Aaru.Server/Changelog.md

[4.0.0.0-beta] - 2017-05-19

Added

###- Create Sidecar command

• Use dump drive information from images that support it.

###- Devices

• MMC
• PCMCIA block devices
• SCSI Streaming Devices (aka "tapes")
• SecureDigital

###- Disc images.

• Alcohol 120%.
• Apple New Disk Image Format (aka NDIF, aka img, aka DiskCopy 6).
• Apple Nibble (aka NIB).
• Apple Universal Disk Image Format (aka UDIF, aka dmg).
• BlindWrite 4.
• BlindWrite 5.
• CloneCD.
• CopyQM.
• CPCEMU Disk File.
• CPCEMU Extended Disk File.
• D64.
• D71.
• D81.
• DiscJuggler.
• MAME Compressed Hunks of Data (aka CHD).
• Parallels Hard Disk Image (aka HDD).
• QEMU Copy-On-Write (aka QCOW).
• QEMU Copy-On-Write v2.
• QEMU Enhanced Disk (aka QED).
• VHDX.
• VMware.
• X68k .DIM.

###- DiskCopy 4.2 disk image

• Use resource fork to get DiskCopy version used to create them.

###- Filesystems

• Apple DOS.
• CP/M.
• Detecting Commodore 1540/1541/1571/1581.
• Detecting cram.
• Detecting ECMA-67.
• Detecting exFAT.
• Detecting F2FS.
• Detecting FAT+.
• Detecting IBM JFS.
• Detecting NILFS2.
• Detecting Professional File System (aka PFS).
• Detecting QNX 4.
• Detecting QNX 6.
• Detecting Reiser.
• Detecting Reiser4.
• Detecting SmartFileSystem (aka SFS, aka Standard File System).
• Detecting Squash.
• Detecting Universal Disk Format (aka UDF).
• Detecting Veritas.
• Detecting VMware.
• Detecting Xbox.
• Detecting XFS.
• Detecting Zettabyte File System (aka ZFS).
• UCSD Pascal.

###- Filters

• Apple PCExchange
• AppleDouble
• AppleSingle
• BZIP2
• GZIP
• MacBinary

###- GUID Partition Table

• New type GUIDs.

###- Lisa filesystem

• Full read-only support

###- Media types

• DDS, DDS-2, DDS-3, DDS-4.
• IOMEGA Clik! (aka PocketZip)
• NEC floppies.
• SHARP floppies.

###- Partitions

• Acorn FileCore.
• BSD disklabels.
• DEC disklabels.
• DragonFly BSD.
• Human68k.
• NEC PC-9800.
• Rio Karma.
• SGI Disk Volume Headers.
• UNIX disklabels.

Fixes

###- AmigaDOS filesystem

• Detection on hard disks or with clusters bigger than 1 sector.

###- cdrdao

• Audio track matching
• Prevent reading binary files.

###- CDRWin

• CD-Text detection
• CD+G data return.
• Prevent reading binary files.

###- DiskCopy 4.2

• Track order for Lisa and Macintosh Twiggy

###- Dreamcast GDI images

• Prevent reading binary files.

###- FAT filesystem

• Behaviour with some non-compliant media descriptors.

###- Nero Burning ROM

• Disc types
• Lead-In handling
• Mode2 RAW sectors
• Session count

###- ProDOS filesystem

• Volume size.

Changes

• Added a public changelog.
• Added support for filters.
• Priam tags.
• Support drive firmware inside disc images.
• Support subchannel with only Q channel.

[3.0.0.0] - 2016-07-19

Added

###- Commands

• benchmark: Tests speed for checksum algorithms.
• create-sidecar: Creates an XML sidecar with metadata.
• decode: Decodes and prints a disk tag present on the image.
• device-info: Prints device information.
• dump-media: Dumps media to a disk image.
• entropy: Calculates disk entropy.
• media-info: Prints media information.
• scan-media: Scans media for errors.

###- Checksums

• Adler-32
• SpamSum

###- Devices

• ATA on Linux.
• ATA on Windows (untested).
• FireWire on Linux.
• SCSI on Linux.
• SCSI on Windows (untested).
• USB on Linux.

###- Disc images

• Apple 2IMG.
• CDRDAO.
• Dreamcast GDI.
• VirtualPC.

###- Fast File System (FFS)

• Atari UNIX variant.

###- Filesystems

• Acorn ADFS.
• AmigaDOS.
• Apple File System, aka APFS.
• Apple ProDOS.
• btrfs.
• Nintendo Gamecube.
• Nintendo Wii.

###- Partitions

• Amiga Rigid Disk Block (aka RDB).
• Atari.
• Sun.
• (U)EFI GPT.

Changes

###- PrintHex command

• Allow to print several sectors.

Fixes

###- Be filesystem

• Endianness.
• Support for Be CDs.

###- CDRWin disk image

• Behaviour on .NET Framework.
• Detection of CD-ROM XA.
• Flags.
• Partition calculations.

###- Fast File System (FFS)

• False positives with 7th Edition.

###- ISO9660

• Dreamcast IP.BIN decoding.
• Sega CD IP.BIN decoding.

###- System V Filesystem

• Big endian support

[2.20] - 2014-08-28

Added

###- Checksums

• Reed Solomon.

Fixes

###- Apple Partition Map

• Disks with 2048 bytes/sector but a 512 bytes/sector map.

###- HFS

• Disks with 2048 bytes/sector but a 512 bytes/sector filesystem.

[2.10] - 2014-08-25

Added

###- Checksums

• CD EDC and ECC.
• CRC16.

###- Commands

• Verify: Verifies disk image contents, if supported.

###- Disc images

• Nero Burning ROM.

[2.0] - 2014-07-03

Added

###- Commands

• analyze: Gives informatio about disk image contents as well as detecting partitions and filesystems.
• checksum: Generates CRC32, CRC64, RIPEMD160, MD5, SHA1, SHA256, SHA384 and SHA512 checksums of disk image contents.
• compare: Compares two media images.
• printhex: Prints a hexadecimal output of a sector.

###- Disc images

• RAW (sector by sector).

###- Media types

• BD-R.
• BD-RE XL.
• FDFORMAT.

Fixes

###- FAT filesystem

• Workaround FAT12 without BIOS Parameter Block.

###- MBR partitions

• Do not search for them on disks with less than 512 bytes/sector.

###- ODS-11 filesystem

• Do not search for them on disks with less than 512 bytes/sector.

[1.10] - 2014-04-21

Added

###- Disc images

• Sydex TeleDisk.

[1.0] - 2014-04-17

Added

###- Filesystems

• Detecting BeFS.
• Detecting ext.
• Detecting ext2.
• Detecting ext3.
• Detecting ext4.
• Detecting FAT12.
• Detecting FAT16.
• Detecting FAT32.
• Detecting FFS.
• Detecting HFS+.
• Detecting HFS.
• Detecting HPFS.
• Detecting ISO9660.
• Detecting LisaFS.
• Detecting MFS.
• Detecting MinixFS.
• Detecting NTFS.
• Detecting ODS-11.
• Detecting Opera.
• Detecting PCEngine.
• Detecting SolarFS.
• Detecting System V.
• Detecting UFS.
• Detecting UFS2.
• Detecting UnixWare boot.

###- Disc images

• Apple DiskCopy 4.2.
• CDRWin.

###- Partitions

• Apple Partition Map (aka APM).
• Master Boot Record (aka MBR).
• NeXT disklabels.