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✨ Features

• Support usage as plugin for tools like kubectl by @​nirs in https://github.com/spf13/cobra/pull/2018 - this means that programs that utilize a "plugin-like" structure have much better support and usage (like for completions, command paths, etc.)
• Move documentation sources to site/content by @​umarcor in https://github.com/spf13/cobra/pull/1428
• Add 'one required flag' group by @​marevers in https://github.com/spf13/cobra/pull/1952 - this includes a new MarkFlagsOneRequired API for flags which can be used to mark a flag group as required and cause command failure if at least one is not used when invoked.
• Customizable error message prefix by @​5ouma in https://github.com/spf13/cobra/pull/2023 - This adds the SetErrPrefix and ErrPrefix APIs on the Command struct to allow for setting a custom prefix for errors
• feat: add getters for flag completions by @​avirtopeanu-ionos in https://github.com/spf13/cobra/pull/1943
• Feature: allow running persistent run hooks of all parents by @​vkhoroz in https://github.com/spf13/cobra/pull/2044
• Improve API to get flag completion function by @​marckhouzam in https://github.com/spf13/cobra/pull/2063

🐛 Bug fixes

• Fix typo in fish completions by @​twpayne in https://github.com/spf13/cobra/pull/1945
• Fix grammar: 'allows to' by @​supertassu in https://github.com/spf13/cobra/pull/1978
• powershell: escape variable with curly brackets by @​Luap99 in https://github.com/spf13/cobra/pull/1960
• Don't complete --help flag when flag parsing disabled by @​marckhouzam in https://github.com/spf13/cobra/pull/2061
• Replace all non-alphanumerics in active help env var program prefix by @​scop in https://github.com/spf13/cobra/pull/1940

🔧 Maintenance

• build(deps): bump golangci/golangci-lint-action from 3.4.0 to 3.5.0 by @​dependabot in https://github.com/spf13/cobra/pull/1971
• build(deps): bump golangci/golangci-lint-action from 3.5.0 to 3.6.0 by @​dependabot in https://github.com/spf13/cobra/pull/1976
• build(deps): bump golangci/golangci-lint-action from 3.6.0 to 3.7.0 by @​dependabot in https://github.com/spf13/cobra/pull/2021
• build(deps): bump actions/setup-go from 3 to 4 by @​dependabot in https://github.com/spf13/cobra/pull/1934
• build(deps): bump github.com/cpuguy83/go-md2man/v2 from 2.0.2 to 2.0.3 by @​dependabot in https://github.com/spf13/cobra/pull/2047
• build(deps): bump actions/checkout from 3 to 4 by @​dependabot in https://github.com/spf13/cobra/pull/2028
• command: temporarily disable G602 due to securego/gosec#1005 by @​umarcor in https://github.com/spf13/cobra/pull/2022

🧪 Testing & CI/CD

• test: make fish_completions_test more robust by @​branchvincent in https://github.com/spf13/cobra/pull/1980
• golangci: enable 'unused' and disable deprecated replaced by it by @​umarcor in https://github.com/spf13/cobra/pull/1983
• cleanup: minor corrections to unit tests by @​JunNishimura in https://github.com/spf13/cobra/pull/2003
• ci: test golang 1.21 by @​nunoadrego in https://github.com/spf13/cobra/pull/2024
• Fix linter errors by @​marckhouzam in https://github.com/spf13/cobra/pull/2052
• Add tests for flag completion registration by @​marckhouzam in https://github.com/spf13/cobra/pull/2053

✏️ Documentation

• doc: fix typo, Deperecated -> Deprecated by @​callthingsoff in https://github.com/spf13/cobra/pull/2000
• Add notes to doc about the execution condition of *PreRun and *PostRun functions by @​haoming29 in https://github.com/spf13/cobra/pull/2041

Thank you everyone who contributed to this release and all your hard work! Cobra and this community would never be possible without all of you!!!! 🐍

Full Changelog: spf13/cobra@v1.7.0...v1.8.0