ChangeLog.rst

6.1.2 - 2019-12-11

• Fixed ABI compatibility with libfmt.so.6.0.0 (#1471).
• Fixed handling types convertible to std::string_view (#1451). Thanks @denizevrenci (Deniz Evrenci).
• Made CUDA test an opt-in enabled via the FMT_CUDA_TEST CMake option.
• Fixed sign conversion warnings (#1440). Thanks @0x8000-0000 (Florin Iucha).

6.1.1 - 2019-12-04

• Fixed shared library build on Windows (#1443, #1445, #1446, #1450). Thanks @egorpugin (Egor Pugin), @bbolli (Beat Bolli).
• Added a missing decimal point in exponent notation with trailing zeros.
• Removed deprecated format_arg_store::TYPES.

6.1.0 - 2019-12-01

• {fmt} now formats IEEE 754 float and double using the shortest decimal representation with correct rounding by default:

  #include <cmath>
  #include <fmt/core.h>
  
  int main() {
    fmt::print("{}", M_PI);
  }

  prints 3.141592653589793.

• Made the fast binary to decimal floating-point formatter the default, simplified it and improved performance. {fmt} is now 15 times faster than libc++'s std::ostringstream, 11 times faster than printf and 10% faster than double-conversion on dtoa-benchmark:

  Function	Time (ns)	Speedup
  ostringstream	1,346.30	1.00x
  ostrstream	1,195.74	1.13x
  sprintf	995.08	1.35x
  doubleconv	99.10	13.59x
  fmt	88.34	15.24x

  

• {fmt} no longer converts float arguments to double. In particular this improves the default (shortest) representation of floats and makes fmt::format consistent with std::format specs (#1336, #1353, #1360, #1361):

  fmt::print("{}", 0.1f);

  prints 0.1 instead of 0.10000000149011612.

  Thanks @orivej (Orivej Desh).

• Made floating-point formatting output consistent with printf/iostreams (#1376, #1417).

• Added support for 128-bit integers (#1287):

  fmt::print("{}", std::numeric_limits<__int128_t>::max());

  prints 170141183460469231731687303715884105727.

  Thanks @denizevrenci (Deniz Evrenci).

• The overload of print that takes text_style is now atomic, i.e. the output from different threads doesn't interleave (#1351). Thanks @tankiJong (Tanki Zhang).

• Made compile time in the header-only mode ~20% faster by reducing the number of template instantiations. wchar_t overload of vprint was moved from fmt/core.h to fmt/format.h.

• Added an overload of fmt::join that works with tuples (#1322, #1330):

  #include <tuple>
  #include <fmt/ranges.h>
  
  int main() {
    std::tuple<char, int, float> t{'a', 1, 2.0f};
    fmt::print("{}", t);
  }

  prints ('a', 1, 2.0).

  Thanks @jeremyong (Jeremy Ong).

• Changed formatting of octal zero with prefix from "00" to "0":

  fmt::print("{:#o}", 0);

  prints 0.

• The locale is now passed to ostream insertion (<<) operators (#1406):

  #include <fmt/locale.h>
  #include <fmt/ostream.h>
  
  struct S {
    double value;
  };
  
  std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& os, S s) {
    return os << s.value;
  }
  
  int main() {
    auto s = fmt::format(std::locale("fr_FR.UTF-8"), "{}", S{0.42});
    // s == "0,42"
  }

  Thanks @dlaugt (Daniel Laügt).

• Locale-specific number formatting now uses grouping (#1393 #1394). Thanks @skrdaniel.

• Fixed handling of types with deleted implicit rvalue conversion to const char** (#1421):

  struct mystring {
    operator const char*() const&;
    operator const char*() &;
    operator const char*() const&& = delete;
    operator const char*() && = delete;
  };
  mystring str;
  fmt::print("{}", str); // now compiles

• Enums are now mapped to correct underlying types instead of int (#1286). Thanks @agmt (Egor Seredin).

• Enum classes are no longer implicitly converted to int (#1424).

• Added basic_format_parse_context for consistency with C++20 std::format and deprecated basic_parse_context.

• Fixed handling of UTF-8 in precision (#1389, #1390). Thanks @tajtiattila (Attila Tajti).

• {fmt} can now be installed on Linux, macOS and Windows with Conda using its conda-forge package (#1410):

  conda install -c conda-forge fmt
  

  Thanks @tdegeus (Tom de Geus).

• Added a CUDA test (#1285, #1317). Thanks @luncliff (Park DongHa) and @risa2000.

• Improved documentation (#1276, #1291, #1296, #1315, #1332, #1337, #1395 #1418). Thanks @waywardmonkeys (Bruce Mitchener), @pauldreik (Paul Dreik), @jackoalan (Jack Andersen).

• Various code improvements (#1358, #1407). Thanks @orivej (Orivej Desh), @dpacbach (David P. Sicilia),

• Fixed compile-time format string checks for user-defined types (#1292).

• Worked around a false positive in unsigned-integer-overflow sanitizer (#1377).

• Fixed various warnings and compilation issues (#1273, #1278, #1280, #1281, #1288, #1290, #1301, #1305, #1306, #1309, #1312, #1313, #1316, #1319, #1320, #1326, #1328, #1344, #1345, #1347, #1349, #1354, #1362, #1366, #1364, #1370, #1371, #1385, #1388, #1397, #1414, #1416, #1422 #1427, #1431, #1433). Thanks @hhb, @gsjaardema (Greg Sjaardema), @gabime (Gabi Melman), @neheb (Rosen Penev), @vedranmiletic (Vedran Miletić), @dkavolis (Daumantas Kavolis), @mwinterb, @orivej (Orivej Desh), @denizevrenci (Deniz Evrenci) @leonklingele, @chronoxor (Ivan Shynkarenka), @kent-tri, @0x8000-0000 (Florin Iucha), @marti4d (Chris Martin).

6.0.0 - 2019-08-26

• Switched to the MIT license with an optional exception that allows distributing binary code without attribution.

• Floating-point formatting is now locale-independent by default:

  #include <locale>
  #include <fmt/core.h>
  
  int main() {
    std::locale::global(std::locale("ru_RU.UTF-8"));
    fmt::print("value = {}", 4.2);
  }

  prints "value = 4.2" regardless of the locale.

  For locale-specific formatting use the n specifier:

  std::locale::global(std::locale("ru_RU.UTF-8"));
  fmt::print("value = {:n}", 4.2);

  prints "value = 4,2".

• Added an experimental Grisu floating-point formatting algorithm implementation (disabled by default). To enable it compile with the FMT_USE_GRISU macro defined to 1:

  #define FMT_USE_GRISU 1
  #include <fmt/format.h>
  
  auto s = fmt::format("{}", 4.2); // formats 4.2 using Grisu

  With Grisu enabled, {fmt} is 13x faster than std::ostringstream (libc++) and 10x faster than sprintf on dtoa-benchmark (full results):

  

• Separated formatting and parsing contexts for consistency with C++20 std::format, removing the undocumented basic_format_context::parse_context() function.

• Added oss-fuzz support (#1199). Thanks @pauldreik (Paul Dreik).

• formatter specializations now always take precedence over operator<< (#952):

  #include <iostream>
  #include <fmt/ostream.h>
  
  struct S {};
  
  std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& os, S) {
    return os << 1;
  }
  
  template <>
  struct fmt::formatter<S> : fmt::formatter<int> {
    auto format(S, format_context& ctx) {
      return formatter<int>::format(2, ctx);
    }
  };
  
  int main() {
    std::cout << S() << "\n"; // prints 1 using operator<<
    fmt::print("{}\n", S());  // prints 2 using formatter
  }

• Introduced the experimental fmt::compile function that does format string compilation (#618, #1169, #1171):

  #include <fmt/compile.h>
  
  auto f = fmt::compile<int>("{}");
  std::string s = fmt::format(f, 42); // can be called multiple times to format
                                      // different values
  // s == "42"

  It moves the cost of parsing a format string outside of the format function which can be beneficial when identically formatting many objects of the same types. Thanks @stryku (Mateusz Janek).

• Added the % format specifier that formats floating-point values as percentages (#1060, #1069, #1071):

  auto s = fmt::format("{:.1%}", 0.42); // s == "42.0%"

  Thanks @gawain-bolton (Gawain Bolton).

• Implemented precision for floating-point durations (#1004, #1012):

  auto s = fmt::format("{:.1}", std::chrono::duration<double>(1.234));
  // s == 1.2s

  Thanks @DanielaE (Daniela Engert).

• Implemented chrono format specifiers %Q and %q that give the value and the unit respectively (#1019):

  auto value = fmt::format("{:%Q}", 42s); // value == "42"
  auto unit  = fmt::format("{:%q}", 42s); // unit == "s"

  Thanks @DanielaE (Daniela Engert).

• Fixed handling of dynamic width in chrono formatter:

  auto s = fmt::format("{0:{1}%H:%M:%S}", std::chrono::seconds(12345), 12);
  //                        ^ width argument index                     ^ width
  // s == "03:25:45    "

  Thanks Howard Hinnant.

• Removed deprecated fmt/time.h. Use fmt/chrono.h instead.

• Added fmt::format and fmt::vformat overloads that take text_style (#993, #994):

  #include <fmt/color.h>
  
  std::string message = fmt::format(fmt::emphasis::bold | fg(fmt::color::red),
                                    "The answer is {}.", 42);

  Thanks @Naios (Denis Blank).

• Removed the deprecated color API (print_colored). Use the new API, namely print overloads that take text_style instead.

• Made std::unique_ptr and std::shared_ptr formattable as pointers via fmt::ptr (#1121):

  std::unique_ptr<int> p = ...;
  fmt::print("{}", fmt::ptr(p)); // prints p as a pointer

  Thanks @sighingnow (Tao He).

• Made print and vprint report I/O errors (#1098, #1099). Thanks @BillyDonahue (Billy Donahue).

• Marked deprecated APIs with the [[deprecated]] attribute and removed internal uses of deprecated APIs (#1022). Thanks @eliaskosunen (Elias Kosunen).

• Modernized the codebase using more C++11 features and removing workarounds. Most importantly, buffer_context is now an alias template, so use buffer_context<T> instead of buffer_context<T>::type. These features require GCC 4.8 or later.

• formatter specializations now always take precedence over implicit conversions to int and the undocumented convert_to_int trait is now deprecated.

• Moved the undocumented basic_writer, writer, and wwriter types to the internal namespace.

• Removed deprecated basic_format_context::begin(). Use out() instead.

• Disallowed passing the result of join as an lvalue to prevent misuse.

• Refactored the undocumented structs that represent parsed format specifiers to simplify the API and allow multibyte fill.

• Moved SFINAE to template parameters to reduce symbol sizes.

• Switched to fputws for writing wide strings so that it's no longer required to call _setmode on Windows (#1229, #1243). Thanks @jackoalan (Jack Andersen).

• Improved literal-based API (#1254). Thanks @sylveon (Charles Milette).

• Added support for exotic platforms without uintptr_t such as IBM i (AS/400) which has 128-bit pointers and only 64-bit integers (#1059).

• Added Sublime Text syntax highlighting config (#1037). Thanks @Kronuz (Germán Méndez Bravo).

• Added the FMT_ENFORCE_COMPILE_STRING macro to enforce the use of compile-time format strings (#1231). Thanks @jackoalan (Jack Andersen).

• Stopped setting CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE if {fmt} is a subproject (#1081).

• Various build improvements (#1039, #1078, #1091, #1103, #1177). Thanks @luncliff (Park DongHa), @jasonszang (Jason Shuo Zang), @olafhering (Olaf Hering), @Lecetem, @pauldreik (Paul Dreik).

• Improved documentation (#1049, #1051, #1083, #1113, #1114, #1146, #1180, #1250, #1252, #1265). Thanks @mikelui (Michael Lui), @foonathan (Jonathan Müller), @BillyDonahue (Billy Donahue), @jwakely (Jonathan Wakely), @kaisbe (Kais Ben Salah), @sdebionne (Samuel Debionne).

• Fixed ambiguous formatter specialization in fmt/ranges.h (#1123).

• Fixed formatting of a non-empty std::filesystem::path which is an infinitely deep range of its components (#1268).

• Fixed handling of general output iterators when formatting characters (#1056, #1058). Thanks @abolz (Alexander Bolz).

• Fixed handling of output iterators in formatter specialization for ranges (#1064).

• Fixed handling of exotic character types (#1188).

• Made chrono formatting work with exceptions disabled (#1062).

• Fixed DLL visibility issues (#1134, #1147). Thanks @denchat.

• Disabled the use of UDL template extension on GCC 9 (#1148).

• Removed misplaced format compile-time checks from printf (#1173).

• Fixed issues in the experimental floating-point formatter (#1072, #1129, #1153, #1155, #1210, #1222). Thanks @alabuzhev (Alex Alabuzhev).

• Fixed bugs discovered by fuzzing or during fuzzing integration (#1124, #1127, #1132, #1135, #1136, #1141, #1142, #1178, #1179, #1194). Thanks @pauldreik (Paul Dreik).

• Fixed building tests on FreeBSD and Hurd (#1043). Thanks @jackyf (Eugene V. Lyubimkin).

• Fixed various warnings and compilation issues (#998, #1006, #1008, #1011, #1025, #1027, #1028, #1029, #1030, #1031, #1054, #1063, #1068, #1074, #1075, #1079, #1086, #1088, #1089, #1094, #1101, #1102, #1105, #1107, #1115, #1117, #1118, #1120, #1123, #1139, #1140, #1143, #1144, #1150, #1151, #1152, #1154, #1156, #1159, #1175, #1181, #1186, #1187, #1191, #1197, #1200, #1203, #1205, #1206, #1213, #1214, #1217, #1228, #1230, #1232, #1235, #1236, #1240). Thanks @DanielaE (Daniela Engert), @mwinterb, @eliaskosunen (Elias Kosunen), @morinmorin, @ricco19 (Brian Ricciardelli), @waywardmonkeys (Bruce Mitchener), @chronoxor (Ivan Shynkarenka), @remyabel, @pauldreik (Paul Dreik), @gsjaardema (Greg Sjaardema), @rcane (Ronny Krüger), @mocabe, @denchat, @cjdb (Christopher Di Bella), @HazardyKnusperkeks (Björn Schäpers), @vedranmiletic (Vedran Miletić), @jackoalan (Jack Andersen), @DaanDeMeyer (Daan De Meyer), @starkmapper (Mark Stapper).

5.3.0 - 2018-12-28

• Introduced experimental chrono formatting support:

  #include <fmt/chrono.h>
  
  int main() {
    using namespace std::literals::chrono_literals;
    fmt::print("Default format: {} {}\n", 42s, 100ms);
    fmt::print("strftime-like format: {:%H:%M:%S}\n", 3h + 15min + 30s);
  }

  prints:

  Default format: 42s 100ms
  strftime-like format: 03:15:30
  

• Added experimental support for emphasis (bold, italic, underline, strikethrough), colored output to a file stream, and improved colored formatting API (#961, #967, #973):

  #include <fmt/color.h>
  
  int main() {
    print(fg(fmt::color::crimson) | fmt::emphasis::bold,
          "Hello, {}!\n", "world");
    print(fg(fmt::color::floral_white) | bg(fmt::color::slate_gray) |
          fmt::emphasis::underline, "Hello, {}!\n", "мир");
    print(fg(fmt::color::steel_blue) | fmt::emphasis::italic,
          "Hello, {}!\n", "世界");
  }

  prints the following on modern terminals with RGB color support:

  

  Thanks @Rakete1111 (Nicolas).

• Added support for 4-bit terminal colors (#968, #974)

  #include <fmt/color.h>
  
  int main() {
    print(fg(fmt::terminal_color::red), "stop\n");
  }

  Note that these colors vary by terminal:

  

  Thanks @Rakete1111 (Nicolas).

• Parameterized formatting functions on the type of the format string (#880, #881, #883, #885, #897, #920). Any object of type S that has an overloaded to_string_view(const S&) returning fmt::string_view can be used as a format string:

  namespace my_ns {
  inline string_view to_string_view(const my_string& s) {
    return {s.data(), s.length()};
  }
  }
  
  std::string message = fmt::format(my_string("The answer is {}."), 42);

  Thanks @DanielaE (Daniela Engert).

• Made std::string_view work as a format string (#898):

  auto message = fmt::format(std::string_view("The answer is {}."), 42);

  Thanks @DanielaE (Daniela Engert).

• Added wide string support to compile-time format string checks (#924):

  print(fmt(L"{:f}"), 42); // compile-time error: invalid type specifier

  Thanks @XZiar.

• Made colored print functions work with wide strings (#867):

  #include <fmt/color.h>
  
  int main() {
    print(fg(fmt::color::red), L"{}\n", 42);
  }

  Thanks @DanielaE (Daniela Engert).

• Introduced experimental Unicode support (#628, #891):

  using namespace fmt::literals;
  auto s = fmt::format("{:*^5}"_u, "🤡"_u); // s == "**🤡**"_u

• Improved locale support:

  #include <fmt/locale.h>
  
  struct numpunct : std::numpunct<char> {
   protected:
    char do_thousands_sep() const override { return '~'; }
  };
  
  std::locale loc;
  auto s = fmt::format(std::locale(loc, new numpunct()), "{:n}", 1234567);
  // s == "1~234~567"

• Constrained formatting functions on proper iterator types (#921). Thanks @DanielaE (Daniela Engert).

• Added make_printf_args and make_wprintf_args functions (#934). Thanks @tnovotny.

• Deprecated fmt::visit, parse_context, and wparse_context. Use fmt::visit_format_arg, format_parse_context, and wformat_parse_context instead.

• Removed undocumented basic_fixed_buffer which has been superseded by the iterator-based API (#873, #902). Thanks @superfunc (hollywood programmer).

• Disallowed repeated leading zeros in an argument ID:

  fmt::print("{000}", 42); // error

• Reintroduced support for gcc 4.4.

• Fixed compilation on platforms with exotic double (#878).

• Improved documentation (#164, #877, #901, #906, #979). Thanks @kookjr (Mathew Cucuzella), @DarkDimius (Dmitry Petrashko), @HecticSerenity.

• Added pkgconfig support which makes it easier to consume the library from meson and other build systems (#916). Thanks @colemickens (Cole Mickens).

• Various build improvements (#909, #926, #937, #953, #959). Thanks @tchaikov (Kefu Chai), @luncliff (Park DongHa), @AndreasSchoenle (Andreas Schönle), @hotwatermorning, @Zefz (JohanJansen).

• Improved string_view construction performance (#914). Thanks @gabime (Gabi Melman).

• Fixed non-matching char types (#895). Thanks @DanielaE (Daniela Engert).

• Fixed format_to_n with std::back_insert_iterator (#913). Thanks @DanielaE (Daniela Engert).

• Fixed locale-dependent formatting (#905).

• Fixed various compiler warnings and errors (#882, #886, #933, #941, #931, #943, #954, #956, #962, #965, #977, #983, #989). Thanks @Luthaf (Guillaume Fraux), @stevenhoving (Steven Hoving), @christinaa (Kristina Brooks), @lgritz (Larry Gritz), @DanielaE (Daniela Engert), @0x8000-0000 (Sign Bit), @liuping1997.

5.2.1 - 2018-09-21

• Fixed visit lookup issues on gcc 7 & 8 (#870). Thanks @medithe.
• Fixed linkage errors on older gcc.
• Prevented fmt/range.h from specializing fmt::basic_string_view (#865, #868). Thanks @hhggit (dual).
• Improved error message when formatting unknown types (#872). Thanks @foonathan (Jonathan Müller),
• Disabled templated user-defined literals when compiled under nvcc (#875). Thanks @CandyGumdrop (Candy Gumdrop),
• Fixed format_to formatting to wmemory_buffer (#874).

5.2.0 - 2018-09-13

• Optimized format string parsing and argument processing which resulted in up to 5x speed up on long format strings and significant performance boost on various benchmarks. For example, version 5.2 is 2.22x faster than 5.1 on decimal integer formatting with format_to (macOS, clang-902.0.39.2):

  Method	Time, s	Speedup
  fmt::format 5.1	0.58
  fmt::format 5.2	0.35	1.66x
  fmt::format_to 5.1	0.51
  fmt::format_to 5.2	0.23	2.22x
  sprintf	0.71
  std::to_string	1.01
  std::stringstream	1.73

• Changed the fmt macro from opt-out to opt-in to prevent name collisions. To enable it define the FMT_STRING_ALIAS macro to 1 before including fmt/format.h:

  #define FMT_STRING_ALIAS 1
  #include <fmt/format.h>
  std::string answer = format(fmt("{}"), 42);

• Added compile-time format string checks to format_to overload that takes fmt::memory_buffer (#783):

  fmt::memory_buffer buf;
  // Compile-time error: invalid type specifier.
  fmt::format_to(buf, fmt("{:d}"), "foo");

• Moved experimental color support to fmt/color.h and enabled the new API by default. The old API can be enabled by defining the FMT_DEPRECATED_COLORS macro.

• Added formatting support for types explicitly convertible to fmt::string_view:

  struct foo {
    explicit operator fmt::string_view() const { return "foo"; }
  };
  auto s = format("{}", foo());

  In particular, this makes formatting function work with folly::StringPiece.

• Implemented preliminary support for char*_t by replacing the format function overloads with a single function template parameterized on the string type.

• Added support for dynamic argument lists (#814, #819). Thanks @MikePopoloski (Michael Popoloski).

• Reduced executable size overhead for embedded targets using newlib nano by making locale dependency optional (#839). Thanks @teajay-fr (Thomas Benard).

• Keep noexcept specifier when exceptions are disabled (#801, #810). Thanks @qis (Alexej Harm).

• Fixed formatting of user-defined types providing operator<< with format_to_n (#806). Thanks @mkurdej (Marek Kurdej).

• Fixed dynamic linkage of new symbols (#808).

• Fixed global initialization issue (#807):

  // This works on compilers with constexpr support.
  static const std::string answer = fmt::format("{}", 42);

• Fixed various compiler warnings and errors (#804, #809, #811, #822, #827, #830, #838, #843, #844, #851, #852, #854). Thanks @henryiii (Henry Schreiner), @medithe, and @eliasdaler (Elias Daler).

5.1.0 - 2018-07-05

• Added experimental support for RGB color output enabled with the FMT_EXTENDED_COLORS macro:

  #define FMT_EXTENDED_COLORS
  #define FMT_HEADER_ONLY // or compile fmt with FMT_EXTENDED_COLORS defined
  #include <fmt/format.h>
  
  fmt::print(fmt::color::steel_blue, "Some beautiful text");

  The old API (the print_colored and vprint_colored functions and the color enum) is now deprecated. (#762 #767). thanks @Remotion (Remo).

• Added quotes to strings in ranges and tuples (#766). Thanks @Remotion (Remo).

• Made format_to work with basic_memory_buffer (#776).

• Added vformat_to_n and wchar_t overload of format_to_n (#764, #769).

• Made is_range and is_tuple_like part of public (experimental) API to allow specialization for user-defined types (#751, #759). Thanks @drrlvn (Dror Levin).

• Added more compilers to continuous integration and increased FMT_PEDANTIC warning levels (#736). Thanks @eliaskosunen (Elias Kosunen).

• Fixed compilation with MSVC 2013.

• Fixed handling of user-defined types in format_to (#793).

• Forced linking of inline vformat functions into the library (#795).

• Fixed incorrect call to on_align in '{:}=' (#750).

• Fixed floating-point formatting to a non-back_insert_iterator with sign & numeric alignment specified (#756).

• Fixed formatting to an array with format_to_n (#778).

• Fixed formatting of more than 15 named arguments (#754).

• Fixed handling of compile-time strings when including fmt/ostream.h. (#768).

• Fixed various compiler warnings and errors (#742, #748, #752, #770, #775, #779, #780, #790, #792, #800). Thanks @Remotion (Remo), @gabime (Gabi Melman), @foonathan (Jonathan Müller), @Dark-Passenger (Dhruv Paranjape), and @0x8000-0000 (Sign Bit).

5.0.0 - 2018-05-21

• Added a requirement for partial C++11 support, most importantly variadic templates and type traits, and dropped FMT_VARIADIC_* emulation macros. Variadic templates are available since GCC 4.4, Clang 2.9 and MSVC 18.0 (2013). For older compilers use {fmt} version 4.x which continues to be maintained and works with C++98 compilers.

• Renamed symbols to follow standard C++ naming conventions and proposed a subset of the library for standardization in P0645R2 Text Formatting.

• Implemented constexpr parsing of format strings and compile-time format string checks. For example

  #include <fmt/format.h>
  
  std::string s = format(fmt("{:d}"), "foo");

  gives a compile-time error because d is an invalid specifier for strings (godbolt):

  ...
  <source>:4:19: note: in instantiation of function template specialization 'fmt::v5::format<S, char [4]>' requested here
    std::string s = format(fmt("{:d}"), "foo");
                    ^
  format.h:1337:13: note: non-constexpr function 'on_error' cannot be used in a constant expression
      handler.on_error("invalid type specifier");
  

  Compile-time checks require relaxed constexpr (C++14 feature) support. If the latter is not available, checks will be performed at runtime.

• Separated format string parsing and formatting in the extension API to enable compile-time format string processing. For example

  struct Answer {};
  
  namespace fmt {
  template <>
  struct formatter<Answer> {
    constexpr auto parse(parse_context& ctx) {
      auto it = ctx.begin();
      spec = *it;
      if (spec != 'd' && spec != 's')
        throw format_error("invalid specifier");
      return ++it;
    }
  
    template <typename FormatContext>
    auto format(Answer, FormatContext& ctx) {
      return spec == 's' ?
        format_to(ctx.begin(), "{}", "fourty-two") :
        format_to(ctx.begin(), "{}", 42);
    }
  
    char spec = 0;
  };
  }
  
  std::string s = format(fmt("{:x}"), Answer());

  gives a compile-time error due to invalid format specifier (godbolt):

  ...
  <source>:12:45: error: expression '<throw-expression>' is not a constant expression
         throw format_error("invalid specifier");
  

• Added iterator support:

  #include <vector>
  #include <fmt/format.h>
  
  std::vector<char> out;
  fmt::format_to(std::back_inserter(out), "{}", 42);

• Added the format_to_n function that restricts the output to the specified number of characters (#298):

  char out[4];
  fmt::format_to_n(out, sizeof(out), "{}", 12345);
  // out == "1234" (without terminating '\0')

• Added the formatted_size function for computing the output size:

  #include <fmt/format.h>
  
  auto size = fmt::formatted_size("{}", 12345); // size == 5

• Improved compile times by reducing dependencies on standard headers and providing a lightweight core API:

  #include <fmt/core.h>
  
  fmt::print("The answer is {}.", 42);

  See Compile time and code bloat.

• Added the make_format_args function for capturing formatting arguments:

  // Prints formatted error message.
  void vreport_error(const char *format, fmt::format_args args) {
    fmt::print("Error: ");
    fmt::vprint(format, args);
  }
  template <typename... Args>
  void report_error(const char *format, const Args & ... args) {
    vreport_error(format, fmt::make_format_args(args...));
  }

• Added the make_printf_args function for capturing printf arguments (#687, #694). Thanks @Kronuz (Germán Méndez Bravo).

• Added prefix v to non-variadic functions taking format_args to distinguish them from variadic ones:

  std::string vformat(string_view format_str, format_args args);
  
  template <typename... Args>
  std::string format(string_view format_str, const Args & ... args);

• Added experimental support for formatting ranges, containers and tuple-like types in fmt/ranges.h (#735):

  #include <fmt/ranges.h>
  
  std::vector<int> v = {1, 2, 3};
  fmt::print("{}", v); // prints {1, 2, 3}

  Thanks @Remotion (Remo).

• Implemented wchar_t date and time formatting (#712):

  #include <fmt/time.h>
  
  std::time_t t = std::time(nullptr);
  auto s = fmt::format(L"The date is {:%Y-%m-%d}.", *std::localtime(&t));

  Thanks @DanielaE (Daniela Engert).

• Provided more wide string overloads (#724). Thanks @DanielaE (Daniela Engert).

• Switched from a custom null-terminated string view class to string_view in the format API and provided fmt::string_view which implements a subset of std::string_view API for pre-C++17 systems.

• Added support for std::experimental::string_view (#607):

  #include <fmt/core.h>
  #include <experimental/string_view>
  
  fmt::print("{}", std::experimental::string_view("foo"));

  Thanks @virgiliofornazin (Virgilio Alexandre Fornazin).

• Allowed mixing named and automatic arguments:

  fmt::format("{} {two}", 1, fmt::arg("two", 2));

• Removed the write API in favor of the format API with compile-time handling of format strings.

• Disallowed formatting of multibyte strings into a wide character target (#606).

• Improved documentation (#515, #614, #617, #661, #680). Thanks @ibell (Ian Bell), @mihaitodor (Mihai Todor), and @johnthagen.

• Implemented more efficient handling of large number of format arguments.

• Introduced an inline namespace for symbol versioning.

• Added debug postfix d to the fmt library name (#636).

• Removed unnecessary fmt/ prefix in includes (#397). Thanks @chronoxor (Ivan Shynkarenka).

• Moved fmt/*.h to include/fmt/*.h to prevent irrelevant files and directories appearing on the include search paths when fmt is used as a subproject and moved source files to the src directory.

• Added qmake project file support/fmt.pro (#641). Thanks @cowo78 (Giuseppe Corbelli).

• Added Gradle build file support/build.gradle (#649). Thanks @luncliff (Park DongHa).

• Removed FMT_CPPFORMAT CMake option.

• Fixed a name conflict with the macro CHAR_WIDTH in glibc (#616). Thanks @aroig (Abdó Roig-Maranges).

• Fixed handling of nested braces in fmt::join (#638).

• Added SOURCELINK_SUFFIX for compatibility with Sphinx 1.5 (#497). Thanks @ginggs (Graham Inggs).

• Added a missing inline in the header-only mode (#626). Thanks @aroig (Abdó Roig-Maranges).

• Fixed various compiler warnings (#640, #656, #679, #681, #705, #715, #717, #720, #723, #726, #730, #739). Thanks @peterbell10, @LarsGullik, @foonathan (Jonathan Müller), @eliaskosunen (Elias Kosunen), @christianparpart (Christian Parpart), @DanielaE (Daniela Engert), and @mwinterb.

• Worked around an MSVC bug and fixed several warnings (#653). Thanks @alabuzhev (Alex Alabuzhev).

• Worked around GCC bug 67371 (#682).

• Fixed compilation with -fno-exceptions (#655). Thanks @chenxiaolong (Andrew Gunnerson).

• Made constexpr remove_prefix gcc version check tighter (#648).

• Renamed internal type enum constants to prevent collision with poorly written C libraries (#644).

• Added detection of wostream operator<< (#650).

• Fixed compilation on OpenBSD (#660). Thanks @hubslave.

• Fixed compilation on FreeBSD 12 (#732). Thanks @dankm.

• Fixed compilation when there is a mismatch between -std options between the library and user code (#664).

• Fixed compilation with GCC 7 and -std=c++11 (#734).

• Improved generated binary code on GCC 7 and older (#668).

• Fixed handling of numeric alignment with no width (#675).

• Fixed handling of empty strings in UTF8/16 converters (#676). Thanks @vgalka-sl (Vasili Galka).

• Fixed formatting of an empty string_view (#689).

• Fixed detection of string_view on libc++ (#686).

• Fixed DLL issues (#696). Thanks @sebkoenig.

• Fixed compile checks for mixing narrow and wide strings (#690).

• Disabled unsafe implicit conversion to std::string (#729).

• Fixed handling of reused format specs (as in fmt::join) for pointers (#725). Thanks @mwinterb.

• Fixed installation of fmt/ranges.h (#738). Thanks @sv1990.

4.1.0 - 2017-12-20

• Added fmt::to_wstring() in addition to fmt::to_string() (#559). Thanks @alabuzhev (Alex Alabuzhev).
• Added support for C++17 std::string_view (#571 and #578). Thanks @thelostt (Mário Feroldi) and @mwinterb.
• Enabled stream exceptions to catch errors (#581). Thanks @crusader-mike.
• Allowed formatting of class hierarchies with fmt::format_arg() (#547). Thanks @rollbear (Björn Fahller).
• Removed limitations on character types (#563). Thanks @Yelnats321 (Elnar Dakeshov).
• Conditionally enabled use of std::allocator_traits (#583). Thanks @mwinterb.
• Added support for const variadic member function emulation with FMT_VARIADIC_CONST (#591). Thanks @ludekvodicka (Ludek Vodicka).
• Various bugfixes: bad overflow check, unsupported implicit type conversion when determining formatting function, test segfaults (#551), ill-formed macros (#542) and ambiguous overloads (#580). Thanks @xylosper (Byoung-young Lee).
• Prevented warnings on MSVC (#605, #602, and #545), clang (#582), GCC (#573), various conversion warnings (#609, #567, #553 and #553), and added override and [[noreturn]] (#549 and #555). Thanks @alabuzhev (Alex Alabuzhev), @virgiliofornazin (Virgilio Alexandre Fornazin), @alexanderbock (Alexander Bock), @yumetodo, @VaderY (Császár Mátyás), @jpcima (JP Cimalando), @thelostt (Mário Feroldi), and @Manu343726 (Manu Sánchez).
• Improved CMake: Used GNUInstallDirs to set installation location (#610) and fixed warnings (#536 and #556). Thanks @mikecrowe (Mike Crowe), @evgen231 and @henryiii (Henry Schreiner).

4.0.0 - 2017-06-27

• Removed old compatibility headers cppformat/*.h and CMake options (#527). Thanks @maddinat0r (Alex Martin).

• Added string.h containing fmt::to_string() as alternative to std::to_string() as well as other string writer functionality (#326 and #441):

  #include "fmt/string.h"
  
  std::string answer = fmt::to_string(42);

  Thanks to @glebov-andrey (Andrey Glebov).

• Moved fmt::printf() to new printf.h header and allowed %s as generic specifier (#453), made %.f more conformant to regular printf() (#490), added custom writer support (#476) and implemented missing custom argument formatting (#339 and #340):

  #include "fmt/printf.h"
  
  // %s format specifier can be used with any argument type.
  fmt::printf("%s", 42);

  Thanks @mojoBrendan, @manylegged (Arthur Danskin) and @spacemoose (Glen Stark). See also #360, #335 and #331.

• Added container.h containing a BasicContainerWriter to write to containers like std::vector (#450). Thanks @polyvertex (Jean-Charles Lefebvre).

• Added fmt::join() function that takes a range and formats its elements separated by a given string (#466):

  #include "fmt/format.h"
  
  std::vector<double> v = {1.2, 3.4, 5.6};
  // Prints "(+01.20, +03.40, +05.60)".
  fmt::print("({:+06.2f})", fmt::join(v.begin(), v.end(), ", "));

  Thanks @olivier80.

• Added support for custom formatting specifications to simplify customization of built-in formatting (#444). Thanks @polyvertex (Jean-Charles Lefebvre). See also #439.

• Added fmt::format_system_error() for error code formatting (#323 and #526). Thanks @maddinat0r (Alex Martin).

• Added thread-safe fmt::localtime() and fmt::gmtime() as replacement for the standard version to time.h (#396). Thanks @codicodi.

• Internal improvements to NamedArg and ArgLists (#389 and #390). Thanks @chronoxor.

• Fixed crash due to bug in FormatBuf (#493). Thanks @effzeh. See also #480 and #491.

• Fixed handling of wide strings in fmt::StringWriter.

• Improved compiler error messages (#357).

• Fixed various warnings and issues with various compilers (#494, #499, #483, #485, #482, #475, #473 and #414). Thanks @chronoxor, @zhaohuaxishi, @pkestene (Pierre Kestener), @dschmidt (Dominik Schmidt) and @0x414c (Alexey Gorishny) .

• Improved CMake: targets are now namespaced (#511 and #513), supported header-only printf.h (#354), fixed issue with minimal supported library subset (#418, #419 and #420). Thanks @bjoernthiel (Bjoern Thiel), @niosHD (Mario Werner), @LogicalKnight (Sean LK) and @alabuzhev (Alex Alabuzhev).

• Improved documentation. Thanks to @pwm1234 (Phil) for #393.

3.0.2 - 2017-06-14

• Added FMT_VERSION macro (#411).
• Used FMT_NULL instead of literal 0 (#409). Thanks @alabuzhev (Alex Alabuzhev).
• Added extern templates for format_float (#413).
• Fixed implicit conversion issue (#507).
• Fixed signbit detection (#423).
• Fixed naming collision (#425).
• Fixed missing intrinsic for C++/CLI (#457). Thanks @calumr (Calum Robinson)
• Fixed Android detection (#458). Thanks @Gachapen (Magnus Bjerke Vik).
• Use lean windows.h if not in header-only mode (#503). Thanks @Quentin01 (Quentin Buathier).
• Fixed issue with CMake exporting C++11 flag (#445). Thanks @EricWF (Eric).
• Fixed issue with nvcc and MSVC compiler bug and MinGW (#505).
• Fixed DLL issues (#469 and #502). Thanks @richardeakin (Richard Eakin) and @AndreasSchoenle (Andreas Schönle).
• Fixed test compilation under FreeBSD (#433).
• Fixed various warnings (#403, #410 and #510). Thanks @Lecetem, @chenhayat (Chen Hayat) and @trozen.
• Worked around a broken __builtin_clz in clang with MS codegen (#519).
• Removed redundant include (#479).
• Fixed documentation issues.

3.0.1 - 2016-11-01

• Fixed handling of thousands separator (#353).
• Fixed handling of unsigned char strings (#373).
• Corrected buffer growth when formatting time (#367).
• Removed warnings under MSVC and clang (#318, #250, also merged #385 and #361). Thanks @jcelerier (Jean-Michaël Celerier) and @nmoehrle (Nils Moehrle).
• Fixed compilation issues under Android (#327, #345 and #381), FreeBSD (#358), Cygwin (#388), MinGW (#355) as well as other issues (#350, #366, #348, #402, #405). Thanks to @dpantele (Dmitry), @hghwng (Hugh Wang), @arvedarved (Tilman Keskinöz), @LogicalKnight (Sean) and @JanHellwig (Jan Hellwig).
• Fixed some documentation issues and extended specification (#320, #333, #347, #362). Thanks to @smellman (Taro Matsuzawa aka. btm).

3.0.0 - 2016-05-07

• The project has been renamed from C++ Format (cppformat) to fmt for consistency with the used namespace and macro prefix (#307). Library headers are now located in the fmt directory:

  #include "fmt/format.h"

  Including format.h from the cppformat directory is deprecated but works via a proxy header which will be removed in the next major version.

  The documentation is now available at https://fmt.dev.

• Added support for strftime-like date and time formatting (#283):

  #include "fmt/time.h"
  
  std::time_t t = std::time(nullptr);
  // Prints "The date is 2016-04-29." (with the current date)
  fmt::print("The date is {:%Y-%m-%d}.", *std::localtime(&t));

• std::ostream support including formatting of user-defined types that provide overloaded operator<< has been moved to fmt/ostream.h:

  #include "fmt/ostream.h"
  
  class Date {
    int year_, month_, day_;
  public:
    Date(int year, int month, int day) : year_(year), month_(month), day_(day) {}
  
    friend std::ostream &operator<<(std::ostream &os, const Date &d) {
      return os << d.year_ << '-' << d.month_ << '-' << d.day_;
    }
  };
  
  std::string s = fmt::format("The date is {}", Date(2012, 12, 9));
  // s == "The date is 2012-12-9"

• Added support for custom argument formatters (#235).

• Added support for locale-specific integer formatting with the n specifier (#305):

  std::setlocale(LC_ALL, "en_US.utf8");
  fmt::print("cppformat: {:n}\n", 1234567); // prints 1,234,567

• Sign is now preserved when formatting an integer with an incorrect printf format specifier (#265):

  fmt::printf("%lld", -42); // prints -42

  Note that it would be an undefined behavior in std::printf.

• Length modifiers such as ll are now optional in printf formatting functions and the correct type is determined automatically (#255):

  fmt::printf("%d", std::numeric_limits<long long>::max());

  Note that it would be an undefined behavior in std::printf.

• Added initial support for custom formatters (#231).

• Fixed detection of user-defined literal support on Intel C++ compiler (#311, #312). Thanks to @dean0x7d (Dean Moldovan) and @speth (Ray Speth).

• Reduced compile time (#243, #249, #317):

  

  Thanks to @dean0x7d (Dean Moldovan).

• Compile test fixes (#313). Thanks to @dean0x7d (Dean Moldovan).

• Documentation fixes (#239, #248, #252, #258, #260, #301, #309). Thanks to @ReadmeCritic @Gachapen (Magnus Bjerke Vik) and @jwilk (Jakub Wilk).

• Fixed compiler and sanitizer warnings (#244, #256, #259, #263, #274, #277, #286, #291, #296, #308) Thanks to @mwinterb, @pweiskircher (Patrik Weiskircher), @Naios.

• Improved compatibility with Windows Store apps (#280, #285) Thanks to @mwinterb.

• Added tests of compatibility with older C++ standards (#273). Thanks to @niosHD.

• Fixed Android build (#271). Thanks to @newnon.

• Changed ArgMap to be backed by a vector instead of a map. (#261, #262). Thanks to @mwinterb.

• Added fprintf overload that writes to a std::ostream (#251). Thanks to nickhutchinson (Nicholas Hutchinson).

• Export symbols when building a Windows DLL (#245). Thanks to macdems (Maciek Dems).

• Fixed compilation on Cygwin (#304).

• Implemented a workaround for a bug in Apple LLVM version 4.2 of clang (#276).

• Implemented a workaround for Google Test bug #705 on gcc 6 (#268). Thanks to octoploid.

• Removed Biicode support because the latter has been discontinued.

2.1.1 - 2016-04-11

• The install location for generated CMake files is now configurable via the FMT_CMAKE_DIR CMake variable (#299). Thanks to @niosHD.
• Documentation fixes (#252).

2.1.0 - 2016-03-21

• Project layout and build system improvements (#267):

  • The code have been moved to the cppformat directory. Including format.h from the top-level directory is deprecated but works via a proxy header which will be removed in the next major version.
  • C++ Format CMake targets now have proper interface definitions.
  • Installed version of the library now supports the header-only configuration.
  • Targets doc, install, and test are now disabled if C++ Format is included as a CMake subproject. They can be enabled by setting FMT_DOC, FMT_INSTALL, and FMT_TEST in the parent project.

  Thanks to @niosHD.

2.0.1 - 2016-03-13

• Improved CMake find and package support (#264). Thanks to @niosHD.
• Fix compile error with Android NDK and mingw32 (#241). Thanks to @Gachapen (Magnus Bjerke Vik).
• Documentation fixes (#248, #260).

2.0.0 - 2015-12-01

General

• [Breaking] Named arguments (#169, #173, #174):

  fmt::print("The answer is {answer}.", fmt::arg("answer", 42));

  Thanks to @jamboree.

• [Experimental] User-defined literals for format and named arguments (#204, #206, #207):

  using namespace fmt::literals;
  fmt::print("The answer is {answer}.", "answer"_a=42);

  Thanks to @dean0x7d (Dean Moldovan).

• [Breaking] Formatting of more than 16 arguments is now supported when using variadic templates (#141). Thanks to @Shauren.

• Runtime width specification (#168):

  fmt::format("{0:{1}}", 42, 5); // gives "   42"

  Thanks to @jamboree.

• [Breaking] Enums are now formatted with an overloaded std::ostream insertion operator (operator<<) if available (#232).

• [Breaking] Changed default bool format to textual, "true" or "false" (#170):

  fmt::print("{}", true); // prints "true"

  To print bool as a number use numeric format specifier such as d:

  fmt::print("{:d}", true); // prints "1"

• fmt::printf and fmt::sprintf now support formatting of bool with the %s specifier giving textual output, "true" or "false" (#223):

  fmt::printf("%s", true); // prints "true"

  Thanks to @LarsGullik.

• [Breaking] signed char and unsigned char are now formatted as integers by default (#217).

• [Breaking] Pointers to C strings can now be formatted with the p specifier (#223):

  fmt::print("{:p}", "test"); // prints pointer value

  Thanks to @LarsGullik.

• [Breaking] fmt::printf and fmt::sprintf now print null pointers as (nil) and null strings as (null) for consistency with glibc (#226). Thanks to @LarsGullik.

• [Breaking] fmt::(s)printf now supports formatting of objects of user-defined types that provide an overloaded std::ostream insertion operator (operator<<) (#201):

  fmt::printf("The date is %s", Date(2012, 12, 9));

• [Breaking] The Buffer template is now part of the public API and can be used to implement custom memory buffers (#140). Thanks to @polyvertex (Jean-Charles Lefebvre).

• [Breaking] Improved compatibility between BasicStringRef and std::experimental::basic_string_view (#100, #159, #183):

  • Comparison operators now compare string content, not pointers
  • BasicStringRef::c_str replaced by BasicStringRef::data
  • BasicStringRef is no longer assumed to be null-terminated

  References to null-terminated strings are now represented by a new class, BasicCStringRef.

• Dependency on pthreads introduced by Google Test is now optional (#185).

• New CMake options FMT_DOC, FMT_INSTALL and FMT_TEST to control generation of doc, install and test targets respectively, on by default (#197, #198, #200). Thanks to @maddinat0r (Alex Martin).

• noexcept is now used when compiling with MSVC2015 (#215). Thanks to @dmkrepo (Dmitriy).

• Added an option to disable use of windows.h when FMT_USE_WINDOWS_H is defined as 0 before including format.h (#171). Thanks to @alfps (Alf P. Steinbach).

• [Breaking] windows.h is now included with NOMINMAX unless FMT_WIN_MINMAX is defined. This is done to prevent breaking code using std::min and std::max and only affects the header-only configuration (#152, #153, #154). Thanks to @DevO2012.

• Improved support for custom character types (#171). Thanks to @alfps (Alf P. Steinbach).

• Added an option to disable use of IOStreams when FMT_USE_IOSTREAMS is defined as 0 before including format.h (#205, #208). Thanks to @JodiTheTigger.

• Improved detection of isnan, isinf and signbit.

Optimization

• Made formatting of user-defined types more efficient with a custom stream buffer (#92, #230). Thanks to @NotImplemented.
• Further improved performance of fmt::Writer on integer formatting and fixed a minor regression. Now it is ~7% faster than karma::generate on Karma's benchmark (#186).
• [Breaking] Reduced compiled code size (#143, #149).

Distribution

• [Breaking] Headers are now installed in ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/include/cppformat (#178). Thanks to @jackyf (Eugene V. Lyubimkin).

• [Breaking] Changed the library name from format to cppformat for consistency with the project name and to avoid potential conflicts (#178). Thanks to @jackyf (Eugene V. Lyubimkin).

• C++ Format is now available in Debian GNU/Linux (stretch, sid) and derived distributions such as Ubuntu 15.10 and later (#155):

  $ sudo apt-get install libcppformat1-dev
  

  Thanks to @jackyf (Eugene V. Lyubimkin).

• Packages for Fedora and RHEL are now available. Thanks to Dave Johansen.

• C++ Format can now be installed via Homebrew on OS X (#157):

  $ brew install cppformat
  

  Thanks to @ortho, Anatoliy Bulukin.

Documentation

• Migrated from ReadTheDocs to GitHub Pages for better responsiveness and reliability (#128). New documentation address is http://cppformat.github.io/.
• Added Building the documentation section to the documentation.
• Documentation build script is now compatible with Python 3 and newer pip versions. (#189, #209). Thanks to @JodiTheTigger and @xentec.
• Documentation fixes and improvements (#36, #75, #125, #160, #161, #162, #165, #210). Thanks to @syohex (Syohei YOSHIDA) and bug reporters.
• Fixed out-of-tree documentation build (#177). Thanks to @jackyf (Eugene V. Lyubimkin).

Fixes

• Fixed initializer_list detection (#136). Thanks to @Gachapen (Magnus Bjerke Vik).

• [Breaking] Fixed formatting of enums with numeric format specifiers in fmt::(s)printf (#131, #139):

  enum { ANSWER = 42 };
  fmt::printf("%d", ANSWER);

  Thanks to @Naios.

• Improved compatibility with old versions of MinGW (#129, #130, #132). Thanks to @cstamford (Christopher Stamford).

• Fixed a compile error on MSVC with disabled exceptions (#144).

• Added a workaround for broken implementation of variadic templates in MSVC2012 (#148).

• Placed the anonymous namespace within fmt namespace for the header-only configuration (#171). Thanks to @alfps (Alf P. Steinbach).

• Fixed issues reported by Coverity Scan (#187, #192).

• Implemented a workaround for a name lookup bug in MSVC2010 (#188).

• Fixed compiler warnings (#95, #96, #114, #135, #142, #145, #146, #158, #163, #175, #190, #191, #194, #196, #216, #218, #220, #229, #233, #234, #236, #281, #289). Thanks to @seanmiddleditch (Sean Middleditch), @dixlorenz (Dix Lorenz), @CarterLi (李通洲), @Naios, @fmatthew5876 (Matthew Fioravante), @LevskiWeng (Levski Weng), @rpopescu, @gabime (Gabi Melman), @cubicool (Jeremy Moles), @jkflying (Julian Kent), @LogicalKnight (Sean L), @inguin (Ingo van Lil) and @Jopie64 (Johan).

• Fixed portability issues (mostly causing test failures) on ARM, ppc64, ppc64le, s390x and SunOS 5.11 i386 (#138, #179, #180, #202, #225, Red Hat Bugzilla Bug 1260297). Thanks to @Naios, @jackyf (Eugene V. Lyubimkin) and Dave Johansen.

• Fixed a name conflict with macro free defined in crtdbg.h when _CRTDBG_MAP_ALLOC is set (#211).

• Fixed shared library build on OS X (#212). Thanks to @dean0x7d (Dean Moldovan).

• Fixed an overload conflict on MSVC when /Zc:wchar_t- option is specified (#214). Thanks to @slavanap (Vyacheslav Napadovsky).

• Improved compatibility with MSVC 2008 (#236). Thanks to @Jopie64 (Johan).

• Improved compatibility with bcc32 (#227).

• Fixed static_assert detection on Clang (#228). Thanks to @dean0x7d (Dean Moldovan).

1.1.0 - 2015-03-06

• Added BasicArrayWriter, a class template that provides operations for formatting and writing data into a fixed-size array (#105 and #122):

  char buffer[100];
  fmt::ArrayWriter w(buffer);
  w.write("The answer is {}", 42);

• Added 0 A.D. and PenUltima Online (POL) to the list of notable projects using C++ Format.

• C++ Format now uses MSVC intrinsics for better formatting performance (#115, #116, #118 and #121). Previously these optimizations where only used on GCC and Clang. Thanks to @CarterLi and @objectx.

• CMake install target (#119). Thanks to @TrentHouliston.

  You can now install C++ Format with make install command.

• Improved Biicode support (#98 and #104). Thanks to @MariadeAnton and @franramirez688.

• Improved support for building with Android NDK (#107). Thanks to @newnon.

  The android-ndk-example repository provides and example of using C++ Format with Android NDK:

  

• Improved documentation of SystemError and WindowsError (#54).

• Various code improvements (#110, #111 #112). Thanks to @CarterLi.

• Improved compile-time errors when formatting wide into narrow strings (#117).

• Fixed BasicWriter::write without formatting arguments when C++11 support is disabled (#109).

• Fixed header-only build on OS X with GCC 4.9 (#124).

• Fixed packaging issues (#94).

• Added changelog (#103).

1.0.0 - 2015-02-05

• Add support for a header-only configuration when FMT_HEADER_ONLY is defined before including format.h:

  #define FMT_HEADER_ONLY
  #include "format.h"

• Compute string length in the constructor of BasicStringRef instead of the size method (#79). This eliminates size computation for string literals on reasonable optimizing compilers.

• Fix formatting of types with overloaded operator << for std::wostream (#86):

  fmt::format(L"The date is {0}", Date(2012, 12, 9));

• Fix linkage of tests on Arch Linux (#89).

• Allow precision specifier for non-float arguments (#90):

  fmt::print("{:.3}\n", "Carpet"); // prints "Car"

• Fix build on Android NDK (#93)

• Improvements to documentation build procedure.

• Remove FMT_SHARED CMake variable in favor of standard BUILD_SHARED_LIBS.

• Fix error handling in fmt::fprintf.

• Fix a number of warnings.

0.12.0 - 2014-10-25

• [Breaking] Improved separation between formatting and buffer management. Writer is now a base class that cannot be instantiated directly. The new MemoryWriter class implements the default buffer management with small allocations done on stack. So fmt::Writer should be replaced with fmt::MemoryWriter in variable declarations.

  Old code:

  fmt::Writer w;

  New code:

  fmt::MemoryWriter w;

  If you pass fmt::Writer by reference, you can continue to do so:

  void f(fmt::Writer &w);

  This doesn't affect the formatting API.

• Support for custom memory allocators (#69)

• Formatting functions now accept signed char and unsigned char strings as arguments (#73):

  auto s = format("GLSL version: {}", glGetString(GL_VERSION));

• Reduced code bloat. According to the new benchmark results, cppformat is close to printf and by the order of magnitude better than Boost Format in terms of compiled code size.

• Improved appearance of the documentation on mobile by using the Sphinx Bootstrap theme:

  Old	New

0.11.0 - 2014-08-21

• Safe printf implementation with a POSIX extension for positional arguments:

  fmt::printf("Elapsed time: %.2f seconds", 1.23);
  fmt::printf("%1$s, %3$d %2$s", weekday, month, day);

• Arguments of char type can now be formatted as integers (Issue #55):

  fmt::format("0x{0:02X}", 'a');

• Deprecated parts of the API removed.

• The library is now built and tested on MinGW with Appveyor in addition to existing test platforms Linux/GCC, OS X/Clang, Windows/MSVC.

0.10.0 - 2014-07-01

Improved API

• All formatting methods are now implemented as variadic functions instead of using operator<< for feeding arbitrary arguments into a temporary formatter object. This works both with C++11 where variadic templates are used and with older standards where variadic functions are emulated by providing lightweight wrapper functions defined with the FMT_VARIADIC macro. You can use this macro for defining your own portable variadic functions:

  void report_error(const char *format, const fmt::ArgList &args) {
    fmt::print("Error: {}");
    fmt::print(format, args);
  }
  FMT_VARIADIC(void, report_error, const char *)
  
  report_error("file not found: {}", path);

  Apart from a more natural syntax, this also improves performance as there is no need to construct temporary formatter objects and control arguments' lifetimes. Because the wrapper functions are very lightweight, this doesn't cause code bloat even in pre-C++11 mode.

• Simplified common case of formatting an std::string. Now it requires a single function call:

  std::string s = format("The answer is {}.", 42);

  Previously it required 2 function calls:

  std::string s = str(Format("The answer is {}.") << 42);

  Instead of unsafe c_str function, fmt::Writer should be used directly to bypass creation of std::string:

  fmt::Writer w;
  w.write("The answer is {}.", 42);
  w.c_str();  // returns a C string

  This doesn't do dynamic memory allocation for small strings and is less error prone as the lifetime of the string is the same as for std::string::c_str which is well understood (hopefully).

• Improved consistency in naming functions that are a part of the public API. Now all public functions are lowercase following the standard library conventions. Previously it was a combination of lowercase and CapitalizedWords. Issue #50.

• Old functions are marked as deprecated and will be removed in the next release.

Other Changes

• Experimental support for printf format specifications (work in progress):

  fmt::printf("The answer is %d.", 42);
  std::string s = fmt::sprintf("Look, a %s!", "string");

• Support for hexadecimal floating point format specifiers a and A:

  print("{:a}", -42.0); // Prints -0x1.5p+5
  print("{:A}", -42.0); // Prints -0X1.5P+5

• CMake option FMT_SHARED that specifies whether to build format as a shared library (off by default).

0.9.0 - 2014-05-13

• More efficient implementation of variadic formatting functions.

• Writer::Format now has a variadic overload:

  Writer out;
  out.Format("Look, I'm {}!", "variadic");

• For efficiency and consistency with other overloads, variadic overload of the Format function now returns Writer instead of std::string. Use the str function to convert it to std::string:

  std::string s = str(Format("Look, I'm {}!", "variadic"));

• Replaced formatter actions with output sinks: NoAction -> NullSink, Write -> FileSink, ColorWriter -> ANSITerminalSink. This improves naming consistency and shouldn't affect client code unless these classes are used directly which should be rarely needed.

• Added ThrowSystemError function that formats a message and throws SystemError containing the formatted message and system-specific error description. For example, the following code

  FILE *f = fopen(filename, "r");
  if (!f)
    ThrowSystemError(errno, "Failed to open file '{}'") << filename;

  will throw SystemError exception with description "Failed to open file '<filename>': No such file or directory" if file doesn't exist.

• Support for AppVeyor continuous integration platform.

• Format now throws SystemError in case of I/O errors.

• Improve test infrastructure. Print functions are now tested by redirecting the output to a pipe.

0.8.0 - 2014-04-14

• Initial release