hyperfine version history

1. 2026-10-07
   2.0.0v2.0.0

   See the breaking changes below when migrating from hyperfine 1.x.

   removalfeature
   Official release ↗
2. 2026-10-05
   1.21.0v1.21.0

   Add support for minutes and hours in `--time-unit`, as well as short and plural aliases such as `ms`, `seconds`, and `min`, see #960 (@sharkdp)

   featurefix
   Official release ↗
3. 2025-11-18
   1.20.0v1.20.0

   Add `--reference-name` option to give a meaningful name to the reference command, see #808 (@niklasdewally)

   featurefix
   Official release ↗
4. 2024-11-11
   1.19.0v1.19.0

   Add a new `--reference <cmd>` option to specify a reference command for the relative speed comparison, see #579, #577 and #744 (@JanEricNitschke)

   featurefix
   Official release ↗
5. 2023-10-05
   1.18.0v1.18.0

   Add support for microseconds via `--time-unit microsecond`, see #684 (@sharkdp)

   feature
   Official release ↗
6. 2023-06-04
   1.17.0v1.17.0

   Add new `--sort` option to control the order in the rel. speed comparison and in markup export formats, see #601, #614, #655 (@sharkdp)

   deprecationfeature
   Official release ↗
7. 2023-03-21
   1.16.1v1.16.1

   Fix line-wrapping of `--help` text (@sharkdp)

   fix
   Official release ↗
8. 2023-03-15
   1.16.0v1.16.0

   Added new `--input` option, see #541 and #563 (@snease)

   featurefix
   Official release ↗
9. 2022-09-07
   1.15.0v1.15.0

   Disable colorized output in case of `TERM=dumb` or `NO_COLOR=1`, see #542 and #555 (@nabijaczleweli)

   featurefix
   Official release ↗
10. 2022-05-17
    1.14.0v1.14.0

    Add a new `--output={null,pipe,inherit,<FILE>}` option to control

    feature
    Official release ↗
11. 2022-03-05
    1.13.0v1.13.0

    Added a new `--shell=none`/`-N` option to disable the intermediate

    feature
    Official release ↗
12. 2021-10-17
    1.12.0v1.12.0

    `--command-name` can now take parameter names from `--parameter-*` options, see #351 and #391 (@silathdiir)

    Official release ↗
13. 2020-10-16
    1.11.0v1.11.0

    The `-L`/`--parameter-list` option can now be specified multiple times to

    deprecationfeaturefix
    Official release ↗
14. 2020-05-25
    1.10.0v1.10.0

    Hyperfine now comes with shell completion files for Bash, Zsh, Fish and PowerShell, see #290 (@four0000four).

    fix
    Official release ↗
15. 2019-11-25
    1.9.0v1.9.0

    The new `--parameter-list <VAR> <VALUES>` option can be used to run

    feature
    Official release ↗
16. 2019-10-13
    1.8.0v1.8.0

    The `--prepare <CMD>` option can now be specified multiple times to

    feature
    Official release ↗
17. 2019-09-01
    1.7.0v1.7.0

    Added a new `-D`,`--parameter-step-size` option that can be used to control

    feature
    Official release ↗

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