* changes v6.2.5 -> v6.2.

##
## Algorithms
##

- Added hash-mode: Amazon AWS4-HMAC-SHA256

- Added hash-mode: Bitcoin WIF private key (P2PKH)
- Added hash-mode: Bitcoin WIF private key (P2SH(P2WPKH))
- Added hash-mode: Bitcoin WIF private key (P2WPKH, Bech32)
- Added hash-mode: BLAKE2b-512($pass.$salt)
- Added hash-mode: BLAKE2b-512($salt.$pass)
- Added hash-mode: DPAPI masterkey file v1 (context 3)
- Added hash-mode: DPAPI masterkey file v2 (context 3)
- Added hash-mode: Exodus Desktop Wallet (scrypt)
- Added hash-mode: Flask session cookie
- Added hash-mode: KeePass 1 (AES/Twofish) and KeePass 2 (AES) - keyfile only mode
- Added hash-mode: Kerberos 5, etype 17, DB
- Added hash-mode: Kerberos 5, etype 18, DB
- Added hash-mode: PostgreSQL SCRAM-SHA-256
- Added hash-mode: Radmin3
- Added hash-mode: Teamspeak 3 (channel hash)
- Added hash-mode: Terra Station Wallet (AES256-CBC(PBKDF2($pass)))
- Added hash-mode: bcrypt(sha512($pass)) / bcryptsha512
- Added hash-mode: md5(sha1($pass).$salt)
- Added hash-mode: sha1($salt.sha1(utf16le($username).':'.utf16le($pass)))
- Added hash-mode: sha256($salt.sha256_bin($pass))

##
## Features
##

- Added new backend support for Metal, the OpenCL replacement API on Apple
- Added support to building universal macOS binary on Apple Silicon
- Added support to use --debug-mode in attack-mode 9 (Association Attack)
- Added hex encoding format for --separator option
- Added password candidates range to --status-json output
- Added parameter to Bitwarden mode for second iteration count
- Added support to use 'John the Ripper' hash format with hash-type 13100
- Added support to use 'John the Ripper' hash format with hash-type 18200
- Added the hash extraction scripts from the tools folder also to beta/release
versions
- Added user advice if a hash throws 'token length exception'
- Added tunings/ folder in order to replace hashcat.hctune. Configuration files
with *.hctune suffix are automatically load on startup

##
## Bugs
##

- Fixed accepted salt length by PKCS#8 Private Keys modules

- Fixed autodetect memory allocation for temporary hashes for LUKS v1 (legacy) in
--identify mode
- Fixed backend active devices checks
- Fixed building error on Raspberry Pi
- Fixed display problem of incorrect negative values in case of large numbers
- Fixed display problem of the "Optimizers applied" list for algorithms using
Register-Limit
- Fixed example password output of --hash-info: force uppercase if
OPTS_TYPE_PT_UPPER is set
- Fixed false negative on hash-type 27800 if using vector width greater than 1 and
-a 3
- Fixed false negative on hash-types 4510 and 4710 for hashes with long salts
- Fixed false negative on hash-types 8900, 15700, 22700, 27700 and 28200 if using
the HIP backend
- Fixed false negative on Unit Test in case of out-of-memory with grep in single
mode
- Fixed false negative on Unit Test with hash-type 25400
- Fixed functional error when nonce-error-corrections that were set on the command
line in hash-mode 22000/22001 were not accepted
- Fixed handling of devices in benchmark mode for "kernel build error". Instead of
canceling, skip the device and move on to the next
- Fixed handling of password candidates that are shorter than the minimum password
length in Association Attack
- Fixed invalid handling of keyfiles in Keepass if transf_random_seed doesn't
change
- Fixed memory leak in CPU rule engine
- Fixed method of how OPTS_TYPE_AUX* kernels are called in an association attack,
for example in WPA/WPA2 kernel
- Fixed missing option flag OPTS_TYPE_SUGGEST_KG for hash-mode 11600 to inform the
user about possible false positives in this mode
- Fixed optimized (-O) candidate generation with --stdout and -a 7
- Fixed password limit in optimized kernel for hash-mode 10700
- Fixed password reassembling function reporting an incorrect candidate in some
cases when the correct candidate has zero length
- Fixed undefined function call to hc_byte_perm_S() in hash-mode 17010 on non-CUDA
compute devices
- Fixed unit test early exit on luks test file download/extract failure
- Fixed unit test false negative if there are spaces in the filesystem path to
hashcat
- Fixed unit test salt-max in case of optimized kernel, with hash-type 22 and 23
- Fixed usage of --rule-right (-k) in -a 7 with optimized (-O) kernels
- Fixed wordlist handling in -m 3000 when candidate passwords use the $HEX[...]
syntax

##
## Technical
##

- AMD Driver: Updated requirements for AMD Linux drivers to "AMDGPU" (21.50 or
later) and "ROCm" (5.0 or later)
- AMD Driver: Updated requirements for AMD Windows drivers to "AMD Adrenalin
Edition" (Adrenalin 22.5.1 exactly)
- Association Attack: Enable module specific pw_min and pw_max settings to avoid
false positives in -a 9 attack-mode
- Autotune: Added error handling. By default skipping device on error, with --force
using accel/loops/threads min values instead
- Backend: improved management of systems with multiple OpenCL platforms
- Backend Info: Added folder_config info to output
- Backend Info: Added generic system info to output (must be completed on Windows
side)
- Backend Info: Added local memory size to output
- Backend: with kernel build options, switch from -I to -D INCLUDE_PATH, in order
to support Apple Metal runtime
- Command Line: Disallow combinations of some options. for instance, using -t in -a
0 mode
- CUDA Backend: moved functions to ext_cuda.c/ext_nvrtc.c and includes to
ext_cuda.h/ext_nvrtc.h
- Debug Rules: Set --debug-file to $session.debugfile if --debug-mode was set by
the user and --debug-file was not set
- Hardware Monitor: Add support for GPU device utilization readings using iokit on
Apple Silicon (OpenCL and Metal)
- Hash Info: show more information (Updated Hash-Format. Added Autodetect, Self-
Test, Potfile and Plaintext encoding)
- HIP Backend: moved functions to ext_hip.c/ext_hiprtc.c and includes to
ext_hip.h/ext_hiprtc.h
- HIP Backend: removed unused functions from hiprtc to workaroung missing function
symbols on windows dll
- Kernels: Refactored standard kernel declaration to use a structure holding
u32/u64 attributes to reduce the number of attributes
- Kernels: Refactored standard kernel includes, KERN_ATTR macros and RC4 cipher
functions, in order to support Apple Metal runtime
- Kernels: Set the default Address Space Qualifier for any pointer, in order to
support Apple Metal runtime
- Logfile: Write per-session "recovered new" value to logfile
- Makefile: updated MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET to 10.15 and removed OpenCL framework
from LFLAGS_NATIVE on MacOS
- Metal Runtime: added support for vectors up to 4
- Modules: Added suffix *legacy* to old TrueCrypt modules (6211-6243)
- Modules: Added suffix *legacy* to old VeraCrypt modules (13711-13783)
- Modules: Added support of a custom charset setting for benchmarks to the module
interface
- Modules: New LUKS v1 modules (29511-29543) which do not use
`module_hash_binary_parse` to get data from containers anymore (use new tool
`tools/luks2hashcat.py`)
- Modules: New TrueCrypt modules (29311-29343) which do not use
`module_hash_binary_parse` to get data from containers anymore (use new tool
`tools/truecrypt2hashcat.py`)
- Modules: New VeraCrypt modules (29411-29483) which do not use
`module_hash_binary_parse` to get data from containers anymore (use new tool
`tools/veracrypt2hashcat.py`)
- Modules: Renamed old LUKS module into LUKS v1 and added suffix *legacy* (14600)
- OpenCL Backend: added workaround to make optimized kernels work on Apple Silicon
- OpenCL Backend: moved functions to ext_OpenCL.c and includes to ext_OpenCL.h
- OpenCL Backend: show device_type in device list info on Apple Silicon
- OpenCL Kernel: Set native_threads to 32 on Apple GPU's for various hash-modes
- OpenCL Runtime: Added support to use Apple Silicon compute devices
- OpenCL Runtime: Add some unstable warnings detected on macOS
- OpenCL Runtime: Set default device-type to GPU with Apple Silicon compute devices
- Restore: Restore timer is decreased from 60 seconds to 1 second, but only updates
if there's actually a change compared to previous data written to restore file
- Rules: Add new rulesets from T0XlC: T0XlCv2, T0XlC_3_rule,
T0XlC_insert_HTLM_entities_0_Z
- Rules: Add support to include source wordlist in debugging format
- Rules: Update hand-written rulesets to covers years up to 2029
- Status code: updated negative status code (added kernel create failure and
resync)
- Status code: updated negative status code, usefull in Unit tests engine (test.sh)
- Terminal: Increased size of hash name column in `--help` and `--identify` options
- Terminal: Limit output length of example hash in --example-hash mode to 200. Use
--mach to see full example hash
- Terminal: show empty OpenCL platforms only in backend information mode
- Tuning Database: Added a warning if a module implements
module_extra_tuningdb_block but the installed computing device is not found
- Unit tests: added -r (--runtime) option
- Unit tests: handle negative status code, skip deprecated hash-types, skip hash-
types with known perl modules issues, updated output
- Unit tests: Updated test.sh to set default device-type to CPU with Apple Intel
and added -f (--force) option
- Usage Screen: On windows console, wait for any keypress if usage_mini_print() is
used
- User Options: Add new module function module_hash_decode_postprocess() to
override hash specific configurations from command line
- User Options: Change --backend-info/-I option type, from bool to uint
- Workflow: Added basic workflow for GitHub Actions

* changes v6.2.4 -> v6.2.5

##
## Algorithms
##

- Added hash-mode: CRC32C

- Added hash-mode: CRC64Jones
- Added hash-mode: MultiBit Classic .wallet (scrypt)
- Added hash-mode: MurmurHash3
- Added hash-mode: Windows Hello PIN/Password

##
## Performance
##

- PDF Kernel (10700): Improved performance on AMD GPUs by using shared memory for
the scratch buffer and disabled inlining to save spilling

##
## Bugs
##

- Fixed divide by zero error because backend_ctx->hardware_power_all was not re-

inserted after refactoring device_param->hardware_power
- Fixed invalid handling of initialization value for -m 11500
- Fixed invalid progress counter initialization in attack-mode 9 when using --skip
or --restore
- Fixed out-of-boundary reads in attack-mode 9 that were caused by a missing work
item limit in the refactored autotune engine
- Fixed out-of-boundary reads in hash-mode 22400 (AES Crypt) kernel
- Fixed strategy for eliminating hashes with zero length in LM when multiple hashes
contain a zero hash

##
## Technical
##

- AMD Driver: Updated requirements for AMD Linux drivers to ROCm 4.5 or later due
to new HIP interface
- Backend devices: In -S mode, limit the number of workitems so that no more than
2GB of host memory is required per backend device
- Backend devices: In non -S mode, limit the number of workitems so that no more
than 4GB of host memory is required per backend device
- Backend types: The default filter for the device types is now set so that only
the GPU is used, except for APPLE, where we set CPU
- Benchmark: Update benchmark_deep.pl with new hash modes added (also new hash
modes which were added with v6.2.3)
- Electrum Wallet: Added new entropy-based check to test whether the decryption was
successful or not
- Module Optimizers: Added OPTS_TYPE_MAXIMUM_THREADS to deactivate the else branch
route in the section to find -T before compilation
- Makefile: Added wildcard include src/modules/module_*.mk directive so that plugin
developers can add 3rd party libraries for their plugins
- Rejects: Disabled checking of the minimum and maximum length of the password
candidate in attack-mode 9 because they are incompatible
- POCL: Added a workaround for an issue in POCL where a quote character is used as
a part of the path itself which is passed as a path for the -I option
- Device Threads: The default maximum device thread number has been reduced from
1024 to 256, users can still overwrite with the -T option
- Tuning-DB: Add missing entries for -m 25600 and -m 25800 for CPU cracking
- OpenCL Backend: added workaround to support Apple Silicon (GPU: M1, M1 Pro, and
M1 Max)
- MacOS v10.8+ (PBKDF2-SHA512): Added support for parsing new mac2john hash format
directly in the module for -m 7100

* changes v6.2.3 -> v6.2.4

##
## Algorithms
##

- Added hash-mode: SNMPv3 HMAC-MD5-96/HMAC-SHA1-96

- Added hash-mode: SNMPv3 HMAC-MD5-96
- Added hash-mode: SNMPv3 HMAC-SHA1-96
- Added hash-mode: SNMPv3 HMAC-SHA224-128
- Added hash-mode: SNMPv3 HMAC-SHA256-192
- Added hash-mode: SNMPv3 HMAC-SHA384-256
- Added hash-mode: SNMPv3 HMAC-SHA512-384
- Added hash-mode: VirtualBox (PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256 & AES-128-XTS)
- Added hash-mode: VirtualBox (PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256 & AES-256-XTS)

##
## Features
##

- Added option --deprecated-check-disable to enable deprecated plugins

- Added option --generate-rules-func-sel to specify a pool of operators that the
random rule generator is allowed to pick from
- Added option --multiply-accel-disable (short: -M) to disable multiplying of the
kernel accel with the multiprocessor count
- Added rule function '3' to change the case of the first letter after the
occurrence of N of character X
- Added support for auto tuning --kernel-threads (-T) at startup
- Added support for HIP version 4.3 or later and removed support for older HIP
versions as they are not compatible

##
## Bugs
##

- Fixed broken support for --generate-rules-func-min which was ignored under

certain conditions
- Fixed buffer overflow in DPAPI masterkey file v1/v2 module in hash_encode() and
hash_decode()
- Fixed buffer overflow in Stargazer Stellar Wallet XLM module in hash_encode()
when a hash was cracked
- Fixed false negative in all VeraCrypt hash modes if both conditions are met: 1.
Use CPU for cracking and 2. PIM area was used
- Fixed invalid data type in the sha384_hmac_init_vector_128() function that take
effect if the vector data type was specified manually
- Fixed out-of-boundary read in input_tokenizer() if the signature in the hash is
longer than the length of the plugin's signature constant
- Fixed out-of-boundary read in PKZIP masterkey kernel if the password candidate
has length zero
- Fixed out-of-boundary read in the Stuffit5 module in hash_decode()
- Fixed random rule generator option --generate-rules-func-min by fixing switch()
case to not select a not existing option group type
- Fixed segfault when a combination of the flags --user and --show is given and a
hash was specified directly on the command line
- Fixed syntax check of HAS_VPERM macro in several kernel includes causing invalid
error message for AMD GPUs on Windows
- Fixed uninitialized tmps variable in autotune for slow hashes by calling _init
and _prepare kernel before calling _loop kernel
- Fixed unintentional overwriting of the --quiet option in benchmark and speed-only
mode

##
## Performance
##

- AMD GPUs: Add inline assembly code for md5crypt, sha256crypt, PDF 1.7, 7-Zip,
RAR3, Samsung Android and Windows Phone 8+
- AMD GPUs: On the Apple OpenCL platform, we ask for the preferred kernel thread
size rather than hard-coding 32
- Backend Interface: Replace most of the blocking Compute API functions with
asynchronous ones to improve GPU utilization
- Blake Kernels: Optimize 3/4 BLAKE2B_ROUND() 64-bit rotations with inline assembly
hc_byte_perm_S() calls
- Blowfish Kernels: Backport optimizations to reduce bank conflicts from bcrypt to
Password Safe v2 and Open Document Format (ODF) 1.1
- ECC secp256k1: The inline assembly code for AMD GPUs has been removed as the
latest JIT compilers optimize it with the same efficiency
- HIP Kernels: Enable vector data types for HIP kernels for functionality and
performance
- Kernel threads: Use warp size / wavefront size query instead of hard-coded values
as the basis for kernel threads
- SCRYPT Kernels: Improve Hashcat.hctune entries for many NV and AMD GPUs for hash
mode 8900, 9300, 15700 and 22700
- STDIN: Reduce the performance gap between stdin and wordlist by disabling the --
stdin-timeout-abort check after 1000 successful reads
- Tuning Database: Add new module function module_extra_tuningdb_block() to extend
hashcat.hctune content from a module

##
## Technical
##

- 7-Zip Hook: Increase the supported data length from 320kb to 8mb
- ADL: Updated support for AMD Display Library to 15.0, updated data types
- AMD Driver: Updated requirements for AMD Linux drivers to ROCm 4.3 or later due
to new HIP interface
- AMD Driver: Updated requirements for AMD Windows drivers to Adrenalin 21.2.1 or
later due to new ADL library
- Autotune: Add autotune event to inform the user about autotune is
starting/stopping on startup
- Backend Interface: Implement gpu_bzero() as a gpu_memset() replacement, since all
gpu_memset() operations used 0 as the value
- Backend Interface: Improve the query kernel's dynamic memory size based on
DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_MAX_SHARED_MEMORY_PER_BLOCK_OPTIN instead of BF
- Brain Session: Adds hashconfig-specific opti_type and opts_type parameters to the
session calculation to enable cover functions like -O
- Commandline: Fix some memory leaks in case hashcat aborts due to command line
parameter settings
- Commandline: Throw an error if the separator specified by the user with the -p
option is not exactly 1 byte
- Community: Add link to new hashcat discord to docs/contact.txt
- Constants: Make const char * pointers actually const char * const pointers
- Deprecated Plugins: Add new module function module_deprecated_notice() to mark a
plugin as deprecated and to return a free text user notice
- Deprecated Plugins: Marked plugins 2500/2501 and 16800/16801 as deprecated
- Encoding: Truncate password candidates in UTF8 -> UTF16 conversion if it contains
an invalid UTF8 byte sequence
- Filehandling: Avoid direct access to some file handles and use internal
structures instead
- Filehandling: Use const char for fopen mode to fix -Wwrite-strings warnings
- Hardware Monitor: Added support for OverDrive 7 and 8 based GPUs
- HIP Kernels: Dependency on hip/hip runtime.h has been removed to enable easier
integration of the HIP backend under Windows
- Kernel cache: Add kernel threads for hash calculation, which will later be used
in the file name of the kernel cache
- Memory Management: Check in OpenCL that CL_DEVICE_HOST_UNIFIED_MEMORY is true and
if so, then half of the available memory
- Memory Management: Refactored the code responsible for limiting kernel accel with
the goal to avoid low host memory situations
- MetaMask: Added special extraction tool for MetaMask wallets
- NEO driver: Activate the NEO driver (Intel GPU) after it passed several tests in
hashcat using the latest NEO driver version
- OpenCL Runtime: The use of clUnloadPlatformCompiler () was disabled after some
users received unexpected return codes
- OpenCL Runtime: Workaround for Intel OpenCL runtime: segmentation fault when
compiling hc_enc_next() / hc_enc_next_global()
- Potfile: Fixed some leaks in potfile_*_open(), potfile_*_close(),
potfile_destroy() and don't assume plain file
- RC4 Kernels: Use improved native thread derivation for RC4-based hash modes 7500,
13100, 18200, 25400
- Shared Memory: Calculate the dynamic memory size of the kernel based on
CU_DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE_MAX_SHARED_MEMORY_PER_BLOCK_OPTIN
- Slow kernels: Set some of the slowest kernels to OPTS_TYPE_MP_MULTI_DISABLE to
make it easier to handle small word lists
- Status view: Add hash-mode (-m number) in addition to hash-name
- Vendor Discovery: Add "Intel" as a valid vendor name for GPUs on macOS
- MetaMask: Increase the supported data len from 784b to 3136b and set pw-min to 8

* changes v6.2.2 -> v6.2.3

##
## Algorithms
##

- Added hash-mode: AES-128-ECB NOKDF (PT = $salt, key = $pass)

- Added hash-mode: AES-192-ECB NOKDF (PT = $salt, key = $pass)
- Added hash-mode: AES-256-ECB NOKDF (PT = $salt, key = $pass)
- Added hash-mode: iPhone passcode (UID key + System Keybag)
- Added hash-mode: MetaMask Wallet
- Added hash-mode: VeraCrypt PBKDF2-HMAC-Streebog-512 + XTS 512 bit + boot-mode
- Added hash-mode: VeraCrypt PBKDF2-HMAC-Streebog-512 + XTS 1024 bit + boot-mode
- Added hash-mode: VeraCrypt PBKDF2-HMAC-Streebog-512 + XTS 1536 bit + boot-mode

##
## Features
##

- Added new backend support for HIP, an OpenCL alternative API for AMD GPUs
(similar to CUDA for NVIDIA GPUs)
- Added option --markov-inverse to inverse markov statistics, with the idea of
reversing the order of the password candidates
- Added temperature watchdog and fanspeed readings for CPU and GPU on macOS using
iokit
- Added temperature watchdog and utilization for CPU on linux using sysfs and
procfs

##
## Bugs
##

- Fixed access violation in hashconfig_destroy if hashcat_ctx_t is only partially

initialized
- Fixed 'E' rule in pure kernel mode which was ignoring letters that are in
positions that are multiples of 4
- Fixed false negative in hash-mode 15900 (DPAPI masterkey file v2) if password was
longer than 64 characters
- Fixed hashcat_ctx leak and refactor module and kernel existence checks
- Fixed integer overflow in Recovered/Time status view column caused by division >
0 but < 1
- Fixed invalid ETA if --limit was specified, several salts are in a hash list and
some of them were found in a potfile
- Fixed memory leak in iconv_ctx and iconv_tmp in backend.c
- Fixed missing option to automatically disable kernel cache in -m 25600 and -m
25800
- Fixed out-of-boundary write in slow candidates mode in combinator attack

##
## Improvements
##

- Alias Devices: Show a warning in case the user specifically listed a device to
use which in a later step is skipped because it is an alias of another active
device
- Backend Information: Added new column showing the PCI Address per CUDA/OpenCL
device to easier identify broken cards
- Bcrypt-SHA1/MD5 Kernels: Get rid of local memory use for binary to hex conversion
to avoid false negatives on several OpenCL runtimes
- CPU Affinity: Allow mask up to 64 processors in Windows and remove call to
SetThreadAffinityMask as SetProcessAffinityMask limits all threads in process
- Debug Rules: HEX-ify rules debug non-rules outputs that contain colons
- KeePass: Increase supported size for KeePass 1 databases from 300kB to 16MB
- Potfile: Disable potfile for hash-mode 99999
- VeraCrypt: Increase password length support for non-boot volumes from 64 to 128
- WPA Kernels: Increased performance by 3.5% for backend devices controlled by CUDA
backend

##
## Technical
##
- Autodetect: Limit the number of errors per hash-mode try to 100 to avoid long
startup time
- Brain: Add brain_ctx_t to hashcat_ctx_t to enable runtime check if hashcat was
compiled with brain support
- File handling: Do not abort on seeing a BOM in input files, just warn and ignore
the BOM
- Folders: Do not escape the variable cpath_real to prevent certain OpenCL runtimes
from running into an error which do not support escape characters
- Java Object hashCode: Add OPTS_TYPE_SUGGEST_KG as a default option
- LM: Workaround JiT compiler bug in -m 3000 on NV leading to false negatives with
large amount of hashes
- OpenCL Runtime: Workaround a problem of the AMD OpenCL GPU driver under macOS
which results in false negatives due to changes in the kernel crypto library
- OpenCL Runtime: Workaround JiT crash (SC failed. No reason given.) on macOS by
limiting local memory allocations to 32k
- Status View: Include time and duration info when pausing and resuming
- Tests: Changed tests for VeraCrypt from -a 0 to -a 3, because password extension
is not available to all shells
- WinZip Kernel: Increase supported data length from 8k to 16mb

* changes v6.2.1 -> v6.2.2

##
## Algorithms
##

- Added hash-mode: bcrypt(md5($pass)) / bcryptmd5

- Added hash-mode: bcrypt(sha1($pass)) / bcryptsha1
- Added hash-mode: FortiGate256 (FortiOS256)
- Added hash-mode: Linux Kernel Crypto API (2.4)
- Added hash-mode: MurmurHash
- Added hash-mode: OpenEdge Progress Encode
- Added hash-mode: md5(utf16le($pass))
- Added hash-mode: sha1(utf16le($pass))
- Added hash-mode: sha256(utf16le($pass))
- Added hash-mode: sha384(utf16le($pass))
- Added hash-mode: sha512(utf16le($pass))
- Added hash-mode: md5(md5(md5($pass)))
- Added hash-mode: sha1(sha1($salt.$pass.$salt))
- Added hash-mode: sha256($salt.sha256($pass))
- Added hash-mode: sha384($pass.$salt)
- Added hash-mode: sha384($salt.$pass)
- Added hash-mode: sha384($salt.utf16le($pass))
- Added hash-mode: sha384(utf16le($pass).$salt)

##
## Features
##

- Autodetect hash-type: performs an automatic analysis of input hash(es), either

listing compatible algorithms, or executing the attack (if only one compatible
format is found)
- Autodetect hash-type: added option --identify to only perform autodetection of
hash-type, without back-end device initialization

##
## Bugs
##
- Fixed error message in -a 9 mode with rules when number of words from wordlist is
not in sync with number of unique salts
- Fixed error-handling logic in monitor thread to not return in case of error (disk
full, permission error, ...) but to retry instead
- Fixed false negatives with TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt when zip- or gzip-compressed files
were used as keyfiles
- Fixed free memory-size output for skipped GPU (both automatic and manual) of --
backend-info information screen

##
## Improvements
##

- AES Crypt Plugin: Reduced max password length from 256 to 128 which improved
performance by 22%
- CUDA Backend: If --stdout is used, do not warn about missing CUDA SDK
- Folder Management: Add support for XDG Base Directory specification when hashcat
is installed using 'make install'
- Hardware Monitor: Add support for GPU device utilization readings from sysfs (AMD
on Linux)
- OpenCL Backend: Use CL_DEVICE_BOARD_NAME_AMD instead of CL_DEVICE_NAME for device
name (when supported by OpenCL runtime)
- Performance Monitor: Suggest -S to improve cracking performance in specific
attack configurations
- RAR3-p (Compressed): Fix workaround in unrar library in AES constant table
generation to enable multi-threading support
- RC4 Kernels: Improved performance by 20%+ with new RC4 code in hash-modes
Kerberos 5 (etype 23), MS Office (<= 2003) and PDF (<= 1.6)
- Scrypt Kernels: Re-enable use of kernel cache in scrypt-based kernels
- Status Screen: Show currently-running kernel type (pure, optimized) and generator
type (host, device)
- UTF8-to-UTF16: Replaced naive UTF8-to-UTF16 conversion with true conversion for
RAR3, AES Crypt, MultiBit HD (scrypt) and Umbraco HMAC-SHA1

##
## Technical
##

- Dependencies: Updated LZMA SDK from 19.00 to 21.02 alpha

- Dependencies: Updated xxHash from 0.1.0 to v0.8.0 - Stable XXH3
- Documentation: Update missing documentation in plugin developer guide for
OPTS_TYPE_MP_MULTI_DISABLE and OPTS_TYPE_NATIVE_THREADS
- Hashrate: Update inner-loop hashrate prediction to handle new salt_repeats
feature and also respect _loop2 kernel runtime
- Kernels: Add RC4 cipher to crypto library with optimized shared memory access
pattern which will not cause any bank conflicts if -u <= 32
- Kernels: Add standalone true UTF8-to-UTF16 converter kernel that runs after
amplifier. Use OPTS_TYPE_POST_AMP_UTF16LE from plugin
- Kernel Cache: Add module_jit_build_options() string from modules to kernel cache
checksum calculation
- Modules: Recategorized HASH_CATEGORY option in various modules
- Modules: Added hash categories HASH_CATEGORY_IMS and
HASH_CATEGORY_CRYPTOCURRENCY_WALLET
- Modules: Changed hash category of Python passlib from HASH_CATEGORY_GENERIC_KDF
to HASH_CATEGORY_FRAMEWORK
- Unit-Tests: Added missing support for OPTS_TYPE_LOOP_PREPARE,
OPTS_TYPE_LOOP_PREPARE2 and salt_repeats in self-test
- Unit-Tests: Added missing unit-test for Stargazer Stellar Wallet XLM
* changes v6.2.0 -> v6.2.1

##
## Technical
##

- Dependencies: Updated unrar source from 5.9.4 to 6.0.5

- Dependencies: Make unrar dependencies optional and disable hash-mode 23800 if
dependency is disabled

* changes v6.1.1 -> v6.2.0

##
## Algorithms
##

- Added hash-mode: Apple iWork

- Added hash-mode: AxCrypt 2 AES-128
- Added hash-mode: AxCrypt 2 AES-256
- Added hash-mode: BestCrypt v3 Volume Encryption
- Added hash-mode: Bitwarden
- Added hash-mode: Dahua Authentication MD5
- Added hash-mode: KNX IP Secure - Device Authentication Code
- Added hash-mode: MongoDB ServerKey SCRAM-SHA-1
- Added hash-mode: MongoDB ServerKey SCRAM-SHA-256
- Added hash-mode: Mozilla key3.db
- Added hash-mode: Mozilla key4.db
- Added hash-mode: MS Office 2016 - SheetProtection
- Added hash-mode: PDF 1.4 - 1.6 (Acrobat 5 - 8) - edit password
- Added hash-mode: PKCS#8 Private Keys
- Added hash-mode: RAR3-p (Compressed)
- Added hash-mode: RAR3-p (Uncompressed)
- Added hash-mode: RSA/DSA/EC/OPENSSH Private Keys
- Added hash-mode: SolarWinds Orion v2
- Added hash-mode: SolarWinds Serv-U
- Added hash-mode: SQLCipher
- Added hash-mode: Stargazer Stellar Wallet XLM
- Added hash-mode: Stuffit5
- Added hash-mode: Telegram Desktop >= v2.1.14 (PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA512)
- Added hash-mode: Umbraco HMAC-SHA1
- Added hash-mode: sha1($salt.sha1($pass.$salt))
- Added hash-mode: sha1(sha1($pass).$salt)

##
## Features
##

- Added new attack-mode: Association Attack (aka "Context Attack") to attack hashes
from a hashlist with associated "hints"
- Added support for true UTF-8 to UTF-16 conversion in kernel crypto library
- Added option --hash-info to show generic information for each hash-mode
- Added command prompt [f]inish to tell hashcat to quit after finishing the current
attack

##
## Bugs
##

- Fixed access to filename which is a null-pointer in benchmark mode

- Fixed both false negative and false positive results in -m 3000 in -a 3
(affecting only NVIDIA GPU)
- Fixed buffer overflow in -m 1800 in -O mode which is optimized to handle only
password candidates up to length 15
- Fixed buffer overflow in -m 4710 in -P mode and only in single hash mode if salt
length is larger than 32 bytes
- Fixed hardware management sysfs readings in status screen (typically ROCm
controlled GPUs)
- Fixed include guards in several header files
- Fixed incorrect maximum password length support for -m 400 in optimized mode
(reduced from 55 to 39)
- Fixed internal access on module option attribute OPTS_TYPE_SUGGEST_KG with the
result that it was unused
- Fixed invalid handling of outfile folder entries for -m 22000
- Fixed memory leak causing problems in sessions with many iterations - for
instance, --benchmark-all or large mask files
- Fixed memory leaks in several cases of errors with access to temporary files
- Fixed NVML initialization in WSL2 environments
- Fixed out-of-boundary reads in cases where user activates -S for fast but pure
hashes in -a 1 or -a 3 mode
- Fixed out-of-boundary reads in kernels using module_extra_buffer_size() if -n is
set to 1
- Fixed password reassembling for cracked hashes on host for slow hashes in
optimized mode that are longer than 32 characters
- Fixed race condition in potfile check during removal of empty hashes
- Fixed race condition resulting in out of memory error on startup if multiple
hashcat instances are started at the same time
- Fixed rare case of misalignment of the status prompt when other user warnings are
shown in the hashcat output
- Fixed search of tuning database - if a device was not assigned an alias, it
couldn't be found in general
- Fixed test on gzip header in wordlists and hashlists
- Fixed too-early execution of some module functions that use non-final values
opts_type and opti_type
- Fixed unexpected non-unique salts in multi-hash cracking in Bitcoin/Litecoin
wallet.dat module which led to false negatives
- Fixed unit test for -m 3000 by preventing it to generate zero hashes
- Fixed unit tests using 'null' as padding method in Crypt::CBC but actually want
to use 'none'
- Fixed unterminated salt buffer in -m 23400 module_hash_encode() in case salt was
of length 256
- Fixed vector datatype support in -m 21100 only -P mode and only -a 3 mode were
affected

##
## Improvements
##

- Apple Keychain: Notify the user about the risk of collisions / false positives
- CUDA Backend: Do not warn about missing CUDA SDK installation if --backend-
ignore-cuda is used
- CUDA Backend: Give detailed warning if either the NVIDIA CUDA or the NVIDIA RTC
library cannot be initialized
- CUDA Backend: Use blocking events to avoid 100% CPU core usage (per GPU)
- OpenCL Runtime: Workaround JiT compiler deadlock on NVIDIA driver >= 465.89
- OpenCL Runtime: Workaround JiT compiler segfault on legacy AMDGPU driver
compiling RAR3 OpenCL kernel
- RAR3 Kernels: Improved loop code, improving performance by 23%
- Scrypt Kernels: Added a number of GPU specific optimizations per hash modes to
hashcat.hctune
- Scrypt Kernels: Added detailed documentation on device specific tunings in
hashcat.hctune
- Scrypt Kernels: Optimized Salsa code portion by reducing register copies and
removed unnecessary byte swaps
- Scrypt Kernels: Reduced kernel wait times by making it a true split kernel where
iteration count = N value
- Scrypt Kernels: Refactored workload configuration strategy based on available
resources
- Startup time: Improved startup time by avoiding some time-intensive operations
for skipped devices

##
## Technical
##

- Bcrypt: Make BCRYPT entry for CPU in hashcat.hctune after switch to

OPTS_TYPE_MP_MULTI_DISABLE (basically set -n to 1)
- Benchmark: Update benchmark_deep.pl with new hash modes added (also new hash
modes which were added with v6.1.0)
- Building: Declare phony targets in Makefile to avoid conflicts of a target name
with a file of the same name
- Building: Fixed build warnings on macOS for unrar sources
- Building: Fixed test for DARWIN_VERSION in Makefile
- Commandline Options: Removed option --example-hashes, now an alias of --hash-info
- Compute API: Skipping devices instead of stop if error occured in initialization
- Documentation: Added 3rd party licenses to docs/license_libs
- Hash-Mode 8900 (Scrypt): Changed default benchmark scrypt parameters from 1k:1:1
to 16k:8:1 (default)
- Hash-Mode 11600 (7-Zip): Improved memory handling (alloc and free) for the hook
function
- Hash-Mode 13200 (AxCrypt): Changed the name to AxCrypt 1 to avoid confusion
- Hash-Mode 13300 (AxCrypt in-memory SHA1): Changed the name to AxCrypt 1 in-memory
SHA1
- Hash-Mode 16300 (Ethereum Pre-Sale Wallet, PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256): Use correct
buffer size allocation for AES key
- Hash-Mode 20710 (sha256(sha256($pass).$salt)): Removed unused code and fixed
module_constraints
- Hash-Mode 22000 (WPA-PBKDF2-PMKID+EAPOL): Support loading a hash from command
line
- Hash-Mode 23300 (Apple iWork): Use correct buffer size allocation for AES key
- Hash Parser: Output support for machine-readable hash lines in --show and --left
and in error messages
- Kernel Development: Kernel cache is disabled automatically when hashcat is
compiled with DEBUG=1
- Kernel Functions: Added generic AES-GCM interface see OpenCL/inc_cipher_aes-gcm.h
- Kernel Functions: Refactored OpenCL/inc_ecc_secp256k1.cl many functions, add
constants and documentation
- Kernel Functions: Refactored OpenCL/inc_ecc_secp256k1.cl to improve usage in
external programs
- Kernel Functions: Wrap atomic functions with hc_ prefix. Custom kernels need to
rename "atomic_inc()" to "hc_atomic_inc()"
- Kernel Parameters: Added new parameter 'salt_repeat' to improve large buffer
management
- Module Parameters: Add OPTS_TYPE_MP_MULTI_DISABLE for use by plugin developers to
prevent multiply -n with the MCU count
- Module Parameters: Add OPTS_TYPE_NATIVE_THREADS for use by plugin developers to
enforce native thread count
- Module Structure: Add 3rd party library hook management functions. This also
requires an update to all existing module_init()
- OpenCL Runtime: Add support for clUnloadPlatformCompiler() to release some
resources after JiT compilation
- OpenCL Runtime: Switched default OpenCL device type on macOS from GPU to CPU. Use
-D 2 to enable GPU devices
- OpenCL Runtime: Update module_unstable_warnings() for all hash modes based on
most recent versions of many OpenCL runtimes
- Unit tests: Added 'potthrough' (like passthrough, but hash:plain) to
tools/test.pl
- Unit tests: Added Python 3 support for all of the Python code in our test
framework
- Unit tests: Fixed the packaging of test (-p) feature
- Unit tests: Updated test.sh to show kernel type (pure or optimized) in output
- Unit tests: Use python3/pip3 instead of just python/pip in
tools/install_modules.sh

* changes v6.1.0 -> v6.1.1

##
## Bugs
##

- Fixed unresolvable relative paths in hashcat.log

* changes v6.0.0 -> v6.1.0

##
## Algorithms
##

- Added hash-mode: Apple Keychain

- Added hash-mode: XMPP SCRAM

##
## Bugs
##

- Fixed alias detection with additional processor core count check

- Fixed false negatives in hash-mode 10901 if hash-mode 9200, 10000, 10900 or 20300
was used to compile the kernel binary
- Fixed integer overflow for large masks in -a 6 attack mode
- Fixed maximum password length in modules of hash-modes 600, 7800, 7801 and 9900
- Fixed non-zero status code when using --stdout
- Fixed uninitialized value in bitsliced DES kernel (BF mode only) leading to false
negatives

##
## Improvements
##

- Compile macOS: Fixed makefile target 'clean' to correctly remove *.dSYM folders
- Compile ZLIB: Fixed makefile include paths in case USE_SYSTEM_ZLIB is used
- Hcchr Files: Renamed some .charset files into .hcchr files
- Hash-Mode 21200 (md5(sha1($salt).md5($pass))): Improved speed by using pre-
computed SHA1
- OpenCL Devices: Utilize PCI domain to improve alias device detection
- OpenCL Kernels: Added datatypes to literals of enum costants
- OpenCL Kernels: Added pure kernels for hash-mode 600 (BLAKE2b-512)
- OpenCL Runtime: Add some unstable warnings for some SHA512 based algorithms on
AMD GPU on macOS
- OpenCL Runtime: Reinterpret return code CL_DEVICE_NOT_FOUND from clGetDeviceIDs()
as non-fatal

##
## Technical
##

- Backend: Changed the maximum number of compute devices from 64 to 128

- Tests: Improved tests for hash-mode 11300 (Bitcoin/Litecoin wallet.dat)
- Tests: Improved tests for hash-mode 13200 (AxCrypt)
- Tests: Improved tests for hash-mode 13600 (WinZip)
- Tests: Improved tests for hash-mode 16400 (CRAM-MD5 Dovecot)
- Tests: Improved tests for hash-mode 16800 (WPA-PMKID-PBKDF2)

* changes v5.1.0 -> v6.0.0

##
## Features
##

- Refactored hash-mode integration and replaced it with a fully modularized plugin

interface
- Converted all existing hardwired hash-modes to hashcat plugins
- Added comprehensive plugin developer guide on adding new/custom hash-modes to
hashcat
- Refactored compute backend interface to allow adding compute API other than
OpenCL
- Added CUDA as a new compute backend (enables hashcat to run on NVIDIA Jetson, IBM
POWER9 w/ Nvidia V100, etc.)
- Support automatic use of all available GPU memory when using CUDA backend
- Support automatic use of all available CPU cores for hash-mode-specific hooks
- Support on-the-fly loading of compressed wordlists in zip and gzip format
- Support deflate decompression for the 7-Zip hash-mode using zlib hook
- Added additional documentation on hashcat brain, slow-candidate interface and
keyboard-layout mapping features
- Keep output of --show and --left in the original ordering of the input hash file
- Improved performance of many hash-modes

##
## Algorithms
##

- Added hash-mode: AES Crypt (SHA256)

- Added hash-mode: Android Backup
- Added hash-mode: AuthMe sha256
- Added hash-mode: BitLocker
- Added hash-mode: BitShares v0.x
- Added hash-mode: Blockchain, My Wallet, Second Password (SHA256)
- Added hash-mode: Citrix NetScaler (SHA512)
- Added hash-mode: DiskCryptor
- Added hash-mode: Electrum Wallet (Salt-Type 3-5)
- Added hash-mode: Huawei Router sha1(md5($pass).$salt)
- Added hash-mode: Java Object hashCode()
- Added hash-mode: Kerberos 5 Pre-Auth etype 17 (AES128-CTS-HMAC-SHA1-96)
- Added hash-mode: Kerberos 5 Pre-Auth etype 18 (AES256-CTS-HMAC-SHA1-96)
- Added hash-mode: Kerberos 5 TGS-REP etype 17 (AES128-CTS-HMAC-SHA1-96)
- Added hash-mode: Kerberos 5 TGS-REP etype 18 (AES256-CTS-HMAC-SHA1-96)
- Added hash-mode: MultiBit Classic .key (MD5)
- Added hash-mode: MultiBit HD (scrypt)
- Added hash-mode: MySQL $A$ (sha256crypt)
- Added hash-mode: Open Document Format (ODF) 1.1 (SHA-1, Blowfish)
- Added hash-mode: Open Document Format (ODF) 1.2 (SHA-256, AES)
- Added hash-mode: Oracle Transportation Management (SHA256)
- Added hash-mode: PKZIP archive encryption
- Added hash-mode: PKZIP Master Key
- Added hash-mode: Python passlib pbkdf2-sha1
- Added hash-mode: Python passlib pbkdf2-sha256
- Added hash-mode: Python passlib pbkdf2-sha512
- Added hash-mode: QNX /etc/shadow (MD5)
- Added hash-mode: QNX /etc/shadow (SHA256)
- Added hash-mode: QNX /etc/shadow (SHA512)
- Added hash-mode: RedHat 389-DS LDAP (PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256)
- Added hash-mode: Ruby on Rails Restful-Authentication
- Added hash-mode: SecureZIP AES-128
- Added hash-mode: SecureZIP AES-192
- Added hash-mode: SecureZIP AES-256
- Added hash-mode: SolarWinds Orion
- Added hash-mode: Telegram Desktop App Passcode (PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA1)
- Added hash-mode: Telegram Mobile App Passcode (SHA256)
- Added hash-mode: Web2py pbkdf2-sha512
- Added hash-mode: WPA-PBKDF2-PMKID+EAPOL
- Added hash-mode: WPA-PMK-PMKID+EAPOL
- Added hash-mode: md5($salt.sha1($salt.$pass))
- Added hash-mode: md5(sha1($pass).md5($pass).sha1($pass))
- Added hash-mode: md5(sha1($salt).md5($pass))
- Added hash-mode: sha1(md5(md5($pass)))
- Added hash-mode: sha1(md5($pass.$salt))
- Added hash-mode: sha1(md5($pass).$salt)
- Added hash-mode: sha1($salt1.$pass.$salt2)
- Added hash-mode: sha256(md5($pass))
- Added hash-mode: sha256($salt.$pass.$salt)
- Added hash-mode: sha256(sha256_bin($pass))
- Added hash-mode: sha256(sha256($pass).$salt)

##
## Bugs
##

- Fixed buffer overflow in build_plain() function

- Fixed buffer overflow in mp_add_cs_buf() function
- Fixed calculation of brain-session ID - only the first hash of the hashset was
taken into account
- Fixed cleanup of password candidate buffers on GPU as set from autotune when -n
parameter was used
- Fixed copy/paste error leading to invalid "Integer overflow detected in keyspace
of mask" in attack-mode 6 and 7
- Fixed cracking multiple Office hashes (modes 9500, 9600) if hashes shared the
same salt
- Fixed cracking of Blockchain, My Wallet (V1 and V2) hashes when testing decrypted
data in unexpected format
- Fixed cracking of Cisco-PIX and Cisco-ASA MD5 passwords in mask-attack mode when
mask > length 16
- Fixed cracking of DNSSEC (NSEC3) hashes by replacing all dots in the passwords
with lengths
- Fixed cracking of Electrum Wallet Salt-Type 2 hashes
- Fixed cracking of NetNTLMv1 passwords in mask-attack mode when mask > length 16
(optimized kernels only)
- Fixed cracking of RAR3-hp hashes with pure kernel for passwords longer than 28
bytes
- Fixed cracking of VeraCrypt Streebog-512 hashes (CPU only)
- Fixed cracking raw Streebog-HMAC 256 and 512 hashes for passwords of length >= 64
- Fixed cracking raw Whirlpool hashes cracking for passwords of length >= 32
- Fixed incorrect progress-only result in a special race condition
- Fixed invalid call of mp_css_utf16le_expand()/mp_css_utf16be_expand() in slow-
candidate sessions
- Fixed invalid password truncation in attack-mode 1 when the final password is
longer than 32 characters
- Fixed invalid use of --hex-wordlist if encoded wordlist string is larger than
length 256
- Fixed maximum password length limit which was announced as 256 but was actually
255
- Fixed out-of-boundary read in pure kernel rule engine rule 'p' when parameter was
set to 2 or higher
- Fixed out-of-boundary write to decrypted[] in DPAPI masterkey file v1 kernel
- Fixed output of IKE PSK (mode 5300 and 5400) hashes to use separators in the
correct position
- Fixed output password of "e" rule in pure and CPU rule engine when separator
character is also the first letter
- Fixed problem with usage of hexadecimal notation (\x00-\xff) within rules
- Fixed race condition in maskfile mode by using a dedicated flag for restore
execution
- Fixed some memory leaks when hashcat is shutting down due to some file error
- Fixed some memory leaks when mask-files are used in optimized mode
- Fixed --status-json to correctly escape certain characters in hashes
- Fixed the 7-Zip parser to allow the entire supported range of encrypted and
decrypted data lengths
- Fixed the validation of the --brain-client-features command line argument (only
values 1, 2 or 3 are allowed)

##
## Improvements
##

- Bitcoin Wallet: Be more user friendly by allowing a larger data range for ckey
and public_key
- Brain: Added new parameter --brain-server-timer to specify seconds between
scheduled backups
- Building: Fix for library compilation failure due to multiple defenition of
sbob_xx64()
- Cracking bcrypt and Password Safe v2: Use feedback from the compute API backend
to dynamically calculate optimal thread count
- Dictstat: On Windows, the st_ino attribute in the stat struct is not set, which
can lead to invalid cache hits. Added the filename to the database entry.
- Documents: Added README on how to build hashcat on Cygwin, MSYS2 and WSL
- File handling: Print a truncation warning when an oversized line is detected
- My Wallet: Added additional plaintext pattern used in newer versions
- Office cracking: Support hash format with second block data for 40-bit oldoffice
files (eliminates false positives)
- OpenCL Runtime: Added a warning if OpenCL runtime NEO, Beignet, POCL (v1.4 or
older) or MESA is detected, and skip associated devices (override with --force)
- OpenCL Runtime: Allow the kernel to access post-48k shared memory region on CUDA.
Requires both module and kernel preparation
- OpenCL Runtime: Disable OpenCL kernel cache on Apple for Intel CPU (throws
CL_BUILD_PROGRAM_FAILURE for no reason)
- OpenCL Runtime: Do not run shared- or constant-memory size checks if their memory
type is of type global memory (typically CPU)
- OpenCL Runtime: Improve ROCm detection and make sure to not confuse with recent
AMDGPU drivers
- OpenCL Runtime: Not using amd_bytealign (amd_bitalign is fine) on AMDGPU driver
drastically reduces JiT segfaults
- OpenCL Runtime: Unlocked maximum thread count for NVIDIA GPU
- OpenCL Runtime: Update unstable mode warnings for Apple and AMDGPU drivers
- OpenCL Runtime: Workaround JiT compiler error on AMDGPU driver compiling WPA-
EAPOL-PBKDF2 OpenCL kernel
- OpenCL Runtime: Workaround JiT compiler error on ROCm 2.3 driver if the 'inline'
keyword is used in function declaration
- OpenCL Runtime: Workaround memory allocation error on AMD driver on Windows
leading to CL_MEM_OBJECT_ALLOCATION_FAILURE
- OpenCL Runtime: Removed some workarounds by calling chdir() to specific folders
on startup
- Outfile: Added new system to specify the outfile format, the new --outfile-format
now also supports timestamps
- Startup Checks: Improved the pidfile check: Do not just check for existing PID,
but also check executable filename
- Startup Checks: Prevent the user from modifying options which are overwritten
automatically in benchmark mode
- Startup Screen: Add extra warning when using --force
- Startup Screen: Add extra warning when using --keep-guessing
- Startup Screen: Provide an estimate of host memory required for the requested
attack
- Status Screen: Added brain status for all compute devices
- Status Screen: Added remaining counts and changed recovered count logic
- Status Screen: Added --status-json flag for easier machine reading of hashcat
status output
- Tab Completion: Allow using "make install" version of hashcat
- Tuning Database: Updated hashcat.hctune with new models and refreshed vector
width values
- VeraCrypt: Added support for VeraCrypt PIM brute-force, replaced --veracrypt-pim
with --veracrypt-pim-start and --veracrypt-pim-stop
- WipZip cracking: Added two byte early reject, resulting in higher cracking speed
- WPA/WPA2 cracking: In the potfile, replace password with PMK in order to detect
already cracked networks across all WPA modes

##
## Technical
##

- Backend Interface: Added new options --backend-ignore-cuda and --backend-ingore-

opencl to prevent CUDA and/or OpenCL API from being used
- Binary Distribution: Removed 32-bit binary executables
- Building: On macOS, switch from ar to /usr/bin/ar to improve building
compatibility
- Building: Skipping Travis/Appveyor build for non-code changes
- Codebase: Cleanup of many unused rc_* variables
- Codebase: Fixed some printf() format arguments
- Codebase: Fixed some type casting to avoid truncLongCastAssignment warnings
- Codebase: Moved hc_* file functions from shared.c to filehandling.c
- Codebase: Ran through a bunch of clang-tidy checkers and updated code accordingly
- Codebase: Remove redundant calls to fclose()
- Dependencies: Updated LZMA-Headers from 18.05 to 19.00
- Dependencies: Updated OpenCL-Headers to latest version from GitHub master
repository
- Hash-Mode 12500 (RAR3-hp): Allow cracking of passwords up to length 64
- Hash-mode 1460 (HMAC-SHA256 (key = $salt)): Allow up to 64 byte of salt
- Hash-Mode 1680x (WPA-PMKID) specific: Changed separator character from '*' to ':'
- Hash-Mode 8300 (DNSSEC (NSEC3)) specific: Allow empty salt
- Keep Guessing: No longer automatically activate --keep-guessing for modes 9720,
9820, 14900 and 18100
- Keep Guessing: No longer mark hashes as cracked/removed when in potfile
- Kernel Cache: Reactivate OpenCL runtime specific kernel caches
- Kernel Compile: Removed -cl-std= from all kernel build options since we're
compatible to all OpenCL versions
- OpenCL Kernels: Fix OpenCL compiler warning on double precision constants
- OpenCL Kernels: Moved "gpu_decompress", "gpu_memset" and "gpu_atinit" into
shared.cl in order to reduce compile time
- OpenCL Options: Removed --opencl-platforms filter in order to force backend
device numbers to stay constant
- OpenCL Options: Set --spin-damp to 0 (disabled) by default. With the CUDA backend
this workaround became deprecated
- Parsers: switched from strtok() to strtok_r() for thread safety
- Requirements: Add new requirement for NVIDIA GPU: CUDA Toolkit (9.0 or later)
- Requirements: Update runtime check for minimum NVIDIA driver version from 367.x
to 440.64 or later
- Test Script: Switched from /bin/bash to generic /bin/sh and updated code
accordingly

* changes v5.0.0 -> v5.1.0

##
## Features
##

- Added support for using --stdout in brain-client mode

- Added new option --stdin-timeout-abort, to set how long hashcat should wait for
stdin input before aborting
- Added new option --kernel-threads to manually override the automatically-
calculated number of threads
- Added new option --keyboard-layout-mapping to map users keyboard layout, required
to crack TC/VC system boot volumes

##
## Algorithms
##

- Added pure kernels for hash-mode 11700 (Streebog-256)

- Added pure kernels for hash-mode 11800 (Streebog-512)
- Added hash-mode 11750 (HMAC-Streebog-256 (key = $pass), big-endian)
- Added hash-mode 11760 (HMAC-Streebog-256 (key = $salt), big-endian)
- Added hash-mode 11850 (HMAC-Streebog-512 (key = $pass), big-endian)
- Added hash-mode 11860 (HMAC-Streebog-512 (key = $salt), big-endian)
- Added hash-mode 13771 (VeraCrypt PBKDF2-HMAC-Streebog-512 + XTS 512 bit)
- Added hash-mode 13772 (VeraCrypt PBKDF2-HMAC-Streebog-512 + XTS 1024 bit)
- Added hash-mode 13773 (VeraCrypt PBKDF2-HMAC-Streebog-512 + XTS 1536 bit)
- Added hash-mode 18200 (Kerberos 5 AS-REP etype 23)
- Added hash-mode 18300 (Apple File System (APFS))
- Added Kuznyechik cipher and cascades support for VeraCrypt kernels
- Added Camellia cipher and cascades support for VeraCrypt kernels

##
## Improvements
##

- OpenCL Devices: Add support for up to 64 OpenCL devices per system

- OpenCL Platforms: Add support for up to 64 OpenCL platforms per system
- OpenCL Runtime: Use our own yielding technique for synchronizing rather than
vendor specific
- Startup: Show OpenCL runtime initialization message (per device)
- xxHash: Added support for using the version provided by the OS/distribution

##
## Bugs
##

- Fixed automated calculation of brain-session when not using all hashes in the
hashlist
- Fixed calculation of brain-attack if a given wordlist has zero size
- Fixed checking the length of the last token in a hash if it was given the
attribute TOKEN_ATTR_FIXED_LENGTH
- Fixed endianness and invalid separator character in outfile format for hash-mode
16801 (WPA-PMKID-PMK)
- Fixed ignoring --brain-client-features configuration when brain server has
attack-position information from a previous run
- Fixed invalid hardware monitor detection in benchmark mode
- Fixed invalid warnings about throttling when --hwmon-disable was used
- Fixed missing call to WSACleanup() to cleanly shutdown windows sockets system
- Fixed missing call to WSAStartup() and client indexing in order to start the
brain server on Windows
- Fixed out-of-boundary read in DPAPI masterkey file v2 OpenCL kernel
- Fixed out-of-bounds write in short-term memory of the brain server
- Fixed output of --speed-only and --progress-only when fast hashes are used in
combination with --slow-candidates
- Fixed selection of OpenCL devices (-d) if there's more than 32 OpenCL devices
installed
- Fixed status output of progress value when -S and -l are used in combination
- Fixed thread count maximum for pure kernels in straight attack mode

##
## Technical
##

- Brain: Set --brain-client-features default from 3 to 2

- Dependencies: Added xxHash and OpenCL-Headers to deps/ in order to allow building
hashcat from GitHub source release package
- Dependencies: Removed gitmodules xxHash and OpenCL-Headers
- Keymaps: Added hashcat keyboard mapping us.hckmap (can be used as template)
- Keymaps: Added hashcat keyboard mapping de.hckmap
- Hardware Monitor: Renamed --gpu-temp-abort to --hwmon-temp-abort
- Hardware Monitor: Renamed --gpu-temp-disable to --hwmon-disable
- Memory: Limit maximum host memory allocation depending on bitness
- Memory: Reduced default maximum bitmap size from 24 to 18 and give a notice to
use --bitmap-max to restore
- Parameter: Rename --nvidia-spin-damp to --spin-damp (now accessible for all
devices)
- Pidfile: Treat a corrupted pidfile like a not existing pidfile
- OpenCL Device: Do a real query on OpenCL local memory type instead of just
assuming it
- OpenCL Runtime: Disable auto-vectorization for Intel OpenCL runtime to workaround
hanging JiT since version 18.1.0.013
- Tests: Added hash-mode 11700 (Streebog-256)
- Tests: Added hash-mode 11750 (HMAC-Streebog-256 (key = $pass), big-endian)
- Tests: Added hash-mode 11760 (HMAC-Streebog-256 (key = $salt), big-endian)
- Tests: Added hash-mode 11800 (Streebog-512)
- Tests: Added hash-mode 11850 (HMAC-Streebog-512 (key = $pass), big-endian)
- Tests: Added hash-mode 11860 (HMAC-Streebog-512 (key = $salt), big-endian)
- Tests: Added hash-mode 13711 (VeraCrypt PBKDF2-HMAC-RIPEMD160 + XTS 512 bit)
- Tests: Added hash-mode 13712 (VeraCrypt PBKDF2-HMAC-RIPEMD160 + XTS 1024 bit)
- Tests: Added hash-mode 13713 (VeraCrypt PBKDF2-HMAC-RIPEMD160 + XTS 1536 bit)
- Tests: Added hash-mode 13721 (VeraCrypt PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA512 + XTS 512 bit)
- Tests: Added hash-mode 13722 (VeraCrypt PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA512 + XTS 1024 bit)
- Tests: Added hash-mode 13723 (VeraCrypt PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA512 + XTS 1536 bit)
- Tests: Added hash-mode 13731 (VeraCrypt PBKDF2-HMAC-Whirlpool + XTS 512 bit)
- Tests: Added hash-mode 13732 (VeraCrypt PBKDF2-HMAC-Whirlpool + XTS 1024 bit)
- Tests: Added hash-mode 13733 (VeraCrypt PBKDF2-HMAC-Whirlpool + XTS 1536 bit)
- Tests: Added hash-mode 13751 (VeraCrypt PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256 + XTS 512 bit)
- Tests: Added hash-mode 13752 (VeraCrypt PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256 + XTS 1024 bit)
- Tests: Added hash-mode 13753 (VeraCrypt PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256 + XTS 1536 bit)
- Tests: Added hash-mode 13771 (VeraCrypt PBKDF2-HMAC-Streebog-512 + XTS 512 bit)
- Tests: Added hash-mode 13772 (VeraCrypt PBKDF2-HMAC-Streebog-512 + XTS 1024 bit)
- Tests: Added hash-mode 13773 (VeraCrypt PBKDF2-HMAC-Streebog-512 + XTS 1536 bit)
- Tests: Added VeraCrypt containers for Kuznyechik cipher and cascades
- Tests: Added VeraCrypt containers for Camellia cipher and cascades

* changes v4.2.1 -> v5.0.0

##
## Features
##

- Added new option --slow-candidates which allows hashcat to generate passwords on-
host
- Added new option --brain-server to start a hashcat brain server
- Added new option --brain-client to start a hashcat brain client, automatically
activates --slow-candidates
- Added new option --brain-host and --brain-port to specify ip and port of brain
server, both listening and connecting
- Added new option --brain-session to override automatically calculated brain
session ID
- Added new option --brain-session-whitelist to allow only explicit written session
ID on brain server
- Added new option --brain-password to specify the brain server authentication
password
- Added new option --brain-client-features which allows enable and disable certain
features of the hashcat brain

##
## Algorithms
##

- Added hash-mode 17300 = SHA3-224

- Added hash-mode 17400 = SHA3-256
- Added hash-mode 17500 = SHA3-384
- Added hash-mode 17600 = SHA3-512
- Added hash-mode 17700 = Keccak-224
- Added hash-mode 17800 = Keccak-256
- Added hash-mode 17900 = Keccak-384
- Added hash-mode 18000 = Keccak-512
- Added hash-mode 18100 = TOTP (HMAC-SHA1)
- Removed hash-mode 5000 = SHA-3 (Keccak)

##
## Improvements
##
- Added additional hybrid "passthrough" rules, to enable variable-length
append/prepend attacks
- Added a periodic check for read timeouts in stdin/pipe mode, and abort if no
input was provided
- Added a tracker for salts, amplifier and iterations to the status screen
- Added option --markov-hcstat2 to make it clear that the new hcstat2 format
(compressed hcstat2gen output) must be used
- Allow bitcoin master key lengths other than 96 bytes (but they must be always
multiples of 16)
- Allow hashfile for -m 16800 to be used with -m 16801
- Allow keepass iteration count to be larger than 999999
- Changed algorithms using colon as separators in the hash to not use the
hashconfig separator on parsing
- Do not allocate memory segments for bitmap tables if we don't need it - for
example, in benchmark mode
- Got rid of OPTS_TYPE_HASH_COPY for Ansible Vault
- Improved the speed of the outfile folder scan when using many hashes/salts
- Increased the maximum size of edata2 in Kerberos 5 TGS-REP etype 23
- Make the masks parser more restrictive by rejecting a single '?' at the end of
the mask (use ?? instead)
- Override --quiet and show final status screen in case --status is used
- Removed duplicate words in the dictionary file example.dict
- Updated Intel OpenCL runtime version check
- Work around some AMD OpenCL runtime segmentation faults
- Work around some padding issues with host compilers and OpenCL JiT on 32 and 64-
bit systems

##
## Bugs
##

- Fixed a invalid scalar datatype return value in hc_bytealign() where it should be

a vector datatype return value
- Fixed a problem with attack mode -a 7 together with stdout mode where the mask
bytes were missing in the output
- Fixed a problem with tab completion where --self-test-disable incorrectly
expected a further parameter/value
- Fixed a race condition in status view that lead to out-of-bound reads
- Fixed detection of unique ESSID in WPA-PMKID-* parser
- Fixed missing wordlist encoding in combinator mode
- Fixed speed/delay problem when quitting while the outfile folder is being scanned
- Fixed the ciphertext max length in Ansible Vault parser
- Fixed the tokenizer configuration in Postgres hash parser
- Fixed the byte order of digest output for hash-mode 11800 (Streebog-512)

* changes v4.2.0 -> v4.2.1

##
## Improvements
##

- Try to evaluate available OpenCL device memory and use this information instead
of total available OpenCL device memory for autotune

##
## Bugs
##
- Fixed a buffer overflow in precompute_salt_md5() in case salt was longer than 64
characters

* changes v4.1.0 -> v4.2.0

##
## Algorithms
##

- Added hash-mode 16700 = FileVault 2

- Added hash-mode 16800 = WPA-PMKID-PBKDF2
- Added hash-mode 16801 = WPA-PMKID-PMK
- Added hash-mode 16900 = Ansible Vault

##
## Improvements
##

- Added JtR-compatible support for hex notation in rules engine

- Added OpenCL device utilization to the status information in machine-readable
output
- Added missing NV Tesla and Titan GPU details to tuning database
- General file handling: Abort if a byte order mark (BOM) was detected in a
wordlist, hashlist, maskfile or rulefile
- HCCAPX management: Use advanced hints in message_pair stored by hcxtools about
endian bitness of replay counter
- OpenCL kernels: Abort session if kernel self-test fails
- OpenCL kernels: Add '-pure' prefix to kernel filenames to avoid problems caused
by reusing existing hashcat installation folder
- OpenCL kernels: Removed the use of 'volatile' in inline assembly instructions
where it is not needed
- OpenCL kernels: Switched array pointer types in function declarations in order to
be compatible with OpenCL 2.0
- Refactored code for --progress-only and --speed-only calculation
- SIP cracking: Increased the nonce field to allow a salt of 1024 bytes
- TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt cracking: Do an entropy check on the TC/VC header on start

##
## Bugs
##

- Fixed a function declaration attribute in -m 8900 kernel leading to unusable -m

9300 which shares kernel code with -m 8900
- Fixed a miscalculation in --progress-only mode output for extremely slow kernels
like -m 14800
- Fixed a missing check for errors on OpenCL devices leading to invalid removal of
restore file
- Fixed a missing kernel in -m 5600 in combination with -a 3 and -O if mask is >=
16 characters
- Fixed detection of AMD_GCN version in case the rocm driver is used
- Fixed missing code section in -m 2500 and -m 2501 to crack corrupted handshakes
with a LE endian bitness base
- Fixed a missing check for hashmodes using OPTS_TYPE_PT_UPPER causing the self-
test to fail when using combinator- and hybrid-mode

* changes v4.0.1 -> v4.1.0

##
## Features
##

- Added option --benchmark-all to benchmark all hash-modes (not just the default
selection)
- Removed option --gpu-temp-retain that tried to retain GPU temperature at X
degrees celsius - please use driver-specific tools
- Removed option --powertune-enable to enable power tuning - please use driver
specific tools

##
## Algorithms
##

- Added hash-mode 16000 = Tripcode

- Added hash-mode 16100 = TACACS+
- Added hash-mode 16200 = Apple Secure Notes
- Added hash-mode 16300 = Ethereum Pre-Sale Wallet, PBKDF2-SHA256
- Added hash-mode 16400 = CRAM-MD5 Dovecot
- Added hash-mode 16500 = JWT (JSON Web Token)
- Added hash-mode 16600 = Electrum Wallet (Salt-Type 1-2)

##
## Bugs
##

- Fixed a configuration setting for -m 400 in pure kernel mode which said it was
capable of doing SIMD when it is not
- Fixed a hash parsing problem for 7-Zip hashes: allow a longer CRC32 data length
field within the hash format
- Fixed a hash parsing problem when using --show/--left with hashes with long salts
that required pure kernels
- Fixed a logic error in storing temporary progress for slow hashes, leading to
invalid speeds in status view
- Fixed a mask-length check issue: return -1 in case the mask length is not within
the password-length range
- Fixed a missing check for return code in case hashcat.hcstat2 was not found
- Fixed a race condition in combinator- and hybrid-mode where the same scratch
buffer was used by multiple threads
- Fixed a restore issue leading to "Restore value is greater than keyspace" when
mask files or wordlist folders were used
- Fixed a uninitialized value in OpenCL kernels 9720, 9820 and 10420 leading to
absurd benchmark performance
- Fixed the maximum password length check in password-reassembling function
- Fixed the output of --show when $HEX[] passwords were present within the potfile

##
## Improvements
##

- OpenCL Kernels: Add a decompressing kernel and a compressing host code in order
to reduce PCIe transfer time
- OpenCL Kernels: Improve performance preview accuracy in --benchmark, --speed-only
and --progress-only mode
- OpenCL Kernels: Remove password length restriction of 16 for Cisco-PIX and Cisco-
ASA hashes
- Terminal: Display set cost/rounds during benchmarking
- Terminal: Show [r]esume in prompt only in pause mode, and show [p]ause in prompt
only in resume mode
##
## Technical
##

- Autotune: Improve autotune engine logic and synchronize results on same OpenCL
devices
- Documents: Added docs/limits.txt
- Files: Copy include/ folder and its content when SHARED is set to 1 in Makefile
- Files: Switched back to relative current working directory on windows to work
around problems with Unicode characters
- Hashcat Context: Fixed a memory leak in shutdown phase
- Hash Parser: Changed the way large strings are handled/truncated within the event
buffer if they are too large to fit
- Hash Parser: Fixed a memory leak in shutdown phase
- Hash Parser: Fixed the use of strtok_r () calls
- OpenCL Devices: Fixed several memory leaks in shutdown phase
- OpenCL Kernels: Add general function declaration keyword (inline) and some OpenCL
runtime specific exceptions for NV and CPU devices
- OpenCL Kernels: Replace variables from uXX to uXXa if used in __constant space
- OpenCL Kernels: Use a special kernel to initialize the password buffer used
during autotune measurements, to reduce startup time
- OpenCL Kernels: Refactored kernel thread management from native to maximum per
kernel
- OpenCL Kernels: Use three separate comparison kernels (depending on keyver) for
WPA instead of one
- OpenCL Runtime: Add current timestamp to OpenCL kernel source in order to force
OpenCL JiT compiler to recompile and not use the cache
- OpenCL Runtime: Enforce use of OpenCL version 1.2 to restrain OpenCL runtimes to
make use of the __generic address space qualifier
- OpenCL Runtime: Updated rocm detection
- Returncode: Enforce return code 0 when the user selects --speed-only or --
progress-only and no other error occurs
- Rules: Fixed some default rule-files after changing rule meaning of 'x' to 'O'
- Self Test: Skip self-test for mode 8900 - user-configurable scrypt settings are
incompatible with fixed settings in the self-test hash
- Self Test: Skip self-test for mode 15700 because the settings are too high and
cause startup times that are too long
- Terminal: Add workitem settings to status display (can be handy for debugging)
- Terminal: Send clear-line code to the same output stream as the message
immediately following
- Timer: Switch from gettimeofday() to clock_gettime() to work around problems on
cygwin
- User Options: According to getopts manpage, the last element of the option array
has to be filled with zeros

* changes v4.0.0 -> v4.0.1:

##
## Improvements
##

- Changed the maximum length of the substring of a hash shown whenever the parser
found a problem while parsing the hash

##
## Bugs
##

- Fixed a memory leak while parsing a wordlist

- Fixed compile of kernels on AMD systems on windows due to invalid detection of
ROCm
- Fixed compile of sources using clang under MSYS2
- Fixed overlapping memory segment copy in CPU rule engine if using a specific rule
function
- Fixed a parallel build problem when using the "install" Makefile target
- Fixed the version number extraction for github releases which do not including
the .git directory

* changes v3.6.0 -> v4.0.0:

##
## Features
##

- Added support to crack passwords and salts up to length 256

- Added option --optimized-kernel-enable to use faster kernels but limit the
maximum supported password- and salt-length
- Added self-test functionality to detect broken OpenCL runtimes on startup
- Added option --self-test-disable to disable self-test functionality on startup
- Added option --wordlist-autohex-disable to disable the automatical conversion of
$HEX[] words from the word list
- Added option --example-hashes to show an example hash for each hash-mode
- Removed option --weak-hash-check (zero-length password check) to increase startup
time, it also causes many Trap 6 error on macOS

##
## Algorithms
##

- Added hash-mode 2500 = WPA/WPA2 (SHA256-AES-CMAC)

- Added hash-mode 2501 = WPA/WPA2 PMK

##
## Bugs
##

- Fixed a buffer overflow in mangle_dupechar_last function

- Fixed a calculation error in get_power() leading to errors of type "BUG
pw_add()!!"
- Fixed a memory problem that occured when the OpenCL folder was not found and e.g.
the shared and session folder were the same
- Fixed a missing barrier() call in the RACF OpenCL kernel
- Fixed a missing salt length value in benchmark mode for SIP
- Fixed an integer overflow in hash buffer size calculation
- Fixed an integer overflow in innerloop_step and innerloop_cnt variables
- Fixed an integer overflow in masks not skipped when loaded from file
- Fixed an invalid optimization code in kernel 7700 depending on the input hash,
causing the kernel to loop forever
- Fixed an invalid progress value in status view if words from the base wordlist
get rejected because of length
- Fixed a parser error for mode -m 9820 = MS Office <= 2003 $3, SHA1 + RC4,
collider #2
- Fixed a parser error in multiple modes not checking for return code, resulting in
negative memory index writes
- Fixed a problem with changed current working directory, for instance by using --
restore together with --remove
- Fixed a problem with the conversion to the $HEX[] format: convert/hexify also all
passwords of the format $HEX[]
- Fixed the calculation of device_name_chksum; should be done for each iteration
- Fixed the dictstat lookup if nanoseconds are used in timestamps for the cached
files
- Fixed the estimated time value whenever the value is very large and overflows
- Fixed the output of --show when used together with the collider modes -m 9710,
9810 or 10410
- Fixed the parsing of command line options. It doesn't show two times the same
error about an invalid option anymore
- Fixed the parsing of DCC2 hashes by allowing the "#" character within the user
name
- Fixed the parsing of descrypt hashes if the hashes do have non-standard
characters within the salt
- Fixed the use of --veracrypt-pim option. It was completely ignored without
showing an error
- Fixed the version number used in the restore file header

##
## Improvements
##

- Autotune: Do a pre-autotune test run to find out if kernel runtime is above some
TDR limit
- Charset: Add additional DES charsets with corrected parity
- OpenCL Buffers: Do not allocate memory for amplifiers for fast hashes, it's
simply not needed
- OpenCL Kernels: Improved performance of SHA-3 Kernel (keccak) by hardcoding the
0x80 stopbit
- OpenCL Kernels: Improved rule engine performance by 6% on for NVidia
- OpenCL Kernels: Move from ld.global.v4.u32 to ld.const.v4.u32 in _a3 kernels
- OpenCL Kernels: Replace bitwise swaps with rotate() versions for AMD
- OpenCL Kernels: Rewritten Keccak kernel to run fully on registers and partially
reversed last round
- OpenCL Kernels: Rewritten SIP kernel from scratch
- OpenCL Kernels: Thread-count is set to hardware native count except if -w 4 is
used then OpenCL maximum is used
- OpenCL Kernels: Updated default scrypt TMTO to be ideal for latest NVidia and AMD
top models
- OpenCL Kernels: Vectorized tons of slow kernels to improve CPU cracking speed
- OpenCL Runtime: Improved detection for AMD and NV devices on macOS
- OpenCL Runtime: Improved performance on Intel MIC devices (Xeon PHI) on runtime
level (300MH/s to 2000MH/s)
- OpenCL Runtime: Updated AMD ROCm driver version check, warn if version < 1.1
- Show cracks: Improved the performance of --show/--left if used together with --
username
- Startup: Add visual indicator of active options when benchmarking
- Startup: Check and abort session if outfile and wordlist point to the same file
- Startup: Show some attack-specific optimizer constraints on start, eg: minimum
and maximum support password- and salt-length
- WPA cracking: Improved nonce-error-corrections mode to use a both positive and
negative corrections

##
## Technical
##

- General: Update C standard from c99 to gnu99

- Hash Parser: Improved salt-length checks for generic hash modes
- HCdict File: Renamed file from hashcat.hcdict to hashcat.hcdict2 and add header
because versions are incompatible
- HCstat File: Add code to read LZMA compressed hashcat.hcstat2
- HCstat File: Add hcstat2 support to enable masks of length up to 256, also adds a
filetype header
- HCstat File: Renamed file from hashcat.hcstat to hashcat.hcstat2 and add header
because versions are incompatible
- HCtune File: Remove apple related GPU entries to workaround Trap 6 error
- OpenCL Kernels: Added code generator for most of the switch_* functions and
replaced existing code
- OpenCL Kernels: Declared all include functions as static to reduce binary kernel
cache size
- OpenCL Kernels: On AMD GPU, optimized kernels for use with AMD ROCm driver
- OpenCL Kernels: Removed some include functions that are no longer needed to
reduce compile time
- OpenCL Runtime: Fall back to 64 threads default (from 256) on AMD GPU to prevent
creating too many workitems
- OpenCL Runtime: Forcing OpenCL 1.2 no longer needed. Option removed from build
options
- OpenCL Runtime: On AMD GPU, recommend AMD ROCm driver for Linux
- Restore: Fixed the version number used in the restore file header
- Time: added new type for time measurements hc_time_t and related functions to
force the use of 64 bit times

* changes v3.5.0 -> v3.6.0:

##
## Algorithms
##

- Added hash-mode 600 = BLAKE2-512

- Added hash-mode 15200 = Blockchain, My Wallet, V2
- Added hash-mode 15300 = DPAPI masterkey file v1 and v2
- Added hash-mode 15400 = ChaCha20
- Added hash-mode 15500 = JKS Java Key Store Private Keys (SHA1)
- Added hash-mode 15600 = Ethereum Wallet, PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256
- Added hash-mode 15700 = Ethereum Wallet, PBKDF2-SCRYPT

##
## Features
##

- 7-Zip cracking: increased max. data length to 320k and removed AES padding attack
to avoid false negatives
- Dictionary cache: Show time spent on dictionary cache building at startup
- Rules: Support added for position 'p' (Nth instance of a character) in host mode
(using -j or -k)
- Rules: Support added for rejection rule '_N' (reject plains of length not equal
to N) in host mode
- Rules: Support added for rule 'eX'
- Wordlist encoding: Added parameters --encoding-from and --encoding-to to
configure wordlist encoding handling
- Wordlist encoding: Support added for internal conversion between user-defined
encodings during runtime

##
## Workarounds
##

- Workaround added for NVIDIA NVML library: If libnvidia-ml.so couldn't be loaded,

try again using libnvidia-ml.so.1
##
## Improvements
##

- WPA cracking: Improved nonce-error-corrections mode to fix corrupt nonces

generated on big-endian devices

##
## Bugs
##

- Fixed a condition that caused hybrid attacks using a maskfile to not select all
wordlists from a wordlist folder
- Fixed a memory leak that was present when a user periodically prints hashcat
status (using --status-timer)
- Fixed a missing type specifier in a function declaration of the RACF kernel

##
## Technical
##

- Building: In the binary release packages, link libiconv static for Windows
binaries
- Dictstat: Structure for dictstat file changed to include --encoding-from and --
encoding-to parameters
- OpenCL Runtime: Updated AMDGPU-PRO driver version check, warn if version 17.10
(known to be broken) is detected
- WPA cracking: Reduced --nonce-error-corrections default from 16 to 8 to
compensate for speed drop caused by big-endian fixes

* changes v3.40 -> v3.5.0:

##
## Features
##

- WPA cracking: Added support for WPA/WPA2 handshake AP nonce automatic error
correction
- WPA cracking: Added parameter --nonce-error-corrections to configure range of
error correction

##
## Algorithms
##

- Added hash-mode 15100 = Juniper/NetBSD sha1crypt

##
## Improvements
##

- Abbreviate long hashes to display the Hash.Target status line within 80

characters
- Refactored internal use of esalt to sync with the number of digests instead of
the number of salts
- Refactored other output to display within 80 characters without wrapping

##
## Bugs
##

- Fixed a hash validation error when trying to load Android FDE < 4.3 hashes
- Fixed a problem where --keyspace combined with custom charsets incorrectly
displayed an error message
- Fixed a problem where --stdout combined with custom charsets incorrectly
displayed an error message
- Fixed a problem with parsing and displaying -m 7000 = Fortigate (FortiOS) hashes
- Fixed a race condition after sessions finish, where the input-base was freed but
accessed afterwards
- Fixed a typo that resulted in the minimum password length not being correctly
initialized
- Fixed --outfile-format formats 11 through 15 to show the correct crack position
- Fixed --remove to apply even when all hashes are either found in the potfile or
detected in weak-hash checks

##
## Technical
##

- Building: Added missing prototypes for atlassian_parse_hash function

- Dictionary Cache: Split long status line into multiple lines to stay < 80 chars
- Files: Detect and error when users try to use -r with a parameter which is not a
file
- HCCAPX Parser: Added support for a special bit (bit 8) of the message_pair that
indicates if replay counters match
- Parameter: Detect and error when users try to use an empty string (length 0) for
parameters like --session=
- Parameter: Detect and error when users try to use non-digit input when only
digits are expected
- Sessions: Improved string comparison in case user sets --session to "hashcat"
- Status View: Add rejected counter to machine-readable output
- Status View: Rename labels Input.Mode, Input.Base, ... to Guess.Mode, Guess.Base,
...
- Status View: Added a visual indicator to the status screen when checkpoint quit
has been requested
- Versions: Changed version naming convention from x.yz to x.y.z

* changes v3.30 -> v3.40:

##
## Features
##

- Added support for loading hccapx files

- Added support for filtering hccapx message pairs using --hccapx-message-pair
- Added support for parsing 7-Zip hashes with LZMA/LZMA2 compression indicator set
to a non-zero value
- Added support for decompressing LZMA1/LZMA2 data for -m 11600 = 7-Zip to validate
the CRC
- Added support for automatic merge of LM halfes in case --show and --left is used
- Added support for showing all user names with --show and --left if --username was
specified
- Added support for GPU temperature management on cygwin build

##
## Algorithms
##
- Added hash-mode 1411 = SSHA-256(Base64), LDAP {SSHA256}
- Added hash-mode 3910 = md5(md5($pass).md5($salt))
- Added hash-mode 4010 = md5($salt.md5($salt.$pass))
- Added hash-mode 4110 = md5($salt.md5($pass.$salt))
- Added hash-mode 4520 = sha1($salt.sha1($pass))
- Added hash-mode 4522 = PunBB
- Added hash-mode 7000 = Fortigate (FortiOS)
- Added hash-mode 12001 = Atlassian (PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA1)
- Added hash-mode 14600 = LUKS
- Added hash-mode 14700 = iTunes Backup < 10.0
- Added hash-mode 14800 = iTunes Backup >= 10.0
- Added hash-mode 14900 = Skip32
- Added hash-mode 15000 = FileZilla Server >= 0.9.55

##
## Workarounds
##

- Workaround added for AMDGPU-Pro OpenCL runtime: AES encrypt and decrypt Invertkey
function was calculated wrong in certain cases
- Workaround added for AMDGPU-Pro OpenCL runtime: RAR3 kernel require a volatile
variable to work correctly
- Workaround added for Apple OpenCL runtime: bcrypt kernel requires a volatile
variable because of a compiler optimization bug
- Workaround added for Apple OpenCL runtime: LUKS kernel requires some volatile
variables because of a compiler optimization bug
- Workaround added for Apple OpenCL runtime: TrueCrypt kernel requires some
volatile variables because of a compiler optimization bug
- Workaround added for NVidia OpenCL runtime: RACF kernel requires EBCDIC lookup to
be done on shared memory

##
## Bugs
##

- Fixed a problem within the Kerberos 5 TGS-REP (-m 13100) hash parser
- Fixed clEnqueueNDRangeKernel(): CL_UNKNOWN_ERROR caused by an invalid work-item
count during weak-hash-check
- Fixed cracking of PeopleSoft Token (-m 13500) if salt length + password length is
>= 128 byte
- Fixed cracking of Plaintext (-m 99999) in case MD4 was used in a previous session
- Fixed DEScrypt cracking in BF mode in case the hashlist contains more than 16
times the same salt
- Fixed duplicate detection for WPA handshakes with the same ESSID
- Fixed nvapi datatype definition for NvS32 and NvU32
- Fixed overflow in bcrypt kernel in expand_key() function
- Fixed pointer to local variable outside scope in case -j or -k is used
- Fixed pointer to local variable outside scope in case --markov-hcstat is not used
- Fixed recursion in loopback handling when session was aborted by the user
- Fixed rule 'O' (RULE_OP_MANGLE_OMIT) in host mode in case the offset + length
parameter equals the length of the input word
- Fixed rule 'i' (RULE_OP_MANGLE_INSERT) in host mode in case the offset parameter
equals the length of the input word
- Fixed string not null terminated inside workaround for checking drm driver path
- Fixed string not null terminated while reading maskfiles
- Fixed truncation of password after position 32 with the combinator attack
- Fixed use of option --keyspace in combination with -m 2500 (WPA)
- Fixed WPA/WPA2 cracking in case eapol frame is >= 248 byte
##
## Technical
##

- Building: Add SHARED variable to Makefile to choose if hashcat is build as static

or shared binary (using libhashcat.so/hashcat.dll)
- Building: Removed compiler option -march=native as this created problems for
maintainers on various distributions
- Building: Removed the use of RPATH on linker level
- Building: Replaced linking of CRT_glob.o with the use of int _dowildcard
- Commandline: Do some checks related to custom-charset options if user specifies
them
- CPU Affinity: Fixed memory leak in case invalid cpu Id was specified
- Dispatcher: Fixed several memory leaks in case an OpenCL error occurs
- Events: Improved the maximum event message handling. event_log () will now also
internally make sure that the message is properly terminated
- File Locking: Improved error detection on file locks
- File Reads: Fixed memory leak in case outfile or hashfile was not accessible
- File Reads: Improved error detection on file reads, especially when getting the
file stats
- Files: Do several file and folder checks on startup rather than when they are
actually used to avoid related error after eventual intense operations
- Hardware Management: Bring back kernel exec timeout detection for NVidia on user
request
- Hardware Monitor: Fixed several memory leaks in case hash-file writing (caused by
--remove) failed
- Hardware Monitor: Fixed several memory leaks in case no hardware monitor sensor
is found
- Hardware Monitor: In case NVML initialization failed, do not try to initialiaze
NVAPI or XNVCTRL because they both depend on NVML
- Hash Parsing: Added additional bound checks for the SIP digest authentication
(MD5) parser (-m 11400)
- Hash Parsing: Make sure that all files are correctly closed whenever a hash file
parsing error occurs
- Helper: Added functions to check existence, type, read- and write-permissions and
rewrite sources to use them instead of stat()
- Keyfile handling: Make sure that the memory is cleanly freed whenever a
VeraCrypt/TrueCrypt keyfile fails to load
- Mask Checks: Added additional memory cleanups after parsing/verifying masks
- Mask Checks: Added integer overflow detection for a keyspace of a mask provided
by user
- Mask Increment: Fixed memory leak in case mask_append() fails
- OpenCL Device: Do a check on available constant memory size and abort if it's
less than 64kB
- OpenCL Device Management: Fixed several memory leaks in case initialization of an
OpenCL device or platform failed
- OpenCL Header: Updated CL_* errorcode to OpenCL 1.2 standard
- OpenCL Kernel: Move kernel binary buffer from heap to stack memory
- OpenCL Kernel: Refactored read_kernel_binary to load only a single kernel for a
single device
- OpenCL Kernel: Remove "static" keyword from function declarations; Causes older
Intel OpenCL runtimes to fail compiling
- OpenCL Kernel: Renumbered hash-mode 7600 to 4521
- OpenCL Runtime: Added a warning about using Mesa OpenCL runtime
- OpenCL Runtime: Updated AMDGPU-Pro driver version check, do warn if version 16.60
is detected which is known to be broken
- Outfile Check: Fixed a memory leak for failed outfile reads
- Restore: Add some checks on the rd->cwd variable in restore case
- Rule Engine: Fixed several memory leaks in case loading of rules failed
- Session Management: Automatically set dedicated session names for non-cracking
parameters, for example: --stdout
- Session Management: Fixed several memory leaks in case profile- or install-folder
setup failed
- Sessions: Move out handling of multiple instance from restore file into separate
pidfile
- Status screen: Do not try to clear prompt in --quiet mode
- Tests: Fixed the timeout status code value and increased the runtime to 400
seconds
- Threads: Restored strerror as %m is unsupported by the BSDs
- Wordlists: Disable dictstat handling for hash-mode 3000 as it virtually creates
words in the wordlist which is not the case for other modes
- Wordlists: Fixed memory leak in case access a file in a wordlist folder fails
- WPA: Changed format for outfile and potfile from essid:mac1:mac2 to
hash:mac_ap:mac_sta:essid
- WPA: Changed format for outfile_check from essid:mac1:mac2 to hash

* changes v3.20 -> v3.30:

##
## Features
##

- Files: Use $HEX[...] in case the password includes the separater character,
increases potfile reading performance
- Files: If the user specifies a folder to scan for wordlists instead of directly a
wordlist, then ignore the hidden files
- Loopback: Include passwords for removed hashes present in the potfile to next
loopback iteration
- New option --progress-only: Quickly provides ideal progress step size and time to
process on the user hashes and selected options, then quit
- Status screen: Reenabled automatic status screen display in case of stdin used
- Truecrypt/Veracrypt: Use CRC32 to verify headers instead of fuzzy logic, greatly
reduces false positives from 18:2^48 to 3:2^64
- WPA cracking: Reuse PBKDF2 intermediate keys if duplicate essid is detected

##
## Algorithms
##

- Added hash-mode 1300 = SHA-224

##
## Bugs
##

- Fixed buffer overflow in status screen display in case of long non-utf8 string
- Fixed buffer overflow in plaintext parsing code: Leading to segfault
- Fixed custom char parsing code in maskfiles in --increment mode: Custom charset
wasn't used
- Fixed display screen to show input queue when using custom charset or rules
- Fixed double fclose() using AMDGPU-Pro on sysfs compatible platform: Leading to
segfault
- Fixed hash-mode 11400 = SIP digest authentication (MD5): Cracking of hashes which
did not include *auth* or *auth-int* was broken
- Fixed hex output of plaintext in case --outfile-format 4, 5, 6 or 7 was used
- Fixed infinite loop when using --loopback in case all hashes have been cracked
- Fixed kernel loops in --increment mode leading to slower performance
- Fixed mask length check in hybrid attack-modes: Do not include hash-mode
dependant mask length checks
- Fixed parsing of hashes in case the last line did not include a linefeed
character
- Fixed potfile loading to accept blank passwords
- Fixed runtime limit: No longer required so sample startup time after
refactorization

##
## Workarounds
##

- Workaround added for Intel OpenCL runtime: GPU support is broken, skip the device
unless user forces to enable it

##
## Technical
##

- Building: Added hashcat32.dll and hashcat64.dll makefile targets for building

hashcat windows libraries
- Building: Added production flag in Makefile to disable all the GCC compiler
options needed only for development
- Building: Removed access to readlink() on FreeBSD
- Building: For CYGWIN prefer to use "opencl.dll" (installed by drivers) instead of
optional "cygOpenCL-1.dll"
- Events: Added new event EVENT_WEAK_HASH_ALL_CRACKED if all hashes have been
cracked during weak hash check
- Hardware management: Switched matching ADL device with OpenCL device by using PCI
bus, device and function
- Hardware management: Switched matching NvAPI device with OpenCL device by using
PCI bus, device and function
- Hardware management: Switched matching NVML device with OpenCL device by using
PCI bus, device and function
- Hardware management: Switched matching xnvctrl device with OpenCL device by using
PCI bus, device and function
- Hardware management: Removed *throttled* message from NVML as this created more
confusion than it helped
- Hash Parser: Improved error detection of invalid hex characters where hex
character are expected
- OpenCL Runtime: Updated AMDGPU-Pro driver version check, do warn if version 16.50
is detected which is known to be broken
- OpenCL Runtime: Updated hashcat.hctune for Iris Pro GPU on macOS
- Potfile: In v3.10 already, the default potfile suffix changed but the note about
was missing. The "hashcat.pot" became "hashcat.potfile"
- Potfile: Added old potfile detection, show warning message
- Returncode: Added dedicated returncode (see docs/status_codes.txt) for shutdowns
caused by --runtime and checkpoint keypress
- Sanity: Added sanity check to disallow --speed-only in combination with -i
- Sanity: Added sanity check to disallow --loopback in combination with --runtime
- Threads: Replaced all calls to ctime() with ctime_r() to ensure thread safety
- Threads: Replaced all calls to strerror() with %m printf() GNU extension to
ensure thread safety

* changes v3.10 -> v3.20:

The hashcat core was completely refactored to be a MT-safe library (libhashcat).

The goal was to help developers include hashcat into distributed clients or GUI
frontends.
The CLI (hashcat.bin or hashcat.exe) works as before but from a technical
perspective it's a library frontend.

##
## Features
##

- New option --speed-only: Quickly provides cracking speed per device based on the
user hashes and selected options, then quit
- New option --keep-guessing: Continue cracking hashes even after they have been
cracked (to find collisions)
- New option --restore-file-path: Manually override the path to the restore file
(useful if we want all session files in the same folder)
- New option --opencl-info: Show details about OpenCL compatible devices like an
embedded clinfo tool (useful for bug reports)
- Documents: Added colors for warnings (yellow) and errors (red) instead of
WARNING: and ERROR: prefix
- Documents: Added hints presented to the user about optimizing performance while
hashcat is running
- Hardware management: Support --gpu-temp-retain for AMDGPU-Pro driver
- Hardware management: Support --powertune-enable for AMDGPU-Pro driver
- Password candidates: Allow words of length > 31 in wordlists for -a 0 for some
slow hashes if no rules are in use
- Password candidates: Do not use $HEX[] if the password candidate is a valid UTF-8
string and print out as-is
- Pause mode: Allow quit program also if in pause mode
- Pause mode: Ignore runtime limit in pause mode
- Status view: Show core-clock, memory-clock and execution time in benchmark-mode
in case --machine-readable is activated
- Status view: Show temperature, coreclock, memoryclock, fanspeed and pci-lanes for
devices using AMDGPU-Pro driver
- Status view: Show the current first and last password candidate test queued for
execution per device (as in JtR)
- Status view: Show the current position in the queue for both base and modifier
(Example: Wordlist 2/5)
- Markov statistics: Update hashcat.hcstat which is used as reference whenever the
user defines a mask
- Charsets: Added lowercase ascii hex (?h) and uppercase ascii hex (?H) as
predefined charsets

##
## Algorithms
##

- Added hash-mode 14000 = DES (PT = $salt, key = $pass)

- Added hash-mode 14100 = 3DES (PT = $salt, key = $pass)
- Added hash-mode 14400 = SHA1(CX)
- Added hash-mode 99999 = Plaintext
- Extended hash-mode 3200 = bcrypt: Accept signature $2b$ (February 2014)
- Improved hash-mode 8300 = DNSSEC: Additional parsing error detection

##
## Bugs
##

- Custom charset from file parsing code did not return an error if an error occured
- Fix some clSetKernelArg() size error that caused slow modes to not work anymore
in -a 1 mode
- Hash-mode 11600 = (7-Zip): Depending on input hash a clEnqueueReadBuffer():
CL_INVALID_VALUE error occured
- Hash-mode 22 = Juniper Netscreen/SSG (ScreenOS): Fix salt length for -m 22 in
benchmark mode
- Hash-Mode 5500 = NetNTLMv1 + ESS: Fix loading of NetNTLMv1 + SSP hash
- Hash-mode 6000 = RipeMD160: Fix typo in array index number
- If cracking a hash-mode using unicode passwords, length check of a mask was not
taking into account
- If cracking a large salted hashlist the wordlist reject code was too slow to
handle it, leading to 0H/s
- Null-pointer dereference in outfile-check shutdown code when using --outfile-
check-dir, leading to segfault
- On startup hashcat tried to access the folder defined in INSTALL_FOLDER, leading
to segfault if that folder was not existing
- Random rules generator code used invalid parameter for memory copy function (M),
leading to use of invalid rule
- Sanity check for --outfile-format was broken if used in combination with --show
or --left

##
## Workarounds
##

- Workaround added for AMDGPU-Pro OpenCL runtime: Failed to compile hash-mode 10700
= PDF 1.7 Level 8
- Workaround added for AMDGPU-Pro OpenCL runtime: Failed to compile hash-mode 1800
= sha512crypt
- Workaround added for NVidia OpenCL runtime: Failed to compile hash-mode 6400 =
AIX {ssha256}
- Workaround added for NVidia OpenCL runtime: Failed to compile hash-mode 6800 =
Lastpass + Lastpass sniffed
- Workaround added for macOS OpenCL runtime: Failed to compile hash-mode 10420 =
PDF 1.1 - 1.3 (Acrobat 2 - 4)
- Workaround added for macOS OpenCL runtime: Failed to compile hash-mode 1100 =
Domain Cached Credentials (DCC), MS Cache
- Workaround added for macOS OpenCL runtime: Failed to compile hash-mode 13800 =
Windows 8+ phone PIN/Password
- Workaround added for pocl OpenCL runtime: Failed to compile hash-mode 5800 =
Android PIN

##
## Performance
##

- Improved performance for rule-based attacks for _very_ fast hashes like MD5 and
NTLM by 30% or higher
- Improved performance for DEScrypt on AMD, from 373MH/s to 525MH/s
- Improved performance for raw DES-based algorithms (like LM) on AMD, from 1.6GH/s
to 12.5GH/s
- Improved performance for raw SHA256-based algorithms using meet-in-the-middle
optimization, reduces 7/64 steps
- Improved performance for SAP CODVN B (BCODE) and SAP CODVN F/G (PASSCODE) due to
register handling optimization, gives 3% and 25%
- Improved performance by reducing maximum number of allowed function calls per
rule from 255 to 31
- Improved performance by update the selection when to use #pragma unroll depending
on OpenCL runtime vendor

- Full performance comparison sheet v3.10 vs. v3.20:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1B1S_t1Z0KsqByH3pNkYUM-
RCFMu860nlfSsYEqOoqco/edit#gid=1591672380

##
## Technical
##

- Autotune: Do not run any caching rounds in autotune in DEBUG mode if -n and -u
are specified
- Bash completion: Removed some v2.01 leftovers in the bash completion
configuration
- Benchmark: Do not control fan speed in benchmark mode
- Benchmark: On macOS, some hash-modes can't compile because of macOS OpenCL
runtime. Skip them and move on to the next
- Building: Added Makefile target "main_shared", a small how-to-use libhashcat
example
- Building: Added many additional compiler warning flags in Makefile to improve
static code error detection
- Building: Added missing includes for FreeBSD
- Building: Added some types for windows only in case _BASETSD_H was not set
- Building: Changed Makefile to strip symbols in the linker instead of the compiler
- Building: Defined NOMINMAX macro to prevent definition min and max macros in
stdlib header files
- Building: Enabled ASLR and DEP for Windows builds
- Building: Fixed almost all errors reported by cppcheck and scan-build
- Building: On macOS, move '-framework OpenCL' from CFLAGS to LDFLAGS
- Building: On macOS, use clang as default compiler
- Building: Support building on Msys2 environment
- Building: Use .gitmodules to simplify the OpenCL header dependency handling
process
- Charsets: Added DES_full.charset
- Data Types: Replaced all integer macros with enumerator types
- Data Types: Replaced all integer variables with true bool variables in case they
are used as a bool
- Data Types: Replaced all string macros with static const char types
- Data Types: Replaced all uint and uint32_t to u32
- Data Types: Replaced atoi() with atoll(). Eliminates sign conversion warnings
- Documents: Added docs/credits.txt
- Documents: Added docs/team.txt
- Documents: Changed rules.txt to match v3.20 limitations
- Error handling (file handling): Fixed a couple of filepointer leaks
- Error handling (format strings): Fixed a few printf() formats, ex: use %u instead
of %d for uint32_t
- Error handling (memory allocation): Removed memory allocation checks, just print
to stderr instead
- Error handling (startup): Added some missing returncode checks to get_exec_path()
- Fanspeed: Check both fanpolicy and fanspeed returncode and disable retain support
if any of them fail
- Fanspeed: Minimum fanspeed for retain support increased to 33%, same as NV uses
as default on windows
- Fanspeed: Reset PID controler settings to what they were initially
- Fanspeed: Set fan speed to default on quit
- File handling: Do a single write test (for files to be written later) directly on
startup
- File locking: Use same locking mechanism in potfile as in outfile
- Hardware management: Fixed calling conventions for ADL, NvAPI and NVML on windows
- Hardware management: Improved checking for successfull load of the NVML API
- Hardware management: In case fanspeed can not be set, disable --gpu-temp-retain
automatically
- Hardware management: In case of initialization error show it only once to the
user on startup
- Hardware management: Refactored all code to return returncode (0 or -1) instead
of data for more easy error handling
- Hardware management: Refactored macros to real functions
- Hardware management: Removed kernel exec timeout detection on NVIDIA, should no
longer occur due to autotune
- Hardware management: Replaced NVML registry functions macros with their ascii
versions (Adds NVML support for XP)
- Hashlist loading: Do not load data from hashfile if hashfile changed during
runtime
- Kernel cache: Fixed checksum building on oversized device version or driver
version strings
- Logging: Improved variable names in hashcat.log
- Loopback: Refactored --loopback support completely, no longer a recursive
function
- Memory management: Fixed some memory leaks on shutdown
- Memory management: Got rid of all global variables
- Memory management: Got rid of local_free() and global_free(), no longer required
- Memory management: Refactored all variables with HCBUFSIZ_LARGE size from stack
to heap, macOS doesn't like that
- OpenCL Headers: Select OpenCL headers tagged for OpenCL 1.2, since we use -cl-
std=CL1.2
- OpenCL Kernels: Added const qualifier to variable declaration of matching global
memory objects
- OpenCL Kernels: Got rid of one global kernel_threads variable
- OpenCL Kernels: Moved OpenCL requirement from v1.1 to v1.2
- OpenCL Kernels: Recognize reqd_work_group_size() values from OpenCL kernels and
use them in the host if possible
- OpenCL Kernels: Refactored common function append_0x01()
- OpenCL Kernels: Refactored common function append_0x02()
- OpenCL Kernels: Refactored common function append_0x80()
- OpenCL Kernels: Refactored rule function append_block1()
- OpenCL Kernels: Refactored rule function rule_op_mangle_delete_last()
- OpenCL Kernels: Refactored rule function rule_op_mangle_dupechar_last()
- OpenCL Kernels: Refactored rule function rule_op_mangle_rotate_left()
- OpenCL Kernels: Refactored rule function rule_op_mangle_rotate_right()
- OpenCL Kernels: Support mixed kernel thread count for mixed kernels in the same
source file
- OpenCL Kernels: Switch from clz() to ffz() for bitsliced algorithms
- OpenCL Kernels: Using platform vendor name is better than using device vendor
name for function detection
- OpenCL Runtime: Updated AMDGPU-Pro and AMD Radeon driver version check
- OpenCL Runtime: Updated Intel OpenCL runtime version check
- OpenCL Runtime: Updated NVIDIA driver version check
- Password candidates: The maximum word length in a wordlist is 31 not 32, because
0x80 will eventually be appended
- Potfile: Base logic switched; Assuming the potfile is larger than the hashlist
it's better to load hashlist instead of potfile entries
- Potfile: In case all hashes were cracking using potfile abort and inform user
- Restore: Automatically unlink restore file if all hashes have been cracked
- Restore: Do not unlink restore file if restore is disabled
- Rules: Refactored macros to real functions
- Status: Added Input.Queue.Base and Input.Queue.Mod to help the user better
understand this concept
- Status: Do not wait for the progress mutex to read and store speed timer
- Status: Do not show Recovered/Time when cracking < 1000 hashes
- Status: Do not show Recovered/Time as floats but as integers to reduce over-
information
- Tests: Removed rules_test/ subproject: Would require total rewrite but not used
in a long time
- Threads: Replaced all calls to getpwuid() with getpwuid_r() to ensure thread
safety
- Threads: Replaced all calls to gmtime() with gmtime_r() to ensure thread safety
- Threads: Replaced all calls to strtok() with strtok_r() to ensure thread safety
- Wordlists: Use larger counter variable to handle larger wordlists (that is > 2^32
words)
- X11: Detect missing coolbits and added some help text for the user how to fix it

* changes v3.00 -> v3.10:

##
## Improvements
##

- Added mask display to modes 3, 6, and 7. Allows the user to see the custom
character set used during the run
- Make Linux build POSIX compatible; Also allow it to actually compile on musl-libc
systems
- Add support to compile on FreeBSD
- Make use of cl_context_properties[] to clCreateContext(), even if OpenCL
specification allow the use of NULL, some runtimes fail without
- The Time.Estimated attribute in status display should also show --runtime limit
if user set it
- Fix some strict aliasing rule violation on older compilers
- Fix some variable initializers on older compilers
- Replace DARWIN macro with compiler predefined macro __APPLE__
- Replace LINUX macro with compiler predefined macro __linux__
- Allow the use of enc_id == 0 in hash-mode 10600 and 10700 as it takes no part in
the actual computation
- Get rid of exit() calls in OpenCL wrapper library with the goal to have a better
control which error can be ignored under special circumstances
- Do not error and exit if an OpenCL platform has no devices, just print a warning
and continue with the next platform
- Workaround for OpenCL runtimes which do not accept -I parameter in the OpenCL
kernel build options even if this is an OpenCL standard option
- Workaround for OpenCL runtimes which do accept -I parameter in the OpenCL kernel
build options, but do not allow quotes
- Output cracked hashes on Windows using \r\n and not \n
- Replace RegGetValue() with RegQueryValueEx() to enable Windows XP 32 bit
compatibility
- Slightly increased NVidias rule-processing performance by using generic
instructions instead of byte_perm()
- Add support for @ rule (RULE_OP_MANGLE_PURGECHAR) to use on GPU
- Add support for --outfile (short -o) to be used together with --stdout
- Skip periodic status output whenever --stdout is used together with stdin mode,
but no outfile was specified
- Show error message if --show is used together with --outfile-autohex-disable
(this is currently not supported)
- Show error message if --skip/--limit is used together with mask files or --
increment
- Workaround for NVidia OpenCL runtime bug causing -m 6223 to not crack any hashes
even with the correct password candidate

##
## Bugs
##

- Fixed a bug where CRAM MD5 checked salt length instead of hash length
- Fixed a bug where hashcat is suppressing --machine-readable output in the final
status update
- Fixed a bug where hashcat did not check the return of realpath() and crashes
uncontrolled if the path does not exist
- Fixed a bug where hashcat crashes for accessing deallocated buffer if user spams
"s" shortly before hashcat shuts down
- Fixed a bug where hashcat crashes in case of a scrypt P setting > 1
- Fixed a bug where hashcat did not correctly use the newly cracked plains whenever
--loopback or the induction folder was used
- Fixed a bug where hashcat did not correctly remove hashes of type WPA/WPA2 even
if present in potfile
- Fixed a bug where hashcat reported an invalid password for a zero-length password
in LM
- Fixed a bug where hashcat did not take into account how long it takes to prepare
a session when auto-aborting with --runtime is in use
- Fixed a bug where some kernels used COMPARE_M_SIMD instead of COMPARE_S_SIMD in
singlehash mode

##
## Algorithms
##

- Added new hash-mode 13900 = OpenCart

* changes v2.01 -> v3.00:

This release markes the fusion of "hashcat" and "oclHashcat" into "hashcat".
It combines all features of all hashcat projects in one project.

##
## Features
##

- Support for Apple OpenCL runtime

- Support for NVidia OpenCL runtime (replaces CUDA)
- Support for Mesa (Gallium) OpenCL runtime
- Support for pocl OpenCL runtime
- Support for Khronos' OSS OpenCL reference implementation for building
- Support to utilize OpenCL devices-types other than GPU, ex: CPU and FPGA
- Support to utilize multiple different OpenCL platforms in parallel, ex: AMD + NV
- Support to utilize multiple different OpenCL device-types in parallel, ex: GPU +
CPU
- Added option --opencl-platform to select a specific OpenCL platform
- Added option --opencl-device-types select specific OpenCL device types
- Added option --opencl-vector-width to override automatically selected vector-
width size
- Added makefile native compilation target
- Added makefile install and uninstall targets
- Added autotuning engine and user-configurable tuning database
- Added current engine clock, current memory clock and pci-e lanes to the status
display
- Added support for --gpu-temp-retain for NVidia GPU, both Linux and Windows
- Added execution timer of the running kernel to the status display
- Added command prompt to quit at next restore checkpoint
- Added human-readable error message for the OpenCL error codes
- Added option --potfile-path to override potfile path
- Added option --veracrypt-keyfile to set Keyfiles used, can be multiple
- Added option --veracrypt-pim to set the VeraCrypt personal iterations multiplier
- Added option --machine-readable for easier parsing of output
- Added option --powertune-enable to work with NVidia devices as well, not just AMD
- Added option --stdout to print candidates instead of trying to crack a hash

##
## Algorithms
##

- Added new hash-mode 125 = ArubaOS

- Added new hash-mode 12900 = Android FDE (Samsung DEK)
- Added new hash-mode 13000 = RAR5
- Added new hash-mode 13100 = Kerberos 5 TGS-REP etype 23
- Added new hash-mode 13200 = AxCrypt
- Added new hash-mode 13300 = AxCrypt in memory SHA1
- Added new hash-mode 13400 = Keepass 1 (AES/Twofish) and Keepass 2 (AES)
- Added new hash-mode 13500 = PeopleSoft PS_TOKEN
- Added new hash-mode 13600 = WinZip
- Added new hash-mode 137** = VeraCrypt
- Added new hash-mode 13800 = Windows 8+ phone PIN/Password

##
## Performance
##

- Full Table: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1B1S_t1Z0KsqByH3pNkYUM-

RCFMu860nlfSsYEqOoqco/edit#gid=0

##
## Improvements
##

- Reordering of files to help integration into linux distributions ~/.hashcat etc

- Use a profile directory to write temporary files (session, potfile etc.)
- Workaround dependencies on AMD APP-SDK AMD ADL, NV CUDA-SDK, NV ForceWare, NVML
and NVAPI; they are no longer required
- Load external libraries dynamic at runtime instead of link them static at
compile-time
- Benchmark accuracy improved; Is now on par to: singlehash -a 3 -w 3 ?b?b?b?b?b?b?
b
- Benchmark no longer depends on a fixed time
- Removed option --benchmark-mode, therefore support --workload-profile in
benchmark-mode
- Enabled support of --machine-readable in combination with --benchmark for
automated benchmark processing
- Replaced --status-automat entirely with --machine-readable to make it more
consistent among benchmark and non-benchmark mode
- Extended support from 14 to 255 functions calls per rule
- Extended password length up to 32 for 7zip
- Extended salt length up to 55 for raw hash types, eg: md5($pass.$salt)
- Extended version information
- Removed some duplicate rules in T0XlCv1, d3ad0ne and dive
- Redesigned changes.txt layout
- Redesigned --help menu layout

##
## Bugs
##

- Fixed a bug in speed display: In some situation, especially with slow hashes or
lots of salts, it showed a speed of 0H/s
- Fixed a bug in restore handling: user immediately aborting after restart broke
the restore file
- Fixed a bug in line counter: conditional jump or move depends on an uninitialised
value
- Fixed a bug in rule-engine for NVidia devices: code for left- and right-shift
were switched
- Fixed a bug in dive.rule: rules were not updated after the function 'x' was
renamed to 'O'
- Fixed a bug in memory allocation "OpenCL -4 error": used unitialized value in a
special situation
- Fixed a bug in memory handling: heap buffer overflow
- Fixed a bug in memory handling: out of bounds access
- Fixed a bug in implementation of DCC2: forced default iteration count for hashes
to 10240
- Fixed a bug in implementation of WPA/WPA2: MAC and nonce stay one their original
position as in the hccap file
- Fixed a bug in implementation of GOST R 34.11-94: zero length passwords were not
cracked
- Fixed a bug in implementation of BLAKE2-512 kernels: incorrect access of the
esalt buffer

##
## Technical
##

- Removed deprecated GCC version check requirement

- Removed NPROCS from Makefile, let make automatically detect the optimal number of
parallel threads
- Dropped all C++ overloading functions to normal function which helps support more
OpenCL platforms
- Renamed functions in common.h to emphasize their purpose
- Refactorized fast-hash kernels to enable SIMD on all OpenCL platforms
- Refactorized SIMD handling: SIMD the inner-loop not the outer-loop to save
registers
- Workaround missing clEnqueueFillBuffer() support in certain OpenCL runtimes
- Added amd_bytealign() support in non-AMD OpenCL runtimes
- Added amd_bfe() support in non-AMD OpenCL runtimes
- Added several macros to allow writing optimized code for the different OpenCL
platforms
- Replaced typedef for bool with stdbool.h
- Added special DEBUG environment variables to the makefile
- Hashcat now acquires an exclusive lock before writing to any file
- Changed buffers to not use same buffer for both input and output at the same time
with snprintf()
- Check for allocatable device-memory depending on kernel_accel amplifier before
trying to allocate
- Added additional check for max. ESSID length to prevent possible crashes
- Use a GCC equivalent for __stdcall where applicable
- Synchronize maximum output line size with input line size
- Increased maximum hash line size to 0x50000
- Run weak-hash checks only in straight-attack mode, this greatly reduces code
complexity
- Restrict loopback option to straight attack-mode
- Moved rules_optimize to hashcat-utils
- Stick to older libOpenCL in binary package to avoid errors like this: version
`OPENCL_2.0' not found
- Tightened hash parser for several algorithms
- Updated old RC4 code in Kerberos 5
- Limited the salt length of Juniper Netscreen/SSG (ScreenOS) hashes to 10
- Updated algorithm used to automatically select an ideal --scrypt-tmto value
- Renamed option --gpu-accel to --kernel-accel
- Renamed option --gpu-loops to --kernel-loops
- Renamed option --gpu-devices to --opencl-devices
- Added inline declaration to functions from simd.c, common.c, rp.c and types_ocl.c
to increase performance
- Dropped static declaration from functions in all kernel to achieve OpenCL 1.1
compatibility
- Added -cl-std=CL1.1 to all kernel build options
- Created environment variable to inform NVidia OpenCL runtime to not create its
own kernel cache
- Created environment variable to inform pocl OpenCL runtime to not create its own
kernel cache
- Dropped special 64-bit rotate() handling for NV, it seems that they've added it
to their OpenCL runtime
- Completely get rid of HAVE_ADL, HAVE_NVML and HAVE_NVAPI in sources
- Replaced NVAPI with NVML on windows