08 Jan 2021 —
Chris Lamb
The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope
version 164
. This version includes the following changes:
[ Chris Lamb ]
* Truncate jsondiff differences at 512 bytes lest they consume the entire page.
* Wrap our external call to cmp(1) with a profile (to match the internal
profiling).
* Add a note regarding the specific ordering of the new
all_tools_are_listed test.
[ Dimitrios Apostolou ]
* Performance improvements:
- Improve speed of has_same_content by spawning cmp(1) less frequently.
- Log whenever the external cmp(1) command is spawn.ed
- Avoid invoking external diff for identical, short outputs.
* Rework handling of temporary files:
- Clean up temporary directories as we go along, instead of at the end.
- Delete FIFO files when the FIFO feeder's context manager exits.
[ Mattia Rizzolo ]
* Fix a number of potential crashes in --list-debian-substvars, including
explicitly listing lipo and otool as external tools.
- Remove redundant code and let object destructors clean up after themselves.
[ Conrad Ratschan ]
* Add a comparator for Flattened Image Trees (FIT) files, a boot image format
used by U-Boot.
You find out more by visiting the project homepage.