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highlight.js v10.4.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2020-11-18 // over 3 years ago

  • 🚀 A largish release with many improvements and fixes from quite a few different contributors. Enjoy!

    🗄 Deprecations:

    • 🗄 (chore) requireLanguage is deprecated.
      • Prefer getLanguage (with custom error handling) or built-time dependencies.
      • See Library API for more information.

    📜 Parser:

    • 📜 enh(parser) use negative look-ahead for beginKeywords support (#2813) Josh Goebel
    • enh(grammars) allow classNameAliases for more complex grammars Josh Goebel
    • 🛠 fix(vue): Language name now appears in CSS class (#2807) Michael Rush
    • (chore) Clean up all regexs to be UTF-8 compliant/ready (#2759) Josh Goebel

    🆕 New Languages:

    Language Improvements:

    • enh(shell) Recognize prompts which contain tilde ~ (#2859) Guillaume Grossetie
    • 👍 enh(shell) Add support for multiline commands with line continuation \ (#2861) Guillaume Grossetie
    • enh(autodetect) Over 30+ improvements to auto-detect (#2745) Josh Goebel
      • 4-5% improvement in auto-detect against large sample set
      • properties, angelscript, lsl, javascript, n1ql, ocaml, ruby
      • protobuf, hy, scheme, crystal, yaml, r, vbscript, groovy
      • python, java, php, lisp, matlab, clojure, csharp, css
    • 🛠 fix(r) fixed keywords not properly spaced (#2852) Josh Goebel
    • 🛠 fix(javascript) fix potential catastrophic backtracking (#2852) Josh Goebel
    • 🛠 fix(livescript) fix potential catastrophic backtracking (#2852) Josh Goebel
    • 🐛 bug(xml) XML grammar was far too imprecise/fuzzy Josh Goebel
    • enh(xml) Improve precision to prevent false auto-detect positives Josh Goebel
    • 🛠 fix(js/ts) Prevent for/while/if/switch from falsly matching as functions (#2803) Josh Goebel
    • ⚡️ enh(julia) Update keyword lists for Julia 1.x (#2781) Fredrik Ekre
    • enh(python) Match numeric literals per the language reference Richard Gibson
    • 📚 enh(ruby) Match numeric literals per language documentation Richard Gibson
    • enh(javascript) Match numeric literals per ECMA-262 spec Richard Gibson
    • enh(java) Match numeric literals per Java Language Specification Richard Gibson
    • enh(swift) Match numeric literals per language reference Richard Gibson
    • enh(php) highlight variables (#2785) Taufik Nurrohman
    • 🛠 fix(python) Handle comments on decorators (#2804) Jonathan Sharpe
    • enh(diff) improve highlighting of diff for git patches [Florian Bezdeka][]
    • 🛠 fix(llvm) lots of small improvements and fixes (#2830) Josh Goebel
    • enh(mathematica) Rework entire implementation Patrick Scheibe
      • Correct matching of the many variations of Mathematica's numbers
      • Matching of named-characters aka special symbols like \[Gamma]
      • Updated list of version 12.1 built-in symbols
      • Matching of patterns, slots, message-names and braces
    • 🛠 fix(swift) Handle keywords that start with # Marcus Ortiz
    • enh(swift) Match some keyword Marcus Ortiz
    • enh(swift) Match @main attribute Marcus Ortiz

    Dev Improvements:

    • chore(dev) add theme picker to the tools/developer tool (#2770) Josh Goebel
    • 🛠 fix(dev) the Vue.js plugin no longer throws an exception when hljs is not in the global namespace Kyle Brown

    🆕 New themes: