bat version history
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0.26.1Verified 2026-08-23 from bat GitHub releases.
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Newest first15 stable release records
- 0.26.1v0.26.1Official release ↗
Add paging to '-h' and '--help' see PR #3478 (@MuntasirSZN)
- 0.26.0v0.26.0Official release ↗
Add build for windows/ARM64 platform. #3190 (@alcroito)
- 0.25.0v0.25.0Official release ↗
Set terminal title to file names when Paging is not Paging::Never #2807 (@Oliver-Looney)
- 0.24.0v0.24.0Official release ↗
Add environment variable `BAT_PAGING`, see #2629 (@einfachIrgendwer0815)
- 0.23.0v0.23.0Official release ↗
Implemented `-S` and `--chop-long-lines` flags as aliases for `--wrap=never`. See #2309 (@johnmatthiggins)
- 0.22.1v0.22.1Official release ↗
Bring back pre-processing of ANSI escape characters to so that some common `bat` use cases starts working again. See [#2308](https://github.com/sharkdp/bat/pull/2308) (@Enselic)
- 0.22.0v0.22.0Official release ↗
Make the default macOS theme depend on Dark Mode. See #2197, #1746 (@Enselic)
- 0.21.0v0.21.0Official release ↗
Correctly render tab stops in `--show-all`, see #2038 (@Synthetica9)
- 0.20.0v0.20.0Official release ↗
New style component `header-filesize` to show size of the displayed file in the header. See #1988 (@mdibaiee)
- 0.19.0v0.19.0Official release ↗
Reduce startup time in loop-through mode (e.g. when redirecting output) by 90%. See #1747 (@Enselic)
- 0.18.3v0.18.3Official release ↗
Bump `git2` dependency to fix build with Rust 1.54, see #1761
- 0.18.2v0.18.2Official release ↗
Ignore known backup/template filename suffixes when selecting the syntax, see #1687 (@scop)
- 0.18.1v0.18.1Official release ↗
Mouse support and screen clearing broken for `less` versions with minor version number (581.2), see #1629 and #1639 (@aswild)
- 0.18.0v0.18.0Official release ↗
Use a pager when `bat --list-languages` is called, see #1394 (@stku1985)
- 0.17.1v0.17.1Official release ↗
Running `bat` without arguments fails ("output file is also an input"), see #1396
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