• [#3911] Fix regression of broken --version / -version command.
• [#3913] Fix Windows helper script from selecting highest version of apktool.
• [#3932] Upgrade commons-cli to 1.10.0.
• [#3912] Upgrade commons-lang3 to 3.18.0.
• [#3915] Upgrade commons-io to 2.20.0.
• [#3930] Upgrade commons-text to 1.14.0.
• [#3945, #3976] Upgrade gradle/actions to 4.4.3.
• [#3957] Upgrade actions/checkout to v5.
• [#3958] Upgrade actions/setup-java to v5.
• [#3977] Upgrade xmlunit-legacy to 2.10.4.

This was the first release using immutable releases via GitHub.

• [#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.

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