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• Add `YAML::Emitter` `operator<<` support for `std::array`

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  jbeder/yaml-cpp#1518 · Opened Oct 31, 2026

• Explicit `!!null` tag with empty content loads as a Scalar node instead of Null

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  jbeder/yaml-cpp#1517 · Opened Oct 31, 2026

• Quoted scalar continuation line inside a mapping is accepted when it starts with a tab instead of the required space indentation

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  jbeder/yaml-cpp#1516 · Opened Oct 31, 2026

• Node properties on a following line at the parent mapping's column are accepted

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  jbeder/yaml-cpp#1515 · Opened Oct 31, 2026

• Root-level block scalar with content at column 0 fails to load ("unexpected token after end of document")

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  jbeder/yaml-cpp#1514 · Opened Oct 31, 2026

• Should YAML::detail::iterator_value really be part of the detail namespace? (Support for C++20 ranges)

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  jbeder/yaml-cpp#1507 · Opened Oct 7, 2026

• Forced single-quoted or literal style emits raw NUL and U+0001

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  jbeder/yaml-cpp#1506 · Opened Oct 5, 2026

• Wrong LF count at the end

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  jbeder/yaml-cpp#1502 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 25, 2026

• Save and read multiline text as-is

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  jbeder/yaml-cpp#1501 · 7 comments · Opened Sep 24, 2026

• [GLD Serializer Benchmark] C++ yaml-cpp 0.8.0 — spec compliance misses

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  jbeder/yaml-cpp#1498 · Opened Sep 14, 2026

• Android NDK: rebuild with c++_shared to avoid double libc++ when mixing prebuilts

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  jbeder/yaml-cpp#1496 · Opened Sep 11, 2026

• New function as alternative to `operator[]` for read and write

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  jbeder/yaml-cpp#1448 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 14, 2026

• iterator_base advertises forward_iterator_tag but violates the multi-pass guarantee

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  jbeder/yaml-cpp#1446 · 6 comments · Opened May 30, 2026

• Is there a memory leak?

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  jbeder/yaml-cpp#1436 · 6 comments · Opened May 11, 2026

• any function for merge two YAML::Node

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  jbeder/yaml-cpp#1425 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 20, 2026

• Please enhance context about exceptions handling in yaml-cpp

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  jbeder/yaml-cpp#1395 · Opened Jan 19, 2026

• Which version is compatible with VS2015 and has a new API?

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  jbeder/yaml-cpp#1394 · Opened Jan 19, 2026

• Default behaviour for yaml-cpp install targets missing in README

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  jbeder/yaml-cpp#1381 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 10, 2025

• find_package(yaml-cpp) doesn't build on Visual Studio 2022

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  jbeder/yaml-cpp#1342 · Opened Jan 29, 2025

• Exclude test folder from Doxygen API reference

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  jbeder/yaml-cpp#1341 · Opened Jan 29, 2025

• Unnecessary bumping of SONAME

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  jbeder/yaml-cpp#1317 · 5 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Sep 4, 2024

• Not able to link yaml-cpp.lib in cpp windows project

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  jbeder/yaml-cpp#1315 · 4 comments · Opened Aug 24, 2024

• Compiler warnings can't be disabled when using FetchContent

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  jbeder/yaml-cpp#1300 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 31, 2024

• seems yaml-cpp conan package does not support build_type=RelWithDebInfo properly.

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  jbeder/yaml-cpp#1296 · Opened Jul 11, 2024

• Empty strings are silently replaced with 'null' now

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  jbeder/yaml-cpp#1290 · 8 comments · Opened Jun 24, 2024

• Add example of emitting tags to documentation.

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  jbeder/yaml-cpp#1286 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 20, 2024

• CMake: handle backward compatibility

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  jbeder/yaml-cpp#1285 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 6, 2024

• YAML Emitter using YAML::DoubleQuoted when emitted in a destructor of a staticly created struct/class

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  jbeder/yaml-cpp#1281 · 1 comment · Opened May 17, 2024

• Figuring out if a string will round-trip

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  jbeder/yaml-cpp#1276 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 27, 2024

• Add more hits to the error "Error msg: bad conversion"

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  jbeder/yaml-cpp#1274 · 3 comments · 5 reactions · Opened Mar 14, 2024

• null keys

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  jbeder/yaml-cpp#1269 · 4 comments · Opened Feb 2, 2024

• is it possible to have a partial fallback on struct custom types?

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  jbeder/yaml-cpp#1244 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 11, 2023

• FeatureReq: assign `YAML::Emitter` to `YAML::Node` (multiline string to yaml-cpp node)

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  jbeder/yaml-cpp#1237 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 13, 2023

• Embedded version definition.

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  jbeder/yaml-cpp#1235 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 13, 2023

• Compilation issue - YAML-CPP is exposing std types in dllexport classes

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  jbeder/yaml-cpp#1233 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 12, 2023

• Unable to build any application that uses yaml-cpp, linker errors

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  jbeder/yaml-cpp#1219 · 4 comments · Opened Aug 30, 2023

• YAML::Node::EndMark()

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  jbeder/yaml-cpp#1217 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 22, 2023

• YAML::Nodes alias rather than moving when using std::vector::erase, std::iter_swap and similar methods.

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  jbeder/yaml-cpp#1209 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 7, 2023

• Remnants of YAML 1.1 Spec in YAML 1.2

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  jbeder/yaml-cpp#1198 · 4 comments · Opened Jun 27, 2023

• Multiline string support

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  jbeder/yaml-cpp#1191 · 4 reactions · Opened Apr 28, 2023

• Switch to turn off emitted comments

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  jbeder/yaml-cpp#1165 · Opened Jan 11, 2023

• Incompatibility with boost::nowide

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  jbeder/yaml-cpp#1152 · Opened Nov 15, 2022

• Cannot compile with exceptions disabled

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  jbeder/yaml-cpp#1147 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 28, 2022

• YAML::LoadFile get bad allcation exception on windows

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  jbeder/yaml-cpp#1134 · 5 comments · Opened Sep 23, 2022

• Emitting filesystem::path

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  jbeder/yaml-cpp#1131 · Opened Sep 12, 2022

• Add more examles, including using range-based for loops for iterating over `YAML::Node`s (link to my examples)

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  jbeder/yaml-cpp#1127 · 4 comments · Opened Aug 26, 2022

• Request for exceptions usage documentation

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  jbeder/yaml-cpp#1122 · Opened Aug 1, 2022

• Add range based for loop to tutorial

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  jbeder/yaml-cpp#1121 · Opened Jul 14, 2022

• Can't retrieve key and or value from node?

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  jbeder/yaml-cpp#1118 · Opened Jul 2, 2022

• No way to modify a single `Node` to emit with `SingleQuoted`?

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  jbeder/yaml-cpp#1114 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 15, 2022