v6.0.0 Beta 1

Added

- AaruFormat

• Erasure coding support.

- Archives

• ACE archive support.
• AR archive support.
• ARJ and ARJZ archive support.
• Compact Pro archive support.
• CPIO archive support.
• DiskDoubler archive support.
• Expert Witness Compression Format (EWF) archive support.
• LHA/LARC/PMARC archive support with extended header handling.
• RAR archive support.
• StuffIt archive support.
• StuffIt 5 archive support.
• StuffIt X archive support.
• TAR archive support, enhancing detection to accept checksum-validated V7 headers.
• ZIP archive support, including extended attributes and metadata handling.

- Commands

• Image analyze command, with support for more than 50 filesystems, colorized output and deduplication of errored and undumped sectors.
• Option to use long sectors for image checksum command.
• Option to select volume for file extraction and listing.
• write-metadata command to handle metadata writing for AaruFormat images.

- Compression

• Apple KenCode compression algorithm. Fixes #122
• Apple LZH compression algorithm. Fixes #121
• PKWARE Data Compression Library (Blast) decompression.
• StuffIt compression algorithm (ShrinkWrap). Fixes #123
• StuffIt compression streams (Arsenic, Compress, Huffman, Lzah, Method13, Method14, MW, Rle90).
• StuffIt X compression streams (Blend, Brimstone, Cyanide, Darkhorse, Deflate, English, Iron, X86).
• DiskDoubler compression streams (ADn, CompactPro, DDn, LZW, Method2, Stac LZS).
• ZIP compression streams (Deflate64, Implode, Reduce, Shrink, PPMd, WavPack, JPEG).

- Conversion

• AACS decryption pipeline.
• CSS decryption moved to its own pipeline.
• GameCube/Wii conversion pipeline with partition parsing, junk detection, media tag injection and metadata enrichment.
• Nintendo DVD descrambler and conversion of negative sectors on Nintendo discs.
• Option to bypass PS3, Wii and Wii U decryption during conversion.
• PS3 conversion pipeline with IRD file parsing, disc key derivation, encryption map, SFO title extraction and media tag injection.
• Support for .bca sidecar detection for GameCube/Wii discs.
• Wii U conversion pipeline with TOC parsing, title key extraction, decryption and media tag injection.

- Dumping

• C2 error pointer detection and concealed audio convergence repair for secure audio CD reading, with --c2-repair option to toggle it.
• Error recovery support and related logging.
• HD DVD AACS support.
• Option to dump the Lead-Out (now optional).
• Option to skip retrying sectors usually used by SafeDisc copy protection.
• Option to start retrying errors in reverse.
• Remaining time estimation while dumping.
• Support for dumping audio, data tracks, first track pregaps and lead-outs with OmniDrive units, including HyperSpeed.
• Support for dumping NGCW (Nintendo GameCube/Wii) discs.
• Support for dumping XGD1/2/3 with OmniDrive units.
• Support for raw Blu-ray reading with OmniDrive units.

- Filesystems

• GDFX/XDVDFS is now a fully readable filesystem.
• PlayStation File System is now a fully readable filesystem.

- Filters

• BinHex 4.0 filter for decoding Macintosh files.
• Zstandard compressed files filter.

- Formats

• CrunchDisk disk image support.
• Disk eXPress (DXP) disk image support.
• Expert Witness Compression Format (EWF) disk image support.
• MagicISO UIF disc image support. Fixes #258
• Nintendo Wii U compressed disc image (WUX) support.
• Preliminary KryoFlux support.
• Quick Release Sector Transfer (QRST) disk image support, including PKWARE-compressed V5 images.
• Redumper DVD and Blu-ray image support.
• Software Pirates SNATCH-IT disk image support.
• Sydex CopyQM+ Self-eXtracting Disk (SXD) image support.
• The Duplicator disk image support.
• partclone v0002 image format support. Fixes #260

- Media tags

• PS3 related media tags synchronization with libaaruformat.
• Wii U media tags.

- Partitions

• Sony APA partitioning scheme.

- Testing

• Unit tests for Reed Solomon ECC encoding and correction.
• Unit tests for reading of some LisaFS disks.
• Test fixtures for LIF filesystem and V7 TAR archives.

Changed

- Dumping

• Enable C2 only when media contains audio tracks.
• On Linux prefer SCSI generic device if available.
• Reworked all CD ECC code, should correct more errors now.
• Show dumping speed when reading raw DVD.
• Spin up drive before starting to retry errors, otherwise first retried sector usually always fails.

- Flux

• Ability to merge flux images.
• A2R images are now aligned with index, handling index signal at different resolution than data.
• Handle HxC images which don't start at index.
• KryoFlux data does not have to be index aligned.
• Refactored SuperCardPro support.

- Formats

• DiskCopy 4.2 Twiggy sector ordering refactored for a more precise approximation of real media, with support for the spare bad block sector track allowing to read disks with remapped sectors.
• NDIF, UDIF and DART now support LZH, KenCode and StuffIt compressed images.
• NDIF now verifies CRC. Fixes #88
• Partimage and Partclone now implement media image verification with CRC32 checks, including support for the legacy x64 bug. Fixes #89, #90
• SaveDskF now supports LZMW decompression. Fixes #108

- GUI

• Add bypass Wii decryption dump option.
• Add specific error message for insufficient permissions on device opening in Windows.
• Highlight long Blu-ray sector.

- Removed dependencies

• Removed DotNetZip dependency.
• Removed SharpCompress usage for BZip2 and LZMA, now using Aaru.Compression library.

Fixed

• Fix loading of CDRWin BIN/CUE images if those aren't in the current working directory.
• Fix use of volume parameter in extract and list files commands.
• Handle null filesystem gracefully with localized error message. Fixes #561
• [LZip] Fix crashing.
• [NTFS] Guard against too big non-resident data sizes.
• [Sidecar] Filter out null values from files and directories before sorting.
• [sysvfs] Try COHERENT filesystems with volume name. Fixes #771

- ADFS

• Fix big directory parsing.
• Fix superblock layout and alignment.
• Replace '/' for '.' in file names.

- GUI

• Do not fill subdirectories repeatedly. Fixes #879
• Fix device list in Linux.
• Fix scrolling issue on filesystem info panel.

- HFS

• Completely rewrite Catalog and Extents trees. Fixes #912
• Fix reading file offset.

- HFS+

• Exclude Private Data directory from directory listing. Fixes #917
• Refactor HFSPlusAttrRecord structure to not use explicit layout, it was breaking. Fixes #915

- ISO9660

• Fix multiple extent reading. Fixes #881
• Fix when 0-length file indicates it has an extended attribute yet it doesn't.
• Guard against directory records too small to have system areas.
• Handle Blu-ray long sectors and raw DVD sectors.

- UDF

• Fix continuation extents.
• Fix reading UDF 2.50.

v6.0.0-alpha.19

Added

- Commands

• Command to generate JSON schema for Aaru metadata files.

- Compression

• LZO compression algorithms.
• LZVN compression algorithm.
• Native version of LZVN compression algorithm.
• XZ buffer compression and decompression.

- Dumping

• Support for reading DVD lead-in and lead-out.
• Support for OmniDrive DVD reading.
• Dump PS5 DI/BCA.

- Filesystems

• Acorn Advanced Disc Filing System (ADFS) is now a fully readable filesystem.
• Acer File System is now a fully readable filesystem.
• AO-DOS filesystem is now a fully readable filesystem.
• AmigaDOS filesystem is now a fully readable filesystem.
• AtheOS is now a fully readable filesystem.
• B-tree file system (btrfs) is now a fully readable filesystem.
• BeOS filesystem (BeFS) is now a fully readable filesystem.
• BeOS (old) filesystem is now a fully readable filesystem.
• Coherent filesystem is now a fully readable filesystem.
• Cram filesystem is now a fully readable filesystem.
• DEC Files-11 (ODS-2/5) is now a fully readable filesystem. Fixes #130
• DEC RT-11 is now a fully readable filesystem.
• ECMA-67 is now a fully readable filesystem.
• exFAT is now a fully readable filesystem. Fixes #686
• Extended Acer Filesystem is now a fully readable filesystem.
• ext2, ext3 and ext4 are now fully readable filesystems.
• F2FS is now a fully readable filesystem.
• HFS is now a fully readable filesystem. Fixes #391
• HFS+ is now a fully readable filesystem.
• High Performance Optical File System (HPOFS) is now a fully readable filesystem.
• HP Logical Interchange Format (LIF) is now a fully readable filesystem.
• HPFS is now a fully readable filesystem.
• IBM Journaling File System (JFS) is now a fully readable filesystem.
• Linux extended filesystem (ext) is now a fully readable filesystem.
• Locus is now a fully readable filesystem.
• MicroDOS is now a fully readable filesystem.
• Minix is now a fully readable filesystem.
• Microsoft New Technology File System (NTFS) is now a fully readable filesystem.
• NILFS2 is now a fully readable filesystem.
• Nintendo optical filesystem is now a fully readable filesystem.
• OS-9 Random Block File (RBF) is now a fully readable filesystem.
• Professional File System (PFS) is now a fully readable filesystem.
• ProDOS is now a fully readable filesystem.
• QNX4 is now a fully readable filesystem.
• QNX6 is now a fully readable filesystem.
• Reiser v3 file system is now a fully readable filesystem.
• Reiser v4 is now a fully readable file system.
• SGI Extent File System (EFS) is now a fully readable file system.
• SmartFileSystem (SFS) is now a fully readable filesystem.
• Squash file system is now a fully readable filesystem.
• System V filesystem is now a fully readable filesystem.
• UDF is now a fully readable filesystem. Fixes #446
• UNIX 7th Edition filesystem is now a fully readable filesystem.
• UNIX boot filesystem (bfs) is now a fully readable filesystem.
• UNIX file system (UFS) is now a fully readable filesystem.
• Veritas is now a fully readable filesystem.
• Xia is now a fully readable filesystem.
• XENIX filesystem is now a fully readable filesystem.
• XFS is now a fully readable file system.

- Formats

• CHD compressed compact disc image support. Fixes #107
• CHD v5 image support. Fixes #106
• Easy CD Creator disc image (.CIF) support. Fixes #443
• PowerISO / gBurner disc image support. Fixes #254
• UltraISO disc image support. Fixes #255
• WinOnCD disc image support. Fixes #599

- ISO9660

• Support for RISC OS system area.
• Full support for zisofs.

- HFS+

• Support for zlib and lzfse compressed files.
• Support for reading all extended attributes.

- Media tags

• Wii U Disc Key media tag.
• PS3 related media tags.

- Partitions

• Implement traversing and enumeration of AIX minidisk partitions. Fixes #7

- Source generators

• Big endian structure swapping source generator.
• PDP endianness swapping source generator.

Changed

- Device reports

• Rework device reports to try other commands if one fail and log them.
• Dynamically figure out the buffer size for raw DVD reading.

- Dumping

• Only re-read pregap sectors that belong to track type changes.

- Filesystem identification

• Rename FFS to UFS.
• UFS detection improved with additional superblock variants (A/UX, 386BSD, RISC/os, Sun, OSF/1, HP-UX, Ultrix).

- GUI

• Make image path visible whatever tab is selected when editing image's metadata.
• Show negative sectors in sector viewer.

- Pascal filesystem

• Enhanced structures to be marshalable.
• Try both endians.
• Use marshalling.
• Add option for text decoding.
• Added filesystem consistency checks.
• Add machine type detection.

- Refactoring

• Use new source generator based big endian marshaller across all filesystems, filters, images, and partitions.
• Remove reflection based SwapStructureMembersEndian.

- Sidecar

• Disable default calculation of SpamSum on sidecar creation.
• Ensure sidecar gets always filenames without paths.

Fixed

• Correct processing of headerless CD-Text coming from images, in image info command. Fixes #662
• Configure Spectre.Console to propagate exceptions so they are handled by us.
• Divide by zero error.
• Escape markup in CD-Text logging to prevent formatting issues.
• Fix creating sidecar of files with brackets or braces.
• Fix listing files with braces.
• Fix logging of Blu-ray disc information to avoid crash when information contains braces or brackets.
• Fix missing markup end tag.
• Handle invalid ISO9660 dates.
• Handle parallel track path in PFI.
• Sanitize volume names by replacing '/' and '' with '_'.

- GUI

• Fix barcode casting.
• Fix wrongly using marked up path in image metadata editor.

5.4.2 LTS

What's Changed

• Fix regression in the publishing pipeline for v5.4 by @maxz in #903
• Fixes #872

New Contributors

• @maxz made their first contribution in #903

Full Changelog: v5.4.1...v5.4.2

v6.0.0 Alpha 18

Added

- Formats

• Flux support in AaruFormat.
• HxCStream image format support.

- Image merge

• Progress updates and localization for hardware processing.

- Media tags

• Floppy write protection media tag.

- Packaging

• Application icon.
• Debian packaging files.
• Desktop entry and package installation configuration for Linux.
• RPM packaging files.

- Testing

• Test suite for flux.

Changed

- A2R format

• Updated A2R functionality.

- Database

• Increase timeout to 300 seconds when updating the database.

- Dumping

• Reorder columns in progress display for media dump command.

- Image merge

• Add abort checks in sector processing loops in dump hardware creation.
• Do not stop on merge if secondary image fails to copy negative or overflow sectors.
• Do not try to merge negative or overflow sectors if secondary image lacks them.
• Optimize sector override checks by using HashSet for O(1) lookups in dump hardware creation.
• Sort merged hardware by the starting LBA of the first extent.

v6.0.0 Alpha 17

Changes

- AaruFormat

• Changed on-disk layout of overflow and negative sectors. All images made with previous alpha releases are incompatible.

v6.0.0 Alpha 16

Added

- AaruFormat

• Enable negative and overflow sectors.

- Commands

• Command to merge two images into a combined third image.
• Option to compare command to use long sectors for comparison.

- Dumping

• Option to fix sectors that didn't pass integrity checks.
• Paranoia mode to check integrity of sectors before writing them to the image.
• Support for dumping the 2nd layer PFI of DVDs.

- GUI

• Aaru metadata editor.
• Alternating row colors and hover effects to data grids.
• Dark theme media type icons and logos.
• Encryption options to media dump window.
• High resolution versions of folder and generic icons.
• Icons to menus, buttons, and tabs.
• Input gestures and hotkeys for menu items.
• Paranoia options to media dump window.
• Scroll viewers for improved scrolling behavior.
• Text wrapping to labels.
• Window to edit AaruFormat files basic metadata.

- Image verification

• Allow to verify only data (non-audio) tracks.

- Media types

• Sony HyperStorage media type.

Changed

- Commands

• Show absolute LBA in verify image with tracks.
• When comparing two images be specific about their contents.

- GUI

• Many UI layout improvements for better responsiveness and usability.
• Media dump options moved into tabs.
• Use dynamic resources for improved theme support.
• Use new image conversion algorithms.

- Image conversion

• Do not try to convert flags, ISRC or CD-TEXT in negative or overflow sectors.
• Implement abortion in image conversion process.
• Reworked image conversion to separate into parts and moved to Aaru.Core.

- Refactoring

• General code cleanup and reformatting.
• Optimize LINQ queries.
• Replace regex with source generation.
• Simplify boolean comparisons.
• Use collection expressions.
• Use null propagation.
• Use static lambdas for improved performance.

Fixed

• Bug in string formatting in EVPD prettyfier.
• Convert calling the logger instead of the error events.
• Do not convert undumped overflow and negative sectors.
• Error by one in overflow sectors conversion.
• Long file name handling issues.
• Text wrapping in ImageInfo labels. Fixes #877

v6.0.0-alpha.15.1

[6.0.0-alpha.15.1] - 2025-11-21

Fixed

• Showstopper bug in GUI.

[6.0.0-alpha.15] - 2025-11-21

Added

• More vendor IDs for MultiMediaCard and SecureDigital devices.
• Humanized media type in several places.
• More colorization.

- GUI

• Connecting to AaruRemote servers.
• Device information.
• Dumping media.
• IMGBurn log viewer.
• Media information.
• MHDD log viewer.
• Scanning media.

Changed

- Dumping

• Better more stable speed calculation algorithm.

- Media scanning

• Better more stable speed calculation algorithm.

- TUI

• New cyberpunk neon style theme.

Fixed

• PMA naming in several places.

- Alcohol 120% disc image

• Fixed reading media tags

v6.0.0-alpha.14

Added

• GUI.

v6.0.0-alpha.13

Added

• AaruFormat V2.

Fixed

• Several colorization fixes in console output.
• Fix spiral drawing for 80mm DVDs.

6.0.0 alpha 12

Added

- Archives

• Support for AMG archives
• Support for ARC archives
• Support for HA archives
• Support for PAK archives
• Support for Xbox 360 Secure Transacted File System (STFS) archives
• Support for ZOO archives