# 12.2.0 - 2026-06-16

- Added a C11 API that brings fast, type-safe formatting to C. The new
  `fmt-c` library and `fmt/fmt-c.h` header use `_Generic` to dispatch on
  argument types and outperform `printf`/`sprintf`. For example:

  ```c++
  #include <fmt/fmt-c.h>

  fmt_print(stdout, "The answer is {}.\n", 42);
  ```

  (fmtlib/fmt#4663,
  fmtlib/fmt#4671,
  fmtlib/fmt#4696,
  fmtlib/fmt#4693,
  fmtlib/fmt#4694,
  fmtlib/fmt#4712,
  fmtlib/fmt#4789).
  Thanks @soumik15630m, @Ferdi265 and @localspook.

- Added a separate `fmt::fmt-module` CMake target for C++20 modules and a
  CI workflow that exercises module-based builds
  (fmtlib/fmt#4684,
  fmtlib/fmt#4685,
  fmtlib/fmt#4707,
  fmtlib/fmt#4708,
  fmtlib/fmt#4702,
  fmtlib/fmt#4709).
  Thanks @MathewBensonCode.

- Enabled the full Dragonbox lookup cache by default for floating-point
  formatting unless optimizing for binary size (`__OPTIMIZE_SIZE__`),
  giving a ~10–25% speedup. Thanks Matthias Kretz for the suggestion.
  Average time per `double` on Apple M1 Pro (clang 17, random digits,
  smaller is better) measured with
  [dtoa-benchmark](https://github.com/fmtlib/dtoa-benchmark):

  | Method                  | Time (ns) |
  | ----------------------- | --------: |
  | fmt (full)              |     22.07 |
  | fmt (compact)           |     29.55 |
  | ryu                     |     35.21 |
  | double-conversion       |     81.81 |
  | `sprintf`               |    726.27 |
  | `ostringstream`         |    864.34 |

- Improved integer formatting performance by ~3%
  (fmtlib/fmt#4630). Thanks @user202729.

- Optimized formatting into back-insert iterators by using bulk container
  append/insert methods (e.g. on `std::vector<char>` and custom string
  types) (fmtlib/fmt#4679). Thanks @user202729.

- Reduced binary size of debug builds (~200k to ~85k in the bloat test) and
  improved compile speed when `consteval` is unavailable.

- Made path formatting lossless, preserving ill-formed UTF-16
  sequences when converting `std::filesystem::path` to a narrow string.

- Added support for formatting `std::unexpected`
  (fmtlib/fmt#4675). Thanks @17steen.

- Added overloads of `fmt::println` that take a `fmt::text_style`
  (fmtlib/fmt#4782). Thanks @ahoarau.

- Added support for positional arguments as width and precision specifiers
  in `fmt::printf` (fmtlib/fmt#4643).
  Thanks @KareemOtoum.

- Made `FMT_STRING` a no-op when `FMT_USE_CONSTEVAL` is enabled, since the
  consteval format-string constructor already provides compile-time
  validation
  (fmtlib/fmt#4611,
  fmtlib/fmt#4612). Thanks @friedkeenan.

- Promoted `fmt::detail::named_arg` to the public API as `fmt::named_arg` and
  deprecated the detail alias
  (fmtlib/fmt#4683,
  fmtlib/fmt#4687). Thanks @TPPPP72.

- Moved the `std::byte` formatter from `fmt/format.h` to `fmt/std.h`.

- Provided a default definition for `fmt::is_contiguous`
  (fmtlib/fmt#4731,
  fmtlib/fmt#4770). Thanks @user202729 and @phprus.

- Added the `FMT_USE_FLOCKFILE` macro to disable the use of `flockfile`
  (fmtlib/fmt#4646,
  fmtlib/fmt#4666). Thanks @mvastola.

- Added `include_guard(GLOBAL)` so that {fmt} can be used in multiple
  submodules of the same project
  (fmtlib/fmt#4672). Thanks @torsten48.

- Improved `constexpr` support
  (fmtlib/fmt#4659,
  fmtlib/fmt#4591).
  Thanks @elbeno and @17steen.

- Deprecated the implicit conversion from `fmt::format_string` and
  `fmt::basic_fstring` to `string_view` to align with `std::format_string`;
  use `format_string::get()` instead.

- Opted out `std::complex` from tuple formatting so that the dedicated
  `std::complex` formatter is always used.

- Removed the `fmt::say` function.

- Deprecated the `std::initializer_list` overload of `fmt::join` and the array
  overload of `fmt::vformat_to`.

- Made the `<fmt/core.h>` header equivalent to `<fmt/base.h>` by
  default. Code that relied on `<fmt/core.h>` pulling in `<fmt/format.h>`
  must now either include `<fmt/format.h>` directly or define
  `FMT_DEPRECATED_HEAVY_CORE` to opt back in.

- Improved `wchar_t` support: `fmt::join` now accepts `wchar_t` and other
  non-`char` separators, and `fmt::format_to_n` now works with `fmt::runtime`
  on `wchar_t`
  (fmtlib/fmt#4686,
  fmtlib/fmt#4714,
  fmtlib/fmt#4715).
  Thanks @Yancey2023 and @sunmy2019.

- Fixed formatting of `std::tm` with a null `tm_zone`
  (fmtlib/fmt#4790). Thanks @Carmel0.

- Fixed compile-time formatting in `fmt/ranges.h`, `fmt/style.h` and
  `fmt/std.h` (fmtlib/fmt#4759). Thanks @j4niwzis.

- Fixed an ambiguity between `formatter<std::optional<T>>` in `fmt/std.h`
  and `fmt/ranges.h` on C++26 (P3168R2)
  (fmtlib/fmt#4761). Thanks @phprus.

- Fixed a GCC PCH breakage triggered by a scoped `#pragma GCC optimize`.

- Fixed a TSAN false positive in the locale handling code
  (fmtlib/fmt#4755).

- Fixed compile-time format string checks truncating string literals at
  an embedded null byte
  (fmtlib/fmt#4732). Thanks @user202729.

- Fixed out-of-bounds reads in `printf` formatting
  (fmtlib/fmt#4741,
  fmtlib/fmt#4742,
  fmtlib/fmt#4800).
  Thanks @Algunenano and @aizu-m.

- Fixed the return type of the `f(un)lockfile`   wrappers on Windows
  (fmtlib/fmt#4739). Thanks @mvastola.

- Worked around a CUDA issue when handling UTF-32 literals
  (fmtlib/fmt#4719). Thanks @Cazadorro.

- Fixed missing named-argument validation for compiled format strings
  (fmtlib/fmt#4638). Thanks @jaeheonshim.

- Fixed `fmt::format_to_n` in `<fmt/compile.h>` failing to compile when
  `<iterator>` is not transitively included
  (fmtlib/fmt#4615).

- Fixed handling of pointers in format string compilation with
  `FMT_BUILTIN_TYPES=0`.

- Stopped assuming nul termination of the format string in `fmt::printf`.
  Thanks @ZUENS2020 for reporting.

- Fixed a build error when locale support is disabled
  (fmtlib/fmt#4627). Thanks @marcel-behlau-elfin.

- Fixed a fallback range formatter for types with a `container_type` member
  (fmtlib/fmt#4123,
  fmtlib/fmt#4660). Thanks @soumik15630m.

- Fixed C++20 concept detection
  (fmtlib/fmt#4653). Thanks @tearfur.

- Fixed a clang compilation failure
  (fmtlib/fmt#4718). Thanks @mccakit.

- Fixed various MSVC warnings, including C4305 and conversion warnings on
  x86 (fmtlib/fmt#4668,
  fmtlib/fmt#4594).
  Thanks @kanren3 and @blizzard4591.

- Updated the Android Gradle Plugin to 9.x
  (fmtlib/fmt#4651,
  fmtlib/fmt#4658). Thanks @soumik15630m.

- Made various code, build and test improvements
  (fmtlib/fmt#4625,
  fmtlib/fmt#4639,
  fmtlib/fmt#4644,
  fmtlib/fmt#4656,
  fmtlib/fmt#4680,
  fmtlib/fmt#4681,
  fmtlib/fmt#4704,
  fmtlib/fmt#4710,
  fmtlib/fmt#4713,
  fmtlib/fmt#4729,
  fmtlib/fmt#4751,
  fmtlib/fmt#4758,
  fmtlib/fmt#4799).
  Thanks @ZephyrLykos, @togunchan, @KaganCanSit, @berndpetrovitsch,
  @Skylion007, @st0rmbtw, @localspook and @EXtremeExploit.

- Improved documentation, including a rewrite of the format string syntax,
  better handling of doxygen tags, documenting `output_file`, fixing CSS so
  that whitespace is displayed properly, and various smaller fixes
  (fmtlib/fmt#4622,
  fmtlib/fmt#4626,
  fmtlib/fmt#4631,
  fmtlib/fmt#4667,
  fmtlib/fmt#4616,
  fmtlib/fmt#4748).
  Thanks @heavywatal, @ZephyrLykos, @user202729, @ssszcmawo, @bigmoonbit
  and @Powerbyte7.

- Added building of release artifacts and SLSA provenance in CI, added a
  CodeQL workflow, and added the security policy in `.github/SECURITY.md`.