nvd 0.2.4 released, Sourcehut migration in progress

Item posted on 2024-09-29.
Tags: nvd

I am happy to announce the release of nvd 0.2.4.

There are a few useful new features in this version.  First, there is a new nvd history command, contributed by Felix Uhl.  This command displays differences between successive versions of your profiles, so that you can quickly pick out the correct one after many nixos-rebuild iterations.

The package list can now be sorted.  Two sorts are available, by package name (still the default), and by magnitude of semver change, so that packages whose major version number changed will be sorted first, followed by minor version changes, and so on; thanks to Bruno Inec for the suggestion.  On a similar note, version changes are shown more colourfully.  The changed parts of version numbers are highlighted in diffs, and there are a couple colour schemes to choose from.  If this is all too much colour for you, nvd now follows the NO_COLOR spec at https://no-color.org/ so that you can easily turn it all off.

I am also in the process of moving nvd from Gitlab to Sourcehut.  Both sites already have up-to-date versions of the code.  On or shortly after October 19, 2024, I will archive the Gitlab repository and migrate the issue tracker to Sourcehut.  Please update your links as soon as possible.

For full details of this release, see the changelog.