Release notes: XAMN 7.

8 Week of December 11th, 2023

Release notes 7.8

What's new?
l New dark mode!
l Granular artifact redaction
l Possibility to move and resize areas of interest
l PDF viewer reintroduced in the Details pane
l Database source references
l Better handling of calls in Relativity exports
l Prompt to rebuild list of persons

Introducing dark mode!

Dark mode, a feature that many of you have
requested, is now available in XAMN. Using dark
mode is often perceived as less tiring for the eyes.
Dark mode in XAMN is also helpful for example when
working in a car when it's dark, to not light up the car
which could disturb the driver or draw unwanted
attention to the car.

When you start XAMN 7.8, the theme is set to System

default which means XAMN follows the Windows
theme setting. Go to the General tab in Options to
change the XAMN theme to Dark or Light.

Technical support Email MSAB Customer Forum

msab.com/support [email protected] forum.msab.com
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Granular artifact redaction Information on redaction of data is saved in

the case file. If a user is working in the
If there's data in a case that is sensitive or for
original case where the redaction was made,
legal purposes cannot be visible, it can be
they can undo the redaction and show the
redacted. The redaction is done for individual
property value.
properties of an artifact. This makes it
possible to redact for example the message The recommended way to ensure that a user
text from a chat message while keeping other cannot see any redacted properties is to save
metadata of the artifact such as To, From, and a subset of the case. When saving a subset of
timestamps. When redacted, the property a case, the redaction is moved from the case
value is masked. file to the individual .xry files and the user can
therefore not undo the redaction.
Redaction of properties is possible for text
data and for more complex data such as a XAMN Pro license required.
picture or the contents of a file.
Move and resize areas of
The redaction impacts the information shown
in the Details pane, in the Artifacts pane, and
interest
The new areas of interest that were
in all reports and exports.
introduced in the previous release are now
also possible to edit.

All areas of interest can be renamed or

moved. In addition to that, the radius can be
changed for the circles, the width and height
for the rectangles, and the location of each
point for the polygons.

PDF viewer reintroduced in the

Details pane
A new PDF viewer has now been added to the
Details pane, for easy and convenient viewing
of PDF file artifacts within XAMN.

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Database source references Better handling of calls in

added Relativity exports
XAMN now shows detailed source information When running the Relativity export, the audio
for artifact properties that are decoded from a and video calls were previously exported as
SQLite database. empty messages. Now, the message artifacts
that represent calls contain the text Call. The
When you opened the property in Source
metadata for these message artifacts provides
mode in earlier versions, the name of the
information such as the call type, the country,
source database was stated. Now XAMN also
and the duration of the call.
states the name of the database table, the
column name, and the row number. This XAMN Pro license required.
makes it much easier to locate the data in the
database, if needed for validation. Prompt to rebuild list of persons
If there are changes to the list of data sources

Note: The table, column, and row in a case, such as .xry files being added or

information is available in extractions removed, there is an increased risk of person

performed with XRY 10.8 or later. duplicates. When this happens, you will now
be prompted to rebuild the list of persons. If

XAMN Pro license required. you choose to rebuild, note that all manual
changes to the list of persons will be lost.

XAMN Pro license required.

Print function deprecated

From XAMN 7.8, the print buttons are
removed from XAMN. To print any of the data
within XAMN, export it to a format of your
choice and then choose to print the file.

Coast lines map included Want to learn more about XAMN?

A world coast lines map is now included as
part of the XAMN Pro setup. This means you XAMN training teaches you how to
navigate and utilize all the functions
can use offline maps out-of-the-box, found within XAMN. You will be guided
without downloading map packs. However, in through the complete analysis process,
order to view artifacts presented on detailed from deploying powerful filtering
techniques to locating evidence and
maps, you must download individual country generating reports.
map packs via the MSAB Customer Portal.
Go to msab.com/training for more
XAMN Pro license required. information.