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Apktool 2.12.0

July 6, 2025

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This release has moved away from parameters all being global. What this means is parameters are relevant to the command they are used with.

This basically means put the parameters after the command (b, d, if, etc.) instead of before.

[#3857] Add support for API 36 (Baklava).
[#3865] Add -l/--lib to specify shared libraries. (Thanks IgorEisberg)
[#3865] Fix support of shared libraries, parsing pkgId instead of guessing. (Thanks IgorEisberg)
[#3826] Fix escaping of CDATA like strings. (Thanks vbfox)
[#3849] Fix redundant flags in flag attrs. (Thanks IgorEisberg)
[#3838] Fix crash from ApkEditor "protect" mode.
[#3865] Change all tests to use aapt2 to phase out aapt1. (Thanks IgorEisberg)
[#3835] Upgrade gradle/actions to 4.3.1.
[#3846] Upgrade commons-io to 2.19.0.
[#3844] Upgrade commons-text to 1.13.1.
[#3836, #3845, #3852] Upgrade google/guava to 33.4.7-jre.
[#3884, #3897] Upgrade xmlunit to 2.10.3.

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This post was released with commentary at: https://connortumbleson.com/2025/07/06/apktool-v2-12-0-released/

March 10, 2025

Maintainer of Apktool

[#3768] Fix parsing feature flags at any point in AndroidManifest.xml. (Thanks IgorEisberg)
[#3811] Fix injection of network debugging if existing entries present. (Thanks aytee6)
[#3799] Fix disassembly of applications with unordered type chunks.
[#3762] Upgrade r8 to 8.7.18.
[#3800] Upgrade gradle to 4.3.0.

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This post was released with commentary at: https://connortumbleson.com/2025/03/10/apktool-v2-11-1-released/