Hilbish/website/content/blog/v2.3-release.md

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v2.3 Release	2024-07-20T10:05:17-04:00	false

The release with full changelogs and prebuilt binaries can be seen at the v2.3.0 tag.

Hilbish v2.3 has now been released! This is small feature and bug fix release which took a while to cme ut since I took a long break from programming in general. The next release will be great, so stay tuned for that.

Features

Pipes (via Lua)

Commands can now be piped to each other via the Lua API with the hilbish.run function and an fs.pipe.

Here is a minimal example of the new usage which allows users to now pipe commands directly via Lua functions:

local fs = require 'fs'
local pr, pw = fs.pipe()
hilbish.run('ls -l', {
	stdout = pw,
	stderr = pw,
})

pw:close()

hilbish.run('wc -l', {
	stdin = pr
})

This also means it's easier to make commands output to any stream output, including in commanders.

Bug Fixes

• Commanders can now be cancelled with Ctrl-C, which means if they froze for some reason they can now be exited.
• The shell script interpreter now keeps its environment, and this also fixes the current working directory being wrong with some commands.
• Some greenhouse bugs have been fixed, like randomly appearing when resizing the terminal and some text attributes like color appearing where they weren't supposed to.