# Welcome

Magico is a C# library that allows you to pull some magical tricks on a variety of things, such as `IEnumerable` instances and file magic investigation.

## <mark style="color:$primary;">Release history</mark>

Below is the release history of the library:

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{% update date="2026-04-19" %}

## <mark style="color:$primary;">v1.7.2</mark>

<mark style="color:yellow;">Updated SpecProbe</mark>
{% endupdate %}

{% update date="2026-04-14" %}

## <mark style="color:$primary;">v1.7.1</mark>

<mark style="color:green;">Added initial FreeBSD support</mark>
{% endupdate %}

{% update date="2026-02-15" %}

## <mark style="color:$primary;">v1.7.0.1</mark>

<mark style="color:yellow;">Updated libraries</mark>
{% endupdate %}

{% update date="2026-01-12" %}

## <mark style="color:$primary;">v1.7</mark>

<mark style="color:green;">Added support for more file types</mark>

<mark style="color:yellow;">Updated libmagic</mark>
{% endupdate %}

{% update date="2025-12-18" %}

## <mark style="color:$primary;">v1.6</mark>

<mark style="color:green;">Added support for more file types</mark>

<mark style="color:yellow;">Updated libmagic</mark>
{% endupdate %}

{% update date="2025-10-27" %}

## <mark style="color:$primary;">v1.5.2</mark>

<mark style="color:yellow;">General improvements</mark>
{% endupdate %}

{% update date="2025-10-25" %}

## <mark style="color:$primary;">v1.5.1</mark>

<mark style="color:yellow;">General improvements</mark>
{% endupdate %}

{% update date="2025-07-03" %}

## <mark style="color:$primary;">v1.5</mark>

<mark style="color:green;">Added localized strings</mark>
{% endupdate %}

{% update date="2025-05-25" %}

## <mark style="color:$primary;">v1.4.1</mark>

<mark style="color:green;">Added more supported number types</mark>
{% endupdate %}

{% update date="2025-05-04" %}

## <mark style="color:$primary;">v1.4</mark>

<mark style="color:green;">Added reflection tools straight from Nitrocid</mark>

<mark style="color:green;">Added array sorting and shuffling (again from Nitrocid)</mark>
{% endupdate %}

{% update date="2025-04-18" %}

## <mark style="color:$primary;">v1.3.4</mark>

<mark style="color:yellow;">Updated libmagic</mark>

<mark style="color:yellow;">Updated libraries</mark>
{% endupdate %}

{% update date="2025-02-28" %}

## <mark style="color:$primary;">v1.3.3</mark>

<mark style="color:yellow;">Updated libraries</mark>
{% endupdate %}

{% update date="2024-12-19" %}

## <mark style="color:$primary;">v1.3.2</mark>

<mark style="color:yellow;">Updated libraries</mark>
{% endupdate %}

{% update date="2024-12-03" %}

## <mark style="color:$primary;">v1.3.1</mark>

<mark style="color:yellow;">Updated libmagic</mark>
{% endupdate %}

{% update date="2024-11-23" %}

## <mark style="color:$primary;">v1.3.0.1</mark>

<mark style="color:yellow;">Updated libmagic</mark>
{% endupdate %}

{% update date="2024-11-16" %}

## <mark style="color:$primary;">v1.3</mark>

<mark style="color:yellow;">Updated libmagic</mark>
{% endupdate %}

{% update date="2024-10-17" %}

## <mark style="color:$primary;">v1.2.4</mark>

<mark style="color:yellow;">Updates to libraries that utilize System.Text.Json</mark>
{% endupdate %}

{% update date="2024-10-07" %}

## <mark style="color:$primary;">v1.2.3</mark>

<mark style="color:green;">Added more magic numbers</mark>

<mark style="color:yellow;">Updates to the</mark> <mark style="color:yellow;"></mark><mark style="color:yellow;">`libmagic`</mark> <mark style="color:yellow;"></mark><mark style="color:yellow;">codebase</mark>
{% endupdate %}

{% update date="2024-09-04" %}

## <mark style="color:$primary;">v1.2.2</mark>

<mark style="color:green;">Added nullable support</mark>
{% endupdate %}

{% update date="2024-08-30" %}

## <mark style="color:$primary;">v1.2.1</mark>

<mark style="color:green;">Added more file types</mark>

<mark style="color:yellow;">General improvements and bug fixes</mark>
{% endupdate %}

{% update date="2024-08-24" %}

## <mark style="color:$primary;">v1.2</mark>

<mark style="color:green;">Added Terminaux extensions</mark>
{% endupdate %}

{% update date="2024-08-19" %}

## <mark style="color:$primary;">v1.1.2</mark>

<mark style="color:yellow;">Updated SpecProbe to 3.0.0</mark>
{% endupdate %}

{% update date="2024-08-13" %}

## <mark style="color:$primary;">v1.1.1.2</mark>

<mark style="color:yellow;">Updated libraries</mark>
{% endupdate %}

{% update date="2024-08-12" %}

## <mark style="color:$primary;">v1.1.1.1</mark>

<mark style="color:yellow;">Re-compiled libmagic for Linux 64-bit</mark>
{% endupdate %}

{% update date="2024-08-11" %}

## <mark style="color:$primary;">v1.1.1</mark>

<mark style="color:red;">Removed 32-bit support</mark>

{% hint style="danger" %}
Starting from Magico v1.1.1, 32-bit support has been removed. If you still want to target 32-bit platforms in your applications, you can use v1.1.0.1 or older, but you'll miss out on all the new features and the improvements. We advise you to take out 32-bit support as soon as you can.
{% endhint %}
{% endupdate %}

{% update date="2024-08-05" %}

## <mark style="color:$primary;">v1.1.0.1</mark>

<mark style="color:yellow;">General improvements</mark>
{% endupdate %}

{% update date="2024-08-05" %}

## <mark style="color:$primary;">v1.1</mark>

<mark style="color:green;">Added more file magic numbers</mark>

<mark style="color:yellow;">General improvements</mark>
{% endupdate %}

{% update date="2024-08-01" %}

## <mark style="color:$primary;">v1.0.3</mark>

<mark style="color:yellow;">Used SpecProbe.Loader</mark>

<mark style="color:yellow;">Updated all libraries</mark>
{% endupdate %}

{% update date="2024-07-28" %}

## <mark style="color:$primary;">v1.0.2</mark>

<mark style="color:green;">Added support for .NET Standard 2.0</mark>

<mark style="color:yellow;">General improvements</mark>
{% endupdate %}

{% update date="2024-07-10" %}

## <mark style="color:$primary;">v1.0.1</mark>

<mark style="color:green;">Added more files to the magic database</mark>

<mark style="color:green;">Added Windows ARM64 support</mark>
{% endupdate %}

{% update date="2024-05-16" %}

## <mark style="color:$primary;">v1.0</mark>

The initial release of the library is now live!
{% endupdate %}
{% endupdates %}


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