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