Version history for TestDisk & PhotoRec for Mac OS X (PPC)

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Changes for v7.0 Beta - v7.0

• General Improvements
• Various fix including security fix, thanks to
• Coverity scan (Static Analysis of source code)
• afl-fuzz (security-oriented fuzzer).
• Denis Andzakovic from Security Assessment for reporting an exploitable Stack Buffer Overflow
• TestDisk
• Improvements
• exFAT: better support
• ext4: handle 64 bit blocks or 64 KiB blocksize. Fix detection and file listing
• Bug fixes
• Avoid erroneous error when writing 512 bytes on hard disk using 4k sector
• FAT, NTFS: avoid NULL pointer dereference if localtime() returns NULL. Thanks to Graham Sutherland for reporting this bug.
• PhotoRec & QPhotoRec
• QPhotoRec is a Graphical User Interface (Qt based GUI) version of PhotoRec. More user friendly, it recognizes the same file formats.
• PhotoRec remains recommended for advanced users, it can stop a recovery and resume it later, it recovers more fragmented files when brute-force technology is enabled and expert mode is available.
• Improvements
• Reduced false positives for more than 80 file formats.
• .gif: fix filesize detection
• .flv: add Flash filesize detection
• .mpg: detect filesize for MPEG
• .ra: detect filesize for RealAudio3
• Improved algorithm to deal with data fragmentation resulting in a general speed increased
• Speedup brute-force mode. Brute-force mode can recover more fragmented files, but it's still slow and not 100% reliable. You can enable it in PhotoRec Options menu.
• New file formats recovered by PhotoRec:
• .3dm: Rhino / openNURBS
• .ari: ARRI Raw Video
• .camrec: Camtasia Studio
• .dad: Micae DVR
• .dcm: Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM)
• .fp12: File Maker Pro 12
• .kra: Krita
• .mlv: Magic Lantern Video
• .notebook: SMART notebook
• .ora: Mypaint
• .red: RED2 video format
• .rlv: Revelation password
• .vbm: Veeam Backup Metadata
• .woff: Web Open Font Format

Changes for v6.13 - v6.14

• Improvements
• testdisk /list now displays the disk model, serial number, firmware version and hpa or dco presence if detected
• Recover WBFS (Wii Backup File System) partition
• Make FAT RebuildBS works when there is a single FAT table
• Interface: Display the partition table type if autodetected
• Interface: modified warning about mismatching geometry between FAT or NTFS boot sector and HD geometry information (Debian #651756)
• Interface: Remove "Allow partial last cylinder" option
• Bug fixes
• Fix crc in EFI backup GPT
• Rewrote how TestDisk aligns partition on cylinder or 1MB boundary. It avoids to create partition entry where the partition ends after the end of the disk.
• PhotoRec
• Improvements
• Improve Olympus .orf recovery
• Improve WP Mac/WP5/WP6 Corel Documents .wpd files recovery
• Fix thumbs.db recovery, avoid some false positive with .doc
• Interface: if less than 10 file families are enabled, display the results even if zero has been found yet
• New file formats:
• aep After Effects
• axx AxCrypt
• dp Designer, a Photobook Designer Software
• lzh archive
• mmap MindManager
• plt Gerber Graphix Advantage
• prproj Adobe Premiere project
• psb Adobe Photoshop Image
• pts PTGui, panoramic stitching software
• qcp The QCP File Format and Media Types for Speech Data (RFC3625)
• shn Shorten audio file
• snt Windows Sticky Notes
• ttd TinyTag Data
• wallet Armory bitcoin wallet
• wim Windows imaging (WIM) image
• Bug fixes
• Fix an endless loop during .caf file recovery
• Fix tiff recovery including some raw file formats, 64-bit version wasn't affected

Changes for v6.13 Beta - v6.13

• General Improvements
• Fix UAC manifests for Windows, so users don't need to use right-click "Run As Administrator"
• TestDisk & PhotoRec are now compatible with both libewf and libewf2, the new version of a library to support the Expert Witness Compression Format (EWF).
• TestDisk
• Fix image creation, image.dd file wasn't created (Regression introduced in 6.12)
• Detect Vmware VMFS partition
• Locate lost GFS2 partition but not yet the size
• Log HDD serial number and firmware revision
• List NTFS Alternate Data Streams (ADS)
• PhotoRec
• Session recovery restarts at the previous location
• Better MPEG recovery, there should be less concatenated videos.
• Better JPG recovery, there should be less cases where thumbnails were recovered instead of the picture itself.
• Handle large avi files using "AVIX" or mov files using 64-bit chunk size.
• Rename recovered pdf using the title (not perfect)
• Major cleanup of PhotoRec core code
• New file formats:
• .caf Core Audio Format
• .dardar3 archive
• .ddf Didson Data File (v3 and v4)
• .gcs GCstart (personal collections manager)
• .gam Games Factory
• .hdf Hierarchical Data Format 4
• .hdr ENVI
• .max 3ds
• .oci OpenCanvas Image .oci
• .par2 archive
• .psmodel Delcam PowerSHAPE
• .save Assassin's Creed II backup
• .sh3d Sweet Home 3D
• .TiVo video record
• .vmg Nokia Text Message
• .wpb OpenCanvas files

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