THE Internet Storm Center reports that YARA-X has released version 1.21.0, bringing five improvements and four bug fixes. The update appears to focus on enhancing usability and reliability for users who employ YARA-X for scanning tasks, with specifics likely to appeal to researchers and incident responders who integrate the tool into automated workflows.
A notable change is the inclusion of stdin support for the CLI option --scan-list. This enables users to generate a list of folders to scan and pass that list via a pipe, facilitating more streamlined batch scans. An illustrative Windows example provided in the release notes shows how to scan all folders with "sample" in their name by piping directory results into yr[.]exe scan --scan-list - rules[.]yara.
The article attributes the improvements and fixes to the YARA-X 1.21.0 release from VirusTotal, as announced on the project page, and does not report any adverse events or exploits associated with the release.