Changelog

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

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  • 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
Fix
  • 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)
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  • 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)
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  • 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 noticable 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
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  • 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
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  • 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