🔥Exclude Duplicates for Exchange — Added a new option to collapse items in Exchange / M365 (EWS) acquisitions by Service ID so that items with identical Service IDs are acquired only once. This is particularly useful for search folders and Exchange In-place Archive.

🔥Folder Prioritization — Some folders in mailboxes, such as the Recoverable Items Folder, contain items that are ephemeral in nature. FEC now automatically prioritizes the acquisition of such folders to increase the chances of successful acquisition of those items.

✔️Improved resilience against scenarios where acquired items are quarantined or deleted by endpoint security software.

✔️Improvements to Acquisition Summary reports for acquisitions that do not include email data.

✔️Improvements to display of statistics in Local Vault acquisitions when an existing acquisition is resumed.

✔️Various other performance and user interface improvements.

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🔥Fetch Only the Latest Revision before Target Date—It is now possible to request a specific Drive revision based on a target date during Direct Drive acquisitions.

🔥New option to have Direct Drive output in a flat folder structure.

✔️Added over 10 new Drive metadata fields to Drive Attachment and Direct Drive acquisitions.

✔️Added support for Google Granular Consent.

✔️Added the option to specify or override output PST split settings when creating PST output post acquisition.

✔️Implemented IMAP ID to support connecting to providers (e.g., 163.com) that require it.

✔️Improved detection of 'item not found' errors during IMAP acquisitions.

✔️Added AttachmentCount as a new Inline Search field.

✔️Embedded webview for modern authentication is now smarter about detecting the presence of the required webview component.

✔️Improved efficiency and resilience during Exchange Web Services (EWS) In-place Search preview and metadata-only acquisition workflows.

✔️Numerous other performance and user experience improvements.

✔️Improvements to handling email and Drive folder names with special characters.

✔️Fixed an issue where the license maintenance end date may not be detected correctly during an automatic update check within FEC.

✔️Improvements to the embedded modern authentication view when working in portable mode.

✔️Better handling of unexpected Drive API responses when listing shared Drives for a user.

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🔥Direct Drive Acquisitions — FEC can now target Google Drive directly (as opposed to targeting Drive Attachments of emails only) and acquire Drive items and revisions. Shared Drives are also supported. The Drive data set can be narrowed down using In-place Search.

🔥Embedded modern authentication view for Yahoo / AOL, M365, and Microsoft personal accounts.

🔥Added support for Local Google Takeout acquisitions.

🔥Local Vault Export Workflow now provides an Explore Mailboxes option to configure batch acquisitions.

✔️Added Differential Acquisition support for Direct Drive acquisitions.

✔️Added support for Errors.csv in Local Vault Export acquisitions.

✔️Improved handling of duplicate labels in Local Vault Export acquisitions.

✔️It is now possible to search and filter folders in FEC's folder tree view.

✔️Hidden folders are now displayed with a different icon. It is possible to deselect all hidden folders through the right-click context menu in folder tree view.

✔️Added an option to check Inline Search syntax without using the sandbox.

✔️Added options for light and dark mode user interface.

✔️Improvements to Gmail API throttling mitigation in response to recent API changes.

✔️Improvements to the help bubbles in FEC's user interface.

✔️Some of the user interface elements have been moved to a side panel.

✔️Switched from stack-based navigation to linear navigation during acquisition setup.

✔️Importing a Remote Authenticator token now populates the target email address if unpopulated.

✔️Numerous other performance and user experience improvements.

This is a maintenance release before the upcoming major FEC update:

✔️Added compatibility for recent Gmail API changes.

✔️Added support for Chats included in Gmail Vault exports.

✔️Local Vault Export error logs now include greater detail.

✔️Fixed an issue that can prevent Graph API acquisitions from starting on some systems.

✔️FEC now normalizes the target email address when locating Mbox files for the target during Local Vault Export processing.

✔️Improved handling of Mbox files with structural issues.

✔️Hardening of the Local Vault Export acquisition workflow against potential inconsistencies in the input data from Vault.