7.0.0 (August 17, 2025)

BREAKING CHANGES

• The behaviour of overloads that use ConsoleColor has been changed. Previously, the resulting colour would be the fixed value that the ConsoleColor enum represents. Now it will be one of the 16 theme-defined ANSI base colors instead, meaning that it will respect the colours configured in your terminal. To return to the old behaviour, simply pass true to the useLegacy parameter.

6.0.1 (December 6, 2024)

Bug fixes

• Fixed a bug where nested color strings weren't closed properly

6.0.0 (November 17, 2024)

General

• Added .NET 9 support; .NET 8 is still supported

BREAKING CHANGES

• Dropped .NET 6 support

5.2.1 (October 27, 2024)

Features

• Added extension methods for ReadOnlySpan<char>

5.1.0 (April 24, 2024)

Features

• Added an option to disable the detection of a CI/CD environment to override the disabling of output coloring

5.0.0 (January 20, 2024)

Features

• Rewrote the string generation functionality from scratch to accomplish significant performance improvements

Benchmarks run on .NET 8

Pastel 4.x

Method	Mean	Error	StdDev	Gen0	Allocated
Pastel_SimpleColorization_Color	293.1 ns	1.54 ns	1.44 ns	0.0300	504 B
Pastel_SimpleColorization_ConsoleColor	288.5 ns	1.34 ns	1.25 ns	0.0300	504 B
Pastel_SimpleColorization_HexStringColor	313.6 ns	0.83 ns	0.65 ns	0.0324	544 B
Pastel_Nested_Color	1,084.9 ns	2.99 ns	2.80 ns	0.1011	1704 B
Pastel_Nested_ConsoleColor	1,076.4 ns	3.58 ns	3.18 ns	0.1011	1704 B
Pastel_Nested_HexStringColor	1,221.5 ns	3.03 ns	2.69 ns	0.1049	1784 B

Pastel 5.x

Method	Mean	Mean diff	Gen0	Allocated	Allocated diff
Pastel_SimpleColorization_Color	30.71 ns	-89.52%	0.0086	144 B	-71.43%
Pastel_SimpleColorization_ConsoleColor	31.90 ns	-88.94%	0.0086	144 B	-71.43%
Pastel_SimpleColorization_HexStringColor	32.60 ns	-89.61%	0.0086	144 B	-73.53%
Pastel_Nested_Color	101.34 ns	-90.66%	0.0286	480 B	-71.83%
Pastel_Nested_ConsoleColor	106.09 ns	-90.14%	0.0286	480 B	-71.83%
Pastel_Nested_HexStringColor	123.34 ns	-89.90%	0.0286	480 B	-73.10%

• Added .NET 8 TFM leveraging .NET 8-specific features

4.2.0 (October 9, 2023)

Features

• Added support for detecting and disabling colors in CI/CD environments

4.1.0 (December 18, 2022)

Features

• Added overloads that support ConsoleColor as a color value

4.0.2 (November 24, 2022)

General

• Added .NET 7 support; .NET 6 is still supported
• Added support for .NET Framework 4.6.2 and higher
• Improved regex and P/Invoke performance for .NET 7

BREAKING CHANGES

• Dropped .NET Standard support

3.0.0 (November 17, 2021)

BREAKING CHANGES

• Replace .NET 5 support with .NET 6