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Install tailspin

🌀 A log file highlighter

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winget install --id bensadeh.tailspin

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winget upgrade --id bensadeh.tailspin

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winget uninstall --id bensadeh.tailspin

Package details

Package ID: bensadeh.tailspin
Publisher: bensadeh
Latest version: 6.1.0
Manifest updated: 2026-07-17 23:34:17 UTC
License: MIT
Homepage: Open site
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About tailspin

🌀 A log file highlighter

What's new in 6.1.0

### Added - `--extras jvm-stack-trace` highlights JVM stack traces (Java, Kotlin, Scala, etc.) - `TAILSPIN_EXTRAS` environment variable to set extras without the `--extras` flag ### Performance - Cache ANSI style prefixes in a thread-local, avoiding per-line allocation in the render pipeline ### Fixed - Theme parse and read errors now include the path of the offending file - Reject unknown fields in `theme.toml` so they surface as errors instead of being silently ignored - `--exec` no longer tears down the pager the moment the spawned subprocess exits - Kill the pager when tailspin exits due to a stream error, instead of leaving it orphaned - Overriding builtin keywords in `theme.toml` should always take precedence over the builtin ones (#267)

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Version history

Version	Updated	Notes
6.1.0	2026-07-17 23:34:17 UTC	### Added - `--extras jvm-stack-trace` highlights JVM stack traces (Java, Kotlin, Scala, etc.) - `TAILSPIN_EXTRAS` environment variable to set extras without the `--extras` flag ### Performance - Cache ANSI style prefixe...