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1.8.0oppahansi/better_imports ↗New releases in your daily digest, changelog included.

A CLI tool to automatically sort and organize Dart imports in your project files, supporting custom rules, configs, and formatting options.

Last release 1 months ago
15 Aug 2026
Release timing varies
gaps range from 8 days to 7 months
Nearly every release is documented
notes for 27 of 28 stable releases
Nothing withdrawn
no release was ever pulled
3 years old
28 releases · first in 2023

Release timeline

28 releases since 2023

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Releases

1.8.015 Aug 2026
Full Changelog : 1.7.0...1.8.0
Full Changelog: 1.7.0...1.8.0
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Additional notes2 sources agree
Fix: package imports in test files are preserved instead of being rewritten to relative imports when the file is under test/tests and the import targets the project lib tree.

Fix: test-local imports inside the test tree can still remain relative while project imports for app code keep package: style.

Fix: symlinked dependency/plugin directories are no longer traversed during collection, preventing files under .symlinks, generated folders, and other external trees from being sorted.

Fix: export directives are handled separately and remain below imports, instead of being mixed into project-import ordering.

Fix: invalid Dart files are skipped without crashing the tool while valid files continue to be processed.

Chore: adds regression coverage for symlinked dependency folders, test-file import rules, export ordering, and parser-skipped invalid files.
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One column per month.

Full Changelog : 1.6.0...1.7.0

Full Changelog: 1.6.0...1.7.0

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Fix: --dart-fmt / dart_fmt was parsed and documented but never actually applied; the Dart formatter ran unconditionally regardless of the flag. It is now correctly wired up, and defaults to false (previously formatting always ran).
Fix: relative/project import classification could match the wrong file when one file's name was a substring of another's (e.g. utils.dart matching core_utils.dart); now matched by exact file name.
Fix: project-import detection could fail on Windows due to a hardcoded / path separator check.
Perf: avoid recompiling regex patterns for every collected file when filtering by ignore-files-like / files-like.
Perf: file-name lookup during import classification is now O(1) instead of scanning every collected file per import.
Chore: dart_style dependency no longer pins a -wip pre-release constraint.
Refactor: de-duplicated list-option config merging in Cfg.

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1.6.020 Jun 2026

Fix #10 Nestest Relative Import by @burhankhanzada in #11

What's Changed

Fix #10 Nestest Relative Import by @burhankhanzada in #11
Fix #12: Long package import converion to relative import by @burhankhanzada in #13
docs: add burhankhanzada as a contributor for bug, code, and 2 more by @allcontributors[bot] in #15
fix: sort directive keys alphabetically to comply with the directives_ordering linter rule by @burhankhanzada in #14

New Contributors

@burhankhanzada made their first contribution in #11

Full Changelog: 1.5.0...1.6.0

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Additional notes2 sources agree

Fix #10 Nestest Relative Import by @burhankhanzada in https://github.com/oppahansi/better_imports/pull/11
Fix #12: Long package import converion to relative import by @burhankhanzada in https://github.com/oppahansi/better_imports/pull/13
docs: add burhankhanzada as a contributor for bug, code, and 2 more by @allcontributors[bot] in https://github.com/oppahansi/better_imports/pull/15
fix: sort directive keys alphabetically to comply with the directives_ordering linter rule by @burhankhanzada in https://github.com/oppahansi/better_imports/pull/14

New Contributors

@burhankhanzada made their first contribution in https://github.com/oppahansi/better_imports/pull/11

Full Changelog: https://github.com/oppahansi/better_imports/compare/1.5.0...1.6.0

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1.5.030 May 2026

Full Changelog : 1.4.5...1.5.0

Full Changelog: 1.4.5...1.5.0

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Additional notes2 sources agree

File Sorter: Language version selection is now dynamic and picks the current dart sdk version on the machine.

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1.4.517 Dec 2025

Full Changelog : 1.4.4...1.4.5

Full Changelog: 1.4.4...1.4.5

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Additional notes2 sources agree

Do not process barrel files with export statements

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1.4.38 Sept 2025

chore: bumb version and add changelog

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Bump sdk version for dart formatter to 3.9.2

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1.4.219 Aug 2025

chore: update version to 1.4.2 in pubspec.yaml; update CHANGELOG for …

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Updated project name from pubspec.yaml if it differs from the currentfolder name

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1.4.119 Aug 2025

Nothing published for this version

1.4.05 Aug 2025

chore: update version to 1.4.0 in pubspec.yaml; add changelog entry f…

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Remove default folders in cfg to enable support for different project structures

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1.3.923 Jun 2025

chore: update version to 1.3.9 in pubspec.yaml and add entry to CHANG…

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Additional notes2 sources agree

Possibly prevent adding an additial empty line after imports

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1.3.820 Jun 20252 sources agree

Fixed sorting packages that contained "flutter_" being wrongly categorized as flutter imports

Fixed sorting packages that contained "flutter_" being wrongly categorized as flutter imports

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1.3.720 Jun 20252 sources agree

Make --files paths system independent

Make --files paths system independent

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1.3.620 Jun 20252 sources agree

- Fix --files filtering

Fix --files filtering

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1.3.59 Jun 20252 sources agree

Update description in pubspec.yaml for better clarity and add example file

Update description in pubspec.yaml for better clarity and add example file

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1.3.47 Jun 20252 sources agree

Prevent adding new line after imports

Prevent adding new line after imports

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1.3.37 Jun 20252 sources agree

Drop dart format option due to inconsistensis

Update some dependencies
Drop dart format option due to inconsistensis

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1.3.18 Mar 20252 sources agree

Update SDK version when using DartFormatter to a newer Version

Update SDK version when using DartFormatter to a newer Version

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1.3.03 Mar 20252 sources agree

Enhance file path filtering and update DartFormatter usage

Enhance file path filtering and update DartFormatter usage
Update version to 1.3.0 and enhance file path filtering in documentation

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1.2.119 Aug 20242 sources agree

Added better linux instructions

Added better linux instructions

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1.2.016 Aug 20242 sources agree

Upped dart version and dependencies

Upped dart version and dependencies

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1.1.26 May 20242 sources agree

Fixed reading dart fmt flag from config

Fixed reading dart fmt flag from config

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1.1.128 Apr 20242 sources agree

Optimizations and Refactoring of String operations

Optimizations and Refactoring of String operations

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1.1.024 Apr 20242 sources agree

Added an option to disable dart formatter

Added an option to disable dart formatter
- only the imports are always formatted, rest of the code is untouched
Rewrote the sorting logic
Added new Tests

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1.0.423 Dec 20232 sources agree

Added support for library directives