Thank you for maintaining this package. Could you package the latest
upstream release?
The following releases have occured since this bug was originally filed:
---------------- 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).