jbangdev/jbang early-access

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WARNING: This is an early-access release directly from main branch, not intended for production use.

To enable experimental native-image jbang set JBANG_USE_NATIVE to true, i.e. export JBANG_USE_NATIVE=true

If you want to try the latest and greatest, please give it a spin and report any issues you find.

Here is how to install it:

Linux / macOS / WSL (bash):

curl -Ls https://sh.jbang.dev | JBANG_DOWNLOAD_VERSION=early-access bash -s - app setup

Windows PowerShell:

$env:JBANG_DOWNLOAD_VERSION='early-access'; iex "& { $(iwr -useb https://ps.jbang.dev) } app setup"

Changelog

🚀 Features

• a551bd2 feat: replace picocli with aesh for CLI parsing (#2453)
• 09ec597 feat: support release tag names in JBANG_DOWNLOAD_VERSION (early-access) (#2480)
• 1a6383b feat: Add download retry support to startup scripts (#2461)
• 221049f feat: install multiple JDKs with same major version (#2271)

🐛 Fixes

• b808feb fix: correct integration test report_paths and harden merge-test-reports (#2533)
• 034c735 fix: document native image option on early access
• 12edfda fix: clean up old early-access drafts before un-drafting latest
• ecb3c96 fix: use releases list API to find draft early-access release
• d7a3d02 fix: use correct JReleaser env var to disable draft for early-access
• 592647e fix: native bundle archives now have a root folder (#2535)
• bce440d fix: mark early-access releases as pre-release instead of draft (#2536)
• 4d4ac5a fix: use proper versioned download URL for native
• 1695ecc fix: generate correct module-info requires for JavaFX //MODULE scripts (#2525)
• 947d3e7 fix: optimize test suite performance (2m42s → ~50s) (#2527)
• 38927ed fix: use daemon thread for version check to prevent JVM hang (#2524)
• 99735bd fix: use stream copy instead of transferFrom for service file merging.
• cd2f10d fix: close DirectoryStream in ExternalCommandsProvider.listFiles (#2482) (#2507)
• b60479e fix: support --option=false syntax for boolean flags (#2504) (#2505)
• 27b1c9b fix: re-enable Renovate configuration
• 0c1b40a fix: sign earlyaccess
• 2d10ce3 fix: explicit tag early-access and dont push release if non-earlyacces
• fe7d073 fix: treat 1.2.3.4 as earlyaccess/snapshot releases
• b0578c7 fix: add -PforceSnapshot to ensure earlyaccess builds get -SNAPSHOT version
• 3243277 fix: use manual retry loop in bash download() with user feedback (#2472)
• f2a5e31 fix: align nisse plugin and dependency versions (#2475)
• 188167a fix: Use nisse-gradle-plugin (#2464)
• 1924f8b fix: prevent duplicate PATH entries when running setup multiple times on Windows (#2455)
• ee8e078 fix: add more cli tests (#2456)
• 4a801a9 fix: fix allure links

🧪 Tests

• a84a3fa test: add native download URL tests and apply JBANG_USE_NATIVE to jbang.ps1

🧰 Tasks

• e538592 chore(deps): update plugin com.diffplug.spotless to v8 (#2492)

🛠 Build

• 149352f build: upgrade to aesh 3.13 and fix primitive option types (#2504, #2… (#2519)
• 230f3af build: upgrade to aesh 3.12.1 (#2516)
• 24f1bb4 build: add 'just shell' recipe for isolated completion testing (#2514)
• e91bc62 build: upgrade to aesh 3.11 and readline-api 3.11 (#2509)
• 021cee0 build: have earlyaccess releases be released automatically
• 3e3dd18 ci: show all OS test results in merged Allure report (#2486)
• 61a77dc ci: auto-cancel superseded ci-build runs via concurrency group
• 1c2332d build: Add PR limits to renovate configuration
• 5431926 build: update CI and release for native bundles and latest jreleaser (#2473)
• 00f9490 build: update GitHub Actions to Node.js 24 versions (#2474)
• 90dd464 ci: pin GitHub Actions to full-length commit SHAs (#2469)
• 9927a54 build: Build with Java 25 toolchain (#2448)

📝 Documentation

• 2eb08b4 docs: add description to --manifest option (#2485) (#2506)
• 2d4f1f5 docs: update AGENTS.md with script testing and env var guidelines (#2462)

• e0fcb27 Fix: multi-jdk regression (due to AEsh migration) (#2515)
• 31fa8d5 JDK26: Put modules required by JavaFX modules on the module-path (#2511)
• f01590b Revert "fix: add -PforceSnapshot to ensure earlyaccess builds get -SNAPSHOT version"
• 950e6be fix earlyaccess jreleaser (#2478)

Contributors

We'd like to thank the following people for their contributions:
Boomika SN, Claude Opus 4.8, CodeRabbit, GitHub, Max Rydahl Andersen, Mend Renovate, Oliver Kopp, Ståle Pedersen, Tako Schotanus, Tamas Cservenak, Werner Fouché, coderabbitai[bot]