YARA Changelog

What's new in YARA 1.7

Mar 30, 2013
  • faster compilation
  • added suport for modulus (%) and bitwise xor (|) operators
  • better hashing of regular expressions
  • BUGFIX: yara-python segfault when using dir() on Rules and Match classes
  • BUGFIX: Integer overflow causing infinite loop
  • BUGFIX: Handling strings containing \x00 characters correctly
  • BUGFIX: Regular expressions not matching at the end of the file when compiled with RE2
  • BUGFIX: Memory leaks
  • BUGFIX: File handle leaks

New in YARA 1.6 (Jul 25, 2012)

  • 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

New in YARA 1.3 (Mar 26, 2010)

  • C-style include directives
  • Rules can contain metadata information
  • Multiple files/sources can be compiled at once in yara-python