From 3372c38afc5170ca3fb1a7e810a9e169642e1aab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Brian Carrier Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2018 09:52:50 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] upated NEWS --- NEWS.txt | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++------------------------ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS.txt b/NEWS.txt index cbdb02f3493..3fcbff5b407 100644 --- a/NEWS.txt +++ b/NEWS.txt @@ -1,29 +1,25 @@ ---------------- VERSION 4.8.0 -------------- New Features: -- The case tree view can now be grouped by data source. -- Added a common files search tool that finds all instances of a file in a case. -- Text extraction optionally includes optical character recognition (OCR). -- Data source(s) filter added to ad hoc keyword search and file search by -attributes. -- SQLite tables can be now be exported to CSV files. -- User defined tags now appear first in tagging menus. -- Eliminated one tagging sub menu layer for faster tagging. -- Added Replace Tag item to tagging menus (shortcut for delete tag, add tag). -- The Other Occurrences content viewer now shows matches in the current case. -- A listing of cases in the central repository is displayed by the -central repository options panel. -- An interesting file artifact is now created when a "zip bomb" is detected. -- Text and queries sent to Solr are now normalized to handle diacritics, -ligatures, narrow and wide width Japanese characters, etc. -- An object detection ingest module that uses OpenCV and user-supplied -classifiers has been added to the "experimental" Net Beans Module (NBM). -- A data source processor that runs Volatility on a memory image has been -added to the "experimental" NBM. -- Comments can be added to all files (file correlation properties) recorded -in the central repository using a results view context menu item. -- Comments can be added to all correlation properties recorded -in the central repository using an Other Occurrences results content viewer -context menu item. +- Data Source Grouping: +-- The case tree view can now be grouped by data source. +-- Keyword and file search can now be restricted to a data source. +- Central Repository / Corrrelation: +-- New common files search feature that finds files that exist in multiple devices in the same case. +-- The Other Occurrences content viewer now shows matches in the current case (in addition to central repository). +-- Central repository options panel now shows cases that are in repo. +- A comment about a file can be created and saved in the central repository so that future cases and see it. +- Keyword Search: +-- Can enable OCR text extraction of PDF and JPG files using Tesseract. +-- Keyword search module normalizes Unicode text. +-- Keyword search module uses ICU to convert text files that do not have a BOM. +- Tagging: +-- Tagging menu changed to have user defined tags at top and "quick tag" removed one level of menus. +-- New "Replace Tag" feature to change the tag on an item. +- Other: +-- SQLite tables can be now be exported to CSV files. +-- An interesting file artifact is now created when a "zip bomb" is detected. +-- An object detection ingest module was added to the Experimental module. It requires an OpenCV trained model. + Bug Fixes: - Expanding the case tree is more efficient.