Changelog – NTLite

July 6, 2021

2.1.2.8074

New

Settings: Win11 ‘TPM and SecureBoot setup requirement’ option
(Make sure to apply to boot.wim, read description)
Updates: Windows 11 Express Update CAB+PSF (Patch Storage File) integration support
Components: ‘Windows Animation Manager’ 32 and 64 bit removals, 64-bit needed on Win8.1 and 10
General: /AppendPreset switch option, to load additional common settings from command-line
General: /ThreadMax switch option, to limit maximum CPU usage from command-line

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Components: ‘Windows PushToInstall Service’ split from Store, removal does not break Store
Components: ‘Cumulative Update cache’ always listed for removal as an placeholder for integration in the same session
Post-setup: CompactOS template moved to User box, and added the LZX option for deeper compression
Updates: Simplified update cache subdirectory names for Win10 (“10.0.”->”10.”). Supports old paths if pre-exist
UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Simplified (Gskening), French (tistou77), Italian (gabritb01), Polish (KrzysioZ)

Fix

Components: ‘Microsoft.AAD.BrokerPlugin’ detached from ‘Azure Active Directory’, only former needed for Store sign-in
Components: Telemetry removal hanging setup for older Win10 versions, same like disable tweak was doing
Source: Improved status bar Windows version display for loaded Server editions
Presets: Not lowercasing preset file paths any more, it was a regression since directory subscription feature
Updates: Win10 20H2 update list auto-select

June 27, 2021

2.1.2.8047

Fix

Settings: ‘News and interests – Taskbar widget’ setting would not stick on images
Settings: Win10 1903 and older Telemetry Security/Disable option was hanging ‘Getting ready’ setup stage
Components: Boot.wim removal of ‘Windows Component Database’ could prompt a locked file error
Components: WMI Core 32-bit was not removable if 64-bit version kept

June 22, 2021

2.1.2.8033

New

Source: ‘Mounted Images’ grouping right-click Unload option for parallel unload of all mounted images at once
Source: Preliminary Windows 11 build 21996 support, nothing official for now
Source: Windows 10 21H2 build 21390 support
Source: Windows 10 build 19044 as 21H2 support
Source: Server 2022 20348 support
Components: ‘Projected File System (ProjFS)’
Settings: ‘I/O request packet stack size’
Settings: ‘Meet Now – taskbar widget’
Settings: ‘News And Interests – taskbar widget’
Settings: ‘Launch folder windows in a separate process’

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Source: Automatic boot.wim tasks now separated in its own thread to not hang UI
Source: Shortened auto-saved preset name
Components: Win7 Natural Language 32-bit split
Components: ‘Servicing Stack’ removal now includes pkgmgr
Settings: Telemetry – Security setting expanded to include Disabling settings
UI: Source page now auto-scrolls to loaded image folder
UI: Improved multi-instancing of NTLite, processing 10 or more at once without conflicts
UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77), Polish (KrzysioZ), German (Cartman)

Fix

UI: Apply list was sometimes unclickable during feature config and integration
UI: Automatic update checking could pause source load for a bit
UI: Components state Reset from toolbar in some cases could leave stuck components
UI: Post-cancel, e.g. mounting, Source page editions were not refreshed automatically
Source: Better unmount support for stuck images
Components: WinUSB service needed reinstallation after removing deployed Portable Devices or SmartCard
Components: Win10 1709 Scanner removal was breaking MMC Task Scheduler window
Components: Win10 1709 now lists Mail if just Address book found
Components: MMC snappins components registry leftovers cleaned
Components: Cleaning of Windows\Microsoft.NET\assembly\GAC_MSIL empty directories
Components: Remove Reinstalls leftovers
Updates: Enqueued (download and integrate in a single session) cumulative+servicing combo pack integration could have failed
Updates: NTLite_DISM log is restarted per session, not on each integration
Updates: Downloader now recognizes and separates unsupported Windows versions, instead of selecting the first available

May 20, 2021

2.1.1.7917

New

Integrate: Package, Driver and Registry directory subscription functionality (Add – Directory – Subscribe)
(Useful for a more dynamic presets, directory location dictates which items to queue on refresh)
Components: ‘Microsoft Edge WebView’ (currently present on Win10 21H2)
Components: ‘Microsoft Edge Update’ split from ‘Edge (Chromium)’
(Note for presets with existing Edge Chromium removal to uncheck this new component)
Source: Server 2022 Preview support

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Post-Setup-User: Automatic pure runonce switch for images without Internet Explorer (no runonceex, e.g. Server Core)
Registry: Registry page got a simple add Directory option to align with other pages, this is in addition to the new Subscribe
Updates: PPKG remove option, from Hotfix page Existing list
Components: Search includes component description
UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77), Italian (gabritb01), Polish (KrzysioZ)

Fix

Post-Setup: User tasks preset loading might prompt non-existing file
Post-Setup: Powershell script integration
Udpates: PPKG integration regression fix (missing file error)
Updates: .NET 3.5 language part existing annoying message removed on Add – Template – .NET 3.5 insertion
UI: Apply page crash on opening
UI: Update Host from Check Updates enqueue could loop

April 27, 2021

2.1.0.7862

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Source: Win10 21H2 build 21364 support (license date updated)
Components: Improved Server 2019 cumulative updates compatibility after component removals
(removals on Server still not officially supported, but please do report any issues)
UI-Translation: Thanks for Farsi (Mona mon), Polish (KrzysioZ)

Fix

General: Crypto-Pro was causing a tool crash on network connection
Updates: Integrating latest (CU+SSU bundle) updates into the Win10 19042.572 image was failing in a certain situation
Components: ‘Manual feature repository’ removal had external ISO files leftovers in certain newer images

April 3, 2021

2.1.0.7845

New

Components: Compatibility option for Discord, no need to keep QoS, protects small inactive 32-bit portion

Fix

Post-setup: VMWare Tools template regression
UI: Version had a beta tag leftover from the merge

March 30, 2021

2.1.0.7840

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Source: Win10 21H2 build 21343 support (license date updated)
Components: Edge Chromium removal now also supports pre-deployed versions in newer Win10 images
Registry: Supporting Components path in integrated REG files
UI-Translation: Thanks for Arabic (thamermousa), Chinese Traditional (Matt), Dutch (René), French (tistou77),
Greek (Soulimiotis), Hungarian (József), Portugues-Brasil (Igor), Russian (Den-s), Spanish (Oleada), Ukrainian (Ihor)

Fix

Components: Improved cumulative update compatibility after removals for Win10 1709->1809

v2.1b merge

New

Post-setup: First user logon actions support, a separate box for the user-dependent post-setup entries
Updates: Provisioning Package (PPKG) integration support
Components: ‘Collaboration Data Objects for Windows (CDOSYS)’
Components: ‘Device Center (Devices and Printers)’
Components: ‘Extensible wizard (XWizards Framework)’
Components: ‘File Explorer 32-bit’
Components: ‘Folder Redirection’
Components: ‘Font Previewer 32 bit’
Components: ‘Function Discovery’
Components: ‘Host Bus Adapter (HBA) API’
Components: ‘Kerberos Client 32 bit’
Components: ‘Network Explorer’
Components: ‘OpenGL API 32 and 64 bit’
Components: ‘Rich Text Edit Control (MsftEdit) 32-bit’
Components: ‘Share Host 32 bit’
Components: ‘Task Manager 32 bit’
Components: ‘Taskbar popups (PC Shell Tray Flyouts)’
Components: ‘Windows Audit’
Components: ‘Windows Internet (WinINet)’ 32-bit and partial 64-bit
Components: ‘Windows Web App (WWA) Host 32 and 64 bit’

March 9, 2021

2.0.0.7820

New

Updates: Cumulative Update multi-pack with integrated servicing stack support
(no need to add servicing stacks on 2004/9 and 21H1 from KB4601382\5000802 CU onwards)

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Components: Split 32-bit versions of Wordpad and Paint
Components: Renamed IE HTML Viewer to HTML Viewer (Legacy) and moved to System components
Components: Renamed Edge HTML Viewer to HTML Viewer and moved to System components
UI-Translation: Thanks for Portugues-Brasil (Igor)

Fix

Components: Tasks Sheduler 32 bit added to Office compatibility option
Components: Win8.1 wininetplugin.dll missing if removing ‘Easy Transfer’
Components: Remote Desktop Server removal leftovers
Updates: Dynamic updates should not be listed for deployed images
Updates: Dynamic Update architecture detection independent from filename (except Win10 1607)

February 18, 2021

2.0.0.7797

New

Updates: Dynamic Update for Windows Setup (Sources) integration and update list support

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Source: Recognize Win10 21H1 as build 19043

Fix

Source: Windows 10 Enterprise 2009 could have been displayed as Professional in status bar
Features: Enabled features haven’t been colored properly in all cases
Components-Win7: Performance Counters removal would break setup if IIS kept
Components-Win7: WinSAT was removing Control Panel shortcut to Disk Cleanup
Public release

February 2, 2021

2.0.0.7784

Fix

Settings: Automatic driver update mode when set to Never
Source: Loading deployed image registry access error
Components: SFC fix if removing Printing and keeping Remote Desktop
Components-20H2: Edge Chromium removal in certain combinations, component now merged with Edge.Stable app

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UI-Translation: Thanks for Polish (KrzysioZ)

January 23, 2021

2.0.0.7770

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Components: HyperV now can be removed in a HyperV Guest virtual machine
UI-Translation: Thanks for Hungarian (József)

Fix

Components: ‘Internet Explorer’ removal in Windows 7 and 8.1 was breaking MMC/MSC pages
Components-2004: RDP Server removal leftovers
Components-21H1: Telemetry Client removal breaking Internet Explorer in Win10 21H1 Preview
Unattended: The new edition prompt autoselection method needed an adjustment if removing editions in the same session

January 12, 2021

2.0.0.7756

New

Source: Windows 10 Insider Preview 21286 21H2 (and 20279 21H1) support
Unattended: Prompt edition selection option (Dual Architecture not used for this any longer, and auto partitioning works if prompted)
Tweaks: Feature Updates safeguards (Upgrade block)

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Unattended: Automatic edition selection of the loaded image switched to a more compatible method
UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77)

Fix

Fix: Improved handling of existing image driver duplicates (Win7 load image prompts for existing drivers without names)
Fix: ‘Manual setup’ ISO files leftovers in latest Win10 versions