5.11.0

Git Commits

Representing commits from 11 contributors! Thank you all.

Table Changes

• Add new table vscode_extensions (#8150)
• Add support for additional Apple Silicon columns in secureboot table (#8215)
• Add Shortcut metadata parsing on Windows in the file table (#8143)
• Remove atom_packages table (#8181)
• Add additional chrome extensions paths (#8170) to pick up extensions for Chrome Beta, Chrome Dev, and Vivaldi.

Under the Hood improvements

• Add version collations to column definitions (#8222)
• Add support for additional collations in column definitions (#8214)
• Add version collate functions (#8168)
• Added cache and throttling for certificates, keychain_acls, and keychain_items tables (#8192). This is intended to reduce the occurrence of keychain corruption due to broken macOS APIs.
• process_open_sockets: Mark pid column as additional instead of index (#8191)

Bug Fixes

• Add stricter checks to JSON parsing (#8229)
• Fix signed/unsigned mismatch in powershell_events (#8225)
• Fix a crash in firefox_addons (#8227)
• Correct the aws_sts_region behavior (#8184)

Documentation

• Update building.md prereqs for Windows (#8216)
• Correct link to a PR in the 4.7.0 changelog (#8186)
• Call out in the CHANGELOG the format changes of the status logs decorations (#8174)
• Remove some duplicated lines from 5.8.1 changelog (#8172)
• Fix typo in table specs (#8163)
• Keychain cache and throttling documentation. (#8205)
• Changelog 5.10.2 (#8171)

Build / Dependencies

• Update libxml2 to v2.12.3 (#8223)
• Update zlib to 1.3 and ignore a CVE (#8218)
• Update openssl to 3.2.0 (#8212)
• Update nvdlib to use the latest NVD APIs (#8207)
• Fix Linux build (#8208)
• Correct job order (#8185)
• Re-enable tools_tests_testrelease (#8221)
• Enable client certificate verification in the TLS tests (#8211)
• Temporary workaround to build with XCode 15 (#8197)