• New operators icontains, endswith, iendswith, startswith, istartswith.
• Accept \t escape sequence in text strings.
• Add --no-follow-links command-line option to yara.
• Prevent yara from following links to "." (@1D2D).
• Implemented non-blocking scanning API (@simonhf).
• When a string causes too many matches, YARA raises a warning instead of failing (@wxsBSD).
• BUGFIX: The use of --timeout could hang yara when scanning directories or lists of files (#1481).
• BUGFIX: Incorrect parsing of PE certificates (#1443).
• BUGFIX: Short-circuit evaluation not working fine with undefined expressions.