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layout: post
title: diffoscope 32 released
author: Jérémy Bobbio <lunar@debian.org>
---

The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope
version `32`. This version includes the following changes:

```
[ Jérémy Bobbio ]
* Add `--fuzzy-threshold` option. This allows one to specify the TLSH score
  used as cut-off for fuzzy matching. Specifying 0 will disable
  fuzzy-matching entirely. Thanks Jakub Wilk for prompting me to implement
  this. (Closes: #797557)
* Add `--new-file` to treat absent files as empty. Thanks Jakub Wilk for the
  suggestion. (Closes: #797560)
* Enable comparisons of symlinks and devices given on the command line.
  (Closes: #796262)
* Fix comparisons of device files. (Closes: #796288)
* Perform comparisons of file metadata in directories using original path.
  (Closes: #796202)
* Display default values in `--help`.
* Stop unpacking Tar directories. Thanks h01ger for the report.
  (Closes: #797164)
* Make directory comparison work again.
* Fix and document required Python modules. Thanks plntyk for the feedback on
  IRC.
* Pass `--force-local`. to cpio. We don't want filenames with ':' to trigger
  remote copies.
* Mark that get_ar_content() as requiring the 'ar' executable.
* Rework how diffoscope main() is run. Thanks Yaroslav Halchenko for the
  report and suggestions. (Closes: #796196)
* Assume UTF-8 output if stdin does not advertise any encoding.
* Give proper error message when run on non-existing files.
* Output differences in directory test to ease debugging.
* Update manpage. Thanks Jakub Wilk for reporting the issue.
  (Closes: #797561)
* Properly handle SIGTERM and do cleanup temp files. Thanks Mattia Rizzolo
  for reporting this and how he did work around this deficiency.
  (Closes: #788568)
* Fix handling of GHC .hi file (Closes: #796039)
* Add a test on how Ctrl+C is handled.
* Minor code improvements.

[ Chris Lamb ]
* Correct "comment" on Device comparator.
```

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