NEWS.txt

3.0.0b2 (Nov 9, 2011)
New Features:
- New database design
- Hashlookup / calculation
- Minor overall improvements
- NOTE: Cases created with b1 are not supported in b2 (different DB)

3.0.0b1 (Aug 16, 2011)
- Initial release
- Windows only
- Directory tree
- File Search
- Table and thumbnail viewer

--------------------------- Version 2.24 --------------------------------
3/22/10: Bug Fix: resolved issue 2950986 to support HFS directories. 

--------------------------- Version 2.23 --------------------------------
2/12/10: bug fix: resolved issue 2950693 where previous searches
were not shown if they used quotes.

2/12/10: bug fix: resolved issue 2932385 where wrong flag was being used
to do only doing category searching"

2/12/10: bug fix: resolved issue 2779244 where wrong sorter path was
being used.

--------------------------- Version 2.22 --------------------------------
10/27/09: Update: Change istat to use -B instead of -b (new change in TSK).

11/19/09: Update: Improved configure script process and error message for
FILE_EXE check.

11/25/09: Fixed MD5 exe bug when building live CD

12/30/09: Fixed issue 2923857 re: cookie errors for the icon and css file 
links when cookies are used. 

--------------------------- Version 2.21 --------------------------------
11/7/08: Bug Fix: Changed case management code to not error when 'dls ...' 
line was encountered. 

11/14/08: Bug Fix: Fixed bug 2288406 (parsing of new fls -l format when file name searching and deleted file listing)

--------------------------- Version 2.20 --------------------------------
7/1/08: Update: Updated FAT sizes based on new "special" files.

7/9/08: Update: Updated NTFS processing for orphan files / removed
ifind -p etc.

7/9/08: Update: Updated mactime and time formats to ISO formats.

9/13/08: Update: Changed usage to new TSK d* to blk* names.

9/26/08: Bug Fix: Input check on host was printing invalid host values 
w/out encoding HTML entities.  Reported by Russ McRee.

10/01/08: Update: HFS support is enabled if TSK was compiled with 
support for it.

10/08/08: Bug Fix: Added some more HTML entity escaping to case management
values (such as description).  Reported by Daniel Medianero.

10/13/08: Update: Added perl version check back into configure, but used
perl $] variable to do checking.  Based on patch by Joerg Friedrich.

--------------------------- Version 2.10 --------------------------------
2/20/08: Bug Fix: Added 'tsk' to the path for sorter to find the 'images'
config file.  Reported by Russell Reynolds.

3/2/08: Update: Modified the adding of disk image process to save a 
call to mmls (reported by Pope). 

3/2/08: Update: Added more basic control char filtering back into Print(). 

--------------------------- Version 2.09 --------------------------------
2/4/07: Update: Bind only to localhost network if remote addr is local.  
Suggested by Markus Waldeck.

4/19/07: Bug Fix: Event sequencer notes for file did not have clock skew
in the times.  Reported by Len CulBreath.

12/21/07: Update: updated configure and install process for TSK 2.50

1/28/08: Update: Added NSRL support back in.

--------------------------- Version 2.08 --------------------------------

8/23/06: Bug Fix: The configure script did not like TSK directory names
with a space in them.

8/23/06: Update: The PATH variable is not entirely cleared anymore.
Instead, it is replaced by the basic bin directories (this was causing
some problems with Cygwin).

8/31/06: Update: If Autopsy is running under Cygwin, then it will set
the PATH to contain the basic bin directories.  Otherwise, it is clear
(original behavior).


--------------------------- Version 2.07 --------------------------------
3/15/06: Bug Fix: Caseman.pm had DATA_DIR instead of DATADIR and a
concatenation error message occurred.  Reported by Jason DePriest.

5/3/06: Update: Added support for ISO9660 file systems.

5/3/06: Update: Added support for AFF and AFD image formats.

5/03/06: Update: Added image format type to image details screen.

5/3/06: Update: Added hexdump view for file analysis and reports (initial
patch by Patrick Knight).

5/3/06: Update: Changed number of dashes in reports to 70 instead of 62.

5/4/06: Update: Integrity checking disabled for non-raw image files
until a specialized tool exists in TSK to abstract the embedded hash
calculation.

5/8/06: Update: Added support for AFM files.



--------------------------- Version 2.06 --------------------------------
05/02/05: Fix: Typo in timeline creation window (reported by Surago Jones).

06/15/05: Update: Added css style sheet and changed some formatting.

08/13/05: Update: Added "utf-8" as HTML type so that TSK unicode
output will be properly dispayed.

10/13/05: Update: Removed print_output() function contents because
it broke the Unicode chars.

10/13/05: Update: Require 5.8 version of Perl now (in config and
in source) because it has best Unicode support.



--------------------------- Version 2.05 --------------------------------
03/16/05: Update: Image name is given in the Image Details window
when adding a new image file.  (Suggested by Surago Jones).

03/17/05: Bug Fix: swap and raw host config entries could not be
read after the conversion because of a regular expression bug in
the read  code. (Reported by Surago Jones) (BUG: 1165235)

03/21/05: Bug Fix: When a new host was added to a case with no
investigator names, then it would prompt you to select a name from
an empty list.  (BUG: 1167970).

03/25/05: Update: Check return status of rename functions and print
error if failed.

04/04/05: Bug Fix: A missing volume type message was reported when
adding a disk image.  The flow of add_img_prep was modified to
ensure that it was set.  (Reported by Bradley Bitzkowski) (BUG:
1177042)

04/08/05: Update: A thumbnail of images is shown when selected in the File
mode. Suggested by and patch by Guy Voncken.


--------------------------- Version 2.04 --------------------------------
10/22/04: Update: Changed the way that NTFS lists directory contents.  No 
  longer lists the deleted entries from 'fls', only from 'ifind'.  Reduces
  the inaccurate information. 

02/XX/05: Update: Incorporated new TSK 2 features:
  - Disk images (split and raw)
  - new config file formats
  - moved images and output md5.txt file into one

03/01/05: Update: Changed behavior of some links that created new
Autopsy Windows

03/05/05: Update: timeline output can be in comma delimited format

03/05/05: Update: Added SSN and credit card seach patterns from
  Jerry Shenk.

03/05/05: Update: Added temporal data when a note is creaed.

03/11/05: Update: Changed to new TSK names for srch_strings and img_stat

03/15/05: Update: improved handling of white space around investigator
names and image names (suggested by Brian Baskin).


--------------------------- Version 2.03 --------------------------------
08/24/04: Update: Added SHA-1 hash to the metadata view.

09/01/04: Update: Added sstrings instead of local version of strings.

09/05/04: Update: Added more help text.

09/06/04: Update: Use the local version of file if TSK version is
not found.

09/06/04: Update: Added links to the notes and events page after a
note or event has been created.

09/06/04: Update: Added Unicode extract and search functionality using
the 'sstrings' tool from TSK.


--------------------------- Version 2.02 --------------------------------
07/19/04: Bug Fix: print_err message in Caseman.lib did not have correct
Print:: package, which caused an error (BUG: 994199).

07/29/04: Update: Added support for NTFS 'ifind -p' option to find deleted
files that do not have a name in the parent directory.  

07/29/04: Update: Added a filter to remove duplicate entries from a file
listing.  Duplicate names with the same name and meta address are 
removed.

07/29/04: Update: OS X no longer needs the strings script, Autopsy
will adjust for the different flags.

07/29/04: Update: When a deleted file name is entered into the find 
directory box, the recover bit is set so the full contents are shown.


--------------------------- Version 2.01 --------------------------------
03/29/04: Update: Changed text for the data integrity option when
adding a new image.

04/20/04: Bug Fix: Fixed error that occured when data browsing with
a raw or swap image.  The TSK usage for these file system types was
inconsistent and it was fixed in version 1.69.  (BUG: 925382).
(Reported by Harald Katzer)

05/03/04: Update: Changed regular expression in META so that the
new recovery listing in FAT istat will not show up as a hyperlink.

05/03/04: Update: Removed usage of '-H' with 'icat' in File.PM.

05/20/04: Bug Fix: Fixed the incorrect error message that was printed
when installing autopsy with a newer version of TSK than 1.68.
(BUG: 938909)

05/20/04: Update: Added new feature that allows perl regular
expressions to be used to find file names.

05/20/04: Update: Added file recovery features to File.pm, Meta.pm,
and Appview.pm.

05/27/04: Update: Added a space to $REG_ZONE2 so that CYGWIN would
work if no zone was given (Marcus Muller).

/05/27/04: Update: Added 'p' as an option for the type of a file in the 
'fls' output and made the $::REG_MTYPE global for the pattern.

05/28/04: Update: Cleaned up code so that commands and directories
do not have double slashes (//) sometimes. This caused problems
with CYGWIN (reported by Marcus Muller).

05/28/04: Bug Fix: Keyword search of unallocated space would link to
incorrect data unit (although the address was correct).  (Reported by
Jorge Ortiz, David Perez, Raul Siles).  (BUG: 962410).

05/28/04: Update: Updated dcat usage and syntax to reflect changes to
TSK.  

05/28/04: Update: Changed the messages printed when multiple data units
were displayed.  Now the number of units or range are given instead of 
number of bytes.


--------------------------- Version 2.00 --------------------------------
11/25/03: Update: made evidence locker directory names constant (define.pl)
11/25/03: Update: Started process of re-architecture
12/2/03: Update: Replaced logo.jpg with Hash the Hound
12/7/03: Update: Added favicon.ico with Hash
01/06/04: Update: Changed command line arguments
01/24/04: Update: made it only a warning if cookie file can't be opened
02/15/04: Update: Timezone is now optional.  Defaults to local if not given.
02/15/04: Update: Timezone value optional in () in file listing (prevents
  parsing errors if incorrect timezone is given
03/16/04: Bug Fix: Fixed zombie problem by ignoring child signal
(BUG: 860186)  Reported by Angus Marshall.
03/18/04: Update: New layout for adding cases, hosts, and images.
03/18/04: Update: changed HTML to use lowercase values instead of all caps.
03/18/04: Update: New windows are no longer opened when changing modes.
03/19/04: Release: Big release with a new redesign and a few other
  changes (live analysis)

--------------------------- Version 1.75 --------------------------------
09/22/03: Update: Changed the internal 'get_' functions that parse the
  URL arguments to error instead of just return 0 when a problem occurs.
10/22/03: Bug Fix: Check for an investigator name before trying to log
  to the exec log.  This is a problem when indexing a hash database, an
  error message is printed because of the null string.  reported by
  Brian Baskin.
11/10/03: Update: Improved error message when strings can't be parsed.
  (Bug: 823081)
11/15/03: Update: Improved messages in installation script
11/15/03: Bug Fix: Added 'defined' checks to command output to prevent
  string errors when command fails.  (BUG 842824)
11/15/03: Update: Added 'HEIGHT' value to HTML images to make images
  align better and load faster and with the right size
11/15/03: Update: Added a timer so that a char is printed every 5 seconds
  during keyword searching, file type sorting, and MD5 for images.

--------------------------- Version 1.74 --------------------------------
08/03/03: Bug Fix: Notes could not be added for some files because
  the HTML code was missing a closing bracket.
08/18/03: Bug Fix: added POSIX:settz() because some versions of Perl do
  not use the most recent ENV{TZ} variable when running 'localtime'.  This
  cause some incorrect times for events in the sequencer.
08/19/03: Update: NSRL is no longer used with 'sorter' until it is 
  easier to identify which files in the NSRL are known good and which
  are known bad.
08/20/03: Update: Added support for swap and raw images for searching
  and data unit analysis.
08/20/03: Update: Added the unit size to the display of the Data Unit
  mode.
08/20/03: Update: Search for perl5.6.0 first during install
08/21/03: Update: Changed use of backticks to pipes for executing commands
08/21/03: ?: Added a 'sleep(1)' to the pipe to prevent the loss of data
  that can be seen with perl5.8.0 in the buffer.  This should be fixed
  in a better way though.
08/21/03: Update: The exact command executed is now saved to the log
  directory.
08/21/03: Update: Changed 'date' regexp to make year optional.
08/22/03: Update: Added warning if Perl 5.8 is used because of the buffer
  problem.
08/22/03: Bug Fix: Fixed some keyword escape values in the search mode.
08/22/03: Update: Added a new help page on the limitations of keyword
  searching.  
08/22/03: Update: Moved the unallocated space and strings file creation
  to the Image Details view instead of the keyword search window
  (suggested by: Paul Bakker)
08/25/03: Update: improved wording of the Add Image window to better
  explain the mounting point.
08/26/03: Update: When adding sequencer notes in manually, the time
  is set to the last note entered to make it easier to add notes from
  logs and external sources.
08/26/03: Update: The keyword search display has a final clause that 
  prints the results even if they are not found in the 'index' method.
  This prevents any hits from being lost during the analysis of the 
  output.
08/26/03: Bug Fix: strings less than 4 chars would not be found before
  because 'strings' only shows strings that are 4 or more in length
08/28/03: Update: if more than 1000 keyword hits are found, then a message
 is reported and the user must choose a new keyword.  This prevents the
 browser from hanging from a huge HTML table.
08/28/03: Update: A '.' is printed during the keyword search for each
  100 hits as a status update.


--------------------------- Version 1.73 --------------------------------
06/10/03: Bug Fix: The '-i day' was not added to the mactime code and
  caused an error (reported by Cathy Buckman)

--------------------------- Version 1.72 ---------------------------------
04/09/03: Bug Fix: The Java Script check on the main page broke in 1.71
  because the document.write was on multiple lines
04/11/03: Bug Fix: Keyword Search False Hit code had a bug that it
  would be printed in error and message was improved
04/22/03: Update: Added examples to case management help file
05/06/03: Bug Fix: calc_md5 did not need 'o' tag on end of regular
  expression because it would not work if the method was called more
  than once.  (Paul Bakker)
06/01/03: Bug Fix: Some keyword searches with $ in it were failing
06/01/03: Update: Keyword searches are now saved to a file and can be
  found in the keyword seach main menu
06/01/03: Update: Changed the format a little of the keyword search
  menu
06/01/03: Update: Added grep cheat sheet
06/03/03: Update: Tables now have alternating colors for file listing 
  and timeline viewing
06/03/03: Update: Sequencer mode added
06/03/03: Update: Sequencer help file added
06/04/03: Bug Fix: Added 'LANG=C LC_ALL=C' to sorter & mactime to prevent 
  UTF-8 errors (Debugging help from Daniel Schwartzer)
06/04/03: Bug Fix: The regular expression for viewing timelines did not
  allow multiple users to have the same UID (reported by Cathy Buckman)
06/05/03: Update: Added button for Event Sequencer and added tables to
  the standard notes reading window
06/09/03: Update: Added '-i day' flag to mactime for new feature in
  The Sleuth Kit

--------------------------- Version 1.71 ---------------------------------
02/27/03: Bug Fix: Regular expression searches w/out a strings file had
  problems because the '-n' value was being incorrectly calculated.  
03/17/03: Update: Added more logging to investigator log
03/17/03: Bug Fix: The case opening was not being logged in the case log
03/17/03: Update: The current 'mode' tab is also a hyperlink now
03/17/03: Bug Fix: Fixed bug that did not allow the path for a strings
  file to have a space in it.
03/17/03: Update: When no port and remote address are given on the
  command line, port 9999 and localhost are used.  Documents also
  updated to reflect new syntax.  
03/18/03: Update: Use the 'x' repetition operator for ASCII reports
  instead of a row of dashes.
03/18/03: Update: Added <NOFRAMES> tag to MAIN_FR and incorporated more
  '<<EOF' HTML code.
03/19/03: Update: Added $FIL_NAME function that translates a name to
  a meta data address using 'ifind -n'
03/19/03: Update: A directory name can be entered in the $FIL_DIR
  frame now to jump to a directory or file
03/19/03: Update: The directory path in $FIL_LIST was changed to have
  hyperlinks that allow one to jump to a previous directory (using
  $FILE_NAME)
03/19/03: Update: Cleaned up HTML code in $FIL_LIST 
03/20/03: Update: passwd and group files are now imported in timelines
  by selecting the image - no more inode values
03/20/03: Update: Cleaned up HTML code in timeline section
03/21/03: Update: Added '-z' flag to usage of 'file' so that comressed
  files are opened.  
03/21/03: Bug Fix: Some special values needed to be escaped in the
  grep keyword search (for non regular expressions) (\.]^$"-).
03/24/03: Update: Changed how images are added (symlinks, copies,
  or moves).  
03/24/03: Update: Added a file system sanity check when adding one
03/27/03: Update: Added a check to the 'File Type' mode that extracts
  just graphic images and makes thumbnails.  
03/27/03: Update: Added '-i' flag when 'mactime' is run to create the
  summary file for timelines.
03/27/03: Update: Added link to summary page with hyper links to actual
  month for timelines
03/27/03: Update: Added more HTML table columns for date in timeline view
03/27/03: Update: Made the 'ifind' process optional in Data Unit and key
  word searching mode (makes browsing faster)
03/27/03: Update: Evidence Locker now contains entries for when a case
  is created or opened.
03/30/03: Update: Improved the help file for time lines.
03/31/03: Update: Changed addresses to sleuthkit.org



--------------------------- Version 1.70 ---------------------------------
Interface Changes:
  - Too many to note individually
  - New windows are created when modes or images are changed
  - Improved error messages
  - Can load the unallocated image in the Data Unit Mode
  - Case management

12/10/02: Update: Help is now a directory and contents can be viewed at
  any time.  
01/02/03: Update: Added support for sorter and hfind tools in TASK
01/02/03: Update: NSRL now requested at startup
01/02/03: Update: Alert and exclude hash databases are options when making
  a new host now
01/09/03: Update: Carriage Returns are now sent if it is a Windows client
01/09/03: Update: Improved the pre-defined IP keyword search expression
01/10/03: Update: Changed use of "_new" as target to "_blank"
01/28/03: Update: Installation and other system directories can now 
  have spaces and other symbols in them (Dave Goldsmith)


--------------------------- Version 1.62 ---------------------------------
10/07/02: Update: Added File Type to block mode
10/07/02: Update: Can now add notes to 'dls' image blocks
10/07/02: Update: One can now view as many consecutive data units as they
  want in data mode.  Many other changes and updates were done with this
  as well. (inspired by the Honeynet sotm)
10/07/02: Update: The File System details view for FAT now has hyperlinks
  to view the run and follow to the next run. 
10/09/02: Bug Fix: Removed use of 'use integer' so that large blocks do
  no turn into '-1' when doing a keyword search (Michael Stone - Loyola)


--------------------------- Version 1.61 ---------------------------------
08/28/02: Update: White space is allowed at the begining of the morgue file 
08/28/02: Bug Fix: No error is generated if md5.txt does not exist from 
  main menu
08/28/02: Update: Improved error messages 
08/28/02: Update: Added code to Main Menu to check for Java Script turned on 
09/19/02: Update: fsmorgue can be a symlink in the morgue directory 


--------------------------- Version 1.60 ---------------------------------
- Changed NTFS c-time to Changed from Created (5/20/02)
- Fixed a couple little bugs with parsing NTFS output (5/20/02)
- Improved sorting (name is case insensitive and name is used as 
  secondary sorting index) (5/20/02)
- Improved error messages of invalid input to inode & block mode
- Added ability to import password and group files when making a time line
  (5/28/02)
- Fixed bug that did not allow IP addresses to be used for the ACL when
  DNS was not available (5/30/02)
- Fixed some issues to make Internet Explorer not complain so much (05/30/02)
- Improved the logging so that one can retrace their actions (05/31/02)
- Moved autopsy.log to logs directory (05/31/02)
- Added ability to write Notes about a given block, inode, or file (06/04/02) 
  (suggestion by Dave Dittrich)
- Set default investigators name (an error was generated if no name was given)
  (06/04/02)
- Added links in the help page to the window help pages (06/05/02)
- Updated timeline to reflect new format in new TASK (06/19/02)
- Added '-C' flag to turn off cookies on command line (06/20/02)
- Added new main menu (06/20/02)
- Made MD5 generation 'opt-out' (06/22/02)
- New code to remove duplicate entries in md5.txt and fsmorgue
- fsmorgue can have whitespace at end of line (7/6/02)
- An error is generated if an image in fsmorgue does not exist (7/6/02)
- updated automatic date search (7/9/02)
- New feature allows one to save the MD5 values of all files in a directory,
  which makes the Solaris Finger Print Database easier (7/12)


--------------------------- Version 1.50 ---------------------------------
- Modified to support TASK instead of TCT and TCTUTILs (8/25/01)
- Removed chmod 'bug' for the cookie file (8/25/01)
- Fixed number of hits bug in Search mode (off by one) (8/25/01)
- Added ftype support (8/28/01)
- Added ftype field to reports (8/28/01)
- Encoded dir arg in FIL_DEL
- Filter option holds for usage of next and rev in block mode
- If using fat, a separate option is given to run find_inode due to how
  slow it runs
- removed use of zoneinfo in favor of the new timezone value in fsmorgue.
- strings now uses '-a' flag to show all strings
- When doing a search, the length of the string is given as the '-n'
  flag to strings to speed up the search
- Allow user to "force" blocks when an inode size is 0 (the istat -b flag) 
- use the md5 that comes with TCT/TASK
- multiple images with the same mounting point can now exist
- Added the morgue directory to the MENU to make it easier to manage 
  multiple hosts
- Files are sorted by name by default 
- can import strings files and create them if needed
- Run files through 'file' to get data type
- case insensitive searches
- MAC headers correspond to file system type (create vs change)
- Deleted files are displayed in red
- Correct address name used (fragment, sector etc.)
- Support for NTFS attributes
- parse bad tags from HTML when viewing it (send sterile pict)
- cookie file has port number to aid in scripting
- cookie files are deleted upon closing
- log messages are printed for each request
- added integrity checker
- renamed aux directory to base to make Windows happy
- added time line support
- added fsstat support
- Added built-in search values in search.pl


May 29, 2001	1.01 released
- Fixed Hex link when in search mode (3/23/01)
- Corrected heading of ctime (Addam Schroll, Purdue University) (4/24/01)
- Parses output of new istat correctly (5/1/01)
- When viewing 'inode as a file', the image and inode are sent as the dir
  name (5/1/01)
- Added wait() to collect zombies in Linux (5/22/01)
- Added auto-flush to prevent repeat log entries (5/22/01)
- Added a 'save as' option to file and inode browsing (Addam Schroll)
  (5/22/01)
- Added option for unrm block numbers (due to blockcalc) (5/22/01)
- Improved side menu for inode, block, and search (5/22/01)
- Added "Content-Disposition" so that reports and "save as" have a 
  unique default filename. (5/23/01)
- Organization changes to Main Menu (5/24/01)
- Automated installation process (5/24/01)

March 19, 2001	1.0 released
- Added man page for autopsy (3/10/01)
- Directory entries in config files no longer require an / at the end
- Morgue file names can have a '.' in them (but still not '/') (3/10)
- autopsy first checks for /dev/urandom for random cookie (3/10/01)
- morgue directory is a command line option to autopsy (3/10/01)
- the lib variable in autopsy is no longer set to './' so that it
  can be run outside of /usr/local/autopsy (3/10/01)
- changed all references of device to image (3/11/01)
- changed all reports to print full image path (3/11/01)
- Investigator is a command line option to autopsy (3/11/01)
- CGI support removed.  Only autopsy is supported (3/16/01)
- renamed autopsyd to autopsy (3/16/01)
- Fixed UID and GID heading (3/16/01)
- Run image through strings before grep to prevent memory errors (3/16/01)
- output of find_file and find_inode is prepended with rdir (3/16/01)


Feb 27, 2001	0.2b released
- Added stand alone server, autopsyd (as suggested by Dan Farmer)
- Reorganized files due to new program
- Changed names of some executables that changed in TCTUTILs

Feb 19, 2001 	0.1b released

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