OSForensics V0.89 has been released, 16th of February 2011.
This is another substantial release with bug fixes and new functionality.

  • Added raw disk viewer with Perl style regular expression searching (i.e grep).
  • Can now specify a default drive to perform actions on as part of the case.
  • Fixed memory handle leak when searching for alternate streams.
  • Fixed opening a files location where the file exists in a folder with a comma
  • Indexing process now skips known file types that are deselected when choosing to index unknown file types.
  • Fixed bug in advanced index configuration not allowing max file size less than 2GB
  • Can now view alternate streams in internal viewer
  • Fixed progress bar being wrong by a factor of 10 during the hashing stage of signature creation.
  • Fixed a bug preventing some files from being opened from the index log.
  • Added progress bar to indexing status window.
  • Added maximum number of files to index status window.
  • Improved some indexing failure error messages.
  • Fixed incorrect counting of .dbx files in some instances during indexing pre-scan.
  • Indexing process by default now excludes '.zdat' files (index files)
  • Fixed bug with indexing Outlook .msg files.
  • Fixed bug with missing from and to addresses for some HTML emails from .pst files.
  • Max file size indexed is now determined by the amount of RAM in the system rather than the largest file on disk.
  • File search no longer shows folder when limits on streams are set.
  • Can now sort by number and size of streams in File Search.
  • Index search now shows an indication when context has been truncated.
  • Fixed minor bug that would re-enable the controls in the deleted files search before the search was completed if the user browsed to another window and back.
  • Add ability to stop the deleted file search while running.
  • Fixed crash when closing the internal file viewer while a large file was being loaded into the text viewer.
  • Case management item list now shows the date the item was added.
  • Renaming indexes in the case management window now correctly updates the names in the search index window.
  • Fixed crash in recent activity search when limiting by date range.
  • Minor improvements to NSRL import speed.