Features

• Implemented -S and --chop-long-lines flags as aliases for --wrap=never. See #2309 (@johnmatthiggins)
• Breaking change: Environment variables can now override config file settings (but command-line arguments still have the highest precedence), see #1152, #1281, and #2381 (@aaronkollasch)
• Implemented --nonprintable-notation=caret to support showing non-printable characters using caret notation. See #2429 (@einfachIrgendwer0815)

Bugfixes

• Fix bat cache --clear not clearing the --target dir if specified. See #2393 (@miles170)

Other

• Various bash completion improvements, see #2310 (@scop)
• Disable completion of cache subcommand, see #2399 (@cyqsimon)
• Signifigantly improve startup performance on macOS, see #2442 (@BlackHoleFox)
• Bump MSRV to 1.62, see #2496 (@Enselic)

Syntaxes

• Added support for Ada, see #1300 and #2316 (@dkm)
• Added todo.txt syntax, see #2375 (@BANOnotIT)
• Improve Manpage.sublime-syntax. See #2364 (@Freed-Wu) and #2461 (@keith-hall)
• Added a new requirements.txt syntax, see #2361 (@Freed-Wu)
• Added a new VimHelp syntax, see #2366 (@Freed-Wu)
• Associate pdm.lock with TOML syntax, see #2410
• Todo.txt: Fix highlighting of contexts and projects at beginning of done.txt, see #2411
• cmd-help: overhaul scope names (colors) to improve theme support; misc syntax improvements. See #2419 (@victor-gp)
• Added support for Crontab, see #2509 (@keith-hall)