v4.29.1

• Fixed Square brackets removing update #1342
• Added slice array operator (.[10:15]) #44
• XML decoder/encoder now parses directives and proc instructions (#1344). Please use the new skip flags documented here to ignore them.
• XML users note that the default attribute prefix will change to +@ in the 4.30 release to avoid naming conflicts!
• Improved comment handling of decoders (breaking change for yqlib users sorry)
• Fixed load operator bug when loading yaml file with multiple documents
• Bumped Go compiler version #1394
• Bumped dependencies

v4.28.2

• Fixed Github Actions issues (thanks @mattphelps-8451)
• yq Github action docker image is now built as part of the release
• Fixed bug - can now delete documents #1377
• Fixed handling of UTF8 encoded CSVs #1373
• Detect and fail on missing closing brackets #1366
• Bumped dependencies

v4.28.1

• Added setpath and delpaths operators, like jq (#1374)
• Added is_key operator, to check if a match was a key when recursing
• Added validation when attempting to add sequences to maps (#1341)

v4.27.5

4.27.5:

• Fixed relative merge bug #1333
• Fixed bug in alternative (//) operator, RHS being evaluated when it didn't need to be
• Fixed footer comment issue #1231
• Github action now runs as root (as recommended by Github Actions doc)
• Updated dependencies

Skipped over 4.27.4 to get the #1333 bug fix in.

v4.27.3

• Added new 'c' merge and assign flag that clobbers custom tags
• Bumped go dependency to fix CVE (#1316)
• Updated dependencies

v4.27.2 - Multi json document handling, CSV decoding and more!

4.27.2:

• Fixed JSON decoder to maintain object key order.

4.27.1:

• Added 'json' decoder for support for multiple JSON documents in a single file (e.g. NDJSON)
• Added 'csv' decoding, array of objects encoding, and round-triping
• New StringEvaluator when using yq as a lib (thanks @leviliangtw)
• Fixed XML decoding issue (#1284)

v4.26.1

• Switched to new expression parser (#1264)
• Don't clobber anchor when adding nodes (#1269)
• New error operator for custom validation (#1259)
• Added support for --wrapScalar=false in properties encoder (#1241) Thanks @dcarbone
• Fix error on multiple assign (#1257) Thanks @care0717
• Bumped dependency versions

v4.25.3

• xml decoder now maintains namespaces by default. Use new flags to disable if required. Thanks @rndmit
• Length and other similar operators no longer return comments (#1231)
• When split expression includes an extension, dont add .yml automatically (#1165)
• Map -r to --unwrapScalar to be more a drop in replacement for jq (#1245) Thanks @SuperSandro2000
• Fixing usage of quoted numeric keys #1247
• Bumped dependency versions

v4.25.2

• Fixed comments disappearing from end of file (#1217)
• Fixed empty base64 decoding error (#1209)
• JSON output now in colors (#1208)
• Added codeql and fixed minor issues
• Bumped go-yaml library
• Bumped go dependency

v4.25.1

• Can specify a split expression file via the new --split-exp-file flag #1194
• Fixed append map bug when key matches value in existing map #1200
• Nicer error message when trying to use merge anchor tags other than maps #1184
• Fixed Don't automatically read stdin when the null input flag is used
• Added type as an alias for tag #1195
• Fixes bug when using write in-place with no expression and multiple files #1193

Note There was a bug where the last file instead of the first was being updated when using eval-all with write inplace, and no expression (or expression via --from-file. This has been fixed to the first file is updated, as per the documentation.