yq version history
Portable command-line YAML, JSON, XML, CSV, and TOML processor.
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4.53.6Verified 2026-08-23 from yq GitHub releases.
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Newest first15 stable release records
- 4.53.6v4.53.6Official release ↗
Fixing release build issue
- 4.53.4v4.53.4Official release ↗
Close input files after processing each one (#2796) (#2808) Thanks @MsfPablo
- 4.53.3v4.53.3Official release ↗
Add `--ini-preserve-quotes` flag for INI round-trip quote preservation (#2728) Thanks @toller892!
- 4.53.2v4.53.2Official release ↗
Releases and tags now signed and immutable!
- 4.52.5v4.52.5Official release ↗
Fix: reset TOML decoder state between files (#2634) thanks @terminalchai
- 4.52.4v4.52.4Official release ↗
Dropping windows/arm - no longer supported in cross-compile
- 4.52.2v4.52.2Official release ↗
Fixed bad instructions file breaking go-install (#2587) Thanks @theyoprst
- 4.52.1v4.52.1 - TOML roundtrip and more!Official release ↗
TOML encoder support - you can now roundtrip! #1364
- 4.50.1v4.50.1 - HCL!Official release ↗
Added HCL Support - First cut - hopefully it works well! (#1844)
- 4.49.2v4.49.2Official release ↗
Fixing escape character bugs :sweat: #2517
- 4.49.1v4.49.1 - Security Flags and TOML fixesOfficial release ↗
Added `--security` flags to disable env and file ops #2515
- 4.48.2v4.48.2Official release ↗
Strip whitespace when decoding base64 #2507
- 4.48.1v4.48.1 - First and Parents OperatorsOfficial release ↗
Added 'parents' operator, to return a list of all the hierarchical parents of a node
- 4.47.2v4.47.2Official release ↗
Conversion from TOML to JSON no longer omits empty tables #2459 (thanks @louislouislouislouis)
- 4.47.1v4.47.1 - Merge Anchor fixes (with flag)Official release ↗
Fixed merge anchor behaviour (`<<`); #2404, #2110, #2386, #2178 Huge thanks to @stevenwdv!
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