Version 1.12 Beta 1

It has been over four years, but 1.12 is coming. There are only a
handful of changes here, but stretched out over four years, it is for
sure time for a release.

I couldn't make this a release candidate since there is at least one
important fix I am planning on including. I hopefully will get to it
soon, but I have been sitting on these changes long enough, and it's
time to get them out there.

Added

• color: Add $MAGENTA, $BOLD_PURPLE, and $BOLD_MAGENTA (3fadce9)
• path: Allow to customize the symbol before the path that shows if the
  directory is writable: $LP_MARK_PERM (#430)
• runtime: $LP_RUNTIME_BELL and $LP_RUNTIME_BELL_THRESHOLD to ring bell
  for slow commands (#571)

Fixed

• general: use LC_ALL=C everywhere parsable output is needed (#548, #549)
• bash: workaround broken .bashrc that export $PROMPT_COMMAND, we now
  unexport it on startup (#450, #463, #474)
• bash: handle unset $_LP_RUNTIME_LAST_SECONDS when set -u is set (#605)
• bash: use $BASH_VERSINFO for when there is a non-numeric
  suffix (#522, 0234a58)
• battery/OS X: newer versions of OS X failing to parse (#476, fefbe01)
• cpu/SunOS: failing math operation on load average (#479, #480)
• fossil: improve branch name detection, don't match tags (#497)
• git: remove -E from grep check for portablility (#508)
• git: modifications incorrectly showing as untracked files (#509)
• hg: modifications incorrectly showing as untracked files (#509)
• hostname: regression in $LP_ENABLE_FQDN implementation (#472)
• hostname/SunOS: $LP_COLOR_HOST_HASH erroring (#461, #462, 9c1c8a3)
• jobs: mispelled variable local declaration (#564)
• root: $LP_MARK_DEFAULT being ignored if root (#501, 5ee3c53)

Changed

• battery: hide battery symbol when neither charging nor discharging (#582)
• color: optimize tput color gen (d62bf31)
• git: faster git stash check (#503, 93df016)

Thanks to

• Olivier Mengué (@dolmen) for maintaining the project for the majority
  of this release window
• Felix Schlitter (@felixSchl) for cleaning up an awk script
• Bryce Jasmer (@b-jazz) for clearing up wording in the config file
• @nojhan for adding documentation to the README
• Philip Garrison (@pgarrison) for allowing the colon to be customized
• Étienne Deparis (@milouse) for improving Fossil branch name detection
• Matt Smith (@ncs-msmith) for optimizing git stash check
• François Schmidts (@jaesivsm) for fixing VCS file tracking regex
• @ste-fan for fixing battery issues
• Peter van Dijk (@Habbie) for fixing set -u issue in Bash
• Nolan Leake (@nolanl) for adding bell ringing on slow command complete
• Dmitry V. Drozdovich (@thrushcat) for fixing OS X battery issue
• Tristan Miller (@logological) for adding documentation to the README

Liquid Prompt 1.11

Bug fix release only:

• macOS: sudo feature fixed #443
• macOS: battery level restored #444

Liquid Prompt 1.10

Announcement tweet

Breaking changes:

• In themes, LP_COLORMAP_x variables are replaced by a single LP_COLORMAP array variable. A warning will be displayed at startup if your config still uses the old variables, but a compatibility shim is active (will be removed in next release).
• Many LP_ENABLE_* settings are now static (their effect applies when liquidprompt is loaded, and changing them at the prompt does nothing) to more and more improve speed.
• zsh: option nopromptsubst is enabled for security reasons. This will unfortunately also affect evaluations of other prompt contexts such as RPS1.
• Variables LP_SCREEN_TITLE_OPEN and LP_SCREEN_TITLE_CLOSE are now removed to simplify the code (GitHub #371)

New features:

• Sudo:
  • The color of the prompt mark is now dynamic and changes to LP_COLOR_MARK_SUDO (default: bold red) as long as your sudo credentials are cached (GitHub #335). Requires sudo 1.7.0+. This feature must be enabled with LP_ENABLE_SUDO=1. Use sudo -K to revoke your credentials early.
  • This feature is disabled by default as there is no way to detect if the user has sudo rights without triggering a security alert that will annoy the sysadmin.
• Git:
  • Show the number of commits behind the remote (GitHub #269)
  • Show the rebasing/merging/cherry-picking state (GitHub #409)
• Add variable LP_TTYN: the basename of the terminal (GitHub #357)
• Add setting LP_ENABLE_FQDN to show the fully qualified domain name of the host (GitHub #254, #277)
• LP_HOSTNAME_ALWAYS=-1 to always hide the hostname (GitHub #406)
• Run duration of the last command (LP_ENABLE_RUNTIME) is now also supported on zsh (GitHub #404, #355)
• Python: add support for Conda (CONDA_DEFAULT_ENV) (GitHub #425)

Bug fixes:

• Use $XDG_CONFIG_HOME to locate the config (GitHub #415, #420, #425)
• Improved zsh integration (but most issues had no impact of the user experience)
• Fix escaping of special chars from $PWD (well, almost, see GitHub #389) and explicitely set the shell options we need (instead of relying on the shell default settings)
• Git:
  • Fix typo in git work directory detection
• Fossil:
  • Fix on darwin (GitHub #390)
• LP_DISABLED_VCS_PATH is fixed on zsh (GitHub #423)
• Battery indicator:
  • MacOS: many fixes to handle (all?) edge cases (GitHub #326). We now have a pmset simulator to better detect regressions.
• Temperature indicator:
  • The code using the 'sensors' command now uses the '-u' option ("raw output") that is easier to parse. This format is at least 7 years old. (GitHub #379, #380)
  • We now try each backend (acpi/sensors) once to check it works at startup and disable the feature if none works. (GitHub #410, #319, #381, #387)
• CPU load indicator:
  • Fix the scale that was incorrectly 0-200 (GitHub #391)
• Title:
  • Fix terminal sequences that were sent in the title text (the escaping algorithm is rewritten and now just correct).
• Terminal channel:
  • Fix detection of tmux (GitHub #304, #377)
  • Fix detection of local session on OS X (GitHub #407)
• Misc:
  • Fix bash 3 compatibility (GitHub #313)
  • Clear GREP_OPTIONS and skip 'grep' aliases (GitHub #372)
• Shortened path:
  • Fix bugs when $PWD contains spaces or special chars (GitHub #369)
  • Optimize implementation in case of LP_PATH_KEEP=-1 : LP_PWD becomes static (related to GitHub #256, #336)
  • Optimize implementation in case LP_ENABLE_SHORTEN_PATH=0
  • Optimize implementation in case LP_ENABLE_SHORTEN_PATH=0 on bash with PROMPT_DIRTRIM
• Sample configuration files:
  • example.bashrc: major fixes
• The last statement of liquidprompt did not return 0 (GitHub #360,#361)
• Analog clock:
  • complete rewrite for speed and correctness (GitHub #365 and other issues)
• Documentation:
  • Many small fixes
• Move dist/ to contrib/dist/ as files there are unmaintained
• Fix title escapes in zsh inside tmux/screen (GitHub #370, #371)

Thanks

Thanks to Matt Fletcher (@MaffooBristol), Kevin Yap (@iKevinY), Sean Hussey (@seanhussey), François Schmidts (@jaesivsm), Morgan Knicely (@morganizeit), Daniel Serodio (@dserodio), Jonathan Giddy (@jongiddy), Jeremy Clement (@JeremyClement), Panayiotis Kkolos (@pkkolos), Arturo Borrero Gonzalez (@aborrero), Samuel Krieg (@SamK), Brian May (@brianmay), Colin Lieberman (@colinlieberman), @hegedus, Anthony Gelibert (@anthonygelibert), Anthony Ramine (@nox), Erik M Jacobs (@thoraxe), Pedro Parracho (@berserck), Brad Beyenhof (@augmentedfourth), Austen Adler (@stonewareslord), Hagen Graf (@hcgraf), William P. Riley-Land (@wprl), Dave Rigby (@daverigby), Ned Batchelder (@nedbat), Fabien Marty (@thefab), Alessio Garzi (@Ozzyboshi), Roger Huang (@rhuang2014), Sebastian Bremicker (@sebrem), Alex Prengere (@alexprengere), Philipp Grogg (@gro-gg), Tener Hades (@tenerhades), Thomas Kühnel (@kuehnelth), Étienne Deparis (@milouse), @Hotschke, Software Mechanic (@SoftwareMechanic) and Simon McVittie (@smcv) for their patches or bug reports.

Announcement tweet