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• New Layers:
  • Amazon S3 support
  • Google Cloud Storage support
• New plugins:
  • linux.vmayarascan
  • windows.mftscan.ads
• New features:
  • Dumping of Elf files added to the elfs plugin
• Improvements to ELF support
• Bugfixes to registry support
• Documentation improvements
• Better support for remote ISF directories

• New plugins:
  • Linux capabilities plugin
• Linux process dumping
• Add support for Xen ELF file format
• Improved Linux subsystem support
• Added tutorials to the documentation
• Improved core API

• New plugins:
  • linux.sockstat
  • linux.iomem
  • linux.psscan
  • linux.envars
  • windows.drivermodule
  • windows.vadwalk
• Pid filtering for Windows pstree plugin
• Minor fixes for Windows callbacks plugin
• Minimum Python version was increased to 3.7
• Python-snappy dependency was replaced with ctypes to ease installation
• Whole codebase was reformatted with black
• Faster release cycle (targetting every 4 months)

For the 2.4.0 release, the major version has jumped a few numbers for compatibility, but this is the next release including the following:

• New plugins
  • linux.mountinfo
  • linux.psaux
  • windows.devicetree
  • windows.joblinks
  • windows.ldrmodules
  • windows.mbrscan
  • windows.mftscan
  • windows.sessions
• Introduced the concept of modules and module requirements
• Unified symbol handling and ISF file caching between OS versions
• Better QEVM support (fixed the QEMU PCI hole)
• Exposed an API for automatic PDB symbol table use
• Improved contributed documentation
• Various bug fixes and changes across the codebase

A maintenance release to resolve a few issues affecting Windows detection and PDB support.

Highlights for this release:

• New plugins such as:
  • Windows networking plugins
  • Windows crashinfo and skeleton_key_check
  • Linux kmsg plugin
• New layers: AVML and LeechCore
• QEMU layer performance optimization
• Improved access to Windows library symbols
• Better offline and remote support
• Improved documentation
• Improved working with python requirements
• Drop support for python 3.5

Hotfix release to fix an issue with pypi and setup.py

Volatility 3 1.0.0 official release

Highlights of this version are:

• Much faster operation over volatility 2 (this is largely down to caching of objects)
• Symbol support (symbols can be downloaded and converted for windows directly)
• Documentation (the documentation is generated from the code)
• Better APIs for developers

Windows binary versions will be added once a solution has been found to all pyinstaller packages being identified as malware.