Eraser 6.0.7, next in the stable release line of 6.0.x has been released today. 6.0.7 addresses a significant number of stability and usability issues which were found in the initial stable 6.0.6. 6.0.7 is the best version in the 6.0.x line for most users, and all users are encouraged to upgrade to 6.0.7 as quickly as possible.

Changelog

Revision	Description	Author
1385-1386	Updated a few missing Italian localisation resources	Andrea
1428	Fixed crash on startup for certain computers	Joel
1431	Use proper font handling for menus during theming.	Joel
1438-1440, 1471	Made improvements to the progress handling of NTFS' handling of unused directory entry erasures	Joel
1443-1444	Stricter .NET framework version check, including that of service packs.	Joel
1446	Don't allow automatically-loaded plugins to be automatically-loaded forever (security fix)	Joel
1457	Unauthorised file access messages during cluster tip erasures have been downgraded from error to information.	Joel
1465	Fixed potential blank context menu items in certain locales and locations in the shell	Joel
1467	Better error handling when cleaning up erased files and folders	Joel
1473	Fixes bug #286: Random errors when erasing cluster tips due to SfcIsFileProtected	Joel
1475-1478, 1484, 1487-1488, 1491-1493	Fixes bug #285: Multiple custom method editor bugfixes	Joel
1479-1480, 1482	Fixes multiple localisation issues for users who do not use English builds of Windows and for which no localisation is currently available	Joel
1481	Better error message when loading settings fail.	Joel
1483, 1484	Prevent a stack overflow when a user picks the FL16KB erasure method recursively as the chained erasure method.	Joel
1486	Fixed updating from the Eraser website when we use download IDs	Joel
1490	Fixed random crashes when using the Context menu to erase files/folders	Joel
1494	Simplified removal of decoy files from the settings page	Joel
1517	Fixed removal of plausible deniability decoys (#297)	Joel
1633-1635	Fixed more crashes on startup.	Joel
1637	Fixed crash when erasing files which do not exist.	Joel
1639	Fixed race condition when two Eraser instances are started at the same time	Joel
1641	Fixed crash when clicking on the About dialog, but the appropriate handler could not be executed.	Joel
1643	Fixed crash when closing open handles for which filenames cannot be found.	Joel
1649	Fixed crash when users erase the root of a drive	Joel
1653	Fixed error when erasing files with plausible deniability enabled and having insufficient space on-disk.	Joel
1659, 1740	Fixed crashes when progress events are triggered (due to their asynchronous nature)	Joel
1663	Fixed cluster tip erasures when erasing the system drive: check both for existence of a directory as well as the ability to access it before throwing errors	Joel
1664	Task log improvements, notably those which involve errors before logging used to start	Joel
1666	Fixed inconsistent state of tasks which were edited and run immediately (potential crash)	Joel
1669	Removed NtQuerySystemInformation entropy gathering, fixes freezing and BSoDs for most users	Joel
1673	Better test for stream existence	Joel
1693	Confirm with the user that dropped files should be erased. Fixes #306	Joel
1695	Implemented UNC path erasures (Fixes #313)	Joel
1699	Fixed crash when unlocking file locked by a process with a higher permission level than Eraser	Joel
1721, 1734, 1735	Fixed blank screen when starting Eraser with --quiet and then starting another Eraser instance (thanks to DavidHB for reporting this)	Joel
1723	Managed/unmanaged call optimisation	Joel
1729	Fixed handling of corrupt volumes when querying a volume for information	Joel
1730	Fixed identification of drive types	Joel
1732	Fixed crash for users when clicking on Add Data	Joel
1737	Better enumeration of files which is more tolerant to files which are deleted during the erase process	Joel
1738	Better handling of direcory reparse points and more efficient directory/file enumeration processes	Joel
1742	Ensure the validity of decoy files before using them, fixing most exceptions during erasure when decoy files are enabled	Joel
1752	Fixed crash when importing a corrupt/old task list.	Joel
1754	Cleaner shutdown processes	Joel
1782	Respect the Erase if Empty option when erasing directories	Joel
1784	Allow a longer wait for the new Eraser instance to be spawned	Joel
1821	Proper shut down when Hide when Minimised is enabled. Thanks to DavidHB for the report	Joel
1824	Display errors when opening URLs fail instead of crashing	Joel
1830	Fixed network statistics entropy gathering: wrong function order	Joel
1846	Fixed exception when erasing cluster tips of files which were deeted during the enumeration process	Joel
1851	Fixed command line parsing when commas and equality signs are in the filename	Joel
1860	Fixed certain cannot delete file/folder errors when erasing files (due to invalid filenames being generated)	Joel
1861	Handle locked files better when erasing files	Joel
1883	Potential fix for insufficient disk space errors when doing free disk space erasures	Joel
1885	When copying log entries use Windows line breaks	Joel
1887	Fixed potential double exception when erasing cluster tips	Joel
1892	Include the internal error when throwing an exception to indicate the inability to lock a volume	Joel

End of support for Eraser 5.x

With this release, as announced earlier, support for Eraser 5 will be discontinued. Eraser developers will also not entertain requests to fix problems with the 5.x codebase, as it has reached the end of its useful life. v5 has served the community well, but the age of the code is already showing and the associated problems (of software incompatiblity) have been in recent years difficult (and expensive) to resolve.

Eraser 5 will still be downloadable from SourceForge, and patches can still be submitted (but may not be applied), however no more official builds will be made available in future and support on the official channels (e.g. Support Forum and Trac) for Eraser 5 will cease. 5.8.8 will be the last officially released Eraser 5 version from The Eraser Project.

Download/Hashes

It is important to note that users downgrading from 6.1 should delete their Task Lists (%APPDATA%\Eraser 6\Task List.ersx) before running Eraser 6.0.x as that will result in a crash of 6.0.x builds. If you are upgrading from an earlier 6.0.x build, and especially if you have defined custom erasure methods or Plausible Deniability files, if upon upgrading Eraser refuses to start after the upgrade you can try deleting the task list (the same file as mentioned earlier) and if that fails, the HKCU\Software\Eraser\Eraser6 registry key. Deleting the latter will result in a reset of the Eraser settings to defaults.

Download Eraser 6.0.7 from SourceForge

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