Ribbon UI Studio v3.1.0

Ribbon UI Studio v3.1.0

This release focuses on Portable reliability, integrity and community feedback.

🚀 New Portable packaging architecture

The single-file Portable EXE has been internally redesigned.

• Added package identity and internal manifests.
• Added SHA-256 integrity verification for packaged files.
• Added version-specific verified cache.
• Added atomic staging and safer extraction.
• Added automatic recovery when application files are missing or corrupted.
• Added explicit separation between application files and persistent user settings.
• User preferences are preserved between launches and package updates.
• Improved simultaneous-launch handling.
• Added startup diagnostics and logging.
• Improved reporting when the internal application cannot start correctly.

The Portable version is still distributed as a single EXE.

🪟 Window behavior

Following feedback from the B4X community:

• Ribbon UI Studio no longer starts with Always on Top enabled.
• Other applications can now move normally in front of Ribbon UI Studio.

🖼 imageMso Gallery

Ribbon UI Studio can download the complete imageMso icon collection for local browsing.

The initial download contains thousands of small files, so it can take some time, but it only needs to be downloaded once. After that, the icons are reused locally.

🔐 Security note

The packaging changes are intended to improve integrity, transparency and reliability.

The executables are currently unsigned, so Windows SmartScreen may still display Unknown Publisher. This is related to code-signing/reputation and is separate from the application integrity checks.

No antivirus exclusions or disabling of Windows security protections are required or recommended.

❤️ Thank you

Special thanks to the B4X community members who tested the Portable builds on different Windows and antivirus configurations.

Your reports directly helped improve this release.