YARA v3.7.0

• time module (Wesley Shields)
• yara command-line tool now accept multiple rule files
• Allow a configurable limit for the number of strings per rule (option --max-strings-per-rule)
• Implement integrity check for compiled rules
• Implement API for customizingimport statement (@edhoedt)
• Scan process memory in FreeBSD and OpenBDS (Hilko Bengen)
• BUGFIX: Negated character classes not working with case-insensitive regexps (#765)
• BUGFIX: Multiple bugs while parsing ELF files (Nate Rosenblum)
• BUGFIX: Out-of-bounds access while parsing PE files.
• BUGFIX: Memory leaks while parsing invalid rules.

Refer to the documentation for information on how to build and install YARA.

YARA v3.6.3

BUGFIX: Heap overflow (4a342f0)
BUGFIX: Off-by-one NULL write in stack buffer (964d6c0)
BUGFIX: Multiple issues in "dotnet" module (f40c14c, fc35e5f)

Refer to the documentation for information on how to build and install YARA.

YARA v3.6.2

• Increase RE_MAX_AST_LEVELS from 2000 to 6000.
• BUGFIX: Buffer overrun in regexp engine (issue #678)
• BUGFIX: Null pointer dereference in regexp engine (issue #682).

Refer to the documentation for information on how to build and install YARA.

YARA v3.6.1

• BUGFIX: Stack overflow caused by uncontrolled recursiveness (CVE-2017-9304)
• BUGFIX: pe.overlay.size was undefined if the PE didn't have an overlay. Now it's set to 0 in those cases.
• BUGFIX: Fix initalization issue that could cause a crash if rules compiled with a 32bit yarac is used with a 64bit yara.

Refer to the documentation for information on how to build and install YARA.

YARA v3.6.0

• .NET module (Wesley Shields)
• New features for ELF module (Jacob Baines)
• Fix endianness issues (Hilko Bengen)
• Function yr_compiler_add_fd added to libyara
• MAX_THREADS limit can be arbitrarily increased (Emerson R. Wiley)
• Added --fail-on-warnings command-line option
• Multiple bug fixes

Refer to the documentation for information on how to build and install YARA.

YARA v3.5.0

• Match length operator (http://yara.readthedocs.io/en/v3.5.0/writingrules.html#match-length)
• Performance improvements
• Less memory consumption while scanning processes
• Exception handling when scanning memory blocks
• Negative integers in meta fields
• Added the --stack-size command-argument
• Functions import_ordinal, is_dll, is_32bit and is_64bit added to PE module
• Functions rich_signature.toolid and rich_signature.version added to PE module
• Lots of bug fixes

Refer to the documentation for information on how to build and install YARA.

YARA v3.4.0

• Short-circuit evaluation for conditions
• New yr_rules_save_stream/yr_rules_load_stream APIs.
• load() and save() methods in yara-python accept file-like objects
• Improvements to the PE and ELF modules
• Some performance improvements
• New command-line option --print-module-data
• Multiple bug fixes.

Refer to the documentation for information on how to build and install YARA.

YARA v3.3.0

• Added support for negative integers and floating point numbers
• Implemented operators >,<, >=, <= for strings
• Implemented word boundary anchors (\b, \B) in regular expressions
• New features in PE module
• Math module
• New --print-namespace command line argument
• Better error handling in low memory conditions
• BUGFIX: "at" operator not working with certain strings containing wildcards
• BUGFIX: precedence of bitwise operators was incorrect
• BUGFIX: incorrect imphash result for certain PE files importing functions by ordinal
• BUGFIX: handle and memory leaks
• BUGFIX: multiple segfaults

Refer to the documentation for information on how to build and install YARA.

YARA v3.2.0

• ELF module
• Hash module
• New features in PE module
• Big-endian version of intXX and uintXX functions
• Modules can declare dictionary objects
• Modules accept overloaded functions
• Performance improvements
• BUGFIX: "and" operator not working properly with integer operands
• BUGFIX: False positive with strings declared as "fullword wide ascii"
• BUGFIX: False positive with "wide fullword" strings shorter than 5 bytes
• BUGFIX: Functions declared in a structure array not working properly
• BUGFIX: "contains" operator causing segfault if operand is an undefined string

Refer to the documentation for information on how to build and install YARA.

YARA v3.1.0

• Magic module
• Zero-length file are treated as normal files
• Modules now must implement module_initialize and module_finalize functions
• Accept functions without arguments in modules
• BUGFIX: Fix issue with module functions receiving more than one regular expressions
• BUGFIX: Show appropriate error message while trying to import unknown module
• BUGFIX: Fix segfaults caused by improper buffer bounds validation in PE module
• BUGFIX: Fix dns_lookup function in PE module

Refer to the documentation for information on how to build and install YARA.