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layout: post
title: diffoscope 25 released
author: Jérémy Bobbio <lunar@debian.org>
---

The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope
version `25`. This version includes the following changes:

```
* Comparators now have a test suite with 93% code coverage.
* Support autopkgtest to run the test suite.
* Properly strip path from javap output even when they are relative.
* Also remove 'Last modified' and 'MD5 checksum' lines from javap output.
* Factorize readelf commands.
* Filter archive name from readelf output.
* Filter archive name from objdump output.
* Fix charset handling of .mo files.
* Don't be quadratic when parsing .mo header.
* Skip archive name in zipinfo output.
* Fix destination path when decompressing gzip files not ending in .gz.
* Filter image name from squashfs superblock information.
* Fix comparison of files in cpio archives.
* Change how we handle a missing RPM module.
* Don't add empty Difference when comparing files with equal metadata in
  directories.
* Filter access time from stat output.
* Rename .changes comparator.
* Rework .changes comparator.
* Comparators now return a single Difference instead of a list of Difference.
```

You find out more by [visiting the project homepage](https://diffoscope.org).