CLI v1.20

[passcod]

• Watchexec should not refuse to quit if there are too many events anymore. ([Merged by Bors] - Replace event queue with a priority queue #302, lib 2.0.0)
• The help text is reorganised in semantic sections rather than options/flags. ([Merged by Bors] - Upgrade to clap 3 #304)
• Verbose logs now may include even more logging (from third-party libraries). ([Merged by Bors] - Add log feature to tracing #300)
• All arguments must now be valid UTF-8. Previously the command and the -E flag would accept but silently discard invalid UTF-8, now watchexec errors on such input. ([Merged by Bors] - Don’t allow invalid UTF-8 arguments #317)
• New --log-file option makes it easier to collect logs without polluting the screen. ([Merged by Bors] - Add --log-file so logs are easier to collect #321)
• New --delay-run option adds a configurable sleep before running the command. A native, cross-platform alternative to sleep N; command...! (Option to sleep a configurable amount of time before running the command #79)

Additionally, some repo changes:

• PRs are now exclusively merged by Bors, and pushing directly to main is not allowed.
• There's a PR-based (and thus Bors-assisted) release workflow, rather than initiating releases from a local checkout. For example, this release was made with PR [Merged by Bors] - release: cli v1.20.0 #337.
• Github Discussions are enabled, and should be used for asking questions, discussing the project or features, and comments on releases. Feature requests and bug reports should go to the Issues as before.
  • One exception is discussion of "Known Issues", which has its own topic to keep the Issues list focused on discrete problems.
• The scheme for releases has changed slightly: only CLI releases will show up in GitHub releases, so the /latest link will always point to the last CLI release; the library and other crates now have their own, file-based CHANGELOG.md.

Not directly related to the CLI, but the library 2.0.0 version has now been released as stable! Full semver applies again.

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This discussion was created from the release CLI v1.20.0.

[passcod]

v1.20.1

• Fix various crashes on start, mostly to do with option parsing (watchexec-cli 1.20.0 crash on start #345, Pin clap to < 3.2 #347, [Merged by Bors] - Fix logging initialisation #348, [Merged by Bors] - Allow non-UTF8 input for paths and extensions #349, [Merged by Bors] - Fix new instances of clap being way more strict now #350)
• Fix initialisation of logging systems with error handling (being louder) and a less brute-force approach ([Merged by Bors] - Fix logging initialisation #348)
• Add runtime and --help warnings when running or building with non-standard options ([Merged by Bors] - Fix logging initialisation #348)
• Allow non-UTF8 argument values for paths (and --exts, as a "path fragment") (watchexec-cli 1.20.0 crash on start #345, [Merged by Bors] - Allow non-UTF8 input for paths and extensions #349, [Merged by Bors] - Fix new instances of clap being way more strict now #350)

[passcod]

v1.20.2

• Fix --restart (v1.20.0 completely broke -r/--restart #346, [Merged by Bors] - Fix restart (actually issue a stop outcome) #353)
• Restore being able to use --signal with --restart ([Merged by Bors] - Fix restart (actually issue a stop outcome) #353)
• Have windows builds in releases again ([Merged by Bors] - Fix env/shell for windows CLI build #356)
• Simplify logging levels, and make -v (info) more useful with actual, but sparse, information (Review logging levels #260, [Merged by Bors] - Review logging levels: make info more useful #354)

[passcod]

v1.20.4

• Remove CLI help tests. They'll be replaced with brand new integration testing that's not obnoxious. (Test spuriously fails on release build #362, [Merged by Bors] - Remove CLI help tests #363, [Merged by Bors] - Fix release replacements #365)
• Fix the install filenames for first-party RPM packagings, and possibly for DEBs as well. (Unable to install from rpm file #292, [Merged by Bors] - Fix bin filename for deb/rpm packaging #364)