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author | Mounir IDRASSI <mounir.idrassi@idrix.fr> | 2022-01-02 21:47:28 +0100 |
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committer | Mounir IDRASSI <mounir.idrassi@idrix.fr> | 2022-01-02 21:52:49 +0100 |
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Update documentation and Release Notes for restored Windows 7 support. Set 1.25.6 release date at January 3rd 2022
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diff --git a/doc/html/Release Notes.html b/doc/html/Release Notes.html index 596d337e..6afc723f 100644 --- a/doc/html/Release Notes.html +++ b/doc/html/Release Notes.html @@ -7,74 +7,80 @@ <meta name="description" content="VeraCrypt is free open-source disk encryption software for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. In case an attacker forces you to reveal the password, VeraCrypt provides plausible deniability. In contrast to file encryption, data encryption performed by VeraCrypt is real-time (on-the-fly), automatic, transparent, needs very little memory, and does not involve temporary unencrypted files."/> <meta name="keywords" content="encryption, security"/> <link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> </head> <body> <div> <a href="Documentation.html"><img src="VeraCrypt128x128.png" alt="VeraCrypt"/></a> </div> <div id="menu"> <ul> <li><a href="Home.html">Home</a></li> <li><a href="/code/">Source Code</a></li> <li><a href="Downloads.html">Downloads</a></li> <li><a class="active" href="Documentation.html">Documentation</a></li> <li><a href="Donation.html">Donate</a></li> <li><a href="https://sourceforge.net/p/veracrypt/discussion/" target="_blank">Forums</a></li> </ul> </div> <div> <p> <a href="Documentation.html">Documentation</a> <img src="arrow_right.gif" alt=">>" style="margin-top: 5px"> <a href="Release%20Notes.html">Version History</a> </p></div> <div class="wikidoc"> <h1>Release Notes</h1> <p> <strong>Note to users who created volumes with 1.17 version of VeraCrypt or earlier: </strong><br/> <span style="color:#ff0000;">To avoid hinting whether your volumes contain a hidden volume or not, or if you depend on plausible deniability when using hidden volumes/OS, then you must recreate both the outer and hidden volumes including system encryption and hidden OS, discarding existing volumes created prior to 1.18a version of VeraCrypt.</span></li> </p> -<p><strong style="text-align:left">1.25.6</strong> (January 1<sup>st</sup>, 2022):</p> +<p><strong style="text-align:left">1.25.6</strong> (January 3<sup>rd</sup>, 2022):</p> <ul> <li><strong>Windows:</strong> <ul> +<li>Restore support of Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8/8.1. +<ul> +<li>Windows 7 support requires that either KB3033929 or KB4474419 is installed.</li> +<li>Windows Vista support requires that either KB4039648 or KB4474419 is installed.</li> +</ul> +</li> <li>MSI installation only: Fix double-clicking .hc file container inserting %1 instead of volume name in path field.</li> <li>Advanced users: Add registry settings to control driver internal encryption queue to allow tuning performance for SSD disks and having better stability under heavy load. <ul> <li>Under registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\veracrypt: <ul> <li>VeraCryptEncryptionFragmentSize (REG_DWORD): size of encryption data fragment in KiB. Default is 256. Maximum is 2048.</li> <li>VeraCryptEncryptionIoRequestCount (REG_DWORD): maximum number of parallel I/O requests. Default is 16. Maximum is 8192.</li> <li>VeraCryptEncryptionItemCount (REG_DWORD): maximum number of encryption queue items processed in parallel. Default as well as maximum is half of VeraCryptEncryptionIoRequestCount.</li> </ul> </li> <li>The triplet (FragmentSize=512, IoRequestCount=128, ItemCount=64) is an example of parameters that enhance sequential read speed on some SSD NVMe systems.</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <li><strong>MacOSX:</strong> <ul> <li>Fix resource files inside VeraCrypt application bundle (e.g. HTML documentation, languages XML files) being world-writable. (Reported by Niall O'Reilly)</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p><strong style="text-align:left">1.25.4</strong> (December 3<sup>rd</sup>, 2021):</p> <ul> <li><strong>All OSes:</strong> <ul> <li>Speed optimization of Streebog.</li> <li>Update translations.</li> </ul> </li> <li><strong>Windows:</strong> <ul> <li>Add support for Windows on ARM64 (e.g. Microsoft Surface Pro X) but system encryption not yet supported.</li> <li>Add MSI installer for silent mode deployment (ACCEPTLICENSE=YES must be set in msiexec command line). <ul> <li>For now, MSI installer cannot be used if system partition is encrypted with VeraCrypt</li> <li>MSI installer requires Windows 10 or newer</li> |