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Dec 20, 2025 at 13:07
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Delighted to see that TOML has released a new version! TOML is overall a great standard but I understand they had limited people with the power to cut a new release.
Release Release 1.1.0 · toml-lang/toml
Release Release 1.1.0 · toml-lang/toml
Allow newlines and trailing commas in inline tables (#904). Previously an inline table had to be on a single line and couldn't end with a trailing comma. This is now relaxed so that the following i...

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