The biggest news in DEFT are two. The first is that the project is also dedicated to incident response issues; the second is that the DEFT will have two core, one dedicated to the server (based on CentOS) and one (based on Lubuntu) for personal computer, Mac and workstations x86, all of them into a live DVD; the choice of double kernel was determined after a thorough series of tests that led to the following conclusion: the desktop environments have different needs from enterprise environments in terms of drivers and performance. The end user decide what to run based on its need, if you must acquire a server, run DEFT SE, but if you needs to perform analysis or acquisition activities of pc or Mac, run DEFT.

DEFT features
- Based on Lubuntu 11.10 and DEFT Extra 3 (Windows side)
- Linux Kernel 3 -usb3 ready
- Guymager 0.5.9
- Dhash 2
- Xplico DEFT edition 0.6.3
- TSK 3.2.2 (or the latest stable version at the date of release)
- Autopsy 2.24 and 3 (beta)
- Digital Forensics Framework 1.1.0
- Libewf
- Afflib 3.6.12 (or the latest stable version at the date of release)
- Scalpel 2.0
- Foremost 1.5.7
- Hunchbacked 4most 0.6
- Log2timeline 0.60
- ClamAV Anti Virus / Malware 0.9.6
- Mount Manager 0.2.6
- TrID 2.10
- Wine 1.3 for the implementation of tools for Windows-based Computer Forensic
- KeepNote 0.7 (reporting tool)
- Emule forensic

DEFT SE features
- Based on CentOS 6
- dd, ddrescue, dd_rescue, dc3dd and dcfldd
- guymager and dhash

Roadmap
- Feature freeze – September 2011
- Tools test – October 2011
- Kernel freeze – October 2011
- Extra DEFT test – November 2011
- Wine tools testing – November 2011
- Beta release – December 23 2011
- DEFT Linux 7 stable – January 27 2012
- Documentation DEFT stable – January 27 2012

Hello!
As promised we are publishing the draft of the manual deft 6.x.
This draft represents the first step to definitive manual that we are going to release within 12 months.
The summary is temporary, we are planning to expand most of the chapters and add more informations.
About the “English” …  it really needs to be reviewed by a native speaker.
We know that already!
We are looking forward to your feedback:
What do you think? what you would like to add ? which sections should be amplified (or rewritten from scratch)?

Drop me a line to sandro AT deftlinux.com

Thanks
DEFT team

DEFT 6.1 is the last planned release of DEFT 6.
From June 2011, We will start working on version 7. It will feature great improvements on both the architectural structure and the included applications.

Release notes:
- Start faster by 15% over the previous version
- Optimization initrd
- RegTime.py
- Recovery.py

Fixed:
Fixed problem of large pcap file uploads in Xplico
Revision of all DEFT Extra’s tools to comply with their License.
DEFT 6 can boot from USB (tnks to Valerio Leomporra for the fix)

Download DEFT 6.1!

I’m happy to announce that DEFT 6 is out!

DEFT 6 is based on Lubuntu with Kernel 2.6.35 (Linux side) and DEFT Extra 3.0 (Windows side) with the best freeware Computer Forensic tools; it is a new concept of Computer Forensic live system, ewflib ready, that use WINE for run Windows Computer Forensics tools under Linux.

This is a list of changes made to the release candidate version:

[new] Update FTK Imager from 2.9 to 3
[new] Update Digital Forensic Framework from 0.8 to 0.9
[new] Added Xmount 0.4.4
[new] Added mount_ewf utility
[bug fix] VWrong Guymager release, now is the 0.5.7
[bug fix] Fixed iso md5 file check
[bug fix] Fixed some grammatical errors

For a full list please refer to this page. For some screenshot please refer to this page

Please submit new bug using launchpad or mailing bug “at” deftlinux.net.

As announced last month, even today we release the official documentation of the project. For now, it is only in Italian, it will be soon translated into English, Spanish and Chinese. Any other volunteer?
The project documentation is free and open to any useful integration therefore
if you want to help expanding the manual, you can contact me (Stefano Fratepietro) by e-mail: stefano “at” deftlinux.net.

During the next week, we will release the DEFT virtual appliance and dd image for the USB stick.

IISFA (Italian chapter) appreciates DEFT project as a contribution to the development of the Computer Forensic analysis. The appreciation of IISFA is both scientific and cultural.
This work represent the work of the DEFT team and not of the IISFA association.

A special thanks to all the people that worked with me as volunteers: Salvo Tarantino, Davide Gabrini, Massimiliano Dal Cero, Bartolomeo Bogliolo , Sandro Rossetti and Valerio Leomporra.

Thank you guys!

On 11/01/2011 we will release the DEFT 6 stable version and the official documentation (Italian version for now) ! I’m really sorry for keeping you guys waiting but the final result was worth the delay.

Here the DEFT 6 ‘s list of fixed bugs.
As said before , we will release only the italian version of the official documentation.  The English and Spanish version will follow in the first half of 2011.