What's new in WUView 0.6.0
Apr 4, 2024
- Changes:
- New: Slovenian language translation #69
- Updated: Italian language translation #72 & #73
- Updated: Migrated to .NET 8 #71
- Updated: Migrated Material Design in XAML to version 5.0.0
- Updated: Upgraded Octokit to version 10.0.0
- Updated: Upgraded NLog to version 5.2.8
- Updated: Minor UI tweaks
- Updated: Minor localization tweaks
- Added: Ctrl+Minus and Ctrl+Minus keyboard shortcuts to adjust size
- Fixed: Installer language issue
- Fixed: Date format on About page should now be localized correctly
- Fixed: Version number in title bar and About page will now show if the version is pre-release
- Change to .NET 8:
- Starting with version 0.10.0, Windows Update Viewer uses the .NET 8 desktop runtime.
- .NET 8 is the current Long Term Support release of .NET and will be supported until November 2026.
- If you can't upgrade to .NET 8, you can still use Windows Update Viewer by choosing one of the self-contained versions to download.
New in WUView 0.5.26 (Dec 15, 2023)
- Changes:
- Updated: German language updates #66 #67.
- Updated: Numerous other language file updates.
- Updated: If a newer version of Windows Update Viewer is found when checking for an updated release from the About page, clicking OK in the resulting message box will now close the application after navigating to the GitHub Releases page.
- Updated: NLog was updated to the latest version.
- New: Additional download and installation options. See below.
New in WUView 0.5.25 (Nov 9, 2023)
- Changes:
- Added: New Slovak language translation. #59 Thanks @Vaso73
- Added: Language file testing. See the wiki topic for details.
- Added: Export to JSON feature
- Updated: Polish language updates. #53
- Updated: Italian language updates. #54
- Updated: Bump Octokit to 8.1.1
- Updated: Bump NLog from 5.2.4 to 5.2.5 #55
- Updated: Bump CommunityToolkit.Mvvm from 8.2.1 to 8.2.2 #56
- Updated: Localization improvements for the installer. #57
- Updated: License format updated.
New in WUView 0.5.24 (Oct 5, 2023)
- Changes:
- Added: New Polish (pl-PL) language (#51).
- Updated: Updated Italian (it-IT) language. (#49 & #50)
- Fixed: Add the updates to Dutch (nl-NL) language that I forgot in the last update. (#32)
- Fixed: Fixed crash-on-start 🐛 introduced in v0.5.23. (#48)
- New: Added version number to installer title bar. (#45)
- Fixed: Fix set-output command deprecation warning. (#47)
- Updated: Changed About page layout to accommodate longer strings.
- Updated: Minor UI tweaks.
New in WUView 0.5.23 (Sep 28, 2023)
- Changes:
- Added: Catalan (ca-ES) language.
- Added: French (fr-FR) language.
- Added: German (de-DE) language.
- Updated: The installer is now multilingual. (#38)
- Updated: Updates to existing languages.
- Added: Option to show/hide Exit in the navigation bar. (#41)
- Updated: The default for the Use Windows display language option is now true (checked). This will only affect new installations. (#39)
- Updated: Updated Octokit dependency.
- Fixed: The Save Details to Text File menu item now uses the selected language.
- Updated: Minor UI tweaks.
- Updated the Contribute a Translation topic in the Wiki.
New in WUView 0.5.22 (Sep 22, 2023)
- Changes:
- Added: Dutch (nl-NL) language.
- Added: Italian (it-IT) language.
- Updated: Minor UI tweaks.
- Updated the Contribute a Translation topic in the Wiki.
New in WUView 0.5.21 (Sep 20, 2023)
- Changes:
- Updated: After a short hiatus, the multilingual user interface [#3] has returned. As of this release, the included languages as English (en-US), English (en-GB), and Español (es-ES). If you wish to contribute a translation, check out the Contribute a Translation topic in the Wiki.
- New: Translation related issues now have a dedicated issue type. Please use Translation Issues to contribute a translation or report a problem with a translation.
- Updated: The Update ID has been added to fields that are parsed in Exclude processing. This means that a single update can easily be excluded from being displayed.
- Updated: The UI size setting drop-down now shows the size as a percentage.
- Updated: Date Format and Language now have default values. (This affects new users only)
- Updated: Various other changes to correct typos and grammar and to make the application more efficient and handle errors more robustly.
New in WUView 0.5.20 (Aug 23, 2023)
- Changes:
- Updated: Removed the language translation files. For reasons I just can't figure out every time I add a language the resources.dll file is flagged as a trojan. If anyone has any insight as to what might be happening, please let me know.
New in WUView 0.5.19 (Aug 18, 2023)
- Changes:
- Fixed: More complete and robust error handling. Addresses #27.
- Updated: more work on localization. This release adds English (en-GB) and Spanish (es-ES) which are primarily for testing purposes and are by no means complete and may contain errors.
- Added: Language selection on Setting page. The selection UI may change in the future.
New in WUView 0.5.17 (Aug 6, 2023)
- Changes:
- Fixed: Added error handling for null update entry. Addresses #27.
- New: Started work on localization.
- Updated: Bumped Octokit to the latest version.
New in WUView 0.5.16 (Jul 23, 2023)
- New: Added an option to check the KB Number and Result during exclude processing. This option defaults to disabled. Enable it in Settings to check KB Number and Result for excluded strings.
- New: Added Windows Update Agent version numbers to the log file. May help in diagnosing problems.
- New: Added GitHub workflows.
- Updated: Updated dependencies.
- Updated: Updated the Bug Report Issue form.
- Updated: Minor changes to the ReadMe.txt file.
- Updated: Saving the best for last, updated README.md to announce that Windows Update Viewer is available in winget.
New in WUView 0.5.14 (Jun 30, 2023)
- Changes:
- Updated: Changed to installer to use shellexec when launching the application after setup is complete. This should fix the 740 errors.
- Fixed: Typo on the Settings page.
- Updated: Updated NLog and Octokit to latest releases.
- Updated: Minor changes to the README.md and Issue forms.
New in WUView 0.5.12 (Jun 29, 2023)
- Changes:
- Updated: Changed to installer to use shellexec when launching the application after setup is complete. This should fix the 740 errors.
- Fixed: Typo on the Settings page.
- Updated: Updated NLog and Octokit to latest releases.
- Updated: Minor changes to the README.md and Issue forms.
New in WUView 0.5.12 (Jun 21, 2023)
- New: A new option on the Settings -> Application Settings page is available to select the first row in the grid on application start. This will populate the details pane without the need to click on an update in the grid.
- New: If you reorder the columns in the grid they will now be saved. In hindsight, having the Result column last wasn't my best decision.
- Changed: Enabled keyboard navigation in the grid. Use Arrow keys, page-up, page-down, etc. to navigate in the grid
New in WUView 0.5.11 (Jun 18, 2023)
- Changes:
- New: A new option on the Settings -> UI Settings page is available to start the application centered on the screen.
- New: Switched to GitHub Issue forms. Newly created issues will use the forms.
- Fixed: Lowercase descenders were being cut off in the filter box.
- Fixed: When navigating away from the updates page then back to the updates page, the grid remained filtered, but filter box was empty. Now the filter will be removed when navigating.
New in WUView 0.5.10 (Jun 4, 2023)
- Changes:
- New: New filter option. Starting the filter text with a "!" (exclamation mark or bang) will invert the filter. The filter will then act as an exclusionary filter. See the Readme.txt file under the Filtering the Grid heading.
- New: Pressing the Escape key will clear the filter box.
- Updated: Tooltips on the About page are more meaningful.
New in WUView 0.5.8 (May 27, 2023)
- New: A new option on the Settings page is available to limit the number of updates to process. The default is All updates. You can also choose from 50, 100, 250 or 500 of the most recent updates. Note that this number is BEFORE any updates are excluded. The item counter in the upper right will update to indicate the limit. Choosing to limit the number of updates processed may be helpful when there are a larger number of updates or on slower machines.
- Fixed: The Copy Grid to Clipboard menu selection will now actually copy the grid to the clipboard.
New in WUView 0.5.7 (May 24, 2023)
- Changes:
- New: An alert will be shown if all updates have been excluded.
- Updated: The item counter in the upper right has been updated to show the number of updates displayed as well as the total number of updates.
- New: Left clicking on the item counter will toggle the display of excluded items.
- Fixed: If there is exactly one update it will now be shown.
New in WUView 0.5.6 (May 22, 2023)
- Changes:
- Fixed: Long page title will no longer be truncated.
- Updated: Changed the look of check for updates to a link to match the rest of the page.
- Updated: Updated Material Design and Octokit to latest versions.
New in WUView 0.5.5 (May 15, 2023)
- Updated: Changed HResult in log message to display in hex format.
- Updated: Repositioned tooltips on About page and added additional information.
- New: Added refresh button, menu selection and key (F5). Refresh will check for any updates that may have been applied while WUView was running.
- New: Added option to display updates in bold if they were applied on the current day.
- New: Setup will now copy it's log to the application folder as Setup_Log.txt.
New in WUView 0.5.4 (May 11, 2023)
- Fixed: Crash on first run when creating a new WUViewExcludes.json file.
- Fixed: Hopefully, fixed parsing of dates to UTC.
- New: Zip file for those that don't want to install WUView. WUView will write two files in the same folder. No registry entries are created.
New in WUView 0.5.3 (May 7, 2023)
- ixed: Check for new release crash
- Updated: Additional date formats
New in WUView 0.5.2 (May 4, 2023)
- New: Design updated with more up-to-date look.
- New: Can now check for updated release on GitHub.
- Updated: Keyboard shortcuts have been updated. See the ReadMe.txt file.
- Fixed: Exclude list should save changes even if enter key wasn't pressed.
New in WUView 0.4.2 (Sep 12, 2022)
- New: Double-click ColorZone to set optimal width
- New: Added button to open ReadMe file in About dialog
- Updated: Updated dependencies to latest versions
- Updated: Moved log file to folder in temp directory
- Fixed: Installer deleting settings and history files
New in WUView 0.4.1 (Jun 14, 2022)
- Build date. shown in the log file and About dialog, is now UTC
- Added ability to change date format in the data grid