v5.6.0

Highlights

Architectural Changes

• Added new Environment class to manage configuration and state that was previously stored in Template
• Moved tag registration from Template to Environment
• Removed StrainerFactory in favor of Environment-based strainer creation
• Consolidated standard tags into a new Tags module with STANDARD_TAGS constant

Performance Improvements

• Optimized Lexer with a new Lexer2 implementation using jump tables for faster tokenization, requires Ruby 3.4
• Improved variable rendering with specialized handling for different types
• Reduced array allocations by using frozen empty constants

API Changes

• Deprecated several Template class methods in favor of Environment methods
• Added deprecation warnings system
• Changed how filters and tags are registered to use Environment

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed table row handling of break interrupts
• Improved variable output handling for arrays

PRs

• Add concept of Liquid::Environment by @ianks in #1815
• Handle interrupts in table row by @alexcoco in #1818
• Bump to v5.6.0.alpha by @ianks in #1819
• Speed up the lexer for Ruby 3.4+ by @ianks in #1832
• Update liquid docs for named parameters by @graygilmore in #1831
• Faster Variable BlockBody Matching by @ggmichaelgo in #1833
• fix lexer parsing comparison without whitespaces by @ggmichaelgo in #1837
• fix parsing Variable blockbody with multibyte character by @ggmichaelgo in #1835
• raise syntax error from lexer parser with UTF-8 character by @ggmichaelgo in #1839
• fix lexer parsing ID 'contains' as comparison by @ggmichaelgo in #1840
• fix parsing quirky incomplete expressions by @ggmichaelgo in #1838
• remove TagRegistry by @ggmichaelgo in #1845
• propagate Environment on new Context creation by @ggmichaelgo in #1846
• avoid allocating new empty array by @ggmichaelgo in #1843
• Remove Liquid.cache_classes option by @ianks in #1847
• clean up all warnings by using new Environment by @ggmichaelgo in #1848
• Update homepage url by @tjoyal in #1634
• Write one value at a time for array variables by @ianks in #1863
• Stop testing against liquid-c by @ianks in #1868
• Fix bug in tokenizer with nil source value by @bahar-p in #1873
• Bump version patch by @bahar-p in #1874
• Bump to v5.6.0 by @ianks in #1876

New Contributors

• @alexcoco made their first contribution in #1818
• @graygilmore made their first contribution in #1831
• @bahar-p made their first contribution in #1873

Full Changelog: v5.5.1...v5.6.0

v5.6.0.rc1

What's Changed

• Add concept of Liquid::Environment by @ianks in #1815
• Handle interrupts in table row by @alexcoco in #1818
• Bump to v5.6.0.alpha by @ianks in #1819
• Speed up the lexer for Ruby 3.4+ by @ianks in #1832
• Update liquid docs for named parameters by @graygilmore in #1831
• Faster Variable BlockBody Matching by @ggmichaelgo in #1833
• fix lexer parsing comparison without whitespaces by @ggmichaelgo in #1837
• fix parsing Variable blockbody with multibyte character by @ggmichaelgo in #1835
• raise syntax error from lexer parser with UTF-8 character by @ggmichaelgo in #1839
• fix lexer parsing ID 'contains' as comparison by @ggmichaelgo in #1840
• fix parsing quirky incomplete expressions by @ggmichaelgo in #1838
• remove TagRegistry by @ggmichaelgo in #1845
• propagate Environment on new Context creation by @ggmichaelgo in #1846
• avoid allocating new empty array by @ggmichaelgo in #1843
• Remove Liquid.cache_classes option by @ianks in #1847
• clean up all warnings by using new Environment by @ggmichaelgo in #1848

New Contributors

• @alexcoco made their first contribution in #1818
• @graygilmore made their first contribution in #1831

Full Changelog: v5.5.1...v5.6.0.rc1

v5.5.1

Full Changelog: v5.5.1...v5.5.1

What's Changed

• Centralize Ruby Version to .ruby-version by @jenshenny in #1792
• Add named? method to Cycle class for checking if the cycle is named by @Maaarcocr in #1811
• Bump to v5.5.1 by @ianks in #1817

New Contributors

• @jenshenny made their first contribution in #1792

Full Changelog: v5.5.0...v5.5.1

v5.5.0

What's Changed

• Migrate off probot-CLA to new GitHub Action by @cursedcoder in #1597
• Increase performance in Liquid::Lexer#tokenize by @Watson1978 in #1606
• Raise Liquid::SyntaxError instead of NoMethodError for invalid range by @dylanahsmith in #1607
• Add a variable_name method Increment and Decrement tags objects by @dylanahsmith in #1609
• Stop using Liquid::Expression.parse for integration testing by @dylanahsmith in #1610
• Reserve keyword arguments for new options in assert_template_result by @dylanahsmith in #1612
• Use assert_template_result & assert_match_syntax_error in more places by @dylanahsmith in #1611
• Add partials, error_mode and render_errors options to assert_template_result by @dylanahsmith in #1614
• Expose alias_name and for_loop? in render tag by @Maaarcocr in #1615
• Use assert_template_result partials option to specify file system state by @dylanahsmith in #1620
• Stop freezing the static environment hashes to allow Proc memoization by @dylanahsmith in #1623
• Stop using assert_template_result in some tests depending on language extension by @dylanahsmith in #1622
• Add a test and improve one for testing break by @dylanahsmith in #1616
• Update escape filter reference summary by @liamgriffin in #1628
• Clarifying description for {% comment %} by @Jan0707 in #1636
• fix tablerow drop's last attribute with missing cols param by @ggmichaelgo in #1633
• Support big integers in truncatewords and slice filters by @dylanahsmith in #1617
• tablerow: Avoid accidental special case for constant nil cols by @dylanahsmith in #1644
• Remove Usage.increment calls that have been shown to in fact be used by @dylanahsmith in #1645
• Update link paths in docs markup by @erinmorrissey in #1635
• Fix missing inheritance of disabled tags by @dylanahsmith in #1646
• Prevent an internal error in include tag from non-string template_name by @dylanahsmith in #1648
• Fix tags in comment by @peterzhu2118 in #1345
• Use static environment assert_template_result input values by @dylanahsmith in #1641
• refactor: Advance tokenizer array offset instead of using Array#shift by @dylanahsmith in #1653
• clarify inline_comment by @shainaraskas in #1656
• Allow commas to separate for tag attributes by @dylanahsmith in #1658
• [Liquid reference docs] Adding more content to divided_by filter by @liamgriffin in #1665
• Use cache built into ruby/setup-ruby action by @ashmaroli in #1671
• Provide another assertion for to_liquid_value unless tag test by @dylanahsmith in #1672
• Instrument usage of bug with iteration of String with offset or 0 limit by @dylanahsmith in #1667
• Initialize context to nil on the Drop class by @jemmaissroff in #1673
• Improve test coverage of the to_liquid_value feature. by @dylanahsmith in #1674
• raise invalid integer argument error from tablerow by @ggmichaelgo in #1676
• recursively parse brackets on variable lookup by @ggmichaelgo in #1680
• Allow raw tag to be used with whitespace control by @Maaarcocr in #1683
• Avoid a couple of duplicate assertions by @dylanahsmith in #1675
• fix variable lookup parse timing out with missing closing bracket by @ggmichaelgo in #1684
• Fix CI (as it installs RuboCop 1.45.1 and fails) by @karreiro in #1686
• Update link paths in docs markup by @erinmorrissey in #1685
• Update rubocop-shopify (2.7.0 -> 2.12.0) by @karreiro in #1687
• Revert "Instrument usage of bug with iteration of String with offset or 0 limit" by @dylanahsmith in #1677
• set context's template_name with template's name by @ggmichaelgo in #1692
• render template name with Liquid Syntax errors by @ggmichaelgo in #1695
• Update Liquid Documentation from Shopify URL by @JLoppert in #1712
• Fix broken documentantion link in README by @robertasg in #1688
• [trim] Fix trimming at end of raw block when specified in the opening tag by @gmalette in #1717
• Add sum filter to standard filters by @adamklingbaum in #1722
• Ensure sum filter calls to_liquid on evaluated property value by @adamklingbaum in #1726
• include parse mode to partial cache key by @ggmichaelgo in #1727
• [Liquid reference]: Update description of capitalize by @mcvinci in #1730
• Allow liquid tag inside liquid tag by @Maaarcocr in #1731
• Call to_liquid_value when short circuiting conditions by @Maaarcocr in #1735
• Fix BigDecimal output in sum filter by @adamklingbaum in #1739
• [base64] Respect string encoding of input in base64_decode filters by @gmalette in #1746
• Update CI status badge by @atesgoral in #1748
• Don't parse nodes inside a comment tag by @ggmichaelgo in #1755
• fix parsing comment tag delimiter by @ggmichaelgo in #1763
• implement whitespace control to comment tag by @ggmichaelgo in #1764
• Fix for custom tag rendering by @IevaGraz in #1750
• fix parsing comment tag with extra string by @ggmichaelgo in #1769
• don't allow invalid syntax inside comment tag by @ggmichaelgo in #1770
• don't reset Liquid tag's whitespace control from comment tag by @ggmichaelgo in #1773
• check template UTF8 validity before parsing by @ggmichaelgo in #1774
• allow non-string template source by @ggmichaelgo in #1775
• add new TemplateEncodingError by @ggmichaelgo in #1776
• Fallback to binary comparison when contains RHS is UTF8 encoded by @ianks in #1783
• update variable's context before invoking its to_liquid by @ggmichaelgo in #1781
• change: make nil_safe_casecmp judge compatible for nil-nil comparison by @mtasaka in #1760
• Bump to v5.5.0 by @ianks in #1791

New Contributors

• @cursedcoder made their first contribution in #1597
• @Maaarcocr made their first contribution in #1615
• @Jan0707 made their first contribution in #1636
• @erinmorrissey made their first contribution in #1635
• @jemmaissroff made their first contribution in #1673
• @karreiro made their first contribution in #1686
• @JLoppert made their first contribution in #1712
• @robertasg made their first contribution in #1688
• @adamklingbaum made their first contribution in #1722
• @mcvinci made their first contribution in #1730
• @atesgoral made their first contribution in #1748
• @IevaGraz made their first contribution in #1750
• @ianks made their first contribution in #1783
• @mtasaka made their first contribution in #1760

Full Changelog: v5.4.0...v5.5.0