0.2.8 is another modest release with some fixes, doc improvements, bindings improvements, and lots of internal changes. Note that one of the fixes causes the behavior of round and cast to change slightly — though it's handled as a fix rather than a breaking change in semantic versioning.

Fixes:

• Change order of the round & cast function parameters to have the column last; for example round 2 foo_col / cast int foo. This is consistent with other functions, and makes piping possible:

  derive [
    gross_salary = (salary + payroll_tax | as int),
    gross_salary_rounded = (gross_salary | round 0),
  ]
  

Documentation:

• Split DEVELOPMENT.md from CONTRIBUTING.md (@richb-hanover, #1010)
• Make s-strings more prominent in website intro (@max-sixty, #982)

Web:

• Add GitHub star count to website (@max-sixty, #990)

Integrations:

• Expose a shortened error message, in particular for the VSCode extension (@aljazerzen, #1005)

Internal changes:

• Specify 1.60.0 as minimum rust version (@max-sixty, #1011)
• Remove old wee-alloc code (@max-sixty, #1013)
• Upgrade clap to version 4 (@aj-bagwell, #1004)
• Improve book-building script in Taskfile (@max-sixty, #989)
• Publish website using an artifact rather than a long-lived branch (@max-sixty, #1009)