2605-rc1

What's Changed

Release Candidate 1 version snapshot 2605
Contains compiled binaries of client and server as of 03 May 2026

This is major release, multiple changes has been made.

Core Improvements

• Forwarders handling (#39), experimental
  • Propagate forwarder errors to parent.
  • Warnings for forward errors.
  • Adds explicit validation of forwarded exports and visual warnings/icons for affected modules.
• Reimplemented code for building external help URLs and external viewer arguments.
• WinDepends.Core: Hardening against possible errors.
• Bugfixes
  • WinDepends.Core: Fixes buffer overflows, infinite loops, and resource leaks in the native core.
  • Fixed session-open success flow.
  • Fixed depth-limit recursion.
  • Hardened async keypress hint-form paths.
  • Fixed checkbox flag behavior for Find Dialog.
  • Minimal logging added for external help/viewer/open file location error paths.
• UI/UX Improvements
  • Add configuration properties (GuiFontSize and per-table column widths) to address #43 and #44.
  • Update UI to adjust layouts and add a GUI font size control plus other minor text/size tweaks.
  • Adjust RichEdit text display for handling #43 and #44 changes,
  • Display warning icon for duplicate modules if export or other errors are present.
  • Fix CLI parsing (trimmed help flag comparison), improve console handling and adjust console log prefix formatting.
• Test Coverage
  • Add multiple Firefly test projects used by WinDepends.Tests. GDI+ usage and delay-load/exported symbols to exercise dependency scanning in tests. They were used during initial development process.

Full Changelog: 2512-beta...2605-rc1

2512-beta

What's Changed

BETA version snapshot 2512
Contains compiled binaries of client and server as of 27 Dec 2025

Core Improvements

• ApiSet Schema File Handling
  • Support for querying ApiSet namespace info from a user-specified file, with improved configuration and error handling.
  • Clear distinction and management between default and custom ApiSet schema in both client/server.
  • New commands and UI logic for previewing ApiSet info from files.
• Performance & Stability
  • Optimized .NET assembly resolution caching (architecture checks are now cached).
  • Improved handling of large module lists in the UI to reduce flickering/stutter.
  • Path resolver caches WinSxS candidates for fallback, reducing likelihood of improper path choices.
• UI/UX Improvements
  • Tree/List views update more efficiently, minimizing redraws.
  • CPU mismatch warning logic for .NET “Any CPU” assemblies improved.
  • Improved display of modules and paths, including full path preservation for drive roots and UNC shares.
• Test Coverage
  • Added tests/tests.c for lower-level WinDepends.Core logic verification.

Full Changelog: 2511-beta...2512-beta

2511-beta

What's Changed

BETA version snapshot 2511
Contains compiled binaries of client and server as of 30 Nov 2025

New Features

• Command-Line Interface (CLI): Full CLI support for automation and scripting
  • Multiple export formats: JSON, CSV, HTML, Graphviz DOT, and plain text
  • Progress reporting during dependency analysis
  • Kernel-mode driver analysis support (-k switch)
  • Configurable depth limiting, quiet mode, and path formatting options

Core Improvements

• Server Refactoring: Unified SERVER_CONTEXT for safer thread and socket handling
• Path Resolution: Optimized CPathResolver with cached KnownDll lookups and cache-sync logic
• Configuration: Improved handling, MRU list thread-safety, and form argument validation
• Forwarder Handling: Improved module name extraction logic; local settings override for ExpandForwarders setting
• Code Refactoring: Internal rearrangement for several modules, some bugs were fixed

Build & Infrastructure

• Updated to .NET 10 and Visual Studio 2026
• Upgraded C++ toolset to v145
• Refactored AppVeyor configuration for .NET SDK

Documentation

• Updated README with comprehensive CLI documentation and usage examples

Full Changelog: 2510-beta...2511-beta

2510-beta

BETA version snapshot 2510
Contains compiled binaries of client and server as of 10 Oct 2025

Fix #36

• Invalid junk-data display
• "Symbol doesn't load" issue
• Bug that occurs when viewing a module with unnamed exports exposed via symbols when its parent import contains entries from it

Implement #35 (Find better version of dbghelp.dll automatically)
Internal rearrangement

Full Changelog: 2509-beta...2510-beta

Snapshot 23 Nov 2024

BETA version snapshot 2411
Contains compiled binaries of client and server as of 23 Nov 2024