diff --git a/NEWS.txt b/NEWS.txt index 67620c29a0..d9c67e6a17 100644 --- a/NEWS.txt +++ b/NEWS.txt @@ -1,3 +1,39 @@ +---------------- VERSION 4.17.0 -------------- +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. +Support for HEIC/HEIF images by converting them to JPEGs using ImageMagick (which retains EXIF). +New Picture Analyzer module that does HEIC conversion and EXIF extraction (replaces the previous EXIF 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. + + ---------------- VERSION 4.16.0 -------------- Ingest: - Added streaming ingest capability for disk images that allow files to be analyzed as soon as they are added to the database.