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Extcarve Changelog

Version 1.5 (18-Nov-2025)

Major Feature Addition: Comprehensive File Format Support

Added support for 33 new file formats, bringing total supported formats from 17 to 50 file formats.

New Image Formats (6):

  • BMP - Windows Bitmap (.bmp)
  • TIFF - Tagged Image File Format (.tiff) - Both Little & Big Endian
  • WebP - Google WebP (.webp)
  • ICO - Windows Icon (.ico)
  • PSD - Adobe Photoshop Document (.psd)

New Audio Formats (5):

  • WAV - Waveform Audio File Format (.wav)
  • FLAC - Free Lossless Audio Codec (.flac)
  • OGG - Ogg Vorbis (.ogg)
  • M4A/AAC - MPEG-4 Audio (.m4a)
  • WMA - Windows Media Audio (.wma)

New Video Formats (6):

  • MP4 - MPEG-4 Video (.mp4)
  • AVI - Audio Video Interleave (.avi)
  • MKV - Matroska Video (.mkv)
  • MOV - QuickTime Movie (.mov)
  • FLV - Flash Video (.flv)
  • MPEG - Moving Picture Experts Group (.mpeg)

New Document Formats (5):

  • DOCX - Microsoft Word (Office Open XML) (.docx)
  • XLSX - Microsoft Excel (Office Open XML) (.xlsx)
  • PPTX - Microsoft PowerPoint (Office Open XML) (.pptx)
  • RTF - Rich Text Format (.rtf)
  • ODT - OpenDocument Text (.odt)

New Archive Formats (3):

  • RAR - Roshal Archive (.rar)
  • 7Z - 7-Zip Archive (.7z)
  • XZ - XZ Compressed Archive (.xz)

New Executable Formats (1):

  • EXE/PE - Windows Portable Executable (.exe)

New Database & Other Formats (3):

  • SQLite - SQLite Database (.db)
  • PST - Outlook Personal Storage (.pst)
  • ISO - ISO 9660 CD/DVD Image (.iso)

Technical Improvements:

  • Increased dotpart buffer size from 4 to 6 bytes to support longer extensions (.docx, .xlsx, .pptx, .tiff, .mpeg, .webp)
  • Increased FILE_TYPE buffer size from 5 to 6 bytes
  • Enhanced user prompts with organized, categorized file type listings
  • Improved footer detection for ZIP-based formats (DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, ODT)
  • Added EOF detection support for multimedia and archive formats

File Format Magic Bytes Reference:

All file formats are detected using industry-standard magic byte signatures from file format specifications.

Version 1.4 (11-Aug-2013)

  • MP3 format added

Version 1.3 (Nov-2011)

  • ELF format support added

Version 1.2 (Oct-2011)

  • RPM format support added

Version 1.1 (Jul-2011)

  • Analyze mode (-a) implementation

Version 1.0 (Jul-2011)

  • BZIP2 format support
  • ASCII text file support

Version 0.7 (Jul-2011)

  • GZIP/TGZ and ZIP format support

Version 0.6

  • Bug fixes and stability improvements

Version 0.5 (Jun-2011)

  • MATLAB .fig format support

Version 0.4 (Jun-2011)

  • LaTeX .tex format support

Version 0.3 (Early development)

  • Initial release with GIF, PNG, JPG, PDF, C/C++, PHP support