• [#3362] Add support for building on Java 21.
• [#3425] Add test for isAccessibilityTool.
• [#3428] Add support for Android QBR2.
• [#3399] Fix regression with api-level not passing to baksmali. (Thanks JoshMiers-FS)
• [#3378] Fix issue with docker building closed prs.
• [#3400] Fix issue with duplicated attribute names in styles.
• [#3416] Fix issue with writing null value resources.
• [#3421] Fix issue with aapt2 falling on private resources.
• [#3427] Fix issue with treating warnings as errors in aapt2.
• [#3377] Remove Docker published package.
• [#3376] Upgrade Gradle to 8.4. (Thanks ArjunaKumarMohanta)
• [#3414, #3453] Upgrade commons-io to 2.15.1.
• [#3413] Upgrade commons-cli to 1.6.0.
• [#3443] Upgrade commons-lang3 to 3.14.0.
• [#3414] Upgrade commons-text to 1.11.0.
• [#3454] Upgrade actions/setup-java to 4.
• [#3384] Upgrade docker/build-push-action to v5.
• [#3445] Upgrade gradle/gradle-build-action to 2.10.0.
• [#3386] Upgrade docker/setup-buildx-action to v3.
• [#3385] Upgrade docker/login-action to v3.
• [#3444] Upgrade proguard/gradle to 7.4.1.

This post was released with commentary at: https://connortumbleson.com/2023/12/06/apktool-v2-9-1-released/

• Add manual YAML implementation to drop SnakeYAML dependency. #3145 (Thanks sv99)
• Add Android 14 framework support. #3202
• Add Resource Modes to allow for more control over resource decoding. #2836
• Add Docker image. #3351 (Thanks Fmstrat)
• Add support for compactly packed resources. #3366
• Add support for 16bit offset entries in resource table. #3367
• Add support for grammatical gender. #3369
• Fix regression with detection of sparse resource table. #3199
• Fix poisoning of sparse detection via sparse framework. #3298
• Fix over-reading the Res Config Flags if size is larger than known. #3205
• Fix improperly decoding attribute and arrays. #2806
• Fix corruption of resource table when aapt2 is used. #3346
• Fix decoding application with larger chunk header size than used. #2989
• Fix decoding application with entries offset that resolved to NO_ENTRY (-1). #1874
• Fix decoding application with larger axml namespace than known. #2587, #2863
• Fix decoding application with misleading number of end namespace chunks. #2070
• Fix decoding application with empty resource table. #2701
• Fix decoding application with duplicate namespaces. #2664
• Fix decoding application with missing namespace on system resources. #2972, #2420
• Fix decoding application with string block with more string entries than strings. #3236
• Fix decoding application with unknown files that exceed file name length limits. #3238
• Fix decoding application with duplicate smaller res entries. #2824
• Fix decoding application with styled string with span outside length of string. #2829
• Fix decoding application from Android Milestone (pre 1.0) builds. #3311
• Fix "disableZip64ExtraFieldValidation" patch by adding to helper scripts. #3198
• Fix changing values of platformBuildVersionCode and platformBuildVersionName in apktool.yml. #3204
• Fix ci build system to properly archive test builds post Kotlin migration. #3282
• Fix Windows helper scripts to properly handle /c. #2973 (Thanks maksz42)
• Change aapt2 to be default build tool. #3368
• Change build system to ignore missing javadoc blocks. #3222 (Thanks sv99)
• Change -c/--copy-original to no longer be deprecated. #2129
• Change frequency of dummy resources to be less often after proper disassembly of resources. #2683, #2104
• Change build system configuration to Kotlin DSL. #3249
• Change build system to leverage Gradle version catalog. #3353
• Change system to no longer generate APKTOOL_DUMMY_* resources. #3258
• Change verbose mode to no longer print out method names. #3310
• Refactor out specific manifest file decoder for empty resource table. #3171 (Thanks sv99)
• Refactor out duo logic with decoders during resource parser. #3211 (Thanks sv99)
• Refactor for specific method operations for loading full resource table. #3217 (Thanks sv99)
• Refactor ApkDecoder for leveraging ApkInfo for file and unknown files. #3242 (Thanks sv99)
• Refactor ResAttrDecoder into AXmlResourceParser. #3243 (Thanks sv99)
• Refactor Gradle validation job to only run if gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar is modified. #3228 (Thanks ArjunaKumarMohanta)
• Upgrade Gradle to 8.3.0 #3275 (Thanks ArjunaKumarMohanta)
• Upgrade @actions/checkout to v4. #3327
• Upgrade apache.commons/lang3 to 3.13.0 #3240
• Upgrade apaches.common-io to 2.14.0 #3358
• Upgrade gradle/gradle-build-action to 2.9.0 #3213, #3241, #3285, #3316, #3359
• Upgrade gradle/wrapper-validation-action to 1.1.0 #3214
• Upgrade xmlunit:xmlunit:1.6 to org.xmlunit:xmlunit-legacy:2.9.1 #3235
• Upgrade com.github.johnrengelman.shadow to 8.1.1 #3259

This post was released with commentary at: https://connortumbleson.com/2023/10/08/apktool-v2-9-0-released/