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Version history for TestDisk & PhotoRec (64bit)

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Changes for v7.0 Beta - v7.0

  • 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



Changes for v6.13 - v6.14

  • Improvements
  • testdisk /list 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 (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



Changes for v6.13 Beta - v6.13

  • General Improvements
  • Fix UAC manifests for Windows, so users don't need to use right-click "Run As Administrator"
  • TestDisk & PhotoRec are now compatible with both libewf and libewf2, the new version of a library to support the Expert Witness Compression Format (EWF).
  • 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
  • New file formats:
  • .caf Core Audio Format
  • .dardar3 archive
  • .ddf Didson Data File (v3 and v4)
  • .gcs GCstart (personal collections manager)
  • .gam Games Factory
  • .hdf Hierarchical Data Format 4
  • .hdr ENVI
  • .max 3ds
  • .oci OpenCanvas Image .oci
  • .par2 archive
  • .psmodel Delcam PowerSHAPE
  • .save Assassin's Creed II backup
  • .sh3d Sweet Home 3D
  • .TiVo video record
  • .vmg Nokia Text Message
  • .wpb OpenCanvas files



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