• Implement SIMD-accelerated masked literal matching (#691). • Improve atom extraction heuristics for better performance (#690, 1e14f60). • Improve scan performance by applying file size and file header constraints only to regular expressions (#741). • Serialize Aho-Corasick automata directly with compiled rules for faster deserialization (3c61ef8). • Add --ignore-invalid-rules CLI option to skip rules that fail to compile (#704). • Expose ignore_invalid_rules in Python API (#711). • Add type annotations to match and return data in Python API (#692). • Add yrx_scanner_max_matches_per_pattern to C API and Scanner.MaxMatchedPerPattern to Go API (a33fa8e). • Add rlib crate types to yara-x-capi and yara-x-py to allow linking into wrapper crates (3c411d8). • Implement experimental msi, vba, and olecf modules (#709, 35e16ef). • Parse ShellItems and malformed sections in lnk module (#722). • Raise warning when patterns are unintendedly included in a set (#729). • Improve code completion in language server by distinguishing enums from other fields (a59e311). • Improve playground usability and add light/dark theme support (#701, #707, #731, 15f4984). • BUGFIX：Prevent panics and provide clear error message for regular expressions exceeding size limits (89df3f7). • BUGFIX：Prevent panic when filesize is compared to float values (328dcb3). • BUGFIX：Allow Teddy pattern matching algorithm to propagate early termination and respect timeouts (9d62d72). • BUGFIX：Correctly anchor patterns in of expressions with explicit offsets (439d642). • BUGFIX：Properly report compile error when exceeding maximum local variables limit (af53582). • BUGFIX：Escape special control characters in JSON and YAML serialization (#696). • BUGFIX：Do not ignore private modifier on hex and regular expression patterns (#698). • BUGFIX：Cap ZIP buffer pre-allocation to compressed size (#702). • BUGFIX：Robustly encode 64-bit string handles for WASM (#710). • BUGFIX：Align completions with default formatting in language server (#713). • BUGFIX：Fix accuracy issues when computing profiling time spent on each rule (6364574). • BUGFIX：Prevent naming conflicts in Python bindings by setting module name explicitly to yara_x (95fc833, 54435ac). • BUGFIX：Add protection against null pointers in C API (bf95890).

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