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Release 0.9.8.3 ​

since 0.9.8.3

Purpose ​

This page names what changed in Setup Foundry 0.9.8.3 compared with the previous release. During the beta every release is installed fresh.

Notes ​

New ​

  • If the payment for a licence is charged back, the application shows the dialog "Licence error" at the next check, closes, and runs as Free after the next start. The menu bar names the reason and the contact route. Free remains fully usable.

  • When saving in the image editor, a "Please wait" window shows the progress with remaining time and the three steps; before, the application seemed to hang.

  • When a machine is created whose medium does not exist yet, the same window shows two bars: first the medium, then the machine; before, the machine's bar seemed to stand still.

  • A USB stick without a hardware ID is reported before the erase prompt ("USB stick without an ID"); in all editions it can still be written after a confirmation ("Use anyway"). Before, the run failed only after erasing.

  • If the installation tool on the stick does not start, the stick writes a file install_assist_startfehler.txt with the exit code, machine data and the tool's origin and shows the report in the window. Please attach this file to a bug report.

  • The setup wizard has a new step "Report errors" after "Legal": one question, agree or decline. The "Telemetry" step is gone.

  • The "Legal" page starts with the card "Consents": a switch "Report errors to us" and the date the consent was given. In Settings the same switch sits in the section "Report errors" above "Updates".

From the interim release 0.9.8.2, which never reached testers and arrives with this release for the first time:

  • The ISO and VHD cards on the installation page show when a medium no longer matches the profile: shortly after you save a change, the ring turns orange with "!" and the bottom line reads "Changes require rebuilding". Undo the change or rebuild the medium and the card turns green again. Once after this update, all existing ISO and VHD media show orange because their old build record does not know the new check parts.
  • The menu bar shows a button to the left of the edition: "Upgrade" in Free opens the purchase page in your browser; "Renew" when the licence has expired opens the licence window.
  • Licences in the new format are renewed at every start while the chargeback period is running. If the renewal fails, the menu bar shows an orange notice with the button "Renew licence now".
  • The application accepts licence files in the new format, carrying an issuer certificate that is checked against three stored roots. Existing licence files remain valid unchanged. This becomes visible only once the licence server issues the new format.
  • The software catalog shipped with the application is dated 22 September 2026 and carries a valid signature; the previous snapshot was about two months old. New: hovering over a package shows a short description, in German where the publisher provides one, otherwise in English.

Changed ​

  • The application no longer sends usage statistics, only error reports, and those only with consent. Anyone who had "full" set before is now on "off".

  • "Refresh" in the licence window runs on click even without consent; the click is your action. The button "Open consent settings…" leads to "Legal".

  • The application no longer fetches a beta licence silently in the background. In the beta channel the About dialog shows the link "Get beta license" instead of "Add licence…".

  • The word "device access" no longer appears in any text.

  • The licence window is leaner: the beta button and the separator line are gone, and an (i) to the left of the edition says before you click what "Activate" sends: code, random installation identifier and program version.

  • The "Create USB stick" card no longer shows an erase warning; the "Needed" line includes the 2 GB boot partition, the bar reaches the end, and a stick that is too small reads "Too small, … missing". The erase prompt warns in one red line that all data on the stick will be irreversibly lost, and asks for the word "delete" instead of the drive letter; case does not matter.

  • The licence is now also checked at the first start of a new program version, not only once a week.

  • Error reports and the licence check state the full version number so that builds can be told apart. Until now only "0.9.8" arrived.

  • The English EU legal texts consistently write "licence". The EULA names the consequences of a chargeback in clause 11.3.

  • The notice in the licence window, as long as no consent is given, now names the three exceptions that run without consent: checking a purchased licence, asking for new program versions without any identifier, and what you trigger yourself.

  • The texts shown when you withdraw consent say what is still sent afterwards and what is not. Activating and deactivating on your click remain possible.

  • All legal texts inside the application carry the version of 28 September 2026; clause 2.2 of the privacy policy now describes error reports only, no telemetry levels. At the first start the application shows one card to acknowledge the new version.

  • The "Autoupdate" step in the wizard and the "Updates" section in Settings are hidden until the update feature really updates. Until then a new version is installed over the old one.

  • The privacy policy states ten years of retention for invoices and licences instead of seven.

  • When all activation seats are taken, the application names the way to reset them in the customer account, with a link to the guide.

  • Licence files from the old folder of an earlier installation are no longer read; the licence is activated again with its code.

  • If an installation medium is still attached to a test machine, the application asks once whether to eject it, and ejects it; before, the machine was shut down, and sometimes only a raw error remained.

  • The installed machine ejects the installation medium itself at the administrator's first sign-in.

  • A red error line in the footer disappears at the next click; before, it stayed until the application was restarted.

From the interim release 0.9.8.2, which never reached testers and arrives with this release for the first time:

  • The test machine now detects every change that affects the installation medium: software selection, Windows source, services, tasks, images, drivers, naming scheme, Office, security settings, policies and credentials. Several of these were missing before, and the machine silently started from an old medium. After this update, every existing medium counts as out of date once and is rebuilt at the next machine start.
  • The licence window has been reworked: "Import licence file" is gone, the licence arrives as a code or pasted contents. The buttons Activate, Refresh, Deactivate and Close are centred, and the header shows edition, holder, number and validity on two lines. The program asks before deactivating.
  • In the Help menu, the entry "Legal & Licenses…" is now called "Legal". The entry "License…" stays.
  • The installation page has been tidied up: the media cards share the grid of the header area, the path fields for ISO and VHD are gone, the folder button now sits in the header line below the start button, and the help text at the bottom has been removed.
  • The policy package for drive encryption no longer prescribes a key length. Windows chooses the method itself, normally XTS-AES.
  • In the policy editor, duplicate explanations now tell apart the two values they describe, such as experiments and preview builds, client and server, web search and connected search.
  • The folder the application works in is called "work folder" everywhere. The "Prerequisites" step says "administrator rights" instead of a technical term.

Fixed ​

  • The row of buttons in the licence window was cut off on the right. It now fits the window in both languages.

  • A licence whose kind the application no longer knows is now treated like a beta licence and makes no background contact without consent. Activating again restores the kind; deactivating is not required for that.

  • The built program took an old copy of the installation tool from the computer, if one was lying there, instead of the bundled one; a stick could carry a tool from August that stopped on the start screen with error 255. Now the bundled tool always goes onto the stick, and an origin file next to it names date and checksum.

  • A licence file next to the program was only found when the program was started by double-click. Now it is always found.

From the interim release 0.9.8.2, which never reached testers and arrives with this release for the first time:

  • After a finished media build, the card stayed at 95 percent and the clock kept running although the medium was done. The card now switches to "Done" and the clock stops. This affected every media build, not only the one via the test machine.
  • The setup runner now reads the return value of an installation step reliably. Steps that finished very quickly were occasionally reported as failed by mistake.
  • Button labels and icon buttons sit centred again. The labels were two pixels too low in every button.
  • Disabling Recall in the privacy package now takes effect. The rule used to sit under a key that Windows does not read for this purpose.
  • When downloading individual ticked programs, the tick was only shown as "cached" after the next click. It now appears immediately, as with the bulk download.
  • When choosing the Windows source, the application reported a fallback to the default even when only one matching source existed. The message now appears only when several sources really qualify.

Known limitations ​

  • The application reports a new release but does not install it itself. Download and installation remain manual in this release.
  • The beta licence renews only while the switch "Report errors to us" is on. Without that consent it lapses on its expiry date.
  • The "Licence error" dialog after a chargeback only appears once the licence server sends the reason for the lock. Until then a lock stays silent until the next start, as before.

See also ​