Changelog for autopsy-4.18.0-1.fc31.x86_64.rpm :

* Mon Mar 22 2021 Lawrence R. Rogers 4.18.0-1
* Release 4.18.0-1 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. See http://sleuthkit.org/autopsy/docs/user-docs/4.18.0/upgrade_solr8_page.html for more details. 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.
* Tue Oct 27 2020 Lawrence R. Rogers 4.17.0-1
* Release 4.17.0-1 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. Expanded Discovery UI to support searching for and basic display of web domains. It collapses the various web artifacts into a single view. Ingest Modules: Added iOS Analyzer module based on iLEAPP and a subset of its artifacts. New Picture Analyzer module that does EXIF extraction and HEIC conversion. HEIC/HEIF images are converted to JPEGs that retain EXIF using ImageMagick (replaces the previous EXIF ingest module). Added support for the latest version of Edge browser that is based on Chromium into Recent Activity. Other Chromium-based browsers are also supported. Updated the rules that search Web History artifacts for search queries. Expanded module to support multiple search engines for ambiguous URLs. Bluetooth pairing artifacts are created based on RegRipper output. Prefetch artifacts record the full path of exes. PhotoRec module allows you to include or exclude specific file types. Upgraded to Tika 1.23. Performance: Documents are added to Solr in batches instead of one by one. More efficient queries to find WAL files for SQLite databases. Use a local drive for temp files for multi-user cases instead of the shared folder. Command Line Command line support for report profiles. Restored support for Windows file type association for opening a case in Autopsy by double clicking case metadata (.aut) file. Better feedback for command line argument errors. Misc: Updated versions of libvmdk, libvhdi, and libewf. Persona UI fixes: Pre-populate account and changed order of New Persona dialog. Streaming ingest support added to auto ingest. Recent Activity module processes now use the global timeout. Option to include Autopsy executable in portable case (Windows only.) Upgraded to NetBeans 11 Rich Client Platform. Added debug feature to save the stack trace on all threads.
* Tue Sep 08 2020 Lawrence R. Rogers 4.16.0-1
* Release 4.16.0-1 Ingest: Added streaming ingest capability for disk images that allow files to be analyzed as soon as they are added to the database. Changed backend code so that disk image-based files are added by Java code instead of C/C++ code. Ingest Modules: Include Interesting File set rules for cloud storage, encryption, cryptocurrency and privacy programs. Updated PhotoRec 7.1 and include 64-bit version. Updated RegRipper in Recent Activity to 2.8 Create artifacts for Prefetch, Background Activity Monitor, and System Resource Usage. Support MBOX files greater than 2GB. Document metadata is saved as explicit artifacts and added to the timeline. New “no change” hashset type that does not change status of file. Central Repository / Personas: Accounts in the Central Repository can be grouped together and associated with a digital persona. All accounts are now stored in the Central Repository to support correlation and persona creation. Content viewers: Created artifact-specific viewers in the Results viewer for contact book and call log. Moved Message viewer to a Results sub-viewer and expanded to show accounts. Added Application sub-viewer for PDF files based on IcePDF. Annotation viewer now includes comments from hash set hits. Geolocation Viewer: Different data types now are displayed using different colors. Track points in a track are now displayed as small, connected circles instead of full pins. Filter panel shows only data sources with geo location data. Geolocation artifact points can be tagged and commented upon. File Discovery: Changed UI to have more of a search flow and content viewer is hidden until an item is selected. Reports: Can be generated for a single data source instead of the entire case. CASE / UCO report module now includes artifacts in addition to files. Added backend concept of Tag Sets to support Project Vic categories from different countries. Performance: Add throttling of UI refreshes to ensure data is quickly displayed and the tree does not get backed up with requests. Improved efficiency of adding a data source with many orphan files. Improved efficiency of loading file systems. Jython interpreter is preloaded at application startup. Misc bug fixes and improvements: Fixed bug from last release where hex content viewer text was no longer fixed width. Altered locking to allow multiple data sources to be added at once more smoothly and to support batch inserts of file data. Central repository comments will no longer store tag descriptions. Account type nodes in the Accounts tree show counts. Full time stamps displayed for messages in ingest inbox. More detailed status during file exports. Improved efficiency of adding timeline events. Fixed bug with CVT most recent filter. Improved documentation and support for running on Linux/macOS.
* Fri May 15 2020 Lawrence R. Rogers 4.15.0-5
* Release 4.15.0-5 Changed to BellSoft Java Full as per the Autopsy installation instructions
* Thu May 14 2020 Lawrence R. Rogers 4.15.0-5
* Release 4.15.0-5 Installs a new version of the 7-Zip Binding for CentOS/RHEL 7 only.
* Mon May 11 2020 Lawrence R. Rogers 4.15.0-4
* Release 4.15.0-4 Fix yet another problem in CentOS/RHEL 7 version.
* Sun May 10 2020 Lawrence R. Rogers 4.15.0-3
* Release 4.15.0-3 Fix problem in CentOS/RHEL 7 version. And reverted back to the JDK that comes with the OS and away from BelLSoft.
* Wed May 06 2020 Lawrence R. Rogers 4.15.0-2
* Release 4.15.0-2 Changed to BellSoft Java
* Thu Apr 30 2020 Lawrence R. Rogers 4.15.0-1
* Release 4.15.0-1 New UI Features: - Added Document view to File Discovery. - Expanded Context Content Viewer to show if an app accessed a file. - Added translation feature to Message Content Viewer. - Added waypoint type filter to the Geolocation viewer. - Added zoom feature to Indexed Text Content Viewer. New Ingest Modules Features: - New GPX ingest module. - New Drone ingest module for DJI drones based on DatCon. - Create artifacts for files opened by Adobe Reader, Windows Media Player, Office Docs (Most Recently Used (MRU) and TrustRecords), 7Zip MRU, WinRAR MRU, Applets, Microsoft Management Console (MMC) via RegRipper. New Central Repository Features: - Central Repository stores account IDs that were previously seen. - Central Repository is enabled by default to store past hashes. Feature to flag previously seen files is disabled by default. Other New Features: - Multi-user cases can be created via command line Bug fixes: - Prevent entire application from crashing when gstreamer crashes on videos. - Improve Geolocation viewer with large data sets. - Fix error with non-sector aligned reads on local disks. - Times from Recycle Bin files are now in timeline. - Validate timeline events and ignore events too far in the future. - Moved some database queries off of UI thread. - Remove hard coded sizes from UI that cause issues with other languages.
* Fri Jan 24 2020 Lawrence R. Rogers 4.14.0-1
* Release 4.14.0-1 Specialized UIs: - New File Discovery UI that allows you to search and filter for certain types of files. - New Map viewer that uses either Bing (when online) or offline map tiles. - Communications UI shows country names for phone numbers and fixed bug in summary panel. - Fixed bugs in timeline filtering. - Refactored backend timeline filtering code based on The Sleuth Kit datamodel changes to remove JavaFX dependency. Data Sources: - Added limited support for APFS disk images. Does not include encrypted volumes or ones that span multiple disks. Uses contribution to The Sleuth Kit from Blackbag Technologies. - New data source processor that parses “XRY File Exports”. Content Viewers: - Added a new “Context” viewer to show where a file came from. Currently shows what message a file was attached to or what URL a file was downloaded from. - Added support to seek and change playback speed for videos in “Application” viewer. - Improved support for Unicode HTML files in “Application” viewer. - Added support for webp image files in “Application” viewer. Ingest Modules: - Keyword Search module uses Decodetect statistical encoding detection for plain text files. Fixes issues with incorrect detection of Japanese files. - Embedded File Extractor module uses statistical analysis to determine encoding of file names in ZIP files. Fixes issues with ZIP files created on Windows Japanese computers. - Solr (Keyword Search module) now uses Japanese-specific tokenization using Kuromoji. - Fixed Shellbags module in RegRipper (used by Autopsy Recent Activity module) to fix parsing errors. - Plaso module no longer generates an error if enabled for non-disk image data sources. - Added support for message attachments that are stored as an external file system file. Expanded Email and Android modules to use this technique. General: - Fixed crashes by gstreamer when a video is selected. - Added initial capability to delete a data source from a case (excludes data in the CR). - Changed behavior of portable case menu item to automatically open the case and warn if it was already unpacked. - Fixed bug that caused issues when case metadata had Unicode values. - Added new Attachment APIs to the CommunicationsArtifactHelper class to support attachments stored as external file system files.
* Thu Oct 10 2019 Lawrence R. Rogers 4.13.0-1
* Release 4.13.0-1 General: - Switch from Oracle JDK to OpenJDK. - Full command line support (case creation, adding of data sources, running ingest, and generating reports). Logical Imager: - Output can be individual files instead of VHD image (uses less space). - More fine grained progress during collection and importing. - Log of files and make artifacts. - All console messages are saved to a log file too. - Improved handling of cancellation when adding results into a case. Ingest Modules: - Added Android support as Python modules for: Android installed apps, Android browser, Facebook Messenger, IMO, LINE, Opera, ORUX Maps, Samsung SBrowser, Skype, ShareIt, TextNow, Viber, WhatsApp, Xender, Zapya. - Recycle Bin files are parsed in Recent Activity module, new artifacts are created, and deleted file entries are created at the original location of the deleted files. Code is based on Mark McKinnon’s RecycleBin module (https://github.com/markmckinnon/Autopsy-Plugins/tree/master/Recycle_Bin). - ShellBag registry data is extracted from RegRipper in the Recent Activity module. New artifacts are recreated for the data. Based on Mark McKinnon’s “Parse ShellBags” module (https://github.com/markmckinnon/Autopsy-Plugins/tree/master/Parse_Shellbags). - Additional data is extracted about users from SAM hive in Recent Activity module. Data includes password dates, permissions, groups, and full name. Based on Mark McKinnon’s “Parse SAM” module (https://github.com/markmckinnon/Autopsy-Plugins/tree/master/Parse_SAM). - Email ingest module parses EML files. Based on Mark McKinnon’s “EML Parser” module (https://github.com/markmckinnon/Autopsy-Plugins/tree/master/EML_Parser). - Fixed bug in MBOX module that caused attachments to have a “_” in the name. - New Plaso ingest module that runs Plaso and generates events for the timeline. - Fixed bug in Email module for VCard files to better parse phone number types. - Keyword Search module waits longer for Solr to start to prevent incorrectly reporting a problem and disabling the feature. - Embedded file extractor module was updated to not report compression bombs for GZIP files. Timeline: - New approach for storing event data. A dedicated events table exists and is populated as files and artifacts are added to the database. No longer requires an explicit step of populating a local events table. - Users can create their own events from the Timeline UI. - Filtering was simplified based or existence of tag or hash set hit versus a specific name. Communications: - Fixed bug that hid contact book entries with duplicate numbers. Image Gallery: - Fixed bug in schema that caused errors with very long file names. Report: - CASE report is included in a portable case. - Image tags are included in portable case. - More size options for a packaged portable case. - New Infrastructure to support command line-based generation. Backend: - Developers should use new new Blackboard.postArtifact() method to ensure artifact is indexed and added to the timeline. - New classes were created to make it easier to write modules for apps.
* Tue Aug 13 2019 Lawrence R. Rogers 4.12.0-1
* Release 4.12.0-1 Aded .desktop files in addition to the following: Collection Added ability to configure a USB drive to use new logical imager tool. Added logical imager tool that runs on a live Windows computer and saves results to a USB drive. Added ability to import logical imager results into Autopsy as a data source. Ingest Modules: Changed file type detection so that Tika does not rely only on extension. Email ingest module assigns thread IDs to messages Android ingest modules store thread ID from their databases. Content Viewers (lower right of UI): New “Text” viewer that consolidates previous Strings and “Indexed Text” viewers. New “Translation” panel was added to the new “Text” viewer. Added integration with Google and Bing translation (credentials required) Redesigned “Other Occurrences” viewer to have 4th column with details of selected item. Added Willi Ballentin’s “Registry Hive Viewer” panel to the “Application” viewer. Improved HTML viewer to use style sheets and better layout. Added ability to draw a box on a picture while tagging it. Result Table (upper right of UI) Added paging to all views for faster loading of large data sets. Improved speed of displaying results when a column was sorted. Reporting Portable cases can contain files marked as Interesting Items Portable cases can be compressed and chunked “Files - Text” report can use either tabs or commas as the delimiter “Files - Text” report better handles Unicode text. Added ability to create a CSV report for the contents of a table HTML report for tagged pictures includes a copy with the overlay box Communications: Added Account Summary view Added Contacts panel to show all contacts associated with an account. Added Media panel to show media attachments associated with an account Added filter to show accounts if they involved with the most recent messages. Messages can be grouped by thread. Auto Ingest New Test button was added to help diagnose permission and configuration issues. Documentation: Created new Triage Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) section to the User Docs
* Fri Apr 26 2019 Lawrence R. Rogers 4.11.0-1
* Release 4.11.0-1 Version 4.11.0