Hetman Software Version History & Changelog

AppleRAID: fixed an issue that could prevent some RAID arrays from being assembled correctly in automatic mode.

BitLocker: added support for encrypted disks and partitions. Supports unlocking with a password, recovery key, or BEK file; both legacy and current encryption algorithms are supported: AES-128-CBC + Diffuser, AES-256-CBC + Diffuser, AES-128-CBC, AES-256-CBC, AES-128-XTS, and AES-256-XTS. Available on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

LUKS1: added support for encrypted Linux partitions. Supports unlocking with a password or key file and the AES-XTS-plain64 and AES-CBC-ESSIV:SHA256 encryption schemes. Available on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

LUKS2: added support for encrypted Linux partitions. Supports unlocking with a password or key file; PBKDF2, Argon2i, and Argon2id; and the AES-XTS-plain64 encryption scheme. Available on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

VeraCrypt: added support for encrypted partitions. Supports unlocking with a password, PIM, and one or more key files; regular and hidden volumes; and encrypted system partitions. Supported ciphers: AES, Serpent, Twofish, Camellia, and Kuznyechik. Supported key-generation algorithms: SHA-256, SHA-512, Whirlpool, BLAKE2S, STREEBOG, and Argon2. Available on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Encrypted forensic images: added support for EWF/E01, AFF, AFD, AFF4, and AFF4-directory formats. EWF/E01 supports password unlocking; AFF, AFD, and AFF4 support unlocking with a password, private key, or password-protected PFX/P12 certificate. Available on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Encrypted Apple disk images: added support for DMG, ASIF, sparseimage, and sparsebundle formats. Supports password unlocking; DMG, sparseimage, and sparsebundle also support unlocking with a private key or password-protected PFX/P12 certificate. Supports AES-128 and AES-256. Available on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

NTFS: added support for EFS-encrypted files using a password-protected PFX/P12 certificate. Available on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

NTFS: added import of EFS decryption keys from Windows.

APFS: added support for FileVault-encrypted volumes. Available on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

HFS+: added support for FileVault 2/CoreStorage-encrypted volumes using a password or a recovery key with EncryptedRoot.plist.wipekey. Available on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Ext2/3/4: added support for fscrypt-encrypted files with policy versions 1 and 2. Available on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

XFS: fixed an issue where some files were not recovered correctly.

XFS: significantly improved recovery performance for large files.

FAT: fixed incorrect names for some recovered files.

VMware: fixed incorrect reading of some VMDK disk images.

QEMU: added support for external snapshots stored in separate files.

QEMU: added support for compressed data in QCOW2 images and snapshots.

SSH: added support for VMware ESXi servers.

Improved read performance for mounted disk images.

Fixed several minor bugs.

Disk mounting: added support for Apple DMG images in uncompressed, UDZO, UDBZ, ULFO, and ULMO formats.

Disk mounting: added support for Apple sparse images, legacy sparse images, and sparse bundles (*.asif, *.sparseimage, *.sparsebundle).

Disk mounting: added support for forensic disk images: EnCase/EWF1/EWF2 (*.E01, *.S01, *.Ex01; single-file or multi-volume) with uncompressed, Deflate, and BZip2 data; Advanced Forensic Format (*.aff, *.afm) and AFF directory images (*.afd) with uncompressed, zlib, and zero pages; and AFF4 images (*.aff4; single-file, multi-volume, or *.aff4 directory) with uncompressed, zlib, Snappy, LZ4, and Deflate data.

Disk mounting: added support for DriveImage XML images, including raw, split, and compressed variants.

macOS/Linux: added ZIP compression options, password protection, and archive splitting, matching the functionality available on Windows.

Fixed several minor bugs.

Added disk access over SSH on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Supports Linux, Windows, and macOS servers; password, private-key file, pasted private key, SSH agent, keyboard-interactive, and "none" authentication; sudo/doas privilege escalation on Linux/macOS; a persistent sudo channel for faster reads; and automatic reconnection if the SSH session is interrupted.

APFS: added snapshot support.

APFS: improved Fast Scan performance.

Btrfs (macOS/Linux): added support for compressed data.

Ext: fixed issues with large disks; depending on the configuration, the previous maximum supported size was 8–32 TB.

HFS: fixed an issue where files with short names were not displayed.

HFS: fixed incorrect reading of large fragmented files.

HFS: added support for symbolic links in addition to regular files.

LVM: fixed reading of thin-provisioned volumes in some configurations.

NTFS: improved the journal analysis algorithm.

NTFS (Windows): fixed support for LZNT1-compressed files.

NTFS (macOS/Linux): added support for LZNT1-compressed files.

NTFS (Windows/macOS/Linux): added support for WOF/Compact files at all compression levels: ccfLZX, ccfXpress4K, ccfXpress8K, and ccfXpress16K.

ZFS: added support for ZVOL disks.

ZFS: added snapshot support.

ZFS (Windows): fixed support for ZSTD compression.

ZFS (macOS/Linux): added GZIP and ZSTD compression support; all supported compression types are now available.

Smart Monitor (Windows): fixed an issue that prevented S.M.A.R.T. information from being read from some NVMe drives.

Windows: added preview support for WinRAR 5 archives.

macOS/Linux: expanded archive preview from ZIP-only support to 82 archive formats, matching Windows.

macOS: fixed a crash that could occur while previewing certain video files.

Linux: added preview support for video and audio files.

Linux: significantly expanded the range of image formats supported by Preview.

Fixed an issue that could cause the application to freeze while calculating file sizes before saving.

Added support for Infortrend SAN devices, including automatic RAID detection and assembly, internal partition table parsing, snapshots, and Thick/Thin volumes.

Linux: significantly expanded the list of supported image formats.

Fixed a crash that could occur while previewing photos or videos.

Fixed localization issues in several languages.

Windows: fixed incorrect detection of NVMe drive serial numbers.

Linux: fixed incorrect sector-size detection on some drives.

Fixed several minor bugs.

Disk image mounting: added support for physical drives with 4 KB sectors.

Linux: added support for openSUSE.

Btrfs: fixed an issue that could cause the application to freeze when analyzing drives containing a large number of files.

HikvisionFS: fixed errors that could occur during drive analysis.

Windows: added the Smart Monitor feature.

Btrfs: improved drive analysis performance.

Fixed compatibility issues with some Synology NAS devices.

Windows: added support for newer versions of Windows Storage Spaces.

Added support for SoftRAID on Windows and macOS.

Added support for controllers based on Marvell chipsets.

Fixed a crash that could occur during analysis when processing certain files.

Added the ability to select file systems for Full Analysis.

Fixed an issue that could cause the application to freeze.

Added the ability to select file systems for Full Analysis.

Fixed errors when saving disk images containing bad clusters.

Windows 10: fixed an issue that could cause applications to freeze while previewing files.

Fixed several minor bugs.

NTFS: fixed incorrect disk-size detection in some cases.

NTFS: fixed an issue where files larger than 38 GB could appear empty and be saved as 0-byte files.

Fixed an issue that could cause the application to freeze while scanning large volumes or when displaying a large number of files as icons.

Added support for macOS.

Added support for Linux.

Added support for High DPI displays.

Fixed a file-loading error that could occur when saving files or disks over FTP.

Improved the user interface and overall usability.

Fixed several minor bugs.

Added support for macOS.

Added support for Linux.

Added support for High DPI displays.

Fixed a file-loading error that could occur when saving files or disks over FTP.

Improved the user interface and overall usability.

Fixed several minor bugs.

NTFS: improved the journal analysis algorithm.

ReFS: added support for heavily fragmented files.

Ext: fixed scan algorithm errors, improving file detection.

Btrfs: fixed errors and improved the scan algorithm.

Added support for macOS.

Added support for Linux.

Fixed browser-type detection issues that affected some browsers.

Improved the browser data analysis algorithm.

Improved detection of images from websites visited by the user.

Significantly improved system scan performance.

Expanded browser support to include Brave, Chromium, Firefox Developer Edition, Firefox Nightly, Floorp, LibreWolf, Mullvad Browser, Opera GX, Pale Moon, Waterfox, and Zen Browser.

Fixed several minor bugs.

Unraid: added support for Unraid OS arrays with single and dual parity.

LVM: fixed an issue that prevented some LVM-based RAID arrays from being read.

RAID Constructor: improved the RAID search algorithm, increasing performance in some cases.

MBR: fixed an issue that could incorrectly detect and add extra disks.

Interface: fixed incorrect display of deleted-file and deleted-folder icons on some monitors.

Improved detection of deleted RAID arrays created with hardware RAID controllers.

LSI Logic: expanded support to additional controller models.

3ware: added support for 3ware controllers.

Dawicontrol: added support for Dawicontrol controllers using RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10, and JBOD.

MBR: fixed an MBR partition-table read error that could occur on physical disks with many logical partitions.

ReFS: fixed an issue where file contents were not displayed in some cases.

LVM Thin Provisioning: added support for Tier Thin Pool technology in addition to Thin Pool.

XFS: improved support for large files and sparse files.

Fixed an issue that could occasionally cause the application to freeze while scanning disks.

VMFS: fixed an issue that could cause the application to freeze at startup while reading VMFS data.

HFS+: fixed an issue that could cause the application to freeze during file-system analysis.

XFS: fixed incorrect block-size detection that could prevent analysis or produce incorrect results on some file systems.

RAID: fixed incorrect disk-order detection in automatic reconstruction mode for some NAS devices.

Added support for additional NETGEAR NAS devices.

ZFS: fixed an issue where Fast Scan could fail to find all files.

Linux RAID: fixed an issue where automatic mode could assemble an array incorrectly and prevent file-system analysis.

GPT: added fallback to the backup partition table when the primary GPT partition table is damaged.

Disk analysis data: fixed an error that could occur when reopening saved Full Scan or Content-Aware Analysis results.

Windows Storage Spaces: added support for older Storage Spaces versions.

Added support for Mobius 5-Bay FireWire 800 (automatic search only).

ReFS: fixed an issue where file contents were not displayed on newer ReFS versions.

XFS: fixed analysis of older file-system versions (version 4 and earlier) that were previously unsupported in some cases.

XFS: improved the analysis algorithm so file contents are displayed correctly in more cases.

XFS: fixed an issue where some deleted files were displayed as existing.

Ext3/4: fixed an issue that could cause Fast Scan to freeze.

Registration: license keys can now be entered with or without hyphens.

Windows Storage Spaces: fixed incorrect recognition of some array types.

Added support for IPStorPartition technology, enabling support for Intel SS4000-E NAS devices.

ZFS: added support for 4 KB blocks.

NTFS: fixed an issue that could cause duplicate files to appear in scan results.

Improved mounted-disk handling: when a mounted disk is removed, dependent child disks created automatically by RAID or LVM are also removed when all of their parent disks have been removed.

RAID wizard: fixed an issue where some automatically detected RAID disks were not displayed.

Full Analysis: expanded file-system support beyond FAT and NTFS to include exFAT, ReFS, APFS, HFS, Ext2/3/4, XFS, Btrfs, ReiserFS, ZFS, UFS, and HikvisionFS.

XFS: improved Quick Scan and Full Analysis algorithms so more files are recognized with their correct sizes instead of appearing as 0-byte files.

APFS: fixed errors when working with disks containing snapshots.

UFS: fixed severe performance issues during Quick Scan that could make analysis appear to freeze.

LVM: added support for LVM Thin Provisioning.

Thumbnails and Preview: added detection of text documents regardless of file extension.

Preview: added Hex mode, which is shown automatically when the file cannot be previewed normally and can be disabled in Settings.

Disk image mounting: fixed an issue where physical disks could be displayed as logical disks.

FTP saving: improved performance and added support for large files and UTF-8 servers.

Disk image saving: added the ability to save images to an FTP server.

Improved Full Analysis performance.

Fast Scan: removed the active "Content-Aware Analysis" folder.

APFS: fixed severe performance issues during Full Analysis on disks containing a large number of files.

VMware: added snapshot support.

VMware: fixed analysis of standard VMDK files.

VMware: added support for split VMDK files.

VMware: added support for flat VMDK files.

VMware: added support for SESparse (Space Efficient) files.

vSphere: added support for VMDK files created by vSphere.

VirtualBox: improved support for VDI virtual disks.

Hyper-V: improved support for VHD and VHDX virtual disks.

Parallels: improved support for HDD and HDS virtual disks.

QEMU: improved support for QCOW and QCOW2 virtual disks.

Linux KVM: improved support for QCOW2 virtual disks.

XenServer: added support for virtual machine disks.

Proxmox: added support for virtual machine disks.

VMware ESXi: improved support for VMFS versions 3, 5, and 6.

Added support for GEOM Vinum software RAID on FreeBSD.

Fixed an issue where a RAID array inside a logical partition of a mounted physical disk image could not be recognized.

RAIDZ1: fixed issues and improved support.

QEMU: improved data recovery from QEMU virtual disks.

Improved support for QCOW, QCOW2, IMG, COW, and QED virtual disks, including data recovery from snapshots and dynamic virtual disks.

Linux KVM: improved data recovery from Linux KVM virtual disks.

Improved support for RAW and QCOW2 virtual disks, including data recovery from snapshots and dynamic virtual disks.

XFS: added XFS file system support.

ZFS: fixed issues and improved overall support.

RAIDZ2: fixed issues and improved support.

Added support for network storage systems running TrueNAS CORE.

ZFS: added support for 4 KB blocks.

Fixed an issue where a RAID array inside a logical partition of a mounted physical disk image could not be recognized.

RAIDZ1: fixed issues and improved support.

Added support for Cisco NAS devices.

ZFS: added file-system support.

NTFS: fixed an issue where recently deleted files could be displayed twice.

ZFS: added file-system support.

Added support for RAIDZ1, RAIDZ2, and RAIDZ3.

Added support for Areca RAID controllers.

Added support for Linksys NAS devices.

Added support for Acer NAS devices.

Added support for NAS devices running Synology DSM or XPEnology.

Added data recovery support for Synology NAS RAID systems created with Synology DSM or XPEnology.

Added support for NAS devices running OpenMediaVault.

Added data recovery support for OpenMediaVault RAID systems.

Ext3/4: fixed an issue where some file systems were not recognized and therefore could not be analyzed.

Ext3/4: improved journal analysis so file contents can be recovered for more deleted files.

Ext3/4: significantly improved Fast Scan performance in some cases.

XFS: fixed file-structure parsing issues that could prevent some files and folders from being displayed.

Added support for Promise Technology NAS devices.

Added support for SmartStor NAS devices.

Added support for Iomega (Lenovo) NAS devices.

Added support for Thecus NAS devices.

Added support for Zyxel NAS devices.

Added support for D-Link DNS-343 NAS devices.

Added support for NETGEAR NAS devices.

Added X-RAID support.

Added support for Seagate NAS devices.

Added support for Western Digital NAS devices.

NTFS: added journal analysis.

Ext3/4: fixed an issue that could produce spurious files with invalid or unreadable names.

Linux mdadm: added automatic detection of RAID arrays created with older mdadm versions.

Linux mdadm: fixed disk-size detection, especially for JBOD configurations.

Linux mdadm: added five RAID 6 block-order layouts with Q parity on the last disk.

Added support for Synology NAS devices.

VMFS: added support for VMFS file systems used by virtual machine datastores.

Improved data recovery from virtual disk image files.

Added support for HP NAS devices.

VHDX: improved data recovery from VHDX virtual disks used by Hyper-V and Hyper-V Server.

VHDX: added data recovery from virtual machine snapshots and dynamic virtual disks.

Improved data recovery from hardware RAID arrays after controller failure or replacement.

NTFS: fixed file-table reconstruction issues that could cause Fast Scan to miss some files.

Disk image saving: fixed an issue where the final sectors could be truncated or extra sectors could be added.

Replaced a third-party component that could display an unexpected registration notice when previewing Excel files.

Fixed a memory-related error.

RAID Constructor: fixed an issue where mounted physical disks could be recognized as logical disks and therefore not appear in the constructor.

Added validation of RAID service metadata when mounting disk images used to reconstruct an array.

DDF: fixed an error with some DDF-based controllers that could prevent RAID detection.

RAID Constructor: fixed an issue where some mounted physical disks could be recognized as logical disks and therefore not appear in the constructor.

Fixed an issue where user accounts were not detected on some computers.

Added support for IBM RAID controllers.

Added data recovery support for damaged RAID arrays.

Added support for sparse files on Windows, Linux, and macOS, including NTFS, ReFS, Ext3, Ext4, Btrfs, and APFS file systems.

Added support for sparse files on Windows, Linux, and macOS, including NTFS, ReFS, Ext3, Ext4, Btrfs, and APFS file systems.

Added support for the Btrfs file system.

Added support for the Btrfs file system.

Added data recovery from Btrfs RAID arrays.

Added data recovery support for RAID arrays managed by motherboard RAID controllers.

Added support for widely used motherboard RAID controllers.

Added support for HP RAID controllers.

Improved data recovery from Windows Storage Spaces arrays on Windows Server.

Added support for QNAP NAS devices.

Added support for D-Link DSN-1100 NAS devices.

Improved data recovery from Linux software RAID configurations, including LVM RAID, LV RAID, and MD RAID.

Added recovery of deleted data from Linux LVM volumes.

Added data recovery support for video recorders and Hikvision surveillance systems.

Added support for the Hikvision DVR file system.

Added data recovery support for Hikvision surveillance systems.

Added support for the Hikvision DVR file system.

Added data recovery from Linux software RAID arrays created with mdadm after one or more disk failures.

Added support for Adaptec RAID controllers.

Released the first version of Hetman RAID Recovery and launched sales.

Improved data recovery from Linux disks using Ext2, Ext3, Ext4, XFS, and ReiserFS.

Added support for Linux file systems: Ext2, Ext3, Ext4, XFS, and ReiserFS.

Added data recovery from Linux disks, USB flash drives, and memory cards using Ext2, Ext3, Ext4, XFS, and ReiserFS.

Added support for 4Kn disks.

Improved APFS data recovery from iMac, MacBook, Mac Pro, Mac mini, USB flash drives, and memory cards.

Added data recovery support for Windows Server volumes using ReFS.

Added support for the ReFS file system.

Added support for HFS+ (Mac OS Extended).

Added support for APFS (Apple File System).

Added a digital signature to reduce false blocking by Windows SmartScreen.

Improved compatibility with Windows Defender to reduce false blocking by the built-in antivirus.

Improved the Fast Scan data recovery algorithm.

Improved the Full Analysis data recovery algorithm.

Improved data-reading algorithms for damaged, unreadable, and inaccessible disks, and improved access to lost or inaccessible files.

Improved recovery of data from popular email clients, including Mozilla Thunderbird and Microsoft Outlook.

Improved recovery of deleted Microsoft Office documents.

Improved recovery of deleted video files, especially on Windows 10 and removable media used by newer Android devices.

Improved recovery of deleted images and added support for additional image formats.

Improved data recovery after extending or merging partitions/volumes, repartitioning disks, or deleting partitions/volumes.

Released the first version.

Launched sales.

Optimized recovery of MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, and 1C databases.

Improved recovery of deleted Microsoft Excel spreadsheets.

Improved data recovery from unallocated disk space.

Improved data recovery from RAW disks and hard drives containing RAW volumes.

Improved data recovery from hard drives, failing disks, and disks containing bad sectors.

Added support for popular virtual disk formats: *.vdi, *.vmdk, *.vhd, *.hdd, *.qed, and *.qcow.

Added mounting and data recovery support for virtual disks used by VMware Workstation/Player, Microsoft Hyper-V, Oracle VirtualBox, Parallels Desktop, QEMU, and KVM.

Note: this release did not support recovery from virtual machine snapshots; snapshot support was added in later releases after January 2022.

Improved recovery of deleted Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files.

Optimized the application for Windows 10.

Tested data recovery on Windows 10 after system updates, rollback to a previous version, system reset, or operating-system reinstallation on desktop and laptop PCs.

NTFS: improved data recovery for the NTFS implementation used by Windows 10.

Released the first version of the application.