The code of v1.6.2 is not included in the `master` branch, as it was
backported to `master-py2`. But users may expect to find all releases in
the CHANGELOG of the master branch.
GitHub displays the commit's message of the tag if no description is
given, which is ugly. Use annotated tags which include a message. Use
the release link as message, as this is useful information.
This release includes several bug fixes, such as a vivisect fix for a bug, which caused that capa didn't work on Windows with Python 3. It also adds 17 new rules and a bunch of improvements in the rules and IDA rule generator. We appreciate everyone who opened issues, provided feedback, and contributed code and rules.
This is the very last capa release that supports Python 2.
`.viv` files (generated by vivisect) are not compatible between Python 2
and Python 3. This causes capa to raise an `UnicodeDecodeError`
exception and should be documented better. I'll add this change to the
release notes after the review.
Related to https://github.com/fireeye/capa/issues/469
This release adds the capa explorer rule generator plugin for IDA Pro,
vivisect support for Python 3 and 12 new rules. We appreciate everyone
who opened issues, provided feedback, and contributed code and rules.
Thank you also to the vivisect development team (rakuy0, atlas0
fd00m) for the Python 3 support (v1.0.0) and the fixes for Python 2
(v0.2.1). This is the last capa release which supports Python 2. Next
release will be Python 3 only.
