v1.9.0

• Add function for scanning files by path to the C and Go APIs (32bac10).
• Add version number to the Rust API (bdb53e8, #469).
• Add osabi field to elf module (afa0960).
• Avoid verifying patterns when the file size is not in the range specified in the rule condition (#473).
• Avoid emitting code that invokes search_for_patterns if not necessary (#487).
• Implement DFS iterator for expressions in AST (#488).
• BUGFIX: Check if AddressOfFunctions is zero while parsing PE files (#482).

Contributors: @vojone

v1.8.1

• BUGFIX: don't mangle the C API function yrx_finalize and include it in the header files (#467).
• BUGFIX: fix some issues and edge cases in block scanning (d7873db).

Contributors: @metthal

v1.8.0

• Implement block scanning API for Rust and C (#459, 185c2ee).
• Implement Golang and C APIs for setting global variables of type array and structure (#449).
• Add iterator for Rules object in Python (#463).
• BUGFIX: Inconsistency with legacy YARA in PE certificate subjects (445e7e4).

Contributors: @nmbarel

v1.7.1

• BUGFIX: fix compilation in 32-bits platforms (#453).

v1.7.0

• New warning suggesting the use of none of them instead of 0 of them.
• Added option --max-matches-per-pattern to the CLI and the max_matches_per_pattern method to the Python API (#437).
• New yrx_finalize function to the C API that allows dynamically unloading the YARA-X library (#445).
• Add yrx_compiler_add_include_dir function to the C API (#447).
• Replace the Formatter::ident_spaces method with Formatter::indentation (b8a1808).
• BUGFIX: Indentation issues in code formatter (6bfe2e2).
• BUGFIX: Inconsistencies in code formatter with empty lines at the end of the code (de10bbd).
• BUGFIX: High memory consumption while parsing some PE files (af18dbc, #443)
• BUGFIX: Prevent panic when assertions like \b and \B are used in Unicode regexps (0536ad1).

Contributors: @1ndahous3 @jtpox @vojone

v1.6.0

• Implement --no-mmap option for disabling the use of memory-mapped files (9ff675f).
• Support relative includes for compatibility with YARA (89674f1).
• Support metadata validation using regular expressions (#434).
• Added support for global variables of type dict in the Python API (#433).
• BUGFIX: Detect circular includes and raise an error instead of panicking (624429f).
• BUGFIX: Issue in hoisting algorithm causing false-positive in some with statements (f0f5b0a).
• BUGFIX: Multiple issues with Python stub file yara_x.pyi (4d83594).

Contributors: @nmbarel @prosperritty @zdiff

v1.5.0

• Implement the crx module for parsing Chrome Extension files (#423).
• Allow underscores in integer and float literals (#405).
• Adopt Anomali's symhash algorithm for Mach-O files (#425).
• Support boolean type in console.log() (#406).
• Allow specifying include directories in the C, Go and Python APIs (45a03c6).
• Improvements while parsing imports and exports in Mach-O files (#417, #421).
• Improve performance for patterns with the xor modifier. The performance gain can be noticeable for certain rules (0122fa9).
• Return an error with rules that can have arbitrarily long prefixes (c8bbede).
• BUGFIX: Fix misleading help text in text_as_hex warning (e61a74e).
• BUGFIX: Minor formatting issues in yr fmt command (43fbdc5).
• BUGFIX: Fix panic when a rule contains an invalid regexp and the rule name is reused (a50f3db).
• BUGFIX: Fix panic with regular expressions that contain too many alternatives (7ad6d8f).
• BUGFIX: Make some functions in cuckoo module backward-compatible with YARA (#424).

Contributors: @MichaelTheSynthCat @latonis @wxsBSD @1ndahous3

v1.4.0

• Allow suppressing warnings using // suppress: warning_id comments (#398).
• Implement built-in functions float32, float64, float32be and float64be (#396).
• BUGFIX: fix wrong text_as_hex warning (0baf08b, #397).
• BUGFIX: false positive in wide regular expressions (5fd5015, #395)

v1.3.0

• Add span information to Event::Begin and Event::End (f4259f0).
• Add support for private patterns. Private patterns were being accepted but ignored. (21a9090).
• BUGFIX: add YRX_ prefix to constants in the C API to avoid name collisions (#382).
• BUGFIX: increase MAX_ATOMS_PER_REGEXP from 8192 to 10000 (#387, 664abac).

v1.2.1

• BUGFIX: regression introduced in #368.
• BUGFIX: more robust LNK file parsing than handles maliciously crafted files (7e1c8b3, #379)