v3.5.0

This release drops support for Go 1.16 and includes many new features.

• cmd/shfmt
  • Switch to -ln=auto by default to detect the shell language
  • Add support for long flags, like --indent for -i
• syntax
  • Allow extglob wildcards as function names like @() { ... }
  • Add support for heredocs surrounded by backquotes
  • Add support for backquoted inline comments
  • Add NewPos to create Pos values externally
  • Support escaped newlines with CRLF line endings
  • Minify no longer omits a leading shebang comment
  • Avoid printing escaped newlines in non-quoted words
  • Fix some printer edge cases where comments weren't properly spaced
• fileutil
  • Add Shebang to extract the shell language from a #! line
• expand
  • Reimplement globstar ** globbing for correctness
  • Replace os.Stat as the last direct use of the filesystem
• interp
  • Add CallHandler to intercept all interpreted CallExpr nodes
  • Add ReadDirHandler to intercept glob expansion filesystem reads
  • Add StatHandler to intercept os.Stat and os.Lstat calls
  • Always surface exit codes from command substitutions
  • Add initial and incomplete support for set -x
  • Add support for cd - as cd "$OLDPWD"
  • Avoid panic on set - args

Binaries built on go version go1.18.2 linux/amd64 via a shell script.

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