Excellent, interesting blog post on how Rust's cargo does version resolution, why it favours the latest compatible version, and the tradeoffs in this space.
https://aturon.github.io/2018/07/25/cargo-version-selection/
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It's a small thing, but I'm much happier with the output of --version in the latest version of difftastic.
It shows the release version number, the commit hash, and the commit date. This gives you a sense of the age of release, but you still have a reproducible build (unlike build time).
It also shows OS, arch and compiler, because those are common requirements in bug reports.
Difftastic 0.67 is released!
* Added support for protobuf, improved bash and YAML.
* Updated 16 parsers to the latest upstream version (thanks Antonin Delpeuch!)
* A ton of display polish for word highlighting, alignment, and binary files.
https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic/releases/tag/0.67.0
New version of difftastic is out!
* Fixed a nasty crash that was relatively common
* Minor display and performance fixes
https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic/releases/tag/0.60.0