diff --git a/data/txt/sha256sums.txt b/data/txt/sha256sums.txt
index c231f69f4..7576be296 100644
--- a/data/txt/sha256sums.txt
+++ b/data/txt/sha256sums.txt
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ ccc4a717e887652b1fcce073d9409d9c59a3b28548c703a9e453d15845f90cd7  lib/core/patch
 9bf174058f15d14e24e94f9aaf42df045119d3617c6c54bd2f3af79b462f331d  lib/core/replication.py
 0b8c38a01bb01f843d94a6c5f2075ee47520d0c4aa799cecea9c3e2c5a4a23a6  lib/core/revision.py
 888daba83fd4a34e9503fe21f01fef4cc730e5cde871b1d40e15d4cbc847d56c  lib/core/session.py
-bfb81831c04059573ed0d17904242183f4d51065f235f00d437f7fc6ddcf33c7  lib/core/settings.py
+90a49806b83a83f6402b3dd6e35f7f2468d3dbcc0cafc3c382bda6e248344609  lib/core/settings.py
 c7804223319e18eb0b8e2cbf0a8b6896d1cefb7b0b1a2e9f1cf826a8a3b56750  lib/core/shell.py
 a2e98a94b231432736d6b304fc75525c8b5fdb4768c418387c5b4c1a610dad64  lib/core/subprocessng.py
 19f1e3c5e3ba703d28d510cd7a9ab8284d5fbe9df5ce7e77c86e5931571364b7  lib/core/target.py
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ f522436fbd14bdab090a1d305fcac0361800cb8e36c8cbcb47933298376a71e0  lib/takeover/r
 0787f78e6bd9bb21d4267c95c4c99806711bb57c5518485c2e25f10fcf9c41fc  lib/takeover/udf.py
 23d73af417604dab460b74cdc230896153f018a6c00d144019491053640a172f  lib/takeover/web.py
 8cc1e226d4150fe8aa1a056e5d32d858ed6444d3d4e2af7fb4bc08f0bbe9d527  lib/takeover/xp_cmdshell.py
-4dcc79ef8c6af69d9890f16e06cacad70c2e657770d8afca0e425833cd780f08  lib/techniques/blind/inference.py
+63e2bc0e2fb6407760245b4f36d7430b626b9654bce51485b6cbf24717225246  lib/techniques/blind/inference.py
 1966ca704961fb987ab757f0a4afddbf841d1a880631b701487c75cef63d60c3  lib/techniques/blind/__init__.py
 1966ca704961fb987ab757f0a4afddbf841d1a880631b701487c75cef63d60c3  lib/techniques/dns/__init__.py
 3df9839fb92a81d46b6194d7adacb43f391efb78b071783c132e8d596ecbfaf1  lib/techniques/dns/test.py
diff --git a/lib/core/settings.py b/lib/core/settings.py
index 7233b0b7b..b00474f0c 100644
--- a/lib/core/settings.py
+++ b/lib/core/settings.py
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ from lib.core.enums import OS
 from thirdparty import six
 
 # sqlmap version (<major>.<minor>.<month>.<monthly commit>)
-VERSION = "1.10.6.151"
+VERSION = "1.10.6.152"
 TYPE = "dev" if VERSION.count('.') > 2 and VERSION.split('.')[-1] != '0' else "stable"
 TYPE_COLORS = {"dev": 33, "stable": 90, "pip": 34}
 VERSION_STRING = "sqlmap/%s#%s" % ('.'.join(VERSION.split('.')[:-1]) if VERSION.count('.') > 2 and VERSION.split('.')[-1] == '0' else VERSION, TYPE)
@@ -523,6 +523,16 @@ KEYSET_MIN_ROWS = 1000
 # Number of consecutive Huffman (set-membership) character attempts allowed to decline/escape without a single validated success before the technique latches itself off (safety against trimmed/blocked long IN() payloads)
 HUFFMAN_PROBE_LIMIT = 8
 
+# Cold-start (prior) weights for the order-0 Huffman model used in adaptive blind retrieval. Gently
+# biases the initial tree toward bytes that dominate real DBMS output (lowercase text, digits, common
+# identifier punctuation) so SHORT extractions don't pay the full balanced-tree depth before the online
+# frequency model warms up. Magnitude is small so genuine learned counts overtake it within a few dozen
+# characters (kept low-risk for uniform/hex columns: hex digits 0-9a-f are themselves favored here).
+HUFFMAN_PRIOR_WEIGHTS = {}
+for _weight, _chars in ((6, " etaoinsrhldcumfgypwbvkxjqz"), (4, "0123456789"), (3, "_.-/@:,'")):
+    for _char in _chars:
+        HUFFMAN_PRIOR_WEIGHTS[ord(_char)] = _weight
+
 # Minimum range between minimum and maximum of statistical set
 MIN_STATISTICAL_RANGE = 0.01
 
diff --git a/lib/techniques/blind/inference.py b/lib/techniques/blind/inference.py
index b1ec44a8d..3b2020233 100644
--- a/lib/techniques/blind/inference.py
+++ b/lib/techniques/blind/inference.py
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ from lib.core.exception import SqlmapThreadException
 from lib.core.exception import SqlmapUnsupportedFeatureException
 from lib.core.settings import CHAR_INFERENCE_MARK
 from lib.core.settings import HUFFMAN_PROBE_LIMIT
+from lib.core.settings import HUFFMAN_PRIOR_WEIGHTS
 from lib.core.settings import INFERENCE_BLANK_BREAK
 from lib.core.settings import INFERENCE_EQUALS_CHAR
 from lib.core.settings import INFERENCE_GREATER_CHAR
@@ -296,7 +297,7 @@ def bisection(payload, expression, length=None, charsetType=None, firstChar=None
 
             heap = []
             for order, ordinal in enumerate(xrange(128)):
-                heapq.heappush(heap, (model.get(ordinal, 0) + 1, order, (ordinal,)))
+                heapq.heappush(heap, (model.get(ordinal, 0) + HUFFMAN_PRIOR_WEIGHTS.get(ordinal, 1), order, (ordinal,)))
             heapq.heappush(heap, (max(model.get(ESCAPE, 0), 1), 128, (ESCAPE,)))
 
             counter = 129