Major Release

We are pleased to announce the release of IPED-4.0.0-beta. Several structural and breaking changes were done, please see the Migration Guide. Many outstanding new features were added as well, check the ReleaseNotes.txt for the full changes. Between more than 100 improvements, we highlight some:

#361: Face recognition functionality (Luis Nassif & Rui Santana)
#118: Centralized hash database, refactor importing and look up for different hashsets: NSRL, ProjectVic, LED, PhotoDNA, CSV (Wladimir Leite)
#1136: Support Interpol ICSE CSAM hash database (Wladimir Leite)
#248: Local audio transcription [Experimental] (Luis Nassif & Wladimir Leite)
#451: Unified Timeline Table View and Event Filtering (Luis Nassif)
#102: Processing of supported forensic/virtual disk images recursively (Luís Nassif)
#515: Run OCR on HEIC, PSD, WEBP, WMF, EMF, SVG, JBIG2 and other non standard image types (Wladimir Leite & Luis Nassif)
#238: Support for OpenStreetMaps/Bing maps using Leaflet library (Patrick Bernardina & Luis Nassif)
#18: Refactor internationalization (Luis Nassif)
#675: German translation (Dennis Schreiber & Luís Nassif)
#1091: Italian translation (Flavio Tessitore)
#1065: Recover deleted WhatsApp Chats, Messages and Contacts (Fábio Pfeifer, Luís Nassif, João Hauck)
#1105: Support for WhatsApp version up to 2.22.9 (João Hauck, Luís Nassif)
#486: Link WhatsApp attachments in Apple Warrant Returns Cellebrite Reports (Fábio Pfeifer)
#150: Merge Whatsapp Android backups (João Hauck & Luís Nassif)
#802: Add support to download and decode WhatsApp attachments (João Hauck, Luís Nassif)
#538: Refactor module configuration (Luís Nassif)
#120: Makes Configuration Profiles Hierarchical/Differential (Luis Nassif)
#1067: Embed a portable python distribution (Luís Nassif)
#483: Support parser implementations in python (Luis Nassif)
#357: Optimize NSFWNudityDetectTask.py, run on videos and makes it easier to enable (Luis Nassif)
#1081: Extract video frames as subitems to run OCR, image similarity, face detection, photoDNA, etc on them (Aristeu Junior, Luís Nassif, Wladimir Leite)
#530: Increase ALTCOINS (criptocoins) Regexes and Validators (Fábio Pfeifer)
#65: Store all email headers as metadata (Thales Rodrigues e Luis Nassif)
#340: Object Storage Module using MinIO (Luis Nassif & João Hauck)
#232: Upgrade to Sleuthkit-4.11.1: support for APFS unallocated areas (Luís Nassif)
#825: Upgrade LIBVMDK to support splitted and differential images (Luís Nassif)
#598: Upgrade LIBVHDI to support vhdx evidences (Luís Nassif)
#180: Public API changes including translations to english (Luís Nassif)
#827: Upgrade to java 11 LTS (Luis Nassif)

We give a big thank to all 4.0.0 version contributors:

André Berenguel @aberenguel
Aristeu Júnior @arisjr
Dennis Schreiber @mobab-th
Fábio Pfeifer @fmpfeifer
Flavio Tessitore @flates
Guilherme Andreúce @streeg
João Hauck @hauck-jvsh
Leandro Oliveira @leosol
Luís Filipe Nassif @lfcnassif
Matheus Bichara @mbichara
Patrick Bernardina @patrickdalla
Rodrigo Carvalho @rodac5
Rui Santana @ruisantana
Thales Rodrigues @thalespr
Wladimir Leite @tc-wleite

Full Changelog: 3.18.2...4.0.0-beta