Features

• Make the default macOS theme depend on Dark Mode. See #2197, #1746 (@Enselic)
• Support for separate system and user config files. See #668 (@patrickpichler)

Bugfixes

• Prevent fork nightmare with PAGER=batcat. See #2235 (@johnmatthiggins)
• Make --no-paging/-P override --paging=... if passed as a later arg, see #2201 (@themkat)
• --map-syntax and --ignored-suffix now works together, see #2093 (@czzrr)
• Strips byte order mark from output when in non-loop-through mode. See #1922 (@dag-h)

Other

• Relaxed glibc requirements on amd64, see #2106 and #2194 (@sharkdp)
• Improved fish completions. See #2275 (@zgracem)
• Stop pre-processing ANSI escape characters. Syntax highlighting on ANSI escaped input is not supported. See #2185 and #2189 (@Enselic)

Syntaxes

• NSE (Nmap Scripting Engine) is mapped to Lua, see #2151 (@Cre3per)
• Correctly color fstab dump and pass fields, see #2246 (@yuvalmo)
• Update Command Help syntax, see #2255
• Julia: Fix syntax highlighting for function name starting with struct, see #2230
• Minor update to LiveScript, see #2291
• Associate .mts and .cts files with the TypeScript syntax. See #2236 (@kidonng)
• Fish history is mapped to YAML. See #2237 (@kidonng)

bat as a library

• Make bat::PrettyPrinter::syntaxes() iterate over new bat::Syntax struct instead of &syntect::parsing::SyntaxReference. See #2222 (@Enselic)
• Clear highlights after printing, see #1919 and #1920 (@rhysd)