v1.18.0

Added

• ./runtests test runner with coverage tracking by default
• testing on OS X
• testing on Windows
• UintFlag, Uint64Flag, and Int64Flag types and supporting code

Changed

• Use spaces for alignment in help/usage output instead of tabs, making the
  output alignment consistent regardless of tab width

Fixed

• Printing of command aliases in help text
• Printing of visible flags for both struct and struct pointer flags
• Display the help subcommand when using CommandCategories
• No longer swallows panics that occur within the Actions themselves when
  detecting the signature of the Action field

v1.17.0

Added

• Pluggable flag-level help text rendering via cli.DefaultFlagStringFunc
• context.GlobalBoolT was added as an analogue to context.GlobalBool
• Support for hiding commands by setting Hidden: true -- this will hide the
  commands in help output

Changed

• Float64Flag, IntFlag, and DurationFlag default values are no longer
  quoted in help text output.
• All flag types now include (default: {value}) strings following usage when a
  default value can be (reasonably) detected.
• IntSliceFlag and StringSliceFlag usage strings are now more consistent
  with non-slice flag types
• Apps now exit with a code of 3 if an unknown subcommand is specified
  (previously they printed "No help topic for...", but still exited 0. This
  makes it easier to script around apps built using cli since they can trust
  that a 0 exit code indicated a successful execution.
• cleanups based on Go Report Card
  feedback

v1.16.0

Added

• Hidden field on all flag struct types to omit from generated help text

Changed

• BashCompletionFlag (--enable-bash-completion) is now omitted from
  generated help text via the Hidden field

Fixed

• handling of error values in HandleAction and HandleExitCoder

v1.15.0

Added

• A CHANGELOG.md file!
• Support for placeholders in flag usage strings
• App.Metadata map for arbitrary data/state management
• Set and GlobalSet methods on *cli.Context for altering values after
  parsing.
• Support for nested lookup of dot-delimited keys in structures loaded from
  YAML.

Changed

• The App.Action and Command.Action now prefer a return signature of
  func(*cli.Context) error, as defined by cli.ActionFunc. If a non-nil
  error is returned, there may be two outcomes:
  • If the error fulfills cli.ExitCoder, then os.Exit will be called
    automatically
  • Else the error is bubbled up and returned from App.Run
• Specifying an Action with the legacy return signature of
  func(*cli.Context) will produce a deprecation message to stderr
• Specifying an Action that is not a func type will produce a non-zero exit
  from App.Run
• Specifying an Action func that has an invalid (input) signature will
  produce a non-zero exit from App.Run

Deprecated

• 
  cli.App.RunAndExitOnError, which should now be done by returning an error
  that fulfills cli.ExitCoder to cli.App.Run.
• the legacy signature for
  cli.App.Action of func(*cli.Context), which should now have a return
  signature of func(*cli.Context) error, as defined by cli.ActionFunc.

Fixed

• Added missing *cli.Context.GlobalFloat64 method