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layout: post
title: diffoscope 92 released
author: Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>
---

The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope
version `92`. This version includes the following changes:

```
[ Chris Lamb ]

* New features:
  - Show the list of supported file types in the manual and --help output. We
    can copy-paste this into the website, etc. Thanks to Jonathan Dowland
    for the suggestion. (Closes: #893443)
  - Add support for comparing Gnumeric spreadsheets. (Closes: #893311)

* Bug fixes:
  - Additionally extract the classes.dex file from .apk files; apktool does
    not do this by default which was preventing us from recursing into it to
    find differences. Thanks to Hans-Christoph Steiner for the report.
    (Closes: #890904)
  - Recursively reset the permissions of temporary directories prior to
    deletion to ensure that non-writable permissions such as 0555 are removed
    and do not cause a traceback. (Closes: #891363)
  - Support the case where the python3-xattr package is installed but
    python3-pyxattr is not. Based on an patch by Doug Freed; thanks!
    (Closes: #892240)
  - Update Java tests for openjdk-9. (Closes: #893183)

* Output:
  - Print a nicer error message if you only specify one file to compare.
  - Don't show progress bar if we passed --debug as it just gets in the way.

* Code tidying:
  - Avoid some necessary indentation around unconditional control flow.
  - Tidy unnecessary assignments.
  - Move the documentation for maybe_decode into a docstring on the method
    itself.
  - Import LooseVersion as LooseVersion.
  - Use more Pythonic `old_level` variable names (over `oldLabel`) and avoid
    using ambiguous `l` variable names.
  - Add whitespace around operators and ensure 4-line indentation throughout.

* debian/*:
  - Move DOS/MBR check into the testsuite.
  - Add explicit runtime dependency on python3-distutils as it was dropped in
    src:python3.6 3.6.5~rc1-2.

* Misc:
  - Clarify that the Reproducible Builds project is not just about Debian.
  - Drop executable bit on doc/Makefile.
  - Use our bin/diffoscope wrapper in manpage generation to ensure we are
    using the local version of diffoscope.

[ Mattia Rizzolo ]
* Update terminology used in docs about exclusion options. Thanks to Paul
  Wise for the idea. (Closes: #893324)
* Don't try to decode a string in comparators.utils.file. (Closes: #891903)
* Save a bunch of system calls by resetting tempfile permissions when
  we actually need to do it.
```

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