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layout: post
title: diffoscope 44 released
author: Jérémy Bobbio <lunar@debian.org>
---

The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope
version `44`. This version includes the following changes:

```
[ Mike Hommey ]
* Tell readelf to use wide output. (Closes: #808103)
* Add support for Mozilla optimized Zip files. (Closes: #808002)
* Use <ins/> and <del/> in HTML output.
* Fix line numbering in HTML diff output (Closes: #808199)

[ Jérémy Bobbio ]
* Fix .deb comparisons when md5sums is wrong or missing. (Closes: #808104)
* Remove some quadratic string concatenations in HTML presenter.
* Remove useless <span>s in HTML output. (Closes: #808121)
* Replace calling find by using os.walk in directory comparator.
* Sort the file list in directory comparator. (Closes: #808003)
* Ensure the 'lines skipped' message gets written when lines are skipped
  at the end of a diff.
* Make sure to read HTML reports as utf-8 in tests.

[ Esa Peuha ]
* Convert HTML character entity references to UTF-8 characters to save space.
```

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