The road to 3.9

[apjanke]

After a couple patch releases to the 3.8 series, I think it's time for a 3.9 minor release soon. There's some interesting stuff to do, and I'll have decent free time in the next month or two to put it together.

Milestone: 3.9.0 milestone

As of 2024-08, I'm doing initial work on the dev/free-mime branch, to allow rebasing and squashing before merging to main. Until that's merged to main and deleted, please target PRs for 3.9.0 the the dev/free-mime branch.

Items & Tickets

• Color support
  • https://github.com/cowsay-org/cowsay/issues/31 – Basic ANSI color / terminal control character support
  • https://github.com/cowsay-org/cowsay/issues/56 – truecolor -C support for -l listing
• https://github.com/cowsay-org/cowsay/pull/45 – Doco/README files
• https://github.com/cowsay-org/cowsay/issues/28 - Fix up cowpath file parsing
• https://github.com/cowsay-org/cowsay/issues/58 – "hang" behavior on unknown options; terminal vs. pipe stdin behavior
• https://github.com/cowsay-org/cowsay/issues/51 – stricter handling of cow names, file extensions, and cow-name vs. file-path interpretation
• https://github.com/cowsay-org/cowsay/issues/46 – more possible NSFW/offensive cow removals, and support for opt-in use of them