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title: diffoscope 119 released
author: Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>
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The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope
version `119`. This version includes the following changes:

```
[ Chris Lamb ]
* If a command fails to execute but does not print anything to standard
  error, try and include the first line of standard output in the message we
  include in the diff. This was motivated by readelf(1) returning its error
  messages on stdout. (Closes: #931963)
* Add support for Java ".jmod" modules. Not all versions of file(1) support
  detection of Jmod files yet, so we perform a manual comparison instead.
  (Closes: #933308)
* Re-add "return code" noun to "Command `foo` exited with X" error messages.
* Factor out the ability to ignore the exit codes of "zipinfo" and
  "zipinfo -v" in the presence of non-standard headers.
* Only override the exit code from our special-cased calls to zipinfo(1) if
  they are 1 or 2 to avoid potentially masking real errors.
* Also add missing textual description entries for ZipFile and
  MozillaZipFile file types.
* Skip extra newline in "Output:\n<none>".
* Cease ignoring test failures in stable-backports.
* Bump debhelper compat level to 12.

[ Marc Herbert ]
* Catch failures to disassemble and rescue all other differences.
  (Closes: reproducible-builds/diffoscope!29)
```

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