UFS Explorer Network RAID version 8 – presentation

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.

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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;

UFS Explorer RAID Recovery version 8 – presentation

What's new in version 8.12:

* Updated RAID builder dialog:

- Added support of selecting multiple components for 'bulk operations'; - Support of 'Move', 'Remove', 'Edit size' and 'Revert size' via 'bulk operations';

* ReFS3: fixed several compatibility issues (support of resident and named pointers);

* Added 'metadata objects filtering' functions to file copying procedure: - Pre-defined types of metadata files and folders can be optionally skipped; - Procedure can be enabled, disabled and configured via software 'Settings'; - 'Save selection (advanced)' function has option to override default settings; - Pre-defined metadata for NTFS system files, Synology folders, Apple resources;

* File saving conflict (duplicate file action): - In default pop-up window added option to abort copying; - Added pre-configured setting to overwrite file 'if new file is modified later';

* 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: - Processing of tails of overwritten folders (in full and quick (indexing) scans); - Result is filtered to remove junk objects that may appear from damaged folders;

* 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: - Adopted and optimized GUI to specifics of Big Sur (macOS 11); - Software optimization for better translation to ARM64 (Apple M1) via Rosetta.

What's new in version 8.11:

 * Added iSCSI Target Server for mounting storages to operating system:

- Setting up of any storages or partitions as iSCSI targets (from context menu); - Read-only iSCSI access locally or over LAN (no authentication); - Support of Microsoft iSCSI Initiator (Windows), open-iscsi (Linux), globalSAN (Mac); - Trial limitation of target size is set to 5368709119 sectors (2.5TB); * Btrfs: fixed issue with assembly of multi-device volumes for direct access; * ReFS3 file system: - Fixed problem with incorrect behavior of pause->preview->resume scan sequence; - Updated 'read' and 'scan' modules to support the latest file system version; * Handling of disks with reported non-standard big sector sizes (4160, 4176 etc.); * Extended file system object attributes (custom named properties): - Reworked procedure of restoring attributes when copying data (Windows, Linux, Mac); - Added function of listing attributes and displaying of their content in Explorer; - Reworked support of Apple attributes for HFS+ and APFS file systems; - Changed format of SSDB and VRFS files to support associated attributes (out of tree); - Reworked scan procedures of HFS+/APFS to store attributes in new format; - Added support of NTFS alternative data streams as 'named attributes'; - Added support of Linux xattrs on Ext2-Ext4 and XFS file systems; * XFS file system: added support of multi-block directory clusters; * ZFS file system: - Added support of file system block sizes up to 1MB (for OpenZFS); - Added support of undelete after 'long deletion' of big files (multi-transaction).