v3.6.0

This release drops support for Go 1.17 and includes many features and fixes.

• cmd/shfmt
  • Implement --from-json as the reverse of --to-json - #900
  • Improve the quality of the --to-json output - #900
  • Provide detected language when erroring with -ln=auto - #803
• syntax
  • Don't require peeking two bytes after echo * - #835
  • Simplify ${name:-} to the equivalent ${name-} - #849
  • Don't print trailing whitespaces on nested subshells - #814
  • Don't print extra newlines in some case clauses - #779
  • Don't indent comments preceding case clause items - #917
  • Allow escaped newlines before unquoted words again - #873
  • Parse a redirections edge case without spaces - #879
  • Give a helpful error when <<< is used in POSIX mode - #881
  • Forbid ${!foo*} and ${!foo@} in mksh mode - #929
  • Batch allocations less aggressively in the parser
• syntax/typedjson
  • Expose --from-json and --to-json as Go APIs - #885
• expand
  • Improve support for expanding array keys and values - #884
  • Don't panic on unsupported syntax nodes - #841
  • Don't panic on division by zero - #892
  • Properly expand unquoted parameters with spaces - #886
  • Trim spaces when converting strings to integers - #928
• interp
  • Add initial implementation for mapfile and readarray - #863
  • Improve matching patterns against multiple lines - #866
  • Support %b in the printf builtin - #955
  • Display all Bash options in shopt - #877
• pattern
  • Add EntireString to match the entire string using ^$ - #866

A special thanks to all the contributors to this release!
@fauust @graf0 @hristiy4n @ihar-orca @lollipopman @mkhl @przmv @reubeno @riacataquian @scop @tmillr

Binaries built on go version go1.19.4 linux/amd64 with:

CGO_ENABLED=0 go build -trimpath -ldflags="-w -s -X=main.version=v3.6.0"

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