miller/c/draft-release-notes.md

This is a relatively minor release, containing feature requests.

Features:

• There is a new DSL function mapexcept which returns a copy of the argument with specified key(s), if any, unset. Likewise, mapselect returns a copy of the argument with only specified key(s), if any, set. This resolves https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/issues/137.

• xxx min/max functions and stats1/merge-fields min/max/percentile mix int and string. esp. string-only order statistics. doclink for mixed case. interpolation obv nonsensical.

• xxx count-distinct -u

• xxx ./configure vs. autoreconf -fiv 1st, and which issue is resolved by this.

• xxx UTF-8 BOM strip for CSV files; resolves xxx

Documentation:

• xxx cookbook example Showing differences between successive queries

Bugfixes:

• CRLF line-endings were not being correctly autodetected when I/O formats were specified using --c2j et al.

• Integer division by zero was causing a fatal runtime exception, rather than computing inf or nan as in the floating-point case.