Version 1.8.0 (11/16/2018)
- Added an experimental --fromfile option (suggested by several people.)
This may eventually be replaced or supplimented by a --fromjson option.
- Added support for BSD's CLICOLOR and CLICOLOR_FORCE environment variables.
(Suggested by Alyssa Ross)
- Use strftime() exclusively when formatting date/time to respect locale.
- Some man page fixes and cleanups curtsey of Kirill Kolyshkin
- Update BINDIR in Makefile for MacOS X -- It is not allowed to install
programs to /usr/bin on MacOS X any longer due to System Integrity
Protection (SIP) (Shawn Mehan)
- Misc patches from Jacob Wahlgren:
- Improved command line switch error reporting.
- Symbolic links not displayed if a -P pattern is active
- Missing argument error reporting fixes on long format switches.
- Fixed JSON output hanging commas (John Lane, Tad, others)
- JSON size output ignored -h/--si flags (Wagner Camarao)
- Fixed issue with malformed multibyte string handling. (Mantas
Mikulėnas)
- Fixed issue where mbstowcs() fails to null terminate the string due to
improper UTF-8 encoding leading to garbage being printed. (Nick Craig-Wood)
- Found a bug where the wrong inode (and device) information would be printed
for symbolic links. (Stephan Gabert)