CoreCycler-GUI - Updated Release Changelog

Release date: 8 August 2026

This release updates the original, unmaintained CoreCycler-GUI Beta and
integrates it with the current CoreCycler engine and supporting components.

CORECYCLER ENGINE

Updated the bundled CoreCycler engine to v0.11.0.4 (development revision - current release is v0.11.0.3).
Integrated the current CoreCycler configuration format, presets, helper
scripts and stress-test program definitions.
Added compatibility handling for older or incomplete GUI-generated config
files so newly required settings are restored without discarding valid user
selections.
Fixed GUI-launched Automatic Test Mode so the y-cruncher binary is resolved
correctly and the test can start without an unset $yCruncherBinary error.
Restored the Automatic Test Mode scheduled-task and temporary Curve Optimizer
warning panels when CoreCycler is launched through the GUI.
Updated Ryzen automatic Curve Optimizer adjustment support to use
ryzen-smu-cli.
Updated supporting CoreCycler tools and helper scripts.

Updated the current y-cruncher package and retained y-cruncher 0.7.10.9513
as the separately selectable legacy version.
Added y-cruncher's automatic binary selection mode.
CoreCycler now reports the actual CPU-specific y-cruncher binary selected by
automatic mode when the test starts.
Updated the y-cruncher workload list for the current version and kept the
legacy workload list separate.
Corrected legacy y-cruncher defaults so BKT and BBP are not incorrectly used
as the only tests for every selected mode.
Added independent current/legacy y-cruncher test selections. Controls that do
not apply to the selected y-cruncher version are now disabled to avoid mixing
incompatible workloads.
Standardised visible GUI naming from "yCruncher" to "y-cruncher".
Updated Prime95 and its supporting configuration.
Updated Linpack integration for the bundled 2018, 2019, 2021 and 2024
versions.
Fixed Linpack 2018 SLOWEST mode failing to launch or write its log correctly.
Corrected Linpack logging where paths or filenames containing wildcard-like
characters could cause failures.
Suppressed the harmless "Invalid menu handle" close-button warning produced
when stress tests are launched from the GUI terminal environment.
Retained AIDA64 support while continuing to require users to obtain the
Portable Engineer edition directly from AIDA64.
Added validation that prevents an AIDA64 test from starting until at least
one test mode (Cache, CPU, FPU or RAM) has been selected.

Start now applies the current on-screen settings automatically. Users no
longer need to remember to click Apply Settings before starting a test.
Kept Apply Settings available for users who want to save changes without
immediately starting a test.
Added an Automatic Test Mode reminder:
"Remember to untick Automatic Test Mode if you are not using it!"
Improved y-cruncher mode selection so choosing a preset updates the displayed
workload selections immediately.
Added and integrated controls for the current and legacy y-cruncher modes and
workloads.
Added GUI access to SMUDebugTool and ryzen-smu-cli where applicable.
Removed obsolete PBO2Tuner and pbotest/pbocli GUI entries and bundled files,
matching their removal from current CoreCycler.
Re-centred the remaining single button on the bottom row of the Tools tab.
Clarified the update-check tooltip. It now states that the check is for
CoreCycler releases and that CoreCycler updates may or may not be compatible
with this version of the GUI.
Made various spacing, label and control-size adjustments for clearer layout.

Updated ZenTimings from v1.35 to v1.39.
Updated SMUDebugTool from v1.40 to v1.41.
Added the current ryzen-smu-cli files required by CoreCycler.
Retained IntelVoltageControl, performance-counter setup, Event Log setup,
BoostTester and the other supported CoreCycler utilities.
Fixed the IntelVoltageControl button so it requests administrator rights,
runs the read-only "show" command and leaves the command window open. This
replaces the previous attempt to launch the command-line utility without an
argument or the elevation required to initialise WinRing0.
Removed obsolete PBO2Tuner and pbotest/pbocli components.

Rebuilt CoreCycler.exe with the updated GUI and engine integration.
Added a reproducible build-release.ps1 packaging script.
Added a clean distributable layout modelled on the original
CoreCycler-GUI-Beta release.