• Android 12 Support (#2580)
• Published to Maven Central (#2529)
• Upgrade internal aapt/aapt2 to (7691c of frameworks_base)
• Upgrade to baksmali/smali 2.5.2
• Upgrade to gradle 7.2 (Thanks Goooler)
• Upgrade to snakeyaml 1.29 (Thanks Goooler)
• Upgrade to guava 30.1.1-jre (Thanks Goooler)
• Upgrade to junit 4.13.2 (Thanks Goooler)
• Upgrade to commons-lang 3.12.0 (Thanks Goooler)
• Upgrade to commons-io 2.11.0 (Thanks Goooler)
• Upgrade to proguard 7.1.1 (Thanks Goooler)
• Upgrade to license.hierynomus 0.16.1 (Thanks Goooler)
• Upgrade to jengelman.shadow 7.0.0 (Thanks Goooler)
• Upgrade to actions/setup-java@v2 (Thanks Goooler)
• Added .gitattributes (Thanks Goooler)
• Added support for SDK in Development (Tiramisu, API 32?)
• Added automatic execution of aapt/aapt2 binaries during CI process to find broken builds.
• Added automatic ldd/otool -L execution during CI process to identify non-static "fat" aapt/aapt2 builds.
• Added test execution on Java 15/16 (Now 8-16) during CI process.
• Upgrade aapt2 with patches for attr-private and remove reserved pkgIds. (Thanks MrIkso)
• Upgrade aapt1 with patches for a static binary on Mac arch.
• Add lazy init for ResTable for optimizations. (#2604) / (Thanks IgorEisberg)
• Add automatic disassemble/assemble JAR files without specifying api level. (#2605) / (Thanks IgorEisberg)
• Changed zipslip exceptions to skip file instead of exit on failure. (#2201)
• Changed dummy resource names to APKTOOL_DUPLICATE_{Type}_{RESID} to prevent starting with numeric (#2229)
• Changed all Apache License links to https. (#2635) / (Thanks Goooler)
• Changed getHTML() processor to leverage BundleTool for handling complex string values. (#2632) / (Thanks itaybia)
• Fix decoding issue requiring specific order of chunks (library/table). (#2099) / (Thanks LoyieKing)
• Fix decoding issues with code points over > 0x10000. (#2299) / (Thanks Comnir)
• Fix decoding issues with surrogate pair emojis. (#2546) / (Thanks Comnir)
• Fix NPE when decoding to a custom non-empty root directory. (#2455)
• Fix Android 11 dex NPE due to hidden api restriction flags. (#2499) / (Thanks JesusFreke)
• Fix dummy resources being built as type resources vs item resources. (#2603)
• Fix numeric string meta-data losing context of data type. (#2611) / (Thanks codylund)
• Reduce code smell failures. (#2554) / (Thanks matteobaccan)
• Reduce code smells & correct improper opcode use for baksmali. (#2604) / (Thanks IgorEisberg)
• Reduce code smells for unused logic, unneeded casting and newer Java language features. (#2636 / (Thanks Goooler)
• Remove unused targetSdkVersion for source disassemble as value was not populated yet. (#2604) / (Thanks IgorEisberg)
• Remove duplicate workflows for 1 unified GitHub Action workflow. (#2633) / (Thanks Goooler)

This post was originally released at: https://connortumbleson.com/2021/09/02/apktool-v2-6-0-released and duplicated in part here for historical reasons.

• Android 11 Support (#2399, #2397, #2369, #2167)
• Updated baksmali/smali to version 2.4.0 (#2006, #1718)
• Upgrade to gradle 6.4.1
• Replaced TravisCI with GitHub Actions
• Deprecate 32bit (#2110, #2053)
• Added support for SDK Codename "S" (Android 12?)
• Added support for JAVA_HOME environmental on Windows if defined. (Thanks vldmrrr)
• Update license headers to reflect start copyright date & remove javadoc style. (Thanks friederbluemle)
• Fixed issue with binary name clash in multi-threaded environments. (#2251) Thanks chris-sharl
• Fixed issue with resources.arsc file being compressed in framework files. (#2323)
• Fixed issue with empty files being compressed breaking applications. (#2333) / (Thanks peret)
• Fixed handling with debug mode while using aapt2. (#2328, #2364) / Thanks Comnir)
• Fixed issue with handling of XML files using $ in resource name. (#2386, #2217, #2119)
• Fixed issue with NPE disassembling manifest with attributes with no resourceId. (#2300)
• Fixed issue with aapt2 and strict dummy properties, changing bool(false) to ref(null). (#2438, #1903)
• Fixed issue with non-standard namespaces in obfuscated application. (#2317, #2188, #1859)
• Fixed NPE when trying to find a referent of a missing resource. (#1945, #2146)
• Properly return non-zero error if invalid parameters. (Thanks Giszmo)
• Added helpful error message when framework directory cannot be written. (#2343)
• Added testcases for classes#.dex disassembling on aapt1/aapt2. (#2411)
• Added apktool list-frameworks. (#1913)
• Support for new compileSdkVersion property for SdkInfo. (#2368)

This post was originally released at: https://connortumbleson.com/2020/12/02/apktool-v2-5-0-released and duplicated in part here for historical reasons.