v6.0.0-alpha.19

Added

- Commands

• Command to generate JSON schema for Aaru metadata files.

- Compression

• LZO compression algorithms.
• LZVN compression algorithm.
• Native version of LZVN compression algorithm.
• XZ buffer compression and decompression.

- Dumping

• Support for reading DVD lead-in and lead-out.
• Support for OmniDrive DVD reading.
• Dump PS5 DI/BCA.

- Filesystems

• Acorn Advanced Disc Filing System (ADFS) is now a fully readable filesystem.
• Acer File System is now a fully readable filesystem.
• AO-DOS filesystem is now a fully readable filesystem.
• AmigaDOS filesystem is now a fully readable filesystem.
• AtheOS is now a fully readable filesystem.
• B-tree file system (btrfs) is now a fully readable filesystem.
• BeOS filesystem (BeFS) is now a fully readable filesystem.
• BeOS (old) filesystem is now a fully readable filesystem.
• Coherent filesystem is now a fully readable filesystem.
• Cram filesystem is now a fully readable filesystem.
• DEC Files-11 (ODS-2/5) is now a fully readable filesystem. Fixes #130
• DEC RT-11 is now a fully readable filesystem.
• ECMA-67 is now a fully readable filesystem.
• exFAT is now a fully readable filesystem. Fixes #686
• Extended Acer Filesystem is now a fully readable filesystem.
• ext2, ext3 and ext4 are now fully readable filesystems.
• F2FS is now a fully readable filesystem.
• HFS is now a fully readable filesystem. Fixes #391
• HFS+ is now a fully readable filesystem.
• High Performance Optical File System (HPOFS) is now a fully readable filesystem.
• HP Logical Interchange Format (LIF) is now a fully readable filesystem.
• HPFS is now a fully readable filesystem.
• IBM Journaling File System (JFS) is now a fully readable filesystem.
• Linux extended filesystem (ext) is now a fully readable filesystem.
• Locus is now a fully readable filesystem.
• MicroDOS is now a fully readable filesystem.
• Minix is now a fully readable filesystem.
• Microsoft New Technology File System (NTFS) is now a fully readable filesystem.
• NILFS2 is now a fully readable filesystem.
• Nintendo optical filesystem is now a fully readable filesystem.
• OS-9 Random Block File (RBF) is now a fully readable filesystem.
• Professional File System (PFS) is now a fully readable filesystem.
• ProDOS is now a fully readable filesystem.
• QNX4 is now a fully readable filesystem.
• QNX6 is now a fully readable filesystem.
• Reiser v3 file system is now a fully readable filesystem.
• Reiser v4 is now a fully readable file system.
• SGI Extent File System (EFS) is now a fully readable file system.
• SmartFileSystem (SFS) is now a fully readable filesystem.
• Squash file system is now a fully readable filesystem.
• System V filesystem is now a fully readable filesystem.
• UDF is now a fully readable filesystem. Fixes #446
• UNIX 7th Edition filesystem is now a fully readable filesystem.
• UNIX boot filesystem (bfs) is now a fully readable filesystem.
• UNIX file system (UFS) is now a fully readable filesystem.
• Veritas is now a fully readable filesystem.
• Xia is now a fully readable filesystem.
• XENIX filesystem is now a fully readable filesystem.
• XFS is now a fully readable file system.

- Formats

• CHD compressed compact disc image support. Fixes #107
• CHD v5 image support. Fixes #106
• Easy CD Creator disc image (.CIF) support. Fixes #443
• PowerISO / gBurner disc image support. Fixes #254
• UltraISO disc image support. Fixes #255
• WinOnCD disc image support. Fixes #599

- ISO9660

• Support for RISC OS system area.
• Full support for zisofs.

- HFS+

• Support for zlib and lzfse compressed files.
• Support for reading all extended attributes.

- Media tags

• Wii U Disc Key media tag.
• PS3 related media tags.

- Partitions

• Implement traversing and enumeration of AIX minidisk partitions. Fixes #7

- Source generators

• Big endian structure swapping source generator.
• PDP endianness swapping source generator.

Changed

- Device reports

• Rework device reports to try other commands if one fail and log them.
• Dynamically figure out the buffer size for raw DVD reading.

- Dumping

• Only re-read pregap sectors that belong to track type changes.

- Filesystem identification

• Rename FFS to UFS.
• UFS detection improved with additional superblock variants (A/UX, 386BSD, RISC/os, Sun, OSF/1, HP-UX, Ultrix).

- GUI

• Make image path visible whatever tab is selected when editing image's metadata.
• Show negative sectors in sector viewer.

- Pascal filesystem

• Enhanced structures to be marshalable.
• Try both endians.
• Use marshalling.
• Add option for text decoding.
• Added filesystem consistency checks.
• Add machine type detection.

- Refactoring

• Use new source generator based big endian marshaller across all filesystems, filters, images, and partitions.
• Remove reflection based SwapStructureMembersEndian.

- Sidecar

• Disable default calculation of SpamSum on sidecar creation.
• Ensure sidecar gets always filenames without paths.

Fixed

• Correct processing of headerless CD-Text coming from images, in image info command. Fixes #662
• Configure Spectre.Console to propagate exceptions so they are handled by us.
• Divide by zero error.
• Escape markup in CD-Text logging to prevent formatting issues.
• Fix creating sidecar of files with brackets or braces.
• Fix listing files with braces.
• Fix logging of Blu-ray disc information to avoid crash when information contains braces or brackets.
• Fix missing markup end tag.
• Handle invalid ISO9660 dates.
• Handle parallel track path in PFI.
• Sanitize volume names by replacing '/' and '' with '_'.

- GUI

• Fix barcode casting.
• Fix wrongly using marked up path in image metadata editor.

5.4.2 LTS

What's Changed

• Fix regression in the publishing pipeline for v5.4 by @maxz in #903
• Fixes #872

New Contributors

• @maxz made their first contribution in #903

Full Changelog: v5.4.1...v5.4.2

v6.0.0 Alpha 18

Added

- Formats

• Flux support in AaruFormat.
• HxCStream image format support.

- Image merge

• Progress updates and localization for hardware processing.

- Media tags

• Floppy write protection media tag.

- Packaging

• Application icon.
• Debian packaging files.
• Desktop entry and package installation configuration for Linux.
• RPM packaging files.

- Testing

• Test suite for flux.

Changed

- A2R format

• Updated A2R functionality.

- Database

• Increase timeout to 300 seconds when updating the database.

- Dumping

• Reorder columns in progress display for media dump command.

- Image merge

• Add abort checks in sector processing loops in dump hardware creation.
• Do not stop on merge if secondary image fails to copy negative or overflow sectors.
• Do not try to merge negative or overflow sectors if secondary image lacks them.
• Optimize sector override checks by using HashSet for O(1) lookups in dump hardware creation.
• Sort merged hardware by the starting LBA of the first extent.

v6.0.0 Alpha 17

Changes

- AaruFormat

• Changed on-disk layout of overflow and negative sectors. All images made with previous alpha releases are incompatible.

v6.0.0 Alpha 16

Added

- AaruFormat

• Enable negative and overflow sectors.

- Commands

• Command to merge two images into a combined third image.
• Option to compare command to use long sectors for comparison.

- Dumping

• Option to fix sectors that didn't pass integrity checks.
• Paranoia mode to check integrity of sectors before writing them to the image.
• Support for dumping the 2nd layer PFI of DVDs.

- GUI

• Aaru metadata editor.
• Alternating row colors and hover effects to data grids.
• Dark theme media type icons and logos.
• Encryption options to media dump window.
• High resolution versions of folder and generic icons.
• Icons to menus, buttons, and tabs.
• Input gestures and hotkeys for menu items.
• Paranoia options to media dump window.
• Scroll viewers for improved scrolling behavior.
• Text wrapping to labels.
• Window to edit AaruFormat files basic metadata.

- Image verification

• Allow to verify only data (non-audio) tracks.

- Media types

• Sony HyperStorage media type.

Changed

- Commands

• Show absolute LBA in verify image with tracks.
• When comparing two images be specific about their contents.

- GUI

• Many UI layout improvements for better responsiveness and usability.
• Media dump options moved into tabs.
• Use dynamic resources for improved theme support.
• Use new image conversion algorithms.

- Image conversion

• Do not try to convert flags, ISRC or CD-TEXT in negative or overflow sectors.
• Implement abortion in image conversion process.
• Reworked image conversion to separate into parts and moved to Aaru.Core.

- Refactoring

• General code cleanup and reformatting.
• Optimize LINQ queries.
• Replace regex with source generation.
• Simplify boolean comparisons.
• Use collection expressions.
• Use null propagation.
• Use static lambdas for improved performance.

Fixed

• Bug in string formatting in EVPD prettyfier.
• Convert calling the logger instead of the error events.
• Do not convert undumped overflow and negative sectors.
• Error by one in overflow sectors conversion.
• Long file name handling issues.
• Text wrapping in ImageInfo labels. Fixes #877

v6.0.0-alpha.15.1

[6.0.0-alpha.15.1] - 2025-11-21

Fixed

• Showstopper bug in GUI.

[6.0.0-alpha.15] - 2025-11-21

Added

• More vendor IDs for MultiMediaCard and SecureDigital devices.
• Humanized media type in several places.
• More colorization.

- GUI

• Connecting to AaruRemote servers.
• Device information.
• Dumping media.
• IMGBurn log viewer.
• Media information.
• MHDD log viewer.
• Scanning media.

Changed

- Dumping

• Better more stable speed calculation algorithm.

- Media scanning

• Better more stable speed calculation algorithm.

- TUI

• New cyberpunk neon style theme.

Fixed

• PMA naming in several places.

- Alcohol 120% disc image

• Fixed reading media tags

v6.0.0-alpha.14

Added

• GUI.

v6.0.0-alpha.13

Added

• AaruFormat V2.

Fixed

• Several colorization fixes in console output.
• Fix spiral drawing for 80mm DVDs.

6.0.0 alpha 12

Added

- Archives

• Support for AMG archives
• Support for ARC archives
• Support for HA archives
• Support for PAK archives
• Support for Xbox 360 Secure Transacted File System (STFS) archives
• Support for ZOO archives

6.0.0 alpha 11

Added

- Console

• Add colors to all output from console, except from plugins themselves (this will come later).

Fixed

- Media detection

• Fix detection of BD-R when profile is set wrong by drive.

- Media information

• Fix media information not returning anything.
• Prevent crash when incorrect MMC features are returned by the drive.

- Media scanning

• Fixed wrong speed average.

- Decoding

• Guards against certain EVPD page 80h.

- Dumping

• Show MAX instead of "0x" when dumping CDs.
• DI and BCA will be dumped from all Blu-ray derived media types.

Changes

• Add Sentry to catch and send exceptions to be reviewed.
• Add option to save log file globally.
• Disable automatic creation of log file on dumping, use global log file.
• Updated to .NET 10