[Announcement] jq 1.7rc1 is released

[itchyny]

We are happy to announce that we have released jq-1.7rc1 and we are very close to the next release 1.7.

Note that this is a pre-release. But we believe the command has been much more stable than before. We implemented various features, including the long-awaited numeric literal preservation. and also fixed various bugs, including serious crashes.

So please help us, by testing the release candidate version, to make the official release a way better. Any feedback is welcome. Thank you.

[robertlagrant]

For someone who uses jq, but not enough to be very familiar with its syntax, it would be great to have some more documentation examples of the pick syntax:

• what happens if you try and access a field that isn't there?
• how does it operate on an array of items? E.g. show an array, a pick, and the array output?
• how does it operate on an array of items, some of which have some fields missing?

[ncfavier]

There are a few more examples in the manual

[pkoppstein]

@itchyny - The announcement does not currently appear on https://jqlang.github.io/jq/, where RC announcements normally appear.

[trantor]

Now this is the kind of news I've been hoping for for years. Thanks guys, a lot. ❤️