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| author | Mounir IDRASSI <mounir.idrassi@idrix.fr> | 2022-03-22 00:13:52 +0100 |
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| committer | Mounir IDRASSI <mounir.idrassi@idrix.fr> | 2022-03-22 00:56:54 +0100 |
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Update release notes for 1.26.0 and set its date to March 21st 2022
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diff --git a/doc/html/Release Notes.html b/doc/html/Release Notes.html index 7bcc434d..0748a3d5 100644 --- a/doc/html/Release Notes.html +++ b/doc/html/Release Notes.html @@ -7,70 +7,92 @@ <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">1.26</strong> (March 21<sup>st</sup>, 2022):</p> +<ul> +<li><strong>All OSes:</strong> +<ul> +<li>Add support for BLAKE2s as new PRF algorithm for both system encryption and standard volumes.</li> +<li>Complete removal of RIPEMD16 and GOST89 algorithms. Legacy volumes using any of them cannot be mounted by VeraCrypt anymore.</li> +<li>Add Corsican language support. Update translations (French, German, Russian). </li> +</ul> +</li> +<li><strong>Windows:</strong> +<ul> +<li>EFI Bootloader: +<ul> +<li>Fix bug in PasswordTimeout value handling that caused it to be limited to 255 seconds.</li> +<li>Rescue Disk: enhance "Boot Original Windows Loader" by using embedded backup of original Windows loader if it is missing from disk</li> +<li>Addition of Blake2s and removal of RIPEMD160 & GOST89</li> +</ul> +</li> +</ul> +</li> +</ul> + <p><strong style="text-align:left">1.25.9</strong> (February 19<sup>th</sup>, 2022):</p> <ul> <li><strong>All OSes:</strong> <ul> <li>Update translations (Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Turkish).</li> </ul> </li> <li><strong>Windows:</strong> <ul> <li>Make MSI installer compatible with system encryption.</li> <li>Set minimum support for MSI installation to Windows 7.</li> <li>Fix failure to create Traveler Disk when VeraCrypt is installed using MSI.</li> <li>Don't cache the outer volume password when mounting with hidden volume protection if wrong hidden volume password was specified.</li> <li>Reduce the size of EXE installers by almost 50% by using LZMA compression instead of DEFLATE.</li> <li>Fix double-clicking mounted drive in VeraCrypt UI not working in some special Windows configurations.</li> <li>Add registry key to fix BSOD during shutdown/reboot on some machines when using system encryption. <ul> <li>Under "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\veracrypt", create a REG_DWORD value named "VeraCryptEraseKeysShutdown".</li> <li>Setting this registry value to 0 disables erasing system encryption keys which is the cause of BSOD during shutdown on some machines.</li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li><strong>Linux:</strong> <ul> <li>Fix hidden volume settings not correctly displayed when enabling hidden volume protection in mount options window.</li> <li>Fix generic Linux installer overwriting /usr/sbin if it is a symlink.</li> <li>Fix crash when building with _GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS defined.</li> <li>Enable building from source without AES-NI support.</li> </ul> </li> <li><strong>MacOSX:</strong> <ul> <li>Fix hidden volume settings not correctly displayed when enabling hidden volume protection in mount options window.</li> </ul> |