What's new in Yori 2.20
Apr 30, 2024
- Support for CMD-like "cd.." evaluation
- Fix recent regression handling of HTML clipboard
- Edit support for overwriting readonly files
- Disable whitespace trimming in edit by default, and add debug code to detect stray whitespace
- Shutdn support for remote desktop disconnect
- Fix bar graph display to non-console output
- Improve error reporting when a user does not have privilege in mount
- Code refactoring to allow for more reuse with 16 bit DOS environments
- Yui rendering updated to be much more traditional
- Initial support for multiple monitors in Yui
- Improvements for high DPI devices in Yui
- Support for Windows Installer shortcuts in Yui
- Shift+click to relaunch in Yui taskbar
- Ability to launch shortcuts requesting elevation in Yui
- Drag over Yui taskbar button to activate window
- Calendar view in Yui
- Yui ability to perform simple Wifi configuration
- New tool: speak for text to speech
New in Yori 2.10 (Jan 3, 2024)
- Change click-to-focus behavior in TUI programs. This has some subtle effects and I wouldn't be shocked if there are more bugs.
- The bar graph from df is now used in battery, mem, cpuinfo
- Fixes for various memory handling errors in Edit.
- Prompt for save before opening a new file in Edit, clear selection when opening new file
- Support for Edit to expand tabs, registry configuration
- Replace in hexedit
- Hexedit can regenerate PE checksums
- Mini-HTTP support that allows ysetup to run where wininet is not installed (NT 3.1, NT 4 without IE, RISC NT 3.x)
- Rework completion scripts to fit in 8.3 names, sort files and directories in dialogs, and other NT 3.1 FAT support
- Internal implementations of %__CD__% and %__APPDIR__% since the OS version on XP is broken. As a bonus, this means they work everywhere.
- Fixes for Alpha. Builds are not provided because I don't have access to hardware, but they worked at one point :)
- Rework a lot of code so that it doesn't assume the maximum allocation size is 32 bit.
- New tool: base64 for encoding or decoding base64
- New tool: airplan for enabling, disabling or querying airplane mode. This doesn't work well yet since wifi is independent of airplane mode :(
New in Yori 2.0 (Jul 1, 2023)
- Fix for parser regression in 1.90 where the first argument after an equals is not quoted when it should be
- Fixes for multiple memory handling errors in yedit
- Fixes for memory leaks in make and direnv
- Attempt to save and restore QuickEdit state across TUI programs. This can never be perfect, but is generally effective.
- Allow contool to change full screen state of the console
- lsof is renamed to ylsof to avoid clashes with other lsof implementations
- Find and Go To support in hexedit
- Yui support to launch elevated with shift key
- Optional support for tee to write to the console and stdout as opposed to a file and stdout, so stdout can be further processed
- Yui use window manager notifications without polling
- Yui taskbar improvements including to add icons, bold fonts, flash windows
- Yui start menu improvements including shortcut icons
- Yui take over explorer taskbar if it's already running
- Yui battery display
- Initial support for Yui to hide taskbar if a fullscreen window is active
- Allow wininfo to report accurately on high DPI systems
- New tool: ybattery to monitor battery usage and status
New in Yori 1.90 (Jan 3, 2023)
- Parser changes to support common if commands
- Parser fixes for trailing caret and backslash at the end of a quoted argument
- Tests for argument parsing
- Edit support for auto-indent
- More support for searching multiple strings with different highlights
- Petool support for modifying the minimum OS version in a binary
- Date can modify system time
- AUTORESTART support for saving window positions
- AUTORESTART support for periodically deleting stale restart files
- Avoid displaying characters which are control characters on Terminal
- Support linking against kernelbase rather than kernel32 for running on very small versions of Windows
- New tool: hexedit for interactively editing binary data
- New tool: objdir for enumerating object manager namespace
- New tool: regedit for interactively editing registry in console
New in Yori 1.80 (Jul 5, 2022)
- Support for color scheme files, including applying to open window, console defaults, specific program, or shortcuts
- Ctrl+B now creates a waitable job when sending a process to the background
- Support for displaying performance and efficiency cores, and optimizations for building with them
- Substantial rewrite of libwin (TUI) code, hopefully with few visible changes
- Support for UTF8 file names in cab
- Osver support for displaying information about specified builds or versions
- Ps displays how long processes have been running
- When displaying executable versions use three digits since popular software has three digit major versions now
- Setup creates shortcuts with CGA color palette which looks much nicer with Yori tools
- Touch supports modifying links as well as targets
- Support for hexdump and cut on block (non file) devices
- Fixes for trailing slashes and double leading backslashes in paths
- New tool: contool for displaying console properties
New in Yori 1.70 (Jan 9, 2022)
- Many changes so edit works better on Nano server, including no background colors and clipboard
- Better support for edit detecting character encodings
- Optional support for POSIX move and delete on recent versions of Windows 10
- Detect console processes so Ctrl+C on a GUI process won't wedge the console
- lsof support for dumping handles from all processes
- ypm support for creating Terminal fragment and path updates post-install
- ypm support for setting default shell to yori or yui
- ystart to optionally start processes elevated
- yshutdn on Nano server
- ypm/ysetup on Nano server using winhttp and TUI dialog
- ysetup command line interface with feature parity to UI
- ysetup on MIPS
- yhash support on NT-2003
- Install program manager item on NT 3.x
- New tool: petool for generating PE header checksums
- Many minor tweaks and bugfixes
New in Yori 1.60 (Aug 30, 2021)
- Add support in setup to integrate with Windows Terminal
- Many enhancements in ymake to move closer to nmake compatibility
- Escape backslashes before quotes, fixing YORICOMPLETEWITHTRAILINGSLASH behavior
- Support for enumerating process handles in procinfo
- Performance enhancements rendering colored text
- Support for extracting CAB files without cabinet.dll
- Many minor tweaks and bugfixes
New in Yori 1.51 (Apr 4, 2021)
- Fix bug that terminates the first script to execute, resulting in no aliases
New in Yori 1.40 (Nov 11, 2020)
- Many redraw fixes where characters don't render correctly
- Echo, intcmp and strcmp are true builtins to improve performance with AV products
- Improved handling of Alt+nnn keycodes
- Undo/redo in edit
- Lots of new edit key shortcuts including Ctrl+A, Shift+Ctrl+Home/Shift+Ctrl+End, Ctrl+left/Ctrl+right, Ctrl+Y
- Support searching backwards in edit
- Allow drive selection in edit (sorry!)
- Fix crash in timethis (thanks Robert!)
- Fix crash in edit with negative tab width (thanks Pyroman!)
- Fix crash in edit opening empty files (thanks Pyronman!)
- Improvements to sleep countdown (thanks Pyroman!)
- Support for octal and binary in expr (thanks Pyroman!)
- Various hexdump correctness fixes
- Ydbg support for live kernel dumps or full dumps (when kernel debugging enabled)
- ps display parent process
- New tool - ymake for efficient parallel compilation of nmake makefiles
New in Yori 1.30 (Jul 18, 2020)
- Add support for process times in ps
- Add support for line ending conversions in iconv
- Common Ctrl+key combinations from bash
- Improved completion script capabilities and simple git completion script
- Pushd with no arguments swaps current directory and most recently pushed directory
- Many improvements for NT 3.5 and 3.51
- Fix uninstall option in setup
- New tool - assoc (and ftype) for editing file associations
- New tool - edit for editing files similar to MS-DOS edit
New in Yori 1.21 (Mar 21, 2020)
- Uninstall support is optional in ysetup
- Various minor bugfixes and help updates
New in Yori 1.20 (Jan 15, 2020)
- Uninstall support in ysetup
- History -u (aliased to F7) to interactively select previous commands
- Add support for bash-style tab completion with YORICOMPLETELISTALL=1
- Add support for trailing backslashes in tab completion with YORICOMPLETEWITHTRAILINGSLASH=1
- Support scroll lock and pause in ymore for suspending display
- Allow mem to group processes with the same name
- New tool - charmap for displaying ranges of characters
- New tool - co for interactively moving, copying and deleting files
- New tool - kill for terminating processes
- New tool - stride for writing input lines periodically
New in Yori 1.11 (Oct 16, 2019)
- Fix tail -f
- Use correct color to display directory headers in sdir
- Fix memory leak
- Fix alt+nn handling again
- Fix crash in more on 32 bit systems
- Fix handling of undefined environment variables in set and if
- Fix mouseover handling after completion scripts
- Add new OS build string
- Allow dir to hide hidden and system files
New in Yori 1.10 (Aug 27, 2019)
- Support spaces between redirect operator and file name
- Tab completion of environment variables
- Tab completion of intermediate path components
- Tab completion of special directory names
- YORICDPATH environment variable for deterministic chdir to common directories
- Support for displaying symbolic link target in dir
- Strcmp support for matching substrings as well as exact strings
- Change recursive copy behavior when given a directory to copy the directory rather than its contents
- Heuristically avoid creating selections when clicking inside the console window
- Support redirecting stdout to stderr
- YORIPRECMD and YORIPOSTCMD for invoking commands before and after user entered commands
- Scut support for removing console properties from shortcuts
- Repl support for replacing text with nothing
- Date support for returning monotonically increasing clocks
- Improve YORIAUTORESTART to save in a background thread and to cap the size of the saved buffer
- Ysetup support for installing from local package directory
- Ypm support for downloading entire package repository
- Finfo fixes to work with files correctly
- Ypm support for displaying version and architecture of installed packages
- Copy support for devices that CopyFile does not support natively
- Ypm support for manipulating mirrors or sources
- Vol support for more volume properties
- Type support for displaying line numbers
- Sleep command support visual countdown
- Fix alt+nn codes for nn values less than 32
- New tool - cpuinfo for displaying processor topology
- New tool - direnv for updating environment when current directory changes
- New tool - env for launching a process with a custom environment
- New tool - err for translating Windows error codes to text
- New tool - mem for displaying memory usage
- New tool - procinfo for displaying counters of process utilization
- New tool - ps for enumerating executing processes
- New tool - shutdn for shutting down or rebooting a system
- New tool - sponge for buffering and replaying output to eliminate temporary files
- New tool - timethis for measuring process execution time
- New tool - vhdtool for creating and manipulating VHD files
- New tool - yui minimal start menu and taskbar for server core
- ...plus plenty of small fixes and performance improvements
New in Yori 1.00 (May 1, 2019)
- ~AppDir special directory which contains the shell binary
- Execute ~YoriInit.d and ~AppDirYoriInit.d scripts on start
- Support 1> redirection (but still no 1>&2 support)
- Better support for named streams including tab completion
- -- support in more commands
- Support for $+$ in prompt
- Expose the YORIQUICKEDITBREAKCHARS variable so users can see what it's doing
- Support returning the number of elements in a pushd or setlocal stack
- Support repeating in echo
- Fix piping builtin commands
- Fix installer shortcuts on XP
- Performance improvements
New in Yori 0.98 (Nov 28, 2018)
- Shift+arrow to navigate commands, Ctrl+A to move to the start, Ctrl+E to move to the end, Ctrl+L to clear the screen
- Ctrl+Del to remove a command from history
- Many fixes and enhancements in more, including ability to select text and copy as rich text
- Enhancements to the start command to allow it to start processes in the background
- Enhancements to the history command to load history from a file or clear history
- Nice command can be used as a builtin for executing builtin commands at low priority
- New tool - hexdump for formatting a text stream as binary
- New tool - lsof for displaying which processes are using a file
- New tool - sync for flushing files to disk
- New tool - wininfo for obtaining information about a window
- New tool - winpos for setting window positions
- New tool - ydbg for generating crash dumps from processes