Monday 22 March 2021

What's new in version 8.14:

* Added new 'RAID Decomposition' tool ('Reverse RAID'):

- Supports virtual decomposition of any source storage; - Supports opening of any produced virtual components; - Decomposition of RAID0 with custom stripe size; - Decomposition of RAID1E ('near' or 'interlaced') with custom stripe size; - Decomposition of RAID5: custom stripe size, parity delay and rotation; - Decomposition of RAID6: custom stripe size, parity delay, rotation and RS-math;
* Open chunks as span: added option to sort images by numeric file name extension;
* LVM/thin: added recognition of sector/byte size of LVM tree metadata chunks;
* Support of automatic reconstruction of mdadm RAID10/near layout;
* Fixed crash bug when big span (over 1024 components) is opened in RAID builder;
* Drobo BeyondRAID: added manual volume definition when InfoTable is lost or damaged;
* Disk imager: added optional splitting of image to chunks of fixed size;
* Added displaying of GPT and CoreStorage partition labels;
* Added support of named (extended) attributes on Btrfs file systems;
* Added function to mark/unmark multiple objects in Explorer (using context menu);
* Added optional function of saving symbolic links (disabled by default);
* Support opening split DD (raw) image files with FTK Imager naming convention.

Tuesday 2 March 2021

What's new in version 8.13

 * Added function of access to network disks via built-in iSCSI client:

- Full support of discovery and communication with UFS Explorer iSCSI Targets; - Support of third-party SAN/iSCSI targets (require multi-host/cluster support); - Authentication, multi-LUN targets and single-connection mode are not supported;
* iSCSI Target server: added function to attach/detach local disk (under Windows);
* WD MyCloud storages:
- Added indication of MyCloud volumes; - Added support of newer metadata format (version 156); - Type of file system transformation is set for them as 'MyCloud' by default;
* Added indication of sector/cluster number on hexadecimal viewer;
* Added separate field for copyable sector indicator to hex data inspector;
* Fixed bug reading partially encrypted B-tree on APFS;
* APFS: fixed B-tree reconstruction bug in scan procedure;
* HFS+: fixed bugs reading of damaged B-tree;
* XFS: fixed bug reading named attributes;
* ZFS: fixed bug with recognition of lost simple volume partitions during scan;

What's new in version 9.18:

Added support of 'data entropy' map: - In disk imager, added possibility to save 'data entropy' map during imaging (low and ...