taskwarrior/NEWS
Paul Beckingham 1e37d7a784 Diagnostics
- Added new 'diagnostics' command to assist with bug reporting,
  testing.  It answers questions such as "did you compile it yourself?",
  and more.
- Specifically, it runs a UUID generation test to prove that the UUIDs
  are really unique.
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New Features in taskwarrior 1.9.3
- Start and stop times for a task can now be recorded as annotations.
- Special tags 'nocolor', 'nocal' and 'nonag'.
- Now supports durations in dates, such as:
$ task ... due:4d
$ task ... due:3wks
- 'sow', 'som' and 'soy' are now accepted in dates. 'soww' and 'eoww' are
now synonyms for 'sow' and 'eow' (ww = working week) 'socw' and 'eocw'
refer to the calendar week (starting Sunday/Monday and
- Now supports the beginning of the week, month and year in dates.
- Now supports 'now' as a date/time.
- Now defines an overdue task as being one second after the due date,
instead of the day after the due date.
- Import and export of YAML 1.1, including round-trip capability, and
detection of duplicate imports.
- New merge capability for syncing task data files.
- New push capability for distributing merged changes.
- New pull capability for copying data files from a remote location.
- When completing or modifying a task, the project status is displayed.
- The 'info' report is now colorized.
- Certain characters (#, $, @) are now supported for use in tags.
- User-controlled color rule precedence.
- Two new color themes.
- New holiday files for US, SE, DE, CA, FR, UK, ES and NL localizations.
- Task dependencies, and new 'blocked' and 'unblocked' reports for list
those tasks.
Please refer to the ChangeLog file for full details. There are too many to
list here.
New commands in taskwarrior 1.9.3
- New 'task color legend' command will show samples of all the defined colors
and color rules from your .taskrc and theme.
- New 'task export.yaml' command will export YAML 1.1, which can then be
imported via 'task import <file>'.
- New 'task merge <url>' command that can merge the local and an undo.data
file from another taskwarrior user, to sync across machines, for example.
- New 'task push <url>' command to distribute merged changes.
- New 'task pull <url>' command to copy data files from a remote location.
- New 'diagnostics' command to aid bug reporting.
New configuration options in taskwarrior 1.9.3
- journal.time, journal.time.start.annotation, journal.time.stop.annotation
ending Saturday/Sunday).
- Color rule precedence can now be explicitly set with the configuration
variable rule.precedence.color. Try "task show rule.pre" to show the
default settings.
- merge.autopush to control whether pushing after merging is automated.
- merge.*.uri to configure source locations for the merge command
(e.g. merge.default.uri).
- push.*.uri to configure target locations for the push command.
- pull.*.uri to configure source locations for the pull command.
- dependency.confirm controls whether dependency chain repair needs to be
confirmed.
- dependency.reminder controls whether the user is nagged about dependency
chain violations.
Newly deprecated features in taskwarrior 1.9.3
- entry_time, start_time and end_time are now synonyms for the entry, start
and end fields. Recent enhancements to date formatting render these fields
obsolete. The 'task show' command warns of the use of these deprecated
fields. The synonyms will be removed in a future version of taskwarrior.
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Taskwarrior has been built and tested on the following configurations:
* OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and 10.5 Leopard
* Fedora 13 Goddard, 12 Constantine
* Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat, 10.04 Lucid Lynx
* Debian Sid
* Slackware 12.2
* Arch Linux
* Gentoo Linux
* SliTaz Linux
* CRUX Linux
* Solaris 10 and 8
* OpenBSD 4.5
* FreeBSD
* Cygwin 1.7 and 1.5
* Haiku R1/alpha1
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While Taskwarrior has undergone testing, bugs are sure to remain. If you
encounter a bug, please enter a new issue at:
http://taskwarrior.org/projects/taskwarrior/issues/new
Or you can also report the issue in the forums at:
http://taskwarrior.org/projects/taskwarrior/boards
Or just send a message to:
support@taskwarrior.org
Thank you.