[File] file-5.40 is now available

Christos Zoulas christos at quasar.astron.com
Wed Mar 31 00:33:19 UTC 2021


Hello,

I am pleased to announce file-5.40. This again is a bug fix release.

	ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/file/file-5.40.tar.gz

Here's the list of changes:

2021-03-30  20:21  Christos Zoulas <christos at zoulas.com>

	* release 5.40

2021-02-05  16:31  Christos Zoulas <christos at zoulas.com>

	* PR/234: Add limit to the number of bytes to scan for encoding
	* PR/230: Fix /T (trim flag) for regex

2021-02-01  12:31  Christos Zoulas <christos at zoulas.com>
	* PR/77: Trim trailing separator.

2020-12-17  15:44  Christos Zoulas <christos at zoulas.com>

	* PR/211: Convert system read errors from corrupt ELF
	  files into human readable error messages

2020-12-08  16:24  Christos Zoulas <christos at zoulas.com>
	
	* fix multithreaded decompression file descriptor issue
	  by using close-on-exec (Denys Vlasenko)

2020-06-27  11:58  Christos Zoulas <christos at zoulas.com>

	* Exclude surrogate pairs from utf-8 detection (Michael Liu)

2020-06-25  12:53  Christos Zoulas <christos at zoulas.com>
	
	* Include # to the list of ignored format chars (Werner Fink)

Best,

christos


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