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---------------- VERSION 4.6.0 -------------- ---------------- VERSION 4.6.0 --------------
- A new Message content viewer has been added to the content viewers section of New Features:
the main application window to provide an examiner with tabs for looking at: - A new Message content viewer was added to make it easier to view email message contents.
message headers; content as raw text, HTML, or RTF; and attachments. - A new Communications interface was added to make it easier to find messages and relationships.
- A new Communications tool has been added to the Tools menu to supply an - Hash sets can be centrally stored and shared in the Central Repository.
examiner with a separate three part view consisting of: a filtered, tabular - New Encryption Detection module that will flag possibly encrypted files.
display of the various accounts (email, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) discovered by - Can more easily run Autopsy from a USB drive and leave few traces on target system.
the ingest modules, a tabular view of the messages exchanged between the - Tag definitions now have a "notable" property. The Central Repository uses this to mark files as notable.
accounts, and a Message content viewer for the individual messages. - Large slack files are now file typed.
- Hash sets may now be stored either locally or in the Central Repository. - The maximum number of Solr connections and ingest threads have increased.
- An ingest module that uses file entropy to flag possibly encrypted files has - Periodic keyword search will dynamically change based on how long queries are taking.
been added as a core file-level ingest module. - Users can change the amount of memory allocated to the application.
- The file names and organization of HTML reports have been changed to make it - The amount of memory required for processing keyword hits has been reduced.
easier to find and open these reports outside of the application. - Layout of HTML reports has been modified make it easier to open.
- The version of Tika used by the application has been upgraded to version 1.17 - "Databases" was added to File Type by Extension view.
and the amount of memory consumed by Tika has been reduced significantly by - Users can now enter more information about cases including examiner, organization, etc.
configuring it to use the new SAX parsers exclusively. - New dialog to open multi-user cases that allows for searching.
- A live triage feature has been added that copies the application executable to - Auto ingest metrics are collected and displayed in dashboard.
a USB drive that can then be used for live analysis of another system. - 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 - Memory leaks and other issues revealed by fuzzing the SleuthKit have
been fixed. been fixed.
- The number of application log files generated before log rollover is now - Memory issues caused by Tika are fixed (by upgrading to 1.17)
user-configurable to enable retention of more logs to better support enterprise
installations that are running auto ingest.
- Preliminary build file and code changes aimed at supporting easy creation of
Linux and OS-X binary distribution packages are in place.
- Better typing of larger slack files has been added to the file type detection
ingest module.
- The maximum number of Solr connections and the maximum number of
file ingest threads allowed have both been increased.
- The default setting for JVM memory for 64-bit Windows installations has been
increased to 4 GB, and the user can adjust the JVM memory setting via the
Application options panel.
- The embedded file extractor now uses Tika for new form MS Office documents,
which dramatically reduces the memory required for processing Excel spreadsheets.
- The amount of memory required for processing keyword hits has been reduced.
- Periodic keyword search during ingest now has logic to dynamically increase
the interval between searches when searches are taking longer than the
user-configured periodic search interval to complete, thus preventing continuous
searching.
- Keyword search has been made more responsive to both search and ingest job
cancellation.
- The use of the terminology "known bad" has been replaced by "notable."
- Tag definitions now have a "notable" property indicating that tagged content
and results should be marked as notable in the Central Repository.
- Users can now enter more information about cases including examiner contact
info, organization info, and notes.
- A new "Databases" category has been added to the Views, File Types, By
Extension ree.
- Examiner mode for an enterprise installation no longer requires a restart and
a single dialog that lists all multi-user cases is provided; selecting a row in
the dialog and beginning to type opens a search box that allows an examiner to
search for cases by name, etc., and the columns in the tabular view presented by
the dialog can be reordered or hidden.
- An auto ingest data source processor that extracts data sources from archive
files specified as data sources via auto ingest job manifests has been added.
- Auto ingest job metrics are collected and can be displayed for a
user-specified time period using a button on either the auto dashboard or the
auto ingest control panel.
- Sorting by columns has been added to both the auto ingest control panel and
the auto ingest dashboard.
- The row highlight color for tagged items in the Results table view has been
changed for better visibility.
- Assorted small enhancements and bug fixes are included. - Assorted small enhancements and bug fixes are included.
---------------- VERSION 4.5.0 -------------- ---------------- VERSION 4.5.0 --------------
- Memory usage has been reduced to improve support for very large cases. - 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 - The central repository and correlation engine introduced in version 4.4.1 have