After a multi-year hiatus, an org transfer with new admins and maintainers, jq 1.7 has been released!

https://github.com/jqlang/jq/releases/tag/jq-1.7

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.

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Sigmatics@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 2y (2 replies)

The speed ups are definitely understated in the release notes if they are that significant

gamma@programming.dev · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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.

Sigmatics@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 2y

I get that they're embarrassed to mention it, but it's still worth a bullet in the release notes I reckon