------ current release ---------------------------
1.9.4 (03/03/2011)
+ Added burndown charts - 'burndown.daily', 'burndown.weekly',
'burndown.monthly', that use 'color.burndown.pending', 'color.burndown.started'
and 'color.burndown.done' colors.
+ Added highlighting for the 'show' command that indicates which values differ
from the defaults.
+ Added change log display to the 'info' command, controlled by the
'journal.info' configuration setting.
+ Added 'description+' to all reports with duplicate sort keys, to stabilize
the sequence.
+ Added ability to temporarily suspend GC (rc.gc:0) for a given command, which
helps scriptwriters implement shadow files externally (thanks to Sander
Marechal).
+ Added alias 'export.json' that maps to the new _query helper command.
+ Added new dark-gray-256 color theme.
+ Added feature #30, which eliminates the dependency on ncurses (thanks to
Johan Friis).
+ Added feature #41, XML export in the form of add-on script export-xml.pl,
export-xml.py and export-xml.rb.
+ Added feature #157, which implements the _query command, a helper command for
script writers, which accepts a filter like any other report, but returns
only full JSON.
+ Added feature #158, regular expression support for filters and substitutions.
+ Added feature #247, providing infinite width reports when redirecting output
to a file, by setting defaultwidth to 0.
+ Added feature #309, which sets the xterm title when reports are run,
according to the configuration variable 'xterm.title', which defaults to off.
+ Added feature #546, which is a 'count' command that counts tasks, and is
intended to help scripts that manipulate task output.
+ Added feature #567, which makes it possible to apply an offset to the first
month to be displayed in the calendar report (thanks to Michelle Crane).
+ Added feature #574, default due dates (thanks to Erlan Sergaziev).
+ Added feature #575, including Danish holidays (thanks to Irfan Siddiqui).
+ Added feature #608, and now completing a task, with journal.time turned on
will stop the task first (thanks to Andy Kriger).
+ Added feature #629, a new holiday configuration file for New Zealand
(thanks to Stephen Haywood).
+ Added feature #638, a wait:later possibility (thanks to Clément BÅsch).
+ Added feature #46, proper sortable age column.
+ Added new holiday configuration file for Italy (thanks to Nicola Busanello).
+ Added new holiday configuration file for Austria (thanks to Andreas Poisel).
+ Eliminated dependency on ncurses.
+ The dependency columns are now right-justified (thanks to Eric Fluger).
+ When a date fails to parse, the expected format is displayed, as a reminder
(thanks to Eric Fluger).
+ Fixed bug that caused the 'done' command to always exit with a non-zero
status (thanks to Steve Rader).
+ Fixed bug that caused entry, end, start and wait dates to not use report-
specific date format overrides (thanks to Eric Fluger).
+ Fixed bug #485, which caused filters of 'recur' to fail for partial matches
(thanks to T. Charles Yun).
+ Fixed bug #515, which displayed an incorrect message after duplicating a
non-existent task (thanks to Peter De Poorter).
+ Fixed bug #529, where the 'depends' attribute was not mentioned in the
task man page (thanks to Dirk Deimeke).
+ Fixed bug #530, where unrecognized periods on recurring tasks were not
being properly handled (thanks to T. Charles Yun).
+ Fixed bug #535 which omitted the holidays-NO.rc file from the packages
(thanks to Jostein Berntsen).
+ Fixed bug #537, where the man page task-sync(5) mis-specified some URIs.
+ Fixed bug #538, where some color legend items were not readable.
+ Fixed bug #539, where the man page task-color(5) contained a line that
began with a ' and was not displayed.
+ Fixed bug #540, where user names containing @s could not be parsed.
+ Fixed bug #541, which prevented sorting by 'age' column in some situations.
+ Fixed bug #542, which sorted the countdown columns incorrectly (thanks to
Michelle Crane).
+ Fixed bug #555, which caused a segfault when logging a task with a project
(thanks to Itay Perl).
+ Fixed bug #564, which allowed the deletion of parent recurring tasks (thanks
to Peter De Poorter).
+ Fixed bug #570, which used unsupported brace expansion with dash (default
/bin/sh in Ubuntu).
+ Fixed bug #579, which displayed incorrect counts when using the 'limit:N'
filter (thanks to Thomas Sattler).
+ Fixed bug #580, where reusing the merge uri for autopush failed when the
uri was taken from taskrc.
+ Applied patch to fix bug #581, in which backslashes in annotations and
descriptions caused problems (thanks to Itay Perl).
+ Fixed bug #587, where the man page needed clarification on quoting some
arguments to prevent them from being broken up by the shell (thanks to
Steve Rader).
+ Fixed bug #589, where the man page did not adequately describe searching
or usage of attribute modifiers (thanks to Steve Rader).
+ Applied patch to fix bug #590, which makes the yes/no/all/quit confirmation
prompts consistent (thanks to Steve Rader).
+ Fixed bug #595, where taskwarrior ignored changes to the wait date during
the edit command, consequently not changing task status (thanks to Eric
Fluger).
+ Fixed bug #597, which caused a missing project to be counted as a project
in the projects command (thanks to Steve Rader).
+ Fixed bug #603, which caused no feedback when task IDs were not specified
(thanks to Steve Rader).
+ Applied patch to fix bug #613, so that the summary report and the projects
command now consistently show a missing project as "(none)" (thanks to
Steve Rader).
+ Applied patch to fix bug #618, so that the configuration setting
'edit.verbose' can be set to 'no' and eliminate the help text when using
the 'task edit' command (thanks to Steve Rader).
+ Enhanced unit tests in response to bug #624 (thanks to Steve Rader).
+ Fixed bug #628, where dateformats containing spaces were not properly
parsed (thanks to Steve Rader).
+ Fixed bug #634, so that 'undo' obeys the 'confirmation' setting (thanks to
Steve Rader).
+ Fixed bug #641, where certain reports broke when 'dateformat' differed from
'dateformat.report'.
+ Fixed bug #651, which broke the edit command when a task description
contained certain tokens (like 'Due:').
+ Fixed bug #653, which caused undo information to be recorded when no changes
were made by the 'edit' command.
+ Fixed bug #654, which broke the info command when a task had no journal
entries.
+ Fixed bug #656, which caused multiple recurring child tasks to be created
(thanks to Bryce Harrington).
+ Fixed bug #671, removing the claim in the 'edit' command claims that
description text can wrap over multiple lines, because it cannot.
------ old releases ------------------------------
1.9.3 (11/08/2010) bf36b47593a33e6347425d47a36477b627310e65
+ Added feature #43, now task supports relative dates like '3wks',
'1 month', '4d' for 'due', 'wait' and 'until' dates. Essentially
durations are now allowed where dates are expected, and are treated
as relative to the current date/time.
+ Added feature #189, that records the start and stop times as an
annotation for a task.
+ Added features #244, #272, #273, #274, #275 and #279, which support
import and export of YAML 1.1. YAML is now the default export format
for task.
+ Added feature #391, now the 'task color legend' command will show
samples of all the defined colors and color rules from your .taskrc
and theme.
+ Added feature #410, and now task supports dependencies between tasks
with the syntax 'task 1 depends:2' to add a dependency, or 'task 1
depends:-2' to remove a dependency.
+ Added feature #421, and now task can sync data files from two sources
via the 'merge' command.
+ Added feature #423, now custom report filters allow rc overrides.
+ Added feature #428, preparing the new structure for the NEWS file.
+ Added feature #429, which improves the 'all' report to exclude deleted.
tasks, provide a new sort order and include the 'end' column.
+ Added feature #431, which improves feedback after running the 'log'
command.
+ Added feature #446, task supports now 'sow', 'som' and 'soy' as dates
for 'due', 'wait' and 'until' (thanks to T. Charles Yun).
Added as well synonyms soww/eoww plus new socw/eocw for calendar weeks.
+ Fixed bug #467, where recurring tasks were not honoring wait values.
+ Added feature #471, which makes greater use of projects by reporting
changes to the completion percentage when it changes.
+ Added feature #478, which uses the colorization rules in the 'info'
report.
+ Added feature #481, allowing for user control of the color rule order
of precedence via the 'rule.precedence.color' configuration variable.
+ Added feature #499, giving an extra line in the message output when
doing bulk done changes (thanks to T. Charles Yun).
+ New 'depends' column for custom reports.
+ New 'blocked' report for showing blocked tasks.
+ New 'unblocked' report for showing tasks that are not blocked.
+ Improved man pages (thanks to Andy Lester).
+ Default .taskrc files are now largely empty, and rely almost completed
on default values.
+ Special tags 'nocal', 'nocolor' and 'nonag' are implemented.
+ The 'tags' command highlights special tags.
+ The 'stats' and 'info' reports not obey color.alternate.
+ New fish shell tab completion script (thanks to Mick Koch).
+ Color rules now obey the rc.search.case.sensitive configuration option.
+ The color.keyword.XXX color rule now applies to annotations too.
+ Importing the same YAML twice now generates an error.
+ Two new color themes (thanks to Kathryn Andersen).
+ More localized holiday files for US, CA, SE, DE, FR, UK, ES, NL and NO
(thanks to T. Charles Yun, Jostein Berntsen).
+ Added new 'diagnostics' command to help with bug submission, testing.
+ Fixed bug #427, preventing the task edit command to parse annotation
dates with spaces.
+ Fixed bug #433, making task command output more consistent.
+ Fixed bug #434, allowing users to complete tasks with status 'waiting'
+ Fixed bug #438, correcting the sorting of the entry_time, start_time
and end_time columns (thanks to Michelle Crane).
+ Fixed bug #439, which ignored dateformat.annotation for sparse annotations.
+ Fixed bug #440, which prevented simultaneous append/prepend and substitution.
+ Fixed bug #441, which misparsed '/a/a:/' as an attribute, rather than a
substitution (thanks to Michelle Crane).
+ Fixed bug #444, which made task shell unusable after canceling out of an
undo command.
+ Fixed bug #445, which caused task to not notice that the command 'h' is
ambiguous.
+ Fixed bug #449, so the wait: attribute can be applied to a task at any
time, not just on add.
+ Fixed bug #452, which defines a higher resolution division between due
and overdue.
+ Fixed bug #459, which showed a confusing message when 'limit:page' was
used, with few tasks.
+ Fixed bug #461, in which the filter 'due:today' failed, but 'due.is:today'
worked.
+ Fixed bug #466, which gave the wrong error message when a custom report
was missing a direction indicator for the sort order.
+ Fixed bug #470, which caused task to not support the color 'none'.
+ Fixed bug #476, so that task now issues a warning when a wait date falls
after a due date (thanks to T. Charles Yun).
+ Fixed bug #480, which didn't properly support @ characters in tags. This
also now supports $ and #.
+ Fixed bug #489, which caused the filter 'tags.none:' to fail.
+ Fixed bug #493, which made waiting, recurring tasks invisible (thanks to
Alexander Schremmer).
+ Fixed bug #494, causing imported text files to ultimately lack uuids
(thanks to Elizabeth Maxson).
+ Fixed problem with command line configuration overrides that had no
values.
+ Fixed problem with the 'undo' command not observing the rc.color or the
rc._forcecolor settings.
+ Fixed problem with extra blank line in the ghistory reports.
+ Fixed a precision problem with average age on the summary report.
+ Clarified the documentation regarding the project name (taskwarrior) and
the program name (task).
1.9.2 (7/10/2010) a13989f18eb34b3363f433c965084b6491425b9f
+ Added feature #320, so the command "task 123" is interpreted as an implicit
"task info 123" command (thanks to John Florian).
+ Added feature #326, allowing tasks to be added in the completed state, by
using the 'log' command in place of 'add' (thanks to Cory Donnelly).
+ Added features #36 and #37, providing annual versions of the 'history' and
'ghistory' command as 'history.annual' and 'ghistory.annual'.
+ Added feature #363 supporting iCalendar/vcalendar (RFC-2445, RFC-5545,
RFC-5546) export via the 'export.ical' command.
+ Added feature #390, an extra dateformat for annotations (thanks to Cory
Donnelly).
+ Added feature #407, a new 'task show' command to display the current
configuration settings or just the ones matching a search string.
'task config' is now only used to set new configuration values.
+ Added feature #298, supporting a configurable number of future recurring
tasks that are generated.
+ Added feature #412, which allows the 'projects' and 'tags' commands to be
list all used projects/tags, not just the ones used in current pending tasks.
Controlled by the 'list.all.projects' and 'list.all.tags' configuration
variables (thanks to Dirk Deimeke).
+ Added feature #415, which supports displaying just a single page of tasks,
by specifying either 'limit:page' to a command, or 'report.xxx.limit:page'
in a report specification (thanks to T. Charles Yun).
+ Improvements to the man pages (thanks to T. Charles Yun).
+ Modified the 'next' report to only display one page, by default.
+ Added feature #408, making it possible to delete annotations with the new
denotate command and the provided description (thanks to Dirk Deimeke).
+ Added support for more varied durations when specifying recurring tasks,
such as '3 mths' or '24 hrs'.
+ The ghistory graph bars can now be colored with 'color.history.add',
'color.history.done' and 'color.history.delete' configuration variables.
+ Added feature #156, so that task supports both a 'side' and 'diff' style
of undo.
+ Distribution now includes 7 theme files, for 16- and 256-color terminals.
+ Task now defaults to using the equivalent to the dark-16.theme.
+ Fixed bug #406 so that task now includes command aliases in the _commands
helper command used by shell completion scripts.
+ Fixed bug #211 - it was unclear which commands modify a task description.
+ Fixed bug #411, clarifying that the 'projects' command only lists projects
for which there are pending tasks (thanks to Dirk Deimeke).
+ Fixed bug #414, that caused filtering on the presence or absence of tags
containing Unicode characters to fail (thanks to Michal JosÃfko).
+ Fixed bug #416, which caused sorting on a date to fail if the year was not
included in the dateformat (thanks to Michelle Crane).
+ Fixed bug #417, which caused sorting on countdown and age fields to be
wrong (thanks to Michell Crane).
+ Fixed bug #418, which caused the attribute modifier 'due.before' to fail
if the year was not included in the dateformat (thanks to Michelle Crane).
+ Fixed bug #132, which failed to set a sort order so that active tasks sort
higher than inactive tasks, all things being equal.
+ Fixed bug #405, which incorrectly compared dates on tasks created by
versions earlier than 1.9.1 to those created by 1.9.1 or later (thanks to
Ivo Jimenez).
+ Fixed bug #420, missing 'ID' from help text (thanks to Ed Neville).
+ Fixed bug that prevented 'task list priority.above:L' from working.
+ Fixed bug that miscalculated terminal width for the ghistory.annual
report.
+ Fixed wording (support issue #383) when modifying a recurring task (thanks
to T. Charles Yun).
1.9.1 (5/22/2010) 60a99725b858be134ad538cb7c1a32c98de70e67
+ Summary report bar colors can now be specified with color.summary.bar
and color.summary.background configuration variables.
+ The 'edit' command now conveniently fills in the current date for new
annotations.
+ Deleting a task no longer clobbers any recorded end date (thanks to
Seneca Cunningham).
+ The following holidays are now computed automatically and can be used
in the definitions for the calendar holidays:
Good Friday (goodfriday), Easter (easter), Easter monday
(eastermonday), Ascension (ascension), Pentecost (pentecost)
The date is configured with the given keyword.
+ The configure script is more portable (thanks to Emil Sköldberg).
+ Updated task-faq.5 man page.
+ Fixed bug #382 in which the annotate command didn't return an error
message when called without an ID.
+ Fixed bug #402 which failed compilation on Arch Linux (thanks to
Johannes Schlatow).
+ Fixed bug #401 that ignored the search.case.sensitive configuration
setting when filtering on project names (thanks to John Florian).
+ Fixed bug #395 that prevented the upgrade of a pending task to a
recurring task (thanks to T. Charles Yun).
1.9.0 (2/22/2010) dd758f8b33de110a633e2ff3ebdac73232b8ff44
+ Added feature #283 that makes it possible to control the verbosity
of the output of annotations.
+ Added feature #254 (#295) which gives task a second date format to be
used in the reports with more conversion sequences like weekday name
or weeknumber. The date format is set with variable "dateformat.report".
+ Added feature #292 that permits alternate line coloration in reports
(thanks to Richard Querin).
+ Added feature #307 that provides vim with syntax highlighting for .taskrc.
+ Added feature #336 which gives task a 'prepend' command for symmetry
with the 'append' command.
+ Added feature #341 that makes explicit references to the task and taskrc
man pages, both in the auto-generated .taskrc file and the version command
output (thanks to Cory Donnelly).
+ The 'delete' command is now aliased to 'rm' (thanks to Ivo Jimenez).
+ Added new attribute modifiers 'word' and 'noword' which find the existence
of whole words, or prove the non-existence of whole words. If a task has
the description "Pay the bill", then "description.word:the" will match, but
"description.word:th" will not. For partial word matches, there is still
"description.contains:th".
+ Added new 'config' command to display the configuration settings of task.
As a consequence 'version' now only shows the version number and legal
information.
+ The 'config' command now complains about use of deprecated color names in
your .taskrc file.
+ Added feature #296, that allows the 'config' command to modify your .taskrc
settings directly, with the command 'task config <name> <value>', or
'task config <name>' to remove the setting.
+ Task now supports nested .taskrc files using the "include /path" directive.
+ The 'entry', 'start' and 'end' columns now have equivalents that include the
time, and are called 'entry_time', 'start_time', and 'end_time', for use in
custom reports.
+ 2 new columns have been added to the reports: countdown and
countdown_compact. They show the days left until a task is due or how many
days a task has been overdue.
+ The new 'priority_long' field can be shown in custom reports, and will
display 'High' rather than the abbreviated 'H'.
+ Task now supports .taskrc command line overrides using rc.name:value and
the new rc.name=value to accommodate a frequent mistake.
+ The color rules for projects (color.project.foo) now matches on partial
project names, the same way as filters.
+ The color command now takes a color as an argument, and displays that color
with sample text.
+ Added 2 new configuration variables to display the details of tasks with due
dates when doing a 'task cal' for the corresponding months:
'calendar.details' and 'calendar.details.report'
+ Added 5 new color configuration variables to colorize today, days with due
tasks, days with overdue tasks, weekend days and week numbers in the
calendar:
'calendar.color.today', 'color.calendar.due', 'calendar.calendar.overdue',
'color.calendar.weekend'and 'color.calendar.weeknumber'.
+ Added support for holidays in the calendar by using calendar.holidays
and the corresponding holiday.X.name and holiday.X.date variables.
The default dateformat being YMD (20101224) set by dateformat.holiday.
+ The coloring of due tasks in reports can now be enabled for all tasks, and
not only the imminent ones, by setting the configuration variable due=0.
+ Tasks due on the current day ("today") can now have their own color setting
color.due.today and color.calendar.due.today.
+ Added a new 'task-faq' man page for common questions and answers.
+ Added a new 'task-color' man page detailing how to set up and use color in
task.
+ Added feature #176, which allows for configurable case-sensitivity for
keyword searches and substitutions (thanks to John Florian).
+ Task can now use an alternate tag indicator by setting the tag.indicator
configuration variable to something other than the default of +.
+ Task can now use an alternate active indicator by setting the
active.indicator configuration variable to something other than the default
of *.
+ Task can now use an alternate recurrence indicator by setting the
recurrence.indicator configuration variable to something other than the
default of R.
+ Added a new file, README.build, which provides assistance troubleshooting
build-related problems on different operating systems and environments.
+ Fixed bug #316 which caused the timesheet report to display an oddly sorted
list.
+ Fixed bug #317 which colored tasks in the 'completed' report according to
due dates, which are no longer relevant to a completed task (thanks to
Cory Donnelly).
+ Fixed bug #347 which used only a lowercase "all" to confirm multiple changes
instead of an uppercase "All" like the "Yes" answer.
+ Fixed bug that was causing the 'completed' report to sort incorrectly.
+ Fixed bug that showed a calendar for the year 2037 when 'task calendar due'
was run, and there are no tasks with due dates.
+ Fixed bug #360 which prevented certain modifications to recurring tasks
(thanks to John Florian).
+ Fixed bug #299 which prevented excluding multiple projects from a report,
by using "task list project.isnt:foo project.isnt:bar" (thanks to John
Florian).
+ Fixed bug #368 which caused recurring tasks 'until' dates to be rendered as
epoch numbers instead of dates (thanks to Cory Donnelly).
+ Fixed bug #369 which prevented the config command from setting quoted or
unquoted multi-word values (thanks to Richard Querin).
+ Fixed bug #370 which prevented the removal of a due date from a task,
mis-identifying the task as recurring just because it had a due date
(thanks to John Florian).
+ Fixed bug #371 which caused task to mis-apply certain color rules, like
color.alternate, which was (a) not applied first, and (b) not blended
with the other color rules (thanks to Richard Querin).
+ Fixed bug #372 which incorrectly mapped 16-color backgrounds into the
256-color space.
1.8.5 (12/05/2009) a6c7236ff34e5eee3ef1693b97cb1367e6e3c607
+ Added feature to allow the user to quit when asked to confirm multiple
changes. Now task asks "Proceed with change? (Yes/no/all/quit)".
+ Added feature #341 that makes explicit references to the task and taskrc
man pages, both in the auto-generated .taskrc file and the version command
output (thanks to Cory Donnelly).
+ Added feature - #310 that simplified and make clearer an error message
that complained about things that were beyond user control (thanks to
John Florian).
+ Fixed bug that was causing the 'completed' report to sort incorrectly.
+ Fixed bug #321 where all shell input was converted to lower case (thanks
to Juergen Daubert).
+ Fixed bug #327 that allowed the removal of a due date from a recurring
task.
+ Fixed bug #317 which colored tasks in the 'completed' report according
to due dates, which are no longer relevant to a completed task (thanks
to Cory Donnelly).
+ Fixed bug that was causing the 'completed' report to sort incorrectly.
+ Fixed bug #322 which failed to propagate rc overrides to shell commands.
+ Fixed redundant messages when exiting shell mode.
+ Fixed bug #333 which failed to display the ID of a duplicated task (thanks
to Cory Donnelly).
+ Fixed bug #332 where task complained that the 'recur_ind' custom report
column was invalid. It was misnamed in the documentation, which should
have read 'recurrence_indicator'. Also, the 'tag_indicator' column was
not mentioned anywhere (thanks to T. Charles Yun).
+ Fixed bug #319 that caused task to not properly detect the removal of a
tag when obtaining confirmation from the user fora bulk modification
(thanks to Cory Donnelly).
1.8.4 (11/17/2009) 12c4983936d27317df100f05da8244139dd06a3f
+ Fixed bug that caused wait: dates to not be properly rendered in a
readable and preferred format with the "edit" command.
+ Fixed bug that caused a hang on cygwin, when a task with multiple
annotations was edited (thanks to Joe Pulliam).
+ Fixed bug #314 where the edit command fails when data.location includes
directories containing spaces (thanks to Cory Donnelly).
+ Added a warning (issue #312) when modifying recurring tasks, that all
instances of that task may be modified. When task confirms a bulk edit
the recurrence is again indicated (thanks to Cory Donnelly).
1.8.3 (10/21/2009) bcdcbeeea0d92f21c3565aebfaf6332b959f4025
+ Added support for Haiku R1/alpha1
1.8.2 (9/7/2009) f243f0ed443ecd7dde779de8a6525222591024db
+ Added feature #282 that returns useful exit codes to the shell. Now a
script can detect whether no tasks were returned by a report (thanks to
Pietro Cerutti).
+ Fixed bug #287 that causes color control codes to be written to shadow
files (thanks to Richard Querin).
+ Fixed bug #289 which imported task from todo.sh without valid uuids
(thanks to Ben Jackson).
+ Fixed bug #291 which generated a false warning about an unrecognized
variable when enabling default.projects in .taskrc (thanks to Thomas@BIC).
+ Fixed bug #288 which failed to propagate rc file overrides on the command
line to the default command (thanks to Zach Frazier).
1.8.1 (8/20/2009) 35792e7874d2bb664abb1a0a67960b7fe7e0fccf
+ Fixed bug #231 that broke the build on OpenBSD 32-bit due to a time_t
and int collision (thanks to Pietro Cerutti).
+ Fixed bug #241 that prevented bash's tab-completion of projects in Fedora
11 and likely anything using bash-4 (thanks to John Florian).
+ Fixed bug #242 that sometimes causes the ID echoed after a task is added
to be incorrect (thanks to John Florian).
+ Fixed bug #245 that quoted date fields on export, that were subsequently
improperly parsed on import (thanks to John Florian).
+ Fixed bug #248 where single and double quotes are both stored as
ampersand-quot-semi (thanks to John Florian).
+ Fixed bug #249 that caused annotations with the same date to be lost after
a "task edit" command (thanks to Federico Hernandez).
+ Fixed bug #250 whereby rc.dateformat was not observed when parsing the
creation date of an annotation (thanks to Federico Hernandez).
+ Fixed bug #251 whereby the presence of annotations cause the .hasnt attribute
modifier to not work (thanks to John Florian).
+ Fixed bug #252 that prevented use of attribute modifiers on dates to effect
a range, such as "task ls due.after:eom due.before:eoy" (thanks to John
Florian).
+ Fixed bug #256 that allowed a recurring task with no due date.
+ Fixed bug #257 where an extant ~/.taskrc file prevented the override and
automatic creation of an alternate rc file (thanks to Zach Frazier).
+ Fixed bug #259 that cause a build failure on Snow Leopard 10a432.
+ Fixed bug #260 whereby the start, stop and delete commands did not complain
when filter arguments were specified, even though they were ignored
(thanks to T. Charles Yun).
+ Fixed bug that allowed a recurring task to be added without a due date.
+ Fixed bug that displays the wrong .taskrc file name on override (thanks to
Federico Hernandez).
+ Fixed bug that failed to suppress color control code in the header and
footnote when redirecting output to a file (thanks to John Florian).
1.8.0 (7/21/2009) 14977ef317bd004dae2f2c313e806af9f2a2140c
+ Added zsh tab completion script (thanks to P.C. Shyamshankar).
+ Fixed bug that cause the _forcecolor configuration variable to be
considered obsolete (thank to Bruce Dillahunty).
+ Fixed documentation errors (thanks to Thomas@BIC).
+ The 'weekstart' configuration variable now controls the 'calendar'
report (thanks to Federico Hernandez).
+ The 'displayweeknumber' configuration variable now controls the display
of week number in the 'calendar' report (thanks to Federico Hernandez).
+ Supports '--' argument to indicate that all subsequence arguments are
part of the description, despite what they otherwise might mean.
+ Removed support for the obsolete task file format 1 (never released).
+ Fixed bug that allowed blank annotations to be added (thanks to Bruce
Dillahunty).
+ Supports negative tag filters, so that (task list +foo -bar) now filters
tasks that have the "foo" tag, but do not have the "bar" tag (thanks to
Chris Pride).
+ Custom reports now support a more compact form of the "age" column,
called "age_compact" (thanks to T. Charles Yun).
+ Supports 'rc.name:value' for a command line override to .taskrc data
(thanks to Federico Hernandez).
+ Removed obsolete DEVELOPERS file. The online support forums at
http://taskwarrior.org will provide better information.
+ Fixed bug that kept some deleted tasks showing up on the calendar report
(thanks to Federico Hernandez).
+ Now asks the user to confirm large changes if configuration variable
'confirmation' is set to 'yes'. A large change is one that completely
replaces a task description, or operates on a large number of tasks,
which defaults to 4 but is configurable via the 'bulk' configuration
variable (thanks to John Florian).
+ Now echoes back the new task ID on 'add' (thanks to Bruce Dillahunty).
+ The new "shell" command provides an interactive shell for task. All
commands are supported (thanks to Bruce Dillahunty, Federico Hernandez,
and John Florian).
+ New "recurring" report to list all recurring tasks.
+ New, more flexible, more consistent, grep-able file format.
+ If task is renamed to "cal", or there is a symlink to task called "cal",
then task can act as a replacement for the Unix "cal" command.
+ Supports arguments to the cal command like "month year", "year", etc.
+ The "tags" report now shows the tag usage count.
+ The "projects" report now shows totals by project and priority.
+ Now supports attribute modifiers that allow much finer control over report
filtering, for example "task list due.before:friday", or "task list
pri.not:H" and many more.
+ Now supports new "age_compact" and "wait" custom report columns.
+ Now supports colorization of the header and footnote messages that are
printed before and after report output, with the 'color.header' and
'color.footnote' configuration variables.
+ Now supports the 'limit' attribute, to control the number of tasks that
are shown, for example: "task list limit:10".
+ Now supports a debug mode that can be used to generate helpful information
when reporting a problem. Just run the command with "task rc.debug:on ..."
and diagnostics will be generated that will help pinpoint a problem.
+ The new "undo" command replaces the old "undo" and "undelete" command
with a complete undo stack that can rollback all changes.
+ While waiting for a file lock, task states the reason for the delay.
+ Now supports a 'waiting' state that causes tasks to not appear until
a certain date, for example "task <ID> wait:<date>". The task
will then not show up on any report (except 'all') until that date.
+ The "active", "completed", "overdue" and "next" reports are now custom
reports, and therefore modifiable.
+ Now supports a 'waiting' custom report to list all waiting tasks.
+ Now supports a 'recurring' custom report to list all recurring tasks.
+ Now supports an 'all' report to list all tasks, including deleted
+ Supports command aliases - create an alias for any command by creating
a .taskrc entry like "alias.new_name=old_name".
and completed tasks.
+ Now over 1,600 unit tests, helping to maintain code quality.
1.7.1 (6/8/2009) 1422a15cbc470cff590bf06daad20d01fe1b05ef
+ Fixed build failure on OpenBSD (thanks to Mike Adonay).
+ Took the opportunity of a patch release to update the various email
addresses and URLs in the various documents.
1.7.0 (5/14/2009) f6b8b39d8b4a85c30a457e9e78b582b74531bfe4
+ Improved the errors when parsing a corrupt or unrecognized pending.data
or completed.data file (thanks to T. Charles Yun).
+ Added details to the "info" report about recurring tasks (thanks to T.
Charles Yun).
+ Now writes a sample "defaultwidth" configuration variable to the default
.taskrc file (thanks to T. Charles Yun).
+ Task allows commands that require an ID to now be given a sequence, which
is a set of IDs. This allows commands like "task delete 1 2 5-10,12".
+ Fixed bug in the ghistory report, which caused it to only show a new
month if a task was added during that month.
+ New command "duplicate" which allow existing task(s) to be duplicated,
and also have modifications applied (thanks to David J Patrick).
+ The "append", and "done" commands now allow modifications to be applied
to the task(s) (thanks to David J Patrick).
+ Improved word wrapping in various output.
+ Fixed bug that added an extra line between header and graph in the
ghistory report.
+ Added simple 'taskprogram' mailing list subscribe form to the web site.
+ For custom reports that define a "limit" to the number of rows of output
such as "oldest" and "newest", task allows an override value. For
example "task oldest 5" will display the 5 oldest tasks.
+ Modified the "stats" report so that it has the same aesthetics as the
other reports.
+ New "timesheet" command displays tasks completed and started, per week,
and can display multiple weeks.
+ New tab completion script, task_completion.sh, for bash users, is installed
to /usr/local/share/task (thanks to Federico Hernandez).
+ Applied patch to allow task to build on Arch Linux (thanks to Johan Friis).
+ Applied patch to fix a UUID bug on Solaris 8 (thanks to Steven de Brouwer).
+ The task and taskrc man pages are here. Try "man task", "man taskrc"
(thanks to Federico Hernandez and P.C. Shyamshankar).
+ Fixed bug that causes task to create a default .task directory, even if
data.location specified otherwise (thanks to Federico Hernandez).
+ New "edit" command that fires up a text editor (uses 'editor' configuration
variable, $VISUAL or $EDITOR environment variable) and allows direct
editing of all editable task details.
1.6.1 (4/24/2009) 1b6faf57c998617024d0348a87b941a5d2ab2249
+ Fixed bug that caused new, first-time .taskrc files to be written without
including the custom report labels (thanks to P.C. Shyamshankar).
1.6.0 (4/12/2009) 06062a96eb57d10dcd7fbe1edf968bb638a0b3a9
+ Added support for new "append" command that adds more description text to
an existing task.
+ Added support for the "weekdays" recurrence, which means a task can recur
five times a week, and not on weekends (thanks to Chris Pride).
+ UTF8 text is now supported in task project names, tags and descriptions.
+ Fixed bug that caused the y/n confirmation on task deletion to ignore the
Enter key and fail to re-prompt (thanks to Bruce Dillahunty).
+ When the "echo.command" configuration variable is set to "yes", it causes
commands that modify tasks to display which task was affected (thanks to
Bruce Dillahunty).
+ A task can now be annotated with the command "task <id> annotate ...", and
a timestamped annotation will appear in reports.
+ A 'description_only' column is now available for use in custom reports,
and it excludes annotations.
+ A task can now be upgraded to a recurring task by adding a recurrence
frequency, a due date, and an optional until date.
+ When a recurring task is modified, all other instances of the recurring
task are also modified.
+ Custom reports now support user-specified column labels (thanks to T.
Charles Yun).
+ Task can now import tasks from a variety of data formats, including task
export files from versions 1.4.3 and earlier, versions 1.5.0 and later,
todo.sh 2.x, CSV, plain text and task command line. See online docs for
full details.
+ Export was including 'id' in the column header even though it was not
included in the data.
+ The task file format has changed slightly. Please back up your task
data files before upgrading to 1.6.0.
+ Added new column 'recurrence_indicator' that displays an 'R' if the task
is a recurring task. This column can be added to any custom report.
+ Added new column 'tag_indicator' that displays a '+' if the task
has any tags. This column can be added to any custom report.
+ Fixed bug where sometimes a task description was concatenated oddly if
there was a colon somewhere in the description.
+ Fixed bug that caused recurring annual tasks to exhibit a creeping due
date, because of an assumption of 365 days per year, which failed to
consider leap years (thanks to T. Charles Yun).
+ Annotations can now be modified with the substitution commands /from/to/.
+ Substitutions can now be made global with /from/to/g and all occurrences
of "from" will be replaced with "to".
1.5.0 (3/15/2009) 87be68e2e83d7bb628be1e5679b16a49a26d3549
+ Removed deprecated TUTORIAL file.
+ Removed "showage" configuration variable.
+ "task stop" can now remove the start time from a started task.
+ "task ghistory" now displays a differently aligned graph, allowing
easier comparison by month of tasks added versus completed and deleted.
+ "task version" command now reports unrecognized configuration variables,
which may be spelling mistakes or deprecated variables.
+ "configure --enable-debug" now supported to suppress compiler optimization
to allow debugging.
+ Allow lower case priorities, and automatically upper case them.
+ Added support for "due" configuration variable which defines the number
of days in the future when a task is considered due.
+ Added support for custom reports, comprised of a set of column names and
sort order, with optional filtering in the configuration file. This
means user-defined reports can be written, and the reports currently
in the configuration file can be renamed. Several of task's built in
reports have been converted to user-defined reports.
+ New online documentation for custom reports.
+ New algorithm for determining when the "nag" message is displayed.
+ Fixed bug where task hangs with a certain combination of recurring tasks
and shadow files.
+ Fixed bug with the task sort algorithm, which led to an unstable sequence
when there were only a handful of tasks.
+ Performance enhanced by eliminating unnecessary sorting.
+ Task now has a large (and growing) test suite and bug regression tests
to help ensure higher quality releases.
+ Fixed bug that caused performance hit during table rendering.
+ Fixed bug that concatenated a modified description without spaces.
+ Added new column 'recur' that displays the recurrence period of any
recurring tasks. This column can be added to any custom report.
+ Added support for "color.recurring" configuration variable which
specifies the color of recurring tasks.
+ Added support for "locking" configuration variable that controls whether
file locking is used.
+ Task export feature now includes recurrence information, removes nested
quotes, and limits output to pending tasks.
+ Task no longer includes deleted tasks in the summary report (thanks to
Benjamin Tegarden).
+ Fixed bug that prevented the summary report from properly reporting
recently completed tasks.
1.4.3 (11/1/2008) 8639e9260646c8c9224e0fc47e5d2443b46eecfc
+ Fixed misleading task count at bottom on "info" report.
+ Added support for a shadow file that contains a plain text task report,
with the "shadow.file" and "shadow.command" configuration variables.
The shadow file is automatically updated whenever the task database
changes. Useful for integrating with "Samurize".
+ Task now displays a message whenever a shadow file is updated, if the
"shadow.notify" configuration variable is set "on".
+ Bug: adding a task with a \n, \r or \f in it now fails properly.
+ Removed "usage" command, and support for "command.logging" configuration
variable.
+ Added documentation for Shadow files.
+ Added documentation for task filters.
1.4.2 (9/18/2008) e7304e86ce9bb80978c7055fd2a9e999619a6fb8
+ "task undo" can now retract a "task done" command, provided no reports
have been run (and therefore TDB::gc run).
+ Task now correctly sorts on entire strings, instead of just the first
character (thanks to Andy Lester).
+ Task now uses dashes (-----) to column underlines when color is disabled
(thanks to Vincent Fleuranceau).
+ Task now allows mixed case attribute names (pri:, PRI:, Pri: ...) and
commands (add, ADD, Add ...) (thanks to Vincent Fleuranceau).
+ Task now supports a default project and priority for new tasks, via
the new "default.project" and "default.priority" configuration variables
(thanks to Vincent Fleuranceau).
+ Task supports improved word-wrapping to the terminal width.
+ Task now supports "default.command" configuration variable (for example
it could contain "list due:tomorrow") that is the command that is run
whenever task is invoked with no arguments.
+ Task supports modifying the existing description of a task, with the
following syntax: task <id> "new description ...".
+ Bug: Now properly supports relative dates in filters (task list due:eom,
task list due:tomorrow, task list due:23rd ...).
+ Bug: Source now properly includes <string.h> in order to build clean
using gcc 4.3 (thanks to H. İbrahim Güngör).
1.4.1 (7/18/2008) e080c3168c6064628ab85b21bd859d9875a3a9a7
+ Bug: Descriptions can not be altered with "task 123 New description".
+ Tweak: For "task calendar" month names are now centered over the month.
+ Removed TUTORIAL file contents in favor of online version.
+ Provided Mac .pkg binary.
1.4.0 (7/10/2008) 60b7d15a1d22e064acf0974c5d7eabbb57dd8071
+ New recurring tasks feature.
+ "task undelete" can now undelete erroneously deleted tasks, provided no
reports have been run (and therefore TDB::gc run).
+ Added averages to the "task history" report.
+ Added ability to override ~/.taskrc with rc:<file>.
+ Added bar chart history report "task ghistory".
+ Added task filtering on all reports.
+ Automatically shuts off color, curses when output is not a tty.
+ Supports relative due: dates (tomorrow, wednesday, 23rd, eom ...).
+ Supports the ~ character in .taskrc data.location.
+ Allows colons on the description, provided what is to the left of the colon
is not a standard attribute name.
+ Bug: Fixed where Esc[0m sequences were being emitted for no good reason.
+ Bug: Fixed underlined table headers when color is turned off.
+ Bug: Adding a blank priority resulted in an assigned garbage value.
+ Bug: Fixed parsing of date "07/08/2008" when using dateformat "m/d/Y".
1.3.1 (6/21/2008) 3a6de7d9402f2609a773a73b16eff97b14a32869
+ New configuration variable, "defaultwidth" that determines the width
of tables when ncurses support is not available.
+ Bug: "showage" configuration variable should apply to all reports, not
just the ones based on "list".
+ Bug: Fixed segmentation faults on Ubuntu when the "dateformat"
configuration variables was missing. This was a code bug, and should
have affected more platforms.
+ Bug: Task now will recreate a missing ~/.taskrc file, OR a missing
~/.task directory.
1.3.0 (6/18/2008) 6673e408a223af98c38779c20b08524042c0edfa
+ "task calendar" now displays multiple months per line, adjustable by the
"monthsperline" configuration variable. Feature added by Damian Glenny.
+ "task export" can now filter tasks like the reports.
+ Factored out code to filter tasks.
+ Displays shorter message when a command is entered incorrectly, and the
full usage for "task help".
+ "task oldest" shows the oldest tasks.
+ "task newest" shows the newest tasks.
+ Bug: Segmentation fault when no "dateformat" configuration variable
specified.
+ Bug: Fixed bug whereby if you have more than one task with a due date, 7
days gets added to the entry date of task 2..n.
+ Bug: Fixed bug whereby "1 wks" was being improperly pluralized.
1.2.0 (6/13/2008) c393d47cdfe7e197a31e94f4bb764474fa05ad8d
+ Bug: "dateformat" configuration variable used to display dates, but
not parse them.
+ "task list x" now performs a caseless comparison between "x" and the
description.
+ Task sub projects supported.
+ "showage" confguration determines whether "Age" column appears on the
"list" and "next" reports.
+ Improved TUTORIAL.
1.1.0 (6/7/2008) 73286e86628725b346db2a25fbcd4bd68efb9b3a
+ "blanklines" configuration to stop displaying unnecessary white
space and thus work better on small-screen devices.
+ "dateformat" configuration now determines how dates are formatted.
+ Better formatting of "task tags" output.
+ http://www.beckingham.net/task.html home page set up.
+ Added tags to the "task long" report.
1.0.1 (6/4/2008) d216d401217027d93581808fc8944ab7d6b85fb0
+ Bug: UUID generator not properly terminating string.
+ Bug: srandom/srand not called prior to UUID generation.
1.0.0 (6/3/2008) f3de5c07118c597091a05c7d7fe8bdeae95474c1
+ New movie made, uploaded.
+ Bug: assertion fails on mobile for t v.
+ Bug: configure.ac does not properly determine ncurses availability.
+ Bug: Cannot seem to use the percent character in a task description.
+ Bug: New installation "task stats" reports newest task 12/31/1969.
+ Bug: New installation task projects displays header but no data - should
short-circuit.
+ Bug: incorrect color specification in sample .taskrc file.
+ Bug: when run without arguments, task dumps core on Solaris 10.
+ "task calendar" now reports all months with due pending tasks.
+ Added rules for colorization by tag, project and keyword.
+ Added legend to "task calendar".
0.9.9 (5/27/2008) 2ecf50032226c91b406f247417a063dc17c8e324
+ Autoconf/automake behaving properly.
+ Clean build on OS X 10.5.
+ Clean build on Ubuntu 8.0.
+ Clean build on Fedora Core 8.
+ Clean build on Fedora Core 9.
0.9.8 (5/25/2008) 18fd59a1edb20e5c68d086a97fae5fa9f6bb348a
+ Added "task color" command.
+ Removed unnecessary files.
+ Completed documentation.
0.9.7 (5/24/2008) 25dc4150947a3e612c8118838d04b3bbe68441f7
+ Migrated old compiler flags into Makefile.am.
+ Added ncurses endwin function check to configure.ac.
+ Set up structure for AUTHORS file.
+ Set up NEWS file, with pleas for feedback.
+ Added welcome message to README.
+ Completed a chunk of the TUTORIAL.
+ Added error handling for "task export" when a file name is not specified.
+ Task offers to create a sample ~/.taskrc file if one is not found.
+ Task offers to create a ~/.task directory if one is not found.
+ Removed unnecessary SAMPLE_taskrc, and assorted references.
+ Cleaned up ChangeLog.
+ Minor mods to standard docs.
+ Bumped version to 0.9.7.
+ Changed some autoconf details.
+ Corrected comment in T.cpp.
+ Made unit tests compile and run again.
+ Removed tests from distibution.
0.9.6 (5/13/2008)
+ Corrected wrong include file in Table.cpp.
+ Replaced color management code.
+ Improved color rules code.
0.9.5 (5/12/2008)
+ Replaced Table storage with Grid.
+ Added Grid.cpp to configure.ac.
+ Added Makefile to src/.gitignore.
+ Makefile should not be part of the repository.
+ Added Grid.cpp.
+ Added Grid::Cell::operator==.
+ ChangeLog file begun.
+ Bumped version to 0.9.5 for next release.
0.9.4 (4/26/2008)
+ Integrated new Grid object into build - not yet integrated into Table.
+ More .gitignore tweaks.
+ Added .gitignore.
+ Added more missing files.
+ Added all source code.
+ Generic OSS files added.
+ Initial commit on Github.
0.9.3 (4/6/2008)
+ Added "task completed" command.
+ Properly recognizes ncurses.
0.9.2 (4/3/2008)
+ Recognizes whether ncurses, flock is available.
+ "task" duplicated to "task_rel" for preparation of a fork.
0.9.1 (4/1/2008)
+ Blank attributes read are no longer written out.
+ Completed "task export" command.
+ Added configuration values to "task version" command.
+ Consolidated header files, removed unnecessary ones.
0.9.0 (3/23/2008)
+ flat source directory.
+ autoconf complete.
+ "task next".
+ "task stats".
+ "task export".
+ Rules-based colorization.
0.8.1 (1/28/2008) - 0.8.16 (3/13/2008)
+ autoconf conversion
0.8.0 Polish (1/25/2008)
+ Code cleanup, reorganization.
+ "task overdue".
+ Add "age" column to list and long.
+ Use 'conf' for build, version tracking.
+ Add "/from/to/" description editing.
0.7.0 Multi-user, File handling, atomicity (1/8/2008)
+ Clean, publishable API reimplementation.
+ File locking.
+ retain deleted tasks.
+ "task info ID" report showing all metadata.
+ File format v2, including UUID.
[Development hiatus while planning for T, TDB API, new features and the future
of the project. Seeded to two testers for feedback, suggestions. Development
deliberately stopped to allow extended use of task, allowing command logging and
regular usage to determine which features were needed or unnecessary.]
0.6.0 Reports (12/27/2006)
+ "task history".
+ "task summary".
+ "task calendar".
+ due support.
+ Table sorting.
0.5.0 Multi-user support (12/10/2006)
+ Command logging.
+ "task usage" report.
0.4.0 Destructive / modification commands (12/3/2006)
+ "task delete" complete.
+ "task id ..." complete.
+ "task list ..." synonym for "task find ...".
0.3.0 Work in progress support (12/3/2006)
+ "task start" complete.
+ "task done" complete.
+ completed.data support.
0.2.0 Neutral commands (12/2/2006)
+ "task find" complete.
+ "task projects" complete.
+ "task tags" complete.
0.1.0 Constructive commands (12/1/2006)
+ "task add" complete.
+ completed.data support.
+ ~/.taskrc support.
0.0.1 Basic infrastructure (11/29/2006)
+ Command line parsing.
+ API layer.
+ Usage.
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