v8.1.0

What's Changed

Added

• Full architecture overhaul: bidirectional HCL2 ↔ JSON pipeline with typed rule classes. (#203)
• hq read-only query CLI for HCL2 files (#277)
• Agent-friendly conversion CLIs: hcl2tojson and jsontohcl2 (#274)
• Add template directives support (%{if}, %{for}) in quoted strings (#276)
• Support loading comments (#134)
• CLAUDE.md (#260)

Fixed

• Ternary with strings parse error (#55)
• "No terminal matches '|' in the current parser context" when parsing multi-line conditional (#142)
• reverse_transform not working with object-type variables (#231)
• reverse_transform not handling nested functions (#235)
• writes omits quotes around map keys with / (#236)
• Operator precedence bug (#248)
• Empty string dictionary keys can't be parsed twice (#249)
• jsonencode not deserialized correctly (#250)
• Literal string "string" incorrectly quoted (#251)
• Interpolation literals added to locals/variables in maps (#252)
• Object literal expression can't be serialized (#253)
• Heredocs should interpret backslash literally (#262)
• Parsing a multi-line multi-conditional expression causes exception — Unexpected token Token('QMARK', '?') (#269)
• Parsing error for multiline binary operators (#246)

Changed

• Updated package metadata: development status, dropped Python 3.7 support. (#263)

Full Changelog: v8.0.0rc2...v8.1.0