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authorMounir IDRASSI <mounir.idrassi@idrix.fr>2021-12-30 15:33:16 +0100
committerMounir IDRASSI <mounir.idrassi@idrix.fr>2021-12-30 15:35:58 +0100
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parentf63c2ec13c5f74e5211409ae2c3367a2171adb83 (diff)
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Update Release Notes and add signed Windows driver.
-rw-r--r--doc/chm/VeraCrypt User Guide.chmbin1917709 -> 1918277 bytes
-rw-r--r--doc/html/Release Notes.html19
-rw-r--r--src/Common/Tcdefs.h2
-rw-r--r--src/Driver/Driver.rc4
-rw-r--r--src/Release/Setup Files/veracrypt-arm64.catbin10627 -> 10615 bytes
-rw-r--r--src/Release/Setup Files/veracrypt-arm64.sysbin452936 -> 452928 bytes
-rw-r--r--src/Release/Setup Files/veracrypt-x64.catbin11746 -> 11746 bytes
-rw-r--r--src/Release/Setup Files/veracrypt-x64.sysbin825672 -> 825672 bytes
-rw-r--r--src/Release/Setup Files/veracrypt.Inf2
-rw-r--r--src/Release/Setup Files/veracrypt.catbin10573 -> 10573 bytes
-rw-r--r--src/Release/Setup Files/veracrypt.sysbin793072 -> 792120 bytes
11 files changed, 16 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/doc/chm/VeraCrypt User Guide.chm b/doc/chm/VeraCrypt User Guide.chm
index 0f780816..b2ed8c3f 100644
--- a/doc/chm/VeraCrypt User Guide.chm
+++ b/doc/chm/VeraCrypt User Guide.chm
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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>
diff --git a/src/Common/Tcdefs.h b/src/Common/Tcdefs.h
index 4aa4bfe5..c13c333e 100644
--- a/src/Common/Tcdefs.h
+++ b/src/Common/Tcdefs.h
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ extern unsigned short _rotl16(unsigned short value, unsigned char shift);
#define VERSION_NUM 0x0125
// Release date
-#define TC_STR_RELEASE_DATE L"December 27, 2021"
+#define TC_STR_RELEASE_DATE L"December 30, 2021"
#define TC_RELEASE_DATE_YEAR 2021
#define TC_RELEASE_DATE_MONTH 12
diff --git a/src/Driver/Driver.rc b/src/Driver/Driver.rc
index a695b9cd..3af073ce 100644
--- a/src/Driver/Driver.rc
+++ b/src/Driver/Driver.rc
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@ LANGUAGE LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_ENGLISH_US
//
VS_VERSION_INFO VERSIONINFO
- FILEVERSION 1,25,6,0
- PRODUCTVERSION 1,25,6,0
+ FILEVERSION 1,25,6,1
+ PRODUCTVERSION 1,25,6,1
FILEFLAGSMASK 0x17L
#ifdef _DEBUG
FILEFLAGS 0x1L
diff --git a/src/Release/Setup Files/veracrypt-arm64.cat b/src/Release/Setup Files/veracrypt-arm64.cat
index 73360d66..751a6b26 100644
--- a/src/Release/Setup Files/veracrypt-arm64.cat
+++ b/src/Release/Setup Files/veracrypt-arm64.cat
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diff --git a/src/Release/Setup Files/veracrypt-arm64.sys b/src/Release/Setup Files/veracrypt-arm64.sys
index 8974d293..b5046d1f 100644
--- a/src/Release/Setup Files/veracrypt-arm64.sys
+++ b/src/Release/Setup Files/veracrypt-arm64.sys
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diff --git a/src/Release/Setup Files/veracrypt-x64.cat b/src/Release/Setup Files/veracrypt-x64.cat
index 206155cc..692a74df 100644
--- a/src/Release/Setup Files/veracrypt-x64.cat
+++ b/src/Release/Setup Files/veracrypt-x64.cat
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diff --git a/src/Release/Setup Files/veracrypt-x64.sys b/src/Release/Setup Files/veracrypt-x64.sys
index 8d4f5a39..4c800b44 100644
--- a/src/Release/Setup Files/veracrypt-x64.sys
+++ b/src/Release/Setup Files/veracrypt-x64.sys
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diff --git a/src/Release/Setup Files/veracrypt.Inf b/src/Release/Setup Files/veracrypt.Inf
index d8abd1f8..a9c1bea3 100644
--- a/src/Release/Setup Files/veracrypt.Inf
+++ b/src/Release/Setup Files/veracrypt.Inf
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ signature = "$Windows NT$"
Class = "Encryption" ;This is determined by the work this filter driver does
ClassGuid = {a0a701c0-a511-42ff-aa6c-06dc0395576f} ;This value is determined by the Class
Provider = %ProviderString%
-DriverVer = 12/27/2021,1.25.6.0
+DriverVer = 12/29/2021,1.25.6.1
CatalogFile = veracrypt.cat
diff --git a/src/Release/Setup Files/veracrypt.cat b/src/Release/Setup Files/veracrypt.cat
index 25504c70..39cccb30 100644
--- a/src/Release/Setup Files/veracrypt.cat
+++ b/src/Release/Setup Files/veracrypt.cat
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diff --git a/src/Release/Setup Files/veracrypt.sys b/src/Release/Setup Files/veracrypt.sys
index 3e085d07..cc545696 100644
--- a/src/Release/Setup Files/veracrypt.sys
+++ b/src/Release/Setup Files/veracrypt.sys
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