Binwalk Changelog

What's new in Binwalk 2.1.1

Dec 11, 2017
  • Many bug fixes
  • New/improved file signatures
  • Disassembly scans (using the Capstone Engine)
  • Improved raw Deflate compression detection and extraction
  • Raw LZMA compression detection and extraction
  • Improved false positive detection for common compressions (Zlib, LZMA)
  • An IDA plugin for running binwalk inside of IDA
  • Integration of better extraction utilities (e.g., sasquatch for SquashFS, jefferson for JFFS2)
  • Removal of all C library dependencies, including libmagic - pure Python!
  • Native Windows support!

New in Binwalk 1.2.1 (Apr 22, 2013)

  • Bug fix release.
  • Added --marker option.

New in Binwalk 1.2 (Apr 3, 2013)

  • Bug fixes, speed improvements.
  • Added recursive scanning (--matryoshka option).
  • Added plugin support.
  • Added entropy analysis.
  • Added strings analysis.

New in Binwalk 1.1 (Mar 8, 2013)

  • Major speed improvements and regex filter support, as well as bug fixes and signature updates.

New in Binwalk 1.0 (Feb 7, 2013)

  • Complete re-write in Python and includes new features and a scriptable Python module.

New in Binwalk 0.5.0 (Dec 27, 2012)

  • Added the --extract option and extends --dd, allowing auto extraction and auto decompression of extracted files. Improved signatures and scan speed.

New in Binwalk 0.4.5 (Sep 7, 2012)

  • Fixed magic file white space parsing bug.
  • Fixed memory leak when more than one target file was specified.
  • Added --dd option for auto-extraction of files.

New in Binwalk 0.4.4 (Aug 2, 2012)

  • Minor OSX bug fixes and the addition of new/improved signatures.

New in Binwalk 0.4.3 (May 7, 2012)

  • Bug fixes, signature updates.

New in Binwalk 0.4.2 (Feb 27, 2012)

  • Version 0.4.2 includes significant speed improvements over previous versions, as well as the addition of some new search options (--grep and --raw-bytes).