YARA-X 1.11.0 Released With a New Hash Function Warnings

VirusTotal released YARA-X 1.11.0, introducing hash-function warnings to help analysts avoid typos and hash-type mismatches in YARA rules, improving detection reliability. The update adds DEX and expanded Mach-O support, CRX permhash for Chrome extensions, new Python/C API capabilities (including imports()), stricter rule validation, stability fixes (e.g., boolean comparison panics, Unicode handling), and GIL-related performance optimizations, with availability across Windows, macOS, and Linux.