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bat v0.21.0
Get a less cluttered default output without configuring styles.
Before you upgrade to v0.21.0
File extensions are matched case-insensitively, and lines longer than 16,384 characters are no longer highlighted.
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What changed in v0.21.0
`--style=default` is added and is now the default, less verbose than `full`. File extensions match case-insensitively; lines over 16,384 characters are not highlighted; startup is faster through lazy-loaded syntaxes.
Also: BusyBox less works as a pager.
v0.21.0.
Seeded by @iluxav with Claude Code (canido), from the release's public sources. Each change links to its evidence.