Aaru/Changelog.md

[4.0.0.0-beta] - 2017-09-05

Added

- Commands

• list-devices: Lists devices that can be used for device dependent commands.

- Create Sidecar command

• Added support for tape dumps where each tape-file is a separate dumped file.
• Calculate checksum of contents not only of image file.
• Consider each optical disc track as a separate partition.
• Store superblock modification time on sidecar.
• Support tracks.
• Use dump drive information from images that support it.

- Decoders

• Xbox DMI

- Devices

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

- Disc images.

• Alcohol 120%.
• Anex86.
• Apple DOS interleaved (.do).
• Apple New Disk Image Format (aka NDIF, aka img, aka DiskCopy 6).
• Apple Nibble (aka NIB).
• Apple ProDOS interleaved (.po).
• Apple Universal Disk Image Format (aka UDIF, aka dmg).
• BlindWrite 4.
• BlindWrite 5.
• CisCopy (aka DC-File or DCF).
• CloneCD.
• CopyQM.
• CPCEMU Disk File.
• CPCEMU Extended Disk File.
• D64.
• D71.
• D81.
• DiscJuggler.
• IBM SaveDskF.
• IMD.
• 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).
• Quasi88 (.D77/.D88).
• T98.
• VHDX.
• Virtual98.
• VMware.
• X68k .DIM.

- DiskCopy 4.2 disk image

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

- Dumping

• Added the ability to resume a partially done dump, even on a separate drive.
• Allow creation of a separate subchannel file.
• Raw dump of DVD with Matshita recorders
• XGD with Kreon drives

- Filesystems

• Apple DOS.
• CP/M.
• Detecting AO-DOS.
• Detecting AtheOS.
• Detecting Commodore 1540/1541/1571/1581.
• Detecting cram.
• Detecting Cray UNICOS.
• Detecting ECMA-67.
• Detecting exFAT.
• Detecting Extent File System (aka SGI EFS).
• Detecting F2FS.
• Detecting FAT+.
• Detecting fossil.
• Detecting HAMMER.
• Detecting IBM JFS.
• Detecting NILFS2.
• Detecting OS-9 Random Block File (aka RBF).
• Detecting Professional File System (aka PFS).
• Detecting QNX 4.
• Detecting QNX 6.
• Detecting Reiser.
• Detecting Reiser4.
• Detecting RT-11.
• 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

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

- GUID Partition Table

• New type GUIDs.

- Lisa filesystem

• Full read-only support

- Media types

• DDS, DDS-2, DDS-3, DDS-4.
• HiFD
• IOMEGA Clik! (aka PocketZip)
• IOMEGA JAZ
• LS-120
• NEC floppies.
• Old DEC hard disks
• SHARP floppies.
• XGD3

- Partitions

• Acorn FileCore.
• BSD disklabels.
• DEC disklabels.
• DragonFly BSD.
• Human68k.
• MINIX subpartitions.
• NEC PC-9800.
• Plan9 partition table.
• Rio Karma.
• SGI Disk Volume Headers.
• UNIX hardwired partition tables.
• UNIX VTOC.
• XENIX partition table.

- Statistics

• Added version and operating system statistics.

Fixes

- Advanced Disc Filing System

• Added support for ADFS-S, ADFS-M, ADFS-L, ADFS-D, ADFS-E, ADFS-E+, ADFS-F, ADFS-F+ and ADFS-G.

- AmigaDOS filesystem

• Corrected checksum calculation.
• Corrected cluster size calculation.
• Corrected root block location.
• Corrected support for AROS i386 variant that has a PC bootblock before the AmigaDOS bootblock itself.
• Detection on hard disks or with clusters bigger than 1 sector.
• Tested FFS2.

- Apple Partition Map

• Added support for decoding Driver Description Map.
• Added support for maps without Driver Description Map.
• Added support for old partition table.
• Corrected support for misaligned maps, like on CDs.
• Cut partitions that span outside the device.

- cdrdao

• Audio track matching
• Prevent reading binary files.

- CDRWin

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

- Device commands

• Add ATA commands support for Windows.

- Device reports

• Call ATA READ LONG last, as it confuses some drives
• Try SCSI READ LONG (10) until max block size (65535)

- DiskCopy 4.2

• Track order for Lisa and Macintosh Twiggy

- Dreamcast GDI images

• Prevent reading binary files.

- Dumping

• Calculation of streaming device dumping speed.
• Optical media with 2048 bytes/sector now get ".iso" file extension.
• Streaming Devices now store block size changes in metadata sidecar.

- ext2/3/4 filesystem

• Added new superblock fields.
• Use os type as XML system identifier.

- FAT filesystem

• Added support for volumes with 256 bytes/sector.
• Behaviour with some non-compliant media descriptors.
• Corrected boot code detection.
• Corrected misaligned volumes on optical media.
• Gets volume label, creation time and modification time from root directory if available.
• Rewritten to better detect Atari, MSX, *-DOS and ANDOS variants.
• Use OEM name as XML system identifier.

- Guid Partition Table

• Corrected misaligned tables on optical media.

- HFS filesystem

• Corrected detection of a PowerPC only bootable volume (no boot sector).
• Corrected misaligned volumes on optical media.
• Corrected volume serial number case.

- HFS+ filesystem

• Corrected misaligned volumes on optical media.
• Corrected misalignment of fields in Volume Header.
• Use last mount version as XML system identifier.

- HPFS filesystem

• Corrected cluster size.
• Detect boot code.
• Show NT flags.
• Use OEM name as XML system identifier.

- ISO9660 filesystem

• Check that date fields start with a number.
• Removed non-working Rock Ridge detection.

- Master Boot Record partitioning scheme

• Check real presence of a GPT.
• Corrected infinite looping on extended partitions.
• Remove disklabels support.
• Support misaligned MBRs on optical media.
• Support NEC extensions.
• Support OnTrack extensions.

- MINIX filesystem

• Added support for v1 and v2 created on MINIX 3.
• Corrected misaligned volumes on optical media.

- Nero Burning ROM

• Corrected track handling
• Disc types
• Do not identify positively if footer version is unknown
• Lead-In handling
• Mode2 RAW sectors
• Session count

- NeXT partition table

• Added missing fields.
• Corrected offsets.
• Cut partitions that span outside the device.

- ProDOS filesystem

• Corrected cluster size calculation.
• Corrected misaligned volumes on optical media.
• Volume size.

- Rigid Disk Block partition scheme

• Corrected AMIX mappings.

- SCSI decoding

• Handling of EVPDs smaller than length field.
• Handling of modes 02h, 04h and 1Ch smaller than expected.
• Prettyfying of mode 0Bh.

- SmartFileSystem

• Added support for version 2.

- Sun disklabel

• Added support for 16-entries VTOC.
• Added support for pre-VTOC disklabels.
• Corrected structures for 8-entries VTOC.

- UFS filesystem

• Corrected superblock locations.
• Move superblock to a single structure and marshal it, corrects detection of several variants.

- UNIX VTOC

• Added support for pdInfo.
• Added support for several variants.

Changes

• Added a public changelog.
• Added partitioning scheme name to partition structures.
• Added several internal tests to prevent regression on changes.
• Added support for different character encodings.
• Added support for filters.
• Added support for nested partitioning schemes.
• Added support for propagating disk geometry, needed by PC-98 partitions and old MBRs.
• Better support for decoding multibyte encodings from C, Pascal and space-padded strings.
• Changed handling of compressed files, using temporary files and caching.
• Filesystems now have access to full partition structure.
• Filters no longer return their own extension when requested for filename.
• Moved Claunia.RsrcFork to NuGet.
• 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.