New
Image: Windows 11 26H2 Preview support
Image: Preset list now includes found image backups from the listed image folders
Components: 'App Overlay Platform' 25H2.9278+
Components: 'Windows User Experience - AOT' 25H2.9278+
Components: 'Windows AI Isolation Session' 25H2.9278+
Settings: 'Updates during setup' - helps skip the OOBE update screen
Settings: 'App install control' - warn or block apps installed from outside the Store
Settings: 'CPU vulnerability mitigations (Spectre, Meltdown)'
Settings: 'Local Security Authority protection'
Settings: 'Microsoft Defender cloud protection (MAPS)'
Settings: 'Microsoft vulnerable driver blocklist'
Settings: 'Privacy settings prompt on first sign-in' option (Win10 1809+)
UI: 'Threads' Menu-Settings option caps worker threads, Automatic by default
UI: 'Show info bar' Menu-Settings option
UI: 'Automatically save preset' Menu-Settings option
UI: Animations shown if the host Windows animation setting is turned on
Upgrade
Components: 'Active Setup Engine' split from Internet Explorer, 32 and 64-bit
64-bit needed for RunonceEx, 32-bit needed for DirectX Web Installer
Components: 'Targeted Content' removable on Win11
Components: 'Codecs' group under API & Runtime
Components: Added view filters 'Preset (All/Modified)', Apps (User/System)
Components: File system drivers marked as Keep and protected by Recommended compatibility
Settings: Tweaks reorganized a bit, redundant prefixes turned into groups
UI: Menu-Settings dialog redesigned into a list
UI: Menu-Send logs dialog upgraded, more overview what to send for debugging
UI: 'Darker' visual style changed to 'Black', now a true black page with shadows off
UI: Every page's Reset button gains a 'Reset to preset' target, off the loaded preset
UI: Light theme contrast improvements
UI: 'Show descriptions as columns' now covers Settings pages and Scheduled tasks
Presets: [UpdateCache] prefix for cached updates in the preset to make it more portable
Presets: The list refreshes on its own when the presets directory content changes
Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77), Hungarian (John), Italian (clarensio), Chinese Traditional (Matt), Russian (RDS)
Fix
Apply: Unnecessary Explorer open after live edits
Unattended: Computer name [Prompt] during setup
UI: Crash when the unattended disk template switches EFI to MBR
Command-line: /CreateIso after /Load no longer hangs
Components: Removal counter follows every toggle, including Space and Delete
Settings: A service set to start on first boot is restored, DNS Client included