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REDACT Pro 5 — Licensed Release

REDACT Pro 5 is now available on SourceForge and Gumroad.

This is the first commercial release in REDACT's history. Pro 5 expands from 285 to 371 targets, introduces a 7-pass self-destruct engine, adds full multi-drive wipe support across every fixed disk in the machine, and ships with a hardware-bound license system. Free users remain on REDACT 4.0.0. Pro 5 is a separate licensed product at $79 (lifetime).... read more

REDACT 4.0.0 — Full Spectrum Release

REDACT 4.0.0 is now available on SourceForge and GitHub.

This is a major release. REDACT 4.0.0 expands from 255 to 285 targets, doubles the Auto-Trigger Engine from 3 to 7 monitors, adds a headless CLI mode, and introduces five new engine-level operations covering artifact classes no previous version touched.

Total targets: 285.

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What's New

30 New Sanitization Targets (Items 256–285)... read more

REDACT 3.3.0 — Auto-Trigger Engine

REDACT 3.3.0 is now available on SourceForge and GitHub.

This is a minor feature release. The sanitization target list and all wipe standards are unchanged. This release adds the Auto-Trigger Engine — a background monitoring system that fires a HIGH-tier wipe automatically under user-defined conditions, without manual interaction.

Total targets: 255.

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What's New... read more

REDACT 3.2.1 — Safety Gate & UI Patch

REDACT 3.2.1 is now available on SourceForge and GitHub.

This is a targeted safety and polish release following the 3.2 feature drop. No new sanitization targets were added. This release focuses entirely on user protection for high-sensitivity operations and corrects a UI labelling error introduced in 3.2.

Total targets: 255.

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What's Changed

BitLocker OS Drive Safety Gate... read more

REDACT 3.2 — Live RAM Wipe & Cryptographic Erasure

REDACT 3.2 is now available on SourceForge and GitHub.

This release adds 5 new HIGH-tier sanitization items that take REDACT into territory no other open-source Windows privacy tool covers: live physical RAM overwrite and cryptographic erasure of encrypted volumes and biometric key material — without mounting, without decrypting, and without leaving plaintext on disk.... read more

REDACT 3.1 is now available on SourceForge.

What's fixed:

Bug 1 — Registry decoy name collision
In reg(), the random decoy value name was generated twice using separate secrets.tokenhex() calls — once when creating the value and again when deleting it. This meant the function created SysCachea1b2 but then tried to delete SysCachec3d4, leaving an orphaned registry entry behind. Fixed by generating the name once into a variable.... read more