tags: release title: Release v0.028

These changes have been pending for quite a while, but they're finally here! Though it may not show, I actually love this project, and every excuse someone gives me to work on it I take with both hands.

In this release:

Added

• The YAML::Tiny module is now officially supported
• The YERTL_FORMAT environment variable will set the default format that Yertl uses to communicate. Set it to json for Yertl to seamlessly interoperate with other JSON-based tools like jq and recs.
• CSV conversion (yto/yfrom) now allows setting a delimiter so we can parse colon-separated values or esoteric formats

Fixed

• yq -x now checks for definedness before trying to print. This silences warnings from Perl about "Uninitialized value in print". In the future, we may re-enable warnings through a -w or -v switch.
• If one filter in a pipe returns empty, that empty result is propagated through further filters. This makes the output of something like select( .foo == 1 ) | .bar more intuitive: If a document doesn't pass the first part, the result of the second part is empty, not undef (--- ~).
• The ysql helpers and placeholders are now better documented in the ysql guide.

Other

• ygrok tests are now split into more maintainable chunks based on the patterns they are testing.