DriverStore Explorer v1.0.28

🌟 Release Highlights

Select unused drivers, add drivers from nested bundles, and enjoy refreshed translations. This release also improves cleanup safeguards, update recovery, and portable settings preservation.

⚠️ Breaking Changes

• Runtime requirement — Install .NET Framework 4.7.2 or newer before upgrading. (#438 by @MagicAndre1981)
• Offline cleanup — Automatic cleanup requires device association support; select offline drivers manually. (1197935 by Teddy Zhang)

✨ What's New

• Select Unused Drivers — Added unused-driver selection. (#446 by @enixyazilim)

🐛 Bug Fixes & Improvements

• Nested driver bundles — Search subdirectories recursively when adding drivers from bundle folders. (2e8b46f by Teddy Zhang)
• Device association — Correct native device properties and associate active extension drivers without package GUIDs. (775dfd0 87b3324 by Teddy Zhang)
• Device discovery safeguards — Fail safely without device snapshots and protect associated drivers with incomplete metadata. (a49d210 8de251b by Teddy Zhang)
• Old-driver selection — Exclude unresolved INF identities from old-driver selection. (97302cb by Teddy Zhang)
• Cleanup selections — Replace cleanup selections even when no drivers match. (d78ba72 by Teddy Zhang)
• Operation controls — Keep UI actions locked during driver operations. (3e6e68a by Teddy Zhang)
• Driver installation — Quote INF filenames in PnpUtil add commands. (fe1be4c by Teddy Zhang)
• CSV exports — Escape quotes and multiline fields correctly. (51c8856 by Teddy Zhang)
• Update validation — Validate replacement executables and preserve renamed executable filenames. (76ad5a5 964f597 by Teddy Zhang)
• Update recovery — Restore all installation files when an update fails. (fab9537 by Teddy Zhang)
• Portable settings — Preserve preferences, load existing portable settings, and detect persisted backend choices. (532ec2c 0c33259 58563d0 by Teddy Zhang)

🌐 Localization

• Updated French translations. (#441 #455 by @t3chnob0y)
• Updated German translations. (#443 #448 by @timse201)
• Updated Russian translations. (#433 by @sklart; #450 by @solokot)
• Updated Turkish translations and added a Turkish README. (#434 by @BouRock; #444 by @enixyazilim)
• Updated Brazilian Portuguese translations. (#449 by @igorruckert)
• Updated Italian translations. (#451 by @bovirus)
• Updated Ukrainian translations. (#453 by @Lan72)

Full Changelog: v1.0.26...v1.0.28