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title: diffoscope 70 released
author: Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org>
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The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope
version `70`. This version includes the following changes:

```
[ Mattia Rizzolo ]
* comparators
  + haskell: add a comment describing the file header.
    Thanks to James Clarke <jrtc27@debian.org> for all the investigation done.
* tests:
  + Skip two more tests requiring a x86-64-capable binutils.
    This fixes the tests on ppc64el.
* CONTRIBUTING: misc updates, clearer info about how to submit a Debian bug.

[ James Clarke ]
* comparators:
  + haskell: Properly extract version from interface files.
    What the code did before was just totally wrong, and worked only by
    chance (and only on little endian systems).
    This also fixes the test suite when run on big endian systems.

[ Chris Lamb ]
* comparators:
  + haskell: Also catch CalledProcessError, not just OSError.
* presenters:
  + Move text presenter to use Visitor pattern.
  + Add markdown output support.  Closes: #848141
  + Add RestructuredText output format.
  + Instantiate our presenter classes directly instead of wrapping a method.
  + Use an optimised indentation routine throughout all text presenters.
  + text: Remove superfluous empty newlines from diff.
* tests:
  + Split main and presenter tests.
  + Actually compare the output of text/ReST/markdown formats to fixtures.
  + Drop output_* calls that are inconsistently applied to differences.
  + Add tests for HTML output.
  + Add a test comparing two empty directories.
  + Test --text-color output format.
  + Test that no arguments (beyond the filenames) prints the text output.
  + Don't warn about coverage lines that raise NotImplementedError.
  + Increase coverage by adding "# noqa" in relevant parts.
* Add build status to README.rst.

[ Brett Smith ]
* diffoscope:
  + Specify choices for --list-tools switch.
  + Improve --help output.  Closes: #852015
* CONTRIBUTING: Refresh instructions for contributing to diffoscope.

[ anthraxx ]
* tools: switch Arch Linux dependency for pedump to mono.
```

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