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+---------------- VERSION 4.18.0  --------------
+Keyword Search:
+- A major upgrade from Solr 4 to Solr 8.6.3.  Single user cases continue to use the embedded server.  
+Multi-user clusters need to install a new Solr 8 server and can now create a Solr cloud with multiple servers. 
+-- NOTE: Cases created with Autopsy 4.18 cannot be opened by previous versions of Autopsy.  Autopsy 4.18 can open older cases though. 
+- Improved text indexing speed by not doing language detection on unknown file formats and unallocated space. 
+
+Domain Discovery:
+- Added details view to Domain Discovery to show what web-based artifacts are associated with the selected domain. 
+- Updated the Domain Discovery grouping and sorting by options. 
+- Added basic domain categorization for webmail-based domains.
+
+Content Viewers:
+- Built more specialized viewers for web-based artifacts.
+
+Data Source Summary: 
+- Added a “Geolocations” tab that shows what cities the data source was near (based on geolocation data).
+- Added a “Timeline” tab that shows counts of events from the last 30 days the data source was used. 
+- Added navigation buttons to jump from the summary view to the main Autopsy UI (for example to go to the map). 
+
+Ingest Modules:
+- New YARA ingest module to flag files based on regular expression patterns. 
+- New “Android Analyzer (aLEAPP)” module based on aLEAPP.  Previous “Android Analyzer” also still exists. 
+- Updated “iOS Analyzer (iLEAPP)” module to create more artifacts and work on disk images. 
+- Hash Database module will calculate SHA-256 hash in addition to MD5.
+- Removed Interesting Item rule that flagged existence of Bitlocker (since it ships with Windows). 
+- Fixed a major bug in the PhotoRec module that could result in an incorrect file layout if the carved file spanned non-contiguous sectors. 
+- Fixed MBOX detection bug in Email module. 
+
+Reporting:
+- Attachments from tagged messages are now included in a Portable Case. 
+
+Misc:
+- Added support for Ext4 inline data and sparse blocks (via TSK fix).
+- Updated PostgreSQL JDBC driver to support any recent version of PostgreSQL for multi-user cases and PostgreSQL Central Repository.
+- Added personas to the summary viewer in CVT.
+- Handling of bad characters in auto ingest manifest files.
+- Assorted small bug fixes.
+
+
 ---------------- 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.