v0.9.0

Features

• Added support for transparency / alpha values, see #131 and #162 (@superhawk610)
• Added support for NO_COLOR environment variable, see #143 (@djmattyg007)
• Added new color pickers: Gnome/Wayland via gdbus, zenity, yad, and wcolor (@sigmaSd, @pvonmoradi)

Packaging

• Added shell completion files again, see #166 (@sharkdp)

v0.8.1

v0.8.1

Features

• pastel as a library: Added From and Display traits for each color struct, see #133 (@bresilla)

Other

• Updated lexical-core dependency to fix a compile error with newer Rust versions

Packaging

• pastel is now available on snapstore, see #130 (@purveshpatel511)

v0.8.0

Features

• Added CMYK output format, see #122 and #123 (@aeter)

Other

• Completely new CI/CD system via GitHub Actions, see #120 (@rivy)

v0.7.1

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug with the new ansi-*-escapecode formats, see #116 (@bbkane)

v0.7.0

Changes

• Breaking: the existing ansi-8bit and ansi-24bit formats have been changed to
  print out an escaped ANSI sequence that a user can see in the terminal output.
  The previously existing formats are now available as ansi-8bit-escapecode and
  ansi-24bit-escapecode. See #113 and #111.

Features

• All CSS color formats are now supported (see #12)
• Added support for multiple color stops for gradients (pastel gradient red blue yellow), see #49 (@felipe-fg)
• Added -f/--force-color flag as an alias for --mode=24bit, see #48 (@samueldple)
• Added --color-picker <cmd> to allow users to choose the colorpicker, see #96 (@d-dorazio)
• Added input support for CIELAB, see #3/#101 (@musikid)
• Added support for rgb(255 0 119), rgb(100%,0%,46.7%), gray(20%), and many more new CSS syntaxes, see #103 (@musikid)
• Faster and more flexible color parser, adding even more CSS color formats, see #105 (@halfbro)

pastel library changes

• distinct_colors is now available in the pastel::distinct module, see #95 (@rivy)

Bugfixes

• Added support for non-color consoles (Windows 7), see #91 (@rivy)

Other

• pastel is now available via Nix, see #100 (@davidtwco)

v0.6.1

• Enabled builds for arm, aarch64, and i686
• Fixed build on 32bit platforms

v0.6.0

Features

• Added colorblindness simulations via pastel colorblind, see #80 (@rozbb)
• Added support for pre-determined colors in pastel distinct, see #88 (@d-dorazio)
• Added a new set subcommand that can be used to set specific properties of a color (pastel set lightness 0.4, pastel set red 0, etc.), see #43
• Show the color name in pastel show or pastel color if it is an exact match, for example:
  pastel color ff00ff will show "fuchsia", see #81 (@d-dorazio)
• Add KColorChooser as a supported color picker, see #79 (@data-man)
• Add macOS built-in color picker, see #84 (@erydo)
• Added a new 'count' argument for pastel pick [<count>]

Changes

• pastel distinct has seen massive speedups, see #83 (@d-dorazio)

Bugfixes

• Mixing colors in HSL space with black or white will not rotate the hue towards red (hue 0°), see #76

Other

• Pastel is now available via Homebrew, see README and #70 (@liamdawson)

v0.5.3

• Added rgb-float as a new format (e.g. pastel random | pastel format rgb-float).
• pastel pick should now work in 24-bit on Windows, see #45
• Fix crash for pastel distinct N with N < 2 (show an error message), see #69

v0.5.2

• Truecolor support for Windows (@lzybkr)
• Re-arranging of colors in pastel distinct so as to maximize the minimal distance to the predecessors
• Fixed small numerical approximation problem in the 'similar colors' computation
• Backported to Rust 1.34

v0.5.1

• Added shell completion files for bash, zsh, fish and PowerShell.