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+## V 0.4.3
+*3 January 2024*
+#### Improvements in the language
+- Implement $for comptime T.variants (#20193)
+- Add `r` and `R` switches for repeating in string interpolation, `'${"abc":3r}'` == 'abcabcabc' (#20197)
+- Comptime refactor and cleanup (#20196)
+- Allow comptime-for to iterate over comptime variables, add `$string` comptime type, cleanup (#20233)
+- Unwrap an option value automatically, inside `if o != none {` (#20275)
+- Complete support for smartcasting to a comptime variable type (#20270)
+- Improve comptime var checking with `is` operator and smartcasting (#20315)
+
+#### Breaking changes
+
+#### Checker improvements/fixes
+- Refactor `string` to `enum` error check, handle `EnumName(string_variable)` too (#20210)
+- Fix generic array method call with multi-types (#20237)
+- Remove unnecessary struct ref field initialization checks and notifications at map initializing(fix #20245) (#20251)
+- Add a notice, for accessing by key, map values, that contain pointers (to use unsafe or an `or {}` block) (#20266)
+- Fix mismatch checking when a function returns sumtype as an argument (fix #19325) (#20264)
+- Fix and cleanup uninitialized checks for array initialisers with `len:` (fix #20272) (#20279)
+- Give an error for `.free()` method calls, when used on fixed arrays  (#20320)
+- Fix type mismatch checking for assignments with generics (fix #20298) (#20327)
+- Fix too strict checking with generics in assignment type mismatch (fix #20335) (#20346)
+- Disallow `string` to `voidptr` cast entirely (#20351)
+- Fix generic method calls with multi generic types (fix #20330) (#20360)
+
+#### Parser improvements
+- parser: implement thread returns result and multi_returns (fix #19281) (#20194)
+- parser: fix formatting struct decl with comments (#20207)
+- parser: fix formatting enum and interface decl with comments (#20216)
+- parser: fix fn call with newline opening brace (fix #20258) (#20267)
+- parser: fix parse_vet_file() with vfmt off/on flag (#20273)
+
+#### Compiler internals
+- pref: support VNORUN=1, to enable running of tests, vsh files etc (i.e. just compile them, for debugging later)
+- scanner: fix backslashes followed directly by newline in string literals (fix #20291) (#20296)
+- scanner: fix escape character handling in character/rune literals (fix #20301) (#20304)
+- pref: disable the -macosx_version_min clang flag by default (#20297)
+- builder: remove passing `-fno-strict-aliasing`, for `-prod` to gcc/icc (#20368)
+
+#### Standard library
+- gg: fix overlapping slices in `draw_slice_filled()` (#20182)
+- json: fix option sumtype handling (#20186)
+- builtin: add `@[direct_array_access]` to js string trim_right method (#20222)
+- json2: add encoder support for `time.Time`  (#20228)
+- json2: fix encoding of 💀🐈 etc emojis (fix #20243) (#20247)
+- json2: make public the generic function `map_from/1` (#20294)
+- json2: optimise encoding to be faster than cJSON with -prod (#20052)
+- json2: support sumtype encoding in a more robust way (#20093)
+- json2: strict module (#17927)
+- crypto: fix notices/errors for `v -N test vlib/crypto`
+- crypto: add blake3 hash (#20319)
+- sokol: fix compiling gg and other graphical examples on OpenBSD (#20333)
+
+#### Web
+- net: make net.fionbio and net.msg_nosignal constants public in net_windows.c.v (#20183)
+- net.http: remove unused `read_set_cookies` function (#20187)
+- os, net.http.file: add a folder listing to the http static file server, started by file.serve/1 (#20192)
+- websocket: enable using an already existing connection (from vweb or another http server) (#20103)
+- x.vweb: fix fsanitize-address test for SSE, improve documentation on the usage of `takeover_conn` (#20249)
+- net.http: support `-d no_vschannel` on windows, to fix long waits, while connecting on some systems (#20265)
+- x.vweb: fix `$vweb.html()` integration in cgen for the newer `x.vweb` module (fix #20204)
+- net: support only ip and ip6 in net.tcp_listener (#20336)
+
+#### ORM
+- orm: fix the generated SQL for the "not equal" operator (#20321)
+
+#### Database drivers
+- db.pg: fix compilation error with the msvc compiler on windows, and add readme (#20326)
+
+#### Native backend
+
+#### C backend
+- Fix string interp with zero characters (fix #20199) (#20200)
+- Fix interface eq method with option and ref (fix #19441) (#20201)
+- Fix infix expr in method of mut receiver variable (#20225)
+- Fix cgen for thread wrappers, when spawning fns with with anon-fn array args and mut interfaces (fix #19425) (#20241)
+- Fix fixed array return when returning fixed array initialization (#20262)
+- Fix function generated code, when returning from match (#20263)
+- Fix in expression with mut and ref (fix #20268) (#20271)
+- Fix initialization of const string arrays on msvc (fix #20287) (#20289)
+- Fix code generation when 'in array init' is used as an if condition (fix #20300) (#20302)
+- Escape table names (fix #20313) (#20322)
+- Add missing clear method for generic maps (#20340)
+- Fix auto unwrapping option fn type (#20332)
+- Fix option initialization with default struct initialization to not be `none` (#20349)
+- Fix auto str for arr options with possible circular reference (#20354)
+- Fix code generation when the function returns mut fixed array (fix #20366) (#20367)
+
+#### vfmt
+
+#### Tools
+- ci: add new workflow, for doing the slower tests in vpm specifically with `-d network` (#20177)
+- tools.vpm: improve detection of already parsed modules (#20223)
+- scanner: change `-d debugscanner` to `-d trace_scanner` for uniformity with the other tracing options, described in CONTRIBUTING.md
+- v.pref: support a `-n` option, silencing only notices (#20331)
+- ci: add vsql to v_apps_and_modules_compile_ci.yml too (#20341)
+- ci: fix the workflow for Vinix, using the rules in its own .yml file (#20371)
+- Support -? as alias to -help (implement #20355) (#20358)
+- vdoc: filter testdata and tests folders by default, reduce filesystem stats calls
+
+#### Operating System support
+- os: small cleanup in the FreeBSD branch of os.executable/0: use fixed array for the sysctl params, instead of allocating a dynamic one (#20353)
+- os: improve os.executable() on OpenBSD (#20356)
+- v.util.diff: support OpenBSD's default `diff` tool (#20369)
+
+#### Examples
+- docs: update null convention in ORM example, since `@[nonull]` is no longer needed (#20286)
+- docs: add an example of a nullable ORM field (#20292)
+- example: add a path finding algorithm visualizer using gg (#20060)
+- examples: add an even smaller gg usage example, demonstrating how to always show the builtin fps counter, and how to avoid importing gx
+
+
+
+
+
 ## V 0.4.3
 *11 November 2023*
 
diff --git a/cmd/tools/changelog_helper.v b/cmd/tools/changelog_helper.v
index 1334aa4566..88d61c97ff 100644
--- a/cmd/tools/changelog_helper.v
+++ b/cmd/tools/changelog_helper.v
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ fn (mut app App) process_line(text string) ! {
 	println('${app.counter} / ${app.total_lines}')
 	// println('\n')
 	println(text)
-	input := os.input('${category} ?')
+	input := os.input('${category}? ')
 	println("INPUT='${input}'")
 	match input {
 		'' {