1997-01-20 fl Created
1997-01-22 fl Fixed 64-bit portability quirk
2003-09-09 fl Fixed typo in OleFileIO.loadfat (noted by Daniel Haertle)
2004-02-29 fl Changed long hex constants to signed integers
(only olefile/OleFileIO_PL changes compared to PIL 1.1.6)
2005-05-11 v0.10 PL: - a few fixes for Python 2.4 compatibility
(all changes flagged with [PL])
2006-02-22 v0.11 PL: - a few fixes for some Office 2003 documents which raise
exceptions in OleStream.__init__()
2006-06-09 v0.12 PL: - fixes for files above 6.8MB (DIFAT in loadfat)
- added some constants
- added header values checks
- added some docstrings
- getsect: bugfix in case sectors >512 bytes
- getsect: added conformity checks
- DEBUG_MODE constant to activate debug display
2007-09-04 v0.13 PL: - improved/translated (lots of) comments
- updated license
- converted tabs to 4 spaces
2007-11-19 v0.14 PL: - added OleFileIO._raise_defect() to adapt sensitivity
- improved _unicode() to use Python 2.x unicode support
- fixed bug in OleDirectoryEntry
2007-11-25 v0.15 PL: - added safety checks to detect FAT loops
- fixed OleStream which didn't check stream size
- added/improved many docstrings and comments
- moved helper functions _unicode and _clsid out of
OleFileIO class
- improved OleFileIO._find() to add Unix path syntax
- OleFileIO._find() is now case-insensitive
- added get_type() and get_rootentry_name()
- rewritten loaddirectory and OleDirectoryEntry
2007-11-27 v0.16 PL: - added OleDirectoryEntry.kids_dict
- added detection of duplicate filenames in storages
- added detection of duplicate references to streams
- added get_size() and exists() to OleDirectoryEntry
- added isOleFile to check header before parsing
- added __all__ list to control public keywords in pydoc
2007-12-04 v0.17 PL: - added _load_direntry to fix a bug in loaddirectory
- improved _unicode(), added workarounds for Python <2.3
- added set_debug_mode and -d option to set debug mode
- fixed bugs in OleFileIO.open and OleDirectoryEntry
- added safety check in main for large or binary
properties
- allow size>0 for storages for some implementations
2007-12-05 v0.18 PL: - fixed several bugs in handling of FAT, MiniFAT and
streams
- added option '-c' in main to check all streams
2009-12-10 v0.19 PL: - bugfix for 32 bit arrays on 64 bits platforms
(thanks to Ben G. and Martijn for reporting the bug)
2009-12-11 v0.20 PL: - bugfix in OleFileIO.open when filename is not plain str
2010-01-22 v0.21 PL: - added support for big-endian CPUs such as PowerPC Macs
2012-02-16 v0.22 PL: - fixed bug in getproperties, patch by chuckleberryfinn
(https://github.com/decalage2/olefile/issues/7)
- added close method to OleFileIO (fixed issue 2)
2012-07-25 v0.23 PL: - added support for file-like objects (patch by mete0r_kr)
2013-05-05 v0.24 PL: - getproperties: added conversion from filetime to python
datetime
- main: displays properties with date format
- new class OleMetadata to parse standard properties
- added get_metadata method
2013-05-07 v0.24 PL: - a few improvements in OleMetadata
2013-05-24 v0.25 PL: - getproperties: option to not convert some timestamps
- OleMetaData: total_edit_time is now a number of seconds,
not a timestamp
- getproperties: added support for VT_BOOL, VT_INT, V_UINT
- getproperties: filter out null chars from strings
- getproperties: raise non-fatal defects instead of
exceptions when properties cannot be parsed properly
2013-05-27 PL: - getproperties: improved exception handling
- _raise_defect: added option to set exception type
- all non-fatal issues are now recorded, and displayed
when run as a script
2013-07-11 v0.26 PL: - added methods to get modification and creation times
of a directory entry or a storage/stream
- fixed parsing of direntry timestamps
2013-07-24 PL: - new options in listdir to list storages and/or streams
2014-02-04 v0.30 PL: - upgraded code to support Python 3.x by Martin Panter
- several fixes for Python 2.6 (xrange, MAGIC)
- reused i32 from Pillow's _binary
2014-07-18 v0.31 - preliminary support for 4K sectors
2014-07-27 v0.31 PL: - a few improvements in OleFileIO.open (header parsing)
- Fixed loadfat for large files with 4K sectors (issue 3)
2014-07-30 v0.32 PL: - added write_sect to write sectors to disk
- added write_mode option to OleFileIO.__init__ and open
2014-07-31 PL: - fixed padding in write_sect for Python 3, added checks
- added write_stream to write a stream to disk
2014-09-26 v0.40 PL: - renamed OleFileIO_PL to olefile
2014-11-09 NE: - added support for Jython (Niko Ehrenfeuchter)
2014-11-13 v0.41 PL: - improved isOleFile and OleFileIO.open to support OLE
data in a string buffer and file-like objects.
2014-11-21 PL: - updated comments according to Pillow's commits
2015-01-24 v0.42 PL: - changed the default path name encoding from Latin-1
to UTF-8 on Python 2.x (Unicode on Python 3.x)
- added path_encoding option to override the default
- fixed a bug in _list when a storage is empty
2015-04-17 v0.43 PL: - slight changes in OleDirectoryEntry
2015-10-19 - fixed issue 26 in OleFileIO.getproperties
(using id and type as local variable names)
2015-10-29 - replaced debug() with proper logging
- use optparse to handle command line options
- improved attribute names in OleFileIO class
2015-11-05 - fixed issue 27 by correcting the MiniFAT sector
cutoff size if invalid.
2016-02-02 - logging is disabled by default
2016-04-26 v0.44 PL: - added enable_logging
- renamed _OleDirectoryEntry and _OleStream without '_'
- in OleStream use _raise_defect instead of exceptions
2016-04-27 - added support for incomplete streams and incorrect
directory entries (to read malformed documents)
2016-05-04 - fixed slight bug in OleStream
2016-11-27 DR: - added method to get the clsid of a storage/stream
(Daniel Roethlisberger)
2017-05-31 v0.45 BS: - PR 114 from oletools to handle excessive number of
properties:
https://github.com/decalage2/oletools/pull/114
setup.py
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2007-09-13 v0.01 PL: - first version
2007-11-10 v0.02 PL: - updated website URL
2007-12-04 v0.03 PL: - updated description, added debug_mode test
2009-09-11 v0.04 PL: - updated URL, e-mail, licence, disabled e-mail
2012-02-16 v0.05 PL: - added download URL on bitbucket
2012-09-11 v0.06 PL: - read long description from disk in rst format
2014-02-04 v0.07 PL: - added PyPI classifier for Python 3.x, added PL2 version
2014-09-26 v0.08 PL: - install the olefile package instead of modules
2014-10-10 v0.09 PL: - fixed compilation error on Python 3
2016-01-29 v0.10 PL: - fixed issue 28, removed DEBUG_MODE test
2016-01-05 v0.44 PL: - removed the legacy doc subfolder