TaskForce Changelog

2018.12

New Features

• NVMe support!
• Support of M.2, Thunderbolt, and Apple PCIe extension modules
• Imaging
• The option to image all sectors with data
  Supported file systems: NTFS, APFS, Ext 2/3/4, HFS, HFS+, ExFAT, FAT16, FAT32
• Unclip HPA until power cycle on source drives
• Pause and Resume features support for pre-hash and post-hash calculation during imaging session
• SAS port. Performance increase by 25%
• Improved imaging of damaged drives
• New setting Save report in the target folder when imaging to a file
• E01 metadata automatically filled with case ID, investigator, description from the case management system
• User interface
• Fully revamped UI with center-aligned pages
• Better UI version for smartphones
• Short values (1K, 1M, 1G, 1T) supported in all LBA text boxes
  Example: 3M will transform into 3,000,000
• 4K sector size support on SATA, SAS, USB drives
• Wiping. Added methods: NIST 800-88, DOD 5220, Random, LBA Number
• System menu. Added Release notes page and Toggle full screen feature

Bugfixes

• USB devices. On certain devices, bad sectors were detected but not reported in the logs
• Warning when opening E01 file in Encase created by Atola TaskForce
• HPA/DCO indication missing on SATA devices plugged to SAS ports
• Issues identifying drives in PUIS mode
• Unclip HPA/DCO not working on IDE drives
• Several translation inaccuracies in the Chinese version

2018.8

New Features

• Imaging
• Overall performance increase by 25% when imaging to network shared folders
• Imaging presets with export/import features
• Export of imaged/non-imaged/error sectors into a file
• Sparse file support when writing into target images
• Improved damaged drive support for disks that freeze in the course of imaging
• Option to automatically limit target drive capacity to match that of the source via HPA
• Hashing. 100% performance increase of double-hash (MD5+SHA1) calculation reaching 650 MB/s
• Case management
• Export of one or multiple cases into a file
• Import of cases from a file
• Navigation between reports via new arrow buttons in the bottom panel
• Improvement in printing of multiple reports
• Diagnostics. Improved Media Surface check for solid-state drives
• SAS drives. SMART support
• SATA drives. Added PHY link in the bottom panel
• E01 metadata is now automatically filled from the corresponding case

Bugfixes

• Imaging. Improved graph animation smoothness for large screen resolutions
• Imaging. After read error, error type was not showing in a corresponding log message
• Diagnostics. Removed incorrect error message for partitions larger than 8TB
• Issue when a task may not start when drive power is off
• E01 files. Invalid E01 metadata when non-Latin characters are used in Description and Investigator fields
• Issue with SATA drives in PUIS mode not getting identified in rare cases
• Multiple UI fixes

2018.1.3

New Features

• Imaging to password-protected servers and network folders
• Static IP mode for both 10Gbit Ethernet ports

2018.1.2

Chinese language support

2018.1.1

Bugfixes

• Diagnose. Error when scanning a partition of more than 2TB size
• Activation. Intermittent error during the first system activation
• Fixed other minor issues

2018.1

Initial release