Paragon Software milestones in File System implementations since 1994
- 1994 Foundation of Paragon Software
- 1997 Release of Boot Manager. A pre-OS utility to manage booting of multiple Operating Systems from a single hard-drive
- 1998 Release of Partition Manager. Partition Manager is based on a partitioning technology that allows resizing of partitions without data loss.
- 2000 First release of NTFS file system implementation. Release of commercial products – NTFS for DOS, NTFS for Windows 98, and NTFS for Linux
- 2002 The first Paragon implementation of Microsoft NTFS v3.1 in Linux Kernel 2.4.20
- 2002 Introduction of UFSD (Universal File System Driver) technology.
UFSD is a cross-platform family of file system drivers developed to resolve the compatibility “anyOS-anyFS” for most popular file systems and OS - 2006 Paragon products now feature a full set of partition tables. Support for read/modify/create (GPT/MBR/APM), including advanced features such as LDM
- 2007 Release of HFS+ file system implementation in UFSD
- 2007 UFSD block-level journaling added for NTFS and HFS+ file systems in UFSD
- 2007 Introduction of NTFS for Mac. Becoming a “must-have” utility for tens of millions of macOS users
- 2008 UFSD-based CampTune X product released to help macOS dual-booters with their Boot Camp Windows management
- 2009 Release of exFAT file system Implementation in UFSD
- 2009 Release of HFS+ for Windows – a bridge to Mac OS file system for Windows users
- 2010 ExtFS for Mac released. Designed for digital cinema enthusiasts and professionals who use both Mac and Linux
- 2010 Initial release of NTFS & HFS+ file system implementation for Android
- 2010 Release of NTFS for Windows CE to enable NTFS access within Windows Embedded environments
- 2011 Native NTFS journal replay support added to NTFS file system implementation
- 2011 Release of ExtBrowser for Windows to enable read access to ExtFS volumes in a Windows environment
- 2012 Release of ReFS v1 file system implementation.
- 2012 Release of Paragon NTFS/HFS+ Mounter App. Enabling NTFS/HFS+ access on Android
- 2013 Release of ExtFS for Windows. Full access to Linux file system in a Windows environment
- 2013 Release of UFSD file system implementations for QNX. Enabling customers of embedded solutions use of USFD technology under QNX
- 2014 Release of USB Plug-in for Total Commander app for Android. Non-root solution for mounting USB NTFS/HFS+
- 2015 Release of Storage SDK for iOS. Enabling UFSD file system implementations for iOS applications
- 2015 Storage SDK for Android released. Adds the ability to embed UFSD family File Systems (NTFS/HFS+/exFAT and other) file management on USB OTG into Android apps
- 2016 FAT32 file system Implementation added to UFSD set of supported file systems
- 2016 Windows 10 System Compression for NTFS volumes support added into NTFS file system implementation
- 2017 Release of ReFS v3 file system Implementation
- 2017 Release of Linux File Systems for Windows: BTRFS/XFS read-only support added
- 2017 Release of Image Mounter for Windows: Forensic Tool with file system drivers set and support for various image files onboard
- 2017 Android Storage Access Framework support added to Storage SDK for Android
- 2017 Release of UFSD file system implementations to run in a pre-OS environment. UEFI support.
- 2017 Release of UFSD file system implementations for Nucleus OS. Enabling customers of embedded solutions use of UFSD technology under Nucleos OS
- 2017 Release of UFSD file system implementations for Integrity RTOS 11.4 Enabling customers of embedded solutions use of UFSD technology under Integrity RTOS
- 2018 APFS file system implementation released
- 2018 Release of APFS for Windows. Enabling access to the latest Apple file system in a Windows environment
- 2018 APFS SDK released for third party developers
- 2020 Apple Silicon M1 chip support added to NTFS for Mac and extFS for Mac
- 2020 Paragon submits the first set of patches for its open-source NTFS3 implementation to Linux Kernel
- 2021 Paragon File System: flash-friendly, fail-safe file system for RTOS, Automotive, IoT, and Autonomous Systems introduced
- 2021 Paragon implements Windows Server 2016/2019/2022 NTFS Data deduplication support
- 2021 Paragons NTFS3 officially added to Linux Kernel 5.15 release
- 2021 Paragon FS ver 2.0 SDK released for embedded developers