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layout: post
title: diffoscope 53 released
author: Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org>
---

The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope
version `53`. This version includes the following changes:

```
[ Reiner Herrmann ]
* In the directory comparator, fall back to current directory instead of
  empty name. (Closes: #820624)
* Improve deb(5) support. (Closes: #818414)

[ Mattia Rizzolo ]
* debian/control: add myself to Uploaders.
* Clean up temporary debuglink files.
* Fix FileNotFoundError with broken symlinks. (Closes: #818856)
* Decode Md5sumsFile in utf-8. (Closes: #823874)
* Always suffix temporary files with '_diffoscope'.
* Rewrite sanity check for the version to always run every time debian/rules
  is invoked, not only during a binary build.

[ Ed Maste ]
* Add FreeBSD packages for required tools.

[ Ceridwen ]
* Add README.rst to MANIFEST.in.
```

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