# pygments changelog

> pygments release notes.

- Vendor: pygments
- Category: Frameworks & Libraries
- Official site: https://pygments.org/
- Tracked by: What's New (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/pygments)
- Harvested from: GitHub (pygments/pygments)
- Entries below: 10 (newest first)

What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog.

## Releases

### 2.20.0

- Date: 2026-03-29
- Version: 2.20.0
- Original notes: https://github.com/pygments/pygments/releases/tag/2.20.0
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/pygments/releases/2.20.0

- New lexers:

  * Rell (#2914)

- Updated lexers:

  * archetype: Fix catastrophic backtracking in GUID and ID patterns (#3064)
  * ASN.1: Recognize minus sign and fix range operator (#3014, #3060)
  * C++: Add C++26 keywords (#2955), add integer literal suffixes (#2966)
  * ComponentPascal: Fix ``analyse_text`` (#3028, #3032)
  * Coq renamed to Rocq (#2883, #2908)
  * Cython: Various improvements (#2932, #2933)
  * Debian control: Improve architecture parsing (#3052)
  * Devicetree: Add support for overlay/fragments (#3021), add bytestring support (#3022), fix catastrophic backtracking (#3057)
  * Fennel: Various improvements (#2911)
  * Haskell: Handle escape sequences in character literals (#3069, #1795)
  * Java: Add module keywords (#2955)
  * Lean4: Add operators ``]'``, ``]?``, ``]!``  (#2946)
  * LESS: Support single-line comments (#3005)
  * LilyPond: Update to 2.25.29 (#2974)
  * LLVM: Support C-style comments (#3023, #2978)
  * Lua(u): Fix catastrophic backtracking (#3047)
  * Macaulay2: Update to 1.25.05 (#2893), 1.25.11 (#2988)
  * Mathematica: Various improvements (#2957)
  * meson: Add additional operators (#2919)
  * MySQL: Update keywords (#2970)
  * org-Mode: Support both schedule and deadline (#2899)
  * PHP: Add ``__PROPERTY__`` magic constant (#2924), add reserved keywords (#3002)
  * PostgreSQL: Add more keywords (#2985)
  * protobuf: Fix namespace tokenization (#2929)
  * Python: Add ``t``-string support (#2973, #3009, #3010)
  * Tablegen: Fix infinite loop (#2972, #2940)
  * Tera Term macro: Add commands introduced in v5.3 through v5.6 (#2951)
  * TOML: Support TOML 1.1.0 (#3026, #3027)
  * Turtle: Allow empty comment lines (#2980)
  * XML: Added ``.xbrl`` as file ending (#2890, #2891)

- Drop Python 3.8, and add Python 3.14 as a supported version (#2987, #3012)
- Various improvements to ``autopygmentize`` (#2894)
- Update ``onedark`` style to support more token types (#2977)
- Update ``rtt`` style to support more token types (#2895)
- Cache entry points to improve performance (#2979)
- Fix ``xterm-256`` color table (#3043)
- Fix ``kwargs`` dictionary getting mutated on each call (#3044)

### 2.19.2

- Date: 2025-06-21
- Version: 2.19.2
- Original notes: https://github.com/pygments/pygments/releases/tag/2.19.2
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/pygments/releases/2.19.2

* Lua: Fix regression introduced in 2.19.0 (#2882, #2839)

### 2.19.1

- Date: 2025-01-06
- Version: 2.19.1
- Original notes: https://github.com/pygments/pygments/releases/tag/2.19.1
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/pygments/releases/2.19.1

- Updated lexers:

  * Ini: Fix quoted string regression introduced in 2.19.0
  * Lua: Fix a regression introduced in 2.19.0

### 2.19.0

- Date: 2025-01-05
- Version: 2.19.0
- Original notes: https://github.com/pygments/pygments/releases/tag/2.19.0
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/pygments/releases/2.19.0

- New lexers:

  * CodeQL (#2819)
  * Debian Sources (#2788, #2747)
  * Gleam (#2662)
  * GoogleSQL (#2820, #2814)
  * JSON5 (#2734, #1880)
  * Maple (#2763, #2548)
  * NumbaIR (#2433)
  * PDDL (#2799, #2616)
  * Rego (#2794)
  * TableGen (#2751)
  * Vue.js (#2832)

- Updated lexers:

  * BQN: Various improvements (#2789)
  * C#: Fix number highlighting (#986, #2727), add ``file`` keyword (#2726, #2805, #2806), add various other keywords (#2745, #2770)
  * CSS: Add ``revert`` (#2766, #2775)
  * Debian control: Add ``Change-By`` field (#2757)
  * Elip: Improve punctuation handling (#2651)
  * Igor: Add ``int`` (#2801)
  * Ini: Fix quoted strings with embedded comment characters (#2767, #2720)
  * Java: Support functions returning types containing a question mark (#2737)
  * JavaScript: Support private identiiers (#2729, #2671)
  * LLVM: Add ``splat``, improve floating-point number parsing (#2755)
  * Lua: Improve variable detection, add built-in functions (#2829)
  * Macaulay2: Update to 1.24.11 (#2800)
  * PostgreSQL: Add more ``EXPLAIN`` keywords (#2785), handle ``/`` (#2774)
  * S-Lexer: Fix keywords (#2082, #2750)
  * TransactSQL: Fix single-line comments (#2717)
  * Turtle: Fix triple quoted strings (#2744, #2758)
  * Typst: Various improvements (#2724)
  * Various: Add ``^`` as an operator to Matlab, Octave and Scilab (#2798)
  * Vyper: Add ``staticcall`` and ``extcall`` (#2719)

* Mark file extensions for ``HTML/XML+Evoque`` as aliases (#2743)
* Add a color for ``Operator.Word`` to the ``rrt`` style (#2709)
* Fix broken link in the documentation (#2803, #2804)
* Drop executable bit where not needed (#2781)
* Reduce Mojo priority relative to Python in ``analyze_text´` (#2771, #2772)
* Fix documentation builds (#2712)
* Match example file names to the lexer's name (#2713, #2715)
* Ensure lexer metadata is present (#2714)
* Search more directories on macOS for fonts (#2809)
* Improve test robustness (#2812)

### 2.18.0

- Date: 2024-05-04
- Version: 2.18.0
- Original notes: https://github.com/pygments/pygments/releases/tag/2.18.0
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/pygments/releases/2.18.0

- New lexers:

  * Janet (#2557)
  * Lean 4 (#2618, #2626)
  * Luau (#2605)
  * Mojo (#2691, #2515)
  * org-mode (#2628, #2636)
  * Promela (#2620)
  * Soong / ``Android.bp`` (#2659)
  * Tact (#2571)
  * Typst (#2596)

- Updated lexers:

  * Awk: recognize ternary operator (#2687)
  * Bash: add ``openrc`` alias (#2599, #2371)
  * Coq: add keywords, lex more vernacular command arguments, produce
    fewer tokens on heading comments (#2678)
  * DNS zone files: Fix comment parsing (#2595)
  * Hy: Support unicode literals (#1126)
  * Inform6: Update to Inform 6.42 (#2644)
  * lean: Fix name handling (#2614)
  * Logtalk: add ``uninstantiation`` keyword and recognize
    escape sequences (#2619)
  * Macaulay2: Update to 1.23 (#2655)
  * Python: fix highlighting of soft keywords before ``None``/``True``/``False``
  * reStructuredText: use ``Token.Comment`` for comments instead of
    ``Comment.Preproc`` (#2598)
  * Rust: highlight ``:``, ``::`` and ``->`` as ``Punctuation``
    and whitespace as ``Whitespace``, instead of ``Text``
    in both cases (#2631)
  * Spice: Add keywords (#2621)
  * SQL Explain: allow negative numbers (#2610)
  * Swift: Support multiline strings (#2681)
  * ThingsDB: add constants and new functions; support template
    strings (#2624)
  * UL4: support nested ``<?doc?>`` and ``<?note?>`` tags (#2597)
  * VHDL: support multi-line comments of VHDL-2008 (#2622)
  * Wikitext: Remove ``kk-*`` in ``variant_langs`` (#2647)
  * Xtend: Add ``val`` and ``var`` (#2602)

- New styles:

  * Coffee (#2609)

- Make background colors in the image formatter work with Pillow 10.0 (#2623)
- Require Python 3.8. As a result, the ``importlib-metadata`` package
  is no longer needed for fast plugin discovery on Python 3.7.
  The ``plugins`` extra (used as, e.g., ``pip install pygments[plugins]``)
  is kept for backwards compatibility but now has no effect. (#2601)
- Require the ``url`` attribute for lexers inside Pygments, add
  it to many lexers (#2588)
- Replace Pyflakes linter with Ruff (#2592)
- Add macOS CI (#2594)
- Built-in lexers now declare the version of Pygments in which they were
  added in a required ``version_added`` lexer attribute, instead of a
  ``.. versionadded::`` directive in the docstring (#2589, #2634)
- The ``url`` attribute is now required for built-in lexers and
  has been added to all existing lexers (#2588)
- The RTF formatter supports line number and line highlighting now (#1217, #2654)
- Add ``\sa0`` keyword in the RTF formatter (#1111, #2607)
- Register ``pycon`` as an alias for the Python console lexer (#2697)
- Add MIME-Type for ``DesktopLexer`` (#2613)
- Fix native style to meet WCAG AA guidelines (#2600)
- Fix typo in documentation (#2672)
- Use format strings consistently (#2661)
- Add ``__class_getitem__`` to ``Formatter`` to improve typing support (#2665)

### 2.17.2

- Date: 2023-11-21
- Version: 2.17.2
- Original notes: https://github.com/pygments/pygments/releases/tag/2.17.2
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/pygments/releases/2.17.2

* Fix a packaging issue on macOS (#2593)

### 2.17.1

- Date: 2023-11-19
- Version: 2.17.1
- Original notes: https://github.com/pygments/pygments/releases/tag/2.17.1
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/pygments/releases/2.17.1

- Updated lexers:

  * TOML: Fix bug making lexing of single-quoted strings too eager

### 2.17.0

- Date: 2023-11-18
- Version: 2.17.0
- Original notes: https://github.com/pygments/pygments/releases/tag/2.17.0
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/pygments/releases/2.17.0

- New lexers:

  * JSX (#2524, #709)
  * Kusto (#2552)
  * ldaprc (#2532)
  * LDIF (#2489)
  * PRQL (#2507, #2523, #2559)
  * Visual Prolog and Visual Prolog Grammar (#2480)
  * Vyper (#2531, #2579)

- Updated lexers:

  * Cypher: fix comment matching, add missing keywords (#2504)
  * Fortran: add ``elseif`` keyword (#2528)
  * Lean: make it available as ``lean3``, in preparation for a possible switch to ``lean`` highlighting as Lean 4 (#2546)
  * JSON: add MIME types and file extensions for several line-delimited JSON formats (#2490)
  * Nix: many improvements (#2551, #1800)
  * OCaml: Add ``and`` keyword, remove ``value`` from keywords (#2521)
  * Python: add ``starlark`` and ``bazel`` aliases (#2517, #2516)
  * Snowball: Treat ``len`` like ``size`` (#2508)
  * Spice: add ``panic`` keyword and ``->`` operator (#2510)
  * squid.conf: fix catastrophic backtracking (#2583)
  * TOML: rewritten, with many fixes (#2576)
  * Turtle: support blank nodes (#2581)
  * Wikitext: fix erroneous highlighting of LanguageConverter markup
    (#2493), add missing variant languages (#2494)
  * CMake: support `[=[ bracketed arguments ]=]` (#2549)

- Fix ctags support and tests (#2487)
- Include ``Lexer.add_filter`` in the documentation (#2519)
- Add a ``Lean3Lexer`` alias (#2546)
- The ``pygments.styles`` module contains a new ``STYLES`` variable with a dictionary of built-in styles.  The old ``STYLE_MAP`` variable, which uses a different format, is kept for backwards compatibility.
- On Windows, add a new installation extra (``windows-terminal``) which pulls in dependencies for colored console output. See :doc:`cmdline` for more details. (#2505)
- Support more file types in ``autopygmentize`` script (#2513)
- Change color of numbers in ``rrt`` style (#2526)
- Fix error when trying to look up plugin formatters by file extension of the output format (#2563)
- Use Hatchling as a build backend instead of setuptools.
  This change is transparent to most users. Distribution packagers who build without build isolation need to add hatchling as a build
  dependency and remove setuptools. People downloading source distributions and wheels from PyPI directly should note that they now have ``pygments`` in their file names instead of ``Pygments``. (#2573)
- Improve the test framework to also check for lost tokens when processing the snippets and example files (#2582.)
- Improve the _Dracula_ style definition to make it easier to maintain (#2575)

### 2.16.1

- Date: 2023-08-06
- Version: 2.16.1
- Original notes: https://github.com/pygments/pygments/releases/tag/2.16.1
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/pygments/releases/2.16.1

- Fix ``native`` style missing from style list (#2484)

### 2.16.0

- Date: 2023-08-06
- Version: 2.16.0
- Original notes: https://github.com/pygments/pygments/releases/tag/2.16.0
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/pygments/releases/2.16.0

- New lexers:

  * ASN.1 (#2462)
  * Blueprint (#2434)
  * BQN (#2472)
  * DNS zone files (#2464)
  * GraphQL (#2428)
  * Linux desktop files (following the specification of the Freedesktop group, formerly known as XDG) (#2470)
  * NVIDIA PTX (#2432)
  * OpenSCAD (#2449)
  * systemd (#2470)
  * TLS presentation language (#2455)
  * Verifpal (#2430)
  * YARA (#2453)

- Updated lexers:

  * ASC: Add ``application/pem-certificate-chain`` mimetype (#2471)
  * C/C++: Refine keyword lists (#2421, #2422)
  * Carbon: Fix long processing times on invalid input, fix number lexing (#2454, #2456)
  * Elpi: Handle quotations (#2419)
  * Go: Support additional built-ins (#2481)
  * HTTP: Support empty headers (#2461), support more general methods (#2460), also recognize responses in ``analyse_text`` implementation (#2460), and highlight URL encoded data (#2465, #1620)
  * Igor Pro: Update to Igor Pro 9 (#2482)
  * lean: Recognize expressions nested within attributes (#1817)
  * Macaulay2: Update builtins (#2457)
  * Markdown: Allow extra characters after language name
    in code blocks (#2437)
  * NestedText: Update to version 3 (#2459)
  * scdoc: Improve language guessing implementation (#2402)
  * Spice: Update to latest version (#2476)
  * Transact SQL: Add Pre-sorted Group keyword (#2417)
  * Uxntal: Update for current runes (#2424)
  * Wikitext: Fix templates in wiki links; fix a language converter false positive; add bold italic markup (#2447)

- Add ``Generic.EmphStrong`` token for bold italic markup (#2444)
- Add Lightbulb style (#2474)
- Improve contrast in Monokai style (#2448)
- Add documentation how to create terminal code highlighting commands (#2131, #2425)
- Add support for loading TrueType fonts to the ``ImageFormatter`` (#1960)