintained in a new repository under the go-task organization. We're looking to gather feedback from the community so please give it a go and let us know what you think via a discussion, issue or on our Discord!

NOTE:
The extension requires v3.23.0 to be installed in order to work.

• The website was integrated with Crowdin to allow the community to contribute with translations! Chinese is the first language available (#1057, #1058 by @misitebao).
• Added task location data to the --json flag output (#1056 by @pd93)
• Change the name of the file generated by task --init from Taskfile.yaml to Taskfile.yml (#1062 by @misitebao).
• Added new splitArgs template function ({{splitArgs "foo bar 'foo bar baz'"}}) to ensure string is split as arguments (#1040, #1059 by @dhanusaputra).
• Fix the value of {{.CHECKSUM}} variable in status (#1076, #1080 by @pd93).
• Fixed deep copy implementation (#1072 by @pd93)
• Created a tool to assist with releases (#1086 by @pd93).

v3.22.0

• Add a brand new --global (-g) flag that will run a Taskfile from your $HOME directory. This is useful to have automation that you can run from anywhere in your system! (Documentation, #1029 by @andreynering).
• Add ability to set error_only: true on the group output mode. This will instruct Task to only print a command output if it returned with a non-zero exit code (#664, #1022 by @jaedle).
• Fixed bug where .task/checksum file was sometimes not being created when task also declares a status: (#840, #1035 by @harelwa, #1037 by @pd93).
• Refactored and decoupled fingerprinting from the main Task executor (#1039 by @pd93).
• Fixed deadlock issue when using run: once (#715, #1025 by @theunrepentantgeek).

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