11 Jun 2020 —
Chris Lamb
The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope
version 147
. This version includes the following changes:
[ Chris Lamb ]
* New features:
- Add output from strings(1) to ELF binaries. It is intended this will
expose expose build paths that are hidden somewhere within the objdump(1)
output. (Closes: reproducible-builds/diffoscope#148)
- Add basic zsh shell tab-completion support.
(Closes: reproducible-builds/diffoscope#158)
* Bug fixes:
- Prevent a traceback when comparing a PDF document that does not contain
any metadata, ie. it is missing a PDF "/Info" stanza.
(Closes: reproducible-builds/diffoscope#150)
- Fix compatibility with jsondiff 1.2.0 which was causing a traceback and
log the version of jsondiff we are using to aid debugging in the future.
(Closes: reproducible-builds/diffoscope#159
- Fix an issue in GnuPG keybox handling that left filenames in the diff.
- Don't mask an existing test name; ie. ensure it is actually run.
* Reporting:
- Log all calls to subprocess.check_output by using our own wrapper utility.
(Closes: reproducible-builds/diffoscope#151)
* Code improvements:
- Replace references to "WF" with "Wagner-Fischer" for clarity.
- Drop a large number of unused imports (list_libarchive,
ContainerExtractionError, etc.)
- Don't assign exception to a variable that we do not use.
- Compare string values with the equality operator, not via "is" identity.
- Don't alias an open file to a variable when we don't use it.
- Don't alias "filter" builtin.
- Refactor many small parts of the HTML generation, dropping explicit
u"unicode" strings, tidying the generation of the "Offset X, Y lines
modified" messages, moving to PEP 498 f-strings where appropriate, etc.
- Inline a number of single-used utility methods.
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