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ripgrep 14 is a new major version release of ripgrep that has some new features, performance improvements and a lot of bug fixes.

In case you haven't heard of it before, ripgrep is a line-oriented search tool that recursively searches the current directory for a regex pattern. By default, ripgrep will respect gitignore rules and automatically skip hidden files/directories and binary files.

The headlining feature in this release is hyperlink support. In this release, they are an opt-in feature but may change to an opt-out feature in the future. To enable them, try passing --hyperlink-format default. If you use VS Code, then try passing --hyperlink-format vscode. Please report your experience with hyperlinks, positive or negative.

Another headlining development in this release is that it contains a rewrite of its regex engine. You generally shouldn't notice any changes, except for some searches may get faster. You can read more about the regex engine rewrite on my blog. Please report your performance improvements or regressions that you notice.

Finally, ripgrep switched the library it uses for argument parsing. Users should not notice a difference in most cases (error messages have changed somewhat), but flag overrides should generally be more consistent. For example, things like --no-ignore --ignore-vcs work as one would expect (disables all filtering related to ignore rules except for rules found in version control systems such as git).

BREAKING CHANGES:

• rg -C1 -A2 used to be equivalent to rg -A2, but now it is equivalent to rg -B1 -A2. That is, -A and -B no longer completely override -C. Instead, they only partially override -C.

Build process changes:

• ripgrep's shell completions and man page are now created by running ripgrep with a new --generate flag. For example, rg --generate man will write a man page in roff format on stdout. The release archives have not changed.
• The optional build dependency on asciidoc or asciidoctor has been dropped. Previously, it was used to produce ripgrep's man page. ripgrep now owns this process itself by writing roff directly.

Performance improvements:

• PERF #1746: Make some cases with inner literals faster.
• PERF #1760: Make most searches with \b look-arounds (among others) much faster.
• PERF #2591: Parallel directory traversal now uses work stealing for faster searches.
• PERF #2642: Parallel directory traversal has some contention reduced.

Feature enhancements:

• Added or improved file type filtering for Ada, DITA, Elixir, Fuchsia, Gentoo, Gradle, GraphQL, Markdown, Prolog, Raku, TypeScript, USD, V
• FEATURE #665: Add a new --hyperlink-format flag that turns file paths into hyperlinks.
• FEATURE #1709: Improve documentation of ripgrep's behavior when stdout is a tty.
• FEATURE #1737: Provide binaries for Apple silicon.
• FEATURE #1790: Add new --stop-on-nonmatch flag.
• FEATURE #1814: Flags are now categorized in -h/--help output and ripgrep's man page.
• FEATURE #1838: An error is shown when searching for NUL bytes with binary detection enabled.
• FEATURE #2195: When extra-verbose mode is enabled in zsh, show extra file type info.
• FEATURE #2298: Add instructions for installing ripgrep using cargo binstall.
• FEATURE #2409: Added installation instructions for winget.
• FEATURE #2425: Shell completions (and man page) can be created via rg --generate.
• FEATURE #2524: The --debug flag now indicates whether stdin or ./ is being searched.
• FEATURE #2643: Make -d a short flag for --max-depth.
• FEATURE #2645: The --version output will now also contain PCRE2 availability information.

Bug fixes:

• BUG #884: Don't error when -v/--invert-match is used multiple times.
• BUG #1275: Fix bug with \b assertion in the regex engine.
• BUG #1376: Using --no-ignore --ignore-vcs now works as one would expect.
• BUG #1622: Add note about error messages to -z/--search-zip documentation.
• BUG #1648: Fix bug where sometimes short flags with values, e.g., -M 900, would fail.
• BUG #1701: Fix bug where some flags could not be repeated.
• BUG #1757: Fix bug when searching a sub-directory didn't have ignores applied correctly.
• BUG #1891: Fix bug when using -w with a regex that can match the empty string.
• BUG #1911: Disable mmap searching in all non-64-bit environments.
• BUG #1966: Fix bug where ripgrep can panic when printing to stderr.
• BUG #2046: Clarify that --pre can accept any kind of path in the documentation.
• BUG #2108: Improve docs for -r/--replace syntax.
• BUG #2198: Fix bug where --no-ignore-dot would not ignore .rgignore.
• BUG #2201: Improve docs for -r/--replace flag.
• BUG #2288: -A and -B now only each partially override -C.
• BUG #2236: Fix gitignore parsing bug where a trailing \/ resulted in an error.
• BUG #2243: Fix --sort flag for values other than path.
• BUG #2246: Add note in --debug logs when binary files are ignored.
• BUG #2337: Improve docs to mention that --stats is always implied by --json.
• BUG #2381: Make -p/--pretty override flags like --no-line-number.
• BUG #2392: Improve global git config parsing of the excludesFile field.
• BUG #2418: Clarify sorting semantics of --sort=path.
• BUG #2458: Make --trim run before -M/--max-columns takes effect.
• BUG #2479: Add documentation about .ignore/.rgignore files in parent directories.
• BUG #2480: Fix bug when using inline regex flags with -e/--regexp.
• BUG #2505: Improve docs for --vimgrep by mentioning footguns and some work-arounds.
• BUG #2519: Fix incorrect default value in documentation for --field-match-separator.
• BUG #2523: Make executable searching take .com into account on Windows.
• BUG #2574: Fix bug in -w/--word-regexp that would result in incorrect match offsets.
• BUG #2623: Fix a number of bugs with the -w/--word-regexp flag.
• BUG #2636: Strip release binaries for macOS.