• Add SDK U (API 34) Preview support. (#3041)
• Add SDK V (API ?) Preview support. (#3115)
• Add CI testing for Java versions: 18 and 19. (#2976)
• Add support for parsing applications with config flag size > 8 (from 28). (#2978)
• Add support for running apktool via gradle. (#3070) / (Thanks sv99)
• Add support for 0_resource_name_obfuscated (#2980)
• Add support for Upside Down Cake & Vanilla Ice Cream SDK Shorthand. (#3113)
• Remove CI testing for Java versions: 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 17.
• Fix issue parsing empty resources.asrc. (#2998) / (Thanks IgorEisberg)
• Fix issue with larger apktool.yml files. (#3008)
• Fix issue with parsing XML_TYPE_OVERLAY. (#3030)
• Fix issue with aapt/aapt2 in edge cases waiting 15 seconds for output. (#3071) / (Thanks sv99)
• Fix NPE when decoding namespace missing from string pool. (#3104)
• Fix preference order when bogus values fill spring pool instead preferring res table. (#2981)
• Fix assembly with aapt1 when duplicate bag items are detected. (#1927, #2484)
• Fix config flag support for 64 byte header, adding localeNumberingSystem. (#3133)
• Fix issue crashing out when reading entries past chunk end. (#3036)
• Refactor brut.androlib.err to brut.androlib.exceptions for standard naming convention of Exceptions. (#3088) / (Thanks sv99)
• Refactor Build/Decode to work from common Config object. (#3091) / (Thanks sv99)
• Refactor into ApkBuilder and ApkDecoder instead of generic Androlib. (#3103) / (Thanks sv99)
• Refactor new class Framework to lessen responsibility of AndrolibResources. (#3105) / (Thanks sv99)
• Refactor ApkDecoder to split methods for MetaInfo towards ResTable. (#3106) / (Thanks sv99)
• Refactor ApkDecoder to introduce common methods for manifest and resource operations. (#3109) / (Thanks sv99)
• Refactor Gradle workflow into its own to cut down on unrelated CI failures. (#3114)
• Refactor *Decoders to split child classes into own class files. (Issue 3116)
• Refactor classes to support new ApkInvoker class. (#3124) / (Thanks sv99)
• Upgrade gradle/gradle-build-action to 2.5.1. (Issue 3119)
• Upgrade away from deprecated SnakeYAML constructors (#3079) / (Thanks MarcMil)
• Upgrade codebase to use Java7 NIO library for IO. (#3055) / (Thanks sv99)
• Upgrade to smali/baksmali 3.0.3 and move to Google fork of it. (#3050)
• Upgrade to Gradle 8.2 (Thanks ArjunaKumarMohanta)
• Upgrade commons-io to 2.13.0 from 2.11.0
• Upgrade guava to 32.0.1-jre from 31.0.1-jre
• Upgrade proguard_gradle to 7.3.2 from 7.3.0
• Upgrade shadow to 8.0.0 from 7.1.0

This post was released in pair with https://connortumbleson.com/2023/07/17/apktool-v2-8-0-released and duplicated in part here for historical reasons.

• Add SDK T (API 33) support. (#2845)
• Add SDK S v2 (API 32) support. (#2776)
• Updated internal aapt/aapt2 to (91492d8 of frameworks_base)
• Add support for newest ResourcesTypes.h specs (policy, overlay and staged alias). (#2809, #2714)
• Add updated internal aapt2/aapt2 binaries. (#2787)
• Add ability to generate generic network security config (-n / --net-sec-conf). (#1622)
• Add helpful message during built apk message to identify location of apk. (#2843)
• Add bleeding edge smali package via jitpack. (#2918, #2662)
• Add build support for JDK 17. (#2952)
• Fix resource unclosed during unknown file handling. (#2473) / (Thanks auermich93)
• Fix style strings regression between aapt1/aapt2 builds. (#2815) / (Thanks IgorEisberg)
• Fix support for uses-native-library in Manifest. (#2778)
• Fix support for usesPermissionFlags in Manifest. (#2789)
• Fix windows helper script to allow spaces in path name. (#2855)
• Fix decoding application if using multiple style res types. (#1719) / (Thanks tvildo)
• Fix handling with malformed namespaces. (#2615) / (Thanks ljysdfz & MyAnoneNeko)
• Fix handling of sparse flags during resource parsing. (#2887) / (Thanks iamr0s)
• Fix crash when parsing a manifest numeric that resolves as null. (#2878)
• Fix crash when parsing HTML string with empty tag leading to invalid entry. (#2900) / (Thanks MaSven)
• Fix crash when wrongly decoding overlay policies. (#2805) / (Thanks gramound)
• Fix regression when decoding overlay policies. (#2945)
• Fix respecting of $XDG_DATA_HOME on Linux for framework files location. (#2924) / (Thanks Miepee)
• Fix storing of obfuscated resource files for properly applying proper compression on build. (#2925) / (Thanks Kirlif)
• Fix issue parsing an obfuscated resource with a improperly referenced parent resource. (#2908)
• Fix --only-main-classes winning over --no-src. (#2927) / (Thanks Surendrajat)
• Fix disassembly of files mixed between r, R and res folders. (#2933)
• Fix handling of (name removed) resources. (#2940) / (Thanks Danealau)
• Fix disassembly of raw resources for AndResGuard. (#2943)
• Fix attribute referencing to self package while using AndResGuard. (#2911)
• Revert automatic workaround for using private resources. (PR 2785, #2771)
• Upgrade CI Workflow to leverage latest actions. (Thanks Goooler)
• Upgrade org.apache.commons:commons-text to 1.10.0 (from 1.9)
• Upgrade org.yaml:snakeyaml to 1.32 (from 1.29)

This post was originally released at: https://connortumbleson.com/2022/11/24/apktool-v2-7-0-released and duplicated in part here for historical reasons.