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Release 0.9.8.4 ​

since 0.9.8.4

Purpose ​

This page names what changed in Setup Foundry 0.9.8.4 compared with the previous release. Currently, every release is installed fresh.

Notes ​

New ​

  • Before it starts, the installation tool on the stick measures the boot mode (UEFI or BIOS), Secure Boot, TPM, memory and the disks, and shows the result in one line on the card. It picks the target disk itself from that measurement: an internal disk of at least 64 GB, never the stick and never a USB disk, the one with the lowest number if there are several. It prepares the disk itself, GPT with four partitions in the Microsoft layout, and only then hands over to Windows Setup. If its own preparation fails, it says so in one line and leaves the disk to Windows Setup instead of stopping. Until now "disk 0" was taken unchecked, even when the computer gave that number to the stick or to a disk that was too small.
  • If the computer was booted from the stick in BIOS mode, the tool stops before it touches any disk and says what to do: restart and choose the stick's UEFI entry in the boot menu. Windows 11 is installed in UEFI mode only.
  • A report file install_assist_befund.txt on the stick records the measurements: boot mode, Secure Boot, TPM, memory, the chosen target disk, date, program version and the result of partitioning. It contains no serial numbers, no hardware or partition identifiers, no MAC addresses and no computer or model name, and it is never part of an error report. Please include it when you report a problem.
  • Windows Home or Pro per profile: the row of the selected Windows source now has a list of the editions the medium contains, and the profile stores the choice. The answer file then installs exactly that edition; existing profiles without a choice stay on Pro. If the choice does not match the source, media creation stops before it starts and says so.
  • Policies on Windows Home: Windows Home does not accept policy files. If a profile selects Home, Setup Foundry therefore also writes the package settings straight into the registry of the target computer. Values Windows rejects there are recorded as blocked and reported in the audit as "Blocked", not as a finding. A note on the packages says that Home is written directly; whether Windows Home also obeys every setting has not been verified for all of them.
  • In the Machines area, the Hyper-V status line has a button "Check now" that starts the check as a job; the permission prompt then comes from Windows. If it is declined, the line says "No permission: action not possible."

Changed ​

  • The legal texts are new: terms and conditions and licence terms in the Austrian version and in English, each dated with its release day. In German the application now shows the Austrian texts; the earlier version under German law is gone. Steidl IT is an Austrian company. The licence terms now contain the rules that so far only the pricing page stated: one licence for one person on up to two of their own computers; the Free edition may be passed on free of charge once 1.0 is released, during the beta only by invitation; and configurations made with the application may be adapted for your own and your customers' devices, but not used for competing products or published outside the application. The contact address in the terms is office@setupfoundry.com.

  • Anyone who has already agreed to the legal texts is not asked again. On the first start with the new texts the application shows the card "Updated terms" once: it names what changes and offers "Read", "Agree" and "Close". "Agree" accepts the new version; "Close" keeps the earlier version in force, and the card does not return for this version. As long as the new version is not accepted, the settings card shows "accepted on …, earlier version". Server contact and the licence now depend only on whether consent was ever given, not on the version. The "Report errors" consent has its own state and is not affected.

  • Explanatory sentences that decided nothing are gone: the Office line in the programs, the subtitles of the policy sections, the colour scheme sentence. The user list says "No users created yet" without the extra clause.

  • The image preview was rebuilt after eight findings: hints as (i) instead of default lines, buttons inside the boxes, equal box heights, two portrait examples, the button is called "Choose image", and the formats hint names examples instead of promises. The card "Current wallpaper" shows the logo also with your own image, as editor and medium do.

  • In the About window the "Website" link now opens setupfoundry.com. The properties of the installer and the package name Steidl IT GmbH as publisher.

  • The USB stick now boots in UEFI mode only. In the computer's boot menu, choose the entry "UEFI:" followed by the stick's name; an entry without "UEFI" no longer starts the stick. Reason: Windows 11 requires UEFI, and a start in BIOS mode used to lead to the manual page of Windows Setup, where the installation stopped. The VHD medium also boots in UEFI mode only; the ISO file still boots in both modes.

  • In the setup wizard, the question "Report errors (optional)" is now a box in the "Legal" step, below the consents to licence and terms. The separate "Report errors" step is gone. The box is not pre-selected, and "Next" works without it. A consent already given or declined stays as it is; you are not asked again.

  • In the Free, Home and Pro editions the interface now says "profile" where it used to say "customer". The delete dialog is called "Delete profile" and asks for the profile name to confirm; fourteen more texts say profile, among them the step "Providing profile data" during media creation and the settings for the working folder. The data itself does not change.

  • Fields that cannot be typed into directly now look that way: the display name of a Windows source and four path fields (ISO path in the sources and in the wizard, working folder in the wizard, project path in the settings) appear subdued at rest. For the display name, the pencil unlocks the field and Enter saves; the path fields are still filled by the button next to them.

Fixed ​

  • The installation tool on the stick shows the console window it was started from again when it ends, on every path. After handing over to Windows Setup it sits behind Setup and can be reached with Alt+Tab; if the tool ends with an error, it stays in the foreground so the failure report can be read. Until now the window stayed hidden after a Setup failure, and the target computer showed nothing but the wallpaper, with no way to the logs. The new documentation page "When Setup fails on the target computer" describes the way to the logs and the fallback for older sticks.
  • In the "Users" area, the fields for administrator and password shrank when the language "Deutsch — Mensch" or "English — Human" was selected. They now keep their width, and the long hint next to them wraps.
  • If building the installation medium for a new machine fails, no machine is created any more. The wait dialog stays open and shows the reason with a "Close" button, and the red message stays. In the process monitor, media creation and machine appear as one group. Until now the machine was created anyway and started with an old medium.
  • The progress bar in the footer now spans the full width of the page area. Until now it stayed 120 pixels wide and showed only the beginning of the progress.
  • The policies page opens in under a second instead of about five. Reading the templates reserved the full allowed size per file; it now reads in small chunks.

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 ​