• 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/

• Add JDK 20 to test suite. #3177
• Add run command for Gradle inline execution. #3179
• Fix links on usage output for new smali & apktool links.
• Fix Windows issue copying files that resolved to an empty filename. #3165
• Fix Java restriction with ZIP64 extra field validation. #3174, #3170
• Fix regression on apktool.yml property names. #3169
• Fix regression on minSdkVersion value being blown out before setting into apktool.yml. #3182 / (Thanks IgorEisberg)
• Fix regression on inefficient reading of framework files during attribute parsing. #3181
• Fix regression on decoding framework file with a tag. #3193 / (Thanks IgorEisberg)
• Refactor descriptions on commands. #3188 / (Thanks IgorEisberg)
• Upgrade gradle/gradle-build-action to 2.6.0 #3151
• Upgrade to Gradle 8.2.1 #3141 / (Thanks ArjunaKumarMohanta)

This post was released in pair with https://connortumbleson.com/2023/07/22/apktool-v2-8-1-released and duplicated in part here for historical reasons.