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v1.3.0 - The Fall 2021 release 🍁

Completion fixes & enhancements 💇🏼

Inv1.2.0, we introduced a new model for completions. Thanks to everyone for trying it, giving feedback, and providing numerous fixes! Continue to work with the new model as the old one (as noted in code comments) will be deprecated in a coming release.

• DisableFlagParsing now triggers custom completions for flag names#1161
• Fixed unbound variables in bash completions causing edge case errors#1321
• help completion formatting improvements & fixes#1444
• All completions now follow thehelp example: short desc are now capitalized and removes extra spacing from long description#1455
• Typo fixes in bash & zsh completions#1459
• Fixed mixed tab/spaces indentation in completion scripts. Now just 4 spaces#1473
• Support for different bash completion options. Bash completions v2 supports descriptions and requires descriptions to be removed formenu-complete,menu-complete-backward andinsert-completions. These descriptions are now purposefully removed in support of this model.#1509
• Fix for invalid shell completions when using~/.cobra.yaml. Log messageUsing config file: ~/.cobra.yaml now printed to stderr#1510
• Removes unnecessary trailing spaces from completion command descriptions#1520
• Option to hid defaultcompletion command#1541
• Remove__complete command for programs without subcommands#1563

Generator changes ⚙️

Thanks to@​spf13 for providing a number of changes to the Cobra generator tool, streamlining it for new users!

• The Cobra generator nowwon't automatically include Viper and cleans up a number of unused imports when not using Viper.
• The Cobra generator's default license is nownone
• The Cobra generator now works with Go modules
• Documentation to reflect these changes

New Features ⭐

• License can be specified by their SPDX identifiers#1159
• MatchAll allows combining several PositionalArgs to work in concert. This now allows for enabling composingPositionalArgs#896

Bug Fixes 🐛

• Fixed multiple error message from cobrainit boilerplates#1463#1552#1557

Testing 👀

• Now testing golang 1.16.x and 1.17.x in CI#1425
• Fix for running diff test to ignore CR for windows#949
• Added helper functions and reduced code reproduction inargs_test#1426
• Now using officialgolangci-lint github action#1477

Security 🔏

• Added GitHub dependabot#1427
• Now using Viperv1.10.0
  • There is a known CVE in anindirect dependency fromviper:spf13/cobra#1538. This will be patched in a future release

Documentation 📝

• Multiple projects added to theprojects_using_cobra.md file:#1377#1501#1454
• Removed ToC from main readme file as it is now automagically displayed by GitHub#1429
• Documentation correct for when the--author flag is specified#1009
• shell_completions.md has an easier to use snippet for copying and pasting shell completions#1372

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• 178edbb Bump github.com/spf13/viper from 1.9.0 to 1.10.0 (#1561)
• 9054739 Remove __complete cmd for program without subcmds (#1563)
• 19c9c74 Always include the os package import when generating the root command (#1557)
• 01e05b8 Bump github.com/spf13/viper from 1.8.1 to 1.9.0 (#1554)
• 36bff0a fix root.go.golden (#1552)
• 1854bb5 Fix some typos (mostly found by codespell) (#1514)
• ff2c55e chore(ci): use golangci-lint-action (#1477)
• 1beb476 fix: Duplicate error message from cobra init boilerplates (#1463)
• 6f84ef4 Provide option to hide default 'completion' cmd (#1541)
• ee75a2b Remove trailing spaces from bash completion command description (#1520)
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