Title: Mat 0.6
Date: 2015-12-30 18:15

I managed to release the new version of [MAT]( https://mat.boum.org ) in 2015!

It doesn't bring many user-visible things, except updated translations, for
more than [**150** different languages]( https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/jvoisin/mat.git/tree/po ),
and [TIFF](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagged_Image_File_Format) files support.

Under the hood, some major changes happened:

- Thanks to [Rafiot]( https://twitter.com/rafi0t ), MAT is now using
  [Travis-CI]( https://travis-ci.org/jvoisin/MAT ) to run its testsuite on each
  commit. This brings shiny things like [code coverage](
  https://coveralls.io/github/jvoisin/MAT?branch=master ) or automatic
  [static]( https://landscape.io/github/jvoisin/MAT/ ) [analysis](
  https://www.codacy.com/app/julien-voisin/MAT/dashboard ).
- MAT is no longer relying on [hachoir]( https://bitbucket.org/haypo/hachoir/wiki/Home )
  to parse files. MAT started (roughly) as an interface to hachoir in 2011, but
  now, it's time to move on: this library is not documented, has a lot of
  spaghetti code, isn't python3-compatible, … MAT is now using its own parsers
  for some files, [mutagen]( https://quodlibet.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ ) for
  audio, [exiftool]( http://owl.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/ ) for images, 
  [Cairo]( http://cairographics.org/ ), [Poppler](
  http://poppler.freedesktop.org/ ) and [python-pdfrw](
  https://github.com/pmaupin/pdfrw/ ) (because Poppler won't let MAT manipulate
  metadata, but can't help himself to add some!). The code is now simpler and
  easier to understand.
- Torrent files are now cleaned in a recursive manner: super-tricky-crafted
  torrent files won't be able to survive MAT with compromising non-standard
  fields.

As usual, you can get this release on the [git repo]( https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/jvoisin/mat.git/ ), 
and it shouldn't take long before it gets uploaded into your [favourite
distribution]( https://packages.debian.org/jessie/mat ).

By the way, if you know how to draw, I'm looking for a new logo, because I'm
not entirely happy with the [current one](
https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/jvoisin/mat.git/plain/data/mat.png).