2.5.0

✨A huge release this time around, with lots of community contributions! ✨

Highlights:

• Exec mode, or post-template command execution
• Lots of new functions:
  • conv.Default/default
  • conv.ToString
  • datasourceReachable
  • env.ExpandEnv
  • file.Walk
  • strings.TrimPrefix
  • time.ParseDuration
  • time.Since
  • time.Until
• FreeBSD build!

v2.5.0 (2018-05-04)

Full Changelog

Implemented enhancements:

• Exec mode... #300
• Need a way to determine whether a datasource is reachable #286
• Add go-sockaddr functions #145
• Adding datasourceReachable function #315 (hairyhenderson)
• Execute additional command after -- #307 (hairyhenderson)

Fixed bugs:

• panic when parsing an empty CSV as a datasource #311
• File mode is not preserved #296
• Fixing panic when parsing empty CSVs and CSVs containing only newlines #312 (hairyhenderson)
• Avoid closing stdout #306 (hairyhenderson)
• Writing output files from a stdin template requires permissions #305 (benjdewan)
• Linting subpackages too... #302 (hairyhenderson)

Closed issues:

• Writing an output file from a template provided via --in sets no FileMode when run using Docker #304
• function "dict" not defined #291
• unexpected "|" in template clause #290
• Conditional statement as default value in getenv? #285
• Pull in sprig functions? #283
• Consider breaking the gomplate cmd into a sub-package #147

Merged pull requests:

• Relaxing restriction on empty datasources #316 (hairyhenderson)
• Improving error handling for datasources #314 (hairyhenderson)
• Pin alpine Docker tag #309 (renovate[bot])
• Adding alpine Docker image variant #308 (hairyhenderson)
• Adding basic metrics around template rendering #303 (hairyhenderson)
• Preserve FileMode of input file when writing output file #301 (djgilcrease)
• Exporting the writer used when templates are sent to Stdout #299 (hairyhenderson)
• Adding new conv.Default function #298 (hairyhenderson)
• Adding time.Since and time.Until funcs #295 (hairyhenderson)
• Adding time.ParseDuration function #294 (hairyhenderson)
• Relax inputs for many functions #293 (hairyhenderson)
• Adding conv.ToString function #292 (hairyhenderson)
• chore(deps): update golang:1.10-alpine docker digest to 356aea #289 (renovate[bot])
• meta: Add release for freebsd-amd64 #287 (jen20)
• New env.ExpandEnv function #284 (hairyhenderson)
• New function proposal: strings.TrimPrefix #282 (christopher-avila)
• New function: file.Walk #281 (christopher-avila)
• Update golang Docker image 1.10-alpine digest (2d95d3) #280 (renovate[bot])
• Update deps #273 (hairyhenderson)
• Putting main pkg in cmd subdirectory #264 (hairyhenderson)