v2.0.0 (TBA) -Updated to smali/baksmali to v2.0.3 -Updated to Gradle 1.8 -Fixed (issue #8) - Correctly uses -c to retain original manifest and META-INF. (Thanks M1cha) -Fixed (issue #63) - Correctly handles apk's that have unknown files outside of the standard aapt allowed resources. -Fixed (issue #202) - Includes modified aapt to force package id on build. (Thanks M1cha) -Fixed (issue #403) - Uses new usage output to cleanup organization of features. -Fixed (issue #359) - Correctly handles malformed 9patch images. (Thanks Felipe Richards) -Fixed (issue #401) - Uses versionInfo meta to correctly parse versionName and versionCode. -Fixed (issue #440) - Include aapt binaries within Apktool to have closer control over build. -Fixed (issue #439) - Correctly handles apk's that have have the general access bit enabled for encryption. -Fixed (issue #339) - Re-enables debug mode ( -d flag) to fix smali debugging. (Thanks Ryszard) -Fixed (issue #177) - Adapted output of smali to make breakpoint setting easier in different IDEs. (Thanks Ryszard) -Fixed (issue #391) - Fixes characters (& and <) from being double escaped in 's of arrays.xml -Fixed (issue #260) - Fixes "Multiple substitution" errors with positional and exactly 1 non-positional argument. -Fixed (issue #427) - Correctly handles `--frame-path` on [b]uild -Fixed (issue #396) - Correctly handle android:debuggable while in debug mode. -Fixed (issue #340) - Fixed superclass errors on debug mode. -Fixed (issue #458) - Fixed pkg id not being correctly set in framework files. -Fixed (issue #469) - Added (-m / --match-original) -Fixed (issue #326) - Fixed PNG increasing brightness on build (Thanks Christiaan) -Fixed (issue #448) - Merge smali2 into Apktool -Fixed (issue #496) - Fixes Windows builds caused by java.nio problems -Fixed (issue #510) - Any error output is sent stderr instead of stdout -Fixed (issue #426) - Filename too long (JesusFreke) -Fixed (issue #524) - INSTALL_FAILED_DEXOPT fix (JesusFreke) -Fixed (issue #473) - multiple package frameworks are treated correctly. -Fixed (issue #531) - JAR disassembling borking is fixed -Fixed (issue #550) - Correctly labels incorrect type handling of -Fixed (issue #571) - Fixed truncated strings (Thanks jtmuhone) -Fixed (issue #578) - Fixed apk's with multiple empty types via ignoring them -Fixed (issue #589) - Fixed apk's with one package named "android" from improper decoding. -Fixed (issue #601) - Make StringBlock thread safe (Thanks aluedeke) -Fixed (issue #238) - Fixed truncated UTF-16 strings -Fixed (issue #584) - Fixed horrible spacing, aligned for 4 spaces. -Fixed (issue #196) - Fixed style crash due to malformed styles. -Fixed (issue #603) - Fixed unknown files prefixed with common name from being ignored. -Fixed (issue #606) - Fixed unknown files being ignored when -r is used. -Fixed (issue #609) - Fixed handling renamed manifests with ("android", "com.htc" and "miui"). -Fixed (issue #626) - Fixed handling strange characters with unknown files. -Fixed (issue #630) - Fixed handling renamed manifests with ("com.lge") -Fixed issue with non-URI standard characters in apk name (Thanks rover12421) -Added output to list Apktool version to help debugging. -Updated known bytes for configurations to 38 (from addition of layout direction) -Fixed NPE when handling odex apks even with --no-src specified. (Thanks Rodrigo Chiossi) -Fixed locale problems when locale changes meaning of default letters in windows .bat script (Thanks Adem666) v1.5.2 (Released February 2 - 2013) Codename: Bug Fixes -Fixed (issue #299) - output smali filename errors to screen during rebuild instead of filestream -Only show the --aapt / -a info in verbose mode. -Fixed (issue #392) - Don't crash out if .git folder isn't present. Use SNAPSHOT-DEV instead. -Fixed (issue #67) - Only store compressed resources.arsc if original was compressed, otherwise STORE. -Moved build.gradle files to each sub-project, more organization :) -Fixed (issue #394) - Prevented duplicated files in final jar which saved around 1.2mb. -Added Proguard to drop final jar size from 6.2mb to 2.6mb. -Fixed (issue #395) - Added check for "aapt" in unit-tests. -Added ability to use "--frame-path" on [if|install-framework] -Fixed renaming of ".r.9.png" images -> ".9.png". -Added ability to use --version to print out Apktool version v1.5.1 PR3 (Released December 23 - 2012) Codename: Pre Release 3 -Reverted "Prevents removal of on decompile, but then throws warning on rebuild (issue #366)" -Added -a / -aapt command on rebuild to specify location of aapt -Updated internal framework -Updated unit tests for 4.2 support v1.5.1 PR2 (Released December 19 - 2012) Codename: Pre Release 2 -Closed file-handler when writing frameworks to file system. -Updated to Gradle 1.3 -Properly deleted tmp files after building apk (issue #365) -Added support for renamed packages via --renamed-manifest-package (issue #252) -Prevents removal of on decompile, but then throws warning on rebuild (issue #366) -Option to specify framework folder (issue #175) -Prevents removal of configChanges in AndroidManifest (issue #304) -Updated snakeyaml to 1.11 to fix "unacceptable character" errors. (issue #360) v1.5.1 PR1 (Released November 12 - 2012) Codename: Pre Release 1 -Updated smali/baksmali to v1.4.1 -Fixed reference-array problem (BurgerZ) -Fixed bad spacing issue on Mac OS X -Removed maven in favor of gradle -Removed Maven REPOs that were used if local projects didn’t exist. -Merged brut.j.dir,brut.j.common,brut.j.util & brut.apktool.smali (Fork of JesusFreke’s smali) into one repo. -Fix –verbose mode to actually work -Added SDK API 17 framework v1.5.0 (Released September 2 – 2012 ) Codename : Pikmin -Fix for colours being decompiled with improper hex colours -Fix for being treated as array on occasion -Support for Mac OS X user:home, instead of dumping frames into /home -Updated internal framework.jar to API16 -Added reading to insert into apktool.yml to help with aapt building -Supported -d mode -Added –verbose mode to output contents of AAPT (note this is a HUGE output). Only used for debugging. -Ignore bootclasspath on debug mode. (Causes some classes in smali to be fail decompile) v1.4.10 (Released August 21 – 2012) Codename: KOJAN -Fix bad whitespace in manifest.xml -Fix for bad decompilation of some APKs (Thanks KOJAN) v1.4.9 (Released July 28 – 2012) Codename: russia -Fix for plurals.xml (Thanks @miuirussia) -Added xxhdpi -Added uimodes for MIUI built roms -Fixed problems resulting with bad ‘ and what not v1.4.8 (Beta – Released July 8th – 2012) Codename: yyj -Fixes for HTC Sense 4.0.4 apks that have an extra com.htc package -Fixes merged from yyj (https://github.com/yyjdelete) -Reverted 9patch fix due to errors v1.4.7 ( Release on July 5th) -Fixes from (Unreleased v1.4.6) -New smali/baksmali v1.3.3 -Fix for grayscaled images (Thanks Charles) -On-going logging code for HTC One Frameworks -Changes from adjusted API 13 for localization v1.4.6 ( Private Release ) -Fixed missing formatted=”false” due to mis-reading of xlif data. -Fixed being replaced by attribute when reference is used instead of string -apktool.yml fixes for undefined frameworks -Regex changed to identify folders with sw###-port etc v1.4.5 (January 7, 2012) -Updated included framework to API 15 -Updated include baksmali and smali to v1.3.3-dev v1.4.4 (December 11, 2011) -Updated included baksmali and smali to v1.3.3 prior to v1.4.4 - http://code.google.com/p/android-apktool/wiki/Changelog