PersistentSD v1.1

PersistentSD v1.1

This release focuses on reliability, safer failure handling, and clearer documentation.

What's Changed

• Improved startup reliability: Added periodic retry handling if drive-change event monitoring cannot be registered.
• More resilient drive assignment: Added retry behaviour when drive-change events aren't received.
• Improved installation error handling: Better warnings when task registration succeeds but saving preferences or verifying the script path fails.
• Safer recovery: Improved handling of installation failures and restoration of previous script files.
• Updated documentation: Clarified drive-letter safety, status reporting, backup behaviour, and release instructions.
• Added a Windows testing checklist: Covers installation, removal, startup behaviour, reconnects, and drive-letter assignment scenarios.
• Build validation: Automated PowerShell syntax checks, application compilation, and ZIP packaging through GitHub Actions.

Testing Notes

The application builds successfully, and the UI has been checked. Full Windows validation of installation/removal and real drive-letter assignment, startup, and reconnect behaviour remains outstanding.

Upgrade

Download PersistentSD-v1.1.zip, extract the contents, and follow the README instructions.

Persistent SD v1.0

PersistentSD — Updated Build Release Notes

What's New

Safety Improvements

• Prevents PersistentSD from taking a drive letter already assigned to another volume.
• Leaves existing volumes and their drive-letter assignments untouched when the preferred letter is occupied.
• Improves safe handling when an existing scheduled task cannot be retrieved during backup.

Reliability

• Fixes preference loading so the full configuration file is read correctly.
• Improves backup handling for existing scripts and scheduled-task configurations.
• Aligns scheduled-task XML configuration with the Persistent SD task name.

User Experience

• Adds a restart reminder after successful installation so users know when to reboot.
• Clarifies that an already-occupied drive letter will be left untouched.

Build and Testing

• Adds a GitHub Actions workflow to compile and package the Windows application.
• Packages PersistentSD.exe, PersistentSD.ps1, README.md, and LICENSE together.

Important Notes

• Extract the ZIP before running the application.
• Keep PersistentSD.exe and PersistentSD.ps1 together.
• Run the application as Administrator when installing.
• Restart Windows after installation when prompted.
• Test on your target system before relying on drive-letter persistence.

This build has been successfully compiled and packaged. Real-world drive assignment behavior should still be verified on the target Windows system.