Added graceful exception hanlding during "main" flow
Improved and cleaned 7-Zip and EFI compression logic
Improved too aggressive extraction directory handling
Fixed input name detection at VAIO Package Extractor
Fixed Intel IBIOSI detection at Apple EFI Identifier
New "package" flow, arguments now provided during utility call (README)
New "main" flow, using old "run_utility" method of BIOSUtility (README)
Removed "run_utility" and "show_version" methods from base BIOSUtility
Removed argparse argument parsing logic from base BIOSUtility class
Removed notion of "pause" (i.e. user action) from BIOSUtility logic
Adjusted the README with usage info for "main" and "package" flows
Added Apple EFI EFI Image Identifier new argument -q
Improved Apple EFI EFI Image Identifier detection flow
Improved Apple EFI Package Extractor file parsing flow
Improved file vs link detection and read access control
Improved common switches handling of 7-Zip decompressor
Improved non-PATH external executable dependencies names
Fixed requirement instruction misalignments at the README
24.10.06
Changed BIOSUtility.parse_format() to return a boolean
Changed 7-Zip and EFI decompressors to return booleans
Apple EFI Package Extractor support for InstallAssistant
Apple EFI Image Identifier support for Apple ROM Version
Added Apple EFI Image Identifier class instance attributes
Improved flow of non-PATH external executable dependencies
Fixed crash when attempting to clear read-only attribute
Fixed incompatibility with Python versions prior to 3.12
Performance improvements when initializing BIOSUtilities
Improved argument naming and definitions of "main" script
Improved the README with new "main" and Apple EFI changes
Complete repository overhaul into python project
Re-designed BIOSUtility base template class flow
Re-structured utilities as BIOSUtility inherited
Re-structured project for 3rd-party compatibility
Unified project requirements and package version
Code overhaul with type hints and linting support
Switched external executable dependencies via PATH
BIOSUtility enforces simple check and parse methods
Utilities now work with both path and buffer inputs
Adjusted class, method, function names and parameters
Improved Dell PFS Update Extractor sub-PFAT processing
Improved Award BIOS Module Extractor corruption handling
Improved Apple EFI Image Identifier to expose the EFI ID
Improved Insyde iFlash/iFdPacker Extractor with ISH & PDT
Re-written Apple EFI Package Extractor to support all PKG
Improved Toshiba COM detection (pattern only, no file extension)
Improved input object handling to support both paths and bytes
Populated code type hints and applied few small improvements
Added AMI PFAT nested detection at each file
Added Award BIOS payload naming at each file
Switched Panasonic BIOS LZNT1 external library
Improved Panasonic LZNT1 detection and length
Improved Dell PFS code structure and fixed bugs
Improved code exception handling (raise, catch)
Improved code definitions (PEP8, docs, types)
Fixed some arguments missing from help screens
Parses user-provided (DB) list of Apple Software Update CatalogURL .sucatalog links and saves all newer (since last run) EFI firmware package links into a text file. It removes any xml formatting, ignores false positives, removes duplicate links and sorts them in alphabetical order for easy comparison afterwards.
