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Release 0.9.8.5 ​

since 0.9.8.5

Purpose ​

This page names what changed in Setup Foundry 0.9.8.5 compared with the previous release. During the beta every release is installed fresh.

Notes ​

New ​

  • Contact support: in Home and Pro you can now write to us straight from the program, with "Contact support" in the error dialog or "Write a request" in Settings under "Report errors". Before anything is sent you see exactly what reaches us; we only reply by email if you tick the box, and then to the address of your customer account.
  • Until now every picture carried a logo, yours or ours. "Remove logo" in the Image Preview leaves it out.
  • Hyper-V without the helper: the Machines and Test Machine areas now read the state of Hyper-V directly and only fall back to the elevated helper when they lack the permission to do so. If the permission is missing altogether, the card says "No permission: action not possible." instead of showing an empty field.
  • In Settings under "Tools and Prerequisites" and in the setup wizard there are two switches: one adds your account to the "Hyper-V Administrators" group, the other lets that group attach virtual disks. "Apply", or "Next" in the wizard, puts both into effect with a single Windows prompt; in Free and Home the switches are visible but locked.

Changed ​

  • A medium now carries only the programs you ticked in the profile; until now, programs from the bundles that you had not picked came along as well. The target PC installs exactly these programs, without asking.
  • The Image Preview only generates pictures when you click "Save", now including the background colour; closing the window or pressing Esc discards your changes. On the background picture page in Free and Home the program asks once after you pick a file, and the "Generating output images" card only appears once generation actually starts.
  • Removing preinstalled apps now removes only the preinstalled copy: new user accounts no longer get the app, but Windows can bring it back for a single account through an update or the Store. A line below the app list says so.
  • The setup wizard is quieter: its steps show only their title, and the summary says "Done", "Met" or "Partly met" instead of numbers.
  • The Software and Policies pages open faster on the first visit, the frame is no longer redrawn while a page is built, and viewing a page no longer writes anything to disk.
  • The general terms, licence terms and privacy policy are now dated 12 October 2026. On first start the program shows the "Updated terms" card once, listing what has changed since you last agreed; "Agree" accepts the new version, "Close" keeps the previous one, and your choice under "Report errors" stays as it is.
  • New in the general terms and the licence terms: how we may change the terms in future and how you can object when we do.
  • New in the general terms: what we change the software for, that this costs you nothing, and when you can end the contract free of charge after a change that noticeably affects you.
  • The privacy policy now covers support requests: what is sent, what we use it for and when we delete it.
  • What happens to your data when you buy, and that we keep order records for ten years, is now set out in the privacy policy on our website; the privacy policy in the program points there.
  • Almost all texts in the interface have been revised: shorter and clearer, in German and English. The content and the legal texts are unchanged.

Fixed ​

  • After a restart the program selects the profile you last worked with again. Until now every start fell back to the first profile, and a medium could be built for that profile without you noticing.
  • Programs that need other packages, such as KeePassXC needing a runtime library, no longer make media creation fail. The medium carries those packages, the target PC installs them before the program, and MSI packages get the install options the package itself specifies.
  • Saving the administrator password no longer reports an error although it was saved, and an empty field no longer overwrites a stored password. If the password of the setup account is missing, the program creates a new one when it writes the answer file instead of giving up.
  • Choosing a background colour in the Image Preview no longer freezes the program; until now the colour picker and the progress window blocked each other and neither could be closed. If saving or generating the pictures fails, the Image Preview and the pictures page are released again instead of staying stuck behind the progress window.
  • Progress windows can no longer be closed with the X while their job is running. Until now the window vanished mid-job and the next progress update ended in an error.
  • During the automatic setup the target PC is locked again: the setup account locks its session right after signing in and at the start of every phase. Until now the session stayed open and anyone at the device could see the setup account's desktop.

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 expires on its end date.
  • The dialog "Licence error" after a chargeback appears only once the licence server sends the reason for the block. Until then a block stays silent until the next start, as before.

See also ​