• Android O Final Dev Preview Support (#1520)
• Update SnakeYAML to 1.1.8 (Android). (#591)
• Upgrade to gradle 4.0
• Fixed issue with APKs taking longer than usual to parse resources. (#1489) / Thanks MarcMil
• Fixed issue with internal binaries not accessible in a Spring boot environment. (#1543) / Thanks bingqiao
• Add preliminary support for rebuilding applications built in aapt2 (#1520)
• Add support for resource filenames to contain $ symbols. (#1532)
• Fixed issue with apktool not closing file resources, creating locks. (#1561) / Thanks MarcMil
• Fixed issue with APKs that have INVALID TYPE CONFIG resources. (#1534)
• Fixed decoding issue with APKs with intentionally invalid characters. (#1564)
• Only exit with a 0 status code during version commands.
• Enforce proper Apache licenses on all Java files.
• Prevent malicious directory traversal with unknown files.
• Prevent XML-XXE processing to prevent unintended leaking of information in a malicious setting.

This post was originally released at: https://connortumbleson.com/2017/07/29/apktool-v2-2-4-released and duplicated in part here for historical reasons.

• Android O Preview Support (#1453)
• Updated to smali 2.2.1
• Updated internal aapt binaries to android-7.1.2_r11
• Removed deprecated fatJar plugin in favor of ShadowJar
• This turns fatJar to shadowJar on build instructions.
• Updated gradle to v3.5. Thanks friederbluemle
• Fix for reading length of UTF16 encoded strings. Thanks atn1969
• Fixed issue changing default parameters on baksmali. (#1481)
• Fixed issue with apktool locking access to input files. (#1160) Thanks MarcMil
• Add support for animated vector drawables. (#1456)
• Fixes decoding brightness. (#1508) Thanks phhusson
• Prevent unknown file decode outside of archive. (#1498) / Thanks mkilling
• Fixes improper decoding of optical bounds in images. (#1511) Thanks phhusson

This post was originally released at: https://connortumbleson.com/2017/06/13/apktool-v2-2-3-released and duplicated in part here for historical reasons.