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| == 7.1-WIP == | |
| == 7.0 == | |
| === General Improvements === | |
| Various fix including security fix, thanks to | |
| * Coverity scan (Static Analysis of source code) | |
| * afl-fuzz (security-oriented fuzzer). | |
| * Denis Andzakovic from Security Assessment for reporting an exploitable Stack Buffer Overflow | |
| === TestDisk === | |
| ==== Improvements ==== | |
| * exFAT: better support | |
| * ext4: handle 64 bit blocks or 64 KiB blocksize. Fix detection and file listing | |
| ==== Bug fixes ==== | |
| * Avoid erroneous error when writing 512 bytes on hard disk using 4k sector | |
| * FAT, NTFS: avoid NULL pointer dereference if localtime() returns NULL. Thanks to Graham Sutherland for reporting this bug. | |
| === PhotoRec & QPhotoRec === | |
| QPhotoRec is a Graphical User Interface (Qt based GUI) version of PhotoRec. More user friendly, it recognizes the same file formats. | |
| PhotoRec remains recommended for advanced users, it can stop a recovery and resume it later, it recovers more fragmented files when brute-force technology is enabled and expert mode is available. | |
| ==== Improvements ==== | |
| * Reduced false positives for more than 80 file formats. | |
| * .gif: fix filesize detection | |
| * .flv: add Flash filesize detection | |
| * .mpg: detect filesize for MPEG | |
| * .ra: detect filesize for RealAudio3 | |
| * Improved algorithm to deal with data fragmentation resulting in a general speed increased | |
| * Speedup brute-force mode. Brute-force mode can recover more fragmented files, but it's still slow and not 100% reliable. You can enable it in PhotoRec Options menu. | |
| New file formats recovered by PhotoRec: | |
| * .3dm: Rhino / openNURBS | |
| * .ari: ARRI Raw Video | |
| * .camrec: Camtasia Studio | |
| * .dad: Micae DVR | |
| * .dcm: Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) | |
| * .fp12: File Maker Pro 12 | |
| * .kra: Krita | |
| * .mlv: Magic Lantern Video | |
| * .notebook: SMART notebook | |
| * .ora: Mypaint | |
| * .red: RED2 video format | |
| * .rlv: Revelation password | |
| * .vbm: Veeam Backup Metadata | |
| * .woff: Web Open Font Format | |
| == 6.14 == | |
| * The log file generated by the Windows version (cygwin) reports bad sectors in a more readable fashion, example | |
| <code>ReadFile Data error (cyclic redundancy check)</code>. | |
| * As openssl isn't used, don't link with this cryptographic library (Debian tries to avoid mixing GPL code and openssl) | |
| === TestDisk === | |
| ==== Improvements ==== | |
| * <code>testdisk /list</code> now displays the disk model, serial number, firmware version and hpa or dco presence if detected | |
| * Recover WBFS (Wii Backup File System) partition | |
| * Make FAT RebuildBS works when there is a single FAT table | |
| * Interface: Display the partition table type if autodetected | |
| * Interface: modified warning about mismatching geometry between FAT or NTFS boot sector and HD geometry information ([http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=651756 Debian #651756]) | |
| * Interface: Remove "Allow partial last cylinder" option | |
| ==== Bug fixes ==== | |
| * Fix crc in EFI backup GPT | |
| * Rewrote how TestDisk aligns partition on cylinder or 1MB boundary. It avoids to create partition entry where the partition ends after the end of the disk. | |
| === PhotoRec === | |
| ==== Improvements ==== | |
| * Improve Olympus .orf recovery | |
| * Improve WP Mac/WP5/WP6 Corel Documents .wpd files recovery | |
| * Fix thumbs.db recovery, avoid some false positive with .doc | |
| * Interface: if less than 10 file families are enabled, display the results even if zero has been found yet | |
| New file formats: | |
| * .aep After Effects | |
| * .axx AxCrypt | |
| * .dp Designer, a Photobook Designer Software | |
| * .lzh archive | |
| * .mmap MindManager | |
| * .plt Gerber Graphix Advantage | |
| * .prproj Adobe Premiere project | |
| * .psb Adobe Photoshop Image | |
| * .pts PTGui, panoramic stitching software | |
| * .qcp The QCP File Format and Media Types for Speech Data (RFC3625) | |
| * .shn Shorten audio file | |
| * .snt Windows Sticky Notes | |
| * .ttd TinyTag Data | |
| * .wallet Armory bitcoin wallet | |
| * .wim Windows imaging (WIM) image | |
| ==== Bug fixes ==== | |
| * Fix an endless loop during .caf file recovery | |
| * Fix tiff recovery including some raw file formats, 64-bit version wasn't affected | |
| == 6.13 == | |
| Fix UAC manifests for Windows, so users don't need to use right-click "Run As Administrator" | |
| TestDisk | |
| - Fix image creation, image.dd file wasn't created (Regression introduced in 6.12) | |
| - Detect Vmware VMFS partition | |
| - Locate lost GFS2 partition but not yet the size | |
| - Log HDD serial number and firmware revision | |
| - List NTFS Alternate Data Streams (ADS) | |
| PhotoRec | |
| - Session recovery restarts at the previous location | |
| - Better MPEG recovery, there should be less concatenated videos. | |
| - Better JPG recovery, there should be less cases where thumbnails were recovered instead of the picture itself. | |
| - Handle large avi files using "AVIX" or mov files using 64-bit chunk size. | |
| - Rename recovered pdf using the title (not perfect) | |
| - Major cleanup of PhotoRec core code | |
| 6.12 | |
| fidentify, a little utility sharing PhotoRec signature database, is now build by default. It identifies the type of data contained in a file and reports the extension as seen by PhotoRec. It is similar to the Unix file command. Add compatibility with | |
| - libewf 20110312 | |
| - ncurses 5.8 | |
| - ntfs-3g | |
| Fix detection of Encase 6 .ewf files | |
| TestDisk | |
| - Convert the directory name when it can't be created (Fix for Windows/Cygwin version) | |
| - Better HPA/DCO detection: handle the case where native_max is null. | |
| - Image Creation is now faster than previous version when there are bad sectors | |
| - List and copy (experimental) files from exFAT filesystem | |
| - Improved NTFS undelete interface | |
| PhotoRec | |
| - PhotoRec checks for EFBIG (file too large) error when writing files. It's usefull to avoid erronous message about "no free space available" when recovering to a FAT filesystem. | |
| - Recover files from exFAT unallocated space | |
| - Use doc/xls/ppt title to name recovered Office document, use first filename in zip archive... | |
| - Possibility to add your own extension/custom signature to PhotoRec | |
| - Generated a report.xml file using Digital Forensics XML | |
| 6.11 | |
| TestDisk & PhotoRec 6.11 should use less CPU. | |
| This new TestDisk version can undelete files for NTFS filesystem and recover deleted exFAT and ext4. | |
| PhotoRec | |
| - Performance improvement when scanning for numerous file type | |
| - Fix several bugs including an endless loop, several memory leaks and several out-of-bound memory access | |
| - 50 file formats have been added | |
| 6.10 | |
| TestDisk & PhotoRec 6.10 comes with severals improvements: | |
| - Report disk manufacturer and model under Windows and Linux (Only Linux was | |
| supported in 6.9) | |
| - Under Linux, /dev/mapper/* and /dev/md? are now listed with the harddisks. | |
| - Now both OS and compiler versions are recorded in the log file. | |
| This new TestDisk version can | |
| - undelete files and directories for FAT filesystem, | |
| - undelete files for ext2 filesystem, | |
| - copy files from ext2/ext3 partitions. These feature was already available | |
| for FAT and NTFS. | |
| PhotoRec | |
| - Load and save FileOpts settings: remember which file types to recover | |
| - For JPEG files, extract the time/date from Exif header and set the | |
| file time. It's now easier to sort the recovered jpg. | |
| - PhotoRec can now identify and recover 38 additional file formats. | |
| 6.9 | |
| TestDisk & PhotoRec 6.9 comes with numerous improvements: | |
| - They are compatible with ntfsprogs 2.0, the latest library version for | |
| accessing NTFS partitions, e2fsprogs 1.40.6, the latest library for accessing | |
| ext2/ext3 partitions. | |
| - EFI GUID Partition Table is now supported. EFI GPT is mainly used on Itanium, | |
| MacBook and Mac Pro. | |
| - Both utilities can use sudo if the user is not root, this functionnality will | |
| be enabled for at least MacOSX, so users won't have to go into a command line. | |
| - Improved Windows disk support, most internal USB card reader should now work. | |
| - Disk model (ie. ATA ST3120026AS, _NEC DVD_RW ND-4550A...) are now reported | |
| under Linux. | |
| TestDisk | |
| - New file system support has been added: encrypted LUKS, Mac HFSX, Linux Raid | |
| md 1.0/1.1/1.2 (0.9 was already supported). | |
| - It displays unicode filenames correctly, and can handle unicode filesnames | |
| while copying files from an NTFS partition when supported by the underlying | |
| libraries. | |
| - It's now possible to copy files from a lost FAT partition found by TestDisk | |
| (Already possible for NTFS). | |
| - In the Advanced menu, TestDisk can create a raw/dd-like image of a partition. | |
| PhotoRec | |
| - For ext2/ext3 file systems, PhotoRec 6.9 can search in the whole space or in | |
| unallocated space only. This feature was already available for FAT and NTFS | |
| filesystem. | |
| - It has better session support which allows a recovery to be stopped and | |
| restarted later. | |
| - New file formats are supported: Acronis True Image .TIB, AutoCAD's .DWG and | |
| PowerTab .PTB, Cineon image file/SMTPE DPX .DPX, Comic Life .comicdoc, HP | |
| Photosmart Photo Printing Album .albm, KeepAssX .KDB, Maya .MB and .MP, | |
| Microsoft OneNOte .one file, Microsoft Visual Studio Resource file .RES, | |
| Microsoft VB's .CLS, Outlook .MSG, QuickBook .FST, SketchUp .SKP, Vmware .vmdk, | |
| WinSpec .SPE, Windows Enhanced MetaFile .emf, MS Windows Link .lnk, Internet | |
| Explorer index.dat, Macintosh Picture .pct, SunPCI Disk Image,XBOX GTA San | |
| Andreas Save File, Final Cut Pro .fcp and Digital Speech Standard .dss. | |
| 6.8 | |
| Version 6.8 is mainly a bugfix but some small improvements has been made to | |
| both TestDisk and PhotoRec: | |
| - Partition type is now autodetected. | |
| - TestDisk and PhotoRec can now be used under screen, the screen manager with | |
| VT100/ANSI terminal emulation. | |
| TestDisk | |
| HFS detection has been improved to avoid false positive. | |
| TestDisk logs potential NTFS partition location from MFT & MFTMirr location | |
| while rebuilding NTFS boot sector. | |
| PhotoRec | |
| Some important bugfixes (false positive problem, implementation bugs) have been | |
| made in PhotoRec 6.8. JPG bruteforce recovery has been improved a little bit, | |
| you can use it to recover more fragmented jpeg but it's very time consuming and | |
| not 100% reliable, so it's still disabled by default. | |
| .7z, .cab, .rar and .tar recovery have been improved, .dta and .spss file | |
| formats have been added. | |
| 6.7 | |
| Both utilities are faster than previous versions: a better disk caching is | |
| used in PhotoRec, a better way to handle the sector to scan is used in | |
| TestDisk. Windows version of TestDisk and PhotoRec doesn't use | |
| pread()/pwrite() cygwin implementation (A bug seems present). | |
| TestDisk | |
| TestDisk 6.7 handles partition created under Microsoft Vista. | |
| Traditionally partitions were created on cylinder boundaries. Under Vista, | |
| they are now independent of the disk geometry: partitions are aligned to 1 | |
| MB boundary, TestDisk now handles that. It also fixes how the advanced | |
| menu works. | |
| PhotoRec | |
| PhotoRec 6.7 uses less CPU. It also adds support for 3ds max, Archive | |
| .ace, CD Audio .cda, FastTrackerII Extended Module .xm, Linux archive .a, | |
| Linux/Unix ELF binary, Mac OS .emlx mail format, Macomedia Compressed | |
| Flash .swc, Macromedia .flv, Macromedia Freehand 5 (.fh5) & 10 (.fh10) and | |
| InDesign .indd, Matroska .mkv, MP3 with ID3 header, MS cabinet archive | |
| .cab, MSOffice "Open" XML .docx, .pptx, .xlsx, MS executable (PE), MS | |
| Windows Metafile .wmf, NJStar .njx, Quickbooks .qbb and .qbw, Real Audio | |
| .rm, registry config file .reg, RPM package .rpm, Windows registry header | |
| detection and Event Log .evt | |
| 6.6 | |
| General Improvements | |
| - Encase Expert Witness Compression Format is now supported, so Computer | |
| Forensic Experts can use TestDisk and PhotoRec more easily. | |
| - Under new Vista OS, harddisks are now being reported again. | |
| TestDisk | |
| - If LBA48 support seems missing (HD bigger than 130 GB not supported by | |
| the OS), TestDisk will warn the user. This problem is common when a user | |
| reinstalls his OS and forgets to install the latest service patches. | |
| - NTFS: TestDisk should be able to list files from NTFS partitions even if | |
| some filesystem corruption has occurred; more importantly, it will allow | |
| the user to copy whatever file data it can as well. | |
| - FAT: Improved heuristics to find the first FAT area during boot sector | |
| rebuild. | |
| PhotoRec | |
| - A new method for handling fragmented data is now used, making recovery | |
| more reliable and faster. | |
| - PhotoRec can be set to search for files in FAT16/FAT32 unallocated space | |
| only; which avoids wasting time recovering files that are still | |
| accessible, making the recovery of 'lost files' much faster and more | |
| efficient. | |
| - New file formats have been added: .3g2 (Mov video family), .aif Apple | |
| Audio, .all .cpr Cubase Song, .blend Blender, .cam Casio QV Digital Camera | |
| Image, .flac Free Lossless Audio Codec, .mdf Microsoft SQL, .swf | |
| Macromedia Flash and .vcf VCard (not confused with .txt anymore) | |
| 6.5 | |
| TestDisk | |
| - A screen has been added to control the log file creation. | |
| - It's now possible from TestDisk file listing to copy files from NTFS | |
| partition to a selected directory. | |
| - NTFS MFT can also be repaired in more cases. | |
| - A compilation problem has been fixed with old version of libntfs. | |
| - Documentation has been fixed, it now displays correctly with IE. | |
| PhotoRec | |
| - New file formats have been added: AppleWorks .cwk, DIF Digital Video .dv, | |
| DjVu .djv, Finale .mus, Incredimail .imm, .imb, iTunes mhbd, MIDI .mid, | |
| MS Backup, Real Media .rm & .ram, Reason .rns, ruby .rb, .xml | |
| - File size detection for .bmp, .pdf, .gif, Office document has been improved. | |
| - A endless loop bug and a memory leak have been fixed. | |
| - The I/O cache engine now caches read failure, it will speedup some recovery. | |
| 6.4 | |
| Support for ReiserFS 4 has been added in TestDisk | |
| PhotoRec detects new files formats and better recovery of jpeg, txt/html, zip... | |
| Fixes numerous bugs. | |
| 6.3 | |
| Fix for 64 bits architecture and improved interface. | |
| Photorec adds support for Quicken, OpenDocument, mp3, ogg, | |
| StarOffice, Encapsulated PostScript, PostScript, gif, gz, mov file format | |
| or better detection. | |
| 6.2 | |
| New User Interface | |
| Disk cache and read ahead to improve performance | |
| Endianess portability fix | |
| 6.1 | |
| TestDisk | |
| Fix for Mac version | |
| Remove an erroneous message after writing a partition without logical partition | |
| 6.0 | |
| TestDisk | |
| Fix for Dos version and some cosmetic change | |
| 5.9 | |
| TestDisk | |
| - User Interface has been improved | |
| - Mac partition map is now supported | |
| - FAT: better check for directory attribut | |
| - FAT: fix a bug in expert mode | |
| - FAT: fix directory listing time using timezone | |
| - Linux Raid: fix regression from 5.8, Raid 1 is again detected. | |
| - NTFS boot sector: copy boot sector over backup boot sector now works | |
| Photorec | |
| - Photorec now works on ext2/ext3 filesystem (Check Options) | |
| - add support for Papyrus, 7zip, text file, OGG audio files, RAR archive recovery | |
| - add a default file size limit of 2GB | |
| - add support for ZIP files starting with PK00 (packed to removable disk) | |
| 5.8 | |
| TestDisk | |
| - Add support for HFS+, UFS2 filesystem and Intel Solaris superblock | |
| - Linux Raid: Add some code to detect Raid 5 earlier | |
| - FAT: Update the cleaning FAT function to repair FAT table (Expert mode only) | |
| - EXT2: e2fsprogs-1.36 parses the device name given in ext2fs_open, give a string instead of the io_channel. | |
| - NTFS: Fix a bug in NTFS rebuilding introduced in 5.7 | |
| - Fix a memory freed problem when detecting if a partition can be Primary, Logical... | |
| Photorec | |
| - Recognize php header | |
| - MPG format is using streaming | |
| 5.7 | |
| TestDisk | |
| - Replace standard MBR i386 boot sector code by a GPL one | |
| - HFS detection has been improved to avoid false positive | |
| - FAT: add support for one FAT only (instead of usual 2) in directory listing | |
| and boot sector rebuilding (need expert mode) | |
| - FAT: Support for FAT without FAT12 (ie DOS 3.30), FAT16 or FAT32 mark. | |
| - FAT12/16: Add the possibility to initialize FAT root directory (Delete everything, | |
| Expert mode only) | |
| - FAT: fix for directory listing in boot sector rebuilding. | |
| - FAT32: Fix for last FAT sector while cleaning the FAT (Expert mode only) | |
| - EXT2/EXT3: while listing filename permit to list file where inode information is unavaible. | |
| - Doesn't halt if TestDisk can't create the log file | |
| - configure.ac, compile.sh: remove --enable-debug option | |
| - Modify Linux RPM spec file to get non-empty debug-info rpm | |
| - Directory listing: little UI modification | |
| - Dos version: fix read/write error message | |
| Photorec 5.7 | |
| - add support for a bunch of other file format | |
| - incremental directory name for recovery | |
| - a lot of code cleaning | |
| 5.6 | |
| TestDisk | |
| New features: | |
| - Can list files from NTFS partition found using backup boot sector | |
| - Display a warning if TestDisk think the logical geometry (CHS) is wrong | |
| - Handle filesystem image (In Options, Partition type: None) | |
| - Filesystem: HFS (minimal testing) and LVM2 support | |
| - NetBSD and FreeBSD support | |
| Improvements: | |
| - Win32: Windows version is now as fast as other version. | |
| Using FileRead() instead of read() is about 10 times faster. | |
| Fixs: | |
| - HD Geometry: the number of cylinders can be bigger than 65535 | |
| - BSD slice: display content even if crc is wrong | |
| - FAT boot sector rebuilding: better support for FAT16 converted to FAT32 | |
| - NTFS boot sector rebuilding: better handle copy of MFT | |
| - Win32: Windows version always creates a log file (was introduced in 5.3 but | |
| boggus since 5.4) | |
| Photorec 5.6 | |
| - Use libjpeg for a better recovery of lost jpeg files. | |
| - Konica/Minolta raw (MRW) pictures recovery | |
| - Canon raw (CRW) pictures recovery | |
| - Minimal support for Sigma/Foveon: .X3F, Rollei (RDC), Fuji (RAF) | |
| 5.5 | |
| Fix FAT32 recovery using backup boot sector | |
| Remove some debugging code | |
| Upgrade to libntfs 1.9.4 | |
| Fix RPM spec file to get a working reiserfs support | |
| 5.4 | |
| New features: | |
| - Option to backup unknown partition header. | |
| - Save/Load current partition list | |
| - handle sector size != 512 | |
| - XFS and CramFS support | |
| Improvements: | |
| - Interface has been improved. | |
| - log libreiserfs errors in the log file | |
| - can choose to minimize or maximize the extended partition before writing | |
| - FAT32 root cluster rebuild improved (use first free cluster, mark it as used or/and EOC) | |
| Fixs: | |
| - ReiserFS and EXT2/EXT3 directory listing fix | |
| - fix a bug with BeFS partition recovery | |
| 5.3 | |
| New features: | |
| - When rebuilding FAT boot sector in expert mode, lets the user choose FAT locations. | |
| Improvements: | |
| - Exit if TestDisk can't create log file. | |
| - Windows version always create log file. | |
| Bug corrections: | |
| - Fix superblock number displayed when telling the user to use e2fsck. | |
| - Fix extended partition creation. | |
| 5.2 | |
| TestDisk now compiles and run under NT 4 and Windows 2000. | |
| New features: | |
| - can rebuild NTFS boot sector | |
| - can recover JFS partition | |
| - some advanced FAT32 functions have been added (Expert mode only) | |
| Improvements: | |
| - Can align partition to cylinder boundary or to head boundary. | |
| - Doesn't abort while writing partitions if read failed. | |
| - Doesn't let the user write an empty partition table. | |