prep for 1.4.256

Signed-off-by: Sean Corfield <sean@corfield.org>

Author: seancorfield

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Change Log
 
-* Release 1.4.next in progress
+* Release 1.4.256 2026-03-10
   * Enhance support for subcommand option parsing: add `:subcommand :explicit` and `:subcommand :implicit` options. The former replaces `:in-order true` (which is deprecated) and the latter expands that parsing to treat an unknown option as starting a new subcommand.
 
 * Release 1.3.250 2025-12-30

README.md

@@ -6,26 +6,26 @@ Tools for working with command line arguments.
 
 This project follows the version scheme MAJOR.MINOR.COMMITS where MAJOR and MINOR provide some relative indication of the size of the change, but do not follow semantic versioning. In general, all changes endeavor to be non-breaking (by moving to new names rather than by breaking existing names). COMMITS is an ever-increasing counter of commits since the beginning of this repository.
 
-Latest stable release: 1.3.250
+Latest stable release: 1.4.256
 
 * [All Released Versions](https://central.sonatype.com/artifact/org.clojure/tools.cli/versions)
 * [Development Snapshot Versions](https://oss.sonatype.org/index.html#nexus-search;gav~org.clojure~tools.cli~~~)
 
 [clj/deps.edn](https://clojure.org/guides/deps_edn) dependency information:
 ```clojure
-org.clojure/tools.cli {:mvn/version "1.3.250"}
+org.clojure/tools.cli {:mvn/version "1.4.256"}
 ```
 
 [Leiningen](https://leiningen.org/) dependency information:
 ```clojure
-[org.clojure/tools.cli "1.3.250"]
+[org.clojure/tools.cli "1.4.256"]
 ```
 [Maven](https://maven.apache.org/) dependency information:
 ```xml
 <dependency>
   <groupId>org.clojure</groupId>
   <artifactId>tools.cli</artifactId>
-  <version>1.3.250</version>
+  <version>1.4.256</version>
  </dependency>
 ```
 

doc/new-in-0-4.md

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ options. To aid in designing such programs, `clojure.tools.cli/parse-opts`
 accepts an `:in-order` option that directs it to stop processing arguments at
 the first unrecognized token.
 
-_As of 1.4.next, the `:in-order` option is deprecated and replaced by the `:subcommand` option with values `:explicit` and `:implicit`._
+_As of 1.4.256, the `:in-order` option is deprecated and replaced by the `:subcommand` option with values `:explicit` and `:implicit`._
 
 For instance, the `git` program has a set of top-level options that are
 unrecognized by subcommands and vice-versa:
@@ -56,6 +56,8 @@ Note that the options to `log` are not parsed, but remain in the unprocessed
 arguments vector. These options could be handled by another call to
 `parse-opts` from within the function that handles the `log` subcommand.
 
+_As of 1.4.256, use `:subcommand :explicit` to get this behavior instead._
+
 ### Options Summary
 
 `parse-opts` returns a minimal options summary string: