Winderust v0.5.0-alpha

What's Changed

Added

• Add crash recovery protection.
• Add collapsible sidebar.
• Add enabled-feature counters in the sidebar.
• Add status indicators to navigation cards.
• Add visible-window detection.

Changed

• Replace the previous mixed CPU control designs with separate CPU Sets (Soft) and Processor Affinity (Hard).
• Allow each CPU allocation rule to select presets or individual logical processors.
• Improve Process List context menus, grouped-process actions, suspend controls, and process-tree handling.
• Prevent the same application from using CPU Sets (Soft) and Processor Affinity (Hard) simultaneously.
• Update navigation icons for Winderust Features and Adaptive Engine.

Fixed

• Remove SeDebugPrivilege and rely on standard Windows process access checks, prevent false positive Windows Defender blocking.
• Restore all Winderust-managed process states during normal shutdown. (Crash Recovery Protection)
• Protect critical Windows, shell, security, and infrastructure processes from unsafe suspend and stop actions.
• Apply grouped Process List actions to all eligible subprocesses.
• Reduce unnecessary retries against inaccessible or unsupported processes.

Dependencies

• Update serde from 1.0.228 to 1.0.229.
• Update serde_json from 1.0.150 to 1.0.151.

Full Changelog: v0.4.0-alpha...v0.5.0-alpha

Winderust v0.4.0-alpha

What's Changed

Added

• Add process search, grouped-process context menus, and user-session details to Process List
• Add startup update notifications
• Identify process rules by executable path so same-named applications remain distinct

Changed

• Redesign Process List for better UI/UX
• Improve the process rule to be cross session/user instead of only current user session (changeable in settings)

Fixed

• Run Workload Engine only when Adaptive Engine is enabled
• Preserve the window size and maximized state when restoring Winderust from the tray (Fixes Issue #11 )
• Stop retry spam for inaccessible or unsupported process-rule targets

Bug

• GPUI source has problem with 2 level context menu, causing the entry to highlight even when not hovered, not fixable for now

Full Changelog: v0.3.0-alpha...v0.4.0-alpha

Winderust v0.3.0-alpha

Added

• Add clickable Enabled Features entries on Home with feature-section icons.
• Add settings to pause dashboard metrics and process-list population.

Changed

• Disable all automation rules by default on first run.
• Rename and clarify the Home enabled-features summary.
• Reorder Language and Appearance controls for a clearer setup flow.
• Restructure UI, automation, and feature modules for easier maintenance.

Fixed

• Preserve the selected Adaptive Engine profile when toggling the feature.
• Harden settings loading, importing, cancellation, and validation behavior.
• Improve power-plan rule timing, selection, cleanup, and process-state restoration.
• Improve startup, input-hook, Windows-event, tray, update-check, and Action Log reliability.
• Complete localization for system dialogs, tray actions, and runtime statuses.

Misc

• RAM usage improve by ~5%
• Executable size shrinked by ~170KB

Full Changelog: v0.2.0-alpha...v0.3.0-alpha

Winderust v0.2.0-alpha

Added

• Add automatic update checks, also able to switch between stable/pre-release channel.
• Add project, documentation, license, GitHub, and Discord links to About Page.

Changed

• Settings file and log export now stays at the same folder with Winderust executable.
• Home automation rules now with a master switch indicator to improve fool-proof mechanism.
• Power-plan scheduler A/C toggle moved to Power Plan Control page.
• Shortened the README and speed up regular CI runs.

Fixed

• Adaptive Engine operating-profile text truncation.

Full Changelog: v0.1.1-alpha...v0.2.0-alpha

Winderust v0.1.1-alpha

Added

• Home and Adaptive Engine screenshots in the README.

Changed

• Completed Traditional Chinese coverage for current UI locale keys, dynamic dashboard values, common runtime statuses, rule controls, and search fields.
• Search and rule-name placeholders now refresh immediately when the language changes.

Fixed

• Home dashboard labels that displayed untranslated locale key names.

Full Changelog: v0.1.0-alpha...v0.1.1-alpha

Winderust v0.1.0-alpha

What's Changed

• Chore(deps): Bump actions/checkout from 4 to 7 by @dependabot[bot] in #2
• Chore(deps): Bump actions/upload-artifact from 4 to 7 by @dependabot[bot] in #1
• Chore(deps): Bump embed-resource from 3.0.9 to 3.0.11 by @dependabot[bot] in #4
• Chore(deps): Bump chrono from 0.4.44 to 0.4.45 by @dependabot[bot] in #7

New Contributors

• @dependabot[bot] made their first contribution in #2

Full Changelog: https://github.com/TatshSiow/Winderust/commits/v0.1.0-alpha