Version 5.04 of file
Release Notes: This is a bugfix and security release. There are no new features.
Other releases
Release Notes: Differentiation of text and binary files has been improved. Hardwired token finding has been transformed into soft magic. Magic priorities have been adjusted, and magic has been added and improved. Minor bugs have been fixed.
Release Notes: Several minor bugs were fixed. Several magic improvements were made, notably for multimedia formats.
Release Notes: The detection of zip files was fixed. Other minor magic enhancements were made. The MIME types of filesystem objects were renamed for consistency with xdg-utils. MingW compilation was fixed.
Release Notes: Several regressions in magic were fixed. A buffer overflow was corrected. The program version is now recorded in only one place. Several documentation improvements were made.
Release Notes: The Python bindings were updated and fixed. Magic support for OCF (EPUB) files and for lrzip files was added. Zip file magic was adapted for files with unsupported special types. Many more magic updates and fixes were made. Several minor bugs were fixed.
