Version 1.6.2

see CHANGELOG.md

Version 1.6.1

see CHANGELOG.md

Version 1.6.0

feature: implement Library of Congress FDD signatures (beta)
feature: implement RIFF matcher
feature: -multi flag replaces -nopriority; based on report by Ross Spencer
change to -z output: use hash as filepath separator (and unix slash for webarchives); requested by Ross Spencer
bugfix: parsing fmt/837 signature; reported by Sarah Romkey

Version 1.5.0

• feature: implement freedesktop.org MIME-info signatures (and the Apache Tika variant)
• feature: implement XML matcher
• feature: file name matcher now supports glob patterns as well as file extensions
• default signature file now "default.sig" (was "pronom.sig")
• changes to YAML and JSON output: "ns" (for namespace) replaces "id", and "id" replaces "puid"
• changes to CSV output: multi-identifiers now displayed in extra columns, not extra rows

Version 1.6.0 alpha

v1.6-alpha

glide up

Version 1.4.5

bugfix: big file handling
bugfix: file handle leak; reported by Ross Spencer
bugfix: mscfb; reported by Ross Spencer
summarise os errors; requested by Ross Spencer
code quality: vendor external packages; implemented by Misty de Meo

Version 1.4.4

• fix: speed regression in TIFF mis-identification patch last release
• code quality: refactor textmatcher package
• code quality: refactor siegreader package
• code quality: documentation

Version 1.4.3

Changes:

• measure time elapsed with -log time
• bugfix: percent encode file URIs in droid output
• bugfix: long windows directory paths (further work on bug fixed in 1.4.2); reported by Ross Spencer
• bugfix: mscfb panic; reported by Ross Spencer
• bugfix: TIFF mis-identifications due to an early halt error

Version 1.4.2

new -throttle flag; requested by Ross Spencer
errors logged to stderr by default (to quieten use -log ""); requested by Ross Spencer
mscfb update: lazy reading
webarchive update: decode Transfer-Encoding and Content-Encoding; requested by Dragan Espenschied
bugfix: long windows paths; reported by Ross Spencer
bugfix: 32-bit file size overflow; reported by Ross Spencer

Version 1.4.1

• -log replaces -debug, -slow, -unknown and -known flags
• highlight empty file/stream with error and warning
• negative text match overrides extension-only plain text match