v0.26.0

Features

• Add build for windows/ARM64 platform. #3190 (@alcroito)
• Add paging to --list-themes, see PR #3239 (@einfachIrgendwer0815)
• Support negative relative line ranges, e.g. bat -r :-10 / bat -r='-10:', see #3068 (@ajesipow)
• Support context in line ranges, e.g. bat -r 30::5 / bat -r 30:40:5, see #3345 (@cavanaug)
• Add built-in 'minus' pager, e.g. bat --pager=builtin see PR #3402 (@academician)

Bugfixes

• Fix UTF-8 BOM not being stripped for syntax detection, see #3314 (@krikera)
• Fix BAT_THEME_DARK and BAT_THEME_LIGHT being ignored, see issue #3171 and PR #3168 (@bash)
• Prevent --list-themes from outputting default theme info to stdout when it is piped, see #3189 (@einfachIrgendwer0815)
• Rename some submodules to fix Dependabot submodule updates, see issue #3198 and PR #3201 (@victor-gp)
• Make highlight tests fail when new syntaxes don't have fixtures PR #3255 (@dan-hipschman)
• Fix crash for multibyte characters in file path, see issue #3230 and PR #3245 (@HSM95)
• Add missing mappings for various bash/zsh files, see PR #3262 (@AdamGaskins)
• Send all bat errors to stderr by default, see #3336 (@JerryImMouse)
• Make --map-syntax target case insensitive to match --language, see #3206 (@keith-hall)
• Correctly determine the end of the line in UTF16LE/BE input #3369 (@keith-hall)
• --style=changes no longer prints a two-space indent when the file is unmodified, see issue #2710 and PR #3406 (@jyn514)
• Add missing shell completions, see #3411 (@keith-hall)
• Execute help/version/diagnostic commands even with invalid config/arguments present, see #3414 (@keith-hall)
• Fixed line numbers (-n) and style components not printing when piping output, see issue #2935 and PR #3438 (@lmmx)

Other

• Update base16 README links to community driven base16 work #2871 (@JamyGolden)
• Work around build failures when building bat from vendored sources #3179 (@dtolnay)
• CICD: Stop building for x86_64-pc-windows-gnu which fails #3261 (Enselic)
• CICD: CICD: replace windows-2019 runners with windows-2025 #3339 (@cyqsimon)
• Build script: replace string-based codegen with quote-based codegen #3340 (@cyqsimon)
• Improve code coverage of --list-languages parameter #2942 (@sblondon)
• Only start offload worker thread when there's more than 1 core #2956 (@cyqsimon)
• Update terminal-colorsaurus (the library used for dark/light detection) to 1.0, see #3347 (@bash)
• Update console dependency to 0.16, see #3351 (@musicinmybrain)
• Fixed some typos #3244 (@ssbarnea)
• Update onig_sys dependency to 69.9.1 to fix a gcc build failure #3400 (@CosmicHorrorDev)
• Add a cargo feature (vendored-libgit2) to build with vendored libgit2 version without depending on the system's one #3426 (@0x61nas)
• Update syntect dependency to v5.3.0 to fix a few minor bugs, see #3410 (@keith-hall)

Syntaxes

• Add syntax mapping for paru configuration files #3182 (@cyqsimon)
• Add support for Idris 2 programming language #3150 (@buzden)
• Add syntax mapping for nix's 'flake.lock lockfiles #3196 (@odilf)
• Improvements to CSV/TSV highlighting, with autodetection of delimiter and support for TSV files, see #3186 (@keith-
• Improve (Sys)log error highlighting, see #3205 (@keith-hall)
• Map ndjson extension to JSON syntax, see #3209 (@keith-hall)
• Map files with csproj, vbproj, props and targets extensions to XML syntax, see #3213 (@keith-hall)
• Add debsources syntax to highlight /etc/apt/sources.list files, see #3215 (@keith-hall)
• Add syntax definition and test file for GDScript highlighting, see #3236 (@chetanjangir0)
• Add syntax test file for Odin highlighting, see #3241 (@chetanjangir0)
• Update quadlet syntax mapping rules to cover quadlets in subdirectories #3299 (@cyqsimon)
• Add syntax Typst #3300 (@cskeeters)
• Map .mill files to Scala syntax for Mill build tool configuration files #3311 (@krikera)
• Add syntax highlighting for VHDL, see #3337 (@JerryImMouse)
• Add syntax mapping for certbot certificate configuration #3338 (@cyqsimon)
• Update Lean syntax from Lean 3 to Lean 4 #3322 (@YDX-2147483647)
• Map .flatpakref and .flatpakrepo files to INI syntax #3353 (@Ferenc-)
• Update hosts syntax #3368 (@keith-hall)
• Map .kshrc files to Bash syntax #3364 (@ritoban23)
• Map /var/log/dmesg files to Syslog syntax #3412 (@keith-hall)
• Add syntax definition and test file for Go modules(go.mod and go.sum) highlighting, see #3424 (@DarkMatter-999)
• Syntax highlighting for typescript code blocks within Markdown files, see #3435 (@MuntasirSZN)

Themes

• Add Catppuccin, see #3317 (@SchweGELBin)
• Updated Catppuccin, see #3333 (@SchweGELBin)
• Updated gruvbox, see #3372 (@Nicholas42)
• Updated GitHub theme, see #3382 (@CosmicHorrorDev)
• Updated ANSI theme to highlight JSON object keys differently from values, see #3413 (@keith-hall)