[Aide] AIDE 0.17 released

[Hannes von Haugwitz]

AIDE version 0.17 has just been released.

You can download it from https://github.com/aide/aide/releases

Please ALWAYS verify the signature of a release file before using it (see
README[0] for details).

The most noteworthy changes between 0.16.2 and 0.17 are:
    * 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

The home URL of AIDE is http://aide.github.io

Best regards

Hannes

[0] https://github.com/aide/aide/blob/master/README
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