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Bug 574394 - app-misc/binwalk-2.1.1 version bump
Summary: app-misc/binwalk-2.1.1 version bump
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Tim Harder
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Reported: 2016-02-11 02:39 UTC by Anton Bolshakov
Modified: 2016-09-02 23:18 UTC (History)
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Description Anton Bolshakov 2016-02-11 02:39:34 UTC 
https://github.com/devttys0/binwalk/releases

The binwalk v2.1.1 release includes many improvements, including:

Many bug fixes
New/improved file signatures
Disassembly scans (using the Capstone Engine)
Improved raw Deflate compression detection and extraction
Raw LZMA compression detection and extraction
Improved false positive detection for common compressions (Zlib, LZMA)
An IDA plugin for running binwalk inside of IDA
Integration of better extraction utilities (e.g., sasquatch for SquashFS, jefferson for JFFS2)
Removal of all C library dependencies, including libmagic - pure Python!
Native Windows support!
Comment 2 Chris Rorvick 2016-09-01 16:25:17 UTC 
(In reply to Anton Bolshakov from comment #1)
> https://github.com/pentoo/pentoo-overlay/blob/master/app-misc/binwalk/
> binwalk-2.1.1.ebuild

I was running bugs with v2.0.1 that are fixed in v2.1.1.  I tested the above ebuild and it works fine for me.
Comment 3 Tim Harder gentoo-dev 2016-09-02 23:18:58 UTC 
Added to the tree.