After a multi-year hiatus, an org transfer with new admins and maintainers, jq 1.7 has been released!
Check out the newest version of everyone's favorite^[citation needed] command line json processing tool!
Highlights include significant speed improvements (>10x on some of my workloads), new flags, new builtins, and a litany of bugfixes.
https://github.com/jqlang/jq/releases/tag/jq-1.7Open linkView original on programming.dev
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The speed ups are definitely understated in the release notes if they are that significant
That's because it was a regression from 1.5 to 1.6 that got fixed.
The 10x speedup is in linking builtins during startup, so it's only really seen for very small inputs.
I get that they're embarrassed to mention it, but it's still worth a bullet in the release notes I reckon