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Bloat is a basic Perl script to allow you to easily decompress files from many formats.

Version 1.5
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    * Luigi30 stamp now includes the date.
    * i18n/l10n support! Comes with English, German, Spanish, Finnish, Dutch
      and Swedish translations.
    * New option: --dont-prefix / -dp; suppresses the red "BLOAT: ".
    * Improved MIME-type detection.
    * Improved subdirectory detection/creation.
    * uz2 (Unreal Tournament 2003/4 compressed file) support.
    * Ace files can now use subdirectory checking.
    * Added 7-zip support.
    * You can now bloat any file in a .r[num][num] series of RAR files.
    * Various spelling fixes.
    * Various other minor bug fixes (see ChangeLog for full details).

Version 1.4
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    * No more need for Alien for Debian package extraction! Only ar and GNU Tar
      are needed now.
    * Files beginning with "-" now won't work - you'll need to put "-- " first.
      (e.g. bloat -- -somefile.tgz).
    * You can now bloat multiple archives with just one command!
    * New archive formats supported: .zoo, .ear, .war
    * Undocumented, completely unsupported, probably broken feature added.
      If you find it out and it borks something, please tell me though ;).
    * Various cleanups.

Version 1.3
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    * Partial *BSD and OS X (server) support! Supports most core formats.
    * Better utility detection.
    * New configuration file support - allows you to set options once and forget
      about them.
    * New script to help you create a new configuration file.
    * Bloating files with "(" or ")" in their names now works.
    * MIME-type based filetype detection - even if files don't have an
      extension, as long as they're supported by bloat, you can extract them!
    * Unreal mod support added (if you donate me a copy of UT2003/Unreal 2
      you should be able to get UT2003/Unreal 2 mod support ;-) - not that
      anyone would want to do that).
    * Red Hat 9's (and - presumably - Fedora Core 1's) rpm2cpio is now correctly
      detected - so RPMs can be manipulated again.
    * More general bugfixes, for your extracting pleasure...

Version 1.2
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    * The same as 1.2-rc3 except for release-related modifications (version 
      numbers etc).

Version 1.2-rc3
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    * Little stupid "easter egg" added prompted by two lines on IRC. See if you can
      find it without looking at the source ;).
    * Cleaned up comments
    * Bugfixes
    * Updated both autopackage and RPM specfiles
    * _Should_ be the final RC - I want to add more features, damnit!

Version 1.2-rc2
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    * Changed everything to say 1.2-rc2 *rolls eyes*
    * Included NEWS file
    * Made the autopackage with the latest CVS source
    * Stopped using "Copyright" and changed to "License" in the RPM specfile

Version 1.2-rc1
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    * Subdirectory-detection code (e.g. for archives which put files in the
      root of the archive)
    * Improved install script - non-root users only need to supply a root
      password to install
    * RPM and Autopackage packages (NOTE: Autopackage itself is currently
      NOT stable - only download this if you are curious)
    * "Quieter" output by default - it doesn't spew the output of the 
      archival programme everywhere unless you use "--verbose".
    * Added Debian package (.deb) support!
    * _REMOVAL_ of tar/zip format (it isn't used, and it would have been
      very difficult to re-impliment)
    * Numerous improvements to documentation

Version 1.1
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    * Fixed a bug which could cause autopackage files to fail
    * Made the file-detection code work properly
    * Finally made the ~/.bloat-nowarn / /etc/bloat-nowarn code work (and
      documented it)
    * Fixed the install script so it'll allow a lower-case "q" to quit
    * Fixed a bug in LHA detection

Version 1.0
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    * Added an install script
    * Added support for RPMs
    * Added MS Compress support

Version 0.5.1
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    * Added LHA support
    * Fixed a bug in .tgz handling - releasing 0.5.1 as a minor bugfix.
    * Fixed `file` detection - -v
    * Added Ace support.
    * Reogranised the detection section to use alphabetical ordering.
    * Made errors go to stderr.
    * Added webmin to bzip2's --check options.
    * Fixed `file` detection - --version isn't a valid option :-P.
    * Made file be detected in every case - it's needed for error checking
    * Fixed credits, crediting sibn for ideas, rather than "actual code".
    * Added code to check whether the file exists. Stops users being confused
      by the errors "file" sometimes spits out when there's a dash... or
      something

Version 0.5
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    * Added rar support
    * Added ARJ support
    * Added URLs for download of all utilities.
    * Added --check function 
    * Removed configure / configure.pl
    * Improved webmin support
    * Better autopackage support
    * POD added
    * Filetype detection made case-insensitive
    * Vastly improved utility detection 

Version 0.4
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    * Made the "--help text" into a sub, since I'll be using it twice in the
      code
    * Made bloat output the results of sub getHelp and information about
      --version when run with no args
    * Cut out the part about missing utilities from sub getHelp.
    * Updated README and INSTALL.
    * Support for tar/zip - although I've never seen one, it could be useful...
    * Added new file - "README.FILETYPES". Basically lists the file types
      supported...
    * Basic Autopackage support. Runs the package in debug mode, which extracts
      then breaks.
    * Made the "BLOAT:" red. Yes, that's all. Nothing major ;).
    * Added "ar" support - one problem; I don't know the extension generally
      used. All I've seen is .a, so that's what I've put. Of course, this
      is where everything gets used :rolleyes:.
    * Updated configure scripts to find ar
    * Added tar/Z compatibility. Yes
    * Last, but not least, updated (c) years ;)

Version 0.3
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    * Updated it to move some vital stuff to the end to fix tar.gz etc
    * Removed bloat-check related features.
    * Added a configure script... if you don't like bad code, don't look ;-)
    * Now actually using CVS ;-)
    * Supports Mozilla XPI files
    * Reorganised the getFileType sub to use alphabetical order. This should
      save time when we support more filetypes
    * Now using strict; because of this I've now declared vars.

Version 0.2
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    * "modularised" code - uses subs now... no particular reason, just seems
      like the right thing(tm)... =)
    * Webmin Themes (wbt) supported
    * Added Z/compress functionality (not widely used)
    * Changed the output of "bloat --check" to use + for the border :P
    * Added TODO and CREDITS.    
    * If, for some reason, you want to extract a webmin module, they
      can now be extracted by bloat
    * Vanilla BZip2 and GNUZip are now supported...
    * Now makes sure that the extension is at the END of the file...

Version 0.1.1
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    * Proceeded everything outputted by bloat with "BLOAT:"
    * Added the util checker script to make life a bit easier

Version 0.1
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    * EVERYTHING :P