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| author | Mounir IDRASSI <mounir.idrassi@idrix.fr> | 2021-12-30 15:33:16 +0100 |
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| committer | Mounir IDRASSI <mounir.idrassi@idrix.fr> | 2021-12-30 15:35:58 +0100 |
| commit | 656b1c5902dbad06f9d07a25b8b6e8aa297faa57 (patch) | |
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Update Release Notes and add signed Windows driver.
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diff --git a/doc/html/Release Notes.html b/doc/html/Release Notes.html index 2010273d..cb842c5c 100644 --- a/doc/html/Release Notes.html +++ b/doc/html/Release Notes.html @@ -39,22 +39,27 @@ <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> (December 27<sup>th</sup>, 2021):</p> +<p><strong style="text-align:left">1.25.6</strong> (December 30<sup>th</sup>, 2021):</p> <ul> <li><strong>Windows:</strong> <ul> -<li>MSI installation only: Fix double-clicking .hc file container inserting %1 instead of volume name in UI path field.</li> -<li>Add registry settings to control driver internal encryption queue (under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\veracrypt): +<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>VeraCryptEncryptionFragmentSize (REG_DWORD): size of encryption data fragment in KiB. Default is 256.</li> -<li>VeraCryptEncryptionIoRequestCount (REG_DWORD): maximum number of parallel I/O requests. Default is 16.</li> -<li>VeraCryptEncryptionItemCount (REG_DWORD): maximum number of encryption queue items processed in parallel. Default is 8.</li> +<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.</li> +<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> |