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Announcing Waku v0.9

Waku v0.9 is here! 🎉

This release brings major style updates, new customization options, and quality-of-life improvements. Let's get into it.

What's New in Waku v0.9

  • new: Waku now has a style called waku, with more styles coming.
  • new: Waku now has a --allow-spaces/-a flag to allow spaces in your project names!
  • new: Waku now has a --no-license/-L flag to disable templating a license.
  • new: Waku now has style includes that make your styles more modular.
  • changed: Waku errors have been slightly improved to provide more information.

As usual, bug fixes, dependency updates, housekeeping, and documentation updates are included in this release as well.

What's Next

Looking ahead to Waku v0.10, we're focusing on:

  • Finalizing the style system with community feedback.
  • Improving integration with third-party tools.
  • Refining the CLI experience.

Got feature requests? Let us know!

Join the Community

Waku is growing, and we'd love to have you involved! You can:

  • Report bugs and suggest features.
  • Contribute to the project (code, docs, testing).
  • Join our Discord to chat with the community.

Download & Upgrade

You can install or upgrade Waku with your favorite package manager, or see the full release notes here.

How You Can Help

Waku thrives because of its amazing community! Here’s how you can contribute:

  • Report bugs and issues.
  • Contribute new features, bug fixes, or documentation improvements.
  • Sponsor the project to support its ongoing development.

Thank you for being a part of the Waku journey. Here’s to many more exciting updates and collaborations in 2025! 🚀

Announcing Waku v0.8

Happy new year! 🥳

We're thrilled to kick off 2025 with the release of Waku v0.8, featuring exciting updates, improvements, and a sneak peek at what's coming next. Let's dive in!

What's New in Waku v0.8

  • new: Waku now includes loading spinners, making your experience more engaging.
  • changed: Waku will not be available on Chocolatey, please use scoop to install Waku on Windows. It's simple, efficient, and we’re confident you’ll love it.

As usual, bug fixes, dependency updates, housekeeping, and documentation updates are included in this release as well.

What's Next

We’re already hard at work on Waku v0.9, which will bring:

  • An overhaul of the current default Waku style.
  • A variety of new styles tailored for different flavors and needs:
  • Minimal, OSS-focused, or full-featured.
  • Language or category-specific styles like waku-minimal or go-oss.
  • Git provider-specific styles, e.g., waku-github or go-gitlab.

Have a style idea? We’d love to hear it! You can make a PR or leave a suggestion.

Other news

Waku has a Discord server. Join us!

Download

You can install or upgrade Waku with your favorite package manager, or see the full release notes here.

How You Can Help

Waku thrives because of its amazing community! Here’s how you can contribute:

  • Report bugs and issues.
  • Contribute new features, bug fixes, or documentation improvements.
  • Sponsor the project to support its ongoing development.

Thank you for being a part of the Waku journey. Here’s to many more exciting updates and collaborations in 2025! 🚀

Announcing Waku v0.7

Some very exciting changes have been made to Waku.

  • new: Waku's official template now uses YAML for configuration.
  • changed: The --repo flag has been deprecated in favor of the --source flag for the waku new command.

As usual, bug fixes, dependency updates, housekeeping, and documentation updates are included in this release as well.

Other news

Waku has a Discord server. Join us!

Download

You can install or upgrade Waku with your favorite package manager, or see the full release notes here.

Helping out

You can help by reporting issues, contributing features, documentation improvements, and bug fixes. You can also sponsor the project.

Announcing Waku v0.6

Some very exciting changes have been made to Waku.

  • new: Waku now supports YAML for configuration.
  • new: We also now support multiple default configuration filenames. See the full list here.

As usual, bug fixes, dependency updates, housekeeping, and documentation updates are included in this release as well.

Other news

Waku has a Discord server. Join us!

Download

You can install or upgrade Waku with your favorite package manager, or see the full release notes here.

Helping out

You can help by reporting issues, contributing features, documentation improvements, and bug fixes. You can also sponsor the project.

Announcing Waku v0.3

Some very exciting changes have been made to Waku.

  • new: Waku now uses Go's text/template after #134.
  • new: We now have documentation with MkDocs.
  • new: Clones now default to the tag branch instead of the main branch.

As usual, bug fixes, dependency updates, housekeeping, and documentation updates are included in this release as well.

Other news

Waku has a new Discord server. Join us!

Download

You can install or upgrade Waku with your favorite package manager, or see the full release notes here.

Helping out

You can help by reporting issues, contributing features, documentation improvements, and bug fixes. You can also sponsor the project.