V2.4.0

[2.4.0] - 2026-09-29

Added

• Add Windows-like deterministic driver ranking
• Add versioned driver index schema (v2) with parser and matching-policy metadata

Changed

• Refactor driver matching to isolate it from the Windows runtime
• Validate driver indexes against authoritative source fingerprints
• Improve driver matching performance with inverted hardware ID lookup
• Cache on-demand driver extraction during installation
• Reduce archive extraction and INF parsing overhead
• Use scoped temporary workspaces for indexing and installation
• Model per-device installation outcomes and fallback attempts
• Improve wildcard package and index resolution
• Improve plain-text console output and diagnostic reporting
• Document driver-index v2 migration, ranking rules, and diagnostic output

Fixed

• Improve log file output
• Improve check if driver pack path is a file before extraction
• Normalize hardware IDs and support decorated INF model and install sections
• Read unbounded SetupAPI string fields when parsing INF files
• Prevent loops caused by blank hardware IDs
• Harden SetupAPI buffer handling and error reporting
• Harden extraction paths, isolate extraction cache keys, and enforce containment
• Stabilize device rescan deduplication and driver installation results
• Return aggregated failures when one or more driver installations fail
• Exclude generated index files from directory fingerprints
• Propagate driver initialization and index validation errors
• Format source SHA-256 checksums consistently
• Correct the CLI extraction option name in the documentation