✔️Improved progress reporting for Drive acquisitions.

✔️Better handling of Google Drive folder shortcuts during Direct Drive acquisitions.

✔️Minor improvements to Drive acquisition performance.

✔️Other performance and user interface improvements.

✔️Fixed an issue that could prevent batch acquisition projects from being launched in some scenarios.

✔️Drive Explorer now saves selection between sessions.

✔️It is now possible to append to Drive Explorer selection.

✔️"Owners" Drive metadata field is now presented in a more user-friendly manner.

✔️Other performance and user interface improvements.

This is a maintenance release with the following improvement:

✔️Drive Explorer cache is now invalidated if the list of selected Google Drives is changed on FEC's tree view.

🔥Drive Explorer — It is now possible to interrogate Google Drives directly, see their contents in a grid view, search and filter them, export metadata, and cherry-pick specific items to acquire.

✔️Added Folder Path and Owners fields to Direct Drive and Drive Attachment logs.

✔️Added support for scenarios where the authenticated account has access to a large number of shared Drives.

✔️Added throttling mitigation to shared Drive list acquisition.

✔️Various other performance and user interface improvements.

🔥Major improvements to Gmail API throttling mitigation.

✔️Added protection to prevent multiple computers from operating on the same FEC project simultaneously.

✔️Other performance and user interface improvements.

✔️Improvements to error handling for acquisitions that involve both Gmail and Direct Drive simultaneously.

🔥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.