Foundry v26.10.7.1

Release Overview

• New: Foundry OSD now downloads available updates in the background and installs a ready update from Apply update or silently when the application closes.
• New: An advisory before ISO creation, USB creation, or USB update now recommends applying a pending Foundry OSD update first.
• Reworked: Foundry Connect and Foundry Deploy now recommend rebuilding boot media when it was created with an older Foundry OSD release, independently of configuration schema changes.
• Improved: Windows ADK 10.1.26100.9457 is now the required release. Older installations are upgraded through the built-in ADK workflow.
• Fixed: Deployed devices no longer restart into the USB media or the firmware network boot menu instead of the installed Windows.
• Fixed: Repeating a USB operation on the same drive no longer fails with a disk identity mismatch after WinPE preparation.
• Fixed: ADK upgrades are no longer blocked when the existing ADK uninstall cannot verify its WIM mount driver package.
• Fixed: Blocked WinPE image files and locked ISO output files now produce actionable messages instead of generic failures.
• Fixed: An update is no longer applied automatically while another Foundry OSD instance is running.
• Fixed: Decrypted profile files no longer remain in the staging folder after a silent update on close.
• Maintenance: Corrected status texts and translations, removed obsolete code and resources, and improved error grouping in remote diagnostics.

Highlights

Automatic application updates

• When startup checking is enabled, Foundry OSD now downloads an available update in the background and shows the download progress in the navigation footer.
• Once the update is ready, choose Apply update in the navigation footer to install it and restart. Closing Foundry OSD normally also installs a ready update silently and leaves the application closed.
• Disabling startup checking still allows checking for and downloading updates manually from the update settings.
• A prepared update is kept and recovered at the next start. Windows shutdown or sign-out does not start the installer.
• The previous release notes and installation progress dialogs are removed. Release notes remain available from About.

Update guidance before media creation

• An advisory now appears before ISO creation, USB creation, or a USB update when a Foundry OSD update is available.
• Choose Apply update or View update, continue with Create anyway, or cancel.
• Media options and the selected USB drive are checked again after the advisory, before the operation starts.

Boot media rebuild guidance

• Boot media now records the Foundry OSD release that created it. Foundry Connect and Foundry Deploy compare it with their own running release.
• Media created with an older Foundry OSD release now shows guidance to update Foundry OSD and rebuild the media, including when no configuration schema changed.
• Legacy media whose authoring release cannot be determined keeps the existing rebuild guidance.
• Configuration schemas: Foundry Connect 4 → 5, Foundry Deploy 14 → 15. The authoring schema remains unchanged.
• Recreate existing ISO and USB media with this release to include the authoring release information.

Updates with several Foundry OSD instances

• Applying an update closes every Foundry OSD process started from the installation folder. Automatic installation is now skipped while another instance is running, so a media or ADK operation in another window is no longer interrupted.
• Starting a second instance no longer installs a downloaded update at startup. The update is shown as ready instead.
• Closing one of several instances no longer installs the update. It stays ready until no other instance is running.
• Apply update remains an explicit action and still closes the other instances.

Windows ADK 10.1.26100.9457

• Windows ADK 10.1.26100.9457 is now the target and minimum supported release, replacing 10.1.26100.2454.
• An installed 10.1.26100.2454 ADK now follows the existing uninstall and reinstall path.
• The upgrade no longer stops when the existing ADK uninstall fails with 0x80091007 on its WIM mount driver package. Foundry releases the driver, then retries the uninstall once.
• The ADK operation dialog now shows a success or failure icon when the operation ends.
• The Home page now reports an unsupported registered ADK release as incompatible, consistent with the ADK page.

USB media reliability

• The USB disk list is now refreshed after every USB creation or update, so a second operation on the same drive uses its current identity.
• The selected drive is now validated before WinPE preparation starts. A stale selection fails within seconds instead of after the full preparation.
• When the previously selected drive cannot be found and several drives are listed, no drive is selected automatically.

WinPE and ISO failure messages

• When Windows denies access to WinPE image files during the workspace build or image servicing, Foundry now explains the likely causes and the next steps: add a security software exclusion for the Foundry data folder, close tools that mount images, then restart.
• ISO finalization now retries briefly when the output file is locked. A persistent lock produces a message naming the ISO file and the likely causes, such as a mounted ISO or an ISO attached to a virtual machine.
• Stale workspace cleanup no longer logs a warning on every media creation for folders that are not Foundry operation workspaces.
• The new messages are available in all 38 supported languages.

Windows Boot Manager boot order

• After applying Windows, Foundry Deploy now registers Windows Boot Manager in the UEFI firmware and places it first in the firmware boot order.
• Devices that previously restarted into the USB media or the firmware network boot menu now start the installed Windows, so Post-installation can run.
• This step is best-effort. A failure is logged as a warning and the deployment continues with the previous behavior.

Update status and localization

• The dialog shown when a downloaded update cannot be applied no longer reports a failed update check.
• The update settings page no longer shows an untranslated status after a cancelled Windows shutdown or sign-out.
• A missing text for unknown computer name components is now available in Foundry OSD in all 38 supported languages.
• Blocked disk labels in Foundry Deploy no longer lose the space before the warning separator in 35 languages.

Remote error diagnostics

• Operational failures are now grouped by failure classification and deployment step instead of their shared code location, so unrelated failures are no longer merged into one issue.
• Unexpected crashes remain grouped by their stack trace.

What's Changed

• feat(updates): automate updates and improve boot media guidance by @mchave3 in #398
• test(packages): skip symlink import test without link privilege by @mchave3 in #408
• fix(telemetry): fingerprint domain failures by failure classification by @mchave3 in #406
• fix(adk): require Windows ADK 10.1.26100.9457 by @mchave3 in #409
• fix(winpe): skip legacy folders during stale workspace cleanup by @mchave3 in #405
• fix(adk): show outcome icon in ADK operation dialog by @mchave3 in #410
• fix(usb): refresh disk identity after USB operations and validate early by @mchave3 in #401
• fix(adk): recover upgrade when ADK uninstall cannot verify its WIM mount payload by @mchave3 in #411
• fix(winpe): explain blocked WinPE image file access by @mchave3 in #403
• fix(deploy): prioritize Windows Boot Manager in firmware boot order by @mchave3 in #412
• fix(media): explain locked ISO output failures by @mchave3 in #404
• chore(ci): normalize release workflow line endings by @mchave3 in #413
• fix(updates): do not apply updates while another instance is running by @mchave3 in #416
• fix: address pre-release audit findings in updates, localization and telemetry by @mchave3 in #415
• chore: remove dead code and stale docs before the next release by @mchave3 in #414

Full Changelog: v26.9.30.2...v26.10.7.1