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layout: post
title: diffoscope 82 released
author: Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>
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The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope
version `82`. This version includes the following changes:

```
[ Chris Lamb ]
* New features:
  - Add support for comparing Pcap files. (Closes: #858867)
  - Add support for .docx and .odt files via docx2txt & odt2txt.
    (Closes: #859056)
  - Add support for PGP files via pgpdump. (Closes: #859034)
  - Add support for comparing Ogg Vorbis files.
* Bug fixes:
  - Don't crash on invalid archives; print a useful error instead.
    (Closes: #833697)
  - Ensure tests and the runtime environment can locate binaries in
    /usr/sbin (eg. tcpdump)
* Tests:
  - Ensure that PATH is modified.
  - Ensure @tool_required raises RequiredToolNotFound.
  - Don't assume that /sbin/init exists; locate any /sbin binary manually and
    then test for that. This should prevent FTBFS on travis-ci.org.
  - Show packages installed in report output.
* Misc:
  - comparators.bzip2: Don't print error output from bzip2 call.
  - comparators.pcap: Show the delta, not the absolute time.
  - Use /usr/share/dpkg/pkg-info.mk over manual calls to dpkg-parsechangelog
    in debian/rules.
  - Document PYTHONPATH usage when running tests in README.Source.
  - Add internal documentation for @tool_required decorator.

[ beuc@beuc.net ]
* Display differences in zip platform-specific timestamps. (Closes: #859117)

[ Ximin Luo ]
* Add support for R .rds and .rdb object files.

[ Vagrant Cascadian ]
* Add support for .dtb (device tree blob) files (Closes: #861109).
```

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