# Xonsh Change Log

## [0.22.1](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/compare/0.22.0...0.22.1) (2026-01-14)


### Features

* Added expanding aliases to `showcmd` command using `-e` argument ([#6041](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/6041)) ([5b706d4](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/commit/5b706d493e6deb4cd2b6935a56495547b558d083))
* **prompt:** Added XONSH_PROMPT_NEXT_CMD to set the text of the next command that will be inserted in the next prompt ([#6037](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/6037)) ([8a04bad](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/commit/8a04bad17ad38848e75c7b7f320111e9399c6c28))


### Bug Fixes

* **appimage:** Fixed `xpy` value in `xcontext` in xonsh AppImage ([#6033](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/6033)) ([5f27c06](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/commit/5f27c06aa3f9423701586252bdbbfce7d34ba6e7))
* **source-foreign:** Quote pathnames when sourcing a foreign function ([#6014](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/6014)) ([818b19a](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/commit/818b19a5fac0c1b1407e2f497f37f895c8187534))
* **xoreutils:** Added KeyboardInterrupt handling in xoreutils yes command ([#6012](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/6012)) ([cb71a8d](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/commit/cb71a8d06b12fd71d4b1c87f4f9f516802f6e5f1))


### Documentation

* add showcmd mention ([54e2898](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/commit/54e2898e0847b3c3fbd7f7b28acb525841771e08))
* Add xonsh install script ([#6046](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/6046)) ([d044dc4](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/commit/d044dc41cb1711de704855f3ba4b0bb4954660e4))
* platform guide micro fix ([93dd54e](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/commit/93dd54eb06522c83f23a01679b379c4ad4f8d0e4))
* Refactor xonsh installation process description ([#6029](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/6029)) ([3770165](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/commit/3770165220f121cb3fa822c5671c51633bfa9033))

## [0.22.0](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/compare/0.21.2...0.22.0) (2025-12-19)


### ⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

* Remove aliases `ipynb`, `scp-resume` from builtin aliases and rename `xonsh-reset` to `xreset` ([#5992](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/5992))

### Features

* added `xpython` and `xсontext` builtin aliases ([#5989](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/5989)) ([4382735](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/commit/43827358d205855c6c1c68bed138d656f3657bc3))
* **events:** added `events.handlers()` to get info about registered event handlers and also `events.__repr__` to just `print(events)`. ([#5994](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/5994)) ([166a1a6](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/commit/166a1a6a826669a24ae5df7a69193fa7bd1604c5))


### Bug Fixes

* allow spaces in auto-suggest completions ([#5993](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/5993)) ([4332701](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/commit/4332701179c06d7a7ce2853043271eb1aa2e3214))
* docs publish ([#5985](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/5985)) ([e666ea9](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/commit/e666ea9674d8715bf6e7e6b38f8d2cbfbeb9e284))
* **history:** Using absolute path to history file to prevent downstream issues ([#6002](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/6002)) ([f1501b2](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/commit/f1501b257ce8ec40c10006c763321577bf5550fe))


### Documentation

* add description and examples for `@.env.register` ([#5990](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/5990)) ([9ce5d5d](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/commit/9ce5d5d3d58b00b642856f4dc48dbac9b25f63c1))
* Update tutorial to replace prompt ([#6007](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/6007)) ([3260b77](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/commit/3260b77ab4d4d8fa2dc5fb61e7509a0a7eaaa9bc))
* Update xonsh logo in the docs ([#6004](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/6004)) ([dbeb276](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/commit/dbeb27688bdbbd5efd6ffcc246ce4181df4f66bc))


### Code Refactoring

* Remove aliases `ipynb`, `scp-resume` from builtin aliases and rename `xonsh-reset` to `xreset` ([#5992](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/5992)) ([df3ff49](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/commit/df3ff497e9e73dbc3a1e86c6f14ad7e5e57bccaa))

## [0.21.2](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/compare/0.21.1...0.21.2) (2025-12-10)


### Bug Fixes

* appimage upload to release ([#5982](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/5982)) ([7965b1f](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/commit/7965b1ffef2d934484a121a39bf7f789b3c22e0b))

## [0.21.1](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/compare/0.21.0...0.21.1) (2025-12-10)


### Bug Fixes

* conditional checks for docs deployment ([#5980](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/5980)) ([addaffe](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/commit/addaffe986e006b9615091d6c7863e618edad5a0))

## [0.21.0](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/compare/0.20.0...0.21.0) (2025-12-10)


### ⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

* `$AUTO_SUGGEST` is now deprecated in favour of `$XONSH_PROMPT_AUTO_SUGGEST`

### Features

* Added `@` as a global object that provides easy access to `@.env`, `@. lastcmd ` and `@.imp`(inline-imports) ([#5956](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/5956)) ([64e3a3c](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/commit/64e3a3c467e1b2a42083e5c2dae0dbd9e0910087))
* added support for multiline shebang (guix fixed) ([#5957](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/5957)) ([e9e0055](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/commit/e9e0055c6cd5fd867c4268fa311d098e81d2beeb))
* added support for using a p-string as a context manager to temporarily change the working directory (e.g., with p'~/test'.mkdir().cd(): $[pwd]) ([d9a14c1](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/commit/d9a14c1f8c38d3e66c15a9ff39678b3f14893313))
* allow on_command_not_found handlers to return replacement commands ([#5952](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/5952)) ([#5962](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/5962)) ([14d9686](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/commit/14d9686b3f82d72749700a07b6da9f95c6959308))


### Bug Fixes

* allow numerical tokens in environment variable references ([#5891](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/5891)) ([9ae6911](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/commit/9ae69117c65c305ef2511fe6a66e6965f01d174c))
* expand `~`(User's home path) in `xonsh.tools.chdir` function ([#5969](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/5969)) ([192248a](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/commit/192248a0571a8a1dfa57e4bb7ac5fd784cad6a9f))
* Update tutorial example for piping into an alias ([#5955](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/5955)) ([07d4334](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/commit/07d43341b981c251049855f04edaa025a4f1b1b7))


### Documentation

* Add verification file for ads.fund project ([#5946](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/5946)) ([2482f06](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/commit/2482f06ef042d8a47f175e1eab45d6af4c9dcd0d))
* Update tutorial to reduce `${...}` accent ([#5975](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/5975)) ([e229ea5](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/commit/e229ea555cd53902b3cc72033b6a25111fde6a55))


### Code Refactoring

* `$AUTO_SUGGEST` is now deprecated in favour of `$XONSH_PROMPT_AUTO_SUGGEST` ([1e5bda4](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/commit/1e5bda4402f4f3257b1aa68b01cb22a8c6c4b485))

## [0.20.0](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/compare/0.19.9...0.20.0) (2025-11-24)


### ⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

* drop support for Python versions below 3.11
* auto-load xontribs after loading RC files ([#5873](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/5873))

### Features

* Allow sourcing files with different extensions ([#5938](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/5938)) ([296a683](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/commit/296a6831e11380b37564f27e118629b78a19cfb9))
* allow specifying special files as scripts ([d487f06](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/commit/d487f06f9ded99039dd2bce35b807fa48213f76f))
* Allow specifying special files as scripts ([#5886](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/5886)) ([d487f06](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/commit/d487f06f9ded99039dd2bce35b807fa48213f76f))
* **completers:** add completion for inline xonsh importer ([#5917](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/5917)) ([e10a3aa](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/commit/e10a3aae5f2aa64bf140f8bfb4c75acfb7e8fc98))
* Keep hash (`#`) if it's part of the string in subprocess commands ([#5941](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/5941)) ([2757a9a](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/commit/2757a9a79fe5c5854b60339d1ea99f12ceb1447c))


### Bug Fixes

* ensure PATH is EnvPath when using --no-env flag ([#5870](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/5870)) ([#5903](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/5903)) ([c73d599](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/commit/c73d599751d14c75aca15400fb3bfe21997a45a3))
* filter escape sequences after decoding in captured stdout and stderr ([#5939](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/5939)) ([#5940](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/5940)) ([9df5cce](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/commit/9df5ccedf00c8114225625974db11f4fe58b320a))
* map Name.Builtin to Color.GREEN when undefined ([#5908](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/5908)) ([9a23e2e](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/commit/9a23e2ef40fce2f946bd01b2a9fc6855940ecc36))
* missing docstring for argument "verbose" of xontribs_unload and xontribs_reload ([#5922](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/5922)) ([97265ed](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/commit/97265edffc6ad1084644ca5d3e2f1844904a13a0))
* remove redundant "command not found" ([#5915](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/5915)) ([2db28a0](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/commit/2db28a0836374ad44e2ba34c5760b3353e06df67))
* Update release-please-config.json ([4c21211](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/commit/4c21211272f1a03e6b8ffc5f3307a1f9dafccfbd))


### Documentation

* update devguide ([911a2f8](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/commit/911a2f84e6d25dd82c8a4957bb966a80a8d3f244))
* update devguide ([eabf298](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/commit/eabf298c80e150faf76309c16eba735d4dd8b417))
* update hardlink to external site ([41b4c85](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/commit/41b4c851cb5c024c0ad94012b11b0c7a2da2985f))
* update TOC to include top level titles ([e21a326](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/commit/e21a326705d0317dd0218bf373b3ebbb5cc9f261))
* use soft-links for external docs ([1a49358](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/commit/1a4935820b72848072ba6d3eebd704fe8cacb432))
* use sphinx-autobuild for live reloaded docs ([174d2d8](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/commit/174d2d8551d3539c7f19c41c36c413b217d5f50d))


### Code Refactoring

* auto-load xontribs after loading RC files ([#5873](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/5873)) ([bf4770a](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/commit/bf4770a0181f7019a695508cc05911d705a58d83))
* drop support for Python versions below 3.11 ([02f0ec4](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/commit/02f0ec47423af6e810ed7cb1699dde05e3e2bc34))

## [0.19.9](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/compare/0.19.8...0.19.9) (2025-06-24)


### Bug Fixes

* Update release-please.yml ([505a3a7](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/commit/505a3a7288f2840975265922a543e6296f6870de))

## [0.19.8](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/compare/0.19.7...v0.19.8) (2025-06-24)


### Bug Fixes

* ci update ([246a88f](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/commit/246a88fc267beaefce4af841e805200971109b68))
* pypi wheel checking ([88bfa3c](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/commit/88bfa3ce7c4c67ebdb5144408abbce2df12d4d98))
* update publish ([f510d01](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/commit/f510d01a27188c67bf756ffca2021556c15bcac2))

## [0.19.6](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/compare/0.19.5...0.19.6) (2025-06-24)


### Bug Fixes

* upload releases to PyPI ([#5847](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/5847)) ([26818ef](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/commit/26818efd99ce0406beaaecab3e97a03a6352ac9f))

## [0.19.5](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/compare/0.19.4...0.19.5) (2025-06-24)


### Features

* [#5745](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/5745) - send Ctrl+C event on Windows instead of forceful terminate ([#5838](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/5838)) ([ac02ea1](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/commit/ac02ea167a1b1b98d13028d115303ab8890ce44f))
* **completion:** Accept single completion in VI MODE using `Ctrl+]` ([#5763](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/5763)) ([45c6436](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/commit/45c643667c2e3e233783770cabeec0d8a8a49b61))
* New experimental Rust based parser for xonsh ([#5749](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/5749)) ([cff9046](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/commit/cff9046e0c79fb8bbd614f9b2dbcf980581a6536))


### Bug Fixes

* don't skip history items when running full history pull after session-specific pull ([#5826](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/5826)) ([5ecdcae](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/commit/5ecdcae86d8d430f125b61a387cf6bb4ab877940))


### Performance Improvements

* Disable double check is_file on Windows systems to speedup IO ([b112b83](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/commit/b112b834f198a0e3d1628dfeb792cdbb0fe0b5ef))


### Documentation

* Add missing bash conversion example ([#5832](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/5832)) ([1985128](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/commit/198512832242afecf61ea902e4929f3d14767717))

## v0.19.4

### Changed

- Updated `bash_completion.py` from archived xonsh/py-bash-completion repo

### Authors

- Gil Forsyth
- anki-code

## v0.19.3

### Changed

- On Windows, cmd.exe-based aliases now resolve to %SystemRoot%\System32\cmd.exe by default (and fallback to COMSPEC only if the former cannot be found).

### Fixed

- Using ``trace on`` with ``.xsh`` scripts could previously lead to
  a spurious ignored exception showing up on stderr. This is now fixed.
- pipelines: fixed ``'NoneType' object has no attribute 'pid'`` exception (#5794).

### Security

- The ``history delete`` action on the sqlite backend used to
  pass matched history lines to a SQL statement without sanitization.
  This could lead to unexpected SQL being run on the history database.
  This is now fixed. Security risk: low.

### Authors

- anki-code
- Jason R. Coombs
- Łukasz Langa
- Ahmed


## v0.19.2

### Added

- **env:** Add `$XONSH_PROMPT_CURSOR_SHAPE` for configuring prompt cursor shape.
- **env:** Added `XONSH_CONFIG_DIR`, `XONSH_DATA_DIR`, and `XONSH_CACHE_DIR`.
- **SIGHUP** will now be forwarded to child processes when received by the main xonsh process.
  This matches the behavior of other shells, e.g., bash.
- Documented the fact that the `on_postcommand` event only fires in interactive mode.
- **history:** Added and documented `--session-id` parameter for `history pull` command.
- **history-json:** Implemented `history pull` for JSON history backend.

### Fixed

- Running a subcommand in an event handler will no longer block xonsh from exiting.
- **history:** Prevented `history pull` command from adding consecutive duplicates to prompter history.
- **prompt toolkit:** Fixed autosuggest sometimes not updating when up-arrow is pressed (#5787).
- **Subprocess-based completions** like
  [`xontrib-fish-completer`](https://github.com/xonsh/xontrib-fish-completer)
  no longer append a space if the single available completion ends with
  a directory separator. This is consistent with the behavior of the
  default completer.

### Authors

- anki-code
- jfmontanaro
- Artur Manuel
- Đỗ Trung Nguyên
- Łukasz Langa

## v0.19.1

### Fixed

- Fixed hanging the command right after calling full capture subprocess (#5760).
- Fixed non-int `sys.exit` codes raising `ValueError`.

### Authors

- anki-code
- pre-commit-ci[bot]
- Evgeny

## v0.19.0

**Added:**

-   env: Added `$XONSH_SUPPRESS_WELCOME` variable to suppress the
    welcome message.

**Changed:**

-   replaced [case_insensitive_dictionary]{.title-ref} dependency with
    local [CaseInsensitiveDict]{.title-ref} class

**Fixed:**

-   parsers: fix deprecation warnings triggered on python3.13
-   Fix DeprecationWarning while initializing Expression

**Authors:**

-   Gil Forsyth
-   pre-commit-ci\[bot\]
-   Evgeny
-   doronz88
-   JamesParrott
-   Jueun Lee
-   Simon Billinge
-   Bala

## v0.18.4

**Changed:**

-   Now SystemExit that invoked from callable alias follows to exiting
    from callable alias instead of exiting the entire shell.

**Fixed:**

-   Built-in commands such as [xonfig -h]{.title-ref} and [xontrib
    -h]{.title-ref} no longer cause the shell to exit.
-   Fixed incorrect quoting behaviour in [activate.xsh]{.title-ref} for
    virtualenv version 20.26.6.

**Authors:**

-   anki-code
-   pre-commit-ci\[bot\]
-   Peter Ye
-   Max Nordlund
-   Shawn Wallace
-   Faidon Liambotis

## v0.18.3

**Added:**

-   executables: Added `locate_relative_path` functionality to
    `locate_file`.

**Changed:**

-   `$MULTILINE_PROMPT` changed from `'.'` to `' '` (space) to have an
    ability to copy the multiline functions from shell history without
    deleting the dot manually (#5624 #5634).

**Fixed:**

-   Fixed `$AUTO_CD` regress after previous refactoring.
-   Partial fix for \"Bad file descriptor\" in case of callable alias
    with execx invocation inside e.g. ExecAlias (#5645).
-   completer: Fixed exception when in python-only completion context
    (#5632).
-   Fixed exception \"object has no attribute readlines\" in case of
    redirect callable alias output.

**Authors:**

-   Gil Forsyth
-   Noortheen Raja
-   anki-code
-   pre-commit-ci\[bot\]
-   Aidan Courtney

## v0.18.2

**Fixed:**

-   Fixed wrong order of directories in PATH (#5606 #5605). Please do
    not use 0.18.0 and 0.18.1 versions.

**Authors:**

-   anki-code

## v0.18.1

**Authors:**

-   Gil Forsyth

## v0.18.0

**Added:**

-   Added `@aliases.return_command` decorator to eliminate the need to
    wrap the logic for modifying command into callable alias wrapper
    (#5473).
-   Tutorial: added example of callable environment variable.
-   tools: added `mkdir` to `xonsh.tools.chdir` e.g.
    `with chdir('/tmp/new', mkdir=True): pass`.
-   env: Added `$XONSH_MODE` variable to detect the current execution
    mode: `interactive`, `script_from_file`, `source`, `single_command`,
    `script_from_stdin`.
-   Builtin: `exit` can return exit code e.g. `exit 71`.
-   builtin: added `__xonsh__.imp` to have an ability to import and use
    modules immediately in one line e.g. `__xonsh__.json.loads('{}')`.
    In the future `__xonsh__` will have short notation `@` and the line
    will looks more elegant `@.imp.json.loads('{}')`.
-   builtins: Added color to printx e.g.
    `printx('Good', color='GREEN')`.
-   aliases: Added ability to set multiple decorator aliases e.g.
    `j = $(@json @noerr echo '{}')`.
-   Created `xonsh.api` to use xonsh functionality in pure python code
    and downstream projects (#5383 #5538). It\'s usable but don\'t treat
    this serios because it\'s mostly to move some functions into
    distinct submodule to reflect the intention to have the API. We need
    review and improvements here.

**Changed:**

-   New executable resolving method was introduced and the
    commands_cache usages were replaced in the key places. As result we
    expect speed up in xonsh startup, reducing lagging during typing in
    prompt and speed ups during the commands execution (#5544 by
    \@anki-code).
-   `COLOR_RESULTS` switched to `False` for non-interactive command case
    to improve speed in default behavior (#5562).
-   main: Importing sqlite became optional.
-   prompt: Switching to prompt_toolkit in edge case of sending stdin to
    interactive mode (#5462 #5517).
-   Rename: `SpecModifier`, `xthread`, `xunthread` renamed to
    `DecoratorAlias`, `@thread`, `@unthread` to support idea that spec
    modifier is like a Python decorator.
-   Big refactoring of internal modules structure to give clear
    understanding of internal xonsh components (#5538). E.g. if you have
    `import xonsh.jobs` convert this to `import xonsh.procs.jobs`. This
    kind of refactoring occurs once per many years.

**Deprecated:**

-   Starting from this release we notify that in the future we will not
    recommend to use `xonsh.procs.run_subproc` and
    `xonsh.built_ins.subproc_*` functions for downstream projects
    because of #5383. We will develop `xonsh.api` as alternative.

**Removed:**

-   xontrib: Do not autoload xontribs in `xonsh --no-rc` mode.

**Fixed:**

-   Callable alias: fixed capturing stdout in case of redirect e.g. [a
    \> file]{.title-ref} (#5527).
-   Commands Cache: Fixed cache update logic that lead to lagging during
    typing.
-   Replaced deprecated [sys.last_type, sys.last_value,
    sys.last_traceback]{.title-ref} with [sys.last_exc]{.title-ref}
-   Fixed `history gc` invocation failing when `sqlite` history backend
    is used.

**Authors:**

-   Gil Forsyth
-   Noortheen Raja
-   anki-code
-   pre-commit-ci\[bot\]
-   Jason R. Coombs
-   lunrenyi
-   Spencer Bliven
-   Niraj Kulkarni

## v0.17.0

**Added:**

-   Added section \"Use the Nix Package manager with Xonsh\" to
    \"Platform-specific tips and tricks\".
-   Added `env.detype_all()` to get all available variables that is
    possible to detype.
-   Reading stop signals from the process and update the process state
    (#5361).
-   Added support of NixOS core tools in `predict_threadable`.
-   Added catching an exceptions during load a history backend to avoid
    shell exiting e.g. on permission error.
-   Added catching an exception when cache file is not writable.
-   Added FuncAlias to process callable aliases.
-   Added alias name printing in case of exception in alias.
-   Saving history in case of any type of exiting the shell.
-   Added catching ChildProcessError in jobs. Avoiding hanging aliases
    in some cases.
-   Added xonsh support into Jupytext project! Jupytext is to store
    Jupyter notebooks as a plain text documents.
-   Now last executed CommandPipeline is available in `__xonsh__.last`.
-   Added `xonsh --no-env` option to run xonsh without inheriting the
    environment variables. Now by running `xonsh --no-rc --no-env` you
    have pure xonsh session.
-   Added thread class, name, func and alias names to thread exception
    for easy understanding the source of issue.
-   Added shortcut `-st` for `--shell-type`.
-   Saving history on SIGINT. Development tools like PyCharm send SIGINT
    before killing the run and doing this is the last chance to save
    history.
-   Added `spec.raise_subproc_error` for fine-tuning exceptions via
    `SpecModifierAlias` (#5494).
-   Added `$XONSH_SUBPROC_OUTPUT_FORMAT` to switch the way to return the
    output lines. Default `stream_lines` to return text. Alternative
    `list_lines` to return the list of lines. Now you can run `du $(ls)`
    without additional stripping. Also supported custom lambda function
    to process lines (if you\'re looking for alternative to bash IFS).
-   Added `xthread` and `xunthread` aliases to force command running as
    threaded and unthreaded.
-   Added `SpecModifierAlias` class to have an ability to create alias
    that modifies spec before run e.g. `xthread` alias.
-   Added mode `$XONSH_TRACE_SUBPROC=3` to show more information about
    pipeline.
-   Added \"Callable alias and capturing\" to the tutorial.
-   Xonfig: show sensitive env variables that could affect the shell
    behavior.
-   We started [Zulip
    Community](https://xonsh.zulipchat.com/join/hbvue5rimpdkwkdjuiqfs7tv/)
    to publish news and chatting.

**Changed:**

-   Minor cleanup of `commands_cache`, unifying behavior across
    platforms.
-   Xonsh AppImage downgraded to Python 3.11. We need to resolve 3.12
    parser support (5166) before upgrade.
-   Env variables completion: now use substring for search and then sort
    results by the position of substring and then alphabetically. PR
    5388.
-   jobs: default representation changed to dict.
-   The CommandPipeline repr will not show descriptors by default. Use
    XONSH_DEBUG mode to see them.
-   Prompt: `env_name` will have yellow color by default.
-   Show `root` and `@#` in prompt if user is superuser.
-   Cleaning logic and functions around threading and capturing in
    `procs/specs.py` file.
-   Now the ending new line symbol `\n` will be stripped from the single
    line output. For `$(whoami)` you will get `'user'` instead of
    `'user\n'`.
-   `$XONSH_TRACE_SUBPROC=2` returns more useful details.
-   The home based `~/.xonshrc` will not be executed in non-interactive
    mode (#5491).

**Removed:**

-   No longer is `.` implied for running commands on Windows. Instead
    the behavior is the same across platforms. Windows users will need
    to prefix `./` or `.\` to run commands from the current directory
    (#5476).
-   Unpin prompt-toolkit version (#5438).

**Fixed:**

-   Commands on Windows now honor the case as they appear on the file
    system (#5469).
-   Prevent exception on start up if `dircolors` util is wrong.
-   Fixed `Bad file descriptor` and I/O errors after running callable
    alias (#5435).
-   Fixed showing exception message in some cases.
-   Fixed empty stacktrace for CalledProcessError.
-   Fixed redirect with python substitution e.g.
    `echo 1 > @('/tmp/file')` is working now.
-   Fixed showing alias description using superhelp e.g. `which?`.
-   Fixed `xonsh -DVAR=VAL` behavior: initiate env variables before
    shell initialization.
-   Fixed processing exit signals and exceptions (e.g. SIGHUP in #5381)
    to provide careful exiting with right exit code and TTY cleaning.
-   Fixed `TypeError` in xoreutils.
-   Fixed populating the return code for interrupted process.
-   Windows: fixed path to RC file in `xonfig web`.

**Authors:**

-   Gil Forsyth
-   Noortheen Raja
-   anki-code
-   pre-commit-ci\[bot\]
-   Peter Ye
-   Jason R. Coombs
-   dependabot\[bot\]
-   doronz88
-   jyn
-   l-no
-   amacfie-tc

## v0.16.0

**Added:**

-   Square brackets can now be used in command arguments without quotes
    (e.g. [echo a\[b\]]{.title-ref})
-   Add `XONSH_BASH_PATH_OVERRIDE` option (off-by-default) to override
    what is returned by [xonsh.platform.bash_command]{.title-ref}.
-   Added PATH.prepend(path) to add path to the beginning.

**Changed:**

-   Xonsh AppImage now on Python 3.12 that works faster.
-   Xonsh AppImage: pinned prompt-toolkit version until fix upstream
    issue.
-   Builtin aliases (xontrib, history) switched to threadable mode.
-   EnvPath methods (append, remove, add, insert) prepare the path
    before action.
-   Replaced black formatter with
    [ruff-format](https://docs.astral.sh/ruff/)
-   `source_foreign_fn` now does not run subshells in interactive mode,
    so associated RC files like `zshrc` and `bashrc` will not be
    auto-loaded on sourcing.
-   Removed usage of deprecated `cgi` module

**Removed:**

-   Removed `ArgParserAlias.hook_pre_add_argument`,
    `ArgParserAlias.hook_post_add_argument`. Please use custom action
    instead to modify the argument options.
-   Removed deprecated module `xonsh.proc`

**Fixed:**

-   Fixed an issue with completions when using absolute paths to
    commands and having \$UPDATE_COMPLETIONS_ON_KEYPRESS set to True.
    <https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/5127>
-   Jobs: fixed \"index out of range\" exception.
-   Expressions like `2>1` are now parsed correctly as Python code
    instead of being treated like special io-redirection operators.
-   Redirect tokens in quotes (e.g. \"\>\", \"2\>\", \"2\>1\") are now
    correctly passed to commands as regular arguments.
-   Fixed NotADirectoryError during load dircolors.
-   Fixed a bug that caused `xonfig web` to overwrite its own
    configuration file. See <https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/5297>
-   If an error is encountered while loading the xonshrc file, the
    traceback is now output as plain text rather than as a list of
    Tokens

**Authors:**

-   Gil Forsyth
-   Noortheen Raja
-   anki-code
-   pre-commit-ci\[bot\]
-   Peter Ye
-   dependabot\[bot\]
-   l-no

## v0.15.1

**Fixed:**

-   pytest: Fix pytest collection starting at pytest\>=8.1.0

**Authors:**

-   doronz88
-   Daniel Saunders
-   Andrew

## v0.15.0

**Added:**

-   [Atuin](https://atuin.sh/) now has official support for xonsh.
    (Related PR: <https://github.com/atuinsh/atuin/pull/1375>)

**Changed:**

-   Updated docs to reflect VS Code support for xonsh as the user\'s
    default shell.
-   Pinned prompt-toolkit version 3.0.29-3.0.40 to workaround upstream
    issue. More info in issue 5241.

**Authors:**

-   anki-code
-   pre-commit-ci\[bot\]
-   Jason R. Coombs
-   dependabot\[bot\]
-   Matthieu LAURENT

## v0.14.4

**Added:**

-   System clipboard can be fully disabled using
    `$XONSH_USE_SYSTEM_CLIPBOARD`.

**Authors:**

-   anki-code
-   pre-commit-ci\[bot\]
-   dependabot\[bot\]
-   Stefano Rivera
-   Nathan Monfils
-   JamesParrott
-   Airat Makhmutov

## v0.14.3

**Added:**

-   Added `on_pre_spec_run` event.
-   Added `on_post_spec_run` event.

**Fixed:**

-   `xonsh` now adds the user site packages directory to `sys.path`
    where required for proper `xontrib` discovery

**Authors:**

-   Gil Forsyth
-   pre-commit-ci\[bot\]
-   Jacqueline Leykam
-   Joshix-1

## v0.14.2

**Fixed:**

-   history: fix json file permissions upon [sudo]{.title-ref} (#5220)
-   `cd` with no arguments will always return to `$HOME`
-   Correctly parse multi line foreign aliases
-   Upgrade Python version at the introduction
    (<https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/pull/5193>)

**Authors:**

-   Gil Forsyth
-   Noortheen Raja
-   anki-code
-   pre-commit-ci\[bot\]
-   dependabot\[bot\]
-   doronz88
-   mgunyho
-   ShalokShalom
-   Wilfried Pollan

## v0.14.1

**Added:**

-   Added `history delete` command to both the JSON and SQLite history
    backends allowing users to delete commands from history that matches
    a pattern.
-   Now you can become a sponsor to xonsh -
    <https://github.com/sponsors/xonsh>
-   Added preliminary support for Python v3.12

**Changed:**

-   Always load rc files except that \--norc is passed.
-   Unset the default line continuation environment variables
    (`$MULTILINE_PROMPT_PRE` and `$MULTILINE_PROMPT_POS`) to allow
    differentiating between user setting an empty value and not setting
    anything
-   Dropped support for Python v3.8

**Fixed:**

-   This change fixes issue #4855, that is, rc files will be loaded in
    non-interactive mode.
-   platform: fix [BASH_COMPLETIONS_DEFAULT]{.title-ref} on M1
-   Fix wrong verification for the simple output, introduced by PR5072

**Authors:**

-   Noortheen Raja
-   anki-code
-   pre-commit-ci\[bot\]
-   Evgeny
-   doronz88
-   Ivan Ogasawara
-   HackTheOxidation
-   Cosine Chen

## v0.14.0

**Added:**

-   key_bindings: map [escape-f]{.title-ref} as another word completer
    for macOS
-   Added `history pull` command to SQLite history backend to pull the
    history from parallel sessions and add to the current session.
-   Add support for [Semantic
    Prompt](https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/Per_Bothner/specifications/blob/master/proposals/semantic-prompts.md)
    for line continuations in multiline prompts via two environment
    variables: `$MULTILINE_PROMPT_PRE` (e.g.,
    `\x01\x1b]133;P;k=c\x07\x02`), and `$MULTILINE_PROMPT_POS` (e.g.,
    `\x01\x1b]133;B\x07\x02`) that are inserted before/after each
    continuation line \'dots\' block to mark input
-   Wheels for Python 3.11 are part of the automated release action
-   Added `chdir` to `xonsh.tools`. This allows to use
    `with chdir("dir"):` to run commands block in the certain directory
    without manually cd-ing.
-   Display the current branch of Fossil VCS checkouts in the prompt,
    similar to git and hg.
-   Added link to xonsh on Mastodon - <https://mastodon.online/@xonsh>
-   xontrib load: added option `-s` to skip warning about not installed
    xontribs.

**Changed:**

-   Altered documentation for xonshrc to remove Python REPL prompts so
    that you can copy the code without having to edit it.
-   xonsh AppImage - bumped python to 3.11
-   The prompt end character switched to `@`.
-   The [command not found]{.title-ref} error will show the `repr(cmd)`
    to uncover the cases when the command name has `\n`, `\t` or not
    visible color codes and raises the error.
-   `abbrevs` xontrib transferred to
    [xontrib-abbrevs](https://github.com/xonsh/xontrib-abbrevs).
-   `bashisms` xontrib transferred to
    [xontrib-bashisms](https://github.com/xonsh/xontrib-bashisms).
-   `free_cwd` xontrib transferred to
    [xontrib-free-cwd](https://github.com/xonsh/xontrib-free-cwd).
-   `whole_word_jumping` xontrib transferred to
    [xontrib-whole-word-jumping](https://github.com/xonsh/xontrib-whole-word-jumping).
-   `fish_completer` xontrib transferred to
    [xontrib-fish-completer](https://github.com/xonsh/xontrib-fish-completer).
-   `vox`, `autovox`, `voxapi` xontribs transferred to
    [xontrib-vox](https://github.com/xonsh/xontrib-vox).
-   `pdb`, `xog` xontribs transferred to
    [xontrib-debug-tools](https://github.com/xonsh/xontrib-debug-tools).

**Fixed:**

-   Fixed xpip alias for xonsh AppImage.
-   Fixed missing `webconfig/js/xonsh_sticker.svg` in `xonfig web`.
-   update load_xontrib pytest fixture to handle auto-loaded xontribs
-   Suppress subprocess traceback on exception in case
    `$XONSH_SHOW_TRACEBACK=False` with `$RAISE_SUBPROC_ERROR=True`.
-   Improve the error message when `$RAISE_SUBPROC_ERROR` is set to
    True.
-   Fixed xontrib-jupyter to work in JupyterLab and terminal-based
    [Euporie](https://github.com/joouha/euporie) environment.

**Authors:**

-   Gil Forsyth
-   Noortheen Raja
-   anki-code
-   pre-commit-ci\[bot\]
-   Evgeny
-   Mark Bestley
-   Samuel Dion-Girardeau
-   doronz88
-   Ivan Ogasawara
-   Tobias Becker
-   AkshayWarrier
-   Thomas Hess
-   kouhe3

## v0.13.4

**Added:**

-   tests for methods changed in tools.py (is_tok_color_dict)
-   `$XDG_CACHE_HOME`, `$XONSH_CACHE_DIR` are now available inside
    `Xonsh`
-   #2455 Add [on_command_not_found]{.title-ref} event, fired when a
    command is not found.

**Changed:**

-   is_str_str_dict changed to check for Token:style dict

**Removed:**

-   `$COMMANDS_CACHE_SIZE_WARNING` is removed. When
    `$COMMANDS_CACHE_SAVE_INTERMEDIATE` is enabled, the cache file size
    is optimized.

**Fixed:**

-   #4668 Fix ptk completion stacking when auto-suggest is on and no
    normal completions are generated.
-   \$XONSH_STYLE_OVERRIDES cannot be assigned dict of {Token: str}
    #4375
-   commands_cache: add a configurable value to disable cache. useful
    for running scripts
-   fixed stale results when `$COMMANDS_CACHE_SAVE_INTERMEDIATE` is
    enabled.
-   #4951 Fix gitstatus prompt when rebasing
-   fixed using aliases to override commands without the file extension
    on Windows
-   #3279 Add [XONSH_HISTORY_IGNORE_REGEX]{.title-ref} support. You can
    specify a regular expression in the environment variable
    [XONSH_HISTORY_IGNORE_REGEX]{.title-ref} and any command that
    matches the expression will not be added to the history.

**Authors:**

-   Noortheen Raja
-   pre-commit-ci\[bot\]
-   Vasilis Gerakaris
-   Lie Ryan
-   Blake Ramsdell
-   Justin
-   yotamolenik
-   austin-yang
-   Marco Rubin
-   Qyriad

## v0.13.3

**Fixed:**

-   `pygments` startup crash when incorrect prepending `bg:` to
    `noinherit` style directives

**Authors:**

-   Gil Forsyth

## v0.13.2

**Changed:**

-   When there is no git repository, the values of all `gitstatus`
    prompt fields are now `None`.
-   With `$THREAD_SUBPROCS=False`: When a callable alias is executed
    with `![]`, its standard output and standard error are no longer
    captured. This is because a separate thread is required in order to
    both capture the output and stream it to the terminal while the
    alias is running.

**Fixed:**

-   Fixed timeit syntax error
-   When there is no git repository, `$PROMPT` format strings like
    `{gitstatus: hello {}}` now work as expected.
-   With `$THREAD_SUBPROCS=False`: When `cd` is used with an invalid
    directory, the error message is now correctly displayed.
-   Fixed case when xpip returns None instead of command.

**Authors:**

-   anki-code
-   Peter Ye
-   pre-commit-ci\[bot\]
-   Lie Ryan
-   amukher3
-   Ashish Kurmi

## v0.13.1

**Added:**

-   The ujson (faster version of json) added to xonsh\[full\] package.

**Changed:**

-   Bumped Python version in [xonsh.AppImage]{.title-ref} to 3.10
-   The terminal\'s title is updated with the current command\'s name
    even if the command is a captured command or a callable alias

**Fixed:**

-   Warn and continue if a user without `pygments` tries to load an
    unknown style
-   Fixed a bash completion bug when prefixing a file path with \'\<\'
    or \'\>\' (for redirecting stdin/stdout/stderr)
-   Fixed a bash completion bug when completing a git branch name when
    deleting a remote branch (e.g. [git push origin
    :dev-branch]{.title-ref})
-   A callable alias containing subprocess commands no longer freezes
    when piped to another command
-   `less` no longer stops when a callable alias containing subprocess
    commands is piped into it
-   `gitstatus` Prompt-field would be empty on paths without git setup.
-   When using the sway window manager, `swaymsg -t get_inputs` no
    longer fails with the error \"Unable to receive IPC response\"
-   The `current_job` variable now works as expected when used in
    `$TITLE`

**Security:**

-   `xpip` will never add `sudo` under any circumstances and will
    instead append `--user` as needed

**Authors:**

-   Gil Forsyth
-   Noortheen Raja
-   anki-code
-   Peter Ye
-   pre-commit-ci\[bot\]
-   Stefano Rivera
-   jbw3
-   jgart
-   Michael Panitz (at Cascadia College)
-   Tim Gates

## v0.13.0

**Removed:**

-   The `xonsh` code-base is no longer amalgamated, so tracebacks should
    be human-readable without intervention. This may have (minor)
    impacts on startup speed.

**Fixed:**

-   Fix xontrib loading for [free_cwd]{.title-ref}
-   Fixed [whole_word_jumping]{.title-ref} xontrib failing on Linux,
    conditional import of `ptk_win32` → Windows only
-   Fixed error caused by unintialized Xonsh session env when using
    Xonsh as a library just for its Pygments lexer plugin.

**Authors:**

-   Gil Forsyth
-   Noortheen Raja
-   anki-code
-   Eddie Peters
-   cmidkiff87
-   Hannes Römer

## v0.12.6

**Fixed:**

-   String literal concatenation now works with f-strings and path
    literals
-   A SyntaxError is raised when string literal concatenation is
    attempted with literals of different types (e.g. str and bytes)

**Authors:**

-   Gil Forsyth
-   Noortheen Raja
-   Peter Ye

## v0.12.5

**Added:**

-   Support for f-glob strings (e.g. `` fg`{prefix}* ``\`)
-   Now xontribs support [loading and
    unloading](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/4541) with
    functions `_load_xontrib_(xsh: XonshSession, **kwargs) -> dict`,
    `_unload_xontrib_(xsh: XonshSession, **kwargs) -> None` defined in
    their module. [Updated doc](https://xon.sh/tutorial_xontrib.html)
-   Added a special \'\$LAST_RETURN_CODE\' environment variable to
    access the return code of the last issued command. (Only set during
    interactive use).
-   New prompt-customization fields: \'last_return_code_if_nonzero\',
    \'last_return_code\'.
-   Documented the HISTCONTROL ignorespace option

**Changed:**

-   \![\] now returns a HiddenCommandPipeline when run with a background
    command (e.g. [\![sleep 10 &\]]{.title-ref})
-   Extended [whole_word_jumping]{.title-ref} xontrib with matching
    bindings for [delete]{.title-ref} and [backspace]{.title-ref}. The
    [XONSH_WHOLE_WORD_CTRL_BKSP]{.title-ref} environment variable can be
    set to [False]{.title-ref} to avoid binding
    [control+backspace]{.title-ref} in incompatible terminals.
-   The default prompt (on unix-systems) now includes a red
    \[\<errorcode\>\] field in case a command failed.
-   New docs theme `furo`
-   completions from fish are now filter based on the current prefix.

**Removed:**

-   xontrib `prompt_ret_code` is now removed. Now the default prompt
    already shows the last-return-code when the previous command fails.
    Please use the new prompt fields `last_return_code`,
    `last_return_code_if_nonzero` from the
    [PR](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/pull/4798)

**Fixed:**

-   Using [fg]{.title-ref} for commands started in the background (e.g.
    [\![sleep 10 &\]]{.title-ref}) now works
-   SIGHUP (instead of SIGKILL) is sent to unfinished jobs when exiting
    the shell. This allows the [nohup]{.title-ref} command to work
    properly.
-   [bg]{.title-ref} now properly resumes jobs in the background
-   ExecAlias now sets the returncode of a command correctly
-   Empty/comment-only commands no longer get added to the history
-   On prompt-toolkit, when there is a job like [sleep 500
    &]{.title-ref} running in the background, pressing Ctrl+D twice to
    force quit now works properly
-   Environment Variables are now completed correctly when in quotes
-   Silence spurious errors on exit due to out-of-order cleanup

**Authors:**

-   Gil Forsyth
-   Noortheen Raja
-   Peter Ye
-   dev2718
-   dependabot\[bot\]
-   Stefano Rivera
-   Naveen
-   jbw3
-   Italo Cunha
-   Timmy Welch

## v0.12.4

**Authors:**

-   Gil Forsyth

## v0.12.3

**Changed:**

-   fix: remove os.path.basename from \_get_git_branch()
-   now 3rd party xontrib list is maintained at [Awesome
    Xontribs](https://github.com/xonsh/awesome-xontribs/) page. Going
    forward, new contributions will be updated here, making it not
    depending on [the xonsh
    release](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/4679).

**Removed:**

-   Removed Python 3.7 support following
    [NEP0029](https://numpy.org/neps/nep-0029-deprecation_policy.html)

**Fixed:**

-   Dictionaries are now pretty-printed with their items in the correct
    order

**Authors:**

-   Gil Forsyth
-   Noortheen Raja
-   Peter Ye
-   doronz88
-   Stefano Rivera

## v0.12.2

**Fixed:**

-   Fixed completions for command argument paths after equal signs
-   A trailing space no longer gets appended when tab-completing command
    arguments that involve equals signs. For example [dd
    sta]{.title-ref} gets completed to [dd status=]{.title-ref}, without
    a space space after the equals sign.
-   regression on [gitstatus](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/pull/4771)
    prompt is fixed now. It will display the value now instead of the
    name.
-   [fixed](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/pull/4763) `vox rm` crashing
    when user input is required

**Authors:**

-   Gil Forsyth
-   Noortheen Raja
-   Peter Ye

## v0.12.1

**Fixed:**

-   fixed regression issue in loading
    [xontrib-abbrevs](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/pull/4757)
-   Allow xonsh to start gracefully even if modal cursors aren\'t in the
    available prompt_toolkit version

**Authors:**

-   Gil Forsyth
-   Noortheen Raja

## v0.12.0

**Added:**

-   Added interface to complete any alias that has `xonsh_complete`
    attribute. It is a function with
    `fn(**kwargs) -> Iterator[RichCompletion | str]` signature.

-   added `$ALIAS_COMPLETIONS_OPTIONS_LONGEST` to control showing
    options in completions

-   added `$CMD_COMPLETIONS_SHOW_DESC` environment variable to control
    showing command completions with a description part.

-   [completer complete]{.title-ref} command is added to test current
    completions

-   completions from man page will now show the description for the
    options if available.

-   `$XONSH_COMPLETER_DIRS` to put command completers

-   `Aliases.register` to register an alias function.

-   Tracebacks are now printed in color if available (interactive
    session with shell that supports colors with pygments installed and
    \$COLOR_RESULTS enabled)

-   Added python\'s match statement for python \>=3.10.

-   Added support for the \$SHLVL environment variable, typed as int,
    using bash\'s semantics.

-   Python files with command completions can be put inside
    `xompletions` namespace package, they will get loaded lazily.

-   [xontrib.fish_completer]{.title-ref} is available to complete using
    [fish]{.title-ref} shell.

-   Support for pythons sys.last_type, sys.last_value,
    sys.last_traceback.

-   added `xonsh-uname` command to `xoreutils`

-   auto-completion support for commands : `source-foreign`,
    `source-bash`, `source-zsh`, `source-cmd`

-   added `history transfer` command to transfer history entries between
    backends.

-   now `$PROMPT_FIELDS` is a custom class with method
    `pick(field_name)` to get the field value efficiently. The results
    are cached within the same prompt call.

-   new class `xonsh.prompt.base.PromptField` to ease creating/extending
    prompt-fields

-   **Sublime Text 4** extension to the Editors page.

-   Support for the
    [virtualenv](https://virtualenv.pypa.io/en/20.0.1/extend.html#activation-scripts)
    `activate.xsh` script is back! Ensure you create the virtualenv from
    the same python where xonsh is installed.

-   vox new/create accepts a new `--prompt` argument, which is passed
    through to `python -m venv`

-   New set of commands and options to manage virtualenvs inspired from
    `pew`

    > -   runin
    >
    > -   runinall
    >
    > -   new
    >
    >     > -   `--link` : to associate venv with project directory
    >     > -   `--temp` : to create temporary virtualenvs
    >
    > -   activate
    >
    >     > -   now will cd into project directory if the venv is
    >     >     associated
    >
    > -   toggle-ssp - toggle system site packages
    >
    > -   project - manage project path associations
    >
    > -   wipe - to quickly remove all user installed packages

-   `prompt.env.env_name` is now aware of the \"prompt\" key in
    `pyvenv.cfg` - search order from first to last is:
    `$VIRTUAL_ENV_PROMPT`, `pyvenv.cfg`, `$VIRTUAL_ENV`,
    \$`CONDA_DEFAULT_ENV`

-   new command `vox upgrade`

-   `xonfig web` can now update `abbrevs/aliases/env-variables`.

-   Added [xontrib-default-command
    \<https://github.com/oh-my-xonsh/xontrib-default-command\>]{.title-ref}
    to xontrib list.

-   new [xontrib-django](https://github.com/jnoortheen/xontrib-django)
    for django management completions

-   Added [xontrib-gruvbox
    \<https://github.com/rpdelaney/xontrib-gruvbox\>]{.title-ref} to
    xontrib list.

-   Added [xontrib-up
    \<https://github.com/oh-my-xonsh/xontrib-up\>]{.title-ref} to
    xontrib list.

**Changed:**

-   BREAKING CHANGE: `/etc/xonshrc` location for run control file has
    been deprecated in favor of `/etc/xonsh/xonshrc`.
-   Both `*.xsh` and `*.py` files inside `$XONSHRC_DIR` will get loaded
    now.
-   Environment-variables of no predefined type or path environment
    variables are now represented as strings via the empty string.
-   Made stacktraces behave like in python, i.e. when something in
    user-provided code fails (both interactively and non-interactively),
    only that part is shown, and the (static) part of the stacktrace
    showing the location where the user code was called in xonsh remains
    hidden. When an unexpected exception occurs inside xonsh, everything
    is shown like before.
-   run_compiled_code, run_script_with_cache, run_code_with_cache now
    return sys.exc_info() triples instead of throwing errors
-   SyntaxError tracebacks now by default hide the internal parser state
    (like in python); set XONSH_DEBUG \>= 1 to enable it again.
-   XonshError tracebacks now by default hide xonshs internal state; set
    XONSH_DEBUG \>= 1 to enable it again.
-   run_code_with_cache takes a new parameter display_filename to
    override the filename shown in exceptions (this is independent of
    caching)
-   Update uptime lib by the last one from Pypi
-   `umask`, `ulimit` commands will not override the system\'s commands
    unless requested
-   Xontribs that require other third party packages are moved to its
    own packages. The following xontribs are moved and can be loaded
    after install as usual
    -   mpl
    -   distributed
    -   jupyter-kernel
    -   jedi
-   Xonsh adopts
    [NEP-0029](https://numpy.org/neps/nep-0029-deprecation_policy.html)
    in supporting Python versions.
-   Privatise certain attributes of lexer/parser to minimise API surface
-   Make [XSH.load]{.title-ref} calls explicit (not in Execer)
-   Make import hooks require Execer
-   Simplified foreign functions
-   Updated tutorial.rst to clarify use of time_format
-   `vox new` will use default python version of the system rather than
    the one vox is run with
-   `xonfig web` now shows latest xontribs available from
    `xonsh.xontribs_meta`

**Removed:**

-   `$XONSH_GITSTATUS_*` is removed since the prompt fields can be
    customized easily now individually.
-   `$XONSH_GITSTATUS_FIELDS_HIDDEN` is removed. Please set hidden
    fields in `$PROMPT_FIELDS['gitstatus'].hidden = (...)`
-   Removed `xonsh.ptk2` module whcih was kept for some old packages
    sake. Now xonsh requires atleast ptk3 version.

**Fixed:**

-   Some of the bash completions scripts can change path starting with
    \'\~/\' to [/home/user/]{.title-ref} during autocompletion. xonsh
    [bash_completions]{.title-ref} does not expect that, so it breaks
    autocompletion by producing paths like
    [\~/f/home/user/foo]{.title-ref}. After the fix if bash returns
    changed paths then [/home/user]{.title-ref} prefix will be replaced
    with [\~/]{.title-ref}.
-   `pip` completer now handles path completions correctly
-   SyntaxErrors thrown during compilation (i.e. not during parsing) now
    include the offending source line.
-   If a .xsh file is imported, the resulting module will now always
    have an absolute \_\_file\_\_ attribute to be consistent with
    pythons behavior since python 3.4.
-   `$CONDA_DEFAULT_ENV` is now respected when xonsh is run outside of
    conda.
-   Fixed unpacking of dictionaries inside a dictionary
-   Empty or comments only .xsh files can now be imported to align with
    pythons behavior.
-   Fixed regex globbing for file paths that contain special regex
    characters (e.g. \"test\*1/model\")
-   Fixed list comprehension in return statement incorrectly being
    parsed as a subprocess command.
-   Fixed the expansion of \$XONSH_TRACEBACK_LOGFILE user paths (e.g.
    \"\~/log\")
-   Fixed DeprecationWarning when providing autocompletion for a
    non-callable type with `(`
-   OSC codes in `$PROMPT` is no longer removed when using ptk shell.
    These codes need to be escaped with `\001..\002` instead.
-   Attempt to show a modal cursor in vi_mode (ie. block in cmd, bar in
    ins)
-   Xonsh can now be used in VIM (e.g. by \":read !ls\" if VIM is
    configured to use xonsh. This may be the case when xonsh is the
    default shell.)
-   Fixed OSError on Windows when GnuWin32 is installed in the PATH.
-   Do not show welcome message when any `$XONSHRC_DIR` directory entry
    exists.
-   SyntaxErrors now get initialized with all available fields so that
    the error message can be formatted properly.
-   Raising BaseException no longer causes Xonsh to crash (fix #4567)
-   Exceptions in user code when using xonsh non-interactively no longer
    simply crash xonsh, rather a proper stacktrace is printed and also
    postmain() is called.
-   Tracebacks will now show the correct filename (i.e. as in python)
    for interactive use \"\<stdin\>\", scripts read by stdin
    \"\<stdin\>\" and -c commands \"\<string\>\". (Instead of MD5 hashes
    as filenames or \"\<xonsh-code\>\")
-   Default ZSH FUNCSCMD was not working in ZSH 5.8 (and possibly other
    versions)
-   Passing multiple files to be sourced to source-foreign was broken
-   prompt field `current_branch` will now work empty git repository.

**Authors:**

-   Gil Forsyth
-   Noortheen Raja
-   anki-code
-   Daniel Shimon
-   Peter Ye
-   Jason R. Coombs
-   dev2718
-   Evgeny
-   Angus Hollands
-   omjadas
-   Oliver Bestwalter
-   Samuel Dion-Girardeau
-   Ryan Delaney
-   E Pluribus Unum
-   ylmrx
-   Hierosme
-   Kyllingene
-   zzj
-   Daniel
-   Ganer
-   mattmc3
-   Evan Hubinger

## v0.11.0

## v0.11.0

**Added:**

-   added new utility classes `xonsh.cli_utils.ArgParserAlias`,
    `xonsh.cli_utils.ArgCompleter`. These are helper classes, that add
    coloring and auto-completion support to the alias-commands.
-   when `$ENABLE_ASYNC_PROMPT=True` lazy load `prompt-toolkit`\'s
    color-input support.
-   Add `CTRL-Right` key binding to complete a single auto-suggestion
    word.
-   Show environment variables\' type and descriptions when completing
    them.
-   Add `CTRL-Backspace` key binding to delete a single word via
    `$XONSH_CTRL_BKSPC_DELETION`.
-   Improved `pip`/`xpip` completer.
-   Separator used by gitstatus can now be styled using
    `XONSH_GITSTATUS_SEPARATOR`.
-   Complete \'import\' statements with modules that aren\'t loaded.
-   Complete multiple modules/objects in \'import\' statements.
-   Multiple new metadata fields in `setup.py`
-   Pure Python control files are now supported when named `*.py`. Using
    python files may lower the startup time by a bit.
-   new environment variable `$XONSH_TRACE_SUBPROC_FUNC` to handle
    `$XONSH_TRACE_SUBPROC` output
-   Added [xontrib-pyrtn
    \<https://github.com/dyuri/xontrib-pyrtn\>]{.title-ref} to xontrib
    list.

**Changed:**

-   Display error message when running [xonfig colors]{.title-ref} in a
    non-interactive shell
-   Using `ArgparserAlias` for `dirs`, `popd`, `pushd`
-   use `ArgparserAlias` for `disown` alias with completion support
-   `history` alias now has colored help message and completion support
    when running interactively.
-   using `ArgparserAlias` for `trace` alias with completion support
-   improve `vox` CLI completions
-   use ArgparserAlias for `xexec`. Now it supports completions.
-   `xonfig` now has colored help message when ran interactively.
-   Using `ArgparserAlias` to improve `xontrib` completions
-   Changed !() to also capture background subprocesses
-   Suggested commands are cached for better performance.
-   Improved pipelines performance by using a mutable buffer.
-   Curly braces { } in directory names are now escaped in the prompt
-   The `--rc` argument is extended to support directories as well as
    files. Passing a directory will result in all `*.xsh` files in the
    directory being sorted and loaded at startup (equivalent to using
    the environment variable `XONSHRC_DIR`).
-   The environment variables `XONSHRC` and `XONSHRC_DIR` are no longer
    updated by xonsh on startup according to which files were actually
    loaded. This caused problems if xonsh is called recursively, as the
    child shells would inherit the modified startup environment of the
    parent. These variables will now be left untouched, and the actual
    RC files loaded (according to those variables and command line
    arguments) can be seen in the output of `xonfig`.
-   Replaced
    [xontrib-linuxbrew](https://github.com/eugenesvk/xontrib-linuxbrew)
    with
    [xontrib-homebrew](https://github.com/eugenesvk/xontrib-homebrew),
    which also supports Homebrew on macOS

**Removed:**

-   Completely dropped the deprecated `--config-path` argument, which no
    longer did anything.
-   The environment variable `LOADED_RC_FILES` is no longer set. It
    contained a list of booleans as to which RC files had been
    successfully loaded, but it required knowledge of the RC loading
    internals to interpret which status corresponded to which file. As
    above, the (successfully) loaded RC files are now shown in `xonfig`.

**Fixed:**

-   Add quotes in autocomplete when filename contains brackets
-   Handle `None` value on XSH.env if `$UPDATE_OS_ENVIRON` is set to
    `True`
-   Implemented [\_\_hash\_\_]{.title-ref} method to Env, so that it can
    be used in [lru_cache]{.title-ref} without crashing.
-   Make sure aliases are always captured regardless of
    `$XONSH_CAPTURE_ALWAYS`
-   `fromdircolors` doesn\'t crash if output from subprocess call to
    `dircolors` returns nothing (usually due to permission errors)
-   Fixed issue with environment not being iterable on session objects.
-   Fixed issue where environment is None in commands cache.
-   `${...}.swap()` can be called from multiple threads safetly.
-   Piping multiple function aliases doesn\'t raise a recursion error
    anymore.
-   Fixed detection of App Execution Alias for latest 3.8 and 3.9
    releases
-   `Jedi` completer doesn\'t complete paths with `~`.
-   Sometimes the completion menu doesn\'t take space when cursor is at
    the bottom of the screen.
-   vox now passes system-site-packages option
-   Fix Duplicate paths left over when add paths to Path via
    xonsh.tools.EnvPath
-   Fix Crash with FileNotFoundError when current working directory is
    deleted #4467
-   Completing a single-arg python code segment (e.g.
    `@(/etc/hos<TAB>)`).
-   Fixed pipelines in WSL2
-   Newline symbols in Prompt-toolkit\'s completions are replaced by
    \<space\>
-   Fix launching processes on Windows by using full paths
    (<https://bugs.python.org/issue8557>)

## v0.10.1

**Fixed:**

-   `execx` and `xonsh -c` previously exposed xonsh-internal code in
    global scope. They also did not support defining variables and then
    referring to them in comprehensions, generators, functions, or
    lambdas. - <https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/4363>
-   Short color token names can be used in `register_custom_style()`
    (#4339)

**Authors:**

-   Gyuri Horak
-   Jeremy Schlatter

## v0.10.0

**Added:**

-   Added ability to set XONSH_HISTORY_FILE before loading the history
    backend.

-   Added ability to get the arguments list in ExecAlias using `$args`
    and `$arg<n>` environment variables.

-   Added instruction how to run xonsh AppImage on Alpine

-   Xonsh now supports generators as completer functions.

-   Completion Context - Allow completers to access a parsed
    representation of the current commandline context.

-   Added casting CommandPipeline to int, hash and str.

-   Ability to call the tool by the name from callable alias with the
    same name without the infinite loop error.

-   `on wsl` field when running xonfig (when linux is detected)

-   Help and superhelp (`obj?` and `obj??`) now use the `__name__` if
    available.

-   added `$XONSH_GITSTATUS_FIELDS_TO_HIDE` to hide unwanted fields from
    `{gitstatus}` prompt field.

-   Added number of lines added and removed to gitstatus

-   Saving current working directory (cwd) to the history.

-   Added XONSH_HISTORY_SAVE_CWD environment variable.

-

    Added environment variable `$COMPLETE_DOTS` to specify how current and previous directories should be tab completed in cd (\'./\', \'../\'):

    :   -   `always` Always complete paths with ./ and ../
        -   `never` Never complete paths with ./ and ../
        -   `matching` Complete if path starts with . or ..

-   Complete `import` keyword in `from ... import` statements.

-   Enabled case-insensitive completions for the `jedi` xontrib.

-   Non-exclusive completers that enable aggregating multiple completer
    results.

-   New `$XONSH_CAPTURE_ALWAYS` variable for opt-in interactive
    capturing. Since this capturing breaks background jobs and some
    interactive programs (like `git` invoking an editor), This behavior
    is now opt-in using this variable. See
    <https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/pull/4283> and linked issues.

-   Wrap selection with quote/parens when `$XONSH_AUTOPAIR=True`.

-   Now xonsh will work with Python 3.10. (Match statement is not
    supported).

-   In addition to reading single rc files at startup (`/etc/xonshrc`,
    `~/.config/xonsh/rc.xsh`), xonsh now also supports rc.d-style config
    directories, from which all files are sourced. This is designed to
    support drop-in style configuration where you could, for example,
    have a common config file shared across multiple machines and a
    separate machine specific file.

    This is controlled by the environment variable `XONSHRC_DIR`, which
    defaults to `["/etc/xonsh/rc.d", "~/.config/xonsh/rc.d"]`. If those
    directories exist, then any `xsh` files contained within are sorted
    and then sourced.

-   Added xontrib-prompt-starship - Starship prompt in xonsh shell.

-   Added XONSH_SUBPROC_CAPTURED_PRINT_STDERR (default False)
    environment variable to hide unwanted printing the stderr when using
    captured object.

-   A `$XONSH_TRACE_COMPLETIONS` variable for completions debugging.

-   Added warning about prompt-toolkit in the welcome message.

-   Added history backend name to the xonfig.

-   [xontrib-linuxbrew](https://github.com/eugenesvk/xontrib-linuxbrew)
    to add Homebrew\'s shell environment to xonsh shell on Linux

-   Added xontrib-macro-lib - the library of the useful macros for the
    xonsh shell: <https://github.com/anki-code/xontrib-macro-lib>

**Changed:**

-   update imphooks encoding regex to match the newer version at PEP 263
-   Enabled bracketed paste mode for readline to protect against paste
    jacking
-   The group of environment variables around history moved to the
    \"Interactive Prompt History\" section.
-   Disabled completing subpaths for commands in `jedi`.
-   Improved `which` output for non-simple aliases
-   New json history will be in XONSH_DATA_DIR/history_json directory.
-   Completers for `and/or`, `&&/||/|` and environment variables are now
    non-exclusive.
-   Disabled ptk copying words/lines to clipboard on deletion (can be
    re-enabled with `$XONSH_COPY_ON_DELETE`).
-   Separated between `XONSH_DEBUG` and `XONSH_NO_AMALGAMATE`. Setting
    `XONSH_DEBUG=1` now acts like `XONSH_DEBUG=2` before (basic
    information like input transformation, command replacement) and
    `XONSH_DEBUG=2` like `XONSH_DEBUG=1` before (more debugging
    information presented, like PLY parsing messages).
-   Cleaned up available aliases for `shell_type`
-   Speedup commands-cache by saving results between runs and use the
    last run\'s result
-   The `completer add` command after the non-exclusive completers. This
    means it will not block them from adding their completions.
-   Updated the tab-completion tutorial.

**Fixed:**

-   handle importing/decoding user modules with a \'UTF-8 with BOM\'
    encoding (#4160)
-   Fixed XONSH_HISTORY_FILE that has the actual path from the history
    backend now
-   Annotated assignments (`x: int = 42`, `x: int`).
-   Fixed xpip sudo behavior in xonsh AppImage.
-   Prevent cancelled future errors for async prompt
    (\$ENABLE_ASYNC_PROMPT) fields from bubbling up (and destroying the
    prompt\'s formatting)
-   \$() no longer silently captures stderr
-   Added catching callable argument and raising appropriate exception
-   Crashing command-not-found output for bad file names on linux.
-   Fixed error message when an empty command is run
-   Fixed @\$ crash when no output is sent out by the command
-   Fixed xonsh crash when launched using [xonsh -c
    \'\$(\"\")\']{.title-ref}
-   now abbrevs callback will not remove word from `buffer.text`. See
    <https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/3642#issuecomment-793789741>
-   Fixed the incorrect SyntaxError that was thrown when a subprocess
    command was preceded by a comment ending with a colon
-   Fixed the missing auto-indentation in readline and prompt_toolkit
    when a statement ending with a colon was followed by a comment
-   Fixed the incorrect auto-indentation in prompt_toolkit when a
    comment ended with a colon
-   Fixed JSON history garbage collection for XONSH_HISTORY_SIZE in
    seconds.
-   Fixed `skip` completer (completes `sudo`, `which` and other
    commands).
-   In a subprocess command, having whitespace in between the left
    bracket and the command no longer raises a SyntaxError.
-   Reduced history reading when run script or command. Potential speed
    increasing.
-   Fixed crash on statup if XONSH_COLOR_STYLE is set to something
    invalid.
-   Fixed the colorize and/or keywords.
-   Functions can be used for \$TITLE, the same way as for \$PROMPT.
    (#4148)
-   wsl detection works on archlinux wsl2 now (and hopefully everywhere)
-   Fixed an exception when run xonfig wizard in no RC mode.
-   Bash completions now handle quoted and space-containing arguments
    better.
-   `import` completions always work.
-   Test consistent RC loading behaviour in a variety of startup
    scenarios
-   Absolute paths to executables don\'t break bash completions anymore
-   Fix colors and text in the welcome message.

**Authors:**

-   Gil Forsyth
-   anki-code
-   Noortheen Raja
-   Gyuri Horak
-   Daniel Shimon
-   Matthias Bussonnier
-   Gordon Ball
-   cryzed
-   Peter Ye
-   Evgeny
-   Jeremy Schlatter
-   jmoranos
-   Walter A. Boring IV
-   bhawkins
-   JackofSpades707
-   Luiz Antonio Lazoti
-   francium

## v0.9.27

**Added:**

-   Add new internal command \"disown\" to remove background jobs from
    the shell\'s job list
-   Python3.9 issues with subscriptor forms fixed.
-   added [xontrib-cd](https://github.com/eugenesvk/xontrib-cd)
-   Added **xontrib-history-encrypt** - new history backend that encrypt
    the xonsh shell commands history to prevent leaking sensitive data.
    If you like the idea give a star to the repository
    <https://github.com/anki-code/xontrib-history-encrypt>

**Changed:**

-   New awesome landing on <https://xon.sh> - feel free to share and
    tweet!
-   History files (json, sqlite) now have 600 (rw only for user)
    permission by default.
-   PTK(python-prompt-toolkit) is no longer vendored with xonsh.

**Fixed:**

-   Fixed a bug where \"cd\" and \"rmdir\" would return non-directory
    completions
-   SQLite History Backend: show message instead of exiting when disk is
    full.

**Authors:**

-   Gil Forsyth
-   anki-code
-   Noortheen Raja
-   Tejasvi S Tomar
-   Evgeny
-   Adam Schwalm
-   Nate Simon

## v0.9.26

**Added:**

-   abbrevs now support callbacks
-   Added a new xontrib `tcg`

**Fixed:**

-   now xonsh stdout delegates `isatty` to wrapped io stream.

**Authors:**

-   Gil Forsyth
-   anki-code
-   Noortheen Raja
-   Gao, Xiang

## v0.9.25

**Added:**

-   VC_GIT_INCLUDE_UNTRACKED environment variable if untracked file
    changes are desired to show a dirty working directory

-   added
    [xontrib-powerline2](https://github.com/vaaaaanquish/xontrib-powerline2)

-   Add \'`|`\' and \'`|=`\' operators to the `Aliases` class.

-   Add tests to the merging functionality.

-   Add \"back2dir\" xontrib
    (<https://github.com/anki-code/xontrib-back2dir>) - back to the
    latest used directory when starting xonsh shell.

-   show code-coverage for PRs

-   Added `CommandPipeline.raw_out` and `CommandPipeline.raw_err` to get
    stdout/err as raw bytes.

-   The `@()` operator now supports `bytes` objects.

-   index for history\'s sqlite-DB

-   support passing style from RichCompleter to PTK\'s Completer

-   `xonsh.cli_utils` to create cli from functions easily.

-   Python API for completer command with `xonsh.completer` module
    functions.

-

    Added new environment variable `$PROMPT_TOKENS_FORMATTER`.

    :   That can be used to set a callable that receives all tokens in
        the prompt template. It gives option to format the prompt with
        different prefix based on other tokens values. Enables users to
        implement something like
        \[powerline\](<https://github.com/vaaaaanquish/xontrib-powerline2>)
        without resorting to separate \$PROMPT_FIELDS. Works with
        `ASYNC_PROMPT` as well. Check the
        [PR](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/pull/3922) for a snippet
        implementing powerline

-   PTK style rules can be defined in custom styles using the
    `Token.PTK` token prefix. For example
    `custom_style["Token.PTK.CompletionMenu.Completion.Current"] = "bg:#ff0000 #fff"`
    sets the `completion-menu.completion.current` PTK style to white on
    red.

-   Added new environment variable `XONSH_STYLE_OVERRIDES`. It\'s a
    dictionary containing pygments/ptk style definitions that overrides
    the styles defined by `XONSH_COLOR_STYLE`. For example:

        $XONSH_STYLE_OVERRIDES["Token.Literal.String.Single"] = "#00ff00"  # green 'strings' (pygments)
        $XONSH_STYLE_OVERRIDES["completion-menu"] = "bg:#ffff00 #000"  # black on yellow completion (ptk)
        $XONSH_STYLE_OVERRIDES["Token.PTK.CompletionMenu.Completion.Current"] = "bg:#ff0000 #fff" # current completion is white on red (ptk via pygments)

-

    support PTK\'s clipboard integration if pyperclip is installed.

    :   So that some common emacs like
        [cut/copy](https://github.com/prompt-toolkit/python-prompt-toolkit/blob/master/examples/prompts/system-clipboard-integration.py)
        will work out of the box.

-   Added Python 3.9 to continuous integration.

-   `open in google cloud shell` button 🤩

-   Respect ignorespace present in \$HISTCONTROL

-   `_get_normalized_pstring_quote` returns a consistent set of
    prefixes, and the quote, for all path-string variants e.g. inputs
    `pr'` and `rp'` both produce the tuple `("pr", "'")`. This function
    is used by `xonsh.completers.complete_path` and
    `xonsh.completers._path_from_partial_string`.

-   Added warning about huge amount of commands in CommandsCache that
    could affect on start speed.

-   New `xonsh.procs` subpackage for handling subprocess mode.

-   Environment variable `$COMPLETION_MODE` controls kind of TAB
    completion used with prompt-toolkit shell. `default`, the default,
    retains prior Xonsh behavior: first TAB displays the common prefix
    of matching completions, next TAB selects the first or next
    available completion. `menu-complete` enables TAB behavior like
    `readline` command `menu-complete`. First TAB selects the first
    matching completion, subsequent TABs cycle through available
    completions till the last one. Next TAB after that displays the
    common prefix, then the cycle repeats.

-   Added timing probes for prompt tokens, lexer and before prompt.

-   improve github actions by adding cache

-   `xog` xontrib - a simple command to establish and print temporary
    traceback log file.

-   Added `xontribs` section to the `xonfig`.

-   added
    xontrib-avox-poetry(<http://github.com/jnoortheen/xontrib-avox-poetry>)

-   added xontrib-broot(<http://github.com/jnoortheen/xontrib-broot>)

-   added
    [xontrib-long-cmd-durations](https://github.com/jnoortheen/xontrib-cmd-durations)

-   added
    [xontrib-commands](https://github.com/jnoortheen/xontrib-commands)

-   added
    xontrib-powerline3(<http://github.com/jnoortheen/xontrib-powerline3>)

-   Added `xontrib-zoxide` to the list of xontribs.

-   Added `xontrib-gitinfo` to the list of xontribs.

**Changed:**

-   `CommandPipeline.__repr__` now returns formatted output wherein its
    printed attributes are also repr strings. This improves the output
    of `!()`.
-   prompt-toolkit required version updated to \>=3.0
-   group environment variables into categories.
-   The SQLite history backend now has the same logic of storing stdout
    to the memory like json history backend.
-   Using `ujson` (if installed) in LazyJSON to loading json history 15%
    faster.
-   use requirements.txt env in both CI/local/pre-commit checks
-   add caching to CI jobs to improve speed
-   The change that allows Nuitka build the xonsh binary.
-   Remove `p`, `rp` and `pr` prefix from partial p-string used in
    `xonsh.completers._path_from_partial_string`, such that
    `ast.literal_eval` does not raise `SyntaxError`. `pr` and `rp`
    strings are now treated internally as raw strings, but the p-string
    quote is correctly returned.
-   Increment the prefix length when the prefix input to
    `xonsh.completers.complete_path` is a p-string. This preserves the
    length of the prefix for path-string variants.
-   Pygments debug messages about cache will be shoen only in debug
    mode.
-   `ulimit` builtin now operates on \"soft\" limits by default.
-   tests for vc-branch should accept both master and main
-   upgrade black formatter to version 20.8b1
-   Use `xontribs_meta.py` instead of `xontribs.json`
-   Welcome message cosmetic changes.
-   rewrite xontribs/jedi.xsh -\> xontribs/jedi.py to take advantage of
    python tooling

**Deprecated:**

-   `PTK_STYLE_OVERRIDES` has been deprecated, its function replaced by
    `XONSH_STYLE_OVERRIDES`
-   The `xonsh.proc` module has been deprecated. Please use the new
    `xonsh.procs` subpackage instead. Deprecation warnings related to
    this have been added.

**Removed:**

-   The deprecated `foreground` decorator has been removed. Please use
    `unthreadable` instead.
-   `xonsh.proc.unthreadable` and `xonsh.proc.uncapturable` have been
    moved to `xonsh.tools`. Please import from this module instead.

**Fixed:**

-   Now the directory and the symlink to this directory will be read
    from PATH once. Increasing the startup speed on Linux.

-   Environment variable registration no longer fails to validate when
    the default is a callable.

-   Default values created from callables are stored on in the
    evironment.

-   Completers also recognize `:` as a valid split point for insertion
    for, e.g. pytest completions

    pytest test_worker::\<TAB\>

-   Colorize `and`/`or` operators correctly like `&&`/`||`

-   Speed of CommandsCache increased when aliases have multiple updates
    (i.e. init conda).

-   Now when loading RC files, xonsh will not fail to import modules
    located on the same folder.

-   Setting an alias with IO redirections (e.g `ls | wc`) now works
    correctly.

-   PTK shell: `window has no childres` error while completion is
    triggered - <https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/3963>

-   make_xontrib - typerror -
    <https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/3971>

-   Fix libc detection on FreeBSD

-   Fix uptime functionality on FreeBSD

-   Updated History Backend tutorial.

-   enabled flake8 warning on ambiguous names. it is fun naming
    variables in coded words until oneday it looks like encrypted.

-   Added ANSI fallback for `xonsh.tools.print_color` if shell is not
    yet initialized. Fixes #3840.

-   `./run-tests.xsh` without arguments previously gave an esoteric
    error. It now prints help on how to run the tests.

-   The git customisation example in the .xonshrc docs uses the right
    module name

**Authors:**

-   Anthony Scopatz
-   Jamie Bliss
-   a
-   David Strobach
-   Bob Hyman
-   anki-code
-   Gyuri Horak
-   Noortheen Raja
-   Carmen Bianca Bakker
-   Danny Sepler
-   vaaaaanquish
-   Daniel Shimon
-   Jerzy Drozdz
-   Faris A Chugthai
-   Asaf Fisher
-   Dominic Ward
-   omjadas
-   Leandro Emmanuel Reina Kiperman
-   Henré Botha
-   Aneesh Durg
-   colons
-   yggdr

## v0.9.24

**Added:**

-   Ability to register custom styles via
    `xonsh.pyghooks.register_custom_style`
-   Add method of escaping an environment variable from expansion to the
    Bash to Xonsh Translation Guide.
-   added mypy to the project. many of the errors are ignored. but it is
    a start.
-   Added example of subproc calling to the tutorial.
-   New xontrib-sh (<https://github.com/anki-code/xontrib-sh>) to paste
    and run snippets from bash, zsh, fish.

**Changed:**

-   Now `COMPLETIONS_CONFIRM` is `True` by default.
-   `xonsh.AppImage` python version pinned to 3.8.
-   Cookiecutter template to creating new xontribs has many improvements
    (<https://github.com/xonsh/xontrib-cookiecutter>).
-   Docs sections improvement.

**Removed:**

-   Removed `import random`.

**Fixed:**

-   #1207 - custom color themes
-   Webconfig updarted for the `NO_COLOR` to `RESET` change.
-   async prompt field\'s returns from earlier data
-   Async prompt will now support nested-format strings in prompts
-   handle None value for ASYNC_PROMPT_THREAD_WORKERS
-   Fixed f-strings parsing in Python 3.9
-   Fixed reset color in `xontrib list`.
-   Fixed NO_COLOR to RESET in prompt_ret_code and mplhooks.

**Authors:**

-   Anthony Scopatz
-   David Strobach
-   a
-   anki-code
-   Gyuri Horak
-   Noortheen Raja
-   Will Shanks

## v0.9.23

**Added:**

-   add API docs for ptk_shell.updator module
-   add flake8-docstrings to the project. it integrates pydocstyle to
    flake8.
-   Support for ANSI OSC escape sequences in `$PROMPT`, setting `$TITLE`
    for example. (#374, #1403)
-   Now ptk_shell supports loading its sections in thread, speeding up
    the prompt. Enable it by setting `$ENABLE_ASYNC_PROMPT=True`.
-   Added `unset`, `export`, `set -e`, `set -x`, `shopt`, `complete` to
    xontrib bashisms.
-   Use command_cache when finding available commands, to speedup
    command-not-found suggestions
-   Added Visual Studio Code (VSCode) extension and Vim syntax file to
    the Editors page.
-   Added `exit(exit_code)` function by default in not interactive mode.
    Now importing `exit` from `sys` is not needed.
-   Added Python syntax highlighting of xsh files on Github repo
    xonsh/xonsh
-   history clear, history off and history on actions, for managing
    whether history in the current session is saved.
-   ValueErrors from environ.register now report the name of the bad env
    var
-   Add a new color `DEFAULT` that is used to designate the terminal\'s
    default color.
-   Add a new special color token `RESET` used to reset all attributes.
-   Add a new xonsh tool \'print_warning\' that prints a traceback with
    a warning message.
-   Added
    [xontrib-onepath](https://github.com/anki-code/xontrib-onepath) to
    associate files with apps in xonsh shell like in graphical OS.
-   Added `print_color` and `printx` functions to builtins as reference
    to `xonsh.tools.print_color`.
-   Added to xontrib whole_word_jumping: Shift+Delete hotkey to delete
    whole word.
-   Added \"Advanced String Literals\" to the \"Tutorial\".
-   `xonfig jupyter-kernel` new subcommand to generate xonsh kernel spec
    for jupyter. Installing a new xonsh kernel for jupyter automatically
    removes any other one registered with jupyter, otherwise the new one
    might not be used.
-   Added xontrib `powerline-binding`
    (<https://github.com/dyuri/xontrib-powerline-binding>) - uses
    `powerline` to render the prompt.

**Changed:**

-   Improved printing of xonsh `--shell-type` argument in help message.
-   \"Bash to Xonsh Translation Guide\" improvements.
-   More stable exception handling in the tab completer.
-   Changed sections order in docs
-   The `path` type in `${...}.register` was renamed to `env_path` as it
    should be and added new `path` type instead that represent
    `pathlib.Path`. Now you can register typed environment variables
    that will be converted to `Path`.
-   xonsh/environ.py: new rule: for \"registered\" environment variables
    (in `DEFAULT_VARS` or via `env.register()`), if default is set to
    `DefaultNotGiven`, then variable has no default and raises
    `KeyError` if it is not actually defined in environment. Likewise,
    `"var" in __xonsh__.env` will return False.
-   Changed defaults for ANSICON, TERM and VIRTUAL_ENV to
    `DefaultNotGiven`, so code can rationally test whether the expected
    external program has defined these variables. No need to do this for
    variables that xonsh itself defines.
-   Moved internal uses of `NO_COLOR` to `RESET`.
-   When retrieving the git status or other fields for building the
    prompt xonsh will run the git commands with `$GIT_OPTIONAL_LOCKS=0`.
    For details on what this entails see the git documentation for
    [GIT_OPTIONAL_LOCKS](https://git-scm.com/docs/git#Documentation/git.txt-codeGITOPTIONALLOCKScode/).
-   Minor improvements to the get prompt speed. (Mostly in git.)
-   ptk key binding for TAB \-- hitting TAB to start completion now
    automatically selects the first displayed completion (if any).
    hitting TAB when in insert mode inserts TAB, as heretofore. This
    more exactly follows behavior of readline `menu-complete`. There is
    no configuration option for tailoring this behavior.
-   `xonfig info` displays whether jupyter detected in environment and
    also path of xonsh jupyter kernel spec, if any.
-   xontrib-argcomplete and xontrib-pipeliner description improvement.

**Deprecated:**

-   Deprecated the `NO_COLOR` color reset token in favor of `RESET`.

**Removed:**

-   Deprecated `--config-path` argument suppressed from help.
-   setup no longer (tries to) install jupyter kernel automatically,
    user must run `xonfig jupyter-kernel` manually.

**Fixed:**

-   cygwin needs full path to find exe; disable thread_subprocs as
    default for cygwin
-   Fixed logic in git dirty working directory
-   Fixed type registration for `*DIRS` environment variables.
-   Fixed #3703 and #3739, recent code change made it impossible to tell
    whether a (registered) environment variable was missing from
    environment or present and set to its registered default value. The
    test for ANSICON was failing due to this.
-   Fixed environment variables substitution: unknown variables stay
    unreplaced now (#3818).
-   Fixed xpg xontrib link
-   Fix crash when xonsh tries to run windows app execution aliases.
-   Setup wasn\'t consistently detecting jupyter in environment;
    `python setup.py install` worked, but `pip install .` wouldn\'t
    (because pip mucks with `sys.path`), nor would install from wheel
    (because it doesn\'t run `setup.py`).
-   `xonfig info` now displays actual value of ON_MSYS and ON_CYGWIN
    instead of lazy bool type. (maybe was happening only on Windows?)

**Authors:**

-   Anthony Scopatz
-   Gil Forsyth
-   Morten Enemark Lund
-   Bob Hyman
-   a
-   anki-code
-   christopher
-   Eadaen1
-   Danny Sepler
-   Gyuri Horak
-   cafehaine
-   Wendell Turner
-   Noortheen Raja
-   Marius van Niekerk
-   Wendell CTR Turner

## v0.9.22

**Added:**

-   Added xontrib-argcomplete to support kislyuk/argcomplete - tab
    completion for argparse.
-   New `tools.debian_command_not_found()` function for finding commands
    in debian/ubuntu packages.
-   New `tools.conda_suggest_command_not_found()` function for finding
    commands in conda packages.
-   Borrow shift-selection from prompt-toolkit. Shift-arrow (selects a
    letter) and control-shift-arrow (selects a word) should now be
    supported.
-   Documentation for keyboard shortcuts
-   Xonsh now supports bash-style variable assignments preceding
    subprocess commands (e.g. `$FOO="bar" bash -c r"echo $FOO"`).

**Changed:**

-   Added the fastest way to run xonsh AppImage to the docs.
-   `command_not_found()` is now a wrapper function that finds packages
    for missing commands in a variety of locations. This function now
    also takes an `env` argument for looking up values in the
    enviornment.
-   The variable cwd_dir, used for prompts, now always has a slash at
    the end, so users can use the construct \"{cwd_dir}{cwd_base}\" in
    their custom prompt definitions.

**Fixed:**

-   crash when starting wizard by `xonfig wizard` xonsh.environ: ensure
    get_docs(name).doc_default is str when name is not registered.
-   Fixed issue where xontribs were failing from
    `AttributeError: '_MergedKeyBindings' object has no attribute 'add'`

**Authors:**

-   Anthony Scopatz
-   David Strobach
-   Bob Hyman
-   anki-code
-   Danny Sepler
-   Eadaen1

## v0.9.21

**Added:**

-   `xonsh-in-docker.py` script now has `--pytest` parameter, that
    automates pytest installation into the Docker container.
-   Setup extras tag \'\[full\]\' to install prompt-toolkit and pygments
    in one fell swoop. Full feature install can be
    `pip install xonsh[full]`.
-   Support for PEP 570 positional-only parameters.
-   Support for starred expressions within return statement
    (`return x, *my_list`).
-   Xonsh now runs in Python 3.9
-   `vox` xontrib now supports `new --activate` and
    `deactivate --remove` to create + activate and deactivate + remove
    virtual environments in a single command.

**Changed:**

-   Rewrote Installation and Configuration sections of Getting Started
    doc to clarify install from packages, and generally improve flow.

**Fixed:**

-   Fixed incorrect reference to XONSH_HIST_SIZE instead of
    XONSH_HISTORY_SIZE
-   RST code-block:: xonshcon now works.
-   Non-default parameters can not follow defaults anymore.
-   Fixed parser not emmiting errors in some cases.

**Authors:**

-   Anthony Scopatz
-   Jamie Bliss
-   David Strobach
-   Bob Hyman
-   Will S
-   Danny Sepler
-   Marius van Niekerk

## v0.9.20

**Added:**

-   `abbrevs` expansion now allows for setting cursor to a specific
    position within the expanded abbrev. For instance :

        abbrevs["eswap"] = "with ${...}.swap(<edit>):\n    "

    expands `eswap` as you type to environment context manager `swap()`
    syntax and places the cursor at the position of the `<edit>` mark
    removing the mark itself in the process.

-   Support for ANSI escape codes in `$PROMPT`/`$RIGHT_PROMPT`. In this
    way 3rd party prompt generators like `powerline` or `starship` can
    be used to set the prompt. ANSI escape codes might be mixed with the
    normal formatting (like `{BOLD_GREEN}`) and *prompt variables* (like
    `{user}`) should work as well. For example: :

        $PROMPT=lambda: $(starship prompt)
        $RIGHT_PROMPT="\x1b[33m{hostname} {GREEN}> "

-   Added `$HOSTNAME` and `$HOSTTYPE` environment variables.

-   New `Env.rawkeys()` iterator for iterating over all keys in an
    environment, not just the string keys like with `__iter__()`.

-   New landing page for <https://xon.sh>

-   Added xonsh AppImage to the GitHub release assets

-   xonsh now comes with a bulitin version of prompt-toolkit (3.0.5)
    which will be used as fall back if prompt_toolkit is not installed.

-   Support for Python 3.8 PEP 572 assignment expressions (walrus
    operator).

**Changed:**

-   custom startup scripts replaced by setup.py -generated (console)
    entrypoint scripts for both xonsh and xonsh-cat. This means
    xonsh.bat and xonsh-cat.bat are replaced on Windows by xonsh.exe and
    xonsh-cat.exe, respectively.

**Fixed:**

-   Iterating over `${...}` or `__xonsh__.env` yields only string values
    again.
-   List comprehensions do not ignore the second and subsequent `if`
    clauses in multi-if comprehension expressions any more.
-   Xonsh can now fully handle special Xonsh syntax within f-strings,
    including environmnent variables within `${}` operator and captured
    subprocess expansion within f-string expressions.
-   Avoid startup error on Windows when py.exe chooses wrong python
    interpreter to run xonsh. When multiple interpreters are in PATH,
    \'py\' will choose the first one (usually in the virtual
    environment), but \'py -3\' finds the system-wide one, apparently by
    design.
-   For xonsh-cat, avoid parsing and processing first (0\'th) argument
    when invoked directly from OS shell.
-   Run control files are now read in with `$THREAD_SUBPROCS` off. This
    prevents a weird error when starting xonsh from Bash (and possibly
    other shells) where the top-level xonsh process would be stopped and
    placed into the background during startup. It may be necessary to
    set `$THREAD_SUBPROCS=False` in downstream xonsh scripts and
    modules.
-   Fixed installation issues where generated files (like the parser
    table and amalgamated modules) were not installed.
-   The xonsh test suite has been cleaned up. So no more failing test.
    Hopefully.
-   Addressed robustness issue with `"locked"` history key not being
    present at startup.
-   `vox` xontrib works again with the new environment defaults.

**Authors:**

-   Anthony Scopatz
-   Morten Enemark Lund
-   David Strobach
-   Bob Hyman
-   anki-code
-   Raphael Das Gupta
-   Gyuri Horak

## v0.9.19

**Added:**

-   `history` command now supports `flush` action

-   Added new items on \"Bash to xsh\" page

-   JsonHistory: added `history gc --force` switch to allow user to
    override above warning.

-   JsonHistoryGC: display following warning when garbage collection
    would delete \"too\" much data and don\'t delete anything.

    \"Warning: History garbage collection would discard more history
    ({size_over} {units}) than it would keep ({limit_size}).n\" \"Not
    removing any history for now. Either increase your limit
    (\$XONSH_HISTORY_SIZE), or run `history gc --force`.\",

    It is displayed when the amount of history on disk is more than
    double the limit configured (or defaulted) for \$XONSH_HISTORY_SIZE.

-   \$LS_COLORS code \'mh\' now recognized for (multi) hard-linked
    files.

-   \$LS_COLORS code \'ca\' now recognized for files with security
    capabilities (linux only).

-   CI step to run flake8 after pytest.

-   RichCompletion for completions with different display value,
    description and prefix_len.

-   Allow completer access to multiline document when available via
    `xonsh.completers.tools.get_ptk_completer().current_document`.

-   `abbrevs` word expasion can now be reverted by pressing the space
    bar second time immediately after the previous word got expanded.

-   `ulimit` command.

-   `pdb` xontrib, that runs pdb debugger on reception of SIGUSR1
    signal.

-   xontrib-xpg is a xontrib for running or explaining sql queries for
    posgresql database.

**Changed:**

-   Xonsh now launches subprocesses with their `argv[0]` argument
    containing the command exactly as inserted by the user instead of
    setting it to the resolved path of the executable. This is for
    consistency with bash and other shells.

-   Added ability to register, deregister environment variables;
    centralized environment default variables

-   Added exit to the \"Bash to xsh\" article.

-   xonsh.main \_failback_to_other_shells now tries user\'s login shell
    (in \$SHELL) before trying system wide shells from /etc/shells.

-   The current working directory is now correctly obtained in line 501
    of xonsh/parsers/base.py

-   Garbage collection avoids deleting history and issues a warning
    instead if existing history is more than double the comfigured
    limit. This protects active users who might have accumulated a lot
    of history while a bug was preventing garbage collection. The
    warning will be displayed each time Xonsh is started until user
    takes action to reconcile the situation.

-   `tests\test_integrations.py` no longer runs with XONSH_DEBUG=1
    (because new, debug-only progress messages from history were
    breaking it).

-   Updated pytest_plugin for pytest 5.4 API, pip requirements for
    pytest\>= 5.4

-

    Major improvements to Jedi xontrib completer:

    :   -   Use new Jedi API
        -   Replace the existing python completer
        -   Create rich completions with extra info
        -   Use entire multiline document if available
        -   Complete xonsh special tokens
        -   Be aware of \_ (last result)
        -   Only show dunder attrs when prefix ends with \'\_\'

-   Many files are starting to be formatted using
    `pyupgrade --py36-plus`, in order to automatically update to newer
    Python constructs.

-   `xontrib load` does not stop loading modules on error any more.

**Deprecated:**

-   `pytest --flake8` now exits with error message to use flake8
    instead. Allows single list of lint exceptions to apply in CI and
    your IDE.

**Removed:**

-   Removed history replay
-   pytest-flake8 package from requirements\*.txt
-   Xonsh now relies exclusively on Setuptools for install.
-   Compatibility with Python 3.5 has been removed as well as all
    related code. In particular xonsh.inspector does not defined
    `getouterframes` anymore, use `inspect.getouterframe` directly.

**Fixed:**

-   Unhandled exception triggered by unexpected return from callable
    alias.
-   Fix path completer throwing exception sometimes
-   Fixed help operator not displaying definition for callables.
-   JsonHistory.files(): Now once again enumerates history files from
    the directory. This has been broken for about 2 years.
-   JsonHistory.run_gc(): Don\'t busy loop while waiting for history
    garbage collection to complete, sleep a bit instead. This does much
    to keep Xonsh ptk_shell responsive when dealing with very large
    history on disk.
-   Fixed JSON history indexing error.
-   Fixed syntax error in scripts containing line continuation syntax.
-   \$LS_COLORS code \'fi\' now used for \"regular files\", as it should
    have been all along. (was \'rs\') See
    (#3608)\[<https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/3608>\].
-   pyghooks.color_files now follows implememntation of ls \--color
    closely. Thanks \@qwenger! However, a few documented differences
    remain due to use in Xonsh.
-   \$LS_COLORS\[\'ln\'\] = \'target\' now works. Also fixes #3578.
-   Fixed exit code for commands executed via `-c` (#3402)
-   Logical subprocess operators now work after long arguments (e.g.
    `--version`).
-   `pip` completer no longer erroneously fires for `pipx`
-   Updated development guide to reference flake8 instead of pylint
-   Corrected flake8 config for allowed exceptions.
-   various pytest warnings in a \"clean\" test run.
-   The current Mercurial topic is shown.
-   Fixed import problems due to modules using deprecated pkg_resources
    methods by proxying calls to the underlying loader.
-   Typo in \'source\' alias.
-   Crash in \'completer\' completer.
-   Don\'t complete unnecessarily in \'base\' completer
-   Viewing mock objects in the shell
-   Fixed formatting error in `vox rm` command.

**Authors:**

-   Anthony Scopatz
-   Gil Forsyth
-   Morten Enemark Lund
-   Bob Hyman
-   David Strobach
-   Burak Yiğit Kaya
-   Matthias Bussonnier
-   anki-code
-   David Dotson
-   con-f-use
-   Daniel Shimon
-   Jason R. Coombs
-   Gyuri Horak
-   Achim Herwig
-   Marduk Bolaños
-   Stefane Fermigier
-   swedneck
-   Feng Tian
-   cafehaine
-   paugier

## v0.9.18

**Added:**

-   external *xontrib-hist-navigator* to facilitate directory history
    navigation.
-   Support package prompt-toolkit V3 as well as V2 in prompt_toolkit
    shell.
-   New
    [xontrib-output-search](https://github.com/anki-code/xontrib-output-search)
    to get identifiers, names, paths, URLs and words from the previous
    command output and use them for the next command.
-   New
    [xontrib-pipeliner](https://github.com/anki-code/xontrib-pipeliner)
    is to easily process the lines using pipes.
-   New
    [xontrib-prompt-bar](https://github.com/anki-code/xontrib-prompt-bar)
    with elegance bar style for prompt.

**Changed:**

-   \$SHELL_TYPE \"prompt_toolkit\" with any suffix creates the
    \"prompt_toolkit\" shell, requires package prompt-toolkit \>= 2.0
-   Moved code from package xonsh.ptk2 to xonsh.ptk_shell (because it\'s
    the only one now); package xonsh.ptk2 redirects thence.
-   Added extremely simplified xonsh AppImage building process.
-   Added examples of usage \$XONSH_TRACE_SUBPROC to the docs
-   Use UTF-8 encoding when writing .xonshrc with webconfig for Windows
    compatibility

**Deprecated:**

-   prompt-toolkit versions before 2.0

**Removed:**

-   package xonsh.ptk

**Fixed:**

-   Fixed name autosuggestion in path completer (#3519)
-   Flake8/black fixes to the whole code tree, in 3 steps. Devs should
    update their IDE to run both during file editing, to avoid a
    re-accumulation of arbitrary exceptions.
-   tests/test_builtins.py, fix test case
    test_convert_macro_arg_eval(kind).

**Authors:**

-   Gil Forsyth
-   Jamie Bliss
-   Bob Hyman
-   anki-code
-   Raphael Das Gupta
-   Noortheen Raja
-   Manor Askenazi
-   Marduk Bolaños

## v0.9.17

**Changed:**

-   `@$()` subprocess operator now properly strips newline characters
    off the lines of multiline output.
-   `@$()` subprocess operator does not require leading and trailing
    whitespace anymore, so expansions like
    `cd /lib/modules/@$(uname -r)/kernel` or
    `gdb --pid=@$(pidof crashme)` are now possible.
-   Moved most CI to github actions (OSX is still on travis)
-   Replaced Repl.It with RunThis on the front page of the docs.

**Fixed:**

-   autovox xontrib now works with Python 3.5
-   It is now possible to pass `"&"` as the last argument in subprocess
    mode.
-   Fixed a bug on Windows causing `FileNotFoundError` exception if path
    elements contain trailing spaces.

**Authors:**

-   Anthony Scopatz
-   Gil Forsyth
-   David Strobach

## v0.9.16

**Added:**

-   Added `abbrevs` xontrib.
-   Added [xontrib-pyenv](https://github.com/dyuri/xontrib-pyenv) to
    list of registered xontribs.

**Changed:**

-   `xdg-open` now runs unthreaded.

**Fixed:**

-   Return Token.Text when filesystem item\'s type not defined in
    LS_COLORS; avoid crashing Pygments.
-   Fixed bug on Windows if Path elements has trailing spaces. Windows
    in general and `os.path.isdir()` doesn\'t care about trailing spaces
    but `os.scandir()` does.

**Authors:**

-   Morten Enemark Lund
-   Bob Hyman
-   David Strobach
-   Gyuri Horak
-   Chris Lasher

## v0.9.15

**Added:**

-   Adds documentation for how to setup an emacs editing mode for xonsh.
-   New `$XONSH_TRACE_SUBPROC` environment variable.
-   Added `-l`, `-c` and `-a` options to `xexec`, works now like `exec`
    in bash/zsh
-   **\$HISTCONTROL** - *errordups* support for history-sqlite backend

**Changed:**

-   `-l` switch works like bash, loads environment in non-interactive
    shell
-   The xonsh pytest plugin no longer messes up the test order for
    pytest. Xsh test are still executed first to avoid a bug were other
    tests would prevent `test_*.xsh` files to run correctly.
-   New repo name for xxh

**Fixed:**

-   Correctly follow symlinks when using dot-dot paths with cd -P.
-   `execx` does not require the input string to be newline-terminated.
-   `evalx` accepts newline-terminated input string.
-   Fixed issue where negative exit codes (such as those produced by
    core dumps) where treated as logical successes when chaining
    processes with other boolean expressions.
-   Fixed XONSH_TRACE_SUBPROC for pipeline command.
-   updated CONTRIBUTING.rst about running pylint for changed files

**Authors:**

-   Anthony Scopatz
-   Morten Enemark Lund
-   David Strobach
-   anki-code
-   Samuel Lotz
-   Gyuri Horak
-   Noortheen Raja
-   Gabriel Vogel
-   anki
-   Jerzy Drozdz

## v0.9.14

**Added:**

-   Added building process of standalone rootless AppImage for xonsh.
-   pyproject.toml \-- so vscode can use black as python formatter
    interactively
-   The `xonsh/interactive` container has been added, in addition to the
    previous `xonsh/xonsh` and `xonsh/action` containers. See
    <https://hub.docker.com/u/xonsh>
-   New `$THREAD_SUBPROCS` environment variable allows you to specify
    whether threadable subprocesses should actually be run in a thread
    or not. Default `True`.
-   event on_lscolors_changed which fires when an item in \$LS_COLORS
    changed.
-   dict pyghooks.file_color_tokens containing color tokens for file
    types defined in \$LS_COLORS.
-   file pyproject.toml containing config rules for black formatter
    consistent with flake8
-   New `umask` utility to view or set the file creation mask
-   New `xonfig web` command that launches a web UI (in your browser)
    that allows users to configure their `$XONSH_COLOR_STYLE`,
    `$PROMPT`, and loaded xontribs in an interactive way. This is the
    prefered way to initialize the `~/.xonshrc` file on a new system or
    for new users. It supersedes the old `xonfig wizard` command.
-   New `xonsh.webconfig` subpackage for creating and launching
    `xonfig web`.
-   Added `localtime` entry to the `$PROMPT_FIELDS` dictionary, allowing
    users to easily place the current time in their prompt. This can be
    formatted with the `time_format` entry of `$PROMPT_FIELDS`, which
    defaults to `"%H:%M:%S"`. These are implemented in the new
    `xonsh.prompt.times` module.
-   The `html` module in `xonsh.lazyimps` was added to lazily import
    `pygments.formatters.html`.
-   New `xonsh.pyghooks.XonshHtmlFormatter` class that enables HTML
    formatting of xonsh color strings.

**Changed:**

-   the feature list: subprocess mode colorizes files per \$LS_COLORS,
    when they appear as arguments in the command line. Yet another
    approximation of ls -c file coloring behavior.
-   file setup.cfg to declare flake8 rules for all tools (not just
    pytest)
-   Moved python 3.8 parsing out of base parser
-   The `xonsh.pyghooks.XonshLexer` now inherits from `Python3Lexer`,
    rather than `PythonLexer`.
-   `xonsh.pyghooks.XonshStyle` now presents the `highlight_color` and
    `background_color` from the underlying style correctly.

**Removed:**

-   Removed deprecated `xonda` `xontrib` from list

**Fixed:**

-   [\[color\] in .gitconfig
    (#3427)](https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/3427) now stripped
    from {curr_branch}

> -   [Before](https://i.imgur.com/EMhPdgU.png)
> -   [After](https://i.imgur.com/sJiqgsb.png)

-   The autovox xontrib now preserves activated environment on cd
-   setup.cfg \-- duplicated flake8 config so interactive use and test
    runs enforce same rules. (Implementation is arguably a regression.)
-   Pressing `Ctrl+Z` no longer deadlocks the terminal, allowing further
    input from the user, even for threaded subprocesses.
-   `XonshImportHook.get_source()` now takes a dotted module name
    instead of a file path, as it should
-   Fixed documentation on environment variable
    `$PROMPT_REFRESH_INTERVAL`.
-   Using rmtree on windows no longer attempts to use invalid `rm`
    command and uses `del` instead.
-   Avoid crash in SubprocessSpec.\_run_binary() when command line has 2
    real subprocesses piped together.
-   Fixed an issue on Windows where pressing ctrl-c could sometimes
    result in a traceback if the process had already quit before being
    killed by xonsh.
-   Modified base_shell.\_TeeStdBuf to feed bytes not str to console
    window under VS Code.
-   Command line with leading whitespace improperly formated
    (PTK2/PTK3).
-   Fix Ctrl-C event causing Atribute error on Windows (for reals this
    time).
-   Unit test failures in test_integrations under ubuntu 19.10 with
    Python 3.8.0
-   .gitignore entries for venv under project root (as for autovox) and
    for VS Code.
-   Minor typo fixes to xontrib descriptions.

**Authors:**

-   Anthony Scopatz
-   Gil Forsyth
-   Morten Enemark Lund
-   Jamie Bliss
-   Bob Hyman
-   David Strobach
-   Burak Yiğit Kaya
-   anki-code
-   adam j hartz
-   Nickolay Bukreyev
-   Edmund Miller
-   Mike Crowe
-   Sylvain Corlay
-   Chris Lasher
-   Marcio Mazza

## v0.9.13

**Changed:**

-   The `$LS_COLORS` environment variable will no longer raise
    exceptions when trying to convert ANSI color sequences to xonsh
    color names.

**Removed:**

-   Remove built in support for \"win unicode console\". Full unicode
    support on windows is now provided by using the new [Windows
    terminal](https://github.com/microsoft/terminal).

**Fixed:**

-   Fixed issue converting ANSI color codes that contained both slow
    blink and set foreground or set background sequences.
-   Fix coreutils `cat` behaviour on empty input (e.g. `cat -`).
-   Fix Ctrl-C event causing Atribute error on Windows.
-   Fix Added OpenBSD as a platform
-   Fix Corrected aliases for OpenBSD to not include `--color=auto` and
    `-v`
-   Fixed a regession with xonsh superhelp `??` operator and `which -v`
    which showed Pythons builtin doc strings.

**Authors:**

-   Anthony Scopatz
-   Morten Enemark Lund
-   David Kalliecharan

## v0.9.12

**Added:**

-   Added `autovox` xontrib
-   `xonsh.lib.itertools.as_iterable` for making sure that strings are
    turned into iterables
-   The `percol` command no longer predicts as threadable.

**Changed:**

-   The `source` alias is now unthreaded, enabling `contextvars` to be
    used correctly in sourced files.
-   Changed the `ExecAlias` to only be applied when the logical
    operators (`and`, `or`) are surrounded by whitespace.

**Fixed:**

-   Fixed missing ANSI color modifiers which causes traceback when they
    were used by `$LS_COLORS`.

-   gray empty bottom bar when using \$XONSH_UPDATE_PROMPT_ON_KEYPRESS

-   `xonsh.lib.subprocess.check_output()` now properly captures output.

-   Correct ANSI colors for the default color scheme to stop suppressing
    the bold / italic / underline modifiers.

-   tab completion for cd correctly handles the CDPATH environment
    variable

-   On Windows, send `CTRL_C_EVENT` to subprocesses instead of `SIGINT`.

-   `xonsh` will return a non-zero exit code if it is run in file mode
    and cannot find the file specified, e.g.

    ```
    $ xonsh thisfiledoesntexist.xsh
    xonsh: thisfiledoesntexist.xsh: No such file or directory.
    $ _.returncode
    1
    ```

-   Fixed issue with Jedi xontrib incorrectly raising errors during tab
    completion.

-   Defining functions inside of the shell no longer crashes on Python
    3.8.

-   The encoding for xonsh script are now always assumed to be utf-8,
    even on Windows where the default encoding can be different. This
    allows for writing real unicode characters in the xonsh script
    files.

**Authors:**

-   Anthony Scopatz
-   Gil Forsyth
-   Morten Enemark Lund
-   Jamie Bliss
-   christopher
-   Carmen Bianca Bakker
-   Caleb Hattingh
-   Sean Farley
-   Allan Crooks
-   micimize
-   nedsociety
-   fanosta

## v0.9.11

**Changed:**

-   `vox activate` will now prepend the absolute path of the virtualenv
    `bin/` directory (or `Scripts/` on Windows) to `$PATH`; before this
    was a relative path.

**Fixed:**

-   \"lou carcolh\" example and description of `endidx` in completer
    tutorial

-   Logical operators in aliases are now executed as expected, e.g.
    `aliases['echocat'] = 'echo "hi" and echo "there"'` will, when run,
    return

    ```
    hi
    there
    ```

**Authors:**

-   Gil Forsyth
-   con-f-use
-   Caleb Hattingh

## v0.9.10

**Added:**

-   \$PROMPT_REFRESH_INTERVAL: Automatically invalidate the PROMPT every
    so many seconds.
-   Allow disabling individual items in gitstatus prompt

**Fixed:**

-   Fix `cat` can\'t read pseudo files with zero size such as /proc/\*
    or /sys/\* (#3182, #3199)
-   command-not-found: now works on non-Debian bansed distributions
-   Implemented `'target'` psuedo-color in `$LS_COLORS` for link
    coloring based off of the link target. This was causing issues on
    some systems where this is the default.

**Authors:**

-   Anthony Scopatz
-   Gil Forsyth
-   Morten Enemark Lund
-   virus
-   vaaaaanquish
-   K.-Michael Aye
-   Alexander Steffen
-   Jan Chren
-   Sean Farley
-   László Vaskó
-   Nils ANDRÉ-CHANG
-   chengxuncc

## v0.9.9

**Added:**

-   \$COMPLETION_IN_THREAD: When this is True, background theads is used
    for completion.
-   Open man page when requesting help for subprocess commands, e.g.
    using `sh?`
-   Add several cmds/tools for predict list

**Changed:**

-   Changed `XonshSession.link_builtins` to set a `DynamicAccessProxy`
    for each `builtin` link
-   `events` is now unlinked from `builtins`

**Removed:**

-   Removed `DeprecationWarningProxy`; no longer needed
-   Removed `load_proxies` and `unload_proxies`; moved functionality to
    `XonshSession.link_builtins`, `XonshSession.unlink_builtins`,
    respectively.
-   Removed deprecated `builtin.__xonsh_*__` alises, please use
    `builtins.__xonsh__.*` instead.

**Fixed:**

-   Added proxied `__dir__` method to `DynamicAccessProxy` to restore
    tab-completion for objects that use the proxy (especially `events`)
-   Avoid displaying finished tasks in title.
-   `inspect.getsource` now works correctly and the `__xonsh__.execer`
    resets `<filename>` correctly. This was causing several very strange
    buggy behaviors.
-   Hitting `Enter` while `$VI_MODE=True` now executes the current code
    block irrespective of cursor position

**Authors:**

-   Anthony Scopatz
-   Gil Forsyth
-   David Dotson
-   vaaaaanquish
-   Alexander Steffen
-   Ke Zhang
-   Daniel Smith

## v0.9.8

**Fixed:**

-   Fixed a bug in sourcing Bash functions, where `delare -F` contained
    newlines, meaning that the `read` command that followed it would
    only pick up the first function declaration. `echo` is used to
    normalize whitespace.

**Authors:**

-   Anthony Scopatz

## v0.9.7

**Added:**

-   add xontrib (xontrib-readable-traceback)
-   Registered kitty xontrib.
-   The zipapp extra was added to install the importlib.resources
    backport on \<3.7

**Changed:**

-   turn off warning on completer
-   xontrib metadata loading is now zipapp safe when possible

**Fixed:**

-   Updated py-bash-completion that is vended with xonsh to v0.2.6 which
    includes a fix completion which uses a subshell environment and a
    fix for string index error in stripped prefix.
-   Removed obsolte \"Alt+.\" keybinding in xontrib-bashisms that was
    causing built-in binding to malfunction.
-   Fixed that occurs when type a command before rendering.

**Authors:**

-   Anthony Scopatz
-   Jamie Bliss
-   con-f-use
-   vaaaaanquish
-   Gyuri Horak

## v0.9.6

**Fixed:**

-   Fixed exception in help/version threadable predictor
-   Fixed gitstatus prompt so that it also now reports deleted files
-   Fixed issue where the prompt-toolkit2 shell could not display and
    would end up in an infinite error loop if `$MULTILINE_PROMPT` was a
    suitably \"false\" value, such as `None` or an empty string.
-   Fixed issue where setting `$XONSH_STDERR_PREFIX` and
    `$XONSH_STDERR_POSTFIX` and running a command in the `xonshrc` file
    would throw an error.

**Authors:**

-   Anthony Scopatz
-   David Strobach
-   virus
-   shadow-light

## v0.9.5

**Fixed:**

-   Style \'bw\'. Background colors was added in the style description.
-   Fix causing error in `get_predictor_threadable` on windows when try
    to run not exist command
-   `pip` completer no longer fires when `pip` happens to appear within
    a word like `bagpipes`
-   Fixed issue with `history gc` command not running properly.

**Authors:**

-   Anthony Scopatz
-   Gil Forsyth
-   Jean-Benoist Leger
-   virus
-   con-f-use

## v0.9.4

**Added:**

-   Add processing `%d` for avoid overwriting in `run-tests.xsh`

**Changed:**

-   Xonsh now does not attempt to expand raw strings, so now:

        $ echo "$HOME"
        /home/user
        $ echo r"$HOME"
        $HOME

-   sudoedit now runs unthreaded

**Fixed:**

-   threadable predictor for \'env\' command based on predictor from the
    executed command. Fixes #2759 and #3103.
-   An error in the \'xon.sh\' executable that only popped up during
    testing has been fixed. Specifically: It now directly calls
    \'python3\' without invoking \'env\'.
-   bashisms extension can be used again with prompt_toolkit v1
-   Fix a crash when setting `$INTENSIFY_COLORS_ON_WIN` in certain
    situations.
-   Fix issue with bashsisms xontrib causing syntax errors for some
    Python statements
-   portable trick to pass args which replace \'/usr/bin/env\' is
    removed and \'/usr/bin/env\' is used. Fixes bug when a python3 used
    is outside the default \'PATH\'.

**Authors:**

-   Anthony Scopatz
-   Morten Enemark Lund
-   Jean-Benoist Leger
-   David Strobach
-   virus
-   Carmen Bianca Bakker
-   con-f-use
-   cclauss
-   Eddie Peters

## v0.9.3

**Deprecated:**

-   Python v3.4 has been fully, completely, and (hopefully) correctly
    deprecated. Please migrate to an officially supported version of
    Python.

**Authors:**

-   Anthony Scopatz

## v0.9.2

**Changed:**

-   For aliases, predictor is build with the predictor of original
    command, in place of default predictor.

**Fixed:**

-   Updated setup.py to require Python 3.4 using the `python_requires`
    keyword. This rectifies issues with pip installing xonsh. Python 3.4
    support will be removed on the following release.

**Authors:**

-   Anthony Scopatz
-   Jean-Benoist Leger

## v0.9.1

**Changed:**

-   We no longer manually check the Python version in `setup.py`, but
    instead use the setuptools `python_requires` feature.

**Fixed:**

-   Updates for integrating with new colors styles in Pygments v2.4.0.

**Authors:**

-   Anthony Scopatz

## v0.9.0

**Added:**

-   Implemented the following \"bang command\" bashisms: `!$`, `$*`,
    `!^`, and `!<str>`. These are in addition to `!!`, which was already
    implemented.
-   asciinema (terminal recorder) added in not threadable commands.
-   tput added in not threadable commands.
-   New `color_tools.KNOWN_XONSH_COLORS` frozenset.
-   New `pyghooks.PYGMENTS_MODIFIERS` mapping from color modifier names
    to pygments colors.
-   New `pyghooks.color_name_to_pygments_code()` function for converting
    color names into pygments color codes.

**Changed:**

-   Circle now runs `black` checks on contents of bundled xontribs
-   The `black` checks no longer skip some files buried deeper in the
    directory tree.
-   Errors while formatting the prompt are highlighted for easier
    debugging.
-   Pygments styles only define the standard set of colors, by default.
    Additional colors are computed as needed.
-   PTYs created for running threadable command have now size set to
    same size than main terminal.
-   Update documentation pointing to the minimal required version of
    Python (3.5).

**Deprecated:**

-   Drop support for Python 3.4.

**Removed:**

-   `pyghooks.KNOWN_COLORS` is no longer needed or useful as pygments
    colors are computed automatically.
-   `style_tools.KNOWN_COLORS` was never used, redundant with
    `pyghooks.KNOWN_COLORS` and has thus been removed.

**Fixed:**

-   Fixed a DeprecationWarning that would show up during an import of
    MutableSet.
-   Fixed error with aliases composed of functions wrapped in
    functools.partial.
-   `black` formatted all xontribs
-   deleting a non existing environement variable with default value do
    nothing instead of raising a exception trying to deleting it in
    existing values dict.
-   Fixed crash while converting ANSI color codes with leading zeroes
-   Fixed crash while parsing invalid ANSI color code
-   fix causing infinite loop when doing `cat` empty file
-   Fixed issue which occurs when user doesn\'t have access to parent
    directory and xonsh scan all parents directory to find if we are in
    a Hg repository.
-   Fixed issue with pygments-cache not properly generating a cache the
    first time when using prompt-toolkit when using `ptk2`. This was due
    to a lingering lazy import of `pkg_resources` that has been removed.
-   Minor update for Python v3.8.
-   Fixed a \"\'NoneType\' object is not iterable\" bug when looking up
    `stty` in command cache.
-   The release tarball now includes all test files.
-   Arguments passed to python in \'scripts/xonsh\' and in
    \'scripts/xonsh-cat\' are now passed by a portable hack in sh, not
    anymore by /usr/bin/env.

**Authors:**

-   Anthony Scopatz
-   Gil Forsyth
-   Jean-Benoist Leger
-   David Strobach
-   virus
-   Carmen Bianca Bakker
-   Alexander Sosedkin
-   Kale Kundert
-   Andrés García García
-   Samuel Dion-Girardeau
-   Steven Kryskalla
-   Rodrigo Oliveira

## v0.8.12

**Added:**

-   Support for more ANSI escape sequence modifers allowed in color
    names. The current modifiers now allowed are: BOLD, FAINT, ITALIC,
    UNDERLINE, SLOWBLINK, FASTBLINK, INVERT, CONCEAL, and STRIKETHROUGH.
-   New `ansi_tools.ansi_color_name_to_escape_code()` function for
    converting a color name to an ANSI escape code.
-   `color_tools.RE_XONSH_COLOR` is a regular expression for matching
    xonsh color names.
-   `color_tools.iscolor()` is a simple function for testing whether a
    string is a valid color name or not.
-   The `tools.all_permutations()` function yields all possible
    permutations of an iterable, including removals.

**Changed:**

-   change url of xontrib-autojump
-   ANSI color styles may now be defined simply by their plain and
    intense colors.
-   `SET_FOREGROUND_3INTS_` renamed to `SET_FOREGROUND_FAINT_`,
    `SET_BACKGROUND_3INTS_` renamed to `SET_BACKGROUND_FAINT_`,
    `SET_FOREGROUND_SHORT_` renamed to `SET_FOREGROUND_SLOWBLINK_`, and
    `SET_BACKGROUND_SHORT_` renamed to `SET_BACKGROUND_SLOWBLINK_`.

**Removed:**

-   `ansi_tools.ANSI_REVERSE_COLOR_NAME_TRANSLATIONS` removed, as it is
    no longer needed.

**Fixed:**

-   Fixed issues where `$LS_COLORS` could not convert valid ANSI colors.

**Authors:**

-   Anthony Scopatz
-   virus

## v0.8.11

**Added:**

-   New `xonsh.color_tools.short_to_ints()` function for directly
    converting a short (0 - 256) color into a 3-tuple of ints
    representing its RGB value.
-   New `xonsh.ansi_colors.ansi_reverse_style()` function for converting
    a mapping of color names to ANSI escape codes into a mapping from
    escape codes into color names. This is not a round-trippable
    operation.
-   New `xonsh.ansi_colors.ansi_color_escape_code_to_name()` function
    for converting an ANSI color escape code into the closest xonsh
    color name for a given style.
-   New `xonsh.events.EventManager.exists()` method enables checking
    whether events actually exist without making the event if it
    doesn\'t exist.
-   New command-specific event categories called
    `on_pre_spec_run_<cmd-name>` and `on_post_spec_run_<cmd-name>` will
    be fired before and after `SubpocSpec.run()` is called. This allows
    for command specific events to be executed. For example,
    `on_pre_spec_run_ls` would be run prior to an invocation of `ls`.
-   New `xonsh.environ.LsColors` class for managing the `$LS_COLORS`
    environment variable. This ensures that the `ls` command respects
    the `$XONSH_COLOR_STYLE` setting. An instance of this class is added
    to the environment when either the `$LS_COLORS` class is first
    accessed or the `ls` command is executed.
-   The `on_pre_spec_run_ls` event is initialized with a default handler
    that ensures that `$LS_COLORS` is set in the actual environment
    prior to running an `ls` command.
-   New `xonsh.tools.detype()` function that simply calls an object\'s
    own `detype()` method in order to detype it.
-   New `xonsh.tools.always_none()` function that simply returns `None`.
-   New `Env.set_ensurer()` method for setting an ensurer on an
    environment.

**Changed:**

-   The black and white style `bw` now uses actual black and white ANSI
    colore codes for its colors, rather than just empty color sequences.
-   An environment variable `detype` operation no longer needs to be a
    function, but may also be `None`. If `None`, this variable is
    considered not detypeable, and will not be exported to subprocess
    environments via the `Env.detype()` function.
-   An environment variable `detype` function no longer needs to return
    a string, but may also return `None`. If `None` is returned, this
    variable is considered not detypeable, and will not be exported to
    subprocess environments via the `Env.detype()` function.
-   The `Env.detype()` method has been updated to respect the new `None`
    types when detyping.
-   The `xonsh.tools.expandvars()` function has been updated to respect
    the new `None` types when detyping.
-   The `xonsh.xonfig.make_xonfig_wizard()` function has been updated to
    respect the new `None` types when detyping.
-   Event handlers may now be added and discarded during event firing
    for normal events. Such modifications will not be applied until the
    current firing operation is concluded. Thus you won\'t see newly
    added events fired.
-   xonsh now uses its own vendored version of ply. Any installed
    versions will no longer be used. This reflects that ply is no longer
    distributed as an installable package.
-   Updated to use ply version 3.11.
-   Reverted change in `give_to_terminal` to restore working version of
    `cmake`, `rm -i`, etc. This breaks `pv | head`.

**Deprecated:**

-   The `xonsh.color_tools.make_pallete()` function is no longer
    deprecated, as it is actually needed in other parts of xonsh still,
    such as `pyghooks`.

**Removed:**

-   All code references to `$FORMATTER_DICT` have been removed.

**Fixed:**

-   Resolved issues where macro functions were not able to properly
    accept single-line statements in `exec` and `single` mode.
-   Minor fixes to `xonsh.events.debug_level()`.
-   Fixed a regression where some interactive commands were not waited
    for properly for long enough.
-   Fixed environments not showing in the prompt when using Anaconda
    Python.
-   Fixed regression with anaconda activate/deactivate scripts not
    working on Windows.

**Authors:**

-   Anthony Scopatz
-   Morten Enemark Lund

## v0.8.10

**Added:**

-   New `xonsh.aliases.partial_eval_alias()` function and related
    classes for dispatching and evaluating partial alias applications
    for callable aliases.

**Changed:**

-   Subprocesses will no longer close file descriptors automatically.
    This was causing issues with other commands that expected file
    descriptors to remain open, such as `make`.
-   The `xonsh.Aliases.eval_alias()` method updated to use
    `xonsh.aliases.partial_eval_alias()`.

**Fixed:**

-   Fixed `xonsh.completers.base.complete_base()` to no longer throw an
    error caused by `complete_python()` sometimes returning a tuple.
    This fixes cases such as `ls &&<TAB>`.
-   Fixed regression with line continuations in implicit subprocess mode
    within indented blocks of code, such as if-statements.
-   Resolved issue where setting empty signal masks was causing the
    terminal to close. This was problematic for certain command
    pipelines. For example, `pv /dev/urandom | head` now works.
-   Prevents recursive errors from being raised when there is no child
    process in `xonsh.procs.jobs.wait_for_active_job()`.
-   Tweaked `xonsh.completers.commands.complete_skipper()` to insert a
    space following certain tokens (`&&`, `||`, `|`, `and`, `or`) to
    avoid overwriting existing tokens with completer output.
-   Fixed bug with evaluating recursive aliases that did not implement
    the full callable alias signature.

**Authors:**

-   Anthony Scopatz
-   Gil Forsyth
-   Troy de Freitas

## v0.8.9

**Added:**

-   New `env_prefix` & `env_postfix` prompt fields for rendering the
    pre- and post-fix characters of the an active virtual environment.
-   ON_WSL attribute in platform.py
-   Rendering of `{env_name}` in `$PROMPT` is now suppressed if the
    `$VIRTUAL_ENV_DISABLE_PROMPT` environment variable is defined and
    truthy.
-   Rendering of `{env_name}` in `$PROMPT` is now overridden by the
    value of `str($VIRTUAL_ENV_PROMPT)` if that environment variable is
    defined and `not None`. `$VIRTUAL_ENV_DISABLE_PROMPT` takes
    precedence over `$VIRTUAL_ENV_PROMPT`.
-   A xontrib which adds support for [direnv](https://direnv.net/)

**Changed:**

-   `env_name` prompt field now looks up the pre- and post-fix
    characters, rather than relying on hard-coded values.
-   Some minor `history show` efficiency improvements.
-   If we are on wsl, avoid to use xonsh_preexec_fn when pipe.

**Fixed:**

-   Made `$PATH` searching more robust to broken symlinks on Windows.
-   undesirable SIGSTOP by putting in a SIGCONT
-   Fixed issue with recursive aliases not being passed all keyword
    arguments that are part of the callable alias spec. This allows
    commands like `aliases['hsa'] = "history show all"; hsa | head` to
    no longer fail with strange errors.

**Authors:**

-   Anthony Scopatz
-   Sagar Tewari
-   Brian Skinn
-   Yohei Tamura
-   anatoly techtonik
-   74th
-   Chad Kennedy

## v0.8.8

**Added:**

-   `vox new` has an added `-p --interpreter` flag for choosing the
    Python interpreter to use for virtualenv creation
-   The default Python intrepreter vox uses to create virtual
    environments can be set using the `$VOX_DEFAULT_INTERPRETER`
    environment variable.

**Changed:**

-   `lib.ChainDB` now resolves results to the type of the inputs if
    possible

## v0.8.7

**Added:**

-   New xonsh syntax `pf` strings \-- combining path strings with
    f-strings.

    Usage:

    ``` bash
    gil@bad_cat ~ $ repos = 'github.com'
    gil@bad_cat ~ $ pf"~/{repos}"
    PosixPath('/home/gil/github.com')
    gil@bad_cat ~ $ pf"{$HOME}"
    PosixPath('/home/gil')
    gil@bad_cat ~ $ pf"/home/${'US' + 'ER'}"
    PosixPath('/home/gil')
    ```

**Fixed:**

-   Set `ls` to `predict_true` in `default_threadable_predictors`. This
    prevents `ls` on OSX from being flagged on OSX as unthreadable
    (incorrectly) because it relies on `ncurses`.

## v0.8.6

**Added:**

-   Doco about how to update xonsh and how to set and unset environment
    variables

**Fixed:**

-   Updated behavior of the `cat` coreutils function so that it properly
    handles as vareity of cases such as:

    > -   Exits after concatenating normal files which have a finite
    >     size
    > -   Continues to run for special files which do not have a size,
    >     such as `/dev/random`
    > -   Is interruptable in all cases with Ctrl-C.

-   Callable aliases were not properly raising a `CalledProcessError`
    when they returned a non-zero exist status when
    `$RAISE_SUBPROC_ERROR = True`. This has been fixed.

-   Fixed interpretation of color names with PTK2 and Pygments 2.3.1.

## v0.8.5

**Added:**

-   Add alias to [base16
    shell](https://github.com/chriskempson/base16-shell)

-

    Installation / Usage

    :   1.  To install use pip

            ``` bash
            python3 -m pip install xontrib-base16-shell
            ```

        2.  Add on `~/.xonshrc`

            ``` {.xonsh .numberLines}
            $BASE16_SHELL = $HOME + "/.config/base16-shell/"
            xontrib load base16_shell
            ```

        3.  See image

            ![terminal.png](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ErickTucto/xontrib-base16-shell/master/docs/terminal.png){width="600px"}

-   New `DumbShell` class that kicks in whenever `$TERM == "dumb"`. This
    usually happens in emacs. Currently, this class inherits from the
    `ReadlineShell` but adds some light customization to make sure that
    xonsh looks good in the resultant terminal emulator.

-   Aliases from foreign shells (e.g. Bash) that are more than single
    expressions, or contain sub-shell executions, are now evaluated and
    run in the foreign shell. Previously, xonsh would attempt to
    translate the alias from sh-lang into xonsh. These restrictions have
    been removed. For example, the following now works:

    ``` sh
    $ source-bash 'alias eee="echo aaa \$(echo b)"'
    $ eee
    aaa b
    ```

-   New `ForeignShellBaseAlias`, `ForeignShellFunctionAlias`, and
    `ForeignShellExecAlias` classes have been added which manage foreign
    shell alias execution.

**Changed:**

-   String aliases will now first be checked to see if they contain
    sub-expressions that require evaluations, such as `@(expr)`,
    `$[cmd]`, etc. If they do, then an `ExecAlias` will be constructed,
    rather than a simple list-of-strs substitutiuon alias being used.
    For example:

    ``` sh
    $ aliases['uuu'] = "echo ccc $(echo ddd)"
    $ aliases['uuu']
    ExecAlias('echo ccc $(echo ddd)\n', filename='<exec-alias:uuu>')
    $ uuu
    ccc ddd
    ```

-   The `parse_aliases()` function now requires the shell name.

-   `ForeignShellFunctionAlias` now inherits from
    `ForeignShellBaseAlias` rather than `object`.

**Fixed:**

-   Fixed issues where the prompt-toolkit v2 shell would print an extra
    newline after Python evaluations in interactive mode.

## v0.8.4

**Added:**

-   Added the possibility of arbitrary paths to the help strings in
    `vox activate` and `vox remove`; also updated the documentation
    accordingly.
-   New `xonsh.aliases.ExecAlias` class enables multi-statement aliases.
-   New `xonsh.ast.isexpression()` function will return a boolean of
    whether code is a simple xonsh expression or not.
-   Added top-level `run-tests.xsh` script for safely running the test
    suite.

**Changed:**

-   String aliases are no longer split with `shlex.split()`, but instead
    use `xonsh.lexer.Lexer.split()`.

-   Update xonsh/prompt/cwd.py \_collapsed_pwd to print 2 chars if a
    directory begins with \".\"

-   test which determines whether a directory is a virtualenv

    previously it used to check the existence of \'pyvenv.cfg\' now it
    checks if \'bin/python\' is executable

**Fixed:**

-   Fixed issue with `and` & `or` being incorrectly tokenized in
    implicit subprocesses. Auto-wrapping of certain subprocesses will
    now correctly work. For example:

        $ echo x-and-y
        x-and-y

-   Fix EOFError when press [control+d]{.title-ref}

-   fix no candidates if no permission files in PATH

-   Fixed interpretation of color names with PTK2 and Pygments 2.3.

-   Several ResourceWarnings: unclosed file in tests

-   AttributeError crash when using \--timings flag

-   issue #2929

## v0.8.3

**Added:**

-   Dociumentation paragrapgh about gow to run xonsh in Emacs shell

**Changed:**

-   Updated what pip requirements are needed to build the documnetaion
-   `$XONSH_TRACEBACK_LOGFILE` now beside strings also accepts
    `os.PathLike` objects.
-   Updated vended version of `ply` to 3.11
-   Deprecation warnings now print from stacklevel 3.

**Fixed:**

-   Annotation assignment statements (e.g. `x : int = 42`) are now
    supported.

-   Fixed error output wording for fg and bg commands

-   Flake8 errors

-   xonsh can now properly parse import statements with trailing comma
    within parentheses, e.g.:

        from x import (y, z,)

-   ResourceWarning: unclosed scandir iterator in imphooks.py

-   Removed use of deprecated `inspect.formatargspec()` for
    `inspect.signature()`

-   `Makefile` directive that updates vended version of `ply`

## v0.8.2

**Changed:**

-   Now there is only a single instance of `string.Formatter()` in the
    code base, which is called `xonsh.tools.FORMATTER`.

**Fixed:**

-   f-strings (`f"{expr}"`) are now fully capable of executing xonsh
    expressions. The one exception to this is that `![cmd]` and `!(cmd)`
    don\'t work because the `!` character interferes with Python string
    formatting. If you need to run subprocesses inside of f-strings, use
    `$[cmd]` and `$(cmd)` instead.
-   Fixed occasional \"no attribute \'settitle\' error\"

## v0.8.1

**Added:**

-   `SubprocSpec` has a new `pipeline_index` integer attribute that
    indicates the commands position in a pipeline. For example, in

    ``` sh
    p = ![ls -l | grep x]
    ```

    The `ls` command would have a pipeline index of 0
    (`p.specs[0].pipeline_index == 0`) and `grep` would have a pipeline
    index of 1 (`p.specs[1].pipeline_index == 1`). This may be usefule
    in callable alaises which recieve the spec as an argument.

**Changed:**

-   Removed `fish` from list of supported foreign shells in the wizard.
-   Circle CI config updated to use a pinned version of `black` (18.9b0)
-   Pytest plugin now uses `xonsh.main.setup()` to setup test
    environment.
-   Linux platform discovery will no longer use
    `platform.linux_distribution()` on Python \>=3.6.6. due to pending
    deprecation warning.
-   Updated Linux Guide as Xonsh is now available in Arch Linux official
    repositories.

**Fixed:**

-   Builtin dynamic proxies and deprecation warning proxies were not
    deleting attributes and items properly.
-   Fixed stdout/sdterr writing infinite recursion error that would
    occur in long pipelines of callable aliases.
-   Fixed a bug which under very rare conditions could cause the shell
    to die with PermissionError exception while sending SIGSTOP signal
    to a child process.
-   Fixed further raw string deprecation warnings thoughout the code
    base.

## v0.8.0

**Added:**

-   Windows CI jobs on Azure Pipelines

-   The `cryptop` command will no longer have its output captured by
    default.

-   Added new env-var `PTK_STYLE_OVERRIDES`. The variable is a
    dictionary containing custom prompt_toolkit style definitions. For
    instance:

        $PTK_STYLE_OVERRIDES['completion-menu'] = 'bg:#333333 #EEEEEE'

    will provide for more visually pleasing completion menu style
    whereas:

        $PTK_STYLE_OVERRIDES['bottom-toolbar'] = 'noreverse'

    will prevent prompt_toolkit from inverting the bottom toolbar colors
    (useful for powerline extension users)

    Note: This only works with prompt_toolkit 2 prompter.

**Changed:**

-   All `__xonsh_*__` builtins have been migrated to a `XonshSession`
    instance at `__xonsh__`. E.g. `__xonsh_env__` is now
    `__xonsh__.env`.
-   Other xonsh-specific builtins (such as `XonshError`) have been
    proxied to the `__xonsh__` session object as well.

**Deprecated:**

-   All `__xonsh_*__` builtins are deprected. Instead, the corresponding
    `__xonsh__.*` accessor should be used. The existing `__xonsh_*__`
    accessors still work, but issue annoying warnings.

**Fixed:**

-   Fixed deprecation warnings from unallowed escape sequences as well
    as importing abstract base classes directly from `collections`

-   Fix for string index error in stripped prefix

-   bash_completions to include special characters in lprefix

    Previously, glob expansion characters would not be included in
    lprefix for replacement

    ``` sh
    $ touch /tmp/abc
    $ python
    >>> from bash_completion import bash_completions
    >>>
    >>> def get_completions(line):
    ...     split = line.split()
    ...     if len(split) > 1 and not line.endswith(' '):
    ...         prefix = split[-1]
    ...         begidx = len(line.rsplit(prefix)[0])
    ...     else:
    ...         prefix = ''
    ...         begidx = len(line)
    ...     endidx = len(line)
    ...     return bash_completions(prefix, line, begidx, endidx)
    ...
    >>> get_completions('ls /tmp/a*')
    ({'/tmp/abc '}, 0)
    ```

    Now, lprefix begins at the first special character:

    ``` sh
    $ python
    >>> from bash_completion import bash_completions
    >>>
    >>> def get_completions(line):
    ...     split = line.split()
    ...     if len(split) > 1 and not line.endswith(' '):
    ...         prefix = split[-1]
    ...         begidx = len(line.rsplit(prefix)[0])
    ...     else:
    ...         prefix = ''
    ...         begidx = len(line)
    ...     endidx = len(line)
    ...     return bash_completions(prefix, line, begidx, endidx)
    ...
    >>> get_completions('ls /tmp/a*')
    ({'/tmp/abc '}, 7)
    ```

-   The `xonsh.main.setup()` function now correctly passes the
    `shell_type` argument to the shell instance.

-   try_subproc_toks now works for subprocs with trailing and leading
    whitespace

    Previously, non-greedy wrapping of commands would fail if they had
    leading and trailing whitespace:

    ``` sh
    $ true && false || echo a
    xonsh: For full traceback set: $XONSH_SHOW_TRACEBACK = True
    NameError: name 'false' is not defined

    $ echo; echo && echo a

    xonsh: For full traceback set: $XONSH_SHOW_TRACEBACK = True
    NameError: name 'echo' is not defined
    ```

    Now, the commands are parsed as expected:

    ``` sh
    $ true && false || echo a
    a

    $ echo; echo && echo a


    a
    ```

## v0.7.10

**Added:**

-   \'off\' can be passed as falsy value to all flags accepting boolean
    argument.
-   DragonFly BSD support
-   Format strings (f-strings) now allow environment variables to be
    looked up. For example, `f"{$HOME}"` will yield `"/home/user"`. Note
    that this will look up and fill in the `detype()`-ed version of the
    environment variable, i.e. it\'s native string representation.

**Changed:**

-   Running `aurman` command will now be predicted to be unthreaded by
    default.

**Fixed:**

-   The xonsh `xonfig wizard` would crash if an unknown foreign shell
    was provided. This has been fixed.
-   The `hg split` command will now predict as unthreadable.
-   Fixed path completer crash on attempted f-string completion

## v0.7.9

**Added:**

-   The python-mode `@(expr)` syntax may now be used inside of
    subprocess arguments, not just as a stand-alone argument. For
    example:

    ``` sh
    $ x = 'hello'
    $ echo /path/to/@(x)
    /path/to/hello
    ```

    This syntax will even properly expand to the outer product if the
    `expr` is a list (or other non-string iterable) of values:

    ``` sh
    $ echo /path/to/@(['hello', 'world'])
    /path/to/hello /path/to/world

    $ echo @(['a', 'b']):@('x', 'y')
    a:x a:y b:x b:y
    ```

    Previously this was not possible.

-   New `$DOTGLOB` environment variable enables globs to match
    \"hidden\" files which start with a literal `.`. Set this variable
    to `True` to get this matching behavior. Cooresponding API changes
    have been made to `xonsh.tools.globpath()` and
    `xonsh.tools.iglobpath()`

-   New environment variable `$FOREIGN_ALIASES_SUPPRESS_SKIP_MESSAGE`
    enables the removal of skipping foreign alias messages.

-   New `--suppress-skip-message` command line option for skipping
    foreign alias messages when sourcing foreign shells.

**Fixed:**

-   In Bash completions, if there are no files to source, a `set()` will
    no longer be inserted into the completion script.
-   Fixed issue with TAB completion in readline not replacing values
    with spaces properly when the prefix was unquoted.

## v0.7.8

**Added:**

-   `xonsh.lib.collections.ChainDB`, a chain map which merges mergable
    fields

**Fixed:**

-   Pass all params to voxapi.create
-   PTK tab-completion now auto-accepts completion if only one option is
    present (note that fix is only for PTK2)

## v0.7.7

**Added:**

-   A xontrib which adds support for autojump to xonsh
-   Added new env-var `XONSH_HISTORY_MATCH_ANYWHERE`. If set to `True`
    then up-arrow history matching will match existing history entries
    with the search term located anywhere, not just at the beginning of
    the line. Default value is `False`

**Changed:**

-   Improved iteration over virtual environments in `Vox.__iter__`

**Fixed:**

-   Fix for `Enter` not returning from Control-R search buffer

-   Fixed automatic wrapping of many subprocesses that spanned multiple
    lines via line continuation characters with logical operators
    separating the commands. For example, the following now works:

    ``` sh
    echo 'a' \
    and echo 'b'
    ```

-   Environment swapping would not properly reraise errors due to weird
    Python name binding issue.

## v0.7.6

**Added:**

-   Callable aliases may now accept a `stack` argument. If they do, then
    the stack, as computed from the aliases call site, is provided as a
    list of `FrameInfo` objects (as detailed in the standard library
    `inspect` module). Otherwise, the `stack` parameter is `None`.
-   `SubprocSpec` now has a `stack` attribute, for passing the call
    stack to callable aliases. This defaults to `None` if the spec does
    not need the stack. The `resolve_stack()` method computes the
    `stack` attribute.

**Changed:**

-   xonsh/environ.py Exceptions are caught in the code executed under
    Env.swap()

**Fixed:**

-   Scripts are now cached by their realpath, not just abspath.
-   Fixed a potential crash (`AssertionError: wrong color format`) on
    Python 3.5 and prompt_toolkit 1.
-   The `completer` command now correctly finds completion functions
    when nested inside of other functions.
-   Fixed a crash when using the `$XONSH_STDERR_PREFIX/POSTFIX` with
    prompt_toolkit and Pygments 2.2.

## v0.7.5

**Fixed:**

-   Recent command history in ptk2 prompt now returns most recently
    executed commands first (as expected)
-   Fixed a regression taat prevented the readline backend from beeing
    used. This regression was caused by the new ansi-color names, which
    are incompatible with pygments 2.2.

## v0.7.4

**Added:**

-   New `xonsh-cat` command line utility, which is a xonsh replacement
    for the standard UNIX `cat` command.
-   The new `xonsh.xoreutils.cat.cat_main()` enables the
    `xonsh.xoreutils.cat` module to be run as a command line utility.
-   New `CommandsCache.is_only_functional_alias()` and
    `CommandsCache.lazy_is_only_functional_alias()` methods for
    determining if if a command name is only implemented as a function,
    and thus has no underlying binary command to execute.
-   `xonsh.xontribs.xontribs_load()` is a new first-class API for
    loading xontribs via a Python function.
-   `$COMPLETIONS_DISPLAY` now supports readline-like behavior on
    prompt-toolkit v2.

**Changed:**

-   The xonsh Jupyter kernel now will properly redirect the output of
    commands such as `git log`, `man`, `less` and other paged commands
    to the client. This is done by setting `$PAGER = 'cat'`. If `cat` is
    not available on the system, `xonsh-cat` is used instead.
-   The `setup()` function for starting up a working xonsh has
    `aliases`, `xontribs`, and `threadable_predictors` as new additional
    keyword arguments for customizing the loading of xonsh.

**Fixed:**

-

    Fixed a bug with converting new PTK2 colors names to old names when using PTK1 or Jupyter

    :   as the shell type.

-   `CommandsCache.locate_binary()` will now properly return None when
    `ignore_alias=False` and the command is only a functional alias,
    such as with `cd`. Previously, it would return the name of the
    command.

-   Fixed issue with `$COMPLETIONS_DISPLAY` raising an error on
    prompt-toolkit v2 when the value was not set to `multi`.

-   ValueError when executing `vox list`

## v0.7.3

**Added:**

-   Add the `PROMPT_TOOLKIT_COLOR_DEPTH` environment to xonsh default
    environment. Possible values are `DEPTH_1_BIT`/`MONOCHROME`,
    `DEPTH_4_BIT`/`ANSI_COLORS_ONLY`, `DEPTH_8_BIT`/`DEFAULT`, or
    `DEPTH_24_BIT`/`TRUE_COLOR`. Note: not all terminals support all
    color depths.
-   New way to fix unreadable default terminal colors on Windows 10.
    Windows 10 now supports true color in the terminal, so if prompt
    toolkit 2 is installed Xonsh will use a style with hard coded colors
    instead of the default terminal colors. This will give the same
    color experience as on linux an mac. The behaviour can be disabled
    with `$INTENSIFY_COLORS_ON_WIN` environment variable.
-   New `JupyterShell` for interactive interfacing with Jupyter.

**Changed:**

-   All ansicolor names used in styles have ben updated to the color
    names used by prompt_toolkit 2. The new names are are much easier to
    understand (e.g. `ansicyan`/`ansibrightcyan` vs. the old
    `#ansiteal`/`#ansiturquoise`). The names are automatically
    translated back when using prompt_toolkit 1.

**Removed:**

-   Removed support for pygments \< 2.2.

**Fixed:**

-   New ansi-color names fixes the problem with darker colors using
    prompt_toolkit 2 on windows.
-   Fixed a problem with the color styles on prompt toolkit 2. The
    default pygment style is no longer merged into style selected in
    xonsh.
-   The JupyterKernel has been fixed from a rather broken state.

## v0.7.2

**Added:**

-   `history show` builtin now supports optional `-0` parameter that
    switches the output to null-delimited. Useful for piping history to
    external filters.

**Fixed:**

-   If exception is raised in indir context manager, return to original
    directory
-   Fixed issue that autocomplete menu does not display at terminal\'s
    maximum height

## v0.7.1

**Added:**

-   Added feature to aliases.
-   `xonsh.lib.os.rmtree()` an rmtree which works on windows properly
    (even with git)

**Changed:**

-   set default value of `$AUTO_SUGGEST_IN_COMPLETIONS=False`
-   Use the `pygments_cache.get_all_styles()` function instead of
    interacting directly with pygments.

**Fixed:**

-   Fixed issue with `$ARG<N>` varaibles not being passed to
    subprocesses correctly.

-   Fixed issue with multiline string inside of `@(expr)` in unwrapped
    subprocesses. For example, the following now works:

        echo @("""hello
        mom""")

-   `CommandPipeline.output` now does properly lazy, non-blocking
    creation of output string. `CommandPipeline.out` remains blocking.

-   Fix regression in `INTENSIFY_COLORS_ON_WIN` functionality due to
    prompt_toolkit 2 update.

-   Fixed issue that can\'t insert quotation marks and double quotes for
    completion.

-   Fixed issue with `SyntaxErrors` being reported on the wrong line
    when a block of code contained multiple implicit subprocesses.

-   `prompt_toolkit >= 2` will start up even if Pygments isn\'t present

-   Fixed a regression with `xonfig styles` reporting
    `AttributeError: module 'pygments' has no attribute 'styles'`

-   ptk dependent xontribs (that use custom keybindings) now work with
    both ptk1 and ptk2

-   Fixed async tokenizing issue on Python v3.7.

## v0.7.0

**Added:**

-   Added a hook for printing a spcial display method on an object.
-   Support for `prompt_toolkit 2.0`
-   The `--shell-type` (`$SHELL_TYPE`) may now be specified using
    shortcuts, such as `rl` for `readline` and `ptk2` for
    `prompt_toolkit2`. See `xonsh --help` for a full listing of
    available aliases.

**Fixed:**

-   Restored AUGASSIGN_OPS definition, which was inadvertently removed.

## v0.6.10

**Added:**

-   `xonsh.lib.subprocess.check_output` as a `check_output` drop in

**Fixed:**

-   `xonsh.lib.subprocess.run` doesn\'t change dirs unless asked

## v0.6.9

**Added:**

-   New xonsh standard library `xonsh.lib` subpackage
-   `xonsh.lib.os.indir` a context manager for temporarily entering into
    a directory
-   `xonsh.lib.subprocess.run` and `xonsh.lib.subprocess.check_call`
    subprocess stubs using `xonsh` as the backend

**Fixed:**

-   update xoreutils.\_which.which() for python 3.x support.
-   Fixed issue with incorrect strip lengths for prefixes with quotes in
    them
-   Fixed bash script to also consider leading double quotes and not
    just single quotes
-   Launching xonsh with prompt_toolkit version 2.x no longer fails, and
    instead fallsback to readline shell. This is a patch for until
    prompt_toolkit 2.x support is fully implemented. See PR #2570

## v0.6.8

**Fixed:**

-   completions relative to `CDPATH` only trigger when used with `cd`
-   Import of `ctypes.util` is now explictly performed, as needed.
    Python v3.7 no longer imports this module along with `ctypes`.
-   Fixed issue with pygments-cache not properly generating a cache the
    first time when using prompt-toolkit. This was due to a lingering
    lazy import of `pkg_resources` that has been removed.
-   Removed duplicate `pip` completer
-   `bash_completion` no longer returns invalid prefix lengths for
    directories containing escape file names
-   Fixed error when using redirection (e.g., \>) on Windows.

## v0.6.7

**Changed:**

-   Xonsh live example has been re-added back to the documentation.

**Fixed:**

-   Fixed issue where xonsh would fail to properly return the terminal
    prompt (and eat up 100% CPU) after a failed subprocess command in
    interactive mode if `$RAISE_SUBPROC_ERROR = True`.
-   `xonsh.tokenize.tok_name` no longer mutates the standard library
    `tokenize.tok_name`. A copy is made on import instead.

## v0.6.6

**Added:**

-   A multipurpose add method to EnvPath. For example:

    ``` xonshcon
    >>> $PATH
    EnvPath(
    ['/usr/bin', '/usr/local/bin', '/bin']
    )
    >>> $PATH.add('~/.local/bin', front=True); $PATH
    EnvPath(
    ['/home/user/.local/bin', '/usr/bin', '/usr/local/bin', '/bin']
    )
    >>> $PATH.add('/usr/bin', front=True, replace=True); $PATH
    EnvPath(
    ['/usr/bin', '/home/user/.local/bin', '/usr/local/bin', '/bin']
    )
    ```

-   Added `pygments-cache` project in order to reduce startup time.

**Changed:**

-   built_ins.py, corrected a typo.
-   test/test_news.py It now uses regex to verify the format of rst
    files
-   Mercurial (`hg`) will no longer run in a threadable subprocess when
    it is run in interactive mode.

**Fixed:**

-   issue 2313

## v0.6.5

**Added:**

-   Wizard `FileInsterter` node class now has `dumps()` method for
    converting a mapping to a string to insert in a file.

**Fixed:**

-   Fixed issue with `xonfig wizard` writer failing to write valid run
    control files for environment variables that are containter types.
    In particular, the storage of `$XONSH_HISTORY_SIZE` has been fixed.

## v0.6.4

**Changed:**

-   Error message improved for sourcing foreign shells, when file cannot
    be found or there is a syntax error.

**Fixed:**

-   Fixed issues with readline completer tab completing entries with
    spaces.
-   Fixed `xonsh.tools.columnize()` bug the prevented single-row input
    from being columnized correctly.
-   Now honor ASYNC and AWAIT as keywords in tokenizer on Python 3.7.

## v0.6.3

**Added:**

-   Docs for using `@(<expr>)` as a way to run commands and a gotcha
    about list of strings vs single string expressions.
-   Ubuntu versions which xonsh is packaged for (with xonsh versions)

**Changed:**

-   When reporting errors without a traceback (i.e.
    `$XONSH_SHOW_TRACEBACK = False`) and the error is a `XonshError` the
    exception type is not longer printed.
-   `CommandPipeline.proc` may now be `None`, to accomodate when the
    process fails to even start (i.e. a missing command or incorrect
    permisions).

**Fixed:**

-   The `curl` command will now be run in a thread, which prevents
    documents that do not end in a newline from writing over the next
    prompt and vice versa.
-   Fix bug on Windows when `PATHEXT` environment variable did not
    exist. This also fixes building the xonsh documentation on Windows.
-   Fixed a bug in the [free_cwd](http://xon.sh/xontribs.html#free-cwd)
    Windows Xontrib, which caused the prompt to error if the current
    directory is deleted/renamed from an other process.
-   Fixed issue with `$XONSH_SHOW_TRACEBACK` not being respected in
    subprocess mode when the command could not be found or had incorrect
    permissions.

## v0.6.2

**Added:**

-   Release tarballs now include licenses and minimal documentation for
    xonsh and ply
-   Wizard now has a `FileInserter` node that allows blocks to be
    inserted and replaced inside of a file. This adheres to conversion
    rules fordumping as provided on this node.
-   New `xonsh.wizard.StateVisitor.flatten()` method for flattening the
    current state.

**Changed:**

-   The xonsh startup wizard will only be triggered if no xonshrc files
    exist and the file `~/.local/config/xonsh/no-wizard` is not present.
-   The `xonfig wizard` command will now run write out to the xonshrc
    file.
-   Wizard nodes `Save` and `Load` had their names changed to `SaveJSON`
    and `LoadJSON`.

**Removed:**

-   Static configuration is dead (`config.json`), long live run control
    (`xonshrc`)!
-   The following evironment variables have been removed as they are no
    longer needed: `$LOADED_CONFIG` and `$XONSHCONFIG`.
-   Many support functions for static configuration have also been
    removed.

**Fixed:**

-   Files starting with `#` are auto-escaped by TAB completion

## v0.6.1

**Added:**

-   Support for MSYS2.
-   New `xonsh.main.setup()` function for starting up xonsh in 3rd party
    packages.

**Changed:**

-   Updated CircleCI to use circle version 2.0
-   Replaced StopIteration with return in CommandPipeline.iterraw.
-   Xonsh run control now also looks for the XDG-compliant file
    `~/.config/xonsh/rc.xsh` at startup.

**Fixed:**

-   Clean out `$LINES` and `$COLUMNS` if set, preventing some programs
    from drawing weirdly
-   cat from xoreutils now outputs in configured encoding
-   Fixed hanging issue with pipelines whose middle processes exit
    before the first or last process.
-   Fixed issue where xonsh would deduplicate spaces from bash
    autocompletions.
-   Fixed failing redirections from stderr to stdout when the command
    being executed was a callable alias.
-   Ensure that the `free_cwd` contrib can only be active on pure
    Windows.
-   Made an exceptional case in `iglobpath()` more robust when Python
    globbing fails for due to strange scrandir issue.
-   Unexpected process suspension on Cygwin and MSYS2.
-   `$XONSH_APPEND_NEWLINE` will now default to True when in interactive
    mode.
-   Fixed issue with uncalled lambdas being run in subproc mode.
-   Lambda nodes not have proper line and column numbers in AST.
-   Properly throw `SyntaxError` when no kwargs are defined in a
    kwarg-only function. This used to throw a
    `TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not iterable`.
-   Addressed issue where encoding and errors were None when teeing
    output.
-   Commands like `git c` would complete to `git 'checkout '` because
    git adds an extra space to the end of the completion, which was
    being captured in the completion. Xonsh now fixes the git issue
    while retaining all whitespace when there is other internal
    whitespace.

## v0.6.0

**Added:**

-   Added an alias command, matching bash\'s implementation, available
    as part of bashisms.

-   New `$AUTO_SUGGEST_IN_COMPLETIONS` environment variable that
    enables/disables whether the auto-suggestion result appears in the
    tab completions.

-   Added `__add__()` and `__radd__()` methods to `EnvPath`.

-   Xonsh now supports f-strings, as in Python v3.6+.

-   Added `ipython` as unthreadable in command cache threadabilty
    predictors.

-   Added `whole_word_jumping` xontrib

-   Added `$XONSH_APPEND_NEWLINE` environment variable

-   Support for PEP 515: Underscores in Numeric Literals

-   `xonsh.color_tools.make_palette()`

    Simple rename of the pre-existing `xonsh.color_tools.make_pallete()`
    function.

-   `xonsh.tools.decorator()` function/method decorator.

    This allows for an API function to be annotated with a decorator
    that documents deprecation, while also tying in functionality that
    will warn a user that the function has been deprecated, and, raise
    an `AssertionError` if the function has passed its expiry date.

-   New xontrib `schedule` (Xonsh Task Scheduler)

**Changed:**

-   `on_pre_prompt` is now fired before prompt calculations are made,
    allowing modifications to the prompt.
-   `emacsclient` will now return false in the threadable predictors.
-   Improved the autopair behavior to match that of popular code
    editors.
-   Moved the lazy `pkg_resources` package back to its original place.
    The will hopefully address some of the slowdown issues experiances
    on some platforms.
-   When xonsh is used to run an `xsh` script, the `xonshrc` is not
    loaded
-   Change in the behavior of the default predictor with binary
    analysis. The pattern `libgpm` is use, assuming when `gpm` is used
    the program is not threadable. This change solves issues with
    programs as `links`.
-   Error messages added to the `source` command if it is used with a
    language that is not xonsh or Python.

**Deprecated:**

-   `xonsh.color_tools.make_pallette()`

    Deprecated in release 0.5.10 and will be removed in release 0.6.0.

**Fixed:**

-   Now f-strings can be used inside @() without explicit enclosing
    command in \![\]
-   Fix for `x, y, *z = ...` unpacking.
-   Git branch detection now correctly passes the environment down to
    the subprocess call. This allows for branch detection when git is
    installed into a non-standard location.
-   Escape regex characters in `path_complete` to avoid regex parsing
    errors for certain combinations of characters in path completer
-   gistatus: Fixed hash not being shown when in detaced HEAD and there
    are no tags
-   Fix branch colorization when `git` or `hg` are aliases.
-   Fixed leftover `.git/index.lock` in `gitstatus`
-   Made JSON history loading more robust to corrupt files.
-   Starting a new command with an open parentheses will no longer throw
    a traceback when `$UPDATE_COMPLETIONS_ON_KEYPRESS` is `True`.
-   Automatically wrapping subprocess calls would sometimes include
    semincolons and other line-ending tokens, rather than stopping at
    them. This has been fixed.
-   Numerous spelling errors in documentation, docstrings/comments, text
    strings and local variable names.
-   Spelling error in the `xonsh.color_tools.make_pallete()` public
    function declaration. This was fixed by renaming the function to
    `xonsh.color_tools.make_palette()` while maintaining a binding of
    `make_pallete()` to the new `make_palette()` in case users are
    already used to this API.
-   Fixed issue with starting triple quote strings being run as a
    command.
-   Fixed a problem with escaping charet (\^) character for cmd.exe in
    the source-cmd function.
-   `EOF in multi-line statement` errors were misreported as being on
    line 0. Now they are correctly reported as being on the last line of
    the file.

## v0.5.12

**Fixed:**

-   Fixed `release.xsh` to prevent it from dirtying the repo on release
    and leading to an unwanted `.dev` suffix on the version number

## v0.5.11

**Added:**

-   `release.xsh` creates a github release with the merged news entries
    as the release body

**Fixed:**

-   `xonfig` now displays the proper value for \"on linux\"

## v0.5.10

**Added:**

-   Added `xclip` and `repo` to default threadable predictors (Issues
    #2355 and #2348)
-   Pretty printing of the \$PATH variable
-   Add \"fzf-widgets\" xontrib which provides fuzzy search productivity
    widgets with on custom keybindings to xontrib list.
-   New `free_cwd` xontrib for Windows, which prevent the current
    directory from being locked when the prompt is shown. This allows
    the other programs or Windows explorer to delete the current or
    parent directory. This is accomplished by resetting the CWD to the
    users home directory temporarily while the prompt is displayed. The
    directory is still locked while any commands are processed so xonsh
    still can\'t remove it own working directory.

**Changed:**

-   Codecov threshold to 2%

**Removed:**

-   On Windows environments variables in wrapped like`%foo%` are no
    longer expanded automatically.

**Fixed:**

-   Fixed the `--rc` option so it now runs xonsh with the specified rc
    file
-   `@$` operator now functions properly when returned command is an
    alias
-   Correct line continuation would not work on Windows if the line
    continuations were used in the `xonshrc` file.
-   Fixed a regression in the Windows `sudo` command, that allows users
    to run elevated commands in xonsh.
-   Fix echo command from xoreutils.
-   Fixed a bug on Windows which meant xonsh wasn\'t using PATH
    environment variable but instead relying on a default value from the
    windows registry.

## v0.5.9

**Added:**

-   Add `Alt .` keybinding to `bashisms-xontrib` to insert last argument
    of previous command into current buffer

**Fixed:**

-   Fix crash when openSSH version of bash is on PATH on Windows.
-   Added missing ensurers to make sure that `bool` env_vars are bools
    and `int` env_vars are integers:
    -   `DIRSTACK_SIZE`
    -   `EXPAND_ENV_VARS`
    -   `PUSHD_MINUS`
    -   `PUSHD_SILENT`
    -   `SUGGEST_COMMANDS`
    -   `SUGGEST_MAX_NUM`
    -   `SUGGEST_THRESHOLD`

## v0.5.8

**Changed:**

-   The `xonsh.platform.os_environ` wrapper is now case-insensitive and
    case-preserving on Windows.
-   The private `_TeeStd` class will no longer attempt to write to a
    standard buffer after the tee has been \'closed\' and the standard
    buffer returned to the system.

**Fixed:**

-   Fixed a bug on py34 where os.scandir was used by accident.
-   Line continuations (`\\`) is subproc mode will no longer consume the
    surrounding whitespace.
-   Fixed a bug if foreign_shell name was not written in lower case in
    the static configuration file `config.json`
-   Fixed a regression on Windows where caused `which` reported that the
    `PATH` environment variable could not be found.
-   Fixed issue with foregrounding jobs that were started in the
    background.
-   Fixed that `Ctrl-C` crashes xonsh after running an invalid command.
-   Fixed an potential `ProcessLookupError` issue, see #2288.

## v0.5.7

**Added:**

-   New `color_tools` module provides basic color tools for converting
    to and from various formats as well as creating palettes from color
    strings.
-   Redirections may now be used in string and list-of-strings aliases.
-   Subprocess redirection may now forego the whitespace between the
    redirection and a file name. For example,
    `echo hello world >/dev/null`.
-   Add a `-P` flag to the `cd` function in order to change directory
    and following symlinks.
-   `xonfig tutorial` command to launch the <http://xon.sh/tutorial> in
    the browser.
-   `@(...)` syntax now supports generators and tuples without
    parentheses.
-   Sourcing foreign shells now have the `--show` option, which lets you
    see when script will be run, and the `--dryrun` option which
    prevents the source from actually taking place. Xonsh\'s foreign
    shell API also added these keyword arguments.
-   Subprocess mode now supports subshells. Place any xonsh code between
    two parentheses, e.g. `(cmd)`, to run this command in a separate
    xonsh subprocess.
-   Foreign shell aliases now have the ability to take extra arguments,
    if needed.
-   Xonsh will issue a warning message when the current working
    directory has been remove out from under it and not replaced prior
    to running the next command.
-   Line continuation backslashes are respected on Windows in the PTK
    shell if the backspace is is preceded by a space.
-   Added `ponysay` as a command which will usually not run in a
    threaded mode in the commands cache.
-   New `jsonutils` module available for serializing special xonsh
    objects to JSON.

**Changed:**

-   The literal tokens `and` and `or` must be surrounded by whitespace
    to delimit subprocess mode. If they do not have whitespace on both
    sides in subproc mode, they are considered to be part of a command
    argument.
-   The `xontrib` command is now flagged as unthreadable and will be run
    on the main Python thread. This allows xontribs to set signal
    handlers and other operations that require the main thread.
-   nvim (Neovim) has been flagged as unthreadable
-   The interactive prompt will now catch `SystemExit` and, instead of
    exiting the session, will refresh the prompt. This is the same
    process as for keyboard interrupts.
-   Xonsh no longer launches the wizard for new users. Instead a welcome
    screen is shown which says how to launch the wizard.
-   Added Windows `expanduser()`-like function which prevents the
    expansion of `~` that are not followed by a path separator.
-   Collecting xonsh history files was reported to have random runtime
    OSError failures. This exception is now handled, just in case. The
    The exception will still be printed in debug mode.
-   `Shell.stype` has been renamed to `Shell.shell_type`.
-   The configuration wizard now displays the proper control sequence to
    leave the wizard at the to start of the wizard itself. Note that
    this is Ctrl+D for readline and Ctrl+C for prompt-toolkit.
-   Callable alias proxy functions are now more friendly to
    `functools.partial()`.
-   `prompt.vc.get_hg_branch` now uses `os.scandir` to walk up the
    filetree looking for a `.hg` directory. This results in (generally)
    faster branch resolution compared to the subprocess call to
    `hg root`.
-   Xonsh\'s script and code caches will are now invalidated whenever
    the xonsh version changes for a given Python version.
-   Autowrapping of subprocess globs has been improved to cover more
    cases that are ambiguous with Python syntax.
-   Job control info when foregrounding or backgrounding jobs will now
    only be displayed when xonsh is in interactive mode.
-   Enabled virtual terminal processing in the prompt-toolkit shell for
    Windows.

**Fixed:**

-   3rd party pygments styles (like solorized or monokailight) are now
    able to be used in xonsh. These styles are dynamically created upon
    first use, rather than being lazily loaded by xonsh.
-   On Windows, `os.environ` is case insensitive. This would potentially
    change the case of environment variables set into the environment.
    Xonsh now uses `nt.environ`, the case sensitive counterpart, to
    avoid these issues on Windows.
-   Fix how `$PWD` is managed in order to work with symlinks gracefully
-   `history replay` no longer barfs on `style_name` when setting up the
    environment
-   `Shell.shell_type` is now properly set to the same value as
    `$SHELL_TYPE`.
-   Fixed `source-zsh` to work with zsh v5.2.
-   Fixed issue where `del (x, y)` would raise a syntax error.
-   Certain vim commands issue commands involving subshells, and this is
    now supported.
-   Null bytes handed to Popen are now automatically escaped prior to
    running a subprocess. This prevents Popen from issuing embedded null
    byte exceptions.
-   Xonsh will no longer crash is the current working directory is
    removed out from under it.
-   Multiline strings can now be written in subprocess mode.
-   PTK completions will now correctly deduplicate autosuggest
    completions and display completions values based on the cursor
    position.
-   Fixed bug where trailing backspaces on Windows paths could be
    interpreted as line continuations characters. Now line continuation
    characters must be preceded by a space on Windows. This only applies
    to xonsh in interactive mode to ensure scripts are portable.
-   Importing `*.xsh` files will now respect the encoding listed in that
    file and properly fallback to UTF-8. This behaviour follows the
    rules described in PEP 263.
-   Wizard is now able to properly serialize environment paths.

## v0.5.6

**Added:**

-   New core utility function aliases (written in pure Python) are now
    available in `xonsh.xoreutils`. These include: `cat`, `echo`, `pwd`,
    `tee`, `tty`, and `yes`. These are not enabled by default. Use the
    new `coreutils` xontrib to load them.
-   CircleCI test post codecov run
-   The `trace` will automatically disable color printing when stdout is
    not a TTY or stdout is captured.
-   New `jedi` xontrib enables jedi-based tab completions when it is
    loaded. This supersedes xonsh\'s default Python-mode completer.
-   The lexer has a new `split()` method which splits strings according
    to xonsh\'s rules for whitespace and quotes.
-   New events for hooking into the Python import process are now
    available. You can now provide a handler for:
    -   `on_import_pre_find_spec`
    -   `on_import_post_find_spec`
    -   `on_import_pre_create_module`
    -   `on_import_post_create_module`
    -   `on_import_pre_exec_module`
    -   `on_import_post_exec_module`

**Changed:**

-   The prompt toolkit shell\'s first completion will now be the current
    token from the auto-suggestion, if available.
-   Sourcing foreign shells will now safely skip applying aliases with
    the same name as existing xonsh aliases by default. This prevents
    accidentally overwriting important xonsh standard aliases, such as
    `cd`.

**Fixed:**

-   Threadable prediction for subprocesses will now consult both the
    command as it was typed in and any resolved aliases.
-   The first prompt will no longer print in the middle of the line if
    the user has already started typing.
-   Windows consoles will now automatically enable virtual terminal
    processing with the readline shell, if available. This allows the
    full use of ANSI escape sequences.
-   On the Windows readline shell, the tab-completion suppression prompt
    will no longer error out depending on what you press.
-   Fixed issue with subprocess mode wrapping not respecting line
    continuation backslashes.
-   Handle a bug where Bash On Windows causes
    platform.windows_bash_command() to raise CalledProcessError.
-   Fixed issues pertaining to completing from raw string paths. This is
    particularly relevant to Windows, where raw strings are inserted in
    path completion.
-   Replace deprecated calls to `time.clock()` by calls to
    `time.perf_counter()`.
-   Use `clock()` to set the start time of `_timings` in non-windows
    instead of manually setting it to `0.0`.
-   The `trace` utility will now correctly color output and not print
    extraneous newlines when called in a script.
-   The `@$(cmd)` operator now correctly splits strings according to
    xonsh semantics, rather than just on whitespace using `str.split()`.
-   The `mpl` xontrib has been updated to improve matplotlib handling.
    If `xontrib load mpl` is run before matplotlib is imported and xonsh
    is in interactive mode, matplotlib will automatically enter
    interactive mode as well. Additionally, `pyplot.show()` is patched
    in interactive mode to be non-blocking. If a non-blocking show fails
    to draw the figure for some reason, a regular blocking version is
    called.
-   Fixed issues like `timeit ls` causing OSError - \"Inappropriate
    ioctl for device\".
-   Fixed a potential \"OSError: \[Errno 22\] Invalid argument\" to
    increase job control stability.

## v0.5.5

**Added:**

-   New `--rc` command line option allows users to specify paths to run
    control files from the command line. This includes both xonsh-based
    and JSON-based configuration.
-   New `$UPDATE_COMPLETIONS_ON_KEYPRESS` controls whether or not
    completions will automatically display and update while typing. This
    feature is only available in the prompt-toolkit shell.

**Changed:**

-   Xonsh scripts now report `__file__` and `__name__` when run as
    scripts or sourced. These variables have the same meaning as they do
    in Python scripts.
-   `$XONSHRC` and related configuration variables now accept JSON-based
    static configuration file names as elements. This unifies the two
    methods of run control to a single entry point and loading system.
-   The `xonsh.shell.Shell()` class now requires that an Execer instance
    be explicitly provided to its init method. This class is no longer
    responsible for creating an execer an its dependencies.
-   Moved decorators `unthreadable`, `uncapturable` from `xonsh.proc` to
    `xonsh.tools`.
-   Some refactorings on jobs control.

**Deprecated:**

-   The `--config-path` command line option is now deprecated in favor
    of `--rc`.

**Removed:**

-   `xonsh.environ.DEFAULT_XONSHRC` has been removed due to deprecation.
    For this value, please check the environment instead, or call
    `xonsh.environ.default_xonshrc(env)`.

**Fixed:**

-   Command pipelines that end in a callable alias are now interruptable
    with `^C` and the processes that are piped into the alias have their
    file handles closed. This should ensure that the entire pipeline is
    closed.
-   Fixed issue where unthreadable subprocs were not allowed to be
    captured with the `$(cmd)` operator.
-   The `ProcProxy` class (unthreadable aliases) was not being executed
    and would hang if the alias was capturable. This has been fixed.
-   Fixed a `tcsetattr: Interrupted system call` issue when run xonsh
    scripts.
-   Fixed issue with `ValueError` being thrown from
    `inspect.signature()` when called on C-extension callables in tab
    completer.
-   Fixed issue that `ls | less` crashes on Mac.
-   Threadable prediction was incorrectly based on the user input
    command, rather than the version where aliases have been resolved.
    This has been corrected.

## v0.5.4

**Added:**

-   Add alias `xip` (\"kip\") so that xonsh\'s Python environment
    (whatever that is) can be modified.
-   HistoryEntry, a SimpleNamespace object that represents a command in
    history.
-   `xonsh.completers.bash_completion` module
-   Added option to report timing information of xonsh startup times.
    Start xonsh with the `--timings` flag to use the feature.
-   The Python tab completer will now complete the argument names of
    functions and other callables.
-   Uptime module added to `xonsh.xoreutils`. This can report the system
    boot time and up time.
-   The environment variable `XONSH_HISTORY_BACKEND` now also supports a
    value of class type or a History Backend instance.
-   `on_envvar_new` event that fires after a new envvar is created.
-   `on_envvar_change` event that fires after an envvar is changed.

**Changed:**

-   history indexing api to be more simple, now returns HistoryEntry.
-   Decoupled `bash_completion` from xonsh project and added shim back
    to xonsh.
-   The JSON history backend will now unlock history files that were
    created prior to the last reboot.

**Fixed:**

-   Fixed broken bash completions on Windows if \'Windows Subsystem for
    Linux\' is installed.
-   Readline history would try to read the first element of history
    prior to actually loading any history. This caused an exception to
    be raised on Windows at xonsh startup when using pyreadline.
-   Fixed issue with readline tab completer overwriting initial prefix
    in some instances.
-   Fixed issue wherein if `git` or (presumably) `hg` are aliased, then
    branch information no longer appears in the `$PROMPT`
-   Fixed an issue with commands that background themselves (such as
    `gpg-connect-agent`) not being able to be run from within xonshrc.

## v0.5.3

**Added:**

-   Tab completion xontrib for python applications based on click
    framework.
-   Added `on_transform_command` event for pre-processing that macros
    can\'t handle.
-   Autodetection of backgroundability by binary analysis on POSIX.
-   New argument `expand_user=True` to `tools.expand_path`.
-   New `$COMPLETION_QUERY_LIMIT` environment variable for setting the
    number of completions above which the user will be asked if they
    wish to see the potential completions.
-   Users may now redirect stdout to stderr in subprocess mode.

**Changed:**

-   The `Block` and `Functor` context managers from `xonsh.contexts`
    have been rewritten to use xonsh\'s macro capabilities. You must now
    enter these via the `with!` statement, e.g. `with! Block(): pass`.
-   The `distributed` xontrib now needs to use the `with!` statement,
    since it relies on `Functor`.
-   `telnet` has been flagged as unthreadable.
-   When `$DYNAMIC_CWD_ELISION_CHAR` is non empty and the last dir of
    cwd is too long and shortened, the elision char is added at the end.
-   `pygments` is no longer a strict dependency of the `prompt_toolkit`
    backend. If `pygments` is not installed, the PTK backend will use
    the default ansi color settings from the terminal. Syntax
    highlighting requires that `pygments` is installed.
-   Events are now keyword arguments only
-   Restored `on_precommand` to its original signature.
-   Move `built_ins.expand_path` to `tools.expand_path`.
-   Rename `tools.expandpath` to `tools._expandpath`.
-   Added `gvim` command to unthreadable predictors.
-   The `source` alias now passes `$ARGS` down to file it is sourcing.

**Removed:**

-   `XonshBlockError` has been removed, since it no longer serves a
    purpose.

**Fixed:**

-   `PopenThread` will now re-issue SIGINT to the main thread when it is
    received.
-   Fixed an issue that using sqlite history backend does not kill
    unfinished jobs when quitting xonsh with a second \"exit\".
-   Fixed an issue that xonsh would fail over to external shells when
    running .xsh script which raises exceptions.
-   Fixed an issue with `openpty()` returning non-unix line endings in
    its buffer. This was causing git and ssh to fail when xonsh was used
    as the login shell on the server. See
    <https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2013-June/650460.html>
    for more details.
-   Restored the ability to \^Z and `fg` processes on posix platforms.
-   CommandPipelines were not guaranteed to have been ended when the
    return code was requested. This has been fixed.
-   Introduce path expansion in `is_writable_file` to fix
    `$XONSH_TRACEBACK_LOGFILE=~/xonsh.log`.
-   Backgrounding a running process (\^Z) now restores ECHO mode to the
    terminal in cases where the subprocess doesn\'t properly restore
    itself. A major instance of this behaviour is Python\'s interactive
    interpreter.
-   Readline backend would not ask the user to confirm the printing of
    completion options if they numbered above a certain value. Instead
    they would be dumped to the screen. This has been fixed.
-   Jupyter kernel was no longer properly running subprocess commands.
    This has been fixed.
-   The filename is applied to the target of the `source` alias,
    providing better tracebacks.

## v0.5.2

**Added:**

-   Added `weechat` to default predictors
-   `$DYNAMIC_CWD_ELISION_CHAR` environment variable to control how a
    shortened path is displayed.

**Changed:**

-   `_ret_code` function of `prompt_ret_code` xontrib return now `None`
    when return code is 0 instead of empty string allowing more
    customization of prompt format.

**Fixed:**

-   Minor Python completer token counting bug fix.
-   multiline syntax error in PTK shell due to buffer not being reset
-   Segfaults and other early exit signals are now reported correctly,
    again.
-   `tests/bin/{cat,pwd,wc}` shebang changed to python3

## v0.5.1

**Fixed:**

-   Fixed xonfig raising error when xonsh is not installed from source.

## v0.5.0

**Added:**

-   \$XONTRIB_MPL_MINIMAL environment variable can be set to change if
    plots are minimalist or as-seen
-   xontrib-mpl now supports iTerm2 inline image display if iterm2_tools
    python package is installed
-   Xonsh now will fallback to other shells if encountered errors when
    starting up.
-   Added entry to customization faq re: `dirs` alias (#1452)
-   Added entry to customization faq re: tab completion selection
    (#1725)
-   Added entry to customization faq re: libgcc core dump (#1160)
-   Section about quoting in the tutorial.
-   The `$VC_HG_SHOW_BRANCH` environment variable to control whether to
    hide the hg branch in the prompt.
-   xonfig now contains the latest git commit date if xonsh installed
    from source.
-   Alt+Enter will execute a multiline code block irrespective of cursor
    position
-   Windows now has the ability to read output asynchronously from the
    console.
-   Use [doctr](https://drdoctr.github.io/doctr/) to deploy dev docs to
    github pages
-   New `xonsh.proc.uncapturable()` decorator for declaring that
    function aliases should not be run in a captured subprocess.
-   New history backend sqlite.
-   Prompt user to install xontrib package if they try to load an
    uninstalled xontrib
-   Callable aliases may now take a final `spec` argument, which is the
    corresponding `SubprocSpec` instance.
-   New `bashisms` xontrib provides additional Bash-like syntax, such as
    `!!`. This xontrib only affects the command line, and not xonsh
    scripts.
-   Tests that create testing repos (git, hg)
-   New subprocess specification class `SubprocSpec` is used for
    specifying and manipulating subprocess classes prior to execution.
-   New `PopenThread` class runs subprocesses on a a separate thread.
-   New `CommandPipeline` and `HiddenCommandPipeline` classes manage the
    execution of a pipeline of commands via the execution of the last
    command in the pipeline. Instances may be iterated and stream lines
    from the stdout buffer. These pipelines read from the stdout &
    stderr streams in a non-blocking manner.
-   `$XONSH_STORE_STDOUT` is now available on all platforms!
-   The `CommandsCache` now has the ability to predict whether or not a
    command must be run in the foreground using `Popen` or may use a
    background thread and can use `PopenThread`.
-   Callable aliases may now use the full gamut of functions signatures:
    `f()`, `f(args)`, `f(args, stdin=None)`,
    `f(args, stdin=None, stdout=None)`, and [ ]{.title-ref}[f(args,
    stdin=None, stdout=None, stderr=None)]{.title-ref}\`.
-   Uncaptured subprocesses now receive a PTY file handle for stdout and
    stderr.
-   New `$XONSH_PROC_FREQUENCY` environment variable that specifies how
    long loops in the subprocess framework should sleep. This may be
    adjusted from its default value to improved performance and mitigate
    \"leaky\" pipes on slower machines.
-   `Shift+Tab` moves backwards in completion dropdown in prompt_toolkit
-   PromptFormatter class that holds all the related prompt methods
-   PromptFormatter caching when building the prompt
-   p-strings: `p'/foo/bar'` is short for `pathlib.Path('/foo/bar')`
-   byte strings: prefixes other than `b'foo'` (eg, `RB'foo'`) now work
-   Backticks for regex or glob searches now support an additional
    modifier `p`, which causes them to return Path objects instead of
    strings.
-   New `BOTTOM_TOOLBAR` environment variable to control a bottom
    toolbar as specified in prompt-toolkit
-   New `$XONSH_STDERR_PREFIX` and `$XONSH_STDERR_POSTFIX` environment
    variables allow the user to print a prompt-like string before and
    after all stderr that is seen. For example, say that you would like
    stderr to appear on a red background, you might set
    `$XONSH_STDERR_PREFIX = "{BACKGROUND_RED}"` and
    `$XONSH_STDERR_PREFIX = "{NO_COLOR}"`.
-   New `xonsh.pyghooks.XonshTerminal256Formatter` class patches the
    pygments formatter to understand xonsh color token semantics.
-   Load events are now available
-   New events added: `on_post_init`, `on_pre_cmdloop`, `on_pre_rc`,
    `on_post_rc`, `on_ptk_create`
-   Completion for `xonsh` builtin functions `xontrib` and `xonfig`
-   Added a general customization FAQ page to the docs to collect
    various tips/tricks/fixes for common issues/requests
-   `test_single_command` and `test_redirect_out_to_file` tests in
    `test_integrations`
-   Add note that the target of redirection should be separated by a
    space.

**Changed:**

-   CircleCI now handles flake8 checks

-   Travis doesn\'t allow failures on nightly

-   `get_hg_branch` runs `hg root` to find root dir and check if we\'re
    in repo

-   The default style will now use the color keywords (#ansired,
    #ansidarkred) to set colors that follow the terminal color schemes.
    Currently, this requires prompt_toolkit master (\>1.0.8) and
    pygments master (2.2) to work correctly.

-   `vox activate` now accepts relative directories.

-   Updated the effectivity of `$XONSH_DEBUG` on debug messages.

-   Better documentation on how to get nice colors in Windows\' default
    console

-   All custom prompt_toolkit key binding filters now declared with the
    `@Condition` decorator

-   The style for the prompt toolkit completion menu is now
    lightgray/darkgray instead of turquoise/teal

-   landscape.io linting now ignores ply directory

-   `history` help messages to reflect subcommand usage

-   Quote all paths when completion if any of the paths needs be quoted,
    so that bash can automatically complete to the max prefix of the
    paths.

-   Tee\'d reads now occur in 1kb chunks, rather than
    character-by-character.

-   The `which` alias no longer has a trailing newline if it is
    captured. This means that `$(which cmd)` will simply be the path to
    the command.

-   The following commands are, by default, predicted to be not
    threadable in some circumstances:

    > -   bash
    > -   csh
    > -   clear
    > -   clear.exe
    > -   cls
    > -   cmd
    > -   ex
    > -   fish
    > -   htop
    > -   ksh
    > -   less
    > -   man
    > -   more
    > -   mutt
    > -   nano
    > -   psql
    > -   ranger
    > -   rview
    > -   rvim
    > -   scp
    > -   sh
    > -   ssh
    > -   startx
    > -   sudo
    > -   tcsh
    > -   top
    > -   vi
    > -   view
    > -   vim
    > -   vimpager
    > -   xo
    > -   xonsh
    > -   zsh

-   The `run_subproc()` function has been replaced with a new
    implementation.

-   Piping between processes now uses OS pipes.

-   `$XONSH_STORE_STDIN` now uses `os.pread()` rather than `tee` and a
    new file.

-   The implementation of the `foreground()` decorator has been moved to
    `unthreadable()`.

-   `voxapi.Vox` now supports `pathlib.Path` and `PathLike` objects as
    virtual environment identifiers

-   Renamed FORMATTER_DICT to PROMPT_FIELDS

-   BaseShell instantiates PromptFormatter

-   readline/ptk shells use PromptFormatter

-   Updated the bundled version of `ply` to current master available

-   vended `ply` is now a git subtree to help with any future updates

-   `WHITE` color keyword now means lightgray and `INTENSE_WHITE`
    completely white

-   Removed `add_to_shell` doc section from `*nix` install pages and
    instead relocated it to the general customization page

-   Moved a few `*nix` customization tips from the linux install page to
    the general customization page

**Removed:**

-   coverage checks
-   `CompletedCommand` and `HiddenCompletedCommand` classes have been
    removed in favor of `CommandPipeline` and `HiddenCommandPipeline`.
-   `SimpleProcProxy` and `SimpleForegroundProcProxy` have been removed
    in favor of a more general mechanism for dispatching callable
    aliases implemented in the `ProcProxyThread` and `ProcProxy`
    classes.
-   `test_run_subproc.py` in favor of `test_integrations.py`
-   Unused imports in many tests
-   Many duplicated tests (copypasta)

**Fixed:**

-   xontrib-mpl now preserves the figure and does not permanently alter
    it for viewing
-   Fix up small pep8 violations
-   Fixed a bug where some files are not showing using bash completer
-   Fixed some issues with subprocess capturing aliases that it probably
    shouldn\'t.
-   `safe_readable()` now checks for `ValueError` as well.
-   The scroll bars in the PTK completions menus are back.
-   Jupyter kernel installation now respects the setuptools `root`
    parameter.
-   Fix `__repr__` and `__str__` methods of `SubprocSpec` so they report
    correctly
-   Fixed the message printed when which is unable to find the command.
-   Fixed a handful of sphinx errors and warnings in the docs
-   Fixed many PEP8 violations that had gone unnoticed
-   Fix failure to detect an Anaconda python distribution if the python
    was install from the conda-forge channel.
-   current_branch will try and locate the vc binary once
-   May now Ctrl-C out of an infinite loop with a subprocess, such as
    `` `while True: sleep 1 ``.
-   Fix for stdin redirects.
-   Backgrounding works with `$XONSH_STORE_STDOUT`
-   `PopenThread` blocks its thread from finishing until command has
    completed or process is suspended.
-   Added a minimum time buffer time for command pipelines to check for
    if previous commands have executed successfully. This is helpful for
    pipelines where the last command takes a long time to start up, such
    as GNU Parallel. This also checks to make sure that output has
    occurred. This includes piping 2+ commands together and pipelines
    that end in unthreadable commands.
-   `curr_branch` reports correctly when `git config status.short true`
    is used
-   `pip` completion now filters results by prefix
-   Fixed streaming `!(alias)` repr evaluation where bytes where not
    streamed.
-   Aliases that begin with a comma now complete correctly (no spurious
    comma)
-   Use `python3` in shebang lines for compatibility with distros that
    still use Python 2 as the default Python
-   STDOUT is only stored when `$XONSH_STORE_STDOUT=True`
-   Fixed issue with alias redirections to files throwing an OSError
    because the function ProcProxies were not being waited upon.
-   Fixed issue with callable aliases that happen to call sys.exit() or
    raise SystemExit taking out the whole xonsh process.
-   Safely flushes file handles on threaded buffers.
-   Proper default value and documentation for `$BASH_COMPLETIONS`
-   Fixed readline completer issues on paths with spaces
-   Fix bug in `argvquote()` functions used when sourcing batch files on
    Windows. The bug meant an extra backslash was added to UNC paths.
    Thanks to \@bytesemantics for spotting it, and \@janschulz for
    fixing the issue.
-   pep8, lint and refactor in pytest style of `test_ptk_multiline.py`,
    `test_replay.py`
-   Tab completion of aliases returned a upper cased alias on Windows.
-   History show all action now also include current session items.
-   `proc.stream_stderr` now handles stderr that doesn\'t have buffer
    attribute
-   Made `history show` result sorted.
-   Fixed issue that `history gc` does not delete empty history files.
-   Standard stream tees have been fixed to accept the possibility that
    they may not be backed by a binary buffer. This includes the
    pipeline stdout tee as well as the shell tees.
-   Fixed a bug when the pygments plugin was used by third party editors
    etc.
-   CPU usage of `PopenThread` and `CommandPipeline` has been brought
    down significantly.

## v0.4.7

**Added:**

-   Define alias for \'echo\' on startup for Windows only.
-   New coredev [AstraLuma](https://github.com/AstraLuma) added
-   `which -a` now searches in `__xonsh_ctx__` too
-   Info about the xontrib cookiecutter template on xontrib tutorial
-   xonsh\'s optional dependencies may now be installed with the pip
    extras `ptk`, `proctitle`, `linux`, `mac`, and `win`.
-   Env `help` method to format and print the vardocs for an envvar
-   test_news fails if no empty line before a category
-   more info on test_news failures
-   Added `on_precommand` and `on_postcommand` [events](/events.html)
-   New `FORMATTER_DICT` entry `gitstatus` to provides informative git
    status
-   FOREIGN_ALIASES_OVERRIDE envvar to control whether foreign aliases
    should override xonsh aliases with the same name.
-   Warning on tutorial about foreign aliases being ignored if a xonsh
    alias exist with the same name if not FOREIGN_ALIASES_OVERRIDE.
-   The prompt-toolkit shell now auto-inserts matching parentheses,
    brackets, and quotes. Enabled via the `XONSH_AUTOPAIR` environment
    variable
-   Better syntax highlights in prompt-toolkit, including valid command
    / path highlighting, macro syntax highlighting, and more
-   More info on tutorial about history interaction
-   Entry on bash_to_xsh
-   Macro context managers are now available via the `with!` syntax.

**Changed:**

-   Devguide reflects the current process of releasing through
    `release.xsh`
-   moved `which` from `xonsh.aliases` into `xoreutils.which`
-   `xonsh.prompt.gitstatus.gitstatus` now returns a namedtuple
-   implementation of `xonsh.prompt.vc_branch.get_git_branch` and
    `xonsh.prompt.vc_branch.git_dirty_working_directory` to use \'git
    status \--procelain\'
-   moved prompt formatting specific functions from `xonsh.environ` to
    `xonsh.prompt.base`
-   All prompt formatter functions moved to `xonsh.prompt` subpackage
-   Printing the message about foreign aliases being ignored happens
    only if XONSH_DEBUG is set.
-   Use `SetConsoleTitleW()` on Windows instead of a process call.
-   Tutorial to reflect the current history command argument
    functionality
-   Macro function arguments now default to `str`, rather than `eval`,
    for consistency with other parts of the macro system.

**Removed:**

-   aliases that use \'!\' in their name cause they clash with the macro
    syntax

**Fixed:**

-   Fix regression where bash git completions where not loaded
    automatically when GitForWindows is installed.

-   More tokens are now supported in subproc args, such as `==`.

-   Python completions now work without space delimiters, e.g.
    `a=matpl<TAB>` will complete to `a=matplotlib`

-   Parser would fail on nested, captured suprocess macros. Now, it
    works, hooray!?

-   now fires chdir event if OS change in working directory is detected.

-

    `xonsh.prompt.vc_branch.git_dirty_working_directory`

    :   uses `porcelain` option instead of using the bytestring
        `nothing to commit` to find out if a git directory is dirty

-   Fix bug where know commands where not highlighted on windows.

-   Fixed completer showing executable in upper case on windows.

-   Fixed issue where tilde expansion was occurring more than once
    before an equals sign.

-   test_dirstack test_cdpath_expansion leaving stray testing dirs

-   Better completer display for long completions in prompt-toolkit

-   Automatically append newline to target of `source` alias, so that it
    may be exec\'d.

-   test_news fails when single graves around word

-   Slashes in virtual environment names work in vox

-   non string type value in \$FORMATTER_DICT turning prompt ugly

-   whole prompt turning useless when one formatting function raises an
    exception

-   Fix completion after alias expansion

-   Fix hard crash when foreign shell functions fails to run. #1715

-   Bug where non-default locations for `XDG_DATA_HOME` and
    `XONSH_DATA_DIR` would not expand `~` into the home directory

-   Auto quote path completions if path contains \'and\' or \'or\'

-   Completion now works on subcommands after pipe, `&&`, `||` and so
    on.

-   cd . and cd \<singleCharacter\> now work. Fix indexerror in
    AUTO_PUSHD case, too.

-   Fixed issue with accidentally wrapping generators inside of function
    calls.

-   History indexing with string returns most recent command.

## v0.4.6

**Added:**

-   New option `COMPLETIONS_CONFIRM`. When set, `<Enter>` is used to
    confirm completion instead of running command while completion menu
    is displayed.
-   NetBSD is now supported.
-   Macro function calls are now available. These use a Rust-like
    `f!(arg)` syntax.
-   Macro subprocess call now available with the `echo! x y z` syntax.
-   A new [event subsystem](http://xon.sh/tutorial_events.html) has been
    added.
-   howto install sections for Debian/Ubuntu and Fedora.
-   `History` methods `__iter__` and `__getitem__`
-   `tools.get_portions` that yields parts of an iterable
-   Added a py.test plugin to collect `test_*.xsh` files and run
    `test_*()` functions.
-   `__repr__` and `__str__` magic method on LazyObject

**Changed:**

-   `create_module` implementation on XonshImportHook
-   Results of the `bash` tab completer are now properly escaped
    (quoted) when necessary.
-   Foreign aliases that match xonsh builtin aliases are now ignored
    with a warning.
-   `prompt_toolkit` completions now only show the rightmost portion of
    a given completion in the dropdown
-   The value of `'none'` is no longer allowed for `$SHELL_TYPE` just
    during the initial load from the environment. `-D`, later times, and
    other sources still work.
-   `yacc_debug=True` now load the parser on the same thread that the
    Parser instance is created. `setup.py` now uses this synchronous
    form as it was causing the parser table to be missed by some package
    managers.
-   Tilde expansion for the home directory now has the same semantics as
    Bash. Previously it only matched leading tildes.
-   Context sensitive AST transformation now checks that all names in an
    expression are in scope. If they are, then Python mode is retained.
    However, if even one is missing, subprocess wrapping is attempted.
    Previously, only the left-most name was examined for being within
    scope.
-   `dirstack.pushd` and `dirstack.popd` now handle UNC paths (of form
    `\\<server>\<share>\...`), but only on Windows. They emulate
    behavior of [CMD.EXE]{.title-ref} by creating a temporary mapped
    drive letter (starting from z: down) to replace the
    `\\<server>\<share>` portion of the path, on the `pushd` and
    unmapping the drive letter when all references to it are popped.
-   And `dirstack` suppresses this temporary drive mapping funky jive if
    registry entry
    `HKCU\software\microsoft\command processor\DisableUNCCheck` (or
    HKLM\...) is a DWORD value 1. This allows Xonsh to show the actual
    UNC path in your prompt string and *also* allows subprocess commands
    invoking [CMD.EXE]{.title-ref} to run in the expected working
    directory. See <https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/156276> to
    satisfy any lingering curiosity.
-   `lazy_locate_binary` handles binary on different drive letter than
    current working directory (on Windows).
-   `_curr_session_parser` now iterates over `History`
-   New implementation of bash completer with better performance and
    compatibility.
-   `$COMPLETIONS_BRACKETS` is now available to determine whether or not
    to include opening brackets in Python completions
-   `xonsh.bat` tries to use
    [pylauncher](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0397/) when
    available.

**Removed:**

-   `History` method `show`
-   `_hist_get_portion` in favor of `tools.get_portions`
-   Unused imports in proc, flake8.

**Fixed:**

-   xonsh modules imported now have the \_\_file\_\_ attribute
-   Context sensitive AST transformer was not adding argument names to
    the local scope. This would then enable extraneous subprocess mode
    wrapping for expressions whose leftmost name was function argument.
    This has been fixed by properly adding the argument names to the
    scope.
-   Foreign shell functions that are mapped to empty filenames no longer
    receive aliases since they can\'t be found to source later.
-   Correctly preserve arguments given to xon.sh, in case there are
    quoted ones.
-   Environment variables in subprocess mode were not being expanded
    unless they were in a sting. They are now expanded properly.
-   Fixed a bug that prevented xonsh from running scripts with code
    caching disabled.
-   Text of instructions to download missing program now does not get
    off and appears in whole.
-   Fix some test problems when win_unicode_console was installed on
    windows.
-   Fixed bug that prompt string and `$PWD` failed to track change in
    actual working directory if the invoked Python function happened to
    change it (e.g via `` `os.chdir() ``[. Fix is to update
    ]{.title-ref}[\$PWD]{.title-ref}[ after each command in
    ]{.title-ref}`BaseShell.default()`\`.
-   The interactive prompt now correctly handles multiline strings.
-   `cd \\<server>\<share>` now works when \$AUTO_PUSHD is set, either
    creating a temporary mapped drive or simply setting UNC working
    directory based on registry `DisableUNCCheck`. However, if
    \$AUTO_PUSHD is not set and UNC checking is enabled (default for
    Windows), it issues an error message and fails. This improves on
    prior behavior, which would fail to change the current working
    directory, but would set \$PWD and prompt string to the UNC path,
    creating false expectations.
-   fix parsing for tuple of tuples (like [(),()]{.title-ref})
-   `sys.stdin`, `sys.stdout`, `sys.stderr` no longer complete with
    opening square brackets
-   xonsh now properly handles syntax error messages arising from using
    values in inappropriate contexts (e.g., `del 7`).

## v0.4.5

**Added:**

-   `_hist_get` that uses generators to filter and fetch the history
    commands of each session.

-   `-n` option to the show subcommand to choose to numerate the
    commands.

-   The `exec` command is now a first class alias that acts the same way
    as in sh-based languages. It replaces the current process with the
    command and argument that follows it. This allows xonsh to be used
    as a default shell while maintaining functionality with SSH, gdb,
    and other third party programs that assume the default shell
    supports raw `exec command [args]` syntax.

    This feature introduces some ambiguity between exec-as-a-subprocess
    and exec-as-a-function (the inescapable Python builtin). Though the
    two pieces of syntax do not overlap, they perform very different
    operations. Please see the xonsh FAQ for more information on
    trade-offs and mitigation strategies.

-   `which -v` now calls superhelp, which will print highlighted source.

-   Added xontribs:

    -   [z (Tracks your most used directories, based on
        \'frecency\'.)](https://github.com/AstraLuma/xontrib-z)

-   amalgamate.py now supports relative imports.

-   `history show` args `-t`, `-f`, `-T` `+T` to filter commands by
    timestamp

-   `ensure_timestamp` in xonsh.tools to try and convert an object to a
    timestamp a.k.a float

-   `$XONSH_DATETIME_FORMAT` envvar, the default format to be used with
    `datetime.datetime.strptime()`

-   `xon.sh` script now sets `$LANG=C.UTF8` in the event that no
    encoding is detected.

-   amalgamate.py now properly handles `from __future__` imports.

**Changed:**

-   `_hist_show` now uses `_hist_get` to print out the commands.

-   `xonsh.completers` sub-package is now fully lazy.

-   The vox xontrib now takes flags very similar to Python\'s venv tool.
    Use `vox --help <command>` to learn more.

-   Xontribs may now define `__all__` as a module top-level to limit
    what gets exported to the shell context

-   xon.sh uses the interpreter used to install instead of the default
    python3.

-   `imphooks` now checks directory access rights.

-   \$TITLE now changes both icon (tab) and window title

-   Moved `amalgamate_source` outside `build_tables`

-   Disable amalgamation on setup develop

-   `_hist_parse_args` implementation refactor

-   moved all parameter checking in `_hist_get`

-   `_hist_show` to handle numeration and timestamp printing of commands

-   `xonsh.imphooks` does not install the import hooks automatically,
    you now need to explicitly call the [install_hook()]{.title-ref}
    method defined in this module. For example:
    `from xonsh.imphooks import install_hook; install_hook()`. The
    `install_hook` method can safely be called several times. If you
    need compatibility with previous versions of Xonsh you can use the
    following:

        from xonsh import imphooks
        getattr(imphooks, 'install_hook', lambda:None)()

-   xonfig command now dumps more encoding related settings.

**Removed:**

-   Anaconda Build is shutting down so we can no longer build conda
    development packages. All references to these packages are removed
    from the documentation.
-   Removed conda build recipe since the it is no longer used for
    Anaconda Build. The recipe used to build xonsh on conda-forge can be
    found here:
    <https://github.com/conda-forge/xonsh-feedstock/blob/master/recipe/meta.yaml>

**Fixed:**

-   `_zsh_hist_parser` not parsing history files without timestamps.
-   Fixed amalgamation of aliased imports that are already in
    `sys.modules`.
-   Xonsh will no longer fail to start in directories where the user
    doesn\'t have read access.
-   Fixed parser error line number exception from being raised while
    trying to raise a SyntaxError.
-   Made pip completer more robust to when pip is not installed.
-   Fix a startup problem on windows caused by a refactor of
    Prompt_toolkit.
    <https://github.com/jonathanslenders/python-prompt-toolkit/commit/a9df2a2>
-   `ensure_slice` bugfix for -1 index/slice
-   Alias tab completion works again
-   Version number reported by bundled PLY
-   `xonfig` no longer breaks if PLY is externally installed and version
    3.8
-   LazyObject supports set union
-   Fixed error with not sourcing files with `$XONSH_ENCODING` and
    `$XONSH_ENCODING_ERRORS`.
-   `$IGNOREEOF` envrionment variable now works properly in the
    prompt-toolkit shell.
-   Completions in `jupyter_kernel.py` now use updated completion
    framework

## v0.4.4

**Added:**

-   New `lazyobject()`, `lazydict()`, and `lazybool()` decorators to
    turn functions into lazy, global objects.

-   `vox remove` command can remove multiple environments at once.

-   Added FreeBSD support.

-   Tab completion for pip python package manager.

-   Regular expressions for environment variable matching.

-   \_\_contains\_\_ method on Env

-   Added news tests to enforce changelog conformity.

-   A new way to add optional items to the prompt format string has been
    added. Instead of relying on formatter dict items being padded with
    a space, now the padding characters are specified in the format
    string itself, in place of the format spec (after a `:`).

    For example, previously the prompt string `{cwd}{curr_branch} $`
    would rely on `curr_branch` giving its output prepended with a space
    for separation, or outputting nothing if it is not applicable. Now
    `curr_branch` just outputs a value or `None`, and the prompt string
    has to specify the surrounding characters:
    `{cwd}{curr_branch: {}} $`. Here the value of `curr_branch` will be
    prepended with a space (`{}` is a placeholder for the value itself).
    The format string after `:` is applied only if the value is not
    `None`.

-   `xonsh.completers` subpackage is now amalgamated.

-   amalgamate.py will now warn if the same name is defined across
    multiple different files.

-   xonsh_builtins, xonsh_execer fixtures in conftest.py

-   Docs on how to tweak the Windows ConHost for a better color scheme.

-   Docs: how to fix Thunar\'s \"Open Terminal Here\" action.

-   A new API class was added to Vox: `xontrib.voxapi.Vox`. This allows
    programmatic access to the virtual environment machinery for other
    xontribs. See the API documentation for details.

-   History now accepts multiple slices arguments separated by spaces

**Changed:**

-   amalgamate now works on Python 2 and allows relative imports.
-   Top-level xonsh package now more lazy.
-   Show conda environment name in prompt in parentheses similar what
    conda does.
-   Implementation of expandvars now uses regex
-   Because of the addition of \"optional items\" to the prompt format
    string, the functions `xonsh.environ.current_branch`,
    `xonsh.environ.env_name` and formatter dict items `curr_branch`,
    `current_job`, `env_name` are no longer padded with a separator.
-   many test cases to use fixtures and parametrization
-   Public interface in `xonsh.ansi_colors` module now has `ansi_`
    prefix to prevent name conflicts with other parts of xonsh.
-   Vox was moved to xontrib. Behaves exactly the same as before, just
    need to add it to your xontribs.
-   is_int_as_str and is_slice_as_str are now reimplemented in EAFP
    style

**Deprecated:**

-   yield statements (nose style) and for loops in tests
-   is_int_or_slice

**Removed:**

-   \_is_in_env, \_get_env_string functions on tools
-   `xonsh.environ.format_prompt` has been dropped;
    `partial_format_prompt` can be used instead.
-   for loops and yield statements in test cases, unused imports
-   is_int_or_slice

**Fixed:**

-   Fixed bug on Windows preventing xonsh from changing the console
    title.
-   Unrecognized `$XONSH_COLOR_STYLE` values don\'t crash terminal.
-   Writing the window title will no longer accidentally answer
    interactive questions, eg `rm -i` now works as expected.
-   more matching cases for envvar reference
-   Certain linux VTE terminals would not start new tabs in the previous
    CWD. This may now be rectified by adding `{vte_new_tab_cwd}`
    somewhere to the prompt.
-   Unqualified usage of Unstorable in xonsh setup wizard that was
    causing the wizard to crash and burn
-   Bare `except:` was replaced with `except Exception` to prevent
    accidentally catching utility exceptions such as KeyboardInterrupt,
    which caused unexpected problems like printing out the raw \$PROMPT
    string.
-   Fixed multiple definition of `EQUAL`.
-   Fixed multiple definition of `pprint`.
-   Fixed multiple definition of `pyghooks`.
-   Fixed multiple definition of `pygments`.
-   Fixed multiple definition of `tokenize`.
-   redundant and \'leaky\' tests in nose
-   Fix bug that prevented disabling \$INTENSIFY_COLORS_ON_WIN in
    `xonshrc`
-   `LazyJSON` will now hide failures to close, and instead rely on
    reference counting if something goes wrong.
-   Fixed maximum recursion error with color styles.
-   Parser tables will no longer be generated in the current directory
    by accident.
-   Error messages when zsh or bash history file is not found

## v0.4.3

**Added:**

-   The results of glob expressions are sorted if `$GLOB_SORTED` is set.
-   LazyObjects will now load themselves on `__getitem__()`
-   New tools in `xonsh.lazyasd` module for loading modules in
    background threads.

**Changed:**

-   `GLOB_SORTED` is enabled by default.
-   Sped up loading of pygments by \~100x by loading `pkg_resources` in
    background.
-   Sped up loading of prompt-toolkit by \~2x-3x by loading
    `pkg_resources` in background.
-   `setup.py` will no longer git checkout to replace the version
    number. Now it simply stores and reuses the original version line.

**Removed:**

-   Removed the `xonsh.built_ins.ENV` global instance of the Env class.

**Fixed:**

-   Bug with setting hist size not being settable due to lazy object
    loading has been resolved.
-   Minor amalgamate bug with `import pkg.mod` amalgamated imports.
-   No longer raises an error if a directory in `$PATH` does not exist
    on Python v3.4.
-   Fixed a readline shell completion issue that caused by inconsistency
    between `$CASE_SENSITIVE_COMPLETIONS` and readline\'s inputrc
    setting.

## v0.4.2

**Added:**

-   dev versions now display a `devN` counter at the end and
    `xonfig info` also displays the git sha of the current build

**Changed:**

-   [prompt_toolkit]{.title-ref} completion no longer automatically
    selects the first entry on first tab-press when completing multiple
    directories at once

**Fixed:**

-   Sourcing foreign shells now allow fully capture environment
    variables that contain newlines as long as they also don\'t contain
    equal signs.
-   Added scripts directory to MANIFEST.in

## v0.4.1

**Fixed:**

-   `setup.py` will only amalgamate source files if `amalgamate.py` is
    available. This fixes issues with installing from pip.

## v0.4.0

**Added:**

-   A new class, `xonsh.tools.EnvPath` has been added. This class
    implements a `MutableSequence` object and overrides the
    `__getitem__` method so that when its entries are requested (either
    explicitly or implicitly), variable and user expansion is performed,
    and relative paths are resolved. `EnvPath` accepts objects (or lists
    of objects) of `str`, `bytes` or `pathlib.Path` types.

-   New amalgamate tool collapses modules inside of a package into a
    single `__amalgam__.py` module. This tool glues together all of the
    code from the modules in a package, finds and removes intra-package
    imports, makes all non-package imports lazy, and adds hooks into the
    `__init__.py`. This helps makes initial imports of modules fast and
    decreases startup time. Packages and sub-packages must be
    amalgamated separately.

-   New lazy and self-destructive module `xonsh.lazyasd` adds a suite of
    classes for delayed creation of objects.

    > -   A `LazyObject` won\'t be created until it has an attribute
    >     accessed.
    > -   A `LazyDict` will load each value only when a key is accessed.
    > -   A `LazyBool` will only be created when `__bool__()` is called.

    Additionally, when fully loaded, the above objects will replace
    themselves by name in the context that they were handed, thus
    dereferencing themselves. This is useful for global variables that
    may be expensive to create, should only be created once, and may not
    be used in any particular session.

-   New `xon.sh` script added for launching xonsh from a sh environment.
    This should be used if the normal `xonsh` script does not work for
    some reason.

-   Normal globbing is now available in Python mode via `g`\`\`

-   Backticks were expanded to allow searching using arbitrary
    functions, via `@<func>`\`\`

-   `xonsh.platform` now has a new `PATH_DEFAULT` variable.

-   Tab completers can now raise `StopIteration` to prevent
    consideration of remaining completers.

-   Added tab completer for the `completer` alias.

-   New `Block` and `Functor` context managers are now available as part
    of the `xonsh.contexts` module.

-   `Block` provides support for turning a context body into a
    non-executing list of string lines. This is implement via a syntax
    tree transformation. This is useful for creating remote execution
    tools that seek to prevent local execution.

-   `Functor` is a subclass of the `Block` context manager that turns
    the block into a callable object. The function object is available
    via the `func()` attribute. However, the `Functor` instance is
    itself callable and will dispatch to `func()`.

-   New `$VC_BRANCH_TIMEOUT` environment variable is the time (in
    seconds) of how long to spend attempting each individual version
    control branch information command during `$PROMPT` formatting. This
    allows for faster prompt resolution and faster startup times.

-   New lazy methods added to CommandsCache allowing for testing and
    inspection without the possibility of recomputing the cache.

-   `!(command)` is now usefully iterable, yielding lines of stdout

-   Added XonshCalledProcessError, which includes the relevant
    CompletedCommand. Also handles differences between Py3.4 and 3.5 in
    CalledProcessError

-   Tab completion of paths now includes zsh-style path expansion
    (subsequence matching), toggleable with
    `$SUBSEQUENCE_PATH_COMPLETION`

-   Tab completion of paths now includes \"fuzzy\" matches that are
    accurate to within a few characters, toggleable with
    `$FUZZY_PATH_COMPLETION`

-   Provide `$XONSH_SOURCE` for scripts in the environment variables
    pointing to the currently running script\'s path

-   Arguments \'+\' and \'-\' for the `fg` command (job control)

-   Provide `$XONSH_SOURCE` for scripts in the environment variables
    pointing to the currently running script\'s path

-   `!(command)` is now usefully iterable, yielding lines of stdout

-   Added XonshCalledProcessError, which includes the relevant
    CompletedCommand. Also handles differences between Py3.4 and 3.5 in
    CalledProcessError

-   XonshError and XonshCalledProcessError are now in builtins:

    -   `history session`
    -   `history xonsh`
    -   `history all`
    -   `history zsh`
    -   `history bash`
    -   `__xonsh_history__.show()`

-   New `pathsep_to_set()` and `set_to_pathsep()` functions convert
    to/from `os.pathsep` separated strings to a set of strings.

**Changed:**

-   Changed testing framework from nose to pytest
-   All `PATH`-like environment variables are now stored in an `EnvPath`
    object, so that non-absolute paths or paths containing environment
    variables can be resolved properly.
-   In `VI_MODE`, the `v` key will enter character selection mode, not
    open the editor. `Ctrl-X Ctrl-E` will still open an editor in any
    mode
-   `$XONSH_DEBUG` will now suppress amalgamated imports. This usually
    needs to be set in the calling environment or prior to *any* xonsh
    imports.
-   Restructured `xonsh.platform` to be fully lazy.
-   Restructured `xonsh.ansi_colors` to be fully lazy.
-   Ensured the `pygments` and `xonsh.pyghooks` are not imported until
    actually needed.
-   Yacc parser is now loaded in a background thread.
-   Cleaned up argument parsing in `xonsh.main.premain` by removing the
    `undo_args` hack.
-   Now complains on invalid arguments.
-   `Env` now guarantees that the `$PATH` is available and mutable when
    initialized.
-   On Windows the `PROMPT` environment variable is reset to
    [\$P\$G]{.title-ref} before sourcing `*.bat` files.
-   On Windows the `PROMPT` environment variable is reset to
    [\$P\$G]{.title-ref} before starting subprocesses. This prevents the
    unformatted xonsh `PROMPT` template from showing up when running
    batch files with `ECHO ON`\`
-   `@()` now passes through functions as well as strings, which allows
    for the use of anonymous aliases and aliases not explicitly added to
    the `aliases` mapping.
-   Functions in `Execer` now take `transform` kwarg instead of
    `wrap_subproc`.
-   Provide `$XONSH_SOURCE` for scripts in the environment variables
    pointing to the currently running script\'s path
-   XonshError and XonshCalledProcessError are now in builtins
-   `__repr__` on the environment only shows a short representation of
    the object instead of printing the whole environment dictionary
-   More informative prompt when configuring foreign shells in the
    wizard.
-   `CommandsCache` is now a mapping from command names to a tuple of
    (executable locations, has alias flags). This enables faster lookup
    times.
-   `locate_bin()` now uses the `CommandsCache`, rather than scanning
    the `$PATH` itself.
-   `$PATHEXT` is now a set, rather than a list.
-   Ignore case and leading a quotes when sorting completions

**Removed:**

-   The `'console_scripts'` option to setuptools has been removed. It
    was found to cause slowdowns of over 150 ms on every startup.
-   Bash is no longer loaded by default as a foreign shell for initial
    configuration. This was done to increase stock startup times. This
    behaviour can be recovered by adding `{"shell": "bash"}` to your
    `"foreign_shells"` in your config.json file. For more details, see
    <http://xon.sh/xonshconfig.html#foreign-shells>
-   `ensure_git()` and `ensure_hg()` decorators removed.
-   `call_hg_command()` function removed.

**Fixed:**

-   Issue where `xonsh` did not expand user and environment variables in
    `$PATH`, forcing the user to add absolute paths.
-   Fixed a problem with aliases not always being found.
-   Fixed issue where input was directed to the last process in a
    pipeline, rather than the first.
-   Bug where xonfig wizard can\'t find ENV docs
-   Fixed `xonsh.environ.locate_binary()` to handle PATH variable are
    given as a tuple.
-   Fixed missing completions for `cd` and `` `rmdir `` when directories
    had spaces in their names.
-   Bug preventing [xonsh]{.title-ref} executable being installed on
    macOS.
-   Strip leading space in commands passed using the \"-c\" switch
-   Fixed xonfig wizard failing on Windows due to colon in created
    filename.
-   Ensured that the prompt_toolkit shell functions, even without a
    `completer` attribute.
-   Fixed crash resulting from malformed `$PROMPT` or `$TITLE`.
-   xonsh no longer backgrounds itself after every command on Cygwin.
-   Fixed an issue about `os.killpg()` on Cygwin which caused xonsh to
    crash occasionally
-   Fix crash on startup when Bash Windows Subsystem for Linux is on the
    Path.
-   Fixed issue with setting and signaling process groups on Linux when
    the first process is a function alias and has no pid.
-   Fixed `_list_completers` such that it does not throw a ValueError if
    no completer is registered.
-   Fixed `_list_completers` such that it does not throw an
    AttributeError if a completer has no docstring.
-   Bug that caused command line argument `--config-path` to be ignored.
-   Bug that caused xonsh to break on startup when prompt-toolkit \<
    1.0.0.

## v0.3.4

**Changed:**

-   `$PROMPT` from foreign shells is now ignored.
-   `$RC_FILES` environment variable now stores the run control files we
    attempted to load.
-   Only show the prompt for the wizard if we did not attempt to load
    any run control files (as opposed to if none were successfully
    loaded).
-   Git and mercurial branch and dirty function refactor to improve run
    times.

**Fixed:**

-   Fixed an issue whereby attempting to delete a literal value (e.g.,
    `del 7`) in the prompt_toolkit shell would cause xonsh to crash.
-   Fixed broken behavior when using `cd ..` to move into a nonexistent
    directory.
-   Partial workaround for Cygwin where `pthread_sigmask` appears to be
    missing from the `signal` module.
-   Fixed crash resulting from malformed `$PROMPT`.
-   Fixed regression on Windows with the locate_binary() function. The
    bug prevented [source-cmd]{.title-ref} from working correctly and
    broke the `activate`/`deactivate` aliases for the conda
    environments.
-   Fixed crash resulting from errors other than syntax errors in run
    control file.
-   On Windows if bash is not on the path look in the registry for the
    defaults install directory for GitForWindows.

## v0.3.3

**Added:**

-   Question mark literals, `?`, are now allowed as part of subprocess
    argument names.
-   IPython style visual pointer to show where syntax error was detected
-   Pretty printing of output and syntax highlighting of input and
    output can now be controlled via new environment variables
    `$COLOR_INPUT`, `$COLOR_RESULTS`, and `$PRETTY_PRINT_RESULTS`.
-   In interactive mode, if there are stopped or background jobs, Xonsh
    prompts for confirmations rather than just killing all jobs and
    exiting.

**Changed:**

-   `which` now gives a better verbose report of where the executables
    are found.
-   Tab completion now uses a different interface, which allows new
    completers to be implemented in Python.
-   Most functions in the `Execer` now take an extra argument
    `transform`, indicating whether the syntax tree transformations
    should be applied.
-   `prompt_toolkit` is now loaded lazily, decreasing load times when
    using the `readline` shell.
-   RC files are now executed directly in the appropriate context.
-   `_` is now updated by `![]`, to contain the appropriate
    `CompletedCommand` object.

**Removed:**

-   Fixed bug on Windows where `which` did not include current directory

**Fixed:**

-   Fixed crashed bash-completer when bash is not available on Windows
-   Fixed bug on Windows where tab-completion for executables would
    return all files.
-   Fixed bug on Windows which caused the bash \$PROMPT variable to be
    used when no no \$PROMPT variable was set in .xonshrc
-   Improved start-up times by caching information about bash completion
    functions
-   The \--shell-type CLI flag now takes precedence over \$SHELL_TYPE
    specified in .xonshrc
-   Fixed an issue about `os.killpg()` on OS X which caused xonsh crash
    with occasionally.

## v0.3.2

**Fixed:**

-   Fixed PermissionError when tab completions tries to lookup
    executables in directories without read permissions.
-   Fixed incorrect parsing of command line flags

## v0.3.1

**Added:**

-   When a subprocess exits with a signal (e.g. SIGSEGV), a message is
    printed, similar to Bash.
-   Added comma literals to subproc mode.
-   `@$(cmd)` has been added as a subprocess-mode operator, which
    replaces in the subprocess command itself with the result of running
    `cmd`.
-   New `showcmd` alias for displaying how xonsh interprets subprocess
    mode commands and arguments.
-   Added `$DYNAMIC_CWD_WIDTH` to allow the adjusting of the current
    working directory width in the prompt.
-   Added `$XONSH_DEBUG` environment variable to help with debugging.
-   The `${...}` shortcut for `__xonsh_env__` now returns appropriate
    completion options

**Changed:**

-   On Windows the default bash completions files `$BASH_COMPLETIONS`
    now points to the default location of the completions files used by
    \'Git for Windows\'
-   On Cygwin, some tweaks are applied to foreign shell subprocess calls
    and the readline import, in order to avoid hangs on launch.

**Removed:**

-   Special cased code for handling version of prompt_toolkit \< v1.0.0

**Fixed:**

-   Show sorted bash completions suggestions.
-   Fix bash completions (e.g git etc.) on windows when completions
    files have spaces in their path names
-   Fixed a bug preventing `source-bash` from working on Windows
-   Numerous improvements to job control via a nearly-complete rewrite.
-   Addressed issue with finding the next break in subproc mode in
    context sensitive parsing.
-   Fixed issue with loading readline init files (inputrc) that seems to
    be triggered by libedit.
-   `$MULTILINE_PROMPT` now allows colors, as originally intended.
-   Rectified install issue with Jupyter hook when installing with
    pyenv, Jupyter install hook now respects `--prefix` argument.
-   Fixed issue with the xonsh.ply subpackage not being installed.
-   Fixed a parsing bug whereby a trailing `&` on a line was being
    ignored (processes were unable to be started in the background)

## v0.3.0

**Added:**

-   `and`, `or`, `&&`, `||` have been added as subprocess logical
    operators, by popular demand!
-   Subprocesses may be negated with `not` and grouped together with
    parentheses.
-   New framework for writing xonsh extensions, called `xontribs`.
-   Added a new shell type `'none'`, used to avoid importing `readline`
    or `prompt_toolkit` when running scripts or running a single
    command.
-   New: [sudo]{.title-ref} functionality on Windows through an alias
-   Automatically enhance colors for readability in the default terminal
    (cmd.exe) on Windows. This functionality can be enabled/disabled
    with the \$INTENSIFY_COLORS_ON_WIN environment variable.
-   Added `Ellipsis` lookup to `__xonsh_env__` to allow environment
    variable checks, e.g. `'HOME' in ${...}`
-   Added an option to update `os.environ` every time the xonsh
    environment changes. This is disabled by default but can be enabled
    by setting `$UPDATE_OS_ENVIRON` to True.
-   Added Windows \'cmd.exe\' as a foreign shell. This gives xonsh the
    ability to source Windows Batch files (.bat and .cmd). Calling
    `source-cmd script.bat` or the alias `source-bat script.bat` will
    call the bat file and changes to the environment variables will be
    reflected in xonsh.
-   Added an alias for the conda environment activate/deactivate batch
    scripts when running the Anaconda python distribution on Windows.
-   Added a menu entry to launch xonsh when installing xonsh from a
    conda package
-   Added a new `which` alias that supports both regular `which` and
    also searches through xonsh aliases. A pure python implementation of
    `which` is used. Thanks to Trent Mick.
    <https://github.com/trentm/which/>
-   Added support for prompt toolkit v1.0.0.
-   Added `$XONSH_CACHE_SCRIPTS` and `$XONSH_CACHE_EVERYTHING`
    environment variables to control caching of scripts and interactive
    commands. These can also be controlled by command line options
    `--no-script-cache` and `--cache-everything` when starting xonsh.
-   Added a workaround to allow ctrl-c to interrupt reverse incremental
    search in the readline shell

**Changed:**

-   Running scripts through xonsh (or running a single command with
    `-c`) no longer runs the user\'s rc file, unless the `--login`
    option is specified. Also avoids loading aliases and environments
    from foreign shells, as well as loading bash completions.
-   rc files are now compiled and cached, to avoid re-parsing when they
    haven\'t changed. Scripts are also compiled and cached, and there is
    the option to cache interactive commands.
-   Left and Right arrows in the `prompt_toolkit` shell now wrap in
    multiline environments
-   Regexpath matching with backticks, now returns an empty list in
    python mode.
-   Pygments added as a dependency for the conda package
-   Foreign shells now allow for setting exit-on-error commands before
    and after all other commands via the `seterrprevcmd` and
    `seterrpostcmd` arguments. Sensinble defaults are provided for
    existing shells.
-   PLY is no longer a external dependency but is bundled in xonsh/ply.
    Xonsh can therefore run without any external dependencies, although
    having prompt-toolkit recommended.
-   Provide better user feedback when running `which` in a platform that
    doesn\'t provide it (e.g. Windows).
-   The lexer now uses a custom tokenizer that handles regex globs in
    the proper way.

**Fixed:**

-   Fixed bug with loading prompt-toolkit shell \< v0.57.
-   Fixed bug with prompt-toolkit completion when the cursor is not at
    the end of the line.
-   Aliases will now evaluate environment variables and other expansions
    at execution time rather than passing through a literal string.
-   Fixed environment variables from os.environ not being loaded when a
    running a script
-   The readline shell will now load the inputrc files.
-   Fixed bug that prevented [source-alias]{.title-ref} from working.
-   Now able to `^C` the xonfig wizard on start up.
-   Fixed deadlock on Windows when running subprocess that generates
    enough output to fill the OS pipe buffer.
-   Sourcing foreign shells will now return a non-zero exit code if the
    source operation failed for some reason.
-   Fixed PermissionError when running commands in directories without
    read permissions
-   Prevent Windows fixups from overriding environment vars in static
    config
-   Fixed Optional Github project status to reflect added/removed files
    via git_dirty_working_directory()
-   Fixed xonsh.exe launcher on Windows, when Python install directory
    has a space in it
-   Fixed [\$CDPATH]{.title-ref} to support [\~]{.title-ref} and
    environments variables in its items

## v0.2.7

**Added:**

-   Added new valid `$SHELL_TYPE` called `'best'`. This selects the best
    value for the concrete shell type based on the availability on the
    user\'s machine.
-   New environment variable `$XONSH_COLOR_STYLE` will set the color
    mapping for all of xonsh.
-   New `XonshStyle` pygments style will determine the appropriate color
    mapping based on `$XONSH_COLOR_STYLE`. The associated
    `xonsh_style_proxy()` is intended for wrapping `XonshStyle` when
    actually being used by pygments.
-   The functions `print_color()` and `format_color()` found in
    `xonsh.tools` dispatch to the approriate shell color handling and
    may be used from anywhere.
-   `xonsh.tools.HAVE_PYGMENTS` flag now denotes if pygments is
    installed and available on the users system.
-   The `ansi_colors` module is now available for handling ANSI color
    codes.
-   `?` and `??` operator output now has colored titles, like in
    IPython.
-   `??` will syntax highlight source code if pygments is available.
-   Python mode output is now syntax highlighted if pygments is
    available.
-   New `$RIGHT_PROMPT` environment variable for displaying
    right-aligned text in prompt-toolkit shell.
-   Added `!(...)` operator, which returns an object representing the
    result of running a command. The truth value of this object is True
    if the return code is equal to zero and False otherwise.
-   Optional dependency on the win_unicode_console package to enable
    unicode support in cmd.exe on Windows. This can be disabled/enabled
    with the `$WIN_UNICODE_CONSOLE` environment variable.

**Changed:**

-   Updated `$SHELL_TYPE` default to `'best'`.
-   Shell classes are now responsible for implementing their own color
    formatting and printing.
-   Prompt coloring, history diffing, and tracing uses new color
    handling capabilities.
-   New `Token.Color` token for xonsh color names, e.g. we now use
    `Token.Color.RED` rather than `Token.RED`.
-   Untracked files in git are ignored when determining if a git workdir
    is is dirty. This affects the coloring of the branch label.
-   Regular expression globbing now uses `re.fullmatch` instead of
    `re.match`, and the result of an empty regex glob does not cause the
    argument to be deleted.

**Removed:**

-   The `xonsh.tools.TERM_COLORS` mapping has been axed, along with all
    references to it. This may cause a problem if you were using a raw
    color code in your xonshrc file from `$FORMATTER_DICT`. To fix,
    simply remove these references.

**Fixed:**

-   Multidimensional slicing, as in numpy, no longer throws
    SyntaxErrors.
-   Some minor zsh fixes for more platforms and setups.
-   The `BaseShell.settitle` method no longer has its commands captured
    by `$(...)`

## v0.2.6

**Added:**

-   `trace` alias added that enables users to turn on and off the
    printing of source code lines prior to their execution. This is
    useful for debugging scripts.
-   New ability to force callable alias functions to be run in the
    foreground, i.e. the main thread from which the function was called.
    This is useful for debuggers and profilers which may require such
    access. Use the `xonsh.proc.foreground` decorator on an alias
    function to flag it. `ForegroundProcProxy` and
    `SimpleForegroundProcProxy` classes have been added to support this
    feature. Normally, forcing a foreground alias is not needed.
-   Added boolean `$RAISE_SUBPROC_ERROR` environment variable. If true
    and a subprocess command exits with a non-zero return code, a
    CalledProcessError will be raised. This is useful in scripts that
    should fail at the first error.
-   If the `setproctitle` package is installed, the process title will
    be set to `'xonsh'` rather than the path to the Python interpreter.
-   zsh foreign shell interface now supported natively in xonsh, like
    with Bash. New `source-zsh` alias allows easy access to zsh scripts
    and functions.
-   Vox virtual environment manager added.

**Changed:**

-   The `foreign_shell_data()` keyword arguments `envcmd` and `aliascmd`
    now default to `None`.
-   Updated alias docs to pull in usage from the commands automatically.

**Fixed:**

-   Hundreds of bugs related to line and column numbers have been
    addressed.
-   Fixed path completion not working for absolute paths or for expanded
    paths on Windows.
-   Fixed issue with hg dirty branches and \$PATH.
-   Fixed issues related to foreign shell data in files with whitespace
    in the names.
-   Worked around bug in ConEmu/cmder which prevented `get_git_branch()`
    from working in these terminal emulators on Windows.

## v0.2.5

**Added:**

-   New configuration utility \'xonfig\' which reports current system
    setup information and creates config files through an interactive
    wizard.
-   Toolkit for creating wizards now available
-   timeit and which aliases will now complete their arguments.
-   \$COMPLETIONS_MENU_ROWS environment variable controls the size of
    the tab-completion menu in prompt-toolkit.
-   Prompt-toolkit shell now supports true multiline input with the
    ability to scroll up and down in the prompt.

**Changed:**

-   The xonfig wizard will run on interactive startup if no
    configuration file is found.
-   BaseShell now has a singleline() method for prompting a single
    input.
-   Environment variable docs are now auto-generated.
-   Prompt-toolkit shell will now dynamically allocate space for the
    tab-completion menu.
-   Looking up nonexistent environment variables now generates an error
    in Python mode, but produces a sane default value in subprocess
    mode.
-   Environments are now considered to contain all manually-adjusted
    keys, and also all keys with an associated default value.

**Removed:**

-   Removed `xonsh.ptk.shortcuts.Prompter.create_prompt_layout()` and
    `xonsh.ptk.shortcuts.Prompter.create_prompt_application()` methods
    to reduce portion of xonsh that forks prompt-toolkit. This may
    require users to upgrade to prompt-toolkit v0.57+.

**Fixed:**

-   First prompt in the prompt-toolkit shell now allows for up and down
    arrows to search through history.
-   Made obtaining the prompt-toolkit buffer thread-safe.
-   Now always set non-detypable environment variables when sourcing
    foreign shells.
-   Fixed issue with job management if a TTY existed but was not
    controlled by the process, posix only.
-   Jupyter kernel no longer times out when using foreign shells on
    startup.
-   Capturing redirections, e.g. `$(echo hello > f.txt)`, no longer
    fails with a decoding error.
-   Evaluation in a Jupyter cell will return pformatted object.
-   Jupyter with redirect uncaptured subprocs to notebook.
-   Tab completion in Jupyter fixed.

## v0.2.1 - v0.2.4

You are reading the docs\...but you still feel hungry.

## v0.2.0

**Added:**

-   Rich history recording and replaying

## v0.1.0

**Added:**

-   Naturally typed environment variables
-   Inherits the environment from BASH
-   Uses BASH completion for subprocess commands
-   Regular expression filename globbing
-   Its own PLY-based lexer and parser
-   xonsh code parses into a Python AST
-   You can do all the normal Python things, like arithmetic and
    importing
-   Captured and uncaptured subprocesses
-   Pipes, redirection, and non-blocking subprocess syntax support
-   Help and superhelp with ? and ??
-   Command aliasing
-   Multiline input, unlike ed
-   History matching like in IPython
-   Color prompts
-   Low system overhead

## \<v0.1.0

The before times, like 65,000,000 BCE.
