johnkerl/miller v6.9.0-rc0

Release candidate for 6.9.0

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New features

Support for nanosecond-resolution timestamps:

• Add DSL functions for integer nanoseconds since the epoch by @johnkerl in https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/pull/1326
  
• Add %N and %O for strfntime by @johnkerl in https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/pull/1334
  
• Add %s format specifier for strftime by @johnkerl in https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/pull/1335
  
• Requested on issue https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/issues/1152
  
• See also https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/6.9.0/reference-dsl-builtin-functions/index.html#time-functions
  

Stats from the stats verb may now be computed over arbitrary arrays and maps:

• New DSL functions for summary stats over arrays / maps by @johnkerl in https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/pull/1364
  
• Requested on issue https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/issues/1345
  
• See also https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/6.9.0/reference-dsl-builtin-functions/index.html#stats-functions
  

Additional control over filenames for the split verb:

• Filename options for split by @sloanlance in https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/pull/1366
  
• Requested on issue https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/issues/1365
  

Support for details of data-computation errors beyond the current (error):

• Fatal-on-data-error mlr -x option by @johnkerl in https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/pull/1373
  
• See also https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/6.9.0/reference-dsl-errors/#handling-for-data-errors
  
• Requested on issue https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/issues/1106
  

New verbs and DSL functions:

• New sub, gsub, and ssub verbs by @johnkerl in https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/pull/1361
  
• New contains DSL function by @johnkerl in https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/pull/1374
  

Other updates:

• Support ZSTD compression in-process by @johnkerl in https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/pull/1360
  
• Support comments in mlr -s files by @johnkerl in https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/pull/1359
  
• Add empty-key check to mlr check by @johnkerl in https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/pull/1330
  

Bug fixes

• Do wildcard globbing on Windows by @johnkerl in https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/pull/1362
  
• Treat empty like absent in + - * by @johnkerl in https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/pull/1371
  
• Can't use ${field_name} if it contains UTF-8 characters also encodeable as Latin-1 by @johnkerl in https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/pull/1363
  
• Typofix in uif/uof percentiles by @johnkerl in https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/pull/1375
  

Documentation updates

• Update readthedocs notes in the how-to-release page by @johnkerl in https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/pull/1308
  
• Fix mlr grep docs re OFS/OPS by @johnkerl in https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/pull/1309
  
• Update Fedora link by @bkmgit in https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/pull/1339
  
• Small typos in documentation of mlr nest by @johnkerl in https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/pull/1352
  

Internal

• Update 2015-era Python sketch to Python 3 by @johnkerl in https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/pull/1372
  
• Remove redundant nil check by @Juneezee in https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/pull/1367
  
• Bump actions/checkout from 3.5.2 to 3.5.3 by @dependabot in https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/pull/1319
  
• Bump github/codeql-action from 2.3.6 to 2.13.4 by @dependabot in https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/pull/1318
  
• Bump golang.org/x/term from 0.8.0 to 0.9.0 by @dependabot in https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/pull/1321
  
• Bump goreleaser/goreleaser-action from 4.2.0 to 4.3.0 by @dependabot in https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/pull/1320
  
• Bump golang.org/x/text from 0.9.0 to 0.10.0 by @dependabot in https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/pull/1322
  
• Bump golang.org/x/text from 0.10.0 to 0.11.0 by @dependabot in https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/pull/1337
  
• Bump golang.org/x/sys from 0.9.0 to 0.10.0 by @dependabot in https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/pull/1336
  
• Bump golang.org/x/term from 0.9.0 to 0.10.0 by @dependabot in https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/pull/1338
  
• Bump golang.org/x/sys from 0.10.0 to 0.11.0 by @dependabot in https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/pull/1347
  
• Bump golang.org/x/text from 0.11.0 to 0.12.0 by @dependabot in https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/pull/1349
  
• Bump actions/setup-go from 4.0.1 to 4.1.0 by @dependabot in https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/pull/1351
  
• Bump goreleaser/goreleaser-action from 4.3.0 to 4.4.0 by @dependabot in https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/pull/1354
  
• Bump golang.org/x/term from 0.10.0 to 0.11.0 by @dependabot in https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/pull/1348
  
• Bump actions/checkout from 3.5.3 to 3.6.0 by @dependabot in https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/pull/1369
  

New Contributors

• @bkmgit made their first contribution in https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/pull/1339
  
• @Juneezee made their first contribution in https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/pull/1367
  
• @sloanlance made their first contribution in https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/pull/1366
  

Full Changelog: https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/compare/v6.8.0...v6.9.0