It's a small thing, but I'm much happier with --version in the latest version of difftastic.
It shows the release number and the commit date. This gives you a reproducible build with age info.
It also shows OS, arch and compiler, because those are useful in bug reports.
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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.
Shower thought: using a tool like cargo-semver, could you build a package registry where the uploader never chooses the version number?
E.g. your last release was 5.2025-09-13 and you've just changed a type, so today's release is 6.2025-11-05.
I've released difftastic 0.65! Highlights of this release:
* Better parsing of Clojure, Common Lisp, Kotlin, Rust and Zig.
* Quality of life improvements for binary files.




