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).

CHANGELOG v1.8.0 (2020-01-22)

• 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