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@github-actions github-actions released this 30 Nov 15:55
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Release Notes

New features

  • driver load events Read more
  • initial catalog of detection rules based on the MITRE ATT&CK framework Read more
  • macro expansion in rules Read more
  • beautiful HTML rule alert emails Read more
  • allow enabling/disabling Audit API Calls and Antimalware Engine ETW providers
  • enrich handle events with driver image path for Driver object types
  • add ps.sibling.args filter field
  • field interpolation in alert title and text strings and the ability to use Markdown/HTML syntax Read more
  • ~= operator for case-insensitive string comparisons in filters
  • is_minidump filter function for checking the signature of minidump files Read more

Enhancements

  • Go 1.19 upgrade and migration of deprecated functions
  • bumped libyara to version 4.2
  • bumped Golang CI Lint toolchain
  • add content-type config flag for email alert sender
  • add labels and description attributes in rule groups
  • loading rule files from paths with glob expressions
  • optimize filter field accessors to prevent unnecessary traversing
  • lazy evaluation of binary expressions for and and or operators
  • decommission type/category selector in include/exclude rule policies
  • prevent executing rules in sequence policies if the incoming event is not eligible for evaluation
  • avoid adding duplicate tuples in sequence policies internal state
  • improve registry key formatting from native key names
  • limit the number of handles per proc and per global handle snapshotter state
  • speed up UTF-16 string decoding. Kudos to @skeeto

Bug fixes

  • sequence expiration slice out of bounds
  • transition sequence state machine when the rule in include produces a match

Breaking changes

  • rule policies with the selector attribute will fail to load. As a workaround, remove the selector attribute and include it as a first condition in the rule.