NEWS (4816B)
1 Thu Jul 30 11:14:02 PM CEST 2026 2 Releasing GNU libextractor 1.19. 3 4 Tue Sep 25 16:25:05 CEST 2012 5 Releasing GNU libextractor 1.0.0. 6 7 Fri Aug 17 21:28:33 CEST 2012 8 Major changes to plugin mechanism now allow out-of-process 9 plugins full random-access to the entire file. Most plugins 10 have now been rewritten to the new plugin API (0.7). The external 11 (libextractor) API will remain unchanged and compatible with LE 0.6. 12 13 As part of the rewrite, many plugins were changed to use 14 standard 3rd party libraries (libjpeg, libtiff, libgif, 15 libtidy, libmagic) for parsing. A new plugin based on 16 gstreamer replaces many existing multimedia plugins. 17 18 Automated testcases for (almost all) of the plugins 19 were also written and the documentation was updated. 20 21 The license was changed to GNU GPL v3+. 22 PDF support removed (GPLv2-only). 23 REAL support removed (not yet ported). 24 25 Mon Nov 28 12:17:42 CET 2011 26 Added MKV (Matroska) plugin. 27 Releasing libextractor 0.6.3. 28 29 Sun Jun 13 13:15:43 CEST 2010 30 Releasing libextractor 0.6.2. 31 32 Sun Mar 14 00:09:45 CET 2010 33 Releasing libextractor 0.6.1. 34 35 Wed Jan 13 17:11:07 CET 2010 36 Major API change (no longer returning linked lists, using callbacks instead). 37 Releasing libextractor 0.6.0. 38 39 Sat Jul 4 23:05:22 CEST 2009 40 Releasing libextractor 0.5.23. 41 42 Fri Feb 20 00:28:00 MST 2009 43 Releasing libextractor 0.5.22. 44 45 Sun Nov 2 20:19:02 MST 2008 46 Releasing libextractor 0.5.21. 47 48 Tue Aug 12 04:40:49 EEST 2008 49 Added an S3M (Scream Tracker 3 Module) plugin. 50 Added an XM (eXtended Module) plugin. 51 Added an IT (Impulse Tracker) plugin. 52 53 Mon Jun 23 19:05:07 EET 2008 54 Fixed concurrency issues in plugin (un-)loading by adding locking 55 around libltdl functions. 56 57 Fri Jun 20 23:34:02 EET 2008 58 Added an FFmpeg-based thumbnail extractor plugin, initially 59 supporting only bmp and png files. 60 61 Mon Mar 21 00:00:52 MDT 2008 62 Releasing libextractor 0.5.20a. 63 64 Thu Mar 20 23:38:47 MDT 2008 65 Releasing libextractor 0.5.20. 66 67 Wed Feb 13 10:16:55 EET 2008 68 Added a plugin for AppleSingle/AppleDouble files. 69 70 Sat Jan 12 14:14:32 MST 2008 71 Releasing libextractor 0.5.19a. 72 73 Mon Jan 7 08:46:40 MST 2008 74 Releasing libextractor 0.5.19. 75 76 Wed Dec 26 19:38:22 MST 2007 77 Added a FLAC (.flac) plugin. 78 79 Wed Dec 26 14:50:11 EET 2007 80 Added a Flash Video (.flv) plugin. 81 82 Sat Jan 6 14:27:18 EET 2007 83 Added an NSFE (Extended Nintendo Sound Format) plugin. 84 85 Mon Jan 1 19:10:40 MST 2007 86 Added pkgconfig support. Releasing libextractor 0.5.17. 87 88 Mon Nov 20 22:08:55 EET 2006 89 Added an SID (C64 music file) plugin. 90 91 Sat Nov 11 00:04:34 EET 2006 92 Added an NSF (NES Sound Format) plugin. 93 94 Tue Apr 18 14:44:37 PDT 2006 95 Added dictionaries for Finnish, French, Gaelic and Swedish 96 (for printable extractors). 97 98 Thu Mar 9 17:55:09 PST 2006 99 Word history extraction works (wordleaker). 100 101 Sat Feb 18 17:39:10 PST 2006 102 Releasing libextractor 0.5.10. 103 104 Fri Dec 23 11:28:23 PST 2005 105 Releasing libextractor 0.5.9. 106 107 Thu Jul 14 22:30:45 CEST 2005 108 exiv2 works. 109 110 Sat May 21 13:42:46 EST 2005 111 Releasing libextractor 0.5.0. 112 113 Fri May 6 06:02:02 EST 2005 114 Added Python binding. 115 116 Thu Mar 17 08:07:04 EST 2005 117 libextractor becomes a GNU package. 118 119 Thu Feb 24 00:34:15 EST 2005 120 Thumbnails work. 121 122 Sun Feb 20 16:36:17 EST 2005 123 Helix works (new Real format). 124 125 Sat Nov 13 13:23:23 EST 2004 126 Releasing libextractor 0.3.11. 127 128 Sat Oct 23 13:21:23 EST 2004 129 Releasing libextractor 0.3.10. 130 131 Fri Oct 22 19:18:38 EST 2004 132 id3v2.3 and id3v2.4 work. 133 134 Sun Oct 17 18:12:11 EST 2004 135 tar and tar.gz work. 136 137 Sun Oct 17 17:42:16 EST 2004 138 deb works. 139 140 Sun Oct 17 13:52:25 EST 2004 141 man works. 142 143 Sat Oct 2 18:02:56 EST 2004 144 dvi works. 145 146 Thu Sep 23 11:25:42 EST 2004 147 Added support for StarOffice and ID3v2. 148 149 Fri Sep 10 22:00:09 EST 2004 150 Added support for RipeMD-160. 151 152 Fri Sep 10 19:49:39 EST 2004 153 Added support for SHA-1 and MD5. 154 155 Fri Sep 10 10:35:27 EST 2004 156 OpenOffice works. 157 158 Mon Aug 30 23:16:17 IST 2004 159 ole2 works (WinWord, Excel, PowerPoint). 160 161 Wed Apr 28 19:28:39 EST 2004 162 Releasing libextractor 0.3.1. 163 164 Wed Aug 25 18:59:13 IST 2004 165 GNU gettext support added. 166 167 Wed Apr 28 01:26:53 EST 2004 168 elf works. 169 170 Sat Apr 10 01:34:04 EST 2004 171 riff / avi works. 172 173 Sat Apr 10 00:30:19 EST 2004 174 mpeg works. 175 176 Sun Apr 4 20:24:39 EST 2004 177 tiff works. 178 179 Wed Jul 16 13:41:34 EST 2003 180 Releasing 0.2.5. 181 182 Mon Jun 30 21:27:42 EST 2003 183 Releasing 0.2.4. 184 185 Thu Jan 23 00:34:20 EST 2003 186 rpm works. 187 188 Tue Jan 7 18:31:41 CET 2003 189 ps works. 190 191 Tue Dec 31 15:26:00 EST 2002 192 pdf works. 193 194 Tue Dec 17 20:36:13 CET 2002 195 MIME-type detection works. 196 197 Fri Jun 7 01:48:34 EST 2002 198 real meta formats (rm, ra) work. 199 200 Tue Jun 4 23:21:38 EST 2002 201 png works. 202 203 Sun Jun 2 22:49:17 EST 2002 204 jpeg and HTML work. 205 206 Sat May 18 02:35:39 EST 2002 207 ogg works. 208 209 Thu May 16 00:04:03 EST 2002 210 mp3 works. 211 212 Wed May 15 21:38:31 EST 2002 213 Project started.