ReagentX/imessage-exporter 4.0.0

Sand Verbena

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iMessage Exporter 4.0.0: Sand Verbena contains the following fixes and improvements:

• New Features
  • Support for jailbroken iOS filesystem data with --attachment-root (contributed by @iCrazeiOS)
  • Restructured diagnostics output
    • New diagnostics:
      • Recoverable deleted messages count
      • Message date range with human-readable time span
  • Improve chatroom participant deduplication using union-find
• Performance (≈+8%)
  • Reduce dependency surface
    • Make protobuf-codegen optional behind proto-regen feature flag (-44 build dependencies for normal
      builds)
    • Remove indicatif dependency, replace with custom progress indicator (-7 transitive dependencies)
    • Remove filetime dependency (-2 transitive dependencies)
  • Refactor sanitization functions for improved performance
  • Cache from_guid query with prepare_cached
  • Optimize capacity allocation in handle and chat_handle_join caches
  • Defer clones in message body parsing
• Bug Fixes
  • Fix incorrect contact matching on country codes for #671
  • Fix group removal/addition messages #670 and #681
  • Fix filename truncation panics on multi-byte UTF-8 characters using floor_char_boundary()
  • Fix estimated export space double-counting attachment sizes
  • Fix poll messages with no associated_message_guid being misclassified as poll updates
  • Fix is_from_me() incorrectly considering other_handle/share_direction on non-location-sharing messages
  • Fix file extension being added twice to attachment filenames
  • Remove duplicate fallback check and duplicate query in chat_handle_join diagnostics
  • Parameterize from_guid query to prevent SQL injection
  • Remove mismatched paragraph tag added to recovered messages
  • Use correct permissions when updating file metadata on Windows
  • Fix custom attachment path not applying to diagnostic runs
• API Changes
  • Breaking
    • generate_text() replaced by parse_body() + apply_body() API
    • Table::stream() now propagates callback errors: Result<(), E> where E: From<TableError>
    • Diagnostic and Deduplicate traits removed; methods moved to inherent impls
    • run_diagnostic() methods return structured data types
    • Service::from() renamed to Service::from_name()
    • All Message::date() related signatures changed from &i64 to i64
    • date module functions now receive &DateTime instead of Result<&DateTime, MessageError>
    • get_sticker_effect() signature changed from Vec<u8> to &[u8]
    • util::output module removed
  • Ergonomic
    • Implement std::error::Error with source() chains for all error types
    • Table::extract() now has a default implementation
    • Chat::Properties fields made public
    • Derive PartialEq/Eq on most data types
• Security
  • Introduce HtmlBuilder to separate trusted HTML structure from untrusted content
  • Sanitize Attachment metadata in HTML output
• Miscellaneous
  • Support "Phone Number Changed" group action type
  • Deduplicate common exporter logic into shared.rs
  • Replace panic! with continue in Handle::build_person_id_lookup
  • Bump dependencies
  • Build with latest rustc