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5-Mar-2026 - DiskBoss v16.5 adds persistent file delete reports for compliance purposes allowing one to keep track of all performed file delete operations, save PDF, HTML and Excel reports with unique report IDs, hash signatures of processed directories and hash signatures of deleted files, error lists, etc. In addition, the new product version improves the DiskBoss command line utility, improves the disk space analysis reports and fixes a number of bugs.

  • Adds persistent file delete reports for compliance purposes
  • Adds PDF, HTML, Excel, CSV, XML and text file delete reports
  • Improves the DiskBoss command line utility
  • Improves the disk space analysis reports
  • Fixes a number of bugs

5-Feb-2026 - DiskBoss v16.4 improves the side-bar view tools allowing one to monitor the status of the disk space analysis and data management operations, monitor the system status, disk space usage and disk performance during disk space analysis and data management operations. In addition, the new product version improves the main DiskBoss GUI application, improves the DiskBoss Server product version and fixes a number of bugs.

  • Improves the side-bar status and monitoring views
  • Improves the DiskBoss main GUI application
  • Improves the DiskBoss Server product version
  • Improves the default file classification plug-in
  • Fixes a number of bugs

6-Jan-2026 - DiskBoss v16.3 redesigns the DACL permissions file classification plug-in allowing one to classify all files by assigned DACL permissions and display all explicitly set permissions and users the permissions are assigned to. In addition, the new product version improves all types of disk space analysis, file classification and file search PDF reports, improves the DACL permissions file matching rules, improves the DiskBoss tasks logs and fixes a number of bugs.

  • Redesigns the DACL permissions file classification plug-in
  • Improves all types of PDF analysis and file classification reports
  • Improves the DACL permissions file matching rules
  • Improves the DiskBoss tasks logs
  • Fixes a number of bugs

10-Dec-2025 - DiskBoss v16.2 adds the memory usage monitor tool pane showing the amount of the free system memory and the amount of the used system memory allowing one to monitor the memory usage while processing large file systems containing millions of files. In addition, the new product version improves the main DiskBoss GUI application, improves DiskBoss Server product version and fixes a number of bugs.

  • Adds the system memory monitor tool pane
  • Improves the main DiskBoss GUI application
  • Improves the DiskBoss Server product version
  • Fixes a number of bugs

11-Nov-2025 - DiskBoss v16.1 adds the disk activity monitor tool pane, the disk transfer rate tool pane and the disk IOPS monitor tool pane allowing one to monitor the status and performance of the hard drives installed in the computer. In addition, the new product version adds support for new file types to the built-in file classification plug-ins allowing one to perform analysis, search and file management operations on specific file types and fixes a number of bugs.

  • Adds the disk activity monitor tool pane
  • Adds support for new file types to the file classification plug-in
  • Improves the system status monitor tool pane
  • Fixes a number of bugs

6-Oct-2025 - DiskBoss v16.0 adds the ability to export the categories of disk space analysis, file classification and file search results to the Excel and JSON report formats allowing one to generate various types of charts using AI analysis platforms. In addition, the new product version improves the main DiskBoss GUI application, improves the network shares search dialog and fixes a number of bugs.

  • Adds the ability to export the file categories to the Excel format
  • Adds the ability to export the file categories to the JSON format
  • Improves the main DiskBoss application
  • Fixes a number of bugs

4-Sep-2025 - DiskBoss v15.9 improves the pie charts and timeline charts allowing one to display the disk space usage and the number of files per file extension, file type, user name, creation year, last modification year and last access year. In addition, the new product version improves the support for AI integration and data analysis, improves the security of the web-based management interface and fixes a number of bugs.

  • Improves the security of the web-based management interface
  • Improves the support for AI integration and data analysis
  • Improves the disk space usage charts
  • Fixes a number of bugs

11-Jul-2025 - DiskBoss v15.8 adds the ability to send status E-Mail notifications for all completed disk space analysis, file search, file management and file delete operations showing the completion status, the amount of processed data, the process time and the performance of each completed operation. In addition, the new product version improves the fault tolerance of the file copy and data migration operations, improves the main DiskBoss GUI application and fixes a number of bugs.

  • Adds the ability to send status notifications for all completed operations
  • Improves the fault-tolerance of the data migration operations
  • Improves the main DiskBoss GUI application
  • Fixes a number of bugs

20-May-2025 - DiskBoss v15.7 adds the ability to export disk space analysis results to a single-level data table and allows one to save the data table to the HTML, PDF, Excel, CSV and text report formats or export the disk space analysis results to an SQL database. In addition, the new product version improves the DiskBoss Server GUI application and fixes a number of bugs.

  • Adds the ability to export disk analysis results to a single-level data table
  • Improves the DiskBoss Server GUI application
  • Fixes a number of bugs

3-Apr-2025 - DiskBoss v15.6 adds disk space usage pie charts to the built-in disk space monitor allowing one to continuously monitor one or more disks or network shares and send E-Mail notifications or perform automatic disk space analysis operations when the amount of the free disk space drops below the user-specified limit. In addition, the new product version improves the main DiskBoss GUI application and fixes a number of bugs.

  • Adds disk space usage pie charts to the built-in disk space monitor
  • Improves the main DiskBoss GUI application
  • Fixes a number of bugs

6-Mar-2025 - DiskBoss v15.5 improves all types of disk space analysis, file classification, file search and disk change monitoring reports. In addition, the new product version improves the hash signatures command dialog, improves the DiskBoss main GUI application and fixes a number of bugs.

  • Improves all types of disk space analysis and file classification reports
  • Improves all types of file search and disk change monitoring reports
  • Improves the hash signatures command dialog
  • Improves the main DiskBoss GUI application
  • Fixes a number of bugs

3-Feb-2025 - DiskBoss v15.4 adds the ability to archive disk space analysis, file classification and file search reports from the DiskBoss reports database to a user-specified directory. In addition, the new product version adds the ability to remove old reports from the reports database, improves the DiskBoss command line utility and fixes a number of bugs.

  • Adds the ability to archive reports to a user-specified directory
  • Adds the ability to remove old reports from the reports database
  • Improves the DiskBoss command line utility
  • Fixes a number of bugs

23-Dec-2024 - DiskBoss v15.3 improves the disk space analysis options dialog, improves the file classification options dialog, improves the file search options dialog and improves the file delete options dialog. In addition, the new product version improves the main DiskBoss GUI application and fixes the EDB 49022 and EDB 49899 vulnerabilities.

  • Improves the disk space analysis options dialog
  • Improves the file classification options dialog
  • Improves the file search options dialog
  • Improves the file delete options dialog
  • Fixes the EDB 49022 vulnerability
  • Fixes the EDB 49899 vulnerability

2-Dec-2024 - DiskBoss v15.2 adds new disk space analysis and file classifications wizards allowing one to easily start frequently performed disk space analysis operations. In addition, the new product version improves the main DiskBoss GUI application, improves file filters, improves file matching rules and fixes a number of bugs.

  • Adds new disk space analysis wizards
  • Adds new file classification wizards
  • Improves the main DiskBoss GUI application
  • Improves file filters and file matching rules
  • Fixes a number of bugs

31-Oct-2024 - DiskBoss v15.1 adds support for the RCMP TSSIT OPS-II secure data wiping algorithm. In addition, the new product version improves the fault-tolerance of disk space analysis and file classification operations, improves the DiskBoss Server product version and fixes a number of bugs.

  • Adds support for the RCMP TSSIT OPS-II secure data wiping algorithm
  • Improves the fault-tolerance of disk space analysis operations
  • Improves the fault-tolerance of file classification operations
  • Improves the DiskBoss Server product version
  • Fixes a number of bugs

26-Sep-2024 - DiskBoss v15.0 redesigns the secure file synchronization command dialog and redesigns the secure file copy command dialog. In addition, the new product version adds support for new file types to the default file classification plug-in, improves the file properties dialog, improves the main DiskBoss GUI application and fixes a number of bugs.

  • Redesigns the secure file synchronization command dialog
  • Redesigns the secure file copy command dialog
  • Improves the main DiskBoss GUI application
  • Improves the file properties dialog
  • Fixes a number of bugs

5-Aug-2024 - DiskBoss v14.9 adds multiple GUI layouts allowing one to show or hide different parts of the DiskBoss GUI application and change the style of the main toolbar. In addition, the new product version improves the DiskBoss Server product version and fixes a number of bugs.

  • Adds multiple GUI layouts allowing one to customize the DiskBoss GUI application
  • Improves the DiskBoss Server product version
  • Fixes a number of bugs

16-Jul-2024 - DiskBoss v14.8 adds the ability to display in any of the left side-bar tool panes a system status monitor showing the current CPU usage, memory usage and the amount of the free system memory. In addition, the new product version improves the DiskBoss Server product version and fixes a number of bugs.

  • Adds the ability to display a system status monitor in any of the side-bar tool panes
  • Improves the DiskBoss Server product version
  • Fixes a number of bugs

25-Jun-2024 - DiskBoss v14.7 adds the ability to display full-screen presentations on projectors and large screens showing user-selected disk space analysis charts. In addition, the new product version improves all types of disk space analysis reports, improves the performance of the disk space analysis operations, improves the main DiskBoss GUI application and fixes a number of bugs.

  • Adds the ability to display full-screen disk space analysis presentations
  • Improves the performance of disk space analysis operations
  • Improves all types of disk space analysis reports
  • Improves the main DiskBoss GUI application
  • Fixes a number of bugs

30-May-2024 - DiskBoss v14.6 adds the ability to automatically save file search reports or send E-Mail notifications when a file search command finds a user-specified number of search results or the disk size of file search results exceeds a user-specified limit. In addition, the new product version improves all types of file search reports, improves the performance of the file search operations, improves the main DiskBoss GUI application and fixes a number of bugs.

  • Adds the ability to automatically save search reports according to user-specified conditions
  • Adds the ability to automatically send notifications according to user-specified conditions
  • Improves the performance of file search operations
  • Improves the main DiskBoss GUI application
  • Improves all types of file search reports
  • Fixes a number of bugs

9-Apr-2024 - DiskBoss v14.5 adds the ability to send disk usage delta reports in disk space monitor notifications allowing one to see which directories and files were added during the last 24 hours. In addition, the new product version adds the ability to automatically submit disk analysis reports from multiple servers to a centralized DiskBoss Enterprise reports database and fixes a number of bugs.

  • Adds the ability to send disk space usage delta reports
  • Adds the ability to send reports from multiple servers to a centralized database
  • Improves the DiskBoss Enterprise product version
  • Fixes a number of bugs

7-Mar-2024 - DiskBoss v14.4 improves the network shares discovery dialog allowing one to search servers and NAS storage devices on the network and analyze disk space usage, classify files and search files in hundreds of network shares. In addition, the new product version redesigns the rule-based file organizing options dialog, improves the DiskBoss Server product version and fixes a number of bugs.

  • Redesigns the rule-based file organizing options dialog
  • Improves the network shares discovery dialog
  • Improves the DiskBoss Server product version
  • Fixes a number of bugs

15-Feb-2024 - DiskBoss v14.3 adds a high-speed directory scanning mode for file attributes change operations and redesigns the file attributes change options dialog. In addition, the new product version improves the main DiskBoss GUI application and fixes a number of bugs.

  • Adds a high-speed directory scanning mode for file attributes change operations
  • Redesigns the file attributes change options dialog
  • Improves the main DiskBoss GUI application
  • Fixes a number of bugs

17-Jan-2024 - DiskBoss v14.2 redesigns the file compression preview options dialog allowing one to simulate a file compression operation and display the expected compression factor and the amount of the saved disk space for a user-specified set of files. In addition, the new product version improves the main DiskBoss GUI application and fixes a number of bugs.

  • Redesigns the file compression options dialog
  • Improves the main DiskBoss GUI application
  • Fixes a number of bugs

11-Dec-2023 - DiskBoss v14.1 adds a high-performance directory scanning mode for file delete operations and redesigns the file delete options dialog. In addition, the new product version improves the DiskBoss command line utility, improves E-Mail notifications allowing one to send a notification message when a disk analysis or file management operation fails or completes with errors and fixes a number of bugs.

  • Adds a high-performance directory scanning mode for file delete operations
  • Redesigns the file delete options dialog
  • Improves the DiskBoss command line utility
  • Improves error E-Mail notifications
  • Fixes a number of bugs

24-Oct-2023 - DiskBoss v14.0 adds the ability to batch-execute multiple disk space analysis, file classification, duplicate files search, file synchronization or file copy operations. In addition, the new product version improves the disk space analysis tasks management dialog, improves the user-defined commands dialog, improves the main DiskBoss GUI application and fixes a number of bugs.

  • Adds the ability batch-execute multiple analysis or file management operations
  • Improves the disk space analysis tasks management dialog
  • Improves the main DiskBoss GUI application
  • Fixes a number of bugs

1-Aug-2023 - DiskBoss v13.9 adds the ability to analyze the disk space usage per server or NAS storage device for user-selected types of files allowing one to understand how specific files are stored across the entire network based on the file type, creation, modification or last access dates. In addition, the new product version improves the default file classification plug-in and adds support for new file types, improves the DiskBoss Server GUI application and fixes a number of bugs.

  • Adds the ability analyze the disk space usage per host for user-selected types of files
  • Improves the DiskBoss Server GUI application
  • Improves the default file classification plug-in
  • Fixes a number of bugs

14-Jun-2023 - DiskBoss v13.8 adds the ability to search files by the file name length, full name length and extension length. In addition, the new version adds the ability to categorize and filter file classification and file search results by multiple levels of top directories, improves the top directories charts, improves the disk space analysis process dialog and fixes a number of bugs.

  • Adds the ability to search files by the file name length
  • Adds the ability to categorize results by the top directory
  • Improves the disk space analysis process dialog
  • Improves the top directories charts
  • Fixes a number of bugs

16-May-2023 - DiskBoss v13.7 adds the ability to display the total number of subdirectories for each directory in disk space analysis results. In addition, the new product version adds the ability to display the total number of subdirectories for each directory in all types of HTML, PDF, Excel, text and CSV disk space analysis reports. Finally, the new product version improves the main DiskBoss GUI application and fixes a number of bugs.

  • Adds the total number of subdirectories for each directory in disk space analysis results
  • Adds the total number of subdirectories to all types of disk space analysis reports
  • Improves the main DiskBoss GUI application
  • Fixes a number of bugs

26-Apr-2023 - DiskBoss v13.6 adds support for new file types and file categories to the default file classification plug-in. In addition, the new product version improves the built-in disk space monitor, improves the main DiskBoss GUI application, improves the DiskBoss Server GUI application and fixes a number of bugs.

  • Adds support for new file types and file categories
  • Improves the default file classification plug-in
  • Improves the built-in disk space monitor
  • Improves the DiskBoss GUI application
  • Fixes a number of bugs

15-Mar-2023 - DiskBoss v13.5 adds the ability to classify and categorize files by file permissions showing files with specially assigned file permissions per user account or user group allowing one to identify protected system files with permissions granted to unauthorized user accounts. In addition, the new product version improves the file classification plug-ins dialog, improves the file classification results dialog and fixes a number of bugs.

  • Adds the ability to classify and categorize files by file permissions
  • Improves the file classification plug-ins dialog
  • Improves the file classification results dialog
  • Fixes a number of bugs

16-Feb-2023 - DiskBoss v13.4 adds the ability to compare disk space analysis and file classification reports saved in the reports database and show how the disk space usage is changing over time per directory and/or per file category. In addition, the new product version improves the DiskBoss Server GUI application, improves the reports dialog and fixes a number of bugs.

  • Adds the ability to compare disk space analysis reports
  • Adds the ability to compare file classification reports
  • Improves the DiskBoss Server GUI application
  • Improves the reports dialog
  • Fixes a number of bugs

5-Jan-2023 - DiskBoss v13.3 adds the ability to search files by MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256 or SHA-512 hash signature allowing one to find specific files by the file's contents even if the files are saved with different file names. In addition, the new product version adds the ability to export hash signatures of file search results to the PDF and Microsoft Excel formats, improves the main DiskBoss GUI application and fixes a number of bugs.

  • Adds the ability to search files by MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256 and SHA-512 hash signatures
  • Adds the ability to export hash signatures to the PDF and MS Excel formats
  • Improves the main DiskBoss GUI application
  • Fixes a number of bugs

21-Nov-2022 - DiskBoss v13.2 redesigns the top files dialog allowing one to display the list of top files sorted by the file size. In addition, the new product version adds the ability to export the list of top files to the PDF, MS Excel, CSV, HTML and text file formats. Finally, the new product version improves the tasks log file and fixes a number of bugs.

  • Redesigns the top files dialog
  • Adds the ability to export the list of top files to the PDF format
  • Adds the ability to export the list of top files to the MS Excel format
  • Adds the ability to export the list of top files to the HTML format
  • Improves the tasks log file
  • Fixes a number of bugs

24-Oct-2022 - DiskBoss v13.1 redesigns the top directories dialog allowing one to display the list of top directories sorted by the disk space usage. In addition, the new product version adds the ability to export the list of top directories to the PDF, MS Excel, CSV, HTML and text file formats. Finally, the new version improves the main DiskBoss GUI application and fixes a number of bugs.

  • Redesigns the top directories dialog
  • Adds the ability to export the list of top directories to the PDF format
  • Adds the ability to export the list of top directories to the MS Excel format
  • Adds the ability to export the list of top directories to the HTML format
  • Improves the main DiskBoss GUI application
  • Fixes a number of bugs

12-Aug-2022 - DiskBoss v13.0 adds the ability to add user-custom file classification plug-ins and customize the built-in file classification plug-ins allowing one to classify and categorize files according to the user-specific requirements. In addition, the new version improves the file classification results dialog, improves the DiskBoss main GUI application and fixes a number of bugs.

  • Adds the ability to add user-custom file classification plug-ins
  • Adds the ability to customize the built-in file classification plug-ins
  • Improves the DiskBoss main GUI application
  • Improves the file classification results dialog
  • Fixes a number of bugs

13-May-2022 - DiskBoss v12.9 adds the ability to search files by the creation week day, modification week day or last access week day. In addition, the new product version improves the performance of the disk space analysis and file classification operations, improves the DiskBoss Server product version, improves the file properties dialog and fixes a number of bugs.

  • Adds the ability to search files by the creation week day
  • Adds the ability to search files by the modification week day
  • Adds the ability to search files by the last access week day
  • Improves the DiskBoss Server product version
  • Improves the file properties dialog
  • Fixes a number of bugs

11-Apr-2022 - DiskBoss v12.8 adds the ability to analyze the disk space usage per creation, last modification or last access week days. In addition, the new version adds the history of previously connected network drives and provides the ability to reconnect any network drive in a single mouse click. Finally, the new product version improves the CSV and text disk space analysis reports, improves the support for Unicode file names and fixes a number of bugs.

  • Adds the ability to analyze the disk space usage per creation or modification week days
  • Adds the history of previously connected network drives
  • Improves the CSV and text disk space analysis reports
  • Improves the support for Unicode file names
  • Fixes a number of bugs

10-Feb-2022 - DiskBoss v12.7 adds the ability to save summary disk space analysis, file classification and duplicate files search reports to the text, CSV and XML formats. In addition, the new product version adds support for the Windows Server 2022 operating system, improves the DiskBoss Server client GUI application and fixes a number of bugs.

  • Adds the ability to save summary analysis reports to the text, CSV and XML formats
  • Adds the ability to save summary classification reports to the text, CSV and XML formats
  • Adds support for the Windows Server 2022 operating system
  • Improves the DiskBoss Server client GUI application
  • Fixes a number of bugs

27-Dec-2021 - DiskBoss v12.6 adds the built-in reports database, which keeps reports for all performed disk space analysis, file classification, duplicate files search and disk monitoring operations allowing one to later review and analyze a history of saved reports. In addition, the new product version improves all types of disk space analysis, file classification and file search reports, improves the main DiskBoss GUI application and fixes a number of bugs.

  • Adds the built-in reports database
  • Improves all types of analysis and file search reports
  • Improves the main DiskBoss GUI application
  • Fixes a number of bugs