Release 0.9.8.9

since 0.9.8.9

Purpose

This page names what changed in Setup Foundry 0.9.8.9 compared with the previous release. Currently, every release is installed fresh.

When you create a medium, the installation page has a new checkbox "Drivers for known network cards". If it is ticked, Setup Foundry downloads drivers for known problem network cards on your behalf, for example Intel I225/I226 (2.5 GbE), Marvell AQtion and MediaTek WLAN, from the Microsoft Update Catalog and places them on the medium. Windows Setup carries them over into the installed system. The checkbox is not ticked by default. The privacy policy names this download, and a notice on first start points to it. The drivers come from the manufacturers; no warranty is given for them.

Programs that winget installs with additional switches (for example Python for all users with an entry in PATH) are now set up on the target PC the same way as with an internet connection.
Programs that install only per user no longer run in the setup account. They are currently skipped (see Known limitations).
Exit codes of the manufacturers, for example "restart required", count as success.
The driver path in the answer file now sits in the pass that Windows reads.
The licence notice for the supplied package list (winget-pkgs, MIT licence) is now included.

The application reports a new release but does not install it itself. Download and installation remain manual in this release.
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.
Programs that install only per user (for example JetBrains Toolbox and Signal) are currently not set up by Setup Foundry without an internet connection.
Programs delivered as zip or portable, and Windows features, are still set up by Setup Foundry only with an internet connection.
The downloaded drivers are not tested on real hardware. Whether a driver is used is decided by Windows during setup.