What's Changed
* Remove optional fields validator by frack113 in https://github.com/SigmaHQ/pySigma/pull/281
* String pattern to regular expression conversion by thomaspatzke in https://github.com/SigmaHQ/pySigma/pull/287
* Introduced interpret_special option to ReplaceStringTransformation by thomaspatzke in https://github.com/SigmaHQ/pySigma/pull/288
* fix compat with pyparsing 3.2 by branchvincent in https://github.com/SigmaHQ/pySigma/pull/289
* Python 3.8 EOL by frack113 in https://github.com/SigmaHQ/pySigma/pull/286
* Additional escape characters in SigmaString.to_regex() by thomaspatzke in https://github.com/SigmaHQ/pySigma/pull/291
* Allow special characters in startswith, endswith, and contains expressions by thomaspatzke in https://github.com/SigmaHQ/pySigma/pull/292
New Contributors
* branchvincent made their first contribution in https://github.com/SigmaHQ/pySigma/pull/289
**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/SigmaHQ/pySigma/compare/v0.11.16...v0.11.17