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0.11.0 - 2020-03-29

  • Improve significantly MS Office formats support
  • Refactor how mat2 looks for executables

0.10.1 - 2020-02-09

  • Improve the documentation and the manpage
  • Improve the robustness of css, html, png, gdk-based, exiftool-based parsers
  • Future-proof a bit the testsuite
  • Handle tiff files with a .tif extension
  • Improve the sandbox' usability
  • Add support for wav files

0.10.0 - 2019-11-30

  • Make mat2 work on Python3.8
  • Minor improvement of ppt handling
  • Minor improvement of odt handling
  • Add an integration KDE's file manager: Dolphin
  • mat2 now copies file permissions on the cleaned files
  • Add a flag to disable sandboxing
  • Tighten a bit the sandboxing
  • Improve handling of MSOffice documents
  • Add support for inplace cleaning
  • Better handling of mutually-exclusive arguments in the command line
  • Add support for svg
  • Add support for ppm
  • Cleaned zip files are compressed by default
  • Minor performances improvement when dealing with images/video files
  • Better handling of optional dependencies

0.9.0 - 2019-05-10

  • Add tar/tar.gz/tar.bz2/tar.zx archives support
  • Add support for xhtml files
  • Improve handling of read-only files
  • Improve a bit the command line's documentation
  • Fix a confusing error message
  • Add even more tests
  • Usuals internal cleanups/refactorings

0.8.0 - 2019-02-28

  • Add support for epub files
  • Fix the setup.py file crashing on non-utf8 platforms
  • Improve css support
  • Improve html support

0.7.0 - 2019-02-17

  • Add support for wmv files
  • Add support for gif files
  • Add support for html files
  • Sandbox external processes via bubblewrap
  • Simplify archive-based formats processing
  • The Nautilus extension now plays nicer with other extensions

0.6.0 - 2018-11-10

  • Add lightweight cleaning for jpeg
  • Add support for zip files
  • Add support for mp4 files
  • Improve metadata extraction for archives
  • Improve robustness against corrupted embedded files
  • Fix a possible security issue on some terminals (control character injection via --show)
  • Various internal cleanup/improvements

0.5.0 - 2018-10-23

  • Video (.avi files for now) support, via FFmpeg, optionally
  • Lightweight cleaning for png and tiff files
  • Processing files starting with a dash is now quicker
  • Metadata are now displayed sorted
  • Recursive metadata support for FLAC files
  • Unsupported extensions aren't displayed in ./mat2 -l anymore
  • Improve the display when no metadata are found
  • Update the logo according to the GNOME guidelines
  • The testsuite is now runnable on the installed version of mat2
  • Various internal cleanup/improvements

0.4.0 - 2018-10-03

  • There is now a policy, for advanced users, to deal with unknown embedded fileformats
  • Improve the documentation
  • Various minor refactoring
  • Improve how corrupted PNG are handled
  • Dangerous/advanced cli's options no longer have short versions
  • Significant improvements to office files anonymisation
    • Archive members are sorted lexicographically
    • XML attributes are sorted lexicographically too
    • RSID are now stripped
    • Dangling references in [Content_types].xml are now removed
  • Significant improvements to office files support
  • Anonimysed office files can now be opened by MS Office without warnings
  • The CLI isn't threaded anymore, for it was causing issues
  • Various misc typo fix

0.3.1 - 2018-09-01

  • Document how to install mat2 for various distributions
  • Fix various typos in the documentation/comments
  • Add ArchLinux to the CI to ensure that mat2 is running on it
  • Fix the handling of files with a name ending in .JPG
  • Improve the detection of unsupported extensions in upper-case
  • Streamline mat2's logging