What's Changed

Exciting New Features 🎉

• New encoding layer by @sagikazarmark in #1869

Enhancements 🚀

• Drop Go 1.20 support by @sagikazarmark in #1846
• Drop slog shim by @sagikazarmark in #1848
• Replace file searching API with a finder by @sagikazarmark in #1849
• Finder feature flag by @sagikazarmark in #1852
• Allow setting options on the global Viper instance by @sagikazarmark in #1856
• Add experimental flag for bind struct by @sagikazarmark in #1854
• Make the remote package a separate module by @sagikazarmark in #1860
• Add decoder hook option by @sagikazarmark in #1872
• Encoder improvements by @sagikazarmark in #1885
• Get uint8 by @martinconic in #1894

Bug Fixes 🐛

• Fix missing config type when reading from a buffer by @sagikazarmark in #1857
• fix: do not allow setting dependencies to nil values by @sagikazarmark in #1871
• feat: copy keydelim from parent chart in viper.Sub() by @obs-gh-alexlew in #1887

Breaking Changes 🛠

• Drop encoding formats: HCL, Java properties, INI by @sagikazarmark in #1870

Dependency Updates ⬆️

• chore: update mapstructure by @sagikazarmark in #1723
• chore: update crypt by @sagikazarmark in #1834
• build(deps): bump github/codeql-action from 3.25.7 to 3.25.8 by @dependabot in #1853
• Revert to go-difflib and go-spew releases by @skitt in #1861
• build(deps): bump actions/dependency-review-action from 4.3.2 to 4.3.3 by @dependabot in #1862
• build(deps): bump github/codeql-action from 3.25.8 to 3.25.10 by @dependabot in #1865
• build(deps): bump actions/checkout from 4.1.6 to 4.1.7 by @dependabot in #1864
• chore: update crypt by @sagikazarmark in #1866
• build(deps): bump github/codeql-action from 3.25.10 to 3.25.11 by @dependabot in #1876
• build(deps): bump google.golang.org/grpc from 1.64.0 to 1.64.1 in /remote by @dependabot in #1878
• build(deps): bump actions/setup-go from 5.0.1 to 5.0.2 by @dependabot in #1879
• build(deps): bump actions/dependency-review-action from 4.3.3 to 4.3.4 by @dependabot in #1881
• build(deps): bump github/codeql-action from 3.25.11 to 3.25.12 by @dependabot in #1880
• build(deps): bump github/codeql-action from 3.25.12 to 3.25.13 by @dependabot in #1883
• chore(deps): update crypt by @sagikazarmark in #1884
• chore: update dependencies by @sagikazarmark in #1888
• build(deps): bump github.com/go-viper/mapstructure/v2 from 2.0.0 to 2.1.0 by @dependabot in #1901
• build(deps): bump github.com/spf13/cast from 1.6.0 to 1.7.0 by @dependabot in #1899
• build(deps): bump github/codeql-action from 3.25.13 to 3.26.0 by @dependabot in #1897
• build(deps): bump golangci/golangci-lint-action from 6.0.1 to 6.1.0 by @dependabot in #1893
• build(deps): bump github/codeql-action from 3.26.0 to 3.26.2 by @dependabot in #1903
• build(deps): bump github/codeql-action from 3.26.2 to 3.26.3 by @dependabot in #1905
• build(deps): bump github/codeql-action from 3.26.3 to 3.26.5 by @dependabot in #1909
• Update Go by @sagikazarmark in #1913
• chore: update crypt package by @sagikazarmark in #1914
• build(deps): bump github/codeql-action from 3.26.5 to 3.26.6 by @dependabot in #1915
• build(deps): bump mheap/github-action-required-labels from 5.4.1 to 5.4.2 by @dependabot in #1916
• build(deps): bump cachix/install-nix-action from 27 to 28 by @dependabot in #1919
• build(deps): bump github/codeql-action from 3.26.6 to 3.26.7 by @dependabot in #1920
• chore: update crypt by @sagikazarmark in #1921
• build(deps): bump github/codeql-action from 3.26.7 to 3.26.8 by @dependabot in #1923
• build(deps): bump github.com/go-viper/mapstructure/v2 from 2.1.0 to 2.2.1 by @dependabot in #1925
• build(deps): bump github/codeql-action from 3.26.8 to 3.26.11 by @dependabot in #1932
• build(deps): bump golangci/golangci-lint-action from 6.1.0 to 6.1.1 by @dependabot in #1930
• build(deps): bump actions/checkout from 4.1.7 to 4.2.0 by @dependabot in #1928
• build(deps): bump actions/checkout from 4.2.0 to 4.2.1 by @dependabot in #1936
• build(deps): bump github/codeql-action from 3.26.11 to 3.27.2 by @dependabot in #1948
• build(deps): bump github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify from 1.7.0 to 1.8.0 by @dependabot in #1944
• build(deps): bump actions/setup-go from 5.0.2 to 5.1.0 by @dependabot in #1942
• build(deps): bump actions/dependency-review-action from 4.3.4 to 4.4.0 by @dependabot in #1943
• build(deps): bump actions/checkout from 4.2.1 to 4.2.2 by @dependabot in #1941
• build(deps): bump github/codeql-action from 3.27.2 to 3.27.3 by @dependabot in #1949
• build(deps): bump github/codeql-action from 3.27.3 to 3.27.7 by @dependabot in #1958
• build(deps): bump mheap/github-action-required-labels from 5.4.2 to 5.5.0 by @dependabot in #1957
• build(deps): bump actions/dependency-review-action from 4.4.0 to 4.5.0 by @dependabot in #1953
• build(deps): bump actions/setup-go from 5.1.0 to 5.2.0 by @dependabot in #1959
• build(deps): bump github.com/stretchr/testify from 1.9.0 to 1.10.0 by @dependabot in #1954
• build(deps): bump golang.org/x/crypto from 0.27.0 to 0.31.0 in /remote by @dependabot in #1960
• build(deps): bump github/codeql-action from 3.27.7 to 3.27.9 by @dependabot in #1964
• chore: update afero by @sagikazarmark in #1973
• build(deps): bump github.com/spf13/cast from 1.7.0 to 1.7.1 by @dependabot in #1968
• build(deps): bump github.com/spf13/pflag from 1.0.5 to 1.0.6 by @dependabot in #1979
• ci: add Go 1.24 to the test matrix by @sagikazarmark in #1983

Other Changes

• refactor: move remote code to separate file by @sagikazarmark in #1847
• refactor: cleanup unused encoding code by @sagikazarmark in #1889
• Fix issues reported by testifylint by @deining in #1965
• docs: add update instructions for 1.20 by @sagikazarmark in #1992

New Contributors

• @obs-gh-alexlew made their first contribution in #1887
• @martinconic made their first contribution in #1894
• @deining made their first contribution in #1965

Full Changelog: v1.19.0...v1.20.0