v1.2.0 - hkmori

Magic Extractor 1.2.0 — Massive format expansion

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This release roughly triples the number of recognized formats: 80+ formats
are now auto-detected and extracted, including forensic disk images, optical
disc images, mail/message stores and modern compression codecs. It also splits
plugin-dependent 7-Zip formats into their own handler and ships a handful of
detection and reliability fixes.

New: forensic disk images

Detected by magic and extracted via the bundled forensic7z plugin:

• EnCase / EWF — .E01, .S01, .Ex01, .L01, .Lx01
• AccessData FTK Imager — .AD1
• Advanced Forensics Format — .AFF
• WinHex evidence — .whx

New: optical disc images

Via the bundled Iso7z plugin:

• Compact / Compressed ISO (.ciso, .cso), MAME CHD, ECM, UltraISO
  ISZ, Alcohol 120% MDS, CloneCD CCD, zisofs.

New: mail & message stores

Via the bundled eDecoder plugin:

• Outlook TNEF (winmail.dat), Outlook Express DBX, WARC web archives,
  BinHex (.hqx), yEnc, The Bat! TBB, MacBinary III.

New: modern compression & app packages

• LZ4 / LZ5 / Lizard frames and Firefox jsonlz4 / mozlz4 (Modern7z).
• Electron .asar (Asar plugin) and Chromium resource pak (Grit7z).
• PyInstaller executables now extract via the Py7z plugin.
• More native 7-Zip filesystems now detected by magic: NTFS, GPT, UEFI
  firmware volumes (ExFAT is detected too, via the ExFat7z plugin).

Under the hood

• New Format7zExtHandler — plugin-dependent 7-Zip formats are separated
  from the native ones. Same extraction (it shells to 7-Zip), but clearly marks
  which formats need a plugin. Plugins ship in 7z/Formats/ and 7z/Codecs/.
• All magic signatures were cross-checked against the TrID database and the
  Detect-It-Easy signature set (this caught and fixed a wrong EnCase Lx01 magic).
• Detection routing data (handlers.json / signatures.json) is generated from
  each handler's declarations — see the new docs/adding-a-handler.md guide
  for how to add a format end to end.
• Extraction success/failure is now decided in one place — the tool's exit code
  (BaseExtractor.run_extraction) — removing per-handler boilerplate and a class
  of false failures.

Fixes

• Inno Setup installers now extract correctly — a cleanup bug reported every
  successful extraction as a failure.
• ZPAQ archives now extract — the output/password arguments were malformed,
  so extraction always failed.
• Self-extracting ARC / KGB / UHARC .exe archives now route to their own
  extractor instead of being claimed by the Inno Setup unpacker.
• Extractors that succeed without printing anything are no longer reported as
  failed; when a tool does fail, its real error is logged.
• Boolean extract options (--open-output-folder, --check-free-space,
  --check-unicode, --fix-file-extensions, --create-log-files) now honor
  true/false. Previously any value counted as true, so a default saved
  with --update-defaults could not be turned back off.
• A missing detector binary no longer crashes the whole run.
• Directory (batch) extraction now exits non-zero if any file failed.
• The output directory is now created automatically if it doesn't exist
  (previously extract <file> <newdir> errored).
• Corrected the EnCase .Lx01 magic (LEF2, not LVF2).
• Normalized the bundled tc4shell plugin ReadMe URLs (http→https; fixed a 404).

Notes

Plugin-dependent formats (marked † in formats.md) are identified even without
their plugin, but only extract when the matching plugin is present in the bundled
7-Zip's Formats/ / Codecs/ folder (they ship with the release). See
formats.md for the full list and THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md for the
bundled tools.

Full Changelog: 1.1.0...1.2.0