spectre.console/docs/input/blog/posts/2022-03-27-spectre-console-0.44-released.md

Title: Spectre.Console 0.44 released! Description: Alternate screen buffers, better exception rendering... and more! Published: 20220327 Category: Release Notes Excluded: false

Version 0.44 of Spectre.Console has been released!

There are a lot of fixes and improvements in this release, but the most noteworthy additions are better exception rendering, support for alternate screen buffers, and a new widget called TextPath, which makes it easy to render paths in the console.

Check out the two new examples in our GitHub repository:

• ./examples/Console/AlternateScreen
• ./examples/Console/Paths

New Contributors

• @twaalewijn made their first contribution in #642
• @zmrfzn made their first contribution in #652
• @jouniheikniemi made their first contribution in #689
• @Sir-Baconn made their first contribution in #682
• @seclerp made their first contribution in #665
• @Arcodiant made their first contribution in #748
• @ap0llo made their first contribution in #681

What's Changed

• Added the ability to hide CommandOptions. by @twaalewijn in #642
• Add support for alternate screen buffers by @patriksvensson in #647
• Updates asciinema update by @phil-scott-78 in #648
• Update Roslynator.Analyzers to version 3.3 by @phil-scott-78 in #650
• Ordered CommandArguments by position by @nils-a in #646
• Table title's first letter is getting capitalized by default by @zmrfzn in #652
• Simplify stack frame parsing by @0xced in #637
• Trying to rework dotnet tools for docs and playwright by @phil-scott-78 in #667
• Add release notes for 0.43.0 by @patriksvensson in #663
• Use file scoped namespace declarations by @patriksvensson in #666
• Add global usings by @patriksvensson in #668
• Changed TypeResolver in Cli/logging by @nils-a in #675
• Invalid WithExample call on the CommandApp doc page by @jouniheikniemi in #689
• Add overload with params array for AddChoiceGroup() by @Sir-Baconn in #682
• Simplify exception formatting by @0xced in #695
• Improves exception rendering for async methods in .NET 6 by @phil-scott-78 in #718
• Adding better type names for return types and parameters by @phil-scott-78 in #719
• Docs redesign by @phil-scott-78 in #728
• Configures deployment to netlify by @phil-scott-78 in #729
• Tweaking font-size and line-height for smaller screens by @phil-scott-78 in #730
• Adding a best practices guide. by @phil-scott-78 in #744
• Adds widget for displaying (pretty) paths by @patriksvensson in #734
• Add missing inheritance and nullable types in settings.md by @seclerp in #665
• Optimizing build by @phil-scott-78 in #747
• Update SixLabors.ImageSharp reference by @Arcodiant in #748
• Add support for styling and aligning paths by @patriksvensson in #746
• Add documentation for TextPath widget by @patriksvensson in #757
• Fix path and description for TextPath docs by @patriksvensson in #758
• Adding a short template file for new documentation by @phil-scott-78 in #763
• Introduce MarkupInterpolated and MarkupLineInterpolated extensions by @phil-scott-78 in #761
• Obsolete the AnsiConsoleFactory class by @0xced in #585
• Add option to configure the style of the choices list and the default value in TextPrompt by @ap0llo in #681