Version 3.0.3

• Change Rust edition from 2021 to 2024
• Bump dependency versions
• Fix typos in the now-playing man page

Version 3.0.2

• Hotfix for default now-playing output format

Version 3.0.1

• BREAKING: Updated all D-Bus identifiers to a new prefix: club.bnuy.Empress (or /club/bnuy/Empress)
• BREAKING: Changed the variable names passed to the format string for now playing -f 'format...'
• BREAKING: Made now-playing -w incompatible with player filter flags (e.g. --bus), as this never functioned correctly
• BREAKING: Sanitized newlines in the default line-separated output mode for now-playing -w
• BREAKING: Overhauled format syntax and CLI for now-playing
• BREAKING: Made pretty the default format for now-playing; to output JSON use -o json
• Added a raise subcommand (and Raise interface method) that will attempt to bring the current player into focus
• Add ternary {{ if cond then expr else expr }} ternary expression to format string syntax
• Add {{ expr | .member }} and {{ expr | .[index] }} filters to the format string syntax
• Add {{ function(arg!) }} null-propagating syntax to format string function arguments
• Add blank, percent, padLeft, padCenter, and padRight functions to format string syntax
• Add nil literal to format syntax
• Add -0 flag to now-playing -w for NUL-separated output (preserves newline characters)
• Add -n flag to now-playing to omit the trailing newline
• Add manual pages for empress and all subcommands, including now-playing syntax
• Improve reporting of player volume
• Improved CLI logging flags
• Use exponential backoff when retrying client commands, and attempt to re-establish a connection if the server is not yet activatable
• Fixed player update logic, hopefully resulting in fewer internal misfires when multiple events occur concurrently
• Fixed now-playing -w missing certain kinds of updates
• Potential fix for the daemon missing unhandled player-create events
• Fix incorrect position reporting in the values returned by now-playing
• Fix player status occasionally desyncing when issued a command from the daemon
• Removed atty and lazy_static in favor of newer standard library features
• Updated zbus from v3 to v5
• Updated nom from v7 to v8

Version 3.0.0 Alpha 5

• BREAKING: Overhauled format syntax and CLI for now-playing
• BREAKING: Made pretty the default format for now-playing; to output JSON use -o json
• Use exponential backoff when retrying client commands
• Updated nom from v7 to v8

Version 3.0.0 Alpha 4

• Hotfix for invalid JSON being printed by now-playing -w.
• Hotfix for a deadlock in the daemon caused by multiple clients requesting player position

Version 3.0.0 Alpha 2

• BREAKING: Changed the variable names passed to the format string for now playing -f 'format...'
• BREAKING: Made now-playing -w incompatible with player filter flags (e.g. --bus), as this never functioned correctly
• BREAKING: Sanitized newlines in the default line-separated output mode for now-playing -w
• Add {{ expr | .member }} and {{ expr | .[index] }} filters to the format string syntax
• Add {{ function(arg!) }} null-propagating syntax to format string function arguments
• Add -0 flag to now-playing -w for NUL-separated output (preserves newline characters)
• Improved CLI logging flags
• Fix incorrect position reporting in the values returned by now-playing
• Potential fix for unhandled player-created events by the server

Version 3.0.0 Alpha 1

• BREAKING: Updated all D-Bus identifiers to a new prefix: club.bnuy.Empress (or /club/bnuy/Empress)
• Added a raise subcommand (and Raise interface method) that will attempt to bring the current player into focus
• Fixed now-playing -w missing certain kinds of updates
• Fixed player update logic, hopefully resulting in fewer internal misfires when multiple events occur concurrently
• Updated zbus from v3 to v5
• Removed atty and lazy_static in favor of newer standard library features

v2.0.0

• Switched D-Bus backend to the zbus crate
  • Updated bus interface schema
  • Improved performance with new daemon architecture
• Added the scan subcommand to force daemon refreshes
• Added new options to filter players for most subcommands
• Added -w flag to now-playing subcommand to watch for changes

v1.6.0

• Improved the now-playing command
  • Added player identity info
  • Added duration and playhead position
  • Added string format DSL for non-JSON output
• Changed behavior of player selection to reduce unexpected behavior for all actions

v1.6.0 beta 1

Initial beta release for the new format string syntax for now-playing.