Changelog

New features, fixes, and upgrades. Full version history from 2014 to present.

New
  • Settings: Global filters in toolbar across all Settings tabs, also hides tabs without results
  • Settings: Options now support resetting to preset or image baseline, with indicator on the leftFilled dot when the value matches the loaded preset, hollow ring when it differs, also supported in filters
  • Command-line: /Save, /Discard, /SaveFormat, /SaveDes, /Forget, and /RemoveEditions verbs and process exit codesCheck Docs or ntlite.exe /? for more info
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  • Command line: Reworked /? help into a sectioned, themed dialog
  • UI: Image page and Create ISO improvents
  • UI: Image-load warning/error prompts merged into one tabbed dialog instead of repeated popups per type
  • UI-Translation: Thanks for Hungarian (John), Russian (RDS)
Fix
  • Create ISO: Unchecking 'Prompt for any key before booting' regression
New
  • Image: Action workflow window, unifying Convert/Export/Remove edition/Create ISO, allowing chained operationsApply-like options instead of context submenus
  • Image: Windows Recovery Environment group listing recovery images on the host, including in hidden partitions
  • Settings: 'Start menu - All apps' enable/disable options
  • Settings: 'Start menu - All apps view mode' start menu tweak (Win11 24H2+)
  • Settings: 'NTFS 8.3 file name creation' option
  • Settings: 'Visual Effects' with template selection added to the Settings-VisualsGroup of tweaks representing Windows System - Performance Options - Visual Effects
  • Updates: 'Windows App Runtime 2.0.*' added to the update list
  • Cmdline: CLI upgraded, ntlite.exe /? for more info
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  • Settings: Tweaks grouped if depending on the master switch, e.g. All apps list, User tile, Power button, RDP, Storage Sense
  • Settings: Graphics and rendering tweaks moved to the new Visuals tab
  • Components: Component page toolbar checked-Filter simplified
  • Components: Refreshed Windows Preview support, adapting some removals
  • UI: Progress bar improvements
  • UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77), Italian (clarensio), Swedish (1FF), Vietnamese (Vu Anh Vu)
Fix
  • Updates: KB5089573 support
  • Components: Biometric service and Accessibility Tools OSK leftovers in certain combinations
  • UI: Host refresh wizard crash
Upgrade
  • Settings: Tweaks Events split into its own tab
  • Settings: Events groups now have enable/disable all
  • UI: All pages Reset buttons now have confirmation popups
  • UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Traditional (Matt), French (tistou77), Hungarian (John), Italian (clarensio), Russian (RDS)
Fix
  • Unattended: Timezone setting compatibility in certain cases for non-English ISOs
  • Updates: Update downloader file-matching to downloaded cache, recent regression
Upgrade
  • UI: Combined Edit Name and Description into a single dialog
  • UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Traditional (Matt), French (tistou77), Hungarian (John), Italian (clarensio)
Fix
  • Settings: Boot.wim apply was skipped (recent regression)
Upgrade
  • Image: Latest Windows Preview builds (Dev/Canary, e.g. build 29580)
  • Updates: Preview cumulative updates now classified as Optional and checked by default
  • Updates: Checkpoint KB5043080 dependency note from KB titles moved to dynamic update analysis instead
  • Updates: Update cache match tolerates renamed files
Fix
  • Updates: Removed 'Normal Defer' mode, use 'ResetBase Defer' instead (solves Win10 error 87)Defer only on images, 1607+
New
  • Components: Show/Hide filter in the toolbar (All / Checked / Unchecked)
  • Components: Microsoft.AIFabric.CBS.1.6 (25H2 CU)
Upgrade
  • Updates: Renamed 'Clean updates backup' to 'Optimize updates', and separated 'Defer' options
  • UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77), Hungarian (John), Russian (RDS), Italian (clarensio)
Fix
  • Updates: Multi-edition update integration registry retry prompt
  • Updates: Update installer wizard crash (recent regression)
  • Components: Win10 Telemetry removal setup BSOD
  • Drivers: Hardware lists driver matching improvements
Fix
  • Components: 'Legacy symbolic links' removal
  • Updates: 'Unload registry failed' retry popup during parallel integration
Upgrade
  • UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77), Vietnamese (Vu Anh Vu), Italian (clarensio)
Upgrade
  • UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Traditional (Matt), French (tistou77), Hungarian (John), Italian (clarensio), Russian (RDS)
Fix
  • UI: Minor fixes
New
  • Updates: 'Clean Apps' option, removes obsolete duplicate AppX/MSIX versions, including frameworks/runtimes and unregistered/lost apps
  • Updates: .NET Language Pack detection and proper sorting, fixes Win10 integration error in combination
  • Presets: Support for in-file edit ApplyOptions-Commands-PostApply for executing commands on a host after applying, before saving the imageSee commented placeholder in a saved preset with a text editor. Useful for manual additions to the image via scripts before saving
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  • Updates: Toolbar extraction options split into Parallel and Smart Cache
  • UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Traditional (Matt), French (tistou77), Hungarian (John), Italian (clarensio), Russian (RDS), Vietnamese (Vu Anh Vu)
Fix
  • Components: 'Live Caption' and 'Voice Access' leftovers if Accessibility kept
  • Components: .NET WCF removal leftovers
  • Image: was keeping reg hives loaded after image load while tool is running, blocking other DISM sessions to the same mount
  • UI: Improved responsiveness, especially during Apply
New
  • Components: 'AI Component Management' (25H2 CU)
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  • UI-Translation: Thanks for Hungarian (John), Italian (clarensio), Russian (RDS), Vietnamese (Vu Anh Vu)
Fix
  • Updates: MSIX integration in certain host-image combinations had error 1781, recent regression
New
  • Components: 'Accessibility' - Braille (added by 25H2 CU)
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  • Updates: Faster update extraction utilizing more threads
  • General: Faster file deletion, most noticeable when deleting large directories
  • Drivers: Host Import now picks the latest version of the same driver, does not duplicate
  • Drivers: Hardware list remembers scrolling position on driver changes for easier tracking
  • UI: Improved cleanup progress on exit, with cancel support
  • UI-Translation: Thanks for Portugues-Brasil (Igor)
Fix
  • Updates: MSIX/APPX integration/install error 87 on pre-1903 targets
  • Components: Recheck/uncheck sub-components form the prompt
  • Drivers: Improved hardware list matching, detecting compatible drivers previously missed
  • Drivers: Host Import architecture ARM vs AMD 64-bit on some INFs
  • UI: Duplicate Remove/Export items in right-click drivers context menu
New
  • Settings: 26H1+ 'File Explorer - Show Recommended section' option
Upgrade
  • UI-Translation: Auto-Language translation improvements
  • UI-Translation: Thanks for Italian (clarensio), Russian (RDS), French (tistou77), Chinese Traditional (Matt), Hungarian (John), Vietnamese (Vu Anh Vu)
  • General: Backend/Server adaptations for feature expansions
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  • Image: Improved Windows 11 build 29550 support
  • UI: License dialog simplified, especially for renewals and upgrades
  • UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Traditional (Matt), French (tistou77), Hungarian (John), Italian (clarensio), Russian (RDS), Vietnamese (Vu Anh Vu)
Fix
  • Image: Reverted WimLib to v1.14.4, some people reported issues during ESD compression with v1.14.5
Upgrade
  • Settings: Added reset button to individual changed rows and groups
  • UI: Improved title bar colors and minor fixes
  • UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Traditional (Matt), French (tistou77), Hungarian (John), Italian (clarensio), Russian (RDS), Vietnamese (Vu Anh Vu)
Fix
  • Settings: 'Display icons instead of thumbnails' tweak logic was swapped
  • UI: Toolbar actions needing double-click for some selected rows, recent regression
  • Components: WinSxS removal was keeping core printing drivers even if Host Refresh compatibility was turned off
New
  • Image: 26H1 support, build 28000, also added to the updates list
  • Image: Windows Preview Canary build 29531 support
  • Components: 'Setup Recovery Data'
  • Components: 'Sysmon'
  • Components: 'CTL3D (ctl3d32.dll) 32-bit'
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  • UI: Various improvements to the UI
  • UI: Auto-translating NTLite UI languages which were not updated for 5+ months
  • Components: 'Local Security Policy Editor' 32-bit split
  • Components: .NET Framework ASP.NET removal leftovers
  • Tools: 7-zip v26.00, wimlib v1.14.5
  • General: License agreement updated, more precisely written, same principles
Fix
  • Apply: Reapply tasks was missing Features and Post-setup (After Logon) propagation options
  • Settings: 'Digitally sign communications - Server' option save to preset fixed
  • Updates: 'Optimize Appx' tagged as only for offline images current session packages, per Microsoft design
  • Scheduled Tasks: Toolbar-Reset button was not working
  • Scheduled Tasks: Blocked task removals 'UsbCeip' and 'Scheduled' as they hang setup at 'Please wait', removing them with the tied Component is working
New
  • Image: Edition changer, right-click - Edit - Edition
  • Unattended: Unattended inputs for 'Support App URL', 'Support Provider', 'Trade-in URL', 'Recycle URL'
Upgrade
  • UI: 'Services' and 'Extra Services' pages combined into the Settings page tabs
  • Components: 'Display Policy Service" removes more into a 32-bit split
  • Components: 'Token Broker' and 'Capability Access Manager' 32-bit split
  • Components: 'Legacy games' compatibility option
  • UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77), Hungarian (John), Italian (clarensio), Russian (RDS)
Fix
  • Updates: MSIX Apply - Reapply propagation fix, it was only applied to the main image
  • UI: Multi instance support fix