Intella Connect Patches

[Chris]

Vound occasionally issues "patch releases", to quickly address issues of a severe nature. Below is a list of the patch releases and a description of their changes.

For patch releases for Intella Connect 2.6, see the replies below this post.

The following patch release has been issued since the 2.5.1 release:

2.5.1.1

• Improvements to the default case memory settings, reducing the risk of out of memory errors.
• Resolved an issue with certain Cellebrite UFDR reports failing to process correctly.
• Resolved an issue with disk images failing to process correctly when the number of disk image parts exceeded ~800 files.
• Improved handling of Notes NSF files, ensuring that document-level errors only affect that document.
• Resolved an issue where sources defined with Intella could not be edited when opened in Intella Connect.
• Improvements to the time-out mechanism to make it work better with large (multi-TB) disk images.
• Resolved an issue where user roles would fail to be added.
• Resolved an issue where setting the custodian field during indexing would result in the source failing to index.

The following patch release has been issued since the 2.5 release:

2.5.0.1

• While Intella is not affected by the Log4j vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228), we have released a patch to ensure that the latest versions of the SLF4J and Logback logging libraries are used.

The following patch release has been issued since the 2.4.2 release:

2.4.2.1

• While Intella is not affected by the Log4j vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228), we have released a patch to ensure that the latest versions of the SLF4J and Logback logging libraries are used.
• Back-ported a security improvement from the 2.5 release related to secure file uploads.

The following patch release has been issued since the 2.4.1 release:

2.4.1.1

• Fixed two security vulnerabilities. We recommend updating all existing instances to the newest version.

The following patch releases have been issued since the 2.3.1 release:

2.3.1.1

• Fixed an issue where timezone settings may not be properly applied to file system items in an AD1 disk image.
• Fixed an issue where timezone settings may not be properly applied to certain items when the source time zone is different from the investigator machine's time zone. This affects Hangul version 3 documents, OpenOffice documents (creation dates only), deletion stubs in NSF, and certain dates in USB-related artifacts.

2.3.1.2

• Fixed an issue where a crawler crash that could result in corrupt text stores were not reported appropriately.
• Fixed an issue where email metadata in rich text NSF items was indexed in a way that made them non-responsive to certain field-specific keyword searches.
• Fixed an issue where indexing of certain calendar items could result in an endless loop, causing indexing to never complete.

2.3.1.3

• Fixed an issue where tags could be lost if those tags were applied in 2.4 and the case was subsequently opened in 2.3.x.
• Fixed an issue where the dongle driver would not install on certain Windows installations.

The following patch releases have been issued since the 2.3 release:

2.3.0.1

• Fixed an error that might occur when using an export template that contains tags that are not present in this case (item report export type only).
• Fixed an issue when Intella doesn't index certain draft or deleted emails without body, senders and recipients in EDB containers.

The following patch releases have been issued since the 2.2.2 release:

 

2.2.2.1

• Fixes a backwards compatibility issue introduced in 2.2.2 that concerns items redacted with an older Intella Connect version.
• When a crawler process crashes, the item IDs of potentially incompletely indexed items are now logged.

The following patch releases have been issued since the 2.2.1 release:

2.2.1.2

• Fixes an issue with the Branding page not loading properly when navigating to it on a clean installation.

2.2.1.1

• Fixes an issue with the Previewer not loading item metadata correctly when using quick tag buttons in combination with the "Go to next item after tagging" option.

The following patch releases have been issued since the 2.1.1 release:

2.1.1.3

• Improvements in persisting batch status and progress making it more fault tolerant.
• Improvements aimed to discover and present ORGANIZER and ATTENDEE properties as a part of PST and EDB calendar items.
• Improvements that prevent or reduce data loss and case corruption in case of system or network failure.

2.1.1.2

• Improvements to make indexing and case conversion more fault tolerant.
• Fixes an issue with redactions on rotated PDF documents not exporting properly.
• Fixes an issue with the installer taking a long time to complete, blocking on the HASP driver installation.
• Fixes an issue with a new source failing to be added when the "Analyze Paragraphs" option was not set on.

2.1.1.1

• Fixes an issue with item download when no original content was present, but load file Image was
• Improves the speed of I/O operations for certain case files stored on a Network Drive
• Improves and simplifies communication between Intella Connect and Intella Node which also allows to selectively switch SSL support ON and OFF for each individual Node
• Fixes an issue with old login URLs not working properly. They will now be redirected to an updated login URL.

 

The following patch releases have been issued since the 2.1 release:

 

2.1.0.1

• Fixes a fatal error (BufferUnderflowException) that affects the entire indexing of an EDB file.

2.1.0.2

• Fixes a fatal error (UnsupportedOperationException) that affects the entire indexing of an EDB 2010 file.
• Fixes a case conversion issue, concerning cases made with 1.9.x that failed to migrate at all.

2.1.0.3

• Fixes a case conversion issue, resulting in parts of the case data not being migrated to the new case.
• Fixes excessive use of non-deleted temporary files when processing an EDB file.

 

The following patch releases have been issued since the 2.0.1 release:

 

2.0.1.1

• Fixes a cryptic error that occurs when re-indexing a case without the evidence files present, obfuscating what is actually going wrong and making it hard for the end user to resolve the situation.
• Fixes an issue with natively previewing items that have a single quote character in their file name.
• Fixes an issue with "Index new data" failing to populate the Location and Family Date attributes for items added in a subsequent indexing run.
• Fixes an issue with broken PST files not indexing properly.
• Fixes an IBM Notes validation issue.

 

The following patch releases have been issued since the 2.0 release:

 

2.0.0.1

• Rolls back the haspdinst.exe driver from v7.51 to v7.41, because the former appears to cause system crashes on some Windows installations.

The following patch releases have been issued since the 1.9 release:

 

1.9.0.1

• Fixes an issue with the export to PST failing to export all items.
• Fixes an MS Outlook validation issue.
• Fixes an "Error 500" error when creating new redaction profiles.
• Fixes an issue with some items failing to show in the Previewer.

1.9.0.2

• Fixes an issue with the preferences file becoming syntactically incorrect when storing certain values.

The following patch releases have been issued since the 1.8.4 release:

 

1.8.4.1

• Adds support for the Intella P.I. product.

1.8.4.2

• Fixes an issue with cases failing to open.
• Fixes an encoding issue when exporting non-ASCII data to a load file using ASCII encoding.

The following patch releases have been issued since the 1.8.3 release:

 

1.8.3.1

• Fixed an issue with redaction marks staying in view when moving from one item to another in the Redaction tab.
• Fixed an issue with the "Redact all" button adding multiple redaction marks on the same spot.
• Fixes an issue with the flagging functionality in the Thumbnails view not working properly.

The following patch releases have been issued since the 1.8.1 release:

 

1.8.1.1

• Fixes an issue with emails getting incorrect created and last modified dates when there is another email with identical content but with different raw data present in the case.

[Chris]

The following patch releases have been issued since the 2.6 release:

2.6.0.2

• Resolved an issue with case conversion not carrying across evidence item paths.
• Resolved an issue with some chat messages in UFDR reports not being indexed when the "Conversations only" option was chosen.
• Resolved an issue with skin tone analysis post-processing tasks failing to execute.

2.6.0.1

• Resolved an issue where case conversion would not carry across OCR results completely to the new case.

Please visit the Software Downloads page to download the latest version.

[Chris]

Patch version 2.6.0.3 for Intella Connect and Intella Investigator has been released, containing the following:

• Resolved an issue with the text of certain MSG emails only being partially extracted.
• Resolved an issue with the case conversion of certain OCR-ed items.
• Resolved an issue with the Previewer's Email Thread tab not displaying the email thread.
• Resolved an issue with the Export to CSV dialog staying in "Initializing..." state.
• Resolved the Table and List view not rendering item rows when the corresponding item did not have a MIME type.
• Resolved an issue with the Coded column not being visible in the Table view, the CSV export and other places.
• (Investigator only) Resolved references to Intella Connect in the Intella Investigator Welcome page.

Please visit the Software Downloads page to download the latest version.