mat2/CHANGELOG.md

0.13.1 - 2023-01-07

• Improve xlsx support
• Remove the Nautilus extension

0.13.0 - 2022-07-06

• Fix an arbitrary file read (CVE-2022-35410)
• Add support for heic files

0.12.4 - 2022-04-30

• Fix possible errors/crashes when processing multiple files via the command line interface
• Use a fixed PDF version for the output
• Improve compatibility with modern versions of rsvg
• Improve the robustness of the command line interface with regard to control characters

0.12.3 - 2022-01-06

• Implement code for internationalization
• Keep individual files compression type in zip files
• Increase the robustness of mat2 against weird/corrupted files
• Fix the dolphin integration
• Add a fuzzer

0.12.2 - 2021-08-29

• Add support for aiff files
• Improve MS Office support
• Improve compatibility with newer/older version of mat2's dependencies
• Fix possible issues with the resolution of processed pdf

0.12.1 - 2021-03-19

• Improve epub support
• Improve MS Office support

0.12.0 - 2020-12-18

• Improve significantly MS Office formats support
• Fix some typos in the Nautilus extension
• Improve reliability of the mp3, pdf and svg parsers
• Improve compatibility with ffmpeg when sandboxing is used
• Improve the dolphin extension usability
• libmat2 now raises a ValueError on malformed files while trying to find the right parser, instead of returning None

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

0.3.0 - 2018-08-03

• Add a check for missing dependencies
• Add Nautilus extension
• Minors code simplifications
• Improve our linters' coverage
• Add a manpage
• Add folder/multiple files related tests
• Change the logo

0.2.0 - 2018-07-10

• Fix various crashes dues to malformed files
• Simplify various code-paths
• Remove superfluous debug message
• Remove the --check option that never was implemented anyway
• Add a -c option to check for mat2's dependencies

0.1.3 - 2018-07-06

• Improve mat2 resilience against corrupted images
• Check that the minimal version of Poppler is available
• Simplify how mat2 deals with office files
• Improve cleaning of office files
  • Thumbnails are removed
  • Revisions are removed
• Add support for plain text files

0.1.2 - 2018-06-21

• Rename some files to ease the packaging
• Add linters to the CI (mypy, bandit and pyflakes)
• Prevent exitftool-related parameters injections
• Improve mat2's resilience against corrupted files
• Make mat2 work on fedora, thanks to @atenart
• Tighten the threat model
• Simplify and improve how office files are handled

0.1.1 - 2018-05-16

• Improve the cli usage
• Refuse to process files with a supported mimetype but an unsupported extension, like text/plain for a .c

0.1.0 - 2018-05-14

• Initial release