v0.25.3

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v0.25.3

Bug Fixes

• LICENSE no longer updated on every run (#​224)
  anyFileUpdated was unconditionally set to true in non-plan mode due
  to a buggy condition, causing the LICENSE file's copyright year to
  be bumped on every successful run — even when all source file headers were
  already correct. This triggered spurious pre-commit hook failures with
  "files were modified by this hook" when nothing should have changed.
  addlicense.Run now correctly reports whether it actually wrote any files,
  and the LICENSE update is gated on that signal.

• Ignored directories are now skipped in a single step (#​225)
  Patterns in header_ignore (e.g. .venv/**, vendor/**) were previously
  only checked against files — the walk still descended into every directory
  unconditionally, visiting each file before discarding it. For directories
  with thousands of files this caused significant slowdowns. The walk now
  checks each directory against ignore patterns and returns filepath.SkipDir
  immediately, pruning the entire subtree regardless of how many files are
  inside.

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v0.25.2

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What's Changed

New Features

• ignore_year1 config option (#​213): Added a new project.ignore_year1 boolean flag in .copywrite.hcl. When set to true, the tool skips updating the start year in existing copyright headers, preserving historically accurate start years (e.g. 2015) even when they differ from copyright_year in config. End-year logic is unaffected — files modified after their copyright end year still get the end year bumped to current year. New files with no copyright header are also unaffected and always receive the config year as the start year.

  project {
    copyright_year = 2024
  
    # Preserve original start years in existing headers
    ignore_year1 = true
  }

Bug Fixes

• Removed unused ignore_year2 references from config, CLI, init template, and README.

Documentation

• README updated with ignore_year1 behaviour for both source file headers and LICENSE files.
• Init template updated to include ignore_year1 as a commented-out option.

v0.25.1

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Fixed

• Fixed copyright year updates not being applied due to invalid git log format in the year update cache (#​191 regression)
• Fixed symlink resolution issue on macOS causing cache misses for file copyright year lookups
• Improved git information caching reliability and accuracy

Details

This release fixes two critical bugs introduced in v0.25.0 (#​191):

1. The buildRepositoryCache now correctly formats git output with __CW_YEAR__= prefix, allowing the parser to properly identify years vs filenames
2. Symlink paths are now resolved before computing relative paths, preventing cache misses on systems where /tmp is a symlink (macOS)

Users running v0.25.0 who noticed copyright year updates weren't working should upgrade to this version.

v0.25.0

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Improvements

• Major Performance Optimizations (#​191): Significantly improved performance by caching git repository information and reducing redundant lookups during header processing
• Auto-Migration from HashiCorp to IBM (#​189): Added automatic detection and migration of HashiCorp copyright holders to IBM format, supporting all comment styles and preserving year information