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commit 9c71ec13ab86ebc25931d0f1649a2b8852c6bc40
Author: Victor M. Alvarez <plusvic at gmail.com>
Date:   Tue Aug 26 13:38:54 2014 +0200

    Update README file
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@@ -34,25 +34,6 @@ YARA is multi-platform, running on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, and can be used
 through its command-line interface or from your own Python scripts with the
 yara-python extension.
 
-## What's new in YARA 3.0
-
-YARA 3.0 introduces a new concept that will skyrocket its potential: extension
-modules. With extension modules you can implement new features for YARA in a
-simple and easy way. Modules can be used for dissecting file formats and then
-creating YARA rules based on features of the format, for implenting new
-functions that you can invoke later from your rules, and for much more!
-
-You can get a grasp of what modules can do by looking at the documentation of
-the two modules included in this release, the
-[Cuckoo module](http://yara.readthedocs.org/en/latest/modules.html#cuckoo-module)
-and the [PE module](http://yara.readthedocs.org/en/latest/modules.html#pe-module).
-
-More details about how to implement your own modules can be found in the
-[new documentation](http://yara.readthedocs.org/).
-
-If you want to contribute with ideas or code for new YARA modules, don't
-hesitate! Share your thoughts!
-
 ## Who's using YARA
 
 * [VirusTotal Intelligence](https://www.virustotal.com/intelligence/)
@@ -73,144 +54,3 @@ hesitate! Share your thoughts!
 * [Adlice](http://www.adlice.com/)
 
 Are you using it? Want to see your site listed here?
-
-## Releases
-
-### 3.0.0 (13/08/2014)
-
-* Support for modules
-* PE module
-* Cuckoo module
-* Some improvements in the C API
-* More comprehensive documentation
-* BUGFIX: Start anchor (^) not working properly with the "matches" operator
-* BUGFIX: False negative with certain regular expressions
-* BUGFIX: Improper handling of nested includes with relative pathes
-* BUGFIX: \s character class not recognizing \n, \r, \v and \f as spaces
-* BUGFIX: YARA for Win64 scanning only the first 4GB of files.
-* BUGFIX: Segmentation fault when using nested loops
-* BUGFIX: Segmentation fault caused by invalid characters in regular expressions
-* BUGFIX: Segmentation fault while scanning some processes in Windows
-* BUGFIX: Segmentation fault caused by regexp code spanning over non-contiguous
-memory pages
-
-
-### 2.1.0 (03/03/2014)
-
-* Improve regexp engine
-* Improve multithreading support
-* Case-insensitive and single-line matching modes for "matches" operator's regexps
-* Added "error_on_warning" argument to "match" in yara-python
-* Recognize x64 PE files
-* BUGFIX: Mutex handle leak
-* BUGFIX: NULL pointer dereferences
-* BUGFIX: Buffer overflow
-* BUGFIX: Crash while using compiled rules with yara64 in Windows
-* BUGFIX: Infinite loop while scanning 64bits process in Windows
-* BUGFIX: Side-effect on "externals" argument in yara-python's "match" function
-* BUGFIX: "x of them" not working with strings containing unbounded jumps
-
-### 2.0.0 (26/12/2013)
-* Faster matching algorithm
-* Command-line scanner is now multi-threaded
-* Compiled rules can be saved to and loaded from a file
-* Added support for unbounded jumps
-* New libyara API
-
-### 1.7.2 (02/12/2013)
-* BUGFIX: Regular expressions marked as both "wide" and "ascii" were treated as
-just "wide"
-* BUGFIX: Bug in "n of (<string_set>)" operator
-* BUGFIX: Bug in get_process_memory could cause infinite loop
-
-### 1.7.1 (25/11/2013)
-* BUGFIX: Fix SIGABORT in ARM
-* BUGFIX: Failing to detect one-byte strings at the end of a file.
-* BUGFIX: Strings being incorrectly printed when marked both as wide and ascii
-* BUGFIX: Stack overflow while following circular symlinks
-* BUGFIX: Expression "/re/ matches var" always matching if "var" was an empty
-string
-* BUGFIX: Strings marked as "fullword" were incorrectly matching in some cases.
-
-### 1.7 (29/03/2013)
-* Faster compilation
-* Added suport for modulus (%) and bitwise xor (|) operators
-* Better hashing of regular expressions
-* BUGFIX: yara-python segfault when using dir() on Rules and Match classes
-* BUGFIX: Integer overflow causing infinite loop
-* BUGFIX: Handling strings containing \x00 characters correctly
-* BUGFIX: Regular expressions not matching at the end of the file when compiled
-with RE2
-* BUGFIX: Memory leaks
-* BUGFIX: File handle leaks
-
-### 1.6 (04/08/2011)
-* Added support for bitwise operators
-* Added support for multi-line hex strings
-* Scan speed improvement for regular expressions (with PCRE)
-* yara-python ported to Python 3.x
-* yara-python support for 64-bits Python under Windows
-* BUGFIX: Buffer overflow in error printing
-
-### 1.5 (22/03/2011)
-* Added -l parameter to abort scanning after a number of matches
-* Added support for scanning processes memory
-* Entrypoint now works with ELF as well as PE files
-* Added support for linking with the faster RE2 library
-(http://code.google.com/p/re2/) instead of PCRE
-* Implemented index operator to access offsets where string was found
-* Implemented new operator
-"for < quantifier > < variable > in < set or range > : (< expression >) "
-* BUGFIX: Memory leaks in yara-python
-* BUGFIX: yara.compile namespaces not working with filesources
-
-### 1.4 (13/05/2010)
-* Added external variables
-* Scan speed improvements
-* Added fast scan mode
-* BUGFIX: crash in 64-bits Windows
-
-### 1.3 (26/10/2009)
-* Added a C-like "include" directive
-* Added support for multi-sources compilation in yara-python
-* Added support for metadata declaration in rules
-* BUGFIX: Incorrect handling of single-line comments at the end of the file
-* BUGFIX: Integer underflow when scanning files of size <= 2 bytes
-
-### 1.2.1 (14/04/2009)
-* libyara: added support for compiling rules directly from memory
-* libyara: interface refactored
-* libyara: is thread-safe now
-* BUGFIX: Invoking pcre_compile with non-terminated string
-* BUGFIX: Underscore not recognized in string identifiers
-* BUGFIX: Memory leak
-* BUGFIX: Access violation on xxcompare functions
-
-### 1.2 (13/01/2009)
-* Added support for global rules
-* Added support for declaring alternative sub-strings in hex strings
-* Added support for anonymous strings
-* Added support for intXX and uintXX functions
-* Operator "of" was enhanced
-* Implemented new operator "for..of"
-* "widechar" is now "wide" and can be used in conjuntion with "ascii"
-* Improved syntax error reporting in yara-python
-* "compile" method in yara-python was enhanced
-* "matchfile" method in yara-python was substituted by "match"
-* Some performance improvements
-* BUGFIX: Wrong behavior of escaped characters in regular expressions
-* BUGFIX: Fatal error in yara-python when invoking matchfile with invalid path
-twice
-* BUGFIX: Wrong precedence of OR and AND operators
-* BUGFIX: Access violation when scanning MZ files with e_lfanew == -1
-* BUGFIX: Incorrect handling of hex strings in lexer
-
-### 1.1 (05/01/2009)
-* Added support for strings containing null (\x00) chars
-* Added syntactic construct "x of them"
-* Regular expressions syntax changed
-* Now regular expressions can begin with any character
-
-### 1.0 (24/09/2008)
-* First release
-

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