v1.2.0

[molovo]

Features

• Adds a new zulu manpath command for adding/removing directories from $manpath (Add manpath command #48)
• Allows packages to specify a post_install script in their index file, which will be run during linking (Add a post_install step for packages #58)
• The progress spinner can be disabled globally by setting $ZULU_NO_PROGRESS=1. This is helpful when running zulu commands within a script. (6f5bddf)
• Adds new -p,--private options to zulu var add, which stores private variables in a separate file, allowing you to exclude them from version control. Just add ~/.config/zulu/env.private to your .gitignore file. (Allow environment variables to marked as 'private' #62)
• Adds new -y,--no-confirmation options to zulu ugprade, which will stop the script asking for confirmation before upgrading packages. (93cb2fd)
• Adds new -t,--type option to zulu list, to allow filtering of packages by their type, e.g. zulu list --type theme. (d6def7b)
• Adds autocompletion for the zulu theme command. (55a0cc5)
• Adds a new --dev option to zulu init for Zulu developers. When enabled, Zulu will load the source for a command when it is executed, preventing the need to rebuild Zulu and reload the environment between changes. (Add --dev flag to zulu init #64)

Improvements

• The zulu self-update, zulu update and zulu upgrade commands have been rewritten so that updates will are more likely to succeed on branches other than master. Local changes in the respective repositories are also now preserved between updates. (9b7191b, fea7606 and 12503d3)
• Package installation is now faster, as commit histories are not downloaded. (Add --depth=1 and --shallow-submodules options to the git clone when installing #57)
• Startup update checks are now done asynchronously for better startup times (Perform startup update checks asynchronously #51)
• If you use zvm, the ZVM_AUTO_USE environment variable is unset before doing package upgrades to prevent the ZSH version being changed (Unset the ZVM_AUTO_USE env var when doing package upgrades #50)
• Huge changes made to the way Zulu and its packages are loaded in order to dramatically increase startup performance. (Compile zulu source and package files #56)
  • Source is now moved into src directory, and the script build.zsh has been added to the repository, which concatenates all the source files into a single script with comments removed for speed.
  • The self-update command has been modified to run the build.zsh script once it has finished downloading updates.
  • Adds a new compile command, which runs zcompile on Zulu itself, all files in ~/.zulu/{bin,share,init}, the completion cache and the following files in the user's $ZDOTDIR:
    • .zlogin
    • .zshenv
    • .zprofile
    • .zshrc
    • .zlogout
      The end result is a massive increase in startup speed.
  • zulu compile is run in the background to compile sources on startup. A new --no-compile option has been added to zulu init to avoid this.

Bugfixes

• Fix array assignment errors in ZSH 5.0 within the zulu cdpath command - These had already been fixed for path and fpath. (b98d5af)
• Ensure that the contents of $path, $fpath and $cdpath are always unique. (212ca93) (Also fixed in the install script in commit e70cf7b).
• Fixes a bug with the zulu theme command which would store a theme name, even if the theme did not exist and the command returned an error. (6faa801)
• Fixes a typo in Zulu's completion script which prevented results from being cached properly. (76c2b7c)
• The zulu install and zulu uninstall commands are now far better at catching and reporting errors. (3e24dab and 29a192a)
• $IFS is handled safely in a number of places where it was previously being reassigned globally.
• A few internal functions were checking if they were already defined before being registered, meaning that after an update the older definition would not be replaced with the newer one, causing unexpected behaviour until the shell was restarted. This has been resolved. (5a4c399)
• The zulu func command would fail if the value of $EDITOR included spaces (e.g. EDITOR='cat -e'). This has now been resolved. (de6b454)

Other

• Unit tests (Unit testing #47)

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