v1.20.0

• 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).

Contributors: @1ndahous3 @kevinmuoz @malvidin @MichaelTheSynthCat @paul-atx @saguywalker @tlansec @wxsBSD @zdiff