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GUI:

Expanded the Data Source Summary panel to show recent activity, past cases, analysis results, etc. Also made this available from the main UI when a data source is selected.

Expanded Discovery UI to support searching for and basic display of web domains. It collapses the various web artifacts into a single view.

Ingest Modules:

Added iOS Analyzer module based on iLEAPP and a subset of its artifacts.

New Picture Analyzer module that does EXIF extraction and HEIC conversion. HEIC/HEIF images are converted to JPEGs that retain EXIF using ImageMagick (replaces the previous EXIF ingest module).

Added support for the latest version of Edge browser that is based on Chromium into Recent Activity. Other Chromium-based browsers are also supported.

Updated the rules that search Web History artifacts for search queries. Expanded module to support multiple search engines for ambiguous URLs.

Bluetooth pairing artifacts are created based on RegRipper output.

Prefetch artifacts record the full path of exes.

PhotoRec module allows you to include or exclude specific file types.

Upgraded to Tika 1.23.

Performance:

Documents are added to Solr in batches instead of one by one.

More efficient queries to find WAL files for SQLite databases.

Use a local drive for temp files for multi-user cases instead of the shared folder.

Command Line

Command line support for report profiles.

Restored support for Windows file type association for opening a case in Autopsy by double clicking case metadata (.aut) file.

Better feedback for command line argument errors.

Misc:

Updated versions of libvmdk, libvhdi, and libewf.

Persona UI fixes: Pre-populate account and changed order of New Persona dialog.

Streaming ingest support added to auto ingest.

Recent Activity module processes now use the global timeout.

Option to include Autopsy executable in portable case (Windows only.)

Upgraded to NetBeans 11 Rich Client Platform.

Added debug feature to save the stack trace on all threads.

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Ingest:

- Added streaming ingest capability for disk images that allow files to be analyzed as soon as they are added to the database.

- Changed backend code so that disk image-based files are added by Java code instead of C/C++ code.

Ingest Modules:

- Include Interesting File set rules for cloud storage, encryption, cryptocurrency and privacy programs.

- Updated PhotoRec 7.1 and include 64-bit version.

- Updated RegRipper in Recent Activity to 2.8

- Create artifacts for Prefetch, Background Activity Monitor, and System Resource Usage.

- Support MBOX files greater than 2GB.

- Document metadata is saved as explicit artifacts and added to the timeline.

- New “no change” hashset type that does not change status of file.

Central Repository / Personas:

- Accounts in the Central Repository can be grouped together and associated with a digital persona.

- All accounts are now stored in the Central Repository to support correlation and persona creation.

Content viewers:

- Created artifact-specific viewers in the Results viewer for contact book and call log.

- Moved Message viewer to a Results sub-viewer and expanded to show accounts.

- Added Application sub-viewer for PDF files based on IcePDF.

- Annotation viewer now includes comments from hash set hits.

Geolocation Viewer:

- Different data types now are displayed using different colors.

- Track points in a track are now displayed as small, connected circles instead of full pins.

- Filter panel shows only data sources with geo location data.

- Geolocation artifact points can be tagged and commented upon.

File Discovery:

- Changed UI to have more of a search flow and content viewer is hidden until an item is selected.

Reports:

- Can be generated for a single data source instead of the entire case.

- CASE / UCO report module now includes artifacts in addition to files.

- Added backend concept of Tag Sets to support Project Vic categories from different countries.

Performance:

- Add throttling of UI refreshes to ensure data is quickly displayed and the tree does not get backed up with requests.

- Improved efficiency of adding a data source with many orphan files.

- Improved efficiency of loading file systems.

- Jython interpreter is preloaded at application startup.

Misc bug fixes and improvements:

- Fixed bug from last release where hex content viewer text was no longer fixed width.

- Altered locking to allow multiple data sources to be added at once more smoothly and to support batch inserts of file data.

- Central repository comments will no longer store tag descriptions.

- Account type nodes in the Accounts tree show counts.

- Full time stamps displayed for messages in ingest inbox.

- More detailed status during file exports.

- Improved efficiency of adding timeline events.

- Fixed bug with CVT most recent filter.

- Improved documentation and support for running on Linux/macOS.

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New UI Features:

- Added Document view to File Discovery.

- Expanded Context Content Viewer to show if an app accessed a file.

- Added translation feature to Message Content Viewer.

- Added waypoint type filter to the Geolocation viewer.

- Added zoom feature to Indexed Text Content Viewer.

New Ingest Modules Features:

- New GPX ingest module.

- New Drone ingest module for DJI drones based on DatCon.

- Create artifacts for files opened by Adobe Reader, Windows Media Player, Office Docs (Most Recently Used (MRU) and TrustRecords), 7Zip MRU, WinRAR MRU, Applets, Microsoft Management Console (MMC) via RegRipper.

New Central Repository Features:

- Central Repository stores account IDs that were previously seen.

- Central Repository is enabled by default to store past hashes. Feature to flag previously seen files is disabled by default.

Other New Features:

- Multi-user cases can be created via command line

Bug fixes:

- Prevent entire application from crashing when gstreamer crashes on videos.

- Improve Geolocation viewer with large data sets.

- Fix error with non-sector aligned reads on local disks.

- Times from Recycle Bin files are now in timeline.

- Validate timeline events and ignore events too far in the future.

- Moved some database queries off of UI thread.

- Remove hard coded sizes from UI that cause issues with other languages.

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Specialized UIs:

- New File Discovery UI that allows you to search and filter for certain types of files.

- New Map viewer that uses either Bing (when online) or offline map tiles.

- Communications UI shows country names for phone numbers and fixed bug in summary panel.

- Fixed bugs in timeline filtering.

- Refactored backend timeline filtering code based on The Sleuth Kit datamodel changes to remove JavaFX dependency.

Data Sources:

- Added limited support for APFS disk images. Does not include encrypted volumes or ones that span multiple disks. Uses contribution to The Sleuth Kit from Blackbag Technologies.

- New data source processor that parses “XRY File Exports”.

Content Viewers:

- Added a new “Context” viewer to show where a file came from. Currently shows what message a file was attached to or what URL a file was downloaded from.

- Added support to seek and change playback speed for videos in “Application” viewer.

- Improved support for Unicode HTML files in “Application” viewer.

- Added support for webp image files in “Application” viewer.

Ingest Modules:

- Keyword Search module uses Decodetect statistical encoding detection for plain text files. Fixes issues with incorrect detection of Japanese files.

- Embedded File Extractor module uses statistical analysis to determine encoding of file names in ZIP files. Fixes issues with ZIP files created on Windows Japanese computers.

- Solr (Keyword Search module) now uses Japanese-specific tokenization using Kuromoji.

- Fixed Shellbags module in RegRipper (used by Autopsy Recent Activity module) to fix parsing errors.

- Plaso module no longer generates an error if enabled for non-disk image data sources.

- Added support for message attachments that are stored as an external file system file. Expanded Email and Android modules to use this technique.

General:

- Fixed crashes by gstreamer when a video is selected.

- Added initial capability to delete a data source from a case (excludes data in the CR).

- Changed behavior of portable case menu item to automatically open the case and warn if it was already unpacked.

- Fixed bug that caused issues when case metadata had Unicode values.

- Added new Attachment APIs to the CommunicationsArtifactHelper class to support attachments stored as external file system files.

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General:

- Switch from Oracle JDK to OpenJDK.

- Full command line support (case creation, adding of data sources, running ingest, and generating reports).

Logical Imager:

- Output can be individual files instead of VHD image (uses less space).

- More fine grained progress during collection and importing.

- Log of files and make artifacts.

- All console messages are saved to a log file too.

- Improved handling of cancellation when adding results into a case.

Ingest Modules:

- Added Android support as Python modules for: Android installed apps, Android browser, Facebook Messenger, IMO, LINE, Opera, ORUX Maps, Samsung SBrowser, Skype, ShareIt, TextNow, Viber, WhatsApp, Xender, Zapya.

- Recycle Bin files are parsed in Recent Activity module, new artifacts are created, and deleted file entries are created at the original location of the deleted files. Code is based on Mark McKinnon’s RecycleBin module (https://github.com/markmckinnon/Autopsy-Plugins/tree/master/Recycle_Bin).

- ShellBag registry data is extracted from RegRipper in the Recent Activity module. New artifacts are recreated for the data. Based on Mark McKinnon’s “Parse ShellBags” module (https://github.com/markmckinnon/Autopsy-Plugins/tree/master/Parse_Shellbags).

- Additional data is extracted about users from SAM hive in Recent Activity module. Data includes password dates, permissions, groups, and full name. Based on Mark McKinnon’s “Parse SAM” module (https://github.com/markmckinnon/Autopsy-Plugins/tree/master/Parse_SAM).

- Email ingest module parses EML files. Based on Mark McKinnon’s “EML Parser” module (https://github.com/markmckinnon/Autopsy-Plugins/tree/master/EML_Parser).

- Fixed bug in MBOX module that caused attachments to have a “_” in the name.

- New Plaso ingest module that runs Plaso and generates events for the timeline.

- Fixed bug in Email module for VCard files to better parse phone number types.

- Keyword Search module waits longer for Solr to start to prevent incorrectly reporting a problem and disabling the feature.

- Embedded file extractor module was updated to not report compression bombs for GZIP files.

Timeline:

- New approach for storing event data. A dedicated events table exists and is populated as files and artifacts are added to the database. No longer requires an explicit step of populating a local events table.

- Users can create their own events from the Timeline UI.

- Filtering was simplified based or existence of tag or hash set hit versus a specific name.

Communications:

- Fixed bug that hid contact book entries with duplicate numbers.

Image Gallery:

- Fixed bug in schema that caused errors with very long file names.

Report:

- CASE report is included in a portable case.

- Image tags are included in portable case.

- More size options for a packaged portable case.

- New Infrastructure to support command line-based generation.

Backend:

- Developers should use new new Blackboard.postArtifact() method to ensure artifact is indexed and added to the timeline.

- New classes were created to make it easier to write modules for apps.

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Collection

- Added ability to configure a USB drive to use new logical imager tool.

- Added logical imager tool that runs on a live Windows computer and saves results to a USB drive.

- Added ability to import logical imager results into Autopsy as a data source.

Ingest Modules:

- Changed file type detection so that Tika does not rely only on extension.

- Email ingest module assigns thread IDs to messages.

- Android ingest modules store thread ID from their databases.

Content Viewers (lower right of UI):

- New “Text” viewer that consolidates previous Strings and “Indexed Text” viewers.

- New “Translation” panel was added to the new “Text” viewer.

- Added integration with Google and Bing translation (credentials required).

- Redesigned “Other Occurrences” viewer to have 4th column with details of selected item.

- Added Willi Ballentin’s “Registry Hive Viewer” panel to the “Application” viewer.

- Improved HTML viewer to use style sheets and better layout.

- Added ability to draw a box on a picture while tagging it.

Result Table (upper right of UI)

- Added paging to all views for faster loading of large data sets.

- Improved speed of displaying results when a column was sorted.

Reporting

- Portable cases can contain files marked as Interesting Items

- Portable cases can be compressed and chunked

- “Files - Text” report can use either tabs or commas as the delimiter

- “Files - Text” report better handles Unicode text.

- Added ability to create a CSV report for the contents of a table

- HTML report for tagged pictures includes a copy with the overlay box

Communications:

- Added Account Summary view

- Added Contacts panel to show all contacts associated with an account.

- Added Media panel to show media attachments associated with an account

- Added filter to show accounts if they involved with the most recent messages.

- Messages can be grouped by thread.

Auto Ingest

- New Test button was added to help diagnose permission and configuration issues.

Documentation:

- Created new Triage Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) section to the User Docs

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New Features:

Adding Data:

- Hashes can optionally be entered when adding a disk image data source to a case.

- Acquisition details can be stored when the data source is added.

Ingest Modules:

- Added support for Microsoft Edge browser (cookies, history, and bookmarks)

- Added support for Safari web browser (downloads, cookies, history, and bookmarks)

- Expanded Chrome browser support to include cache parsing and form/auto fill.

- Expanded Firefox browser support to extract form/auto fill fields.

- Parse Zone.Identifier files to identify the source of files.

- Added a TSK_SOURCE artifact to downloaded files to help users trace back to where it came from.

- Added support for parsing vCards (virtual cards).

- Extract more information about Windows user accounts (number of logins, creation date, and last login)

- Detect more operating system types, which get saved as a TSK_OS_INFO artifact.

- Detect Android media cards, which gets saved as a TSK_DATA_SOURCE_USAGE artifact.

UI:

- The Application content viewer now displays HTML files.

- Video playback now uses gstreamer on 64-bit systems, which supports more video formats.

- Pictures can be rotated and zoomed in the Application content viewer.

- The Other Occurrences content viewer layout was reorganized to make viewing the data easier.

- New "Data Source Summary" panel shows high-level statistics and details about the data sources in the case.

- Data sources are now listed in the data sources tree in alphabetical order.

- The presentation of finding common properties within a case was revised to group results in a more helpful way.

Report / Export:

- Portable Cases can be created based on tagged data. These cases contain a subset of the case data and can be opened anywhere.

- Users can now choose tabs or commas as the delimiter for a files report.

- Case notes are included in the HTML report.

Other:

- Added a new file type that allows module writers to specify a file based on its byte range.

- Data sources can be analyzed and have a CASE/UCO report generated using only the command line.

Bug Fixes:

- Decreased the time required to execute inter-case common properties searches of the Central Repository.

- Assorted small bug fixes are included.

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New Features:

- Users can now view information on all cases/data sources in the Central

Repository.

- SSID, MAC address, IMEI, IMSI, and ICCID properties can now be added to the

Central Repository by the Correlation Engine ingest module.

- The Correlation Engine ingest module can be configured to flag any occurrences

of SSID, MAC address, IMEI, IMSI, and ICCID properties that have been previously

added to the Central Repository.

- File type filtering for common properties search is now supported.

- Common properties search results can now be viewed by case and data source

within the case.

- Users can now search the Central Repository for property instances with a

given value.

- OCR text extraction for keyword search now supports languages other than

English, if language packs are installed.

- Added the ability for examiners to select the time zone for displaying dates.

- Custom headers and footers can now be added to HTML reports.

- Added ability to either enter or generate hashes of image data sources.

- Data sources that fail hash verification are now flagged with interesting

item artifacts by the Data Source Integrity ingest module (formerly known as the

E01 Verifier ingest module).

- Added a report module to export data in CASE/UCO format.

- Ingest filters and interesting file sets can now be defined with multiple

extensions included in a single condition/rule.

Bug Fixes:

- The Images/Videos Gallery now works for multi-user cases.

- Duplicate interesting item and EXIF metadata artifacts are no longer created

when you run the modules that generate them more than once.

- The Application content viewer now displays SQLite table column names even

when the table is empty.

- Assorted small bug fixes are included.

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Bug Fixes:

- Fixed possible ingest deadlock from Image Gallery database inserts.

- Image Gallery does not need lock on Case DB during pre-population, which makes UI more responsive.

- Other misc Image Gallery fixes.

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New Features:

- Removed data from table that are time intensive and can be found in content viewers (such as hash set hits)

- Added ability to find common items (files, emails, etc.) between current case and past cases using the Central Repository.

- Added ability to ignore common items that exist in a large number of cases by using Central Repository data.

- Data is validated and normalized before being entered into the Central Repository.

- Allow users to specify that an ad-hoc keyword search should not be saved to database

- New “Annotations” content viewer that shows all tags and comments associated with an item

- Added 2 icons to the table to show the item’s score (if it is notable or suspicious) and if it has a comment.

- Added column to the table to show previous number of occurrences.

- Tags are now associated with the user (in a multi-user environment) and you can hide other people’s tags

- New Display options area that unifies various new settings.

- Hash sets can be copied into the user’s config folder (AppData), which makes it easier to run Autopsy from a Live Triage USB and not care about what drive letter it gets.

- Image Gallery stores its groups and seen status in Case DB instead of its own.

- Image Gallery works better in multi-user setups and reloads the database when other nodes add data sources.

- Image Gallery saves which user saw a group and gives user option of seeing only their unseen groups or all unseen groups.

- Saves last export location and pre-populates that in the file picker

- Provide feedback about why some right click options are disabled (ingest is running, not file content, etc.)

Bug Fixes:

- Substring keyword search is more accurate (now uses regular expression)

- New text extractor for SQLite that better deals with full text search tables

- Better deal with Unicode text files that do not have Byte Order Marker

- Embedded file extractor module is now faster because it uses a different 7ZIP API.

- Fixed various HTML report bugs

- Duplicate hash set hits are not created when you run the Hash Ingest Module twice.

- Auto ingest (in Experimental) scan times of input folders is faster.

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New Features:

- Data Source Grouping:

-- The case tree view can now be grouped by data source.

-- Keyword and file search can now be restricted to a data source.

- Central Repository / Correlation:

-- New common files search feature that finds files that exist in multiple devices in the same case.

-- The Other Occurrences content viewer now shows matches in the current case (in addition to central repository).

-- Central repository options panel now shows cases that are in repo.

- A comment about a file can be created and saved in the central repository so that future cases and see it.

- Keyword Search:

-- Can enable OCR text extraction of PDF and JPG files using Tesseract.

-- Keyword search module normalizes Unicode text.

-- Keyword search module uses ICU to convert text files that do not have a BOM.

- Tagging:

-- Tagging menu changed to have user defined tags at top and "quick tag" removed one level of menus.

-- New "Replace Tag" feature to change the tag on an item.

- Other:

-- SQLite tables can be now be exported to CSV files.

-- An interesting file artifact is now created when a "zip bomb" is detected.

-- An object detection ingest module was added to the Experimental module. It requires an OpenCV trained model.

Bug Fixes:

- Expanding the case tree is more efficient.

- Improved "zip bomb" detection.

- Assorted small bug fixes are included.

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New Features:

- A graph visualization was added to the Communications tool to make it easier to find messages and relationships.

- A new "Application" content viewer (lower right) that will contain file-type specific viewers (to reduce number of tabs).

- New viewer for SQLite databases (in Application content viewer)

- New viewer for binary PLists (in Application content viewer)

- L01 files can be imported as data sources.

- Ingest filters can now use date range conditions for triage.

- Passwords to open password protected archive files can be entered (by right clicking on the file).

- Reports (e.g., RegRipper output) generated by ingest modules are now indexed for keyword search.

- PhotoRec carving module can be configured to keep corrupted files.

- Sector size can be specified for local drives and images when E01 is wrong or it is a raw image.

- New data source processor in Experimental module that runs Volatility, adds the outputs as files, and parses the reports to provide INTERESTING_FILE artifacts.

- Assorted small enhancements are included.

Bug Fixes:

- Memory leaks and other issues revealed by fuzzing the The Sleuth Kit have

been fixed.

- Result views (upper right) and content views (lower right) stay in synch when switching result views.

- Concurrency bugs in the ingest tasks scheduler have been fixed.

- Assorted small bug fixes are included.

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New Features:

- A new Message content viewer was added to make it easier to view email message contents.

- A new Communications interface was added to make it easier to find messages and relationships.

- Hash sets can be centrally stored and shared in the Central Repository.

- New Encryption Detection module that will flag possibly encrypted files.

- Can more easily run Autopsy from a USB drive and leave few traces on target system.

- Tag definitions now have a "notable" property. The Central Repository uses this to mark files as notable.

- Large slack files are now file typed.

- The maximum number of Solr connections and ingest threads have increased.

- Periodic keyword search will dynamically change based on how long queries are taking.

- Users can change the amount of memory allocated to the application.

- The amount of memory required for processing keyword hits has been reduced.

- Layout of HTML reports has been modified make it easier to open.

- "Databases" was added to File Type by Extension view.

- Users can now enter more information about cases including examiner, organization, etc.

- New dialog to open multi-user cases that allows for searching.

- Auto ingest metrics are collected and displayed in dashboard.

- Auto ingest module that extracts disk images from archive files.

- Keyword search has been made more responsive to both search and ingest job cancellation.

- Number of log files to keep before rollover is now configurable.

- Preliminary changes to make Linux and OS X builds easier.

Bug Fixes:

- Memory leaks and other issues revealed by fuzzing the SleuthKit have

been fixed.

- Memory issues caused by Tika are fixed (by upgrading to 1.17)

- Assorted small enhancements and bug fixes are included.

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- Memory usage has been reduced to improve support for very large cases.

- The central repository and correlation engine introduced in version 4.4.1 have

been moved to Core Autopsy, so they are available without doing a plugin

installation. This optional feature includes a database (SQLite or PostgreSQL)

and logic for correlating artifacts across cases. Results are displayed using an

Interesting Artifacts branch of the Interesting Items tree and an

Other Occurrences content viewer.

- Message results with attachments can now be seen be seen by browsing to the

source file in the Data Sources tree, which will display the messages in the

results view to the right. Any messages with attachments will be shown under

the source file in the tree, and the attachments can be seen in the result view

by selecting the message.

- Volume nodes in the tree view and results view now have a context menu item

that displays a file system properties dialog.

- Nodes in the tree view now have the same context menu items as nodes in the

results view.

- Virtual directory nodes in the tree view are distinguished in the Data Sources

tree by the addition of a "V" to their icon.

- Credit card number search has added logic to reduce false positives.

- A new version of the automated ingest dashboard has been added to allow

insight into pending, running and completed automated ingest jobs in automated

ingest Examiner mode.

- All occurrences of "Known Bad" in the user interface have been changed to

"Notable."

- Assorted small enhancements and bug fixes are included.

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- A new central repository feature has been added to the optional

CentralRepository plug-in (NetBeans module); this optional feature includes a

database (SQLite or PostgreSQL) and logic for correlating artifacts across

cases; results are displayed using an Interesting Artifacts branch of the

Interesting Items tree and an Other Data Sources content viewer.

- Case deletion is now done using a Case menu item and both single-user and

general (not auto ingest) multi-user cases can be deleted.

- Results viewer (top right area of desktop application) sorts are persistent

and can be applied to either the table viewer or the thumbnail viewer.

- Content viewers (bottom right area of desktop application) now resize

correctly.

- The View Source File in Directory context menu item now works correctly.

- Tagged image files in the HTML report are now displayed full-size.

- Some general UI responsiveness issues have been addressed.

- Some potential deadlocks during ingest have been eliminated.

- Assorted small enhancements and bug fixes are included.

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Improvements:

- Keyword search supports regular expressions that include spaces.

- Improvements to keyword search highlighting and standard regular expressions.

- User can edit keyword lists.

- Simultaneous acquisition of a sparse VHD from a USB device during analysis.

- Support for ingest profiles that combine file ingest filters with ingest

module settings.

- Artifact attributes can be marked to indicate discovery by multiple tools.

- Import/export of interesting files set membership rules.

- High DPI display support added.

- Support for application service plug-in modules (Java only).

- Progress dialogs for case create/open/close/delete operations that support

cancellation of create/open operations and cancellation of the opening of case

resources by individual application services.

- Coordination service now used for all multi-user cases, not just auto

ingest cases; e.g., any open multi-user case cannot be deleted by another user.

- Updated Recent Activity ingest module to use RegRipper 2.8 plugins.

- Updated version of Tika used for extracting text.

- Updated version of POI used for extracting embedded MS Office documents.

- Ability to customize HTML report logo.

- Assorted small enhancements and bug fixes.

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Improvements:

- Support for slack space on files (as separate virtual files) to enable keyword searching and other analysis.

- Simple mode for the file extension mismatch module that focuses on only only multimedia and executable files to reduce false positives.

- New view in tree that shows the MIME types.

- Tagged items are highlighted in table views.

- Ordering of columns is saved when user changes them.

- Support for Android devices with preloaders (uses backup GPT)

- Support for images with no file systems (all data is added as unallocated space)

- User can bulk add list of keywords to a keyword list.

- New "Experimental" module (activate via Tools, Plugins) with auto ingest feature.

- Assorted bug fixes and minor enhancements.

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Improvements:

- Credit card account search.

- Encoding/decoding of extracted files to avoid anti-virus alerts/quarantine.

- Ingest history (start time, end time, status, which versions of which ingest

modules were run).

- Ingest history used to warn before doing redundant analysis.

- Options panel for managing custom tag names.

- Options panel for setting external viewer associations.

- Keyboard shortcut for applying Bookmark tags.

- Improved PhotoRec carver ingest module cancellation responsiveness.

- Results content viewer formats dates instead of showing raw seconds since

epoch.

- Update to PostgreSQL 9.5.

- Assorted bug fixes and minor enhancements.

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Bug Fixes:

- Restored ability of Python modules to import standard Python libraries.

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Improvements:

- New list view in Timeline tool

- VMWare virtual machine files (vmdk) and Microsoft Virtual Hard Drives (vhd) can be added as data sources.

- New core ingest module detects vmdk and vhd files embedded in other data sources and adds them as data sources.

- Text associated with artifacts posted to the blackboard is indexed and searched for keywords.

- Custom (user-defined) blackboard artifact and attribute types are displayed in the UI and included in reports.

- Additional Autopsy-defined custom file type definitions for assorted media file types have been added.

- The File Metadata content viewer displays MIME type.

- File size and MIME type conditions can be specified for interesting files set membership rules.

- File size and MIME type conditions can be specified for file searches by attributes.

- Local/GMT time preference is used in reports.

- User has option to choose display name for logical/local file set data sources.

- Virtual directories can be tagged.

- Improved KML reports that include all geospatial artifacts posted to the blackboard.

- Assorted bug fixes and minor enhancements.

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Improvements:

- Collaboration supported by optional multi-user cases with centralized data and services

- New image gallery feature

- Directory tree does not collapse if expanded and data sources or files are added

- Assorted bug fixes and minor enhancements

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Improvements:

- New Embedded File Extractor module that incorporates ZIP file module and extracts images from Office documents

- Views area counts updates when ZIP files and such are found

- Updates to python scripting for new version of Python, scripts are reloaded each time ingest is run, and errors are better shown.

- Updated right click actions to be consistent across all file types

- Changed logic of Interesting Files module to look for substrings of parent path.

- Lots of minor fixes and enhancements

---------------- VERSION 3.1.2 --------------

Improvements:

- New PhotoRec carving ingest module

- Regripper output is available as a report instead of TOOL_OUTPUT artifact

- Updated version of RegRipper

- New STIX/Cybox report module (manually run after image has been analyzed)

- File type module supports user defined file types and can alert when they are found

- More artifacts are extracted from registry

- Metadata tab in lower right now also shows istat (TSK) output for more metadata details

- User docs were moved online (http://sleuthkit.org/autopsy/docs/user-docs/3.1/)

---------------- VERSION 3.1.1 --------------

Improvements:

- New time line feature

- New Interesting Files module

- Added support for Python modules

- Updated HTML report

- Media Content viewer uses blackboard artifacts and detects PNG by sig.

- New logo

Bug Fixes:

- Adding local disk errors

- ZIP files inside of RAR files are properly extracted

---------------- VERSION 3.1.0 --------------

Numerous changes have gone into this long-awaited major release.

Improvements:

- Multi-threaded pipelines

- File type ingest module

- File extension mismatch ingest module

- Android ingest module

- KML report module

- Tags can be deleted

- Hash databases can be created and maintained

---------------- VERSION 3.0.10 --------------

Bug Fixes:

- Fixed 64-bit CRT dlls. No other logic changes.

---------------- VERSION 3.0.9 --------------

Bug Fixes:

- Regular expression keyword search works on file names.

- Fixed thunderbird parser for subject and dates

- Fixed errors in hex viewer

Improvements:

- Enhanced reporting on keyword search module errors

- Updated SQLite to 3.8.0

- More lazy loading to help performance with big folders and sets of files

- Times can be displayed in local time or GMT

- New "EnCase-style" report that lists files and metadata in tab delimited file

- Changed report wizard to make one report at a time

- report improvements (only regenerate if data exists)

- more error messages if recent activity module fails

- more error checking in recent activity module and don't bail as quickly

- Cleanup of recent activity module

- better handle if ingest module throws exception during init()

- do not run ingest if any module failed to init()

- Added FILE_DONE event to ingest manager

- Added search engine parsers for linkedin, twitter, and facebook

- HTML text is better formatted

- Report generation performance

- HTML parser is skipped for files > 50MB.

- Removed xdock definitions -> some claim this helps with memory problems

---------------- VERSION 3.0.8 --------------

Bug Fixes:

- Fixed installer bug on Windows. No other code changes.

---------------- VERSION 3.0.7 --------------

New features:

- 64-bit support (JavaFX for video)

- Multi-select

- different sized thumbnails

- Custom tags persist across runs of the app

- RegRipper is run on each hive and raw output is available.

- Metadata content viewer

- Basic sanity check when adding images to see if parts could be missing.

Improvements:

- EXIF module uses only signatures

- File size View does not show unalloc files

- Tagged files in report show more data

- Updated test scripts

- Better OS X look and feel

Bugfixes:

- Several -> Didn't keep good track in this file.

- Error messages from adding disk to database are better displayed.

- RecentActivity better reports errors parsing data

---------------- VERSION 3.0.6 --------------

New features:

- Logical files and folders support

- New file views in directory tree to view: deleted, executable, archive files and files by size

- ext4 and yaffs2 support (via TSK 4.1.0)

Improvements:

- Improvements to tagging of files and keyword search results

- Any file and folder can be selectively ingested using the directory tree view

Bugfixes:

- Keyword Search: fix when Solr does not cleanly shutdown

- fix for "Process Unallocated Space" option doesn't do anything

- fixed result viewer for "File Search by MD5 Hash"

- fix Solr, Timeline and RecentActivity issues with java 7.0.21

- Views->Recent Files showing inconsistent results when clicked many times

- reduced memory usage in Timeline

---------------- VERSION 3.0.5 --------------

New features:

- Archive extractor ingest module (uses 7zip)

- Timeline (Beta)

Improvements:

- Sleuthkit-4.0.2 and libewf-20130128

- improved image loading in Media View and Thumbnail View (faster loading, handles large files better)

- improve Keyword Search file indexing (use detected mime-type instead of file extension)

- exif module - better jpeg detection using signature and not only file extension.

- show children counts in directory tree

- Ingest Message Inbox showing which messages are new better

Bugfixes:

- fixed memory leaks in "Add Image"

- The "media view" tab is inactive for deleted files (#165)

- show error message in hex and string viewer if specific offset of a file could not be read.

- file search actions not always enabled when new case is open.

- fixed directory tree history being reset when tree is refreshed.

---------------- VERSION 3.0.4 --------------

New features:

- Results and files can be tagged with custom tags and reported on them.

- New notification area for error reporting (bottom right).

Improvements:

- Tweaked memory settings to eliminate out-of-memory errors.

- Faster application launch time.

- Netbeans RCP upgrade from 7.2.1 to 7.3

- Upgrade from Java 6 to Java 7

Bugfixes:

- fixed DLL dependency version issue causing Autopsy not to launch on some systems

- fixed bug when keyword search ingest would search also images previously ingested, creating duplicate results

- fixed crash and hang in html and excel report generation, due to special characters present

- fixed cancellation when creating file or result bookmark

- fixed text not being extracted and searched from all MS Office documents (such as docx, xlsx and pptx extensions)

- fixed Exif meta-data extraction in Exif ingest module

---------------- VERSION 3.0.3 --------------

*Note: Due to major changes in Keyword search module indexing this release is not fully backward compatible.

As a workaround, you will need to rebuild index by re-running Keyword Search ingest on Cases created with previous versions.

Improvements:

- Upgrade to Solr4.0 / Tika 1.2: Improved performance and highlighting

- Remake of reporting UI and functionality

- Significant increase in reporting speed

- New option to keep the most specific file viewer (default) or the lastly used viewer active.

Bugfixes:

- Fixed bug that caused the ends of large amounts of text to not be indexed (occurs mostly in unallocated space).

- Fix scrolling to first keyword hit when Text View is first loaded

- Imported keyword lists are now always enabled for ingest by default

---------------- VERSION 3.0.2 --------------

New features:

- Extraction of all unallocated blocks as a single file

- Results bookmarks with comments and basic bookmark reporting

- Hashkeeper hash database support

Improvements:

- File Ingest: minimized file queuing time and memory usage, also improving ingest stability

- Jump to arbitrary page in Thumbnail View

- Add Image Wizard - better work-flow, better device size reporting, info on currently processed directory

- Reporting: reorganized columns, sorted by 1st column, added logo, better styling

Bugfixes:

- fixed periodic keyword search during ingest, when it would only search max. 2 times

- fixed Downloads "target" in Recent Activity

- fixed missing hash and keyword search hits in reports

- fixed deselecting NSRL database for hash ingest

---------------- VERSION 3.0.1 --------------

New features:

- Physical and logical disk devices discovery in Add image wizard

Improvements:

- Significant performance improvements when adding images.

- Slight improvements in UI performance for large number of results.

- Improved stability when running ingest on multiple images.

- Removed limit on number of results displayed.

- Thumbnail viewer - added paging and removed limit of images.

- Better HTML report navigation, handling large reports better.

- Netbeans RCP upgrade from 7.2 to 7.2.1

- Build scripts enhancements to include module version tracking.

Bugfixes:

- Fixed reading content from multiple file attributes (NTFS, HFS).

- Add Extract action to Unalloc content file nodes (per file).

- Fixes bugs with case re-opening.

- UI fix for keyword search box when case is changed.

- Enable user to select any image file extension when opening image.

- Thunderbird parser module fixes.

- Reporting fixes: added missing artifacts (keyword search, hash hits, file bookmarks).

---------------- VERSION 3.0.0 --------------

New features:

- Using Sleuthkit 4.0.0

- Integrated plugin installer.

- New options menu to globally access module options.

- Added custom ingest module loader and ingest module auto-discovery

Improvements:

- Updated ingest framework APIs.

- Merged the main modules into Autopsy-Core and Autopsy-CoreLibs.

- Improved logging infrastructure.

- Improved configuration infrastructure.

- Keyword search: upgraded Lucene from 34 to 36.

- Build system improvements.

- Updated documentation.

Bugfixes:

- UI selection fix in Content and Result viewer

- UI fixes in Hash Database and Keyword Search options.

- Excel report export produced corrupt files sometimes.

- Fix for Keyword Search sometimes not property initializing when application starts.

3.0.0b5 (September 12, 2012)

New features:

- Added international string extraction from unknown file types.

- Removed size limitations of large files for keyword searching.

- Added full html parsing and extraction (including comments, scripts, meta tags, etc).

- Added support for indexing and searching disk images that have no volume and file system.

- Solr (3.6.1) and Tika (1.0) upgrade.

- Search a file by hash GUI feature and search other files with same hash.

- Web search query text extraction from popular search engines.

- Exif metadata extraction from jpeg files.

- Netbeans RCP platform upgrade (7.2).

- Basic file bookmarks support.

- Body file report.

- Improved UI.

- Updated Ingest Module API.

Bugfixes:

- Keyword search memory usage improvements.

- Directory tree now shows which directories have no children before user clicks.

- Fixed bug when recent cases would not get updated.

- Fixed a bug when sometimes a case would get deleted.

- Fixed occasional Media View crashes.

3.0.0b4 (June 29, 2012)

Funded by US Army Intelligence Center of Excellence (USAICoE):

New Features:

- MBOX parsing

- Better lnk file parsing

Bug Fixes:

- Included needed jar file for Recent Activity (Issue #52).

- Fixed error handling from ingest (Issue #53).

3.0.0b3 (June 12, 2012)

New Features (Funded by US Army Intelligence Center of Excellence (USAICoE)):

- Ingest manager runs triage/ingest task after disk is added.

- Basic keyword search (indexed via SOLR)

- Recent activity extract (web artifacts, recent documents, devices, etc.)

- Improved UI

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.