Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
EvalArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.234,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What
A new check reads the leading bytes of a file to spot a PDF signature or a ZIP header, and uses that both to decide the file is binary and to label it, noting that Office documents such as .pptx, .docx and .xlsx are ZIPs.
Evidence
ZIP archive (Office documents such as .pptx/.docx/.xlsx are ZIPs)
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
