* Commit history: https://github.com/pegjs/pegjs/commits/master * Previous changelogs: https://github.com/pegjs/pegjs/tree/master/docs/changelogs * Contributors this release: https://github.com/pegjs/pegjs/graphs/contributors?from=2016-08-20 > This is a work in progress changelog for the next release _(currently v0.11)_. ### Major Changes * Implemented value plucking (e.g. When `grammar = "-" @$[a-z]i* "-"` is given `-PEGjs-`, it returns `PEGjs`) * Upgraded JavaScript support: - Parser's are generated in ES5 - Source code for PEG.js and scripts in the repository are written in ES2015, for Node 6+ - The browser release is in ES5, generated using [Rollup](https://rollupjs.org/) and [Babel](https://babeljs.io/) - Dropped support for Node versions _0.x_, _4_ and _non-LTS_ versions (e.g. `5`, `7`, etc) - Dropped support for IE versions _8_, _9_ and _10_ * Updated documentation: - extracted to separate markdown files in the [docs folder](https://github.com/pegjs/pegjs/tree/master/docs) - better explanation about error messages - added documentation for case-insensitivity in grammar - added documentation for backtracking in grammar - clarify details for the execution environment for actions - added a clear explanation of balanced braces - updated documentation for the JavaScript API - added a guide for plugins - added documentation for tracer usage - added a guide for the CLI * Rewrote command line tool: - added 2 aliases for `--extra-options-file`: `-c` and `--config` - options can accept their values via the assignment operator (e.g. `pegjs -c=config.js`) - all arguments after `--` are passed to `options["--"]` - added aliases for some CLI options; Check them out using `pegjs -h` - added "bare" to accepted module formats * Updated the helpers providable to the generated parsers: - added `offset()` (was removed in a previous release) - added `range()`; returns `[starting offset, current offset]` - `location()` also returns a `filename` property if one was passed to the generated parser as an option - helpers can be disabled via the new `features` option (e.g. `{ text: false }` will remove the `text()` helper) * Parser returns an instance of the new Grammar class instead of a plain JavaScript object * Added the ASTVisitor class (usable from either `peg.ast.visitor.ASTVisitor` or `session.visitor.ASTVisitor`) * Moved all code generation from the `generateBytecode` pass to the `generateJs` pass * Use `.js` files with the `--extra-options-file` (aliased by `-c` and `--config`) option on CLI * Added the Session API (`peg.compiler.Session`); this should simplify extending PEG.js using plugins ### Minor Changes * Omit PEG.js version from the browser release's filename * Added support for generating the parser as a ES module using `"format": "es"` * Added [bundled](https://www.npmjs.com/package/pegjs) TypeScript declaration files for - the PEG.js API: `pegjs/typings/api.d.ts` - the PEG.js modules: `pegjs/typings/modules.d.ts` - generated parsers: `pegjs/typings/generated-parser.d.ts` * Simplify bytecode; Generated parsers look slightly better. * Added `ASTVisitor.on.{property,children}`; these are helper's to create visitor's for use with the new ASTVisitor class * Merged ast utility functions into the new Grammar class; faster and simpler to use now. * Pass `options.parser` from `peg.generate` to the PEG.js parser (`peg.parser`, or a custom parser) * Implemented warning and error emitters (`session.warn`, `session.error` and `session.fatal`) * Added a pass for the compiler to warn when unused rules are found * Added a `header` option to the compiler; Adds custom comments to the header of the generated parser * CLI restores original output file (if it already exists) when parser generation fails * Added an optional feature to the PEG.js parser to extract comments from grammar if given the option `extractComments` * Made the default tracer optional (disabled like so `peg.generate(grammar, { features: { DefaultTracer: false } })`) * Pass variables to generated parsers via the new `context` option (only used when `output: "parser"`) * On the CLI added the use of `input` and `output` from the _config file_ instead of passing them as arguments * Updated examples * Upgraded support for Unicode (from _v8_ to _v11_) ### Bugfixes * Optimize silent fails ([#399](https://github.com/pegjs/pegjs/issues/399)) * Optimize redundant fail checks ([#400](https://github.com/pegjs/pegjs/issues/400)) * Report consistent errors on look ahead + cached results ([#452](https://github.com/pegjs/pegjs/issues/452)) * Improve error messages ([#475](https://github.com/pegjs/pegjs/pull/475), [#534](https://github.com/pegjs/pegjs/pull/534), [#547](https://github.com/pegjs/pegjs/pull/547), [#552](https://github.com/pegjs/pegjs/pull/552)) * Do not indent backtick quoted strings in code blocks ([#492](https://github.com/pegjs/pegjs/pull/492)) * Fix shadowing issue for UMD generated parsers ([#499](https://github.com/pegjs/pegjs/issues/499)) * Check rules from `options.allowedStartRules` exist within the grammar ([#524](https://github.com/pegjs/pegjs/issues/524)) ### Internal * Use ESLint to enforce code style * Switch from Jasmine to Mocha & Chai * Removed Makefile (Had switched to Gulp, but removed that as well); Using the _scripts_ field of `package.json` instead * Rewrote `tools/impact` (a bash script, dependent on external tools) as `test/impact` (a cross-platform Node script) * Added code coverage ([Istanbul](https://www.npmjs.com/package/nyc) and [coveralls.io](https://coveralls.io/github/pegjs/pegjs)) * Updated spec tests * Switched to Yarn for workspace based development (_NOTE:_ Yarn should not be required for production use) * Updated keywords for the [NPM package](https://www.npmjs.com/package/pegjs) * Moved source code for the [website](https://pegjs.org/) into the main repository; the website is updated as repo is updated now * Added the [spec](https://pegjs.org/spec) and [benchmark](https://pegjs.org/benchmark) tests to the website * Switch from [Browserify](https://github.com/browserify/browserify) to [Rollup](https://rollupjs.org/) * Auto-import PEG.js version using `require("pegjs/package.json")`, and on dist generation use [rollup-plugin-json](https://www.npmjs.com/package/rollup-plugin-json) * Added https://pegjs.org/development/try; an editor that uses the latest source files for PEG.js