[Aide] AIDE 0.16 released

[Hannes von Haugwitz]

AIDE version 0.16 has just been released.

You can download it from https://sourceforge.net/projects/aide/files/

Please ALWAYS verify the signature of a release file before using it (see
README[1] for details).

The most noteworthy changes between 0.15.1 and 0.16 are:
    * BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES:
        - Negative selection lines of the form '!<regex> <groups>' are no
          longer supported (use '!<regex>' instead)
        - The switch to Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressions and the fix of
          '.*'-rule matching may result in different rule matching behaviour
    * Support restricted selection lines
    * Switch to PCRE library (drops bundled GNU regexp library)
    * New config options:
        - database_add_metadata
        - database_attrs
        - report_base16
        - report_detailed_init
        - report_force_attrs (deprecates report_attributes)
        - report_ignore_added_attrs
        - report_ignore_removed_attrs
        - report_ignore_changed_attrs (deprecates ignore_list)
        - report_ignore_e2fsattrs
        - report_quiet
        - root_prefix
    * New '--limit' parameter
    * Report changes:
        - enable summarize_changes by default
        - use '|' to separate the old value from the new one
        - wrap attribute values instead of cut them off
        - side-by-side output of acl and xattrs values
        - adjust file type letters in summarize_changes output
        - add numeric timezone to time string
        - add info about verbose level to report if it differs from standard
          value
        - add info about number of entries if aide found no changes or
          the database has been initialized
        - add run time to report
        - print "End timestamp" message in report
        - print human-readable info about ignored and forced attributes in report
        - print checksums of databases in verbose level 2 or higher
        - print added and removed attribute values of changed entries in
          verbose level 6 or higher
        - print details about added and removed entries in verbose level 7
          or higher
        - print added or removed attributes of changed entries if forced via
          report_force_attrs
    * New default group: X
    * Fix '.*'-rule matching
    * Handle tilde (~) in database paths and report urls
    * Sort entries of database file
    * Compare database entries just once
    * Add warning if a group is redefined
    * Update documentation
    * Bug fixes
    * Code clean up

The home URL of AIDE is http://aide.sf.net

Regards

Hannes

[1] https://sourceforge.net/p/aide/code/ci/v0.16/tree/README
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