v0.4.0 - Improved config loading, debugging, and XDG Base Directory Specification support

Features

• Improved internal tooling for more strict linting
• Updated dependencies
• Added support for loading config files in multiple locations, based on the OS/environment
• Added support for the XDG Base Directory Specification for config locations in *nix/Unix-like environments
• Tweaked configuration fallback-order/precedence to use the more common ordering of:
  1. Command line flags
  2. Environment variables
  3. A configuration file
  4. Default values
• Added a --debug-config flag to print config file loading status and the paths that are searched for config files

Bug fixes

• Updated the install instructions in the README
• Made some refactors to satisfy more strict linting
• Fixed the automatic inflection correction fallback searching in the Oxford source to prevent searching for no word (an empty query, which causes an invalid request error)

v0.3.0 - Fallback search, inflection correction, result sorting, and more data

Features

• Refactored internal data structures
• Added support for showing a source of an example quote
• Added the optional capability for sources to expose a word search
• Added automatic word search result display as a fallback for when define results come back empty
• Added automatic inflection correction fallback to the Oxford source, to align behaviors closer to the other sources (and to improve the user experience)
• Added define result sorting: Now if a direct match is found, it'll be returned first in the list of results
• Added handling of categorical sense data

Bug fixes

• Fixed the source ambiguity of error messages

v0.2.0 - Multiple result support, Merriam-Webster Dictionary API v3, and "Free Dictionary API"

Features

• New support for multiple word results for a definition lookup
• Refactored internal data structures
• Improved continuous integration caching
• Updated the Merriam-Webster Dictionary API source to use the new V3 API
• Added a new source: "Free Dictionary API"

Bug fixes

• Fixed handling of text token cleaning in the Webster source
• Fixed filering of results from the Webster source
• Removed the no-longer functioning "Glosbe API" source

Security

• Updated dependencies for security issues
  • CVE-2022-41723: golang/go#57855

v0.1.3 - Oxford Dictionaries API v2 and Go 1.20

Features

• Updated the source to use Go 1.20
• Updated all of the go module dependencies
• Internal tooling is now versioned
• Improved internal tooling for more strict linting
• Switched continuous integration testing to use GitHub Actions
• Updated the Oxford Dictionaries API source to use the new V2 API

Bug fixes

• Updated the install instructions in the README
• Made some refactors to satisfy more strict linting
• Removed use of deprecated functions in favor of their replacements
• Removed now unsupported build targets

v0.1.2 - New dependency/package management and bug fixes

Features

• Migrated dependency/package management from dep to Go Modules

Bug fixes

• Improved the cleaning/sanitizing of results from the Glosbe source
• Improved some wording in the README

v0.1.1 - Better configuration handling, code cleanup, and bug fixes

Features

• A lot of code refactoring, cleanup, and restructuring into more internal packages to prevent shared state and to separate units
• Switched the provider logic so that the "preferred source" configuration allows for fallback, if the "preferred" source can't be provided
• New configuration setting for specifying an exact source that MUST be able to provided or else an error is thrown
• Source listing (via --list-sources) now lists both the source names AND their "key" names, so that they can more easily be discovered for configuration
• The Oxford Dictionary API is now the default preferred source, as it provides the highest quality results
• Better handling of errors, especially when reading configurations
• New --no-config-file flag to disable the loading of a configuration file

Bug fixes

• Fixed misspellings of "Merriam"
• Improved the cleaning/sanitizing of results from the Merriam-Webster and Glosbe sources

Initial release

define

A command-line dictionary (thesaurus) app, with access to multiple sources, written in Go.