0.29.1 - 2025-11-24

Fixed

• Ensure informative print is not in stdout (e.g. fix for scripts)
• Use write to stdout instead of print to enable piping bender output into another command
• Remove compile warnings for release

Added

• Add snapshot command to relink git version after working on a dependency with bender clone.

0.29.0 - 2025-11-07

Fixed

• script: Fix genus template.
• Fix update failing pull of inexistent commit when multiple repositories are indicated.
• Fix checkout for commit not yet fetched.
• script: Fix flist-plus incdir template.
• Throttle git commands to avoid git request failures.

Added

• Add ARM64 binaries for releases
• update: Update repositories in checkout dir if conditions match:
  • Folder is a git repository
  • Git state is clean
  • --ignore-checkout-dir flag to update IPs ignoring the state inside the checkout directory.
• update: Tell user the lockfile version when solving a conflict.
• Print dependency updates executed.
• Enable updating of individual dependencies (and recursive dependencies if desired).
• vendor: Add path error information.
• Add support for glob in manifest source files.
• parents: Print currently selected version.
• packages: Add --version flag to print currently used versions.
• packages: Add --targets flag to print targets used in the corresponding manifest.
• Add clean command to clean all bender related dependencies.
• script: Allow flist formats to use only-sources/only-includes/only-defines flags.
• Add check to ensure files referenced in all manifests exist.
• Add warnings for unknown fields in manifest.
• sources: Add defines for passed targets to output (similar to script).
• Add support to indicate and read in external file lists in manifest.
• Enumerate warnings and add --suppress flag to hide warnings.

Changed

• update: Clean up alignment of manual resolution output.
• checkout: When using checkout_dir, overwrite existing dependencies if not changed, warning if not checked out, flag to force checkout.
• update: Update checkout_dir if no internal changes.
• Execute checkout instead of clone to checkout correct dependency versions when reasonable.
• packages --graph: Clean up alignment of output.
• script: No longer enforce all caps defines.

Fixed

• Put vcs, vsim, and riviera defines in quotes.
• Fix genus script initialization.
• Update Readme with for script formats.
• Fix vendor file mappings when combining into a single directory.
• Make panic an error when lockfile is not up to date with dependencies.
• Fix Readme dependency version indication for exact match.
• Fix vendor file copying for symbolic links.
• Fix synopsys script include paths.
• Fix checkout when system forces git signatures.

Added

• Add completion command to generate shell autocomplete integration.
• Add abort on error for vcs script type.
• Add warning to update command when using overrides.
• Add support for branchless commits in dependency repositories.

Changed

• Bump dependencies.

Added

• Add flist-plus script format for file list with plusargs.

Fixed

• Ensure defines/includes/sources are included in script when specifying multiple --only-*.

Changed

• For bender clone: Add a relative path to the lockfile to align to change in v0.27.0.

Added

• Add macOS binary for releases
• Add init command to initialize a Bender.yml file of an IP.
• Allow environment variables in dependency and sources paths.
• Add windows binary and compatibility for release.

Fixed

• Documentation and Error Message fixes.

Changed

• Complete revamp of script generation, now using templates. Script formats are homogenized and custom templates are enabled.

Added

• Add clearer error message when commits are no longer available upstream.
• Improve Readme git explanation

Fixed

• Fix CI GNU release.

Added

• Add --checkout flag to path command to force checkout if needed.
• Add --no-checkout flag to update command to prevent checkout after update if not needed.

Changed

• path and local links: Skip checkout if package path already exists (can be overruled by --checkout flag)
• update: Default to automatically perform checkout after update (can be overruled by --no-checkout flag)

Fixed

• Improve ReadMe and Warning information for vendor upstream linking.
• Ensure workspace.package_links symlinks are properly updated when executing the clone command.

Added

• Add information on expected location for manifest file not found.

Fixed

• Use IndexMap and IndexSet instead of the std Hash* equivalents to preserve ordering
• Change GNU release to be built to a more compatible binary (manylinux container).
• Parse override dependencies in lowercase to align to change in 0.25.0

Changed

• Adjusted hash input for dependency checkout to ensure consistency within a project.

Fixed

• Fixed accidental debug print in sources command

0.27.0 - 2023-01-16

Added

• Add --no-default-target flag to script command to remove default targets
• Add fusesoc command to generate FuseSoC .core files.
• Add rhel and almalinux releases

Changed

• Reworked import command to vendor, refactor corresponding Manifest entry (vendor_package instead of external_import)
• Update clap to v4, changes CLI
• Use relative paths in Lockfile if path dependency is in a subdirectory

Fixed

• Streamline import command for initializing a repository