The main feature of this release was a way of display syntax highlighting with only standard colors (i.e. the colors you can configure in the terminal), which you can do by setting the theme to "ansi_dark" or "ansi_light". The other themes are generally prettier (IMHO) but use colors defined by the theme, and not by the user's settings.
When testing the above I also made some optimizations which benefit all the Rich output. You may only notice this if you are syntax highlighting large XML files, but its faster now.
This is a major release as there were a small number of signature changes. Most people won't be impacted, but please review the release notes below.
[7.0.0] - 2020-09-18
Added
- New ansi_dark and ansi_light themes
- Added Text.append_tokens for fast appending of string + Style pairs
- Added Text.remove_suffix
- Added Text.append_tokens
### Changed
- Text.tabs_to_spaces was renamed to Text.expand_tabs, which works in place rather than returning a new instance
- Renamed Column.index to Column._index
- Optimized Style.combine and Style.chain
- Optimized text rendering by fixing internal cache mechanism
- Optimized hash generation for Styles