5.1.0 (April 24, 2024)

Features

Added an option to disable the detection of a CI/CD environment to override the disabling of output coloring

5.0.0 (January 20, 2024)

Features

• Rewrote the string generation functionality from scratch to accomplish significant performance improvements

Benchmarks run on .NET 8

Pastel 4.x

Method	Mean	Error	StdDev	Gen0	Allocated
Pastel_SimpleColorization_Color	293.1 ns	1.54 ns	1.44 ns	0.0300	504 B
Pastel_SimpleColorization_ConsoleColor	288.5 ns	1.34 ns	1.25 ns	0.0300	504 B
Pastel_SimpleColorization_HexStringColor	313.6 ns	0.83 ns	0.65 ns	0.0324	544 B
Pastel_Nested_Color	1,084.9 ns	2.99 ns	2.80 ns	0.1011	1704 B
Pastel_Nested_ConsoleColor	1,076.4 ns	3.58 ns	3.18 ns	0.1011	1704 B
Pastel_Nested_HexStringColor	1,221.5 ns	3.03 ns	2.69 ns	0.1049	1784 B

Pastel 5.x

Method	Mean	Mean diff	Gen0	Allocated	Allocated diff
Pastel_SimpleColorization_Color	30.71 ns	-89.52%	0.0086	144 B	-71.43%
Pastel_SimpleColorization_ConsoleColor	31.90 ns	-88.94%	0.0086	144 B	-71.43%
Pastel_SimpleColorization_HexStringColor	32.60 ns	-89.61%	0.0086	144 B	-73.53%
Pastel_Nested_Color	101.34 ns	-90.66%	0.0286	480 B	-71.83%
Pastel_Nested_ConsoleColor	106.09 ns	-90.14%	0.0286	480 B	-71.83%
Pastel_Nested_HexStringColor	123.34 ns	-89.90%	0.0286	480 B	-73.10%

• Added .NET 8 TFM leveraging .NET 8-specific features

4.2.0 (October 9, 2023)

Features

Added support for detecting and disabling colors in CI/CD environments

4.1.0 (December 18, 2022)

Features

Added overloads that support ConsoleColor as a color value

4.0.2 (November 24, 2022)

General

• Added .NET 7 support; .NET 6 is still supported
• Added support for .NET Framework 4.6.2 and higher
• Improved regex and P/Invoke performance for .NET 7

BREAKING CHANGES

• Dropped .NET Standard support

3.0.0 (November 17, 2021)

BREAKING CHANGES

• Replace .NET 5 support with .NET 6

2.1.0 (November 18, 2020)

General

• Performance improvements

BREAKING CHANGES

• Multi-target .NET Standard 2.0 and .NET 5.0

1.3.0 (March 29, 2019)

Major

• Added support for nested coloring, including the combination of nested foreground/background colors #6

1.2.1 (March 19, 2019)

Bug fixes

• Fixed a logical bug related to the initial enabling/disabling of color output

1.2.0 (March 17, 2019)

Major

• Added support for enabling/disabling color output on demand
• Pastel will now honor the NO_COLOR environment variable