Some significant signature to render protocol, hence the major version bump. These are unlikely to impact many people unless you are implementing your own renderables.

Most of the work in this version was to aid development of adding more dynamic features to future versions.

See changelog for details...

[10.0.0] - 2021-03-27

Changed

• Made pydoc import lazy as at least one use found it slow to import https://github.com/willmcgugan/rich/issues/1104
• Modified string highlighting to not match in the middle of a word, so that apostrophes are not considered strings
• New way of encoding control codes in Segment
• New signature for Control class
• Changed Layout.split to use new Splitter class
• Improved layout.tree
• Changed default theme color for repr.number to cyan
• __rich_measure__ signature changed to accept ConsoleOptions rather than max_width

Added

• Added __rich_repr__ protocol method to Pretty
• Added rich.region.Region
• Added ConsoleOptions.update_dimensions
• Added rich.console.ScreenUpdate
• Added Console.is_alt_screen
• Added Control.segment, Control.bell, Control.home, Control.move_to, Control.clear, Control.show_cursor, Control.alt_screen
• Added Console.update_screen and Console.update_screen_lines
• Added Layout.add_split, Layout.split_column, Layout.split_row, layout.refresh
• Added new Rich repr protocol __rich_repr__

Fixed

• Fixed table style taking precedence over row style https://github.com/willmcgugan/rich/issues/1129
• Fixed incorrect measurement of Text with new lines and whitespace https://github.com/willmcgugan/rich/issues/1133
• Made type annotations consistent for various total keyword arguments in rich.progress and rich.progress_bar
• Disabled Progress no longer displays itself when starting https://github.com/willmcgugan/rich/pull/1125