Yori: Changelog

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2.40 - 17 Feb 2025

Wide character support in YEdit
More autoindent fixes in YEdit (sigh)
Support for full screen slmenu
Support suspend and hibernate in shutdn
Support for cut to find fields after a string match
Support for yextents to move files
Support for ystart to create a new environment
Support checking for Administrator including in prompts on NT
Fix slmenu with single line mode
Fix for short file names in finfo
Update the command prompt icon in NT 4

2.30 - 25 Aug 2024

Hexedit clipboard support
YEdit improvements for trimming autoindent (without all whitespace)
YEdit black and white mode
Hexedit support to save to device
Yui fixes for battery display
YBattery crash fix when no battery present
YVol support to display partition location within disk
PowerPC fixes
Yui fixes for NT 4
New tool: extents to display file locations on disk

2.20 - 29 Apr 2024

Support for CMD-like "cd.." evaluation
Fix recent regression handling of HTML clipboard
Edit support for overwriting readonly files
Disable whitespace trimming in edit by default, and add debug code to detect stray whitespace
Shutdn support for remote desktop disconnect
Fix bar graph display to non-console output
Improve error reporting when a user does not have privilege in mount
Code refactoring to allow for more reuse with 16 bit DOS environments
Yui rendering updated to be much more traditional
Initial support for multiple monitors in Yui
Improvements for high DPI devices in Yui
Support for Windows Installer shortcuts in Yui
Shift+click to relaunch in Yui taskbar
Ability to launch shortcuts requesting elevation in Yui
Drag over Yui taskbar button to activate window
Calendar view in Yui
Yui ability to perform simple Wifi configuration
New tool: speak for text to speech

2.10 - 03 Jan 2024

Change click-to-focus behavior in TUI programs. This has some subtle effects and I wouldn't be shocked if there are more bugs.
The bar graph from df is now used in battery, mem, cpuinfo
Fixes for various memory handling errors in Edit.
Prompt for save before opening a new file in Edit, clear selection when opening new file
Support for Edit to expand tabs, registry configuration
Replace in hexedit
Hexedit can regenerate PE checksums
Mini-HTTP support that allows ysetup to run where wininet is not installed (NT 3.1, NT 4 without IE, RISC NT 3.x)
Rework completion scripts to fit in 8.3 names, sort files and directories in dialogs, and other NT 3.1 FAT support
Internal implementations of %__CD__% and %__APPDIR__% since the OS version on XP is broken. As a bonus, this means they work everywhere.
Fixes for Alpha. Builds are not provided because I don't have access to hardware, but they worked at one point :)
Rework a lot of code so that it doesn't assume the maximum allocation size is 32 bit.
New tool: base64 for encoding or decoding base64
New tool: airplan for enabling, disabling or querying airplane mode. This doesn't work well yet since wifi is independent of airplane mode :(

2.0 - 30 Jun 2023

(This is really following the Linux model; it's not a huge release since 1.9 but a lot has changed since 1.0, and any other release number after 1.9 seems confusing.)

Fix for parser regression in 1.90 where the first argument after an equals is not quoted when it should be
Fixes for multiple memory handling errors in yedit
Fixes for memory leaks in make and direnv
Attempt to save and restore QuickEdit state across TUI programs. This can never be perfect, but is generally effective.
Allow contool to change full screen state of the console
lsof is renamed to ylsof to avoid clashes with other lsof implementations
Find and Go To support in hexedit
Yui support to launch elevated with shift key
Optional support for tee to write to the console and stdout as opposed to a file and stdout, so stdout can be further processed
Yui use window manager notifications without polling
Yui taskbar improvements including to add icons, bold fonts, flash windows
Yui start menu improvements including shortcut icons
Yui take over explorer taskbar if it's already running
Yui battery display
Initial support for Yui to hide taskbar if a fullscreen window is active
Allow wininfo to report accurately on high DPI systems
New tool: ybattery to monitor battery usage and status

1.90 - 02 Jan 2023

Parser changes to support common if commands
Parser fixes for trailing caret and backslash at the end of a quoted argument
Tests for argument parsing
Edit support for auto-indent
More support for searching multiple strings with different highlights
Petool support for modifying the minimum OS version in a binary
Date can modify system time
AUTORESTART support for saving window positions
AUTORESTART support for periodically deleting stale restart files
Avoid displaying characters which are control characters on Terminal
Support linking against kernelbase rather than kernel32 for running on very small versions of Windows
New tool: hexedit for interactively editing binary data
New tool: objdir for enumerating object manager namespace
New tool: regedit for interactively editing registry in console

1.80 - 04 Jul 2022

Support for color scheme files, including applying to open window, console defaults, specific program, or shortcuts
Ctrl+B now creates a waitable job when sending a process to the background
Support for displaying performance and efficiency cores, and optimizations for building with them
Substantial rewrite of libwin (TUI) code, hopefully with few visible changes
Support for UTF8 file names in cab
Osver support for displaying information about specified builds or versions
Ps displays how long processes have been running
When displaying executable versions use three digits since popular software has three digit major versions now
Setup creates shortcuts with CGA color palette which looks much nicer with Yori tools
Touch supports modifying links as well as targets
Support for hexdump and cut on block (non file) devices
Fixes for trailing slashes and double leading backslashes in paths
New tool: contool for displaying console properties

1.70 - 08 Jan 2022

Many changes so edit works better on Nano server, including no background colors and clipboard
Better support for edit detecting character encodings
Optional support for POSIX move and delete on recent versions of Windows 10
Detect console processes so Ctrl+C on a GUI process won't wedge the console
lsof support for dumping handles from all processes
ypm support for creating Terminal fragment and path updates post-install
ypm support for setting default shell to yori or yui
ystart to optionally start processes elevated
yshutdn on Nano server
ypm/ysetup on Nano server using winhttp and TUI dialog
ysetup command line interface with feature parity to UI
ysetup on MIPS
yhash support on NT-2003
Install program manager item on NT 3.x
New tool: petool for generating PE header checksums
Many minor tweaks and bugfixes

1.60 - 28 Aug 2021

Add support in setup to integrate with Windows Terminal
Many enhancements in ymake to move closer to nmake compatibility
Escape backslashes before quotes, fixing YORICOMPLETEWITHTRAILINGSLASH behavior
Support for enumerating process handles in procinfo
Performance enhancements rendering colored text
Support for extracting CAB files without cabinet.dll
Many minor tweaks and bugfixes

1.51 - 03 Apr 2021

Fix bug that terminates the first script to execute, resulting in no aliases

1.50 - 03 Apr 2021

Native arm64 build, detected as needed in ysetup
Support pasting rich text in clip
Support for ydbg to debug child processes
Performance improvements in ymake
Support for osver to display the edition in addition to the version
New tool: attrib for changing file attributes
New tool: dircase for modifying NTFS per-directory case sensitivity
New tool: envdiff for detecting differences between two environment blocks
New tool: slmenu for a selectable, scriptable menu
Many, many minor changes and enhancements

1.40 - 10 Nov 2020

Many redraw fixes where characters don't render correctly
Echo, intcmp and strcmp are true builtins to improve performance with AV products
Improved handling of Alt+nnn keycodes
Undo/redo in edit
Lots of new edit key shortcuts including Ctrl+A, Shift+Ctrl+Home/Shift+Ctrl+End, Ctrl+left/Ctrl+right, Ctrl+Y
Support searching backwards in edit
Allow drive selection in edit (sorry!)
Fix crash in timethis (thanks Robert!)
Fix crash in edit with negative tab width (thanks Pyroman!)
Fix crash in edit opening empty files (thanks Pyronman!)
Improvements to sleep countdown (thanks Pyroman!)
Support for octal and binary in expr (thanks Pyroman!)
Various hexdump correctness fixes
Ydbg support for live kernel dumps or full dumps (when kernel debugging enabled)
ps display parent process
New tool - ymake for efficient parallel compilation of nmake makefiles

1.30 - 18 Jul 2020

Add support for process times in ps
Add support for line ending conversions in iconv
Common Ctrl+key combinations from bash
Improved completion script capabilities and simple git completion script
Pushd with no arguments swaps current directory and most recently pushed directory
Many improvements for NT 3.5 and 3.51
Fix uninstall option in setup
New tool - assoc (and ftype) for editing file associations
New tool - edit for editing files similar to MS-DOS edit

1.21 - 21 Mar 2020

Uninstall support is optional in ysetup
Various minor bugfixes and help updates

1.20 - 14 Jan 2020

Uninstall support in ysetup
History -u (aliased to F7) to interactively select previous commands
Add support for bash-style tab completion with YORICOMPLETELISTALL=1
Add support for trailing backslashes in tab completion with YORICOMPLETEWITHTRAILINGSLASH=1
Support scroll lock and pause in ymore for suspending display
Allow mem to group processes with the same name
New tool - charmap for displaying ranges of characters
New tool - co for interactively moving, copying and deleting files
New tool - kill for terminating processes
New tool - stride for writing input lines periodically

1.11 - 16 Oct 2019

Fix tail -f
Use correct color to display directory headers in sdir
Fix memory leak
Fix alt+nn handling again
Fix crash in more on 32 bit systems
Fix handling of undefined environment variables in set and if
Fix mouseover handling after completion scripts
Add new OS build string
Allow dir to hide hidden and system files

1.10 - 26 Aug 2019

support spaces between redirect operator and file name
tab completion of environment variables
tab completion of intermediate path components
tab completion of special directory names
YORICDPATH environment variable for deterministic chdir to common directories
support for displaying symbolic link target in dir
strcmp support for matching substrings as well as exact strings
change recursive copy behavior when given a directory to copy the directory rather than its contents
heuristically avoid creating selections when clicking inside the console window
support redirecting stdout to stderr
YORIPRECMD and YORIPOSTCMD for invoking commands before and after user entered commands
scut support for removing console properties from shortcuts
repl support for replacing text with nothing
date support for returning monotonically increasing clocks
Improve YORIAUTORESTART to save in a background thread and to cap the size of the saved buffer
ysetup support for installing from local package directory
ypm support for downloading entire package repository
finfo fixes to work with files correctly
ypm support for displaying version and architecture of installed packages
copy support for devices that CopyFile does not support natively
ypm support for manipulating mirrors or sources
vol support for more volume properties
type support for displaying line numbers
sleep command support visual countdown
fix alt+nn codes for nn values less than 32
New tool - cpuinfo for displaying processor topology
New tool - direnv for updating environment when current directory changes
New tool - env for launching a process with a custom environment
New tool - err for translating Windows error codes to text
New tool - mem for displaying memory usage
New tool - procinfo for displaying counters of process utilization
New tool - ps for enumerating executing processes
New tool - shutdn for shutting down or rebooting a system
New tool - sponge for buffering and replaying output to eliminate temporary files
New tool - timethis for measuring process execution time
New tool - vhdtool for creating and manipulating VHD files
New tool - yui minimal start menu and taskbar for server core
...plus plenty of small fixes and performance improvements

1.00 - 01 May 2019

~AppDir special directory which contains the shell binary
Execute ~\YoriInit.d and ~AppDir\YoriInit.d scripts on start
Support 1> redirection (but still no 1>&2 support)
Better support for named streams including tab completion
-- support in more commands
Support for $+$ in prompt
Expose the YORIQUICKEDITBREAKCHARS variable so users can see what it's doing
Support returning the number of elements in a pushd or setlocal stack
Support repeating in echo
Fix piping builtin commands
Fix installer shortcuts on XP
Performance improvements

0.99 - 26 February 2019

Ctrl+click to capture output into a new command
Support for color in the dir command
Search and highlight text in more
Copy as RTF as well as HTML
Distinguish admin and non admin shells via a prompt character by default
Hexdump can convert hex back into binary streams
Split can join files back together
Window titles can be queried as well as modified
Setlocal supporting saving and restoring window titles and aliases
Copy supports DOS devices (eg. CON)
Get can update files only if the server copy is newer
Tail -f support
Osver displays human friendly Windows version and architecture
Support for invoking yori through a pipe without a real console
Allow for and fscmp commands to select files matching a metadata criteria
Implement the AltGr key properly for better international support
Support for cab to capture one archive per source file
New tool - cal for displaying a calendar
New tool - df for displaying a volume free space
New tool - du for calculating disk usage of directories
New tool - hash for calculating file hashes
New tool - mount for mounting and unmounting VHDs and ISOs

0.98 - 14 November 2018

Shift+arrow to navigate commands, Ctrl+A to move to the start, Ctrl+E to move to the end, Ctrl+L to clear the screen
Ctrl+Del to remove a command from history
Many fixes and enhancements in more, including ability to select text and copy as rich text
Enhancements to the start command to allow it to start processes in the background
Enhancements to the history command to load history from a file or clear history
Nice command can be used as a builtin for executing builtin commands at low priority
New tool - hexdump for formatting a text stream as binary
New tool - lsof for displaying which processes are using a file
New tool - sync for flushing files to disk
New tool - wininfo for obtaining information about a window
New tool - winpos for setting window positions
New tool - ydbg for generating crash dumps from processes

0.97 - 11 September 2018

New setup engine, ysetup, which downloads and installs Yori packages of the correct architecture
$(foo) style backquotes
URLs entered in the command line will open a browser
Z command for heuristically jumping to previously used directories
Copy has been enhanced with exclusion criteria and the ability to compress targets, resulting in less writes and faster copies
New tool - ypm for installing/upgrading/removing Yori packages. Use "ypm -u" to upgrade an existing Yori install.
New tool - ymore allowing scroll forward and back with progress status and VT100 color display
New tool - ycompact for compressing/uncompressing loose files
New tool - cab for expanding or creating .CAB archives
New tool - initool for querying or manipulating .INI files
New tool - repl for replacing text in a stream
Customizable break characters when double clicking to select text via %YORIQUICKEDITBREAKCHARS%
Move "for" to be a builtin command so it can manipulate environment, run goto/call etc
Fix bugs when selecting text from screen buffer when scrolled

0.96 - 6 July 2018

For people trying to get an overview without following a blow-by-blow of changelogs, there�s a new introductory guide http://www.malsmith.net/yori/guide/ .
Mouse selection support. If QuickEdit is off, Yori will perform QuickEdit like functionality when at a prompt, as well as click to navigate and select/overwrite any input text.
- If you want QuickEdit on, this is available by setting YORIQUICKEDIT to 1, which will use Yori�s mouse support at the prompt and turn on QuickEdit when launching applications.
- Mouse selection copy/paste supports rich text - http://www.malsmith.net/yori/richcopy.gif .
- Note the Windows clipboard is multi format and the plain text version is still there if you want it/if your app can�t handle rich text
- I haven�t implemented the new Win10 line select mode, can do if there�s demand for it
Taskbar progress and completion indication for long running background operations - http://www.malsmith.net/yori/taskbar.gif
Fix bug where YORICOMPLETEPATH has spaces (sorry!)
Support for Shift+Tab to navigate backwards through matches, or Ctrl+Down to navigate backwards through history matches
Support for Ctrl+Backspace to delete an entire argument (note this is slightly different to Conhost which deletes words)
Import CMD aliases after executing CMD scripts
Fix bugs when evaluating {} or [] operators in existing file names (need to be treated as literal)
Fix history completion to match whole line not first command
More fixes to prevent tab completion/suggestion cases interfering with each other
Allow sdir/finfo to dump out version resource strings

0.95 - 6 June 2018

Yori can now act as a mini-debugger. This is used when running CMD scripts from Yori, so that it can invoke CMD to execute the script and extract from the CMD process any changes to the environment. This provides behavioral parity with running a CMD script from CMD.
Setver.exe, a new tool and also a mini-debugger, allows the user to specify a Windows version/build number to report to a child process. This is applied recursively across the process hierarchy.
Finfo.exe, a new tool built on sdir file metadata logic, allowing file metadata access in a more scriptable way.
Touch.exe to update timestamps and create files with specified sizes
Many fixes to auto-completion, preventing it hanging on URLs, displaying short file names correctly, and fixing a regression allowing command history matching to work again (aka Ctrl+Up.)
Fixes to named pipe handling.

0.94 - 1 May 2018

Support for suggestions as you type
Ctrl+C kills all processes that are part of the foreground statement
Fixed bug launching CMD scripts with spaces in the path

0.93 - 16 April 2018

Support YORIAUTORESTART=1 to save and restore open shells on crash or Windows Update.

0.92 - 9 April 2018

Script based tab completion rules
Fixes for tab completion with backquotes or other complex expressions

0.91 - 5 April 2018

The installers now default to \Program Files and \Program Files (x86) for amd64 and x86 respectively and disable WOW64 redirection so they install where you tell them.
Fixed an incorrect memory access when referring to ~Downloads causing AV on Win10
Changed the input mechanism so hopefully won�t spin on RS4+ builds
Added a "bare" mode to dir, although since dir /b was taken it�s labelled dir /m (sorry for the inevitable muscle memory pain.) I tried to follow CMD semantics with this, although those seemed odd to me (like, not enumerating named streams or using short names when requested to do so.)

0.90 - 2 April 2018

Backquote support
Background job support
Tab completion improvements
- Executable matches for the first command, file matches thereafter
- Existing arguments are preserved
File and path expansion improvements
- File.{ext1,ext2} or File[AB] type operators
- Support for file:/// prefixes
- >MAX_PATH support throughout (opt-in for setting current directories beyond >MAX_PATH since many applications explode when they see that)
- ~ as "home", ~Desktop, ~Downloads, etc.
Alias improvements
- Owned by the shell as opposed to conhost for correct behavior with operators
- Function keys map to aliases
Prompt improvements
- Prompt expands environment variables and backquotes (my prompt indicates which git branch I�m on by invoking git branch and parsing the output)
No more mandatory Administrator: prefix
- But you can put it back: title `if grpcmp Administrators; echo Administrator:`Yori
- Or do something better: set YORIPROMPT=`if grpcmp Administrators; echo ^`color lightred^`GODMODE: ^`color lightmagenta^``$P$`color gray`$G$
Command history can be durable (%YORIHISTFILE% and %YORIHISTSIZE% behave like their bash namesakes)
Modular design allows for custom in-process commands
Text encoding is UTF8
- Includes an iconv tool for converting this into anything else; note UTF-8 is effectively lossless
Built in VT100 color (so it works on all OSes/consoles)
SMB paths can be current directories
Win32 versions of UNIX favorites including cut, date, expr, fg, iconv, nice, sleep, split, tail, tee, wait and which
Improvements to CMD commands
- Clip that supports copy and paste as well as HTML
- Erase that can send to the recycle bin
- For that can execute tasks in parallel on multiple processors