What's Changed

• Enable custom colors with environment variables by @dan-hipschman in #248
• Add new braille character table and color schemes by @aticu in #247
• Add shell completion by @friedz in #251
• Add option to output result in C include file style (#242) by @wpcwzy in #246
• Fix some clippy warnings by @saulvaldelvira in #241
• Fix issue #238 by @ilmanzo in #239
• Fix CI by @dan-hipschman in #249
• Check if terminal_width is less than offset and return 1 (see #244) by @selfup in #245
• Add colors to --help by @starsep in #253
• Improve crate && fix CI by @Its-Just-Nans in #256
• feat: handle standard input "-" by @Its-Just-Nans in #257

New Contributors

• @saulvaldelvira made their first contribution in #241
• @ilmanzo made their first contribution in #239
• @dan-hipschman made their first contribution in #249
• @aticu made their first contribution in #247
• @friedz made their first contribution in #251
• @wpcwzy made their first contribution in #246
• @starsep made their first contribution in #253
• @Its-Just-Nans made their first contribution in #256

Full Changelog: v0.16.0...v0.17.0

Features

• Support both little and big Endian dumps using --endianness={little,big}, see #189 and #104 (@RinHizakura)

Changes

• Breaking: Changed the meaning of the short flag -C to be consistent with hexdump -C. Previously, this would hide the character panel, but now -C shows the character panel, in case it has been previously (e.g. in an alias) disabled with --no-characters, see #187 (@sharkdp)

hexyl as a library

• New endianness method for PrinterBuilder

Features

• Only show one panel by default if the terminal width is not wide enough for two panels, see #182 (@sharkdp)
• Respect the NO_COLOR environment variable, see #179 (@sharifhsn)

Bugfixes

• Do not fail with an error if --panels=auto is used and the output is piped, see #184 (@sharkdp)

Changes

• Breaking: For xxd-compatibility reasons, --group-bytes has been renamed to --group-size (with an --groupsize alias), see #121 (@sharkdp)

hexyl as a library

• Breaking: num_group_bytes has been renamed to group_size.

Features

• Significantly improved performance, see #173 and #176 (@sharifhsn)
• Added variable panels through the --panels and --terminal-width flags, see #13 and #164 (@sharifhsn)
• Added new --group-bytes/-g option, see #104 and #170 (@RinHizakura)
• Added new --base B option (where B can be binary, octal, decimal or hexadecimal), see #147 and #178 (@sharifhsn)
• Show actual zero bytes as ⋄ in the character panel (previously: 0), in order not to confuse them with ASCII
  0 bytes if colors are deactivated. Closes #166 (@sharkdp)

hexyl as a library

• Breaking change: Printer::new is deprecated as a part of the public API. Alternatively, you can now construct a Printer using the PrinterBuilder builder API, see #168. (@sharifhsn)

Other

• More tests for the squeezing feature, see #177 (@mkatychev)

Thank you

Special thanks go to @sharifhsn, not just for the new features,
bugfixes and performance improvements. But also for many internal
improvements of the code base and other maintenance tasks.

Features

• Added new --plain, --no-characters, and --no-position flags, see #154 (@mkatychev)
• Allow hex numbers and units for --block-size argument, see #111 and #144 (@merkrafter)

Other

• Added a man page, see #151 (@sorairolake)
• Mention ability to specify length in hex, see #143 (@merkrafter)
• --length and --bytes are now marked as conflicting command-line options, see #152 (@sorairolake)

Changes

• Breaking change (binary): setting the -o/--display-offset flag no longer overrides the value set by --skip #115. The first displayed address is now the sum of the two values - this matches the behaviour of xxd.

Features

• Allow relative and negative byte offsets (e.g. hexyl --skip=-1block), see #99 (@ErichDonGubler)
• Added -l as another alias for '-n/--length' (xxd compatibility), see #121 and #135 (@TheDoctor314)

Bugfixes

• Argument --length silently takes precedence over --bytes, see #105
• Print warning on empty content, see #107 and #108
• Disallow block sizes of zero, see #110
• Fix newline appearing in --version output, see #131 and #133 (@scimas)

Other

• Better diagnostic messages, see #98 (@ErichDonGubler)

Packaging

• hexyl is now available on snapstore, see #116 (@purveshpatel511)