aide/aide v0.17

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* BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
    - '--verbose' command line option and 'verbose' config option are no
      longer supported, use 'log_level' and 'report_level' options instead
    - '--report' command line option is no longer supported, use
      'report_url' config option instead
    - 'ignore_list' config option is no longer supported, use
      'report_ignore_changed_attrs' instead
    - 'report_attributes' config option is no longer supported, use
      'report_force_attrs' instead
    - (restricted) regular rules must start with literal '/', i.e. the rule
      cannot begin with a macro variable
    - config lines must end with new line
    - '@' and ' ' in the configuration are now escaped with '\', that means
      to match a '\' you have to use four backslashes '\\\\' in your rules
    - 'gzip_dbout=false' fails now with config error when no zlib support
      is compiled in
    - remove '--with-initial-errors' configure option
    - remove PostgreSQL database backend support
    - remove Sun ACL support
    - remove config and database signing support
* Enhancements:
    - add new '--log-level' command line option and 'log_level' config option
    - introduce named log levels
    - add new 'report' log level to help to debug rule matching
    - add new 'config' log level to help to debug config and rule parsing
    - aad new '--dry-init' command
    - add new '--path-check' command
    - add directory support for @@include
    - add new @@x_include config macro
    - add new @@x_include_setenv config macro
    - add new default compound group 'H' (all compiled-in hashsums)
    - add support for per-report_url options
    - add new 'report_level' config option
    - add new 'report_append' config option
    - add exit code 21 for file lock errors
    - add default config values, available hashsums and compound groups
      to '--version' output
    - add Linux capabilities support
    - show changed attributes in 'different attributes' message
    - enable 'gost' and 'whirlpool' checksums when using gcrypt
    - add 'stribog256' and 'stribog512' gcrypt algorithms
    - add config file names to log output
* Miscellaneous behaviour changes:
    - 'report_summarize_changes': hashsum changes are now indicated with 'H'
    - print '--help' and '--verion' output to stdout
    - log messages and errors are always written to stderr
    - initialise report URLs after configuration parsing
    - allow empty values for macro variables
    - SIGUSR1 now toggles debug log level
    - fail on errors in regular expressions during config parsing
    - fail on invalid URLs during config check
    - Fail on double slash in rule path
    - cache log lines when 'log_level' is not yet set
* Deprecations:
    - 'database' config option is now deprecated, use 'database_in' instead
    - 'summarize_changes' config option is now deprecated, use
      'report_summarize_changes' instead
    - 'grouped' config option is now deprecated, use 'report_grouped'
      instead
    - non-alphanumeric group names are deprecated
* Notable bug fixes:
   - fix line numbers in log messages
   - remove warning when input database is '/dev/null'
   - correctly handle UTF-8 in path names and rules
   - fix compilation with curl and gcrypt
   - warn on unsupported hash algorithms
   - improve large-file support
* Build system changes:
    - require C99 compatible compiler
    - require pkg-config
    - '--disable-default-db configure option disables default database values
    - '--without-config' configure option now disables default config file
* Remove obsolete aide-attributes.sh script
* Remove outdated example aide.conf and manual.html
* Fix compiler warnings
* Update documentation
* Minor bug fixes
* Code clean up