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* Significant changes in the software licensing scheme:
* Enhancements to the user interface:
* Reworked scan procedure:
* In the Explorer dialog for scan results:
* Added displaying of the number of files in scan result folders;
* Disabled the indication of the folder metadata size (to avoid confusion with the size of contained files);
* Fixed issue displaying color progressive (one scan per component) JPEG images as greyscale.
* Reworked file copying with replacement of 'unsafe symbols' (such as '/', '?' etc.):
* Minor fix to ReFS3 file system (to support a variation of metadata format);
* Fixed bug with EFS-encrypted files, recovered with full-disk scan stage;
* Fixed bug scanning volumes with compressed files on NTFS;
* Fixed bug processing extended attributes on XFS file system;
* Legacy HFS file system: now displayed and preserved file creation/modification dates.
* Some rework of Explorer interface;
* EXT3/4 file systems:
* In embedded viewer:
* Few corrections to FAT/FAT32 scan procedure (to support several previously unsupported metadata damages);
* Added support of several recent digital cameras (RAW formats) to embedded viewer.
* HFS+ scan: better reconstruction of lost folder names from journal;
* ExFAT scan: removed duplicate 'green'/'yellow' file systems in result.
* XFS file system scan: fixed couple of issues with save/resume scan and deleted file names recovery;
* In the scan finalization GUI now added more detailed indication of currently running operations, including number of found files;
* Added support of empty folders in scan results (to recover folder structures without files);
* NTFS file system scan:
* EXT3/4 file systems:
* Update to FAT32 scan: better file system recovery when superblocks are lost AND FAT tables are damaged.
* Fixed few bugs related to XFS file system scan;
* Updated HFS+ scan procedure to support file system recovery when main metadata locations are wiped.
* NTFS file system: fixed issue with support of very fragmented files when the FileName attribute is outside of the main MFT entry;
* GUI related updates.
* ExFAT scan: added processing of CheckDisk .CHK files (when possible), fixed few more issues;
* Raw recovery scan: found and fixed 'scan stuck' issue.
* ExFAT scan: fixed issue with recognition of previous cluster size after format;
* F2FS file system: added support of 'extra attributes' flag.
* Reworked FAT/FAT32 quick scan/indexing procedure for better support of damaged folders;
* In embedded file viewer:
* Raw recovery and tool for re-assigning file extensions are extended with more types;
* Fujifilm RAW photos format (RAF):
* MacOS HFS+ file system:
* Added indication of folder capacity in scan result;
* Added indication of file status in scan result;
* Support of hard links on NTFS, APFS, HFS+, Ext, F2FS, Reiser, UFS and XFS;
* Added automatic deduplication of duplicate hard links;
* Added support of duplicate file/folder hard links in scan result;
* APFS direct access:
* APFS scan: better structure recovery and finding of lost snapshots in full scan;
* HFS+ scan: added support of hardlinks (including Time Machine);
* Preserving 'Hidden' and 'System' flags on copied files (Windows version);
* XFS scan: fixed few major bugs with structure recovery in full scan;
* Older ReFS (Windows Server 2012): fixed few bugs in scan procedure;
* ExFAT scan: support of 1MB clusters, fixed few issues.
* ReFS support is extended with new version found on Windows Server 2022 preview;
* Fixed several bugs.
* ReFS: Support of symbolic links;
* Added quick detection of lost partitions at 'standard' offsets;
* Support of storages with physical sector size 1 and 2 KB.
* Enabled access and lost data recovery from Windows Server ReFS.
* NTFS: support of more scenarios for file information recovery from LogFile;
* FAT16: fixed problem with recognition of root folder in non-indexed full scan;
* ExFAT file system scan:
* Fixed bug with file system structure recovery when intermediate folders are lost;
* Fixed read/quick scan of HFS+ with 'overflowed' fragmentation of Catalog File;
* Software version for macOS:
* Support of restoring extended file attributes from Windows/Linux/Mac;
* XFS file system: added support of multi-block directory clusters.
* Added 'read' support of UDF file system;
* Restoring RWX 'owner' permissions under Linux and Mac.
* NTFS file system:
* Fixed bug with copying error when source to target is copied root to root.
* ExFAT scan procedure:
* NTFS: enabled direct file system access when DATA attribute is damaged;
* HFS+ file system:
* Fixed several problems in software versions for macOS:
* Modified handling of APFS metadata damage to show more structure when tree is damaged;
* Raw recovery:
* Modified handling of APFS metadata damage to show more structure when tree is damaged;
* Raw recovery:
* Reworked procedure of deleted files recovery from EXT3/EXT4 file systems;
* Updated format of 'scan status database' and 'virtual file system' files;
* Photo viewer adopted for new digital camera raw formats of:
* Raw recovery:
* Speed-up of properties (preview) extraction for Windows executable files.
* EXT file system: speed up of journal processing at completion stage;
* XFS file system: optimization of indexing procedure;
* APFS file system:
* HFS+ file system:
* Apple extended attributes and resource forks:
* Raw recovery: support of more types and several enhancements.
* Rework of NTFS scan procedure:
* Fixed several bugs causing software crash;
* Enabled displaying of system/hidden files.
* New installation options for macOS and Linux;
* Changes in the software licensing:
* Added software events log;
* Expanded log on saving the scan results with more information about the saved files and saving errors;
* Added error notification for bad blocks on disks;
* Significant optimization of NTFS and HFS+ scan.
* Fixed bugs in FAT recovery module:
* Modified procedure of classification of found MFT entries from unlinked MFT chunks.
* Fixed bug with FAT file system quick scan.
* Optimization of HFS+ scan result set.
* Optimized file systems detection procedure by number of read requests;
* Extended detection of certain file systems using backup copies of superblock.
* Added Spanish software interface language;
* Fixed bug reading legacy HFS volumes;
* Added extra search for folder name entries for EXT file system;
* Update to PDF viewer: added support of buggy files with shifted xref table.
* Support of NTFS storages with cluster size over 64KB.
* Modifications to FAT/FAT32 scan procedure:
* Fixed issues with recovery of NTFS folder structure (when 'indexing' is available).
* Major rework of NTFS scan procedure:
* Added Portuguese software interface language.
* Added NTFS tail scan to file system indexing stage.
* Reworked scan procedure for ExFAT (for better handling of deleted records).
* Added support of "CLOUD" reparse points on NTFS (files from OneDrive etc.).
* Fixed problem with ExFAT root folder validation during full-disk scan.
* Reworked LVM module (adapted to LVM 2.2 with DM RAID);
* Update to embedded viewer.
* Significant update to APFS file system scan procedure;
* Update to embedded viewer.
* Better handling of APFS after unclean shutdown.
* Fixed problem processing EXT directories with block size over 32KB.
* Added few more formats for raw recovery procedure.
* Added more formats for raw recovery procedure;
* Detection of valid size for TIFF/QTFF formats (TIF, NEF, CR2, MOV, MP4 etc.).
* Updated data recovery procedure for exFAT file system
* Few bugs fixed in scan result handling procedure
* Fixed problem reading expanded EXT-formatted volumes (classic+meta GD);
* Fixed reading of large EXT folders after massive file deletion (when whole blocks are released).
* Enhanced recovery quality from exFAT file system.
* Fixed issue with reconstruction of damaged root folder on FAT32.
* One more enhancement to NTFS file system reconstruction after scan;
* Significantly enhanced reconstruction of Apple APFS file system.
* Enhanced structure reconstruction on NTFS file system after scan.
* Added support of several new camera RAW formats (including new Canon CR3).
* Fixed data recovery on FAT with zero file creation dates;
* Added thumbnail preview for certain video file formats.
* Fixed problem with GPT partition recognition on 4K-block disks.
* Byte-accurate recognition of file size for JPG and MTS formats with raw recovery;
* Excluded bad JPG files from result;
* Displaying of partially damaged progressive JPG files.
* Fixed software bug that may happen when handling EXT file system with specific superblock damage.
* Support of opening EXT file system with group descriptor damage.
* Fixed support of Apple software RAID.
* Fixed few issues with Apple APFS file system scan quality.
* Mac File System Support is extended with Apple APFS file system.
* Applied modification to FAT32 scan procedure (related to car DVR);
* Few minor bugs fixed (related to internal resources leak).
* Enhanced raw recovery procedure for certain picture formats based on TIFF (including camera raw photos);
* Fixed some problems and extended support of camera raw photos by embedded viewer.
* Option to skip file system scan to revise existing file system contents;
* Extended support of camera-raw formats by embedded viewer.
* Support of HFS+ hardlinks in file system access mode.
* Fixed problem with expanded EXT4 (meta_bg).
* Added support for PDF, EXE and some other formats in embedded viewer.
* Fixed bug with memory overflow in certain scenarios when scanning Ext4 file system;
* Extended support of camera-raw formats by embedded viewer.
* Extended support of camera-raw formats by embedded viewer.
* Better damaged FAT/FAT32 recovery in certain scenarios.
* Better deleted data reconstruction on XFS file system in certain scenarios.
* Massive update to file type-based data recovery (raw recovery).
* Extended supported formats by embedded image viewer (DICOM, Camera RAW);
* Scan result now defaults to "All files"
* Other minor updates.
* Support of automatic connection to network shared folders under Windows 10;
* Better data recovery results under 'found by type' files;
* More photo formats supported by file viewer.
* Separation of deleted and normal data in scan results;
* Rework of different elements of user interface;
* More informative and clear user interface with brighter and bigger fonts.
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