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September 18, 2023

2023.9.9419
Fix
Components: ‘Windows Insider Program’ removal ‘Just a moment’ hang on Win11 22H2.2359+ and 23H2+
Components: ‘Biometrics Support’ removal causing Sign out / Login screen crash
Settings: ‘News and interests’ disabling on image

September 4, 2023

2023.8.9408
Fix
Updates: Windows 7 Internet Explorer 11 integration (recent regression)
Components: Server 2022 ‘Device Management Enrollment Service’ removal Explorer crash
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UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77), Italian (clarensio), Swedish (1FF)

August 29, 2023

2023.8.9402
New
Components: ‘User Choice Protection’ (Win11 22621.2215+)
Settings: ‘Enable features introduced via servicing that are off by default’
Settings: ‘Prompt security warning on launching applications and unsafe files (Internet Zone)’
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Components: Expanded removals for CloudDesktop, BioMetrics and SettingSync with new cumulative updates (Win11 22621.2215+)
Components: ‘File Explorer’ apps labeled as Legacy and Extensions for clarity
Components: ‘Apps’ and ‘System Apps’ moved to the root, ‘Windows Apps’ merged into ‘System’, Defrag moved under the needed VDS
Updates: Defender Engine update version switched to the underlying signatures version, as it updates more frequently
UI: Unattended page moved from Automate to Configure, Post-setup page moved from Automate to Integrate, in preparation for the upcoming feature
UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Traditional (Matt), French (tistou77), Swedish (1FF)
Fix
Updates: App (MSIX) package path saving to presets
Updates: Error 416 on downloading updated existing file, different link (e.g. downloading newer Defender Updates)
Components: ‘Modern App support – 32 bit’ removal was breaking Office 2021 full setup
Components: ‘PowerShell 32-bit’ shortcut was leftover if 64-bit version kept
Components: ‘Resume from Hibernate’ now listed only on Win11 22621+, not removable on older
Components: ‘Universal Printing’ and ‘Powershell DSC’ had leftovers in certain combinations
Components: ‘Windows Media Player 64-bit’ initial startup was blocked if Media Foundation 32-bit removed

July 31, 2023

2023.7.9371
Fix
Components: ‘Superfetch’ removal in Server 2022 22H1 was causing blank screen
Images: Edit name/description of an edition, recent regression
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UI-Translation: Thanks for German (Cartman586), Italian (clarensio), Portugues-Brasil (Igor)

July 26, 2023

2023.7.9367
New
Updates: Defender update integration support (Platform, Engine, Offline pack)
Updates: Defender Platform and Engine updates added to the online update lists
Settings: ‘DumpStack.log’ option, disabling this allows for deletion of C:\\DumpStack.log.tmp
Settings: ‘Global timer resolution requests’
Settings: ‘Show recommendations for tips, shortcuts, new apps, and more’
Images: Server 23H2 build 25398.1 load support
Components: Windows 11 23H2 Dev edition languages:
Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Armenian, Assamese, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bosnian,
Cherokee, Filipino, Georgian, Irish, Persian, Scottish, Kazakh, Khmer, Konkani,
Luxembourgish, Lao, Maori, Macedonian, Maltese, Nepali, Odia, Quechua, Tatar, Uyghur,
Uzbek, Valencian, Welsh
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Images: Faster edition deletion during processing if only one edition kept
Components: ‘Sensor Service’ split from Sensors and removes more (make sure to uncheck it in your existing presets if Sensors was removed before)
Only this service is needed for Settings – System – Power – Energy Recommendations
Components: Edge Web-View and Memory Diagnostics Win11 23H2 Dev edition support
Settings: ‘Taskbar Classic’ option removed on Win11 23H2+, problematic and unnecessary
UI: Autoload preset by default is turned off, enable in Menu – Settings
UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Simplified (Gskening), French (tistou77), German (Cartman586),
Italian (clarensio), Swedish (1FF)
Fix
Images: Delete edition should not be allowed on a loaded image
Images: WinSxS component was allowing uncheck on free, wasn’t removing, always was licensed only
Images: Do not add Connect as ref menu option to invalid ISOs
Images: Partially downloaded ISOs could cause a memory leak, now indicates invalid ISO instead
Images: Removed assumed ’24H2′ tag on 25XXX builds, presenting as is (23H2)
Registry: Crash during a REG file integration if no Administrator hive with associated entries in it
Settings: Option ‘Start – App list – Recently added apps’ was not sticking in images
Components: ‘Windows Setup EULA Mitigation’ placeholder detection fix, it is Win11 21H2 only
Components: Auto-unmount winre.wim if removing ‘Windows Recovery’

June 14, 2023

2023.6.9292
New
Components: ‘APX speaker and microphone driver’
Components: ‘Audio Spatializer DSP’
Components: ‘Background Media Player’ 32 and 64 bit
Components: ‘Declared Configuration (DC) service’ (split and expanded from Device Management)
Components: ‘Desired State Configuration (DSC)’ (split and expanded from PowerShell)
Components: ‘Scripto’
Components: ‘Sustainability Service’
Components: ‘Universal Print Management Service’
Updates: Support for the new MSU update package format of Windows 11 Dev, e.g. KB5027849
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Components: ‘Mobile Networking API’ 32-bit split from WLAN removal, needed for some 32-bit applications
Components: Compatibility option USB – Camera
Components: ‘QuietHours’ removal enabled on Win11 22h2, but needed for Settings – System – Notifications page
Components: Windows 11 22H2+ specific removal upgrades:
– Bluetooth, Diagnostics, Enhanced Storage, HyperV, HyperV Guest, Lang IME Korean, Mixed Reality, Network and Sharing Center,
– Provisioning, Remote Desktop Server, System Restore, Telemetry, Windows Image Acquisition, Windows Update
– Extensible Authentication Protocol
Updates: Update cache extraction performance improvements
Fix
Updates: Windows 11 build 22631 host allowing 22621-based updates, was reporting as older
Components: Windows Settings – ‘Security center’ was dependent on VBS

May 27, 2023

2023.5.9257
New
Image: Windows 11 22H2 Moment 3 (build 22631) support, same license date as 22H2
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UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Traditional (Matt), Italian (clarensio), Swedish (1FF)
Fix
Preset: boot.wim was stuck always pre-selected for integration reapply if needed for SecureBoot fix
Components: ‘Shared Folders UI’ removal was causing Services list empty on non-en-us images
Components: ‘SMS Router Service’ removal was breaking 32-bit Winget and YogaDNS

May 17, 2023

2023.5.9249
New
Updates: Boot manager update support on cumulative update integration
Associated with CVE-2023-24932, Boot Manager revocations for Secure Boot changes
Includes obsolescence detection warnings in the UI. Also requires updating of the boot.wim Setup edition.

Components: ‘Secure Boot updates’, removal includes pending CVE-2023-24932 mitigation
Do not remove on the already deployed host with enabled revocations
Image: Preset ‘Extract current image state’ option in the Save As dropdown menu, extracts all supported existing changes
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Updates: Pre-checks boot.wim Setup reapply updates of the loaded image if obsolete boot manager detected
Settings: EventLog service and autologger entries locked for non-deployed images, protecting setup requirements
UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77)
Fix
Components: Win10 1809 ‘Printing’ removal was breaking game ‘Brawlhalla’ loading

May 11, 2023

2023.5.9235
Fix
Updates: Occasional download error 400 for the Win11 22H2 cumulative update
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UI-Translation: Thanks for Italian (clarensio), German (Cartman586)

May 9, 2023

2023.5.9228
New
Components: ‘Cloud Desktop’
Components: ‘Notification Intelligence Platform’
Components: ‘SmartAction Platform’
Settings: ‘Autocorrect misspelled words’
Settings: ‘Get the latest updates as soon as they’re available’
Settings: ‘Highlight misspelled words’
Settings: ‘Network Connectivity Status Indicator – active tests’
Settings: ‘Search history on this device’
Settings: ‘Show files from Office.com’
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Upgrade-Updates: Integrating APPX system replacement apps, e.g. Windows Notepad, now works on images as well
Components: Windows Update components branch moved to ‘Remoting and Privacy’
UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77)
Fix
Components: Windows Update removal had leftovers on Win11 22H2 build 1635+
Components: ‘Wired Autoconfig’ removal was breaking Network Troubleshooting for those keeping Diagnostics
Components: ‘Print 3D’ added to OOBE compatibity due to being needed for non-Unattended setup first user logon
Settings: Detection of already applied user settings. They were applied, just not detected on tool reload

April 28, 2023

2023.4.9213
Fix
Unattended: User group was missing from the added local user if wasn’t an administrator
Updates: Occasional download error 400

April 25, 2023

2023.4.9206
New
Unattended: Domain join option for Machine Object OU
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Image: Loading an edition from an ESD image ask if keeping one or all editions during conversion, not just the loaded one
UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77), Romanian (Coman)
Fix
Updates: DISM cleanup under Win11 as a host
Updates: Load/New edit ISO auto-extracts the selected edition now, was the first on the list
Components: ‘Windows Insider Program’ removal fix for Win11 23H2 and 24H2 previews
Post-setup: Detects character casing changes in parameters, e.g. /s -> /S, or removal of it while switching to the Apply page directly

April 11, 2023

2023.4.9196
Fix
Components: InsiderHub removal was breaking setup on Windows 11 23H2 and 24H2
Components: Autotpilot is needed for OOBE/Image setup if machine is connected online during
Components: LockComponents (settings.xml) fix for uppercased component names, e.g. apps
UI: Blank toolbar on pressing Alt
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UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Traditional (Matt), German (Cartman586), Italian (clarensio), Swedish (1FF)

April 4, 2023

2023.4.9191
New
Components: ‘Direct Machine Learning (DirectML)’
Components: ‘Intelligent Passwordless task’
Components: ‘Print 3D’
Components: ‘Resilient File System (ReFS)’
Components: ‘Resume from Hibernate’
Components: ‘SecureBoot Encode UEFI task’
Components: ‘Smart Workflows’
Components: ‘Windows Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS)’
Settings: ‘Animation effects’ (Win10/11) Note: on image install requires sign-off or a reboot to apply on freshly created users
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Unattended: Disk template set to EFI by default
Components: ‘Autopilot’ leftovers and removed from OOBE compatibility
Components: ‘WLAN’ removal leftover
UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Simplified (Gskening), French (tistou77), Swedish (1FF)
Fix
Settings: SearchboxTaskbarMode reapply and includes icon+label option in Win11
Components: Blank screen on RDP logon if removed with Mixed Reality
Components: ‘Powershell-ISE’ shortcut leftover
Components: ‘Serivicing stack’ 64-bit removal BSOD
Post-setup: Corrected adding new items to be last on the list, not first, reflecting the real order

March 15, 2023

2023.3.9171
New
Image: Windows 11 prerelease 23H2 and 24H2 loading support, full support depends on reports
Unattended: Show product key setup option, to be able to force showing of an empty product key prompt during setup
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Components: ‘Windows Media Codecs (Core)’ split from ‘Windows Media Player’ in order to solve game sound dependencies, please report results
UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77), German (Cartman586), Ukrainian (Ihor)
Fix
Unattended: Unattended prompt computer multi-edition processing support (was applied only to the loaded edition)
Updates: Multi-edition package integration processing in some situations could skip editions

March 3, 2023

2023.3.9160
New
Image: Windows 11 22624 Moment 2 support, same license date
Image: Mass ‘New edit’ on right-clicking image categories
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General: Settings uses volume GUID for drive letter independence, e.g. if a different partition OS-es is booted and sees different drive letters
Updates: Better displayed version of multi-version cumulative updates
e.g. 19041 listed as 1904X if no image loaded, otherwise shows the loaded image compatible number (19042/3/4/5)
UI: ‘Open directory’ now uses a shell call instead of Explorer directly, useful for Directory Opus and similar
UI: Thanks for Italian (clarensio)
Fix
Components: Cumulative Update install fix if ‘Windows Update’, ‘Live Captions’ or ‘Voice Access’ removed
Components: ‘Remote FX’ component detection on Win11 22H2
Components: Minor component removal package leftovers
UI: Resizing purely horizontaly would hide the left page navigation

February 17, 2023

2023.2.9145
Fix
Image: ESD compression could be skipped if processing boot.wim before install.wim in the same session
Components: Windows Media Player (legacy) leftovers
Components: Driver FOD package leftovers
Components: ‘Live Captions’ was not listed
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UI: Thanks for French (tistou77), Italian (clarensio), Korean (Redrabbit), Swedish (1FF)

February 14, 2023

2023.2.9128
New
‘Source’ wording replaced with ‘Image’ throughout
Image: ISO format reading support, fast in-memory listing of editions inside, without extraction
Image: ‘New edit’ functionality copies ISO or another directory content and establishes connection back to the reference image
– New edit of an image directory marks it as a read-only reference
– Loading an edition from a read-only image (ISO or ref dir) automatically creates a new edit first
Image: ‘Edit cache’ functionality, a workspace location for storing new edits
– Change edit cache location in Settings
– List grouped on the Image page, always shows all folders in that location, delete instead of forget
Image: ‘Connect’/’Disconnect’ context menu options for changing references between ISOs and image directories
Image: ‘Revert’ functionality mirrors the reference image connected to an edit, only the differences are copied or deleted
Image: ‘Replace reference’ functionality mirrors an edit back to the reference image directory, only the differences are copied or deleted
Image: ‘Rename’ functionality for ISOs and image directories
Image: ‘Delete’ functionality for edits, also reused for deleting editions (previously only on right-click)
Image: ‘Delete’ and ‘Revert’ all image edits right-click option on ‘Edit cache’ group
Image: Server 2016 Nano WIM load support
Settings: ‘Download updates over metered connection’ Windows Update option
Components: ‘Live Captions’ and ‘Voice Access’ Win11 22H2 detection (22H1 placeholder)
UI: ‘Reset warnings’ option, re-enables all the prompts that were set not to show again
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General: Changed tool versioning to Year.Month.Revision
Image: Add multiple single-file images at once
Components: ‘Media Foundation’ 32-bit removal changes to support Winamp
Components: Detached Display Broker and Display Enhancement service, so that the lower one can be removed
Drivers: ForceUnsignedDrivers settings.xml option for allowing unsigned driver integration (reverted to the previous default)
UI: ‘Backup preset and log on the target’ option moved to the tool settings
UI: Removed ‘Blue’ theme
UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Traditional (Matt), French (tistou77), German (Cartman586)
Fix
Components: ‘Media Foundation’ 32-bit leftovers if 64-bit version kept
Settings: ‘Replace Command Prompt with Windows PowerShell in the start button right-click menu’ returned on Win11+
Updates: Microsoft.WindowsNotepad_11.2209.6.0 integration in Win11 was wrongly detecting as already existing

January 17, 2023

2.3.9.9039
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Components: ‘OOBE’ removal leftovers with newer updates
Components: ‘Windows Media Player’ File Explorer thumbnails generation moved to Codecs removal
Components: ‘MobilePC Sensors’ not needed for the Xbox app
Settings: ‘Cloud optimized content’ option includes more policie
UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77), Chinese Simplified (Gskening), Romanian (Coman)
Fix
Updates: .NET Framework 3.5 enabling on an isolated WIM file (outside of ISO file structure)
was causing Windows Update redownloading an already integrated cumulative update
Updates: Retry download updates list after blocked connection without resetting the tool
UI: Select All button on Updates page wasn’t working without first clicking on a grid

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