merry 2.4.0

A script manager for Dart/Flutter — define script shortcuts in pubspec.yaml and run them with a single command.

2.4.0 - 2026-08-31

Added

• merry ls --output=tasks generates a VS Code tasks.json file. Each script becomes a task that runs it through the local merry:merry executable, while pre/post hooks are left out because they run together with their own script.

Internal

• Raise the yaml constraint to ^3.1.4, which reports a self-referential collection as a parse error instead of overflowing the stack on it

2.3.0 - 2026-08-13

Fixed

• Propagate fail-fast execution through referenced scripts, so a failed command in a referenced pre-hook stops its remaining commands instead of continuing
• Generate build_runner scripts without the removed --delete-conflicting-outputs option in merry init, and update the project scripts and examples to match

Internal

• Upgrade Dart dependencies and Checkov, adapt MerryError to Equatable 2.1, and regenerate Mockito mocks with the updated toolchain

2.2.0 - 2026-08-06

Added

• merry init writes a starter script file for the current project and links it from pubspec.yaml. The generated scripts follow what the project declares: build targets come from the platform directories that exist, generate from a build_runner dependency, and a Flutter plugin's dev script runs its example/ app. A project configured with inline scripts is left untouched, and an existing script file is replaced only after confirmation. The write target is constrained the way reading already constrains it — a path escaping the project, a symlink resolving out of it, a hard link to the manifest, or pubspec.yaml itself is refused before anything is written, and the pubspec.yaml link is appended (or inserted before a ... document terminator) so comments and blank lines stay where their author put them

2.1.4 - 2026-07-30

Fixed

• Run merry upgrade through the Dart SDK that launched the process instead of a shell command; the self-upgrade previously failed outright with Could not find package `pub` and resolved dart from PATH
• Report the running version from merry --version, which had been stuck at 2.1.2 since the 2.1.3 release
• Reject a circular $script reference with an error naming the cycle, instead of looping until the process is killed
• Constrain an external scripts: file to the project directory. A value that escapes it — an absolute path such as scripts: /etc/hosts, or a symlink pointing outside — is now refused. In-project filenames like scripts: merry.yaml are unaffected, but a deliberate scripts: ../shared/merry.yaml no longer resolves

Internal

• Run the test suite on pull requests and pushes to main; it previously ran only on a release tag, so a regression could reach main and surface at publish time
• Pin every workflow checkout to a commit SHA and stop it persisting a repository credential, with a test sweeping all workflows for both
• Upgrade trunk linters, and enable clippy, shellcheck and shfmt

2.1.3 - 2026-07-25

Fixed

• Refuse to run a script when a substituted positional argument or (variables) value contains shell-active characters, closing quote-context command injection
• Reject cyclic YAML map aliases used as mapping keys instead of overflowing the stack and crashing commands such as merry ls
• Abort a script when its pre-hook fails, including list-valued pre-hooks whose later commands previously masked the failure
• Reject unknown (execution) values instead of silently degrading to multiple, restoring once-mode fail-fast execution, and expose the execution mode in merry ls --output=json
• Stop the remaining script list after Ctrl+C (SIGINT), and propagate a post-hook's SIGINT instead of reporting success

Internal

• Harden the native blob workflow (pin rust-toolchain to stable alongside the SHA pin)
• Isolate pub publish credentials in the publishing workflow

2.1.2 - 2026-07-24

Fixed

• Reject invalid CLI options and unexpected arguments with usage errors instead of crashing, including when the script configuration is empty
• Preserve quoting and argument boundaries for positional arguments and referenced scripts, including backslash escapes
• Keep interactive scripts attached to the terminal and reliably terminate their entire process group on Ctrl+C
• Preserve runnable command groups and surrounding metadata when listing or resolving platform-specific and default scripts
• Treat configured POSIX working directories as literal shell data so command substitutions are not evaluated

Internal

• Bind checked-in native blobs to all tracked Cargo inputs, including symlinks, executable modes, workspace members, and repository Cargo configuration
• Restrict the OIDC publishing workflow to strict vMAJOR.MINOR.PATCH tags

2.1.1 - 2026-04-25

Fixed

• Processes terminated by a signal now report the conventional 128 + signal_number exit code on Unix (e.g. 130 for Ctrl+C / SIGINT) instead of always returning 1
• Script definitions with a non-string, non-list (scripts) value now throw a descriptive ArgumentError instead of a cryptic runtime cast failure

Internal

• FFI: close Ctrl+C race window between SharedChild::spawn and CURRENT_CHILD storage; add named return-code constants; swap four #[cfg] blocks for a single tuple expression; replace silent mutex-poison swallow with expect()
• Dart: parameterize CommandRunner and all Command subclasses as <int>; make every run() return Future<int>; add explicit type arguments throughout to satisfy strict-raw-types and strict-inference analyzer options
• Remove unused console and collection dependencies
• Remove Flutter-only lint rules from analysis_options.yaml
• Integrate Trunk.io for linting and formatting
• Upgrade Cargo dependencies and update precompiled native blobs

2.1.0 - 2026-04-25

Added

• merry ls --output=json — Machine-readable JSON output listing all scripts with name, commands, description, workdir, hooks, and hook_for fields; use --output=tree (default) for the existing human-readable tree

Changed

• JSON output is indented with 2 spaces for readability
• FFI native library is now loaded once per process, reducing per-call overhead

Fixed

• run_script now handles a null pointer and invalid UTF-8 gracefully instead of panicking, making script execution more resilient
• getPaths() correctly includes a group key when all its sub-keys are metadata entries (e.g. a map containing only (description))

Internal

• CI: migrate blob build runners away from retired GitHub-hosted images
• CI: add required workflow permissions
• Refactor Pubspec and ScriptsRegistry to use instance fields instead of static state, improving isolation and testability
• Refactor test suite to remove shared static state between test cases
• Free native UTF-8 buffer after FFI call to prevent memory leak

2.0.0

Merry is a maintained fork of derry by Frenco, which has been unmaintained since February 2023. All original functionality is preserved and the script definition format is fully compatible — only the CLI command name changes.

Breaking changes

• Package renamed from derry to merry; CLI command is now merry
• Minimum Dart SDK raised to >=3.10.4
• Scripts definition file is now named merry.yaml by convention (any filename is still accepted)

Bug fixes

• Fix missing await before main script execution, which caused post-hooks to run concurrently with the main script instead of after it
• Fix Ctrl+C propagation: signals now reliably kill the child process across multiple script executions; previously ctrlc::set_handler was called once per script invocation, causing a panic on the second call
• Fix CI blob build workflow: ubuntu-20.04 and macos-13 runners are retired; Windows COPY failed with a file-lock error when the Dart runtime had the existing DLL open

New features

• (default) — Define a default script for a command group, executed when the group name is used without a sub-command

  build:
    (default): flutter build apk
    web: flutter build web
  

• Positional arguments ($1, $2, …) — Inject individual command-line arguments into a script by position

  greet: echo Hello $1
  # merry greet World  →  echo Hello World
  

• (workdir) — Run a script in a specific working directory

  native:
    (workdir): packages/native
    (scripts): cargo build --release
  

• Platform-specific scripts ((linux), (macos), (windows)) — Select the right script automatically based on the current OS; falls back to (scripts) if no platform key matches

  open:
    (linux): xdg-open .
    (macos): open .
    (windows): explorer .
  

• (aliases) — Define short aliases for frequently-used commands

  install:
    (aliases): [i, in]
    (scripts): dart pub get
  # merry i  →  merry install
  

• (variables) / ${VAR} — Define reusable variables scoped to the scripts map; environment variables are used as a fallback for unknown names

  (variables):
    OUTPUT: build/release
  bundle: flutter build apk --output ${OUTPUT}
  

• merry ls --output=json — Machine-readable JSON output for tooling integration (e.g. VS Code extensions); use --output=tree (default) for the existing human-readable tree

  merry ls --output=json
  # {"name":"my_app","version":"1.0.0","scripts":[{"path":"build","commands":[...]},...]}
  

Migrating from derry

1. Deactivate derry and install merry:

   dart pub global deactivate derry
   dart pub global activate merry
   

2. Replace all derry invocations with merry in scripts, CI pipelines, and documentation
3. Optionally rename derry.yaml → merry.yaml and update the scripts: value in pubspec.yaml — existing filenames continue to work unchanged
4. No changes to script definitions are required

1.5.0

• Add support for M1 Macs
• Blob sizes are now much smaller
• Opted-in to sound null-safety
• Rewrite most of the existing codes to be more concise and clearer, and also more performant by reducing io reads as much as possible and by caching a lot
• Use meaningful error codes with better error messages
• Rename subcommands to references
• Remove "execution type" which is useless and confusing
• Publishing is now done via GitHub Actions

1.4.3

• Bump version to correct derry --version

1.4.2

• Fix a bug by correctly passing extra arguments to parsed subcommands

1.4.1

• Add description option usage to README documentation

1.4.0

• Add description option which can now be used by derry ls -d command

1.3.0

• Update dependencies
• Refactor code with organized imports and typedefs according to new formatter rules

1.2.1

• Normalize absolute paths for derry source command
• Format old changelogs

1.2.0

• Enforce stricter linter rules and refactor according to it
• Support pre & post scripts
• Move native code into a separate directory

1.1.1

• Format according to dartfmt to get better pub score

1.1.0

• Scripts now return exit codes
• Remove --slient or -s option from run command
• Change info lines' styles
• Reduce exported API elements to only commands and version

1.0.5

• Update pub package description

1.0.4

• Refactor to not expose all APIs but only important ones so most library APIs will not be available
• Add more documentation comments

1.0.3

• Format error types in error messages to be uppercase

1.0.2

• Rename derry update command to derry upgrade
• Fix type casting error on extra arguments

1.0.1

• Format changelogs according to pub.dev

1.0.0

• Today I learned how versioning system actually works

0.1.4

• Derry now uses lint instead of pedantic as code linter & analyzer
• Code base is now formatted according to the lint's rules
• Use stdout and stderr instead of print

0.1.3

• Add support for nested subcommands like $generate:env to run as derry generate env
• Add support for derry update command
• Sort output of derry ls tree
• Remove alias list

0.1.2

• Now run scripts can be used without using the run keyword. For example, derry test can be used instead of derry run test without explicit implementations, for all scripts
• Remove the old build and test alias implementations
• The derry commands no longer print the current directory on the script execution

0.1.1+1

• Update the pub link in README.md from http to https to get better pub score

0.1.1

• Refactor ffi directory to bindings directory
• Refactor usage lines to be all lowercase and with no period
• Adde derry --version option

0.1.0

• Add support for derry source command

0.0.9

• Add support for using subcommands with options/arguments/parameters

0.0.8+1

• Fix #20 MultipleHandlers Error caused by #12 fix

0.0.8

• Fix #12 Ctrl-C Error
• Add -s as abbrreviation for --silent

0.0.7+1

• Fix #14 error on not being able to use options caused by previous changes

0.0.7

• Add support for nested scripts
• Modify Did you mean this? check and ls commands to work well with nested scripts
• Breaking changes on Advanced Configuration API for compatibility with nested scripts

0.0.6

• Add Did you mean this? check by using string-similarity package
• Fix null infoLine error
• Fix command not found unhandled exceptions

0.0.5

• Add derry ls command
• Updat documentation

0.0.4

• Add support for test and build aliases
• Better and consistent error messages with an API

0.0.3+1

• Modify README to work correctly on pub.dev

0.0.3

• Add support for --silent
• Refactor Rust source code
• Start using derry for build
• Modify documentation

0.0.2

• Add support for subcommands

0.0.1

• Initial version, scaffolded by Stagehand
• Add support for list definitions
• Add support for configurable execution type
• Add support for win64, linux64, and (mac64)
• Add tests for helpers