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title: "Blancco File Eraser (for Windows) 8.3 has been released!"
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File Eraser for Windows version 8.3 - Release notes

Features:

- Custom fields support.
  - Custom fields can be configured and shown on the erasure report.
- Licensing through Blancco Management Console.
  - Licensing can be controlled from Blancco Management Console.
- NIST erasure optimization.
  - Implemented NIST verification which results in faster erasure speeds.
- Unify erasure standard naming.
  - Erasure standards names are shared with other products like Drive Eraser.
- New state of the art digital signature for reports for added security.
  - Due to the introduction of this new signature, BMC 4.8 or greater is required.
- Phased out non BMC editions
  - Blancco Management Console is supported for all editions

Fixes:

- **LEE-1746** - Can't Drag and Drop Files & Folders into File Eraser when app is running as Administrator.
- **LEE-1845** - File Eraser causing SideBySide errors.
  - These errors were showing in the event log but did not affect the erasure.
- **LEE-1864** - UTF16 in batch file will cause failure.
  - UTF-8, UTF-16 and ISO-8859-15 are all supported.
- **LEE-1990** - Spanish and German update dialog texts contain unprintable characters.
  - Some characters were not rendered properly in the user interface.