Changelog

4.11.8 (unreleased)

[!IMPORTANT] This version is not released yet and is under active development.

4.11.7 (2024-11-30)

  • Remove support for comments in JSON configuration files. Remove dependency on unmaintained commentjson. Closes click-extra#1152.

4.11.6 (2024-11-28)

  • Make --timer option eager so it can jumps the queue of processing order.

  • Fix configuration of help option generated by the help_option_names context setting. Closes mail-deduplicate#762.

  • Fix eagerness of help option generated by help_option_names. Refs click#2811.

  • Display generated help option in --show-params results.

  • Force UTF-8 encoding everywhere.

4.11.5 (2024-11-18)

  • Allow replace_content() utility method to replace any content found after the start tag.

4.11.4 (2024-11-14)

  • Ignore hidden options when coloring help screen.

4.11.3 (2024-11-11)

  • Aligns dependencies.

4.11.2 (2024-11-10)

  • Aligns dependencies.

4.11.1 (2024-10-27)

  • Fix tests against development version of Click.

4.11.0 (2024-10-08)

  • Add support for Python 3.13.

  • Drop supports for Python 3.9.

  • Run tests on Python 3.14-dev.

  • Add tests on ubuntu-24.04. Remove tests on ubuntu-20.04.

  • Upgrade tests from macos-14 to macos-15.

4.10.0 (2024-09-04)

  • Move all platform detection utilities to its own standalone Extra Platforms project.

  • Add dependency on extra-platforms.

4.9.0 (2024-07-25)

  • Switch from Poetry to uv.

  • Drop support for Python 3.8.

  • Mark Python 3.13-dev tests as stable.

  • Remove dependency on regex.

4.8.3 (2024-05-25)

  • Fix string interpolation in log message.

4.8.2 (2024-05-25)

  • Do not raise error if package version cannot be fetched.

4.8.1 (2024-05-23)

  • Do not fail on docs_update import if pygments is not installed.

4.8.0 (2024-05-22)

  • Slim down package by moving unit tests out of the main package.

  • Allow reuse of Pytest fixures and marks by other packages.

  • Move dependencies extending pygments, sphinx and pytest into optional extra dependencies. Closes #836.

  • Split dev dependency groups into optional test, typing and docs groups.

  • Remove direct dependency on mypy.

  • Allow running tests with Python 3.8 and 3.9 on macos-14 runners.

4.7.5 (2024-04-04)

  • Remove bypass of cloup.Color re-import.

4.7.4 (2024-02-23)

  • Allow standalone --version option to output its debug messages.

  • Force closing of context before exiting CLIs to provoque callback calls and prevent state leaks.

  • Run tests on macos-14. Remove tests on macos-12.

4.7.3 (2024-01-06)

  • Run tests on Python 3.13-dev branch.

4.7.2 (2023-11-06)

  • Run tests on released Python 3.12 version.

4.7.1 (2023-09-19)

  • Distinguish between parameter type and Python type in --show-params output.

  • Recognize custom parameter type as string-based. Closes #721.

  • Rely on bump-my-version to update citation file metadata.

4.7.0 (2023-09-04)

  • Switch to format string style for version template.

  • Add new variables for version string template: {module}, {module_name}, {module_file}, {module_version}, {package_version} and {exec_name}.

  • Remove support for Click-specific %(prog) and %(package) variables in version string.

  • Print all versions string variables in debug mode.

4.6.5 (2023-09-01)

  • Highlight required label and value range in option description. Closes #748.

4.6.4 (2023-08-23)

  • Fix collection of subcommand parameters in --show-params output. Closes #725.

  • Set %(package_name) in --version to file name for CLI that are standalone scripts and not packaged. Fix #729.

  • Allow standalone scripts to define a local __version__ variable to set the %(version) element in --version output.

  • Allow building of documentation with Sphinx 7.

  • Run tests on macos-13. Remove tests on macos-11.

  • Ignore unstable tests on upcoming Click 8.2.x / main branch.

4.6.3 (2023-07-16)

  • Forces ExtraContext to properly close itself before exiting the program, to trigger all callbacks.

4.6.2 (2023-07-15)

  • Remove workaround for Cloup handling of command_class default on custom groups.

  • Force @extra_group to produce sub-groups of the same class.

4.6.1 (2023-07-13)

  • Inspect in --version the whole execution stack to find the package in which the user’s CLI is implemented.

4.6.0 (2023-07-12)

  • Keep the promise of drop-in replacement for @version_option which is now a proxy to Click’s original.

  • Rename the colored, enhanced --version option to @extra_version_option for its decorator, and ExtraVersionOption for its class.

  • Activate colors on @extra_command and @extra_group by default, even if stripped of all their default parameters. Closes #534 and #543.

  • Expose location and content of user’s configuration file in the Context’s meta property. Closes #673.

  • Render specs of hidden parameters in --show-params output. Fixes #689.

  • Swap Exposed and Allowed in conf? columns in --show-params output.

  • Add a hidden column to --show-params output. Refs #689.

4.5.0 (2023-07-06)

  • Expose verbosity level name, table format ID and CLI start timestamp in the Context’s meta property.

  • Refactor VersionOption. Introduce internal caching.

  • Expose version string elements in the Context’s meta property. Closes #325.

  • Remove print_env_info option from VersionOption class and version_option decorators.

  • Add new %(env_info) element. Default value is the same as what the removed print_env_info produced (i.e. a JSON dump of the environment).

  • Allow %(env_info) value to be set by user on --version.

  • Rename in version string formatting the %(prog) element to %(prog_name), and %(package) to %(package_name).

  • Detect Click-specific %(prog) and %(package) and raise a deprecated warning.

  • Do not print environment info in --version by default. Change default message from %(prog)s, version %(version)s\n%(env_info) to %(prog_name)s, version %(version)s.

  • Automaticcaly augment version string with environment info in DEBUG log level.

  • Expose click_extra.search_params utility.

4.4.0 (2023-06-14)

  • Add a reduce() utility to reduce a collection of Group and Platform to a minimal set.

  • Remove @destructive and @non_destructive pytest markers.

  • Rename the exclude_params argument of ParamStructure and ConfigOption to excluded_params.

  • Fix over-styling of usage heading in help screen.

  • Move bump-my-version configuration to pyproject.toml.

  • Remove bump2version from dev dependencies, and let the external workflows install it.

  • Remove workaround for pallets-sphinx-themes’s outdated reference to old click’s Python 2 compatibility hack.

4.3.0 (2023-06-01)

  • Colorize envvars and default values in --show-params option.

  • Keep <stdout> and <stderr> streams independent in ExtraCliRunner.

  • Always collect <stderr> output and never raise an exception.

  • Add a new <output> stream to simulate what the user sees in its terminal.

  • Only mix <stdout> and <stderr> in <output> when mix_stderr=True.

  • Print detailed CLI execution trace in logs.

  • Document inline tests in Sphinx CLI execution blocks.

  • Improve Pygments ANSI formatter and lexers documentation.

  • Document usage of pygmentize command line.

  • Regroup all parameter-related code.

  • Regroup all testing and CLI execution utilities.

  • Activate zoom on big Mermaid graphs.

4.2.0 (2023-05-23)

  • Add support for dedicated styling of environment variables, defaults, command aliases, aliases punctuation, subcommands and deprecated tag in help screen.

  • Update default colors of help screen to improve readability.

  • Change default style of critical log messages’ prefix to bold red.

  • Document the full matrix of colors and styles.

  • Render bright variants of ANSI colors in documentation.

  • Dynamically patch the style provided to AnsiHtmlFormatter to augment it with ANSI colors.

  • Remove main dependency on furo, make it a development dependency.

  • Remove the custom ansi-click-extra-furo-style Pygments style for Furo and its AnsiClickExtraFuroStyle class.

4.1.0 (2023-05-11)

  • Add new global show_envvar option to display all environment variables in help screens.

  • Global show_choices setting to show or hide choices when prompting a user for input.

  • Populate the Allowed in conf? column in --show-params output if there is a --config option in the command.

  • Print all modified loggers and their levels in DEBUG mode.

  • Directly download Pygments source code from GitHub to check for candidates for ANSI-coloring in unittests.

  • Test continuously against Click and Cloup development version. Closes #525.

  • Move click_extra.commands.TimerOption to click_extra.timer.TimerOption.

4.0.0 (2023-05-08)

  • Drop support for Python 3.7.

  • Add a simple --telemetry/--no-telemetry option flag which respects the DO_NOT_TRACK environment variable.

  • Add new populate_auto_envvars parameter to @extra_command/@extra_group decorators to allow auto-generated environment variables to be displayed in help screens.

  • Display all environment variables in --show-params output, including those auto-generated by the way of the auto_envvar_prefix context parameter.

  • Allow user to override hard-coded context defaults on @extra_command/@extra_group.

  • Change default log level from INFO to WARNING to aligns with Python’s global root logger.

  • Force resetting of log level on --verbosity’s context closing to the hard-coded default.

  • Use a dedicated click_extra logger for all internal messages, instead of sending them to the user-defined one.

  • Aligns click_extra logger level to --verbosity option level.

  • Set default logger of --verbosity to Python’s global root logger, instead a local wrapped logger. Closes #318.

  • Allow user to provide a string as the default logger to --verbosity that will be used to fetch the global logger singleton of that name. Closes #318.

  • Only colorize the %(levelname)s field during log record formatting, not the : message separator.

  • Prefix INFO-level log message with info: prefix by default.

  • Raise an error if multiple --version options are defined in the same command. Closes #317.

  • Remove dependency on click-log.

  • Remove supports for Pallets-Sphinx-Themes < 2.1.0.

  • Force closing of the context before stopping the execution flow, to make sure all callbacks are called.

  • Fix rendering of GitHub-Flavored Markdown tables in canonical format.

3.10.0 (2023-04-04)

  • Colorize help screens of subcommands spawned out of an @extra_group. Closes #479.

  • Remove deprecated click_extra.platform.

3.9.0 (2023-03-31)

  • Allow @color_option, @command, @config_option, @extra_command, @extra_group, @group, @help_option, @show_params_option, @table_format_option, @timer_option, @verbosity_option and @version_option decorators to be used without parenthesis.

  • Fix wrapping of Cloup decorators by @extra_group/@extra_command decorators. Closes #489.

  • Add main dependency on furo which is referenced in ANSI-aware Pygment styles.

  • Move all documentation assets to assets subfolder.

3.8.3 (2023-02-25)

  • Let --version option output system details when run on python >= 3.10.

3.8.2 (2023-02-20)

  • Fix overlapping detection of linux and wsl2 platforms.

  • Renders platform groups in documentation in Mermaid format instead of Graphviz. Add new dependency on sphinxcontrib-mermaid, removed dependency on graphviz.

  • Produce dependency graph in Mermaid instead of Graphviz.

3.8.1 (2023-02-15)

  • Code, comments and documentation style change to conform to new QA workflows based on ruff.

3.8.0 (2023-01-24)

  • Rename click_extra.platform to click_extra.platforms.

  • Refactor platforms and their groups with dataclasses instead of string IDs.

  • Add new LINUX_LAYERS, ALL_WINDOWS, BSD_WITHOUT_MACOS, EXTRA_GROUPS and ALL_GROUPS groups.

  • Add new dependency on graphviz.

  • Activate Graphviz extension in Sphinx.

  • Let Sphinx produce the dependency graph from Graphviz file.

  • Produce platform graph dynamically.

  • Rename docs.py to docs_update.py and allow this module to be called directly.

3.7.0 (2023-01-03)

  • Add support for new ANSI-capable lexers: ansi-gap-console and ansi-gap-repl.

  • Auto-update table of supported lexers in documentation.

  • Add test to search in Pygments’ test data for REPL/terminal-like lexers, as candidates for ANSI-coloring.

  • Depends on importlib_metadata for Python < 3.8.

3.6.0 (2022-12-28)

  • Add new constants to group platforms by family.

  • Add heuristics to recognize new platforms: IBM AIX, Cygwin, FreeBSD, GNU/Hurd, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Oracle Solaris, SunOS, Windows Subsystem for Linux v1 and v2.

  • Document version option usage.

  • Split version code to its own file and tests.

  • Run tests on Python 3.12-dev.

3.5.0 (2022-12-09)

  • Print fully qualified class of options in --show-params output.

  • Add new columns in --show-params table to show option specifications, configuration exclusion and exposed attribute.

  • Rename ignored_params argument to exclude_params on the ConfigOption class.

  • Blocking parameters from configuration files now requires the fully qualified ID. Which adds support for selectively blocking parameters at any subcommand level.

3.4.1 (2022-12-07)

  • Fix highlighting of +-prefixed options in help screens. Closes #316.

  • Fix highlighting of hard-coded deprecated labels in option help.

  • Document parameter introspection. Closes #319.

3.4.0 (2022-12-01)

  • Streamline setup of Sphinx extensions.

  • Document .. click:example:: and .. click:run:: Sphinx extensions.

3.3.4 (2022-11-14)

  • Fix some types.

3.3.3 (2022-11-14)

  • Fix release workflow.

3.3.2 (2022-11-14)

  • Remove use of deprecated ::set-output directives and replace them by environment files.

3.3.1 (2022-11-11)

  • Keep a copy of the table format ID in the context when set.

3.3.0 (2022-11-09)

  • Use tabulate dependency instead of cli-helpers for all the table rendering utilities.

  • Remove dependency on cli-helpers.

  • Re-implement locally the vertical table rendering format from cli-helpers.

  • Add new table rendering formats: asciidoc, fancy_outline, heavy_grid, heavy_outline, latex_longtable, latex_raw, mixed_grid, mixed_outline, presto, pretty, unsafehtml and youtrack.

  • Remove minimal table rendering formats, which was an alias of plain.

  • Add new csv-excel, csv-excel-tab and csv-unix formats based on Python defaults dialects.

  • Remove csv-tab rendering format.

  • Make csv format an alias of csv-excel.

  • Deactivate number alignment and extra-spacing in table rendering by default.

  • Remove tests on Pypy. Nobody asked for it and I need to speed up tests.

3.2.5 (2022-09-30)

  • Fix argument’s property getter in --show-params.

  • Remove GitHub edit link workaround in documentation.

3.2.4 (2022-09-27)

  • Add citation file.

  • Fix type casting.

3.2.3 (2022-09-27)

  • Increase type coverage.

3.2.2 (2022-09-26)

  • Fix bad typing import.

3.2.1 (2022-09-26)

  • Move some command utility from test machinery to run submodule.

3.2.0 (2022-09-24)

  • New --show-params option to debug parameters defaults, values, environment variables and provenance.

  • Rename ignored_options to ignored_params on ConfigOption.

  • Highlight command’s metavars, default values and deprecated flag in help.

  • Finer highlighting of options, subcommands and their aliases in help screens.

  • Fix highlight of dynamic metavars and secondary option in help screen.

  • New custom ExtraContext which allows populating meta at instantiation.

  • Use the Formats enum to encode for default configuration file extensions.

  • Re-introduce *.yml as a possible extension for YAML files.

3.1.0 (2022-09-20)

  • Add support for pattern matching to search for configuration file.

  • Add a new formats option to specify which dialects the configuration file is written in, regardless of its name or file extension. Closes #197.

  • Set default configuration folder according each OS preferred location. Closes #211.

  • Add roaming and force_posix option to influence default application directory of configuration file.

  • Add a ignored_options parameter to the configuration file instead of hard-coding them.

  • Add dependency on wcmatch.

  • Remove tests on deprecated ubuntu-18.04.

  • Document preset options ovveriding. Closes #232.

  • Document configuration option pattern matching and default folder. Closes #197 and #211.

3.0.1 (2022-08-07)

  • Fix wrong dependency bump on pytest-cov produced by major release.

3.0.0 (2022-08-07)

  • Make default extra features optional, so click_extra can act as a drop-in replacement for click and cloup (closes #173):

    • Rename click_extra.group to click_extra.extra_group.

    • Rename click_extra.command to click_extra.extra_command.

    • Alias click_extra.group to cloup.group.

    • Alias click_extra.command to cloup.group.

  • Use declarative params= argument to set defaults options on extra_command and extra_group.

  • Move the implementation of options to classes.

  • Hard-copy version_option code from click to allow for more flexibility. Addresses #176.

  • All custom options inherits from ExtraOption class.

  • New extra_option_at_end to extra_command to force position of all extra options (on by default).

  • Replace theme styles inherited from click-log by Python standard logging module. Adds info and removes exception styles.

  • Add a tutorial in documentation.

  • Add support for .. click:example:: and .. click:run:: directives in documentation.

  • Add ANSI session and console lexers for Pygments.

  • Add a Pygments filter to transform tokens into ANSI tokens.

  • Add custom Pygment style to render ANSI tokens in furo theme.

  • Add dependency on pygments, pygments-ansi-color and Pallets-Sphinx-Themes.

  • Allow translation of short help in extra options.

  • Add minimal type hints.

  • Pre-compute test matrix to allow for a subset of jobs to fail if flagged as unstable.

  • Run tests on ubuntu-22.04 and macos-12.

  • Remove tests on deprecated macos-10.15.

2.1.3 (2022-07-08)

  • Do not render None cells in tables with <null> string.

  • Disable workflow grouping and concurrency management.

2.1.2 (2022-06-02)

  • Fix auto-mapping and recognition of all missing Click option types in config module. Closes #170.

  • Fix CI workflow grouping.

2.1.1 (2022-05-22)

  • Fix compatibility with cloup >= 0.14.0.

  • Group workflow jobs so new commits cancels in-progress execution triggered by previous commits.

  • Run tests on early Python 3.11 releases.

2.1.0 (2022-04-22)

  • Add a highlight utility to style substrings.

  • Add regex dependency.

2.0.2 (2022-04-14)

  • Fix and unittest derivation of configuration template and types from CLI options.

  • Fix dependency requirements induced by overzealous automatic post-release version bump workflow.

  • Replace sphinx_tabs by sphinx-design.

  • Add edit link to documentation pages.

2.0.1 (2022-04-13)

  • Fix mapping of file arguments in configuration files.

  • Fix Sphinx documentation update and publishing.

  • Run tests on pypy-3.7.

2.0.0 (2022-04-11)

  • Add support for XML configuration file. Closes #122.

  • Add strict mode to fail on unrecognized configuration options.

  • Support the NO_COLOR environment variable convention from no-color.org.

  • Recognize a subset of (FORCE_)(CLI)(NO_)COLOR(S)(_FORCE) variations as color-sensitive environment variables.

  • Print version and environment details in logs at the DEBUG level.

  • Add Sphinx-based documentation.

  • Add a logo.

  • Outsource documentation publishing to external workflow.

1.9.0 (2022-04-08)

  • Add supports for .ini configuration files.

  • Add supports for commented JSON configuration files.

  • Fix identification of TOML and JSON configuration files.

  • Fix leak of local environment variable update on extend_env() usage.

  • Ignore help boolean in configuration files.

  • Add new dependency on mergedeep.

1.8.0 (2022-04-03)

  • Split the print_cli_output method to expose the simpler format_cli utility.

1.7.0 (2022-03-31)

  • Refactor global logging management.

  • Remove click_extra.run.run and rebase all run utilities around subprocess.run.

  • Use the tomllib from the standard library starting with Python 3.11.

1.6.4 (2022-03-04)

  • Fix extension of default environment variables.

1.6.3 (2022-03-04)

  • Add support for environment variables to run utilities.

1.6.2 (2022-03-03)

  • Temporarily skip displaying environment details in --version option results for python >= 3.10.

  • Reactivate all tests on Python 3.10.

1.6.1 (2022-03-02)

  • Expose some cloup versions of click utilities at the root of click_extra.

1.6.0 (2022-03-02)

  • Allow click_extra to be imported as a drop-in replacement for click.

  • Share the same set of default options between click_extra.command and click_extra.group.

  • Document default help screen comparison between simple click CLI and enhanced click-extra CLI.

1.5.0 (2022-02-21)

  • Add support for JSON configuration file.

  • Search all supported formats in default location if configuration file not provided.

  • Print configuration file default location in help screens.

1.4.1 (2022-02-13)

  • Add new external workflow to modernize Python code.

  • Use external workflow suite to manage changelog and build & publish packages on PyPi on release.

  • Use external workflow to label sponsored issues and PRs.

  • Replace local workflow by external one to label issues and PRs.

  • Reuse externnal workflow to produce dependency graph.

  • Remove dev dependencies on check-wheel-contents, graphviz, pipdeptree and twine.

1.4.0 (2022-01-08)

  • Allow downloading of a remote config URL.

  • Add new dependencies on requests and pytest-httpserver.

  • Fix inference of config file top-level section name.

  • Document usage of click_extra.config.config_option.

  • Use external workflows for GitHub actions.

  • Automate version and changelog management.

1.3.0 (2021-11-28)

  • Add support for YAML configuration file. Closes #13.

  • Auto-detect configuration file on loading.

  • Add pyyaml dependency.

1.2.2 (2021-11-04)

  • Evaluate format option dynamically at use to let third-party register new rendering formats.

1.2.1 (2021-11-04)

  • Fix creation of post-release version bump PR on tagging.

1.2.0 (2021-11-04)

  • Extend cli-helper.TabularOutputFormatter with new formats: simple_grid, rounded_grid, double_grid, outline, simple_outline, rounded_outline and double_outline. Address astanin/python-tabulate#151.

  • Add a new --table-format/-t option to select table format rendering mode.

  • Add new dependency on cli-helper and tabulate.

  • Automate post-release version bump.

1.1.1 (2021-11-01)

  • Fix printing of additional non-grouped default options in help screen.

1.1.0 (2021-10-28)

  • Add a --config/-C option to load CLI configuration from a TOML file.

1.0.1 (2021-10-27)

  • Re-release previous version with fixed dependency.

1.0.0 (2021-10-27)

  • Add colorization of options, choices and metavars in help screens.

  • Add --color/--no-color option flag (aliased to --ansi/--no-ansi).

  • Add colored --version option.

  • Add colored --verbosity option and logs.

  • Add dependency on click-log.

  • --time/--no-time flag to measure duration of command execution.

  • Add platform recognition utilities.

  • Add new conditional markers for pytest: @skip_{linux,macos,windows}, @unless_{linux,macos,windows}, @destructive and @non_destructive.

0.0.1 (2021-10-18)

  • Initial public release.