hashcat

Welcome to hashcat 6.2.6 release!

This release adds new backend support for Metal, the OpenCL replacement API on Apple, many new hash-modes, and some bug fixes.

This is a minor release. If you are looking for release notes please refer to docs/changes.txt.

Welcome to hashcat 6.2.5 release!

This release adds improved HIP compatibility, several new hash-modes, and bug fixes.

This is a minor release. If you are looking for release notes please refer to docs/changes.txt.

Welcome to hashcat 6.2.4 release!

This release adds performance improvements, a new rule-engine function, several new hash-modes, and bug fixes.

This is a minor release. If you are looking for release notes please refer to docs/changes.txt.

Welcome to hashcat 6.2.3 release!

This release adds an entire new compute backend (HIP), CPU hardware monitor support, several new hash-modes, bug fixes and improvements.

This is a minor release. If you are looking for release notes please refer to docs/changes.txt.

Welcome to hashcat 6.2.2 release!

This release adds automatic analysis of input hashes, several new hash-modes, bug fixes and improvements.

This is a minor release. If you are looking for release notes please refer to docs/changes.txt.

Welcome to hashcat 6.2.1 release!

This release allow package maintainers to not use unrar sources and updated unrar sources to latest version 6.0.5

Full changelog: https://hashcat.net/forum/thread-10103.html

Welcome to hashcat 6.2.0 release!

This release is mostly about expanding support for new algorithms and fixing bugs.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release!!!

Full changelog: https://hashcat.net/forum/thread-10103.html

Welcome to hashcat 6.1.1 release!

This release is fixing a small bug and a GLIBC related problem in binary 6.1.0 package.

Full changelog: https://hashcat.net/forum/thread-9417.html

Welcome to hashcat 6.1.0 release!

This release is mostly about expanding support for new algorithms and fixing bugs.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release!!!

Full changelog: https://hashcat.net/forum/thread-9417.html

Welcome to hashcat 6.0.0 release!

This release is about new hash-mode plugin interface, new backend API interface, expanding support for new algorithms and fixing bugs.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release!!!

Full release notes: https://hashcat.net/forum/thread-9303.html

Welcome to hashcat 5.1.0 release!

This release is mostly about expanding support for new algorithms and fixing bugs.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release!!!

Full changelog: https://hashcat.net/forum/thread-7983.html

Welcome to hashcat 5.0.0 release! This release is mostly about two new major features:

• The hashcat brain
• Slow candidates

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release!!!

Full changelog: https://hashcat.net/forum/thread-7903.html

Bugfix release:

• Try to evaluate available OpenCL device memory and use this information instead of total available OpenCL device memory for autotune
• Fixed a buffer overflow in precompute_salt_md5() in case salt was longer than 64 characters

Welcome to hashcat 4.2.0 release! This release is mostly about expanding support for new algorithms.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release!!!

Full changelog: https://hashcat.net/forum/thread-7711.html

Welcome to hashcat 4.1.0 release! This release is mostly about expanding support for new algorithms.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release!!!

Full changelog: https://hashcat.net/forum/thread-7317.html

Bugfix release:

• Fixed a memory leak while parsing a wordlist
• Fixed compile of kernels on AMD systems on windows due to invalid detection of ROCm
• Fixed compile of sources using clang under MSYS2
• Fixed overlapping memory segment copy in CPU rule engine if using a specific rule function
• Fixed a parallel build problem when using the "install" Makefile target
• Fixed the version number extraction for github releases which do not including the .git directory

Welcome to hashcat 4.0.0 release! This release is mostly password and salt length up to 256 support.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release!!!

Full changelog: https://hashcat.net/forum/thread-6965.html

Welcome to hashcat v3.6.0 release! This release is mostly about new algorithms added.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release!!!

Full changelog: https://hashcat.net/forum/thread-6630.html

Welcome to hashcat v3.5.0 release! This is just a smaller update, mostly bugfixes.

I recommend upgrading even if you did not face any errors with older versions.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release!!!

Welcome to hashcat v3.40 release!

The major changes are the following:

• Added support to crack iTunes backups: https://hashcat.net/forum/thread-6047.html
• Added support to crack LUKS volumes: https://hashcat.net/forum/thread-6225.html
• Added support for hccapx files: https://hashcat.net/forum/thread-6273.html

There's also a ton of bugfixes thanks to some very good reports from the users and others found while adding hashcat to the Coverity CI.

I recommend upgrading even if you did not face any errors with older versions.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release!!!