DucyDrive release history
What's new
A concise record of completed features included in public releases. Future versions will be added here when they ship.
August 7, 2026 · Google Play closed-test candidate
Version 2.2.0 RC100
- Uses a cleaner five-tab workspace: Dashboard, Guide, Settings, IP, and About.
- Keeps every tab label on one line and adjusts text for narrower phone screens.
- Strengthens evidence records for USB reconnects and multi-partition checks.
- Includes the current guided formatting, image inspection, image writing, backup, restore, testing, receipt, and novice-help work from the 2.2 program.
- Keeps USB content processing local to the connected Android device.
Internal testingAvailable to internal testers
Closed testingSubmitted to the existing Alpha track
ProductionNot yet released
Formatting, restoring, destructive capacity testing, and image writing replace data on the selected drive. Use spare media and keep a backup.
July 30, 2026 · Direct Full Access release candidate
Version 2.2.0 RC76
- Adds an admitted, original x64 UEFI:NTFS driver and same-device chainloader to the Direct Full Access edition.
- Builds large Windows installation media with a small FAT32 EFI System Partition and a larger NTFS payload partition.
- Verifies GPT structures, filesystem metadata, EFI paths, packaged binary hashes, provenance, and read-back results.
- Adds clearer beginner guidance, exact boot-result receipts, image inspection, and safer pre-write rejection.
- Supports this UEFI:NTFS engineering path with Secure Boot turned off. Secure Boot and Legacy BIOS are not claimed for this build.
July 30, 2026
What the 2.2 program adds
- Automatic ISO, IMG, raw DMG, Windows, Linux, rescue, and compressed-image inspection.
- FAT32 split-WIM Windows media construction and transactional NTFS/ESP media creation.
- Source hashing, byte read-back, partition, filesystem, and EFI loader-path validation.
- Streaming gzip, ZIP, XZ, Bzip2, and Zstandard image support without a full temporary decompressed copy.
- Detailed receipts that distinguish structural checks from QEMU or physical-firmware proof.
July 27, 2026
Version 2.0.1
- Streams gzip-compressed raw images directly to USB.
- Adds optional expected SHA-256 matching and read-back verification control.
- Adds valid-GPT relocation and stale-metadata cleanup controls.
- Expands the in-app User Manual across every major workflow.
- Updates public support and privacy contact information.
July 27, 2026
Version 2.0.0
- Introduces verified byte-for-byte IMG, ISO, and raw DMG restoration.
- Reports detected ISO 9660, El Torito, MBR, GPT, and EFI structures.
- Invalidates obsolete recovery snapshots before raw image writes.
- Restricts USB transport to the supported Bulk-Only protocol.
Release policy
Only completed and released behavior appears here. Research, planned upgrades, and presentation-only concepts are excluded until they are executable and verified.