• A significant performance boost was achieved for large Taskfiles (monorepos) by skipping templating altogether when the string is static (#2820 by @romnn).
• Added absPath template function that resolves a path to its absolute form, cleaning .. and . components (#2681, #2788 by @Mateenanjum).
• Added joinEnv function to join paths based on your oprating system: ; for Windows and : elsewhere, and joinUrl to join URL paths. Also, added two new special variables: FILE_PATH_SEPARATOR which returns \ on Windows and / elsewhere, and PATH_LIST_SEPARATOR which returns ; on Windows and : elsewhere (#2406, #2408 by @solvingj).
• Update the shell interpreter with a regression fix (#2812, #2832 by @andreynering).
• Fix potential panic with the shell interpreter (#2810 by @trulede).