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v3.0

By Saul Pwanson

v3.0 (2023-12-30)

This is a major release.

There have been several major improvements (sidebar, help panels, command palette), and a great many smaller improvements and bugfixes: over 1600 commits in the year since v2.11.

To put it to a word, 1.x was a library (apps welcome), 2.x was a platform (plugins welcome), and 3.x will be more like a product (apps and plugins included).

Highlights

  • The sidebar shows status messages as well as context-dependent help panels.
  • Help and guides in more and more places: try vd -P open-guide-index.
  • Command palette: Press Space and fuzzy search for commands to execute.
  • Themes: Try vd --theme=light or vd --theme=asciimono.
  • The kitchen sink: most third-party plugins and loaders (including vdplus) are released with VisiData in the same package.

Upgrading from 2.x to 3.0

Most things should just work.

  • Run vd2to3.vdx to convert the internal list of macros from tsv to jsonl.
  • Rename {options.input_history}.jsonl to input_history.jsonl (the option is deprecated and the name is no longer configurable).

There have been a few API changes that might require updates to plugins, or code in e.g. .visidatarc.

Changelog

Please see the CHANGELOG for the full list of changes.

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