# Difftastic 0.62.0

- Product: Difftastic (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/difftastic)
- Vendor: Wilfred Hughes
- Date: 2024-12-21
- Version: 0.62.0
- Original notes: https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic/releases/tag/0.62.0
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/difftastic/releases/0.62.0

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- **fixed** — Improved handling of multiline strings that could cause a crash if they occurred at the end of the file, particularly noticeable with YAML
- **changed** — Improved language detection when one argument is a named pipe
- **changed** — Updated tree-sitter parser for Bash, C, C++, C#, CSS, Go, Haskell, HTML, Java, JavaScript, JSON, Julia, Lua, Objective-C, OCaml, PHP, Python, Ruby, Scala, TOML, TypeScript and XML to the latest version
- **changed** — Improved syntax highlighting, particularly for keywords
- **changed** — Rust 1.74.1 is now required 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.

###### Diffing

Improved handling of multiline strings, which could cause a crash if they occurred at the end of the file. This was particularly noticeable with YAML.

###### Parsing

Improved language detection when one argument is a named pipe.

Updated to the latest tree-sitter parser for Bash, C, C++, C#, CSS, Go, Haskell, HTML, Java, JavaScript, JSON, Julia, Lua, Objective-C, OCaml, PHP, Python, Ruby, Scala, TOML, TypeScript and XML.

###### Syntax Highlighting

Improved syntax highlighting, particularly for keywords.

###### Build

difftastic now requires Rust 1.74.1 to build.

Prebuilt packages for macOS on x86-64 are now built on macOS 13.