Release Highlights
Reporting changes
You can now igir report without providing any --input <path>. @IDmedia suggested valid use cases for why someone would want to generate an empty report for DATs, primarily because reports are affected by igir's filter and preference rules.
A new "DUPLICATE" status has been added. This is to resolve some confusion around the "UNUSED" status which gets used for input files that weren't used during copying, moving, or linking - regardless of whether the input file matched a ROM in a DAT. Now, if an input file could have been used for a copying, moving, or linking action but wasn't (because some other input file was), it will report as "DUPLICATE". Thank you @9p6 for the suggestion!
Feature: debug option for changing the cache path
A new --cache-path <path> option has been added to specify where igir should write the cache file. Thank you @TheBrainScrambler for the suggestion!
Fix: validate regions and languages
Validation has been added for regions (--filter-region <regions>, --prefer-region <regions>) and languages (--filter-language <languages>, --prefer-language <languages>). You can no longer provide any invalid regions or languages, which is helpful because some abbreviations aren't obvious to all.
All changes
8 May 2024 - aef5adb - v2.7.0 (#1122)
8 May 2024 - 4e03c51 - Feature: DUPLICATE report status to disambiguate UNUSED (#1120)
8 May 2024 - 825d608 - Fix: report non-preferred games as IGNORED when no game found (#1119)
8 May 2024 - 57d166d - Feature: allow reporting with no input when not writing ROMs (#1118)
8 May 2024 - 4ee0d8c - Feature: infer abbreviated years in game names (#1116)
8 May 2024 - 56ad757 - Feature: validate language and region option values (#1117)
8 May 2024 - 822d001 - Feature: cache path option (#1115)
6 May 2024 - a132387 - Chore: update codecov/codecov-action action to v4 (#1106)
30 April 2024 - f820b17 - Chore: update lockfile (#1110)
30 April 2024 - a5fa53b - Chore: update docs dependencies (#1105)
28 April 2024 - e0baf70 - Chore: update lockfile (#1109)
27 April 2024 - 7eca8f9 - Chore: update dependency eslint-plugin-unicorn to v52 (#1107)
27 April 2024 - bb19cb6 - Chore: update dependency typescript to v5.4.5 (#1108)
27 April 2024 - 01daead - Chore: update dependency @types/node to v20.12.7 (#1104)
27 April 2024 - 89e1db8 - Chore: update dependencies (#1103)
26 April 2024 - 0e8f54f - Chore: update ESLint (#1101)
26 April 2024 - d62e780 - Refactor: ESLint typing fixes (#1102)
26 April 2024 - 3999705 - Chore: update lockfile (#1100)
26 April 2024 - 5d84b65 - Chore: update dependency eslint-plugin-jest to v28 (#1099)
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