EnCase™ Forensic CE 22.

Release Notes

Product Released: 2022-07-29

Contents
1 Introduction .................................................................................................................................... 4
1.1 Release Notes revision history .................................................................................................. 4

2 New features ................................................................................................................................... 4

2.1 New timeline view ...................................................................................................................... 4
2.2 AFF4 logical write support ......................................................................................................... 5
2.3 Read and parse physical AFF4 evidence files .......................................................................... 5
2.4 Updates to Pathways ................................................................................................................. 5
2.5 Parse evidence from Facebook information file ........................................................................ 5
2.6 Collect from Slack workplace communication tool .................................................................... 6
2.7 New macOS agent installer.sh script ......................................................................................... 6
2.8 Internet artifacts: updated Safari browser support .................................................................... 6
2.9 Updated language support ........................................................................................................ 6
2.10 Copy files from EnCase review package ................................................................................... 6
2.11 Java Runtime Edition updated................................................................................................... 7
2.12 Mobile enhancements ............................................................................................................... 7
2.13 Online help improvements ......................................................................................................... 7
2.14 EnCase Artifact Reference Guide updates ................................................................................ 7

3 Mobile application data acquisition ............................................................................................. 7

4 SAFE version .................................................................................................................................. 9

5 Product licensing ........................................................................................................................... 9

6 Packaging and documentation ................................................................................................... 10

7 Supported environments and compatibility .............................................................................. 10

7.1 Supported Operating Systems ................................................................................................ 10
7.2 Target machine operating systems .......................................................................................... 10
McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) integration ......................................................... 11
7.3 Supported file systems ............................................................................................................ 11
7.4 Third party systems ................................................................................................................. 12
7.5 Encryption support ................................................................................................................... 12
7.6 Cloud service support .............................................................................................................. 13
7.7 USGCB compliance ................................................................................................................. 14

8 Fixed issues .................................................................................................................................. 14

9 Known issues ............................................................................................................................... 16

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10 Download documentation from OpenText My Support ............................................................ 22

11 Contact information ..................................................................................................................... 26

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1 Introduction
These Release Notes provide an overview of EnCase Forensic 22.3, including new features, delivery
information, and supported platforms.

OpenText recommends that you read these Release Notes in conjunction with the documentation
included with the software package. If any conflicts exist, the Release Notes supersede the other
documentation.

We also recommend that you check OpenText My Support (https://support.opentext.com) for any
patches or documentation updates that may have been posted after the initial release of this product.

1.1 Release Notes revision history

Revision date Sections revised Description of revisions

2022-07-29 First release. All new content.

2 New features
This section provides an overview of EnCase Forensic 22.3 new features.

2.1 New timeline view

The timeline feature in EnCase Forensic has been completely updated and modernized. Select files in
the Tree or Table view and switch to the Timeline view to see the selected evidence in the new
Timeline format. Users can drill down on the data, adjust the date range, and customize which data
types are displayed. Hover over a column to get a count of data types in that date bucket. Timeline

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data can be selected and bookmarked. The new Timeline view has numerous, flexible ways of
viewing and presenting data visually. See the EnCase Forensic User Guide for more information.

2.2 AFF4 logical write support

EnCase Forensic now supports logical evidence file creation in AFF4-L format.

The following compression options are available:

• Disabled (no compression)

• Snappy
• LZ4
• Deflate
• Deflate (Zhlub)

The following algorithms are supported for creating linear hashes:

• MD5
• SHA1
• SHA256
• SHA512
• Blake2b512

EnCase Forensic users have access to advanced AFF4 settings via Registry Key Overrides as well.
Advanced features include:

• Bevy Size - chunk storage segment size for AFF4's Image Stream.
• Chunk Size - chunk (or block) size in KB utilized for data storage.
• Cache Capacity - maximum number of chunks to hold in AFF4 read cache.
• Compress Level - specify the compression level for Deflate algorithm.
• Image Size Threshold - file size limit for small files.
• Thread Count - maximum number of worker threads.
• Pyaff4 Workaround - Third party tools (like wingmen and pyaff4) have various limitations and
expect AFF4 images to be written in a certain way. If the image generated by EnCase is to be
used with one of these tools, activate this option and set the value according to the list.

2.3 Read and parse physical AFF4 evidence files

EnCase Forensic can now read and parse physical AFF4 evidence files. Zip containers and directory
containers (*.aff4 and *.turtle extensions) are supported. Multi-volume parsing (*.A01, *.A02,
…) is supported.

2.4 Updates to Pathways

The Pathways workflow tool in EnCase Forensic has been substantially updated. Pathways are now
more modular, making it easier to share Pathways between users.

2.5 Parse evidence from Facebook information file

You can now use EnCase Forensic to collect and parse evidence from a user’s Facebook information
file. The Facebook information file is a JSON file generated by Facebook via a user’s account. It is a

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collection of a user’s photo albums, comments, messages, and posts. Access this functionality via
EnCase Forensic Add Evidence > Acquire > Storage. The evidence is output into a logical evidence
file.

2.6 Collect from Slack workplace communication tool

You can now use EnCase Forensic to collect evidence from the Slack workspace communication tool.
Both group and direct messages are available for collection. Evidence can be filtered by date and the
collected evidence can be examined in the Artifacts or Social Media Artifacts tabs of EnCase
Forensic. You can also perform a preview instead of collecting into an evidence file. Access Slack
collection via EnCase Forensic Add Evidence > Acquire > Storage. The evidence is output to a
logical evidence file.

2.7 New macOS agent installer.sh script

The macOS agent can be installed by using installer.sh script available in addition to
installer.zip. To use the script, copy installer.sh file to the target machine /tmp folder, set
execute permission for the script and run it as a root.

2.8 Internet artifacts: updated Safari browser support

EnCase Forensic has updated support for internet browser artifact acquisition from the Apple Safari
web browser, version 70.0.3538.67.

2.9 Updated language support

The EnCase Forensic user interface has been updated for the following languages:

• Arabic
• Chinese (Simplified)
• Chinese (Traditional)
• Dutch
• French
• German
• Italian
• Japanese
• Korean
• Polish
• Portuguese
• Spanish
• Turkish

These language versions of EnCase Forensic are available for download on OpenText My Support.

2.10 Copy files from EnCase review package

The EnCase Evidence Viewer included with EnCase Forensic now allows users to select any file and
copy it out of a review package.

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2.11 Java Runtime Edition updated
EnCase Forensic now includes Java Runtime Edition 18.0.1.1.

2.12 Mobile enhancements

The Permissions Details grid is added for data received during the logical acquisition from the iOS
devices and iOS backup import. The Permissions Details grid contains information about the
permission modification date and reason.

2.13 Online help improvements

When accessing EnCase Forensic online help, EnCase SAFE User Guide and EnCase Artifact
Reference Guide are now available to users in a convenient tabbed format. Simply click on the
corresponding tab from the online help page to access these guides.

2.14 EnCase Artifact Reference Guide updates

The EnCase Artifact Reference Guide contains all new artifacts introduced in the 22.3 release as well
as previously published artifacts. The EnCase Artifact Reference Guide is available as online help and
as a download on OpenText My Support. This comprehensive guide contains information on the
artifacts collected using EnCase Forensic.

3 Mobile application data acquisition

EnCase Forensic allows you to acquire parsed mobile application data. The parsed application data
includes grids with types of data corresponding to its application, such as Contacts, Conversation,
Downloads, History, and more. Parsed data can be collected from either the device acquisition or the
cloud acquisition.

BlackBerry 10 Cloud Data

Application iOS Android Backup Import

Amazon Alexa

BB Messenger

Chrome

DJI Go

Dolphin browser

Dolphin X browser

Evernote

Facebook

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 BlackBerry 10 Cloud Data
Application iOS Android Backup Import

Facebook Messenger
(iOS 7.x and
higher)

Firefox

Fitbit

Gmail

Google Maps

Google Drive

iCloud Backup*

Instagram

Jott Messenger

KIK

LinkedIn

Mail.ru

Opera

Opera Touch

Pinger

Skype

Snapchat

Telegram

TextFree

TextPlus

TigerConnect

TikTok

Tinder

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 BlackBerry 10 Cloud Data
Application iOS Android Backup Import

Twitter

Viber

Vkontakte

VoiceMail

Waze

WeChat

WhatsApp

Whisper

Yik Yak

* iCloud Backup is not a parsed application but is included here because it is accessed via Cloud
Data Import.

4 SAFE version
Use the latest version of SAFE 22.3 with this product. The latest version of the SAFE is available from
OpenText My Support.

5 Product licensing
The CodeMeter product licensing client for EnCase Forensic is v7.30a.

The CodeMeter license server is the current, supported product licensing mechanism for EnCase
products. The legacy License Manager application used by some existing customers is still supported,
but will be deprecated in a future release.

Documentation for License Manager can be found in the SAFE 20.4 User Guide.

EnCase Forensic and EnCase Endpoint Investigator 22.3 users:

• New and current users

If you are a new user, or do not use the legacy License Manager.
o Use CodeMeter license server. Refer to your product’s 22.3 user guide for
instructions on installing and configuring the CodeMeter license server.
o Refer to the SAFE 22.3 User Guide for information about SAFE and agent
deployment.
• Legacy License Manager users
If you currently use License Manager, you may continue to use License Manager until it is
fully deprecated, or you can migrate to CodeMeter license server.
o If you want to stop using License Manager, refer to your product’s 22.3 User Guide
for instructions on installing the CodeMeter license server.

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 o If you do not want to stop using License Manager at this time, refer to the SAFE 20.4
User Guide for information about License Manager. Refer to the SAFE 22.3 User
Guide for all information about the SAFE and agent deployment.
o CodeMeter licensing server is not compatible with EnCase Forensic versions older
than v20.x. If you intend to use EnCase Forensic versions older than 20.x, consider
keeping enough licenses for your needs with your existing License Manager server.

6 Packaging and documentation

Downloads and documentation for EnCase Forensic are available on OpenText My Support
(https://support.opentext.com). Documentation for this product includes:

• EnCase Forensic User Guide

• EnCase Artifact Reference Guide
• SAFE User Guide

7 Supported environments and compatibility

This section provides details about supported platforms, systems, and versions.

7.1 Supported Operating Systems

EnCase Forensic works on machines running the following operating systems:

• Microsoft Windows 8.1, Windows 10 versions 1607, 1703, 1709, 1803, 1809, 1903, 1909,
2004, 21H1, 21H2, Windows 11
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019,
Windows Server 2022

Minimum and suggested system requirements for this product are provided in the “System
Requirements” section of the EnCase Forensic User Guide.

The Java Runtime Edition included with EnCase Forensic is now 18.0.1.1.

7.2 Target machine operating systems

Agents are deployed on target machines and can be used to search the following operating systems:

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 Target Logical &
Operating Physical Memory
System Versions Processor Acquisition Acquisition

AIX 6.1, 7.1 64-bit Yes No

HPUX 11.0, 11.1x, 32-bit, 64-bit Yes No

11.2x

Linux Kernels 2.6.4 or higher x86, x64, ARM, ARM64, IBM Z Yes No
with procfs

macOS 10.12 – 12 1,2 x64, Yes 10.12 – 10.14

ARM64 (v11.x and higher only)

Red Hat 6, 7, 8, 8.1 x86, x64 Yes 7, 8, 8.1

Enterprise
Linux

Solaris 10 – 11.4 SPARC64 Yes No

Windows 7 SP1, 8, 8.1 x86, x64 Yes Yes

Windows 10 1507 – 21H2, x86, x64, ARM, ARM64 (limited) Yes 1507 – 21H2,
IoT Core IoT Core 3

Windows 11 21H2 x86, x64 Yes Yes

Windows 2008, 2008 R2, x86, x64 Yes Yes

Server 2012, 2012 R2,
2016, 2019,
2022

1 macOS 12 can only be previewed with Live Directory Preview.

2 There are other limitations related to agent deployment on macOS devices. Refer to the
Known issues section for more information.

3 Support for Windows 10 ARM64 is limited. Memory acquisition is not supported and snapshot
does not include open files, handles, and DLLs.

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) integration

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator administrators can use ePO to deploy EnCase agents to ePO-managed
nodes. Versions 4.5, 4.6, 5.1, and 5.3 are supported.

7.3 Supported file systems

EnCase Forensic can read and acquire from the following file systems.

APFS CDFS EXFAT EXT2 EXT3 EXT4

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 FAT FAT12 FAT16 FAT32 HFS HFS+

HFSX HPFS HPUXFS JFS JFS2 NETWARE

NTFS REISER SOLZFS SUN UDF UFS

UFS2 VXFS XFS YAFFS2 ZFS

7.4 Third party systems

System Description

Project VIC data model 1.2

7.5 Encryption support

Vendor Product Supported versions 64-bit support

Apple Apple File System (APFS) 10.15 Yes

Encryption

Check Point Endpoint Security Suite (Full 6.3.1 up to 7.4, 8.0 (for Yes
Disk Encryption) Windows and Macintosh
computers). 80.64 - 80.94
(Windows only).

Credant Mobile Guardian (subsumed 5.2.1, 5.3, 5.4.1, 5.4.2, 6.0 Yes
by Dell) through 6.8, 7.3

Dell Data Protection Enterprise 8.3, 8.5, 8.12, 8.13, 8.15, 8.16, Yes
Edition 8.17.2

Dell Full Disk Encryption 8.17, 10.7, 10.8 Yes

GuardianEdge Encryption Plus/Anywhere 7 and 8 No

GuardianEdge Hard Disk Encryption 9.1.5, 9.2.2, 9.3.0, 9.4.0, 9.5.0, Yes
9.5.1

McAfee Endpoint Encryption 4, 5, 6, 7, 7.1, 7.2 (for Yes

(formerly SafeBoot) Windows and Macintosh
computers)

Microsoft BitLocker and BitLocker To Windows Vista (Enterprise and Yes

Go Ultimate), Windows 7, 8, 10,
Windows Server 2008.

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 Vendor Product Supported versions 64-bit support

Sophos SafeGuard Easy and 4.5, 5.5, 5.6, 6.0 Yes - SafeGuard
Enterprise (formerly Easy
Utimaco) No - Enterprise

Symantec PGP Whole Disk Encryption 9.8, 9.9, 10, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3 Yes

Symantec Endpoint Encryption 7.0.2, 7.0.3, 7.0.4, 7.0.5, 7.0.6, Yes

7.0.7, 7.0.8, 8.0, 8.2, 8.2.1,
9.1, 11.1.1, 11.1.3, 11.2, 11.3

Vera Vera for Files 2.1 Yes

WinMagic SecureDoc Full Disk 4.5-8.6 Yes

Encryption and Self-
Encrypting Drives

7.6 Cloud service support

EnCase Forensic can acquire user email and related items from the following online email services:

• Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 or Later

• Microsoft Exchange Server on Office 365
• Google Workspace

EnCase Forensic can acquire files from the following online file storage and sharing services:

• Amazon S3
• Box
• Dropbox
• Google Workspace
• Microsoft Azure Blob
• Microsoft SharePoint 2013 or Later
• Microsoft SharePoint Office 365
• Microsoft SharePoint Office 365 OneDrive

EnCase Forensic can acquire files from the following online messaging services:

• Microsoft Teams
• Slack

EnCase Forensic can acquire files from the following online social sharing services:

• Facebook
• Instagram
• Twitter

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7.7 USGCB compliance
EnCase Forensic has been validated as USGCB compliant using the following version of NIST VHD
images:

2/27/17 (for Windows 7 only)

EnCase Forensic was tested using Retina Network Security Scanner, which is a NIST validated
USGCB scanner (http://usgcb.nist.gov/usgcb/microsoft_content.html).

8 Fixed issues
Issue number Issue description

AGENT-6173 An issue with the Solaris 9, 10, and 11 EnCase agent that resulted in the
display of both device and symbolic links has been fixed. Now, the device is
shown only once.

AGENT-6285 An issue with SAFE installation that could prevent all EnCase Agent
Management components from being upgraded has been resolved.

AGENT-6335 In an Azure VM deployment, an issue that prevented the EnCase Agent

Management (AMP) component from automatically restarting following
deallocation/reallocation has been fixed.

AGENT-6636 An issue with the SAFE 22.1 EnCase Agent Management Platform (AMP) that
prevents the AMP service from automatically starting in Azure environments
following deallocation and reallocation has been fixed.

AGENT-6637 The EnCase Forensic Remote Job Monitor would display a “DownloadError”
message if an attempt was made to upgrade a SAFE to v22.1 while a job was
being dispatched. This issue has been fixed.

AGENT-6685 An issue with SAFE that prevented non-keymaster users from viewing Network
Plugin Repository plugins has been fixed. Users can now view the plugins
regardless of role permission. The ability to edit the plugin list remains
unchanged: only those users with the Manage Network Plugin Repository
role permission can edit plugins.

AGENT-6862 An issue that caused the Windows agent installer to install the incorrect agent
on ARM64 machines has been fixed.

FOR-27553 When creating a snapshot of macOS devices EnCase Forensic now display
the name of the Monterey operating system. Previously, this version of macOS
was not displayed.

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 Issue number Issue description

FOR-30355 An issue with the display of application details (such as, application name,
icon, and version), has been fixed for the Application List grid received during
the iOS Backup import.

FOR-30355 An issue with the missing Application Permissions grid has been fixed for iOS
Backup import.

GUIDTS-1969 In EnCase Forensic, erratic application behavior could occur if a user clicked
the Next Hit button to move through raw text search hits in the view pane, if
the pane was undocked. This issue has been fixed.

GUIDTS-4647 An issue that prevented EnCase Forensic from completing a mobile acquisition
when System Locale settings were set to Chinese (Simplified, China) has been
fixed.

GUIDTS-4777 An issue where EnCase Forensic would not display the Tools > Options > Do
not verify evidence when opened check box for all versions of the
application has been fixed. The option to turn off evidence verification is now
universally available.

GUIDTS-4948 The export progress bar has been fixed and extraneous options have been
removed from the review package export dialog in EnCase Forensic.

GUIDTS-4959 An issue with the EnCase Evidence Viewer application that rendered files in
the Report Name field as a clickable hyperlink has been fixed. The file name is
now rendered as regular text like other fields.

GUIDTS-4982 An issue was fixed in which running conditions containing multiple functions
and criteria in EnCase Forensic, deselecting items at the child level and
running the condition again could return unexpected results.

GUIDTS-4983 An issue that prevented third-party tools from conducting high-volume I/O
operations when interacting with the VFS module in EnCase Forensic has
been fixed.

GUIDTS-5005 An issue with EnCase Portable that resulted in hash matched files not being
collected has been fixed.

GUIDTS-5489 An issue in EnCase Forensic that prevented bookmarked table data from
displaying in reports has been fixed.

GUIDTS-5524 An issue was identified in EnCase Forensic when bookmarking raw text in
Hex/Text view. The area selected by the user is not highlighting and the
bookmarked area is not indicated. This issue has been fixed.

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9 Known issues
Issue number Found in Description

AGENT-6301 22.1 CodeMeter licensing was upgraded to v7.30a with the EnCase
Forensic 22.1 release. CodeMeter is not compatible with Microsoft
Windows 7. EnCase Forensic 22.1 can be installed on Windows 7
machines; however, the installer will throw an error and the
CodeMeter component will not be installed. If using the installer to
upgrade EnCase Forensic 22.1 from a previous version, the error
will still be displayed, and CodeMeter 7.30a will not be installed.
The application will attempt to use the previous most recent version
of CodeMeter for licensing.

AGENT-6551 22.1 When using Live Directory preview on macOS systems to view
protected folders (Desktop, Documents, Downloads, etc.), the
EnCase macOS agent (enmacos) requires full disk access
permission. This can be set either via MDM profile if the agent is
deployed through MDM or by adding the enmacos agent to the
following allow list: System Preferences > Security and Privacy >
Privacy > Full Disk Access.

DOC-3109 22.1 Media analysis module performance is degraded on systems that

do not have a minimum of 4GB of RAM per logical core. For further
guidance on optimizing memory usage for the Media analysis
module and the Evidence Processor, see Knowledge Base article,
KB20533873.

FOR-25948 22.1 In this release, the new Windows registry keys added to System
Info Parser in EnCase Forensic 21.4 have been moved from the
Auto Start folder to the Other folder. Registry keys are viewed and
selected by clicking on the System Info Parser link in the EnCase
Processor Options dialog, viewing the Advanced tab on the dialog,
and opening a folder. In EnCase Forensic 22.1, the new keys will
appear in the Other folder only for evidence not processed in a
previous version. For evidence processed with version 21.4, these
keys appear in the Auto Start folder. Once evidence is processed,
keys selected from a particular folder would be found under the
corresponding folder in the Artifacts tab.

DOC-3021 21.4 The additional Windows Registry keys parsed by EnCase Forensic
21.4 System Info Parser are located in the AutoStart folder. These
will be placed in the appropriate Registry Commands subfolder in a
future release.

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 Issue number Found in Description

FOR-24486 21.4 When users open a case processed by an earlier version of

EnCase Forensic the case will not contain newer registry keys
unless processed again with EnCase Forensic 21.4.

GUIDTS-4747 21.4 When acquiring evidence to .Ex01 the Restart Acquisition option
is selectable. but this function does not support .Ex01 file formats.
Attempting to restart acquisition of an .Ex01 file using this function
will not succeed.

AGENT-5363 21.2 The EnCase agent installed on macOS 11 (Big Sur) is installed
without kernel extensions and can make snapshots, logical
acquisitions, and previews. The EnCase agent installed on macOS
11 cannot acquire physical memory, physical devices, or access
locked or mounted devices.

The EnCase agent installed on macOS 10.15 and earlier is installed

with kernel extensions and can acquire physical memory, physical
devices, and access locked or mounted devices on macs unless
the machine is equipped with a T2 encryption chip. Macs equipped
with the T2 encryption chip cannot perform physical disk
acquisitions.

FOR-22695 21.2 When using three periods (...) to enter a date range in EnCase
Forensic, running a condition removes one of the periods, resulting
in an error. A workaround is to select the Prompt for value
checkbox on the Terms tab of your condition. When the condition is
run, adding the period where EnCase has removed it will run the
condition without error.

FOR-21258 21.1 In some situations when running the Chinese Simplified version of
EnCase, the display text may not render properly. Installing the Arial
Unicode MS font and setting it in Tools > Options > Fonts will
resolve the issue.

GUIDTS-4268 21.1 EnCase Forensic does not support opening more than ten
concurrent cases. Opening more than ten concurrent cases causes
the recently opened case list to cycle through the cases, preventing
the user from selecting the first opened case.

FOR-19247 20.4 Under certain circumstances, EnCase Forensic can fail to parse
ZFS volumes on identical devices.

FOR-19252 20.4 Under certain circumstances, EnCase Forensic can fail to parse
ZFS volumes in virtual environments when using GPT partitions.

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 Issue number Found in Description

FOR-19968 20.4 The OneDrive preview feature does not support bookmarking. If
you want to bookmark an item, you must acquire it first, then
bookmark it.

FOR-20225 20.4 In some cases, installing EnCase Forensic on a system that already
has EnCase Forensic installed will generate a file lock error on
enportv.sys. This can prevent EnCase fonts from loading
properly. Restarting the system after installation resolves the issue.

FOR-20283 20.4 In some circumstances, installing HASP drivers can cause certain
Windows 10 machines to deliver a stop error. As a result, the HASP
driver installation has been unchecked by default. If you still use a
HASP dongle, OpenText recommends replacing it with either
CodeMeter or an electronic license. Contact OpenText Customer
Service for a replacement.

GUIDTS-2998 20.4 An issue in EnCase Forensic was identified that prevents indexing
of East Asian characters. Searching for more than a single
character does not return results.

AGENT-4536 20.3 The EnCase agent is not supported on target machines with ARM
processors running Windows 10 S mode.

FOR-19065 20.3 Some APFS snapshots on physical images are not added to the
evidence view after processing. This is a result of system changes
during acquisition that render the snapshot invalid.

AGENT-4120 20.2 Physical acquisition of a Macintosh device with a T2 chip is

possible but unusable since keys are stored in the T2 chip and the
acquired image cannot be decrypted. The workaround is to do a
logical acquisition on the device.

DOC-2410 20.2 Support for McAfee Drive Encryption up to version 7.2.9.14 works
in offline mode (using the XML file). However, online credentials
validated on the live server do not decrypt the evidence. The
current workaround is to manually export the XML file from the
server and use this file for offline decryption.

FOR-17297 20.2 When collecting from a Macintosh running APFS, acquiring a

device before an encryption process is completed can lead to
partially encrypted entries that are unreadable in EnCase Forensic.
It is recommended acquiring a device after the encryption process
is complete.

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 Issue number Found in Description

FOR-17894 20.2 When running the Recover Folders option in the Evidence
Processor, the entry count in the Recovering notification is incorrect
because it does not include counts from alternate data streams.
The correct count is displayed elsewhere in the application, where
alternate data streams are included.

GUIDTS-3542 20.2 On some workstations with restrictive Windows policies, EnCase

Forensic may be prevented from loading a font used in the
application UI. If you encounter a missing font in the UI, a solution
is available in the following KB article on OpenText My Support:
https://knowledge.opentext.com/knowledge/cs.dll/kcs/kbarticle/view/
KB14814908.

FOR-15542 8.10 Indexes generated with previous versions of EnCase

Forensic (v8.09 and earlier) are incompatible with EnCase Forensic
v8.10. If you want to view indexed data in EnCase Forensic v8.10,
you must re-index it.

FOR-16248 8.10 EnCase Forensic v8.10 installation fails on machines running

Windows 10, version 1507. Installation of EnCase Forensic v8.10
works on Windows 10 versions that are more recent than version
1507.

FOR-16505 8.10 When a user provides secure storage credentials for a McAfee full
disk encrypted physical evidence containing partitions, and then
reacquires it, the newly acquired evidence will contain decrypted
data. However, the new evidence will contain the McAfee partition
that designates the other partitions as still encrypted, and it is this
McAfee partition that EnCase Forensic uses to flag the other
partitions as encrypted. This results in EnCase Forensic repeatedly
prompting the user for credentials. If the user then cancels the
credential dialog, EnCase Forensic will read the decrypted data as
if there was no encryption.

Mobile 8.10 Android 9 is partially acquired by the physical plugin.

Acquisition -
Android

Mobile 8.10 "Connection was broken" appears for ZTE Z799 Android 6.0.1
Acquisition - device during logical acquisition.
Android Logical

Mobile 8.10 Authentication in Google Locations fails with Invalid Credentials

Acquisition - error.
Cloud Import

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 Issue number Found in Description

Mobile 8.10 Authentication has failed for Twitter cloud import with "Invalid
Acquisition - credentials" error.
Cloud Import

Mobile 8.10 iCloud Backup - Authentication fails with Invalid credentials error.
Acquisition -
Cloud Import

Mobile 8.10 Physical Acquisition by DFU mode fails with error.

Acquisition -
iPhone
Physical

FOR-14141 8.09 When selecting an APFS container in the Network Preview Screen,
the data on the APFS volume needs to be frozen before previewing
or collecting it. A small snapshot file is created that remains on the
device until the parsing of the data is complete, at which point the
snapshot is removed. The Allow Live APFS Snapshot global option
enables this snapshot to be created; the option is selected by
default and cannot be cleared without incurring unreliable and
inconsistent results.

FOR-14076 8.09 Copying files from a result set that contains entries from an APFS
volume may fail. If this occurs, an error displays, stating you only
have permission to process a certain number of the selected files.
This behavior does not happen consistently, and does not happen
when copying files from entries, or when copying files from other file
systems.

FOR-14067 8.09 Viewing indexed items selected by Item Type may display
inconsistent results.

FOR-14062 8.09 Under certain conditions, jobs may fail when reprocessing APFS
evidence.

FOR-14049 8.09 Encrypted APFS volumes will not parse on two devices if a correct
password is entered for one device and an incorrect password is
entered for the other.

FOR-14040 8.09 After creating a raw text bookmark, selecting an entry, and then
selecting hash/sig on that entry, EnCase Forensic may crash when
clicking the refresh button.

FOR-14032 8.09 For an encrypted APFS volume, clicking Rescan directly does not
parse the volume if more than three incorrect passwords have been
centered consecutively.

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 Issue number Found in Description

FOR-14023 8.09 When repeatedly viewing certain indexed items, EnCase Forensic
may crash. This behavior is infrequent.

FOR-14006 8.09 When processing evidence, the Index option in the view menu can
sometimes incorrectly display as enabled or disabled.

FOR-13924 8.09 When using the default disk allocation of 10% for enhanced agent
jobs on VMs or small disks, the job may fail. Changing the default to
be >20% or making the segment size smaller will help prevent this
issue.

FOR-13772 8.09 When reprocessing a version 8.08 case using thumbnails and hash
options, the wrong hash value is displayed. If this happens, delete
the cache and process the evidence again from the beginning.

FOR-11505 8.08 Non-English builds of EnCase Forensic are not supported on 32-bit
operating systems.

FOR-11549 8.08 In Japanese, Chinese, and Korean builds of EnCase Forensic

running on Windows 10, paths are not displayed correctly because
of an underlying font issue. To work around this issue, install the
Arial Unicode MS font from Microsoft.

FOR-12474 8.08 When previewing and acquiring process memory from targets
running macOS 10.6 and 10.10, EnCase Forensic returns all zeros.

FOR-12677 8.08 Vera encrypted files inside of an unencrypted .ZIP file are not
decrypted when Vera decryption is set to Offline Mode.

FOR-10826 8.07 Due to the structure of APFS containers and volumes, navigation of
APFS devices in disk view can appear confusing when moving
across clusters.

FOR-10958 8.07 When dropping APFS evidence into EnCase Forensic, the data fails
to load if you process the evidence before opening it. The
workaround is to open the evidence first and then process it.

FOR-11089 8.07 Because EnCase Forensic parses macOS APFS volumes directly,
the timestamp values of files match those found in the terminal
command line rather than the corresponding timestamp values
displayed in the Finder.

FOR-9404 8.06 When you process evidence with the Expand compound files
option selected, file transcripts cannot be directly viewed within the
compound file. You must select an individual file within the archive
file to view a transcript of that file.

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 Issue number Found in Description

FOR-9507 8.06 Compound words containing any of the following three stop words
(period/dot, underscore, single quote) do not highlight the entire
word in highlight view. For example, a search for the word,
primary, would only highlight the word primary in
[email protected], but not the text after the period,
[email protected]. This issue only affects highlighting. Search
and indexing are unaffected by this highlighting issue.

FOR-7547 8.05 Triage reports will not show bookmarks created using Bookmark
Page as Image.

FOR-7559 8.05 EnCase Forensic does not support outputting mobile acquisition to
a UNC path (\\server\folder).

FOR-7577 8.05 EnServer will not install on a Windows 7 64-bit VMWare workstation
without .NET Framework 4.6 installed.

10 Download documentation from OpenText My Support

You can access all your product documentation from the OpenText My Support website, including
release notes, user guides, and other resources.

To download documentation from the OpenText My Support website:

1. Using a web browser with access to the internet, navigate to https://support.opentext.com.

The OpenText Connect sign in page appears.

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 2. Enter your email and password in the Sign in box and click Login or, if you have not
registered with OpenText, enter your email and password in the Register box and click Create
account. The My Support welcome page appears.

3. Select Products on the top menu bar. The My Support Products page appears.

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 4. In the search box, enter the name of the product for which you want to download
documentation.

5. Select the product from the list. The Contents and Resources section is displayed below the
search bar.

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 6. Select the Documentation link. The product page displays folders with current and recent
version numbers.

7. Select the product folder with the desired version number. A document folder for the product
is displayed.

8. Click on the desired document to download.

Note
We recommend bookmarking the product folder page so you can easily
return to the page as needed to download additional documentation.
Account authentication is required to access the page.

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11 Contact information
OpenText Corporation
275 Frank Tompa Drive
Waterloo, Ontario
Canada, N2L 0A1

OpenText My Support: https://support.opentext.com

For more information, visit www.opentext.com

Copyright © 2022 Open Text. All Rights Reserved.

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Disclaimer
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Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the features and techniques presented in this publication. However, Open Text Corporation and its affiliates accept
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