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layout: post
title: diffoscope 86 released
author: Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org>
---

The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope
version `86`. This version includes the following changes:

```
[ Mattia Rizzolo ]
* tests:
  + binary: skip a test if the 'distro' module is not available.
  + iso9660: avoid an overly-catching exception.
* debian/copyright: coalesce some file paragraphs and update information.

[ Guangyuan Yang ]
* tests:
  + iso9660: support both cdrtools' genisoimage's versions of isoinfo.

[ Chris Lamb ]
* comparators:
  + xml: Use ``name`` attribute over ``path`` to avoid leaking comparison
    full path in output.
* Tidy diffoscope.progress a little.

[ Ximin Luo ]
* Add a --tool-prefix-binutils CLI flag.  Closes: #869868
* On non-GNU systems, prefer some tools that start with "g".  Closes: #871029
* presenters:
  + html:
    - Don't traverse children whose parents were already limited.
      Closes: #871413

[ Santiago Torres-Arias ]
* diffoscope.progress:
  + Support the new fork of python-progressbar.  Closes: #873157
```

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