[Aide] AIDE 0.18 release

[Hannes von Haugwitz]

AIDE version 0.18 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 v0.17.4 and v0.18 are:
    * BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
        - remove Prelink support (--with-prelink configure option)
    * Switch from PCRE to PCRE2
    * Enable dynamic linking by default
    * Support multithreading for hashsum calculation
      - add num_workers config option (default to single worker thread)
      - add new '--workers' parameter
      - add new log level 'thread'
      - add new exit code 23 for thread errors
      - add --without-pthread configure option
      - require Autoconf Macro Archive (autoconf-archive)
    * Remove mmap support for hashsum calculation
    * Deprecations (to be removed in the release after next):
        - 'S' attribute is now deprecated, use 'growing+s' attributes instead
        - '@@ifdef', macro is now deprecated, use '@@if defined' instead
        - '@@ifndef', macro is now deprecated, use '@@if not defined' instead
        - '@@ifhost', macro is now deprecated, use '@@if hostname' instead
        - '@@ifnhost', macro is now deprecated, use '@@if not hostname' instead
    * Add new 'growing' attribute
    * Add new 'compressed' attribute
    * Add new log level 'compare'
    * Replace 'S' attribute in '>' compound group with 'growing+s'
    * Add 'report_format' option (available formats: `plain`, `json`)
    * Add @@if macro
    * Add 'exists' boolean function
    * Add 'config_check_warn_unrestricted_rules' option
    * Support restricted rules with empty restriction
    * Add prefix option to directory include macros
    * Add exit code 22 for memory allocation errors
    * Update e2fs attributes to match upstream
      - the 'h' attribute has been removed
      - use `report_ignore_e2fsattrs=VNIE` to ignore read only attributes
    * Support CRLF line-endings in config files
    * Use pkg-config to get link flags
    * Add SECURITY.md
    * Improve logging
    * Improve error messages during config parsing
    * 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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