siegfried 1.8.0 released

Wednesday, 22 January, 2020

Version 1.8.0 of siegfried is now available. Get it here.

This release includes changes in the byte matcher to improve performance, especially when scanning MP3s (fmt/134).

utc flag returns file modified dates in UTC e.g. sf -utc FILE | DIR. Requested by Dragan Espenschied
new cost and repetition flags to control segmentation when building signatures
update PRONOM to v96
update LOC signatures to 2019-12-18
update tika-mimetypes signatures to v1.23
update freedesktop.org signatures to v1.15
XML namespaces detected by prefix on root tag, as well as default namespace (for mime-info spec)
panic when scanning certain MS-CFB files. Reported separately by Mike Shallcross and Euan Cochrane
file with many FF xx sequences grinds to a halt. Reported by Andy Foster