2 New Features in taskwarrior 2.0.0
4 - New 'ids' command that returns a filtered set of task ID numbers, instead
5 of the actual tasks. Similarly, there is a 'uuids' command.
6 - Attribute modifiers may be prefixed with '~' to return the opposite of a
8 - Status attribute can now be used in report.
9 - Project names may now contain spaces.
10 - New export-html.pl script.
11 - Now supports the 'inverse' color attribute.
12 - Reports may now be sorted by columns that are not displayed (example: ID,
13 project, due date and description sorted by urgency).
14 - Performance enhancements.
15 - New 'next' report, that gauges urgency and reports the most urgent tasks.
16 - The 'next' report is now the default command.
17 - Fine control of verbosity through the 'verbose=' configuration variable.
18 - New 'execute' command that runs external scripts/programs.
19 - JSON is the new default export format.
20 - New 'reports' command that lists reports and their descriptions.
21 - New complex aliases.
22 - Filtering now available on most read-only commands.
23 - The done, delete, start and stop commands now allow modification to the
25 - New 'columns' command to list the supported columns and formats.
26 - New 'eoq' and 'soq' dates to refer to the end and start of the quarter.
27 - Urgency now has an 'age' component.
29 Please refer to the ChangeLog file for full details. There are too many to
32 New commands in taskwarrior 2.0.0
34 - "ids" command that accepts filters, and returns an ID sequence.
36 New configuration options in taskwarrior 2.0.0
38 - Now includes Belarus, Czech Republic and Japanese holiday data. Please note
39 that the holiday file names now include a full locale. For example:
40 'holidays.en-US.rc' instead of 'holidays-US.rc'.
41 - The old 'curses' configuration variable is renamed to 'detection', but
42 retains the original meaning, which is whether or not to auto-detect the
43 dimensions of the terminal window.
44 - Extension system now controlled by the 'extensions' configuration variable.
45 - Two new solarized color themes.
46 - New 'dependency.indicator' for the 'depends.indicator' report field format.
47 - New 'indent.annotation' for the description.default field format.
48 - New 'color.label' for report column labels.
49 - New 'verbose=...' support for individual verbosity settings.
50 - New 'avoidlastcolumn' support for Cygwin users.
51 - New 'patterns' enables/disables command line pattern support.
52 - New 'expressions' enables/disables command line expression support.
53 - New 'dom' enables/disables DOM support for the command line.
54 - New 'json.array' determines whether 'query' command output is enclosed by
56 - New 'regex' control determines whether substitutions use Regular Expressions
57 or simple text patterns.
58 - New 'exit.on.missing.db' control causes an exit if the ~/.task directory
59 (or override) is missing.
60 - New 'color.completed' and 'color.deleted' color rules.
61 - New 'abbreviation.minimum' setting controls how short an abbreviated
62 command or value may be.
63 - New 'hyphenate' setting controls whether long lines are hyphenated when
64 broken during text-wrapping.
65 - New 'defaultheight' setting overrides the assumed 24 lines when 'detection'
66 is disabled. This setting only affects charts.
67 - New 'urgency.age.coefficient' and 'urgency.age.max' settings control the new
68 age component to the urgency value.
70 Newly deprecated features in taskwarrior 2.0.0
72 - The 'next' configuration variable has been removed.
73 - Use of 'fg:' and 'bg:' attributes are deprecated.
74 - Use of 'echo.command' configuration variable. Use verbosity token
76 - Use of 'edit.verbose' configuration variable. Use verbosity token 'edit'
78 - Use of 'export.ical.class' configuration variable. Value is now specified
79 in the scripts/add-ons/export-ical.pl script.
80 - Use of 'report.<name>.limit' configuration variable. This is now handled
81 in the report filter as 'limit:<tasks>'.
82 - Use of 't', '+', 'enable' and 'enabled' in configuration values to mean
87 Taskwarrior has been built and tested on the following configurations:
89 * OS X 10.7 Lion, 10.6 Snow Leopard and 10.5 Leopard
90 * Fedora 14 Laughlin, 13 Goddard
91 * Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat, 10.04 Lucid Lynx
108 While Taskwarrior has undergone testing, bugs are sure to remain. If you
109 encounter a bug, please enter a new issue at:
111 http://taskwarrior.org/projects/taskwarrior/issues/new
113 Or you can also report the issue in the forums at:
115 http://taskwarrior.org/projects/taskwarrior/boards
117 Or just send a message to:
119 support@taskwarrior.org