[File] file-5.47 is now available

Christos Zoulas christos at zoulas.com
Thu Feb 26 16:46:39 UTC 2026


Hello,

I am pleased to announce that after more than 2 years, we have a new 
version of file.
This is a bug fix release with no new features. Here is the ChangeLog:

2026-02-26  11:32  Christos Zoulas <christos at zoulas.com>

         * release 5.47

2026-02-04  09:54  Christos Zoulas <christos at zoulas.com>
         * Better multi-compound document identification by following the
           order of the directories entries. (Thomas Ledoux)

2026-01-19  14:00  Christos Zoulas <christos at zoulas.com>
         * if stat fails, don't attempt to restore times (Steven Grubb)

2025-05-28  15:20  Christos Zoulas <christos at zoulas.com>

         PR/622: Odd_Bloke: Handle negative offsets in file_buffer(),
         when fd is not available.

2025-05-28  12:50  Christos Zoulas <christos at zoulas.com>

         * PR/655: jsummers: Obey str_flags in strings like we do for 
search
           and regex
         * PR/659: Pitzl: Apply MAGIC_CONTINUE to annotations; i.e. print
           only the first, unless -k is specified.

2024-12-19  14:44  Christos Zoulas <christos at zoulas.com>

         * PR/592: allow + in format strings
         * PR/592: signed operations should be done in signed context

2024-12-05  13:50 Christos Zoulas <christos at zoulas.com>

         * PR/578: jsummers: Don't crash on cygwin when tm_mon == -1
         * PR/579: net147: Fix stack overrun.


Enjoy,

christos


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