This release adds 3 notable features for engineering teams evaluating rollout.
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Forensics & Incident Response
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Topics
browser-forensics
chrome
dfir
forensics
google-chrome
hindsight
Summary
AI summaryAdded Knowledge Graph entity resolution, Chrome session analysis, and Unicode support check.
Full changelog
Read more on the new features at https://dfir.blog/hindsight-parses-sessions-and-notifications/
What's Changed
🚀 Features
- Add support for Knowledge Graph entity resolution and categories by @RyanDFIR in https://github.com/RyanDFIR/hindsight/pull/255
- Add parsing of platform notifications (using ccl_chromium_reader). Ad… by @RyanDFIR in https://github.com/RyanDFIR/hindsight/pull/259
- Add Chrome session analysis, session reconstruction, and XLSX enhancements by @RyanDFIR in https://github.com/RyanDFIR/hindsight/pull/264
🛠️ Minor Changes & Fixes
- Fix a bug in OPFS processing logic that would only show either
tor… by @RyanDFIR in https://github.com/RyanDFIR/hindsight/pull/246 - Add parsing of additional Chrome cookie fields (
top_frame_site_key… by @RyanDFIR in https://github.com/RyanDFIR/hindsight/pull/247 - Add support for parsing
opener_visitfield in Chrome history data a… by @RyanDFIR in https://github.com/RyanDFIR/hindsight/pull/248 - Add (experimental) support for new cache types (DawnCache, DawnWebGPUCache, DawnGraphiteCache) by @RyanDFIR in https://github.com/RyanDFIR/hindsight/pull/251
- Update some row types and XLSX coloring to better reflect their function by @RyanDFIR in https://github.com/RyanDFIR/hindsight/pull/253
- Enhance Chrome IndexedDB processing for Blobs by @RyanDFIR in https://github.com/RyanDFIR/hindsight/pull/258
- Refactor SQLite query execution to use a reusable context manager, im… by @RyanDFIR in https://github.com/RyanDFIR/hindsight/pull/265
- Add an explicit "Source Item" column showing where the row was sourced from. by @RyanDFIR in https://github.com/RyanDFIR/hindsight/pull/267
- Small formatting updates to XLSX output (Sessions tab and page headers) by @RyanDFIR in https://github.com/RyanDFIR/hindsight/pull/268
Other Changes
- Add Unicode support check for banner and fallback for non-Unicode con… by @RyanDFIR in https://github.com/RyanDFIR/hindsight/pull/252
- Up max version to 145; slight color tweaking. by @RyanDFIR in https://github.com/RyanDFIR/hindsight/pull/254
- Potential fix for code scanning alert no. 1: Workflow does not contain permissions by @RyanDFIR in https://github.com/RyanDFIR/hindsight/pull/256
- Bump rollup from 4.35.0 to 4.59.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/RyanDFIR/hindsight/pull/257
- Bump vite from 6.4.1 to 6.4.2 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/RyanDFIR/hindsight/pull/262
- Bump picomatch from 4.0.3 to 4.0.4 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/RyanDFIR/hindsight/pull/261
- Replace
pytzwithzoneinfofor timezone handling and update depen… by @RyanDFIR in https://github.com/RyanDFIR/hindsight/pull/266
Full Changelog: https://github.com/RyanDFIR/hindsight/compare/v2026.01...v2026.04
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