Hello everyone! First, we want to thank you all for your patience as we've transitioned to the new site, and for bearing with us as we get everything stabilized and updated. The initial site brought many much-needed improvements to our system and processes, but we have been hard at work continually refining and working on updates. We want to share a few changes and updates that we've implemented since opening:

'Draft' system for disc submissions:
After your initial disc submission (new disc or verification), if we notice any errors or missing information, we can now send the submission back to 'Draft' status. You can now view your submissions, and if any are in Draft status, you can update or provide missing information, and re-submit back into the queue without re-doing the entire submission. If you have submissions that haven't been added, please check to see if any are in Draft status and need further review.

Advanced search / filters:
There is a new "Advanced Filters" button for the disc database, that you can use to customize and refine your search for a number of additional elements. Manual URL modifications are no longer required for filtering and searching for discs.

Staff ability to add new systems, regions, and languages:
Redump mods now have the ability to add new systems, regions, and languages to our database. Please do not add these pre-emptively, but if you have discs that require a new system, region, or language, please let us know and we can review and potentially add. Please note: for new systems, we are still primarily focusing on game-related optical systems, or systems that have game-related optical media, so this is not for other types of media formats.

Database download:
We are committed to the important redump data being open, transparent, public, and available. There is a new 'Database' section on the downloads page, where you can download a backup of the entire disc database, that will be updated daily. We believe this is an important feature for the project, and are thrilled to finally be able to deliver this along with our new site.

Wiki is now available for editing:
If you would like access to edit the wiki, please let a mod know, and we can add that for you.

MPF updated to version 3.8.3
MPF has been updated with a number of new features, including checking .info for matches, aligning the submissioninfo more closely with the new site format, and various other changes. We highly recommend updating to 3.8.3: https://github.com/SabreTools/MPF/releases

Redumper GUI available
A new easy-to-use GUI for redumper has been released for Windows, Linux, and macOS. Try it out here: https://github.com/Deterous/Redumper-GUI

Tracking system for feature requests / bug reports:
If you have a feature request or bug report for the site, please submit an issue to the GitHub page here: https://github.com/superg/vgindex/issues
Please review the existing issues to avoid duplicates

We are aware of and working on several new features and updates, that we have not yet implemented, including but not limited to the following:

[*] Proper handling of lead-in / lead-out tracks (Track 0/00 and Track A/AA)
[*] Creating proper database fields and moving data for some elements currently in the Comments field. If you see some duplicate data currently, such as Universal Hash existing in comments and also a separate field, please don’t edit those for now - we are working on resolving that
[*] Title updates / system for handling articles
[*] Potential options for uploading logs or log-handling (In the meantime, please include log links as normal)

We really appreciate everyone supporting the transition to the new site, and your patience with us as we've implemented new features. Most of your feedback has been overwhelmingly positive and supportive, which has been fantastic. We will continue to work on making the Redump project the best it can be. Thank you!

As many of you are aware, there have been longstanding issues with the redump.org site infrastructure. Basic features such as HTTPS have been missing and the project staff have been unable to address this due to the site being tightly controlled by an inactive administrator.

This has become increasingly untenable over the course of the past year, with major site outages and issues causing real concern that data could be permanently lost. Staff have made multiple attempts over several years to contact the redump.org admin to ask for these issues to be addressed, but all of these efforts have been either rebuffed or outright ignored. We believe that the work done here at Redump is very important for long-term preservation of data, which has necessitated this shift to ensure the project is successful for many years to come.

As a result, this year we decided to take the initiative and move to a new site, giving us a more solid and modern codebase to work from, and a more collaborative governance structure ensuring that major site decisions cannot be locked behind the availability of any single member of the team.

That site is now live at https://redump.info/ and as of today will be the official home of the Redump project. All of the existing data has been imported over and you may notice a number of immediate improvements, as well as some key changes to submission processes.

We have a Getting Started Guide on the wiki at (https://wiki.redump.info/Getting_Started_Guide) to answer some of your immediate questions and help you get started on submitting to the new site.

The Redump staff would like to thank all of you for your patience as we've worked through this process, and over the past few years in dealing with the difficulties presented by the old site. We ask for your continued patience as we get up and running, as it will take everyone some time to get fully up to speed. In particular, for the moment we ask that you keep a note of any feature requests you might have. We will soon be announcing an official process for submitting these, and we have many ideas of our own, but for now our focus is on making this transition as seamless as possible.

This marks an exciting new day for the Redump project and we're happy to have such an amazing community of contributors to this vital work. We look forward to you joining us in continuing that work as we move to this next stage in the project.

**How to log in / register for the new site**
1) if you already have an account on redump.org, go to https://forum.redump.info/, click Login and click "I forgot my password", follow the instructions.
2) if you are a new contributor, feel free to register new account at https://forum.redump.info/.

The new site has none of the old restrictions regarding email providers, however initially you may find messages being marked as spam, so please make sure to check your spam/junk folders as well. If you have any issues or no longer have access to your original e-mail, please contact someone on the team for assistance. Thank you!

RibShark has recently released the 'OmniDrive' firmware for specific blu-ray drives that adds many new dumping features.
Notably, OmniDrive enables dumping XGD (Xbox/Xbox360) and Nintendo (GameCube/Wii) discs.

You can learn more and find the flashing instructions here: https://wiki.redump.info/index.php?title=OmniDrive
This replaces the old custom ASUS BW-16D1HT firmware that was previously recommended.
OmniDrive is open source, you can learn more here: https://github.com/RibShark/OmniDrive/

Redumper (build 705 onwards) and MPF (3.7.0 onwards) have been updated to support OmniDrive features. Download MPF for Windows here: https://github.com/SabreTools/MPF/relea … elease.zip

The OmniDrive compatible drives are now all acceptable for submissions of new CD dumps in redump, including the LG BU40N.

The custom firmware by MoriGM for the 353C family of DVD drives is also now acceptable for CD-ROM discs (no Audio tracks).

See https://wiki.redump.info/index.php?title= … bility:_CD for the latest information on drive eligibility.

Thank you to everyone involved in making these new features possible!