--- layout: post title: diffoscope 9 released author: Jérémy Bobbio --- The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope version `9`. This version includes the following changes: ``` [ Chris Lamb ] * Add rpm-common to Build-Depends so that we can “import rpm" during build. * Code improvements improvements. [ Jérémy Bobbio ] * Add plain text output for differences. Thanks Helmut Grohne for the original patch. (Closes: #778423) * Exit with 2 in case of errors. (Closes: #774983) * Properly output diffs when one of the file is empty. * Add support for comparing directories. * Update debian/copyright. ``` You find out more by [visiting the project homepage](https://diffoscope.org).