Changelog for
yara-1.6-1.fc17.i386.rpm :
Fri Apr 8 14:00:00 2011 Lawrence R. Rogers
1.6-1
* Release 1.6-1
* added support for bitwise operators
* added support for multi-line hex strings
* scan speed improvement for regular expressions (with PCRE)
* yara-python ported to Python 3.x
* yara-python support for 64-bits Python under Windows
* BUGFIX: Buffer overflow in error printing
Tue Mar 22 13:00:00 2011 Lawrence R. Rogers 1.5-1
* Release 1.5-1
* added -l parameter to abort scanning after a number of matches
* added support for scanning processes memory
* entrypoint now works with ELF as well as PE files
* added support for linking with the faster RE2 library (http://code.google.com/p/re2/) instead of PCRE
* implemented index operator to access offsets where string was found (AATTstring[i])
* implemented new operator \"for in : ()\"
* BUGFIX: Memory leaks in yara-python
* BUGFIX: yara.compile namespaces not working with filesources
Thu May 13 14:00:00 2010 Lawrence R. Rogers 1.4-1
* Release 1.4-1
* added external variables
* scan speed improvements
* added fast scan mode
* BUGFIX: crash in 64-bits Windows
Mon Oct 26 13:00:00 2009 Lawrence R. Rogers 1.3-1
* Release 1.3-1
* added a C-like \"include\" directive
* added support for multi-sources compilation in yara-python
* added support for metadata declaration in rules
* BUGFIX: Incorrect handling of single-line comments at the end of the file
* BUGFIX: Integer underflow when scanning files of size <= 2 bytes
Tue Apr 14 14:00:00 2009 Lawrence R. Rogers 1.2.1-1
* Release 1.2.1-1
* libyara: added support for compiling rules directly from memory
* libyara: interface refactored
* libyara: is thread-safe now
* BUGFIX: Invoking pcre_compile with non-terminated string
* BUGFIX: Underscore (_) not recognized in string identifiers
* BUGFIX: Memory leak
* BUGFIX: Access violation on xxcompare functions
Tue Jan 13 13:00:00 2009 Lawrence R. Rogers 1.2-1
* Release 1.2-1
* added support for global rules
* added support for declaring alternative sub-strings in hex strings
* added support for anonymous strings
* added support for intXX and uintXX functions
* operator \"of\" was enhanced
* implemented new operator \"for..of\"
* \"widechar\" is now \"wide\" and can be used in conjuntion with \"ascii\"
* improved syntax error reporting in yara-python
* \"compile\" method in yara-python was enhanced
* \"matchfile\" method in yara-python was substituted by \"match\"
* some performance improvements
* BUGFIX: Wrong behavior of escaped characters in regular expressions
* BUGFIX: Fatal error in yara-python when invoking matchfile with invalid path twice
* BUGFIX: Wrong precedence of OR and AND operators
* BUGFIX: Access violation when scanning MZ files with e_lfanew == -1
* BUGFIX: Incorrect handling of hex strings in lexer
Mon Jan 5 13:00:00 2009 Lawrence R. Rogers 1.1-1
* Release 1.1-1
* added support for strings containing null (\\x00) chars
* added syntactic construct \"x of them\"
* regular expressions syntax changed
* now regular expressions can begin with any character
Wed Sep 24 14:00:00 2008 Lawrence R. Rogers 1.0-1
* Release 1.0-1
* first release