# Difftastic 0.61.0

- Product: Difftastic (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/difftastic)
- Vendor: Wilfred Hughes
- Date: 2024-10-24
- Version: 0.61.0
- Original notes: https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic/releases/tag/0.61.0
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/difftastic/releases/0.61.0

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- **changed** — Side-by-side display is now smarter on very wide terminals when the content is narrow
- **fixed** — Fixed a crash when the final line in a file does not have a trailing newline and occurs more than once in the file
- **changed** — difftastic now requires Rust 1.66 to build

Difftastic is a structural diff tool that understands syntax. See [the manual](https://difftastic.wilfred.me.uk/) to get started, and [the changelog](https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md) for historical changes.

**Recommended git configuration has changed! Please update your `~/.gitconfig` to [match the git instructions](https://difftastic.wilfred.me.uk/git.html), regardless of your difftastic version.**

###### Display

Side-by-side display is now smarter on very wide terminals when the content is narrow.

###### Diffing

Fixed a crash (introduced in 0.60) when the final line in a file does not have a trailing newline and occurs more than once in the file.

###### Build

difftastic now requires Rust 1.66 to build.