[diffoscope] diffoscope 290 released 💠

Chris Lamb chris at reproducible-builds.org
Fri Mar 21 10:34:30 UTC 2025


Hi,

The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of
version 290 of diffoscope.

diffoscope tries to get to the bottom of what makes files or
directories different. It will recursively unpack archives of many
kinds and transform various binary formats into more human-readable
form to compare them. It can compare two tarballs, ISO images, or PDF
just as easily.

Version 290 includes the following changes:

  [ Chris Lamb ]
  * Also consider .aar files as APK files for the sake of not falling back to a
    binary diff. (Closes: #1099632)
  * Ensure all calls to out_check_output in the ELF comparator have the
    potential CalledProcessError exception caught. (Re: #398)
  * Ensure a potential CalledProcessError is caught in the OpenSSL comparator
    as well.
  * Update copyright years.

  [ Eli Schwartz ]
  * Drop deprecated and no longer functional "setup.py test" command.

## Download

Version 290 is available from Debian unstable as well as PyPI, and
will shortly be available on other platforms surely. More details can
be found here:

   https://diffoscope.org/

… but source tarballs may be located here:

  https://diffoscope.org/archive/

The corresponding Docker image may be run via (for example):

  $ docker run --rm -t -w $(pwd) -v $(pwd):$(pwd):ro \
      registry.salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/diffoscope a b


## Contribute

diffoscope is developed within the "Reproducible builds" effort.

  - Git repository
    https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/diffoscope

  - Docker image, eg.
    registry.salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/diffoscope
    https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/diffoscope

  - Issues and feature requests
    https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/diffoscope/issues

  - Contribution instructions (eg. to file an issue)
    https://reproducible-builds.org/contribute/salsa/


Regards,

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