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Changelog

Notable changes to WinButler, by internal milestone. The current shipping version is 1.0.1.

v1.0.2 — 2026-07-29 · Ghost-device cleanup + Activision/CoD fix

  • Ghost-device removal on the System Tools page: "List ghost devices" (read-only) surfaces non-present PnP device nodes via pnputil.exe. "Remove ghost devices" (Advanced) is permanent and cannot be undone — to avoid touching live hardware that can also show as "disconnected" (disks, GPU-integrated controllers, VSS snapshots, virtual/software device stubs — all observed on real hardware during development), it only ever removes an allow-listed shape of device (USB/HID devices by vendor+product ID, Bluetooth, audio endpoints), explicitly excluding USB root hubs. The removal action runs an embedded PowerShell script entirely in memory (-EncodedCommand, never written to disk) — see Services/EmbeddedScript.cs. Credit to the original "remove ghost devices natively with PowerShell" concept from theorypc.ca (2017) — see README Acknowledgements.
  • Script-backed System Tools actions are now data-driven: they're declared in Scripts/scripts.json and auto-register, so adding one is a drop-in — write a .ps1, add an entry, no code change (see Scripts/README.md). The manifest only ever names a script embedded in the binary plus a bare-identifier mode; it can't carry a command line, and it's loaded outside the definitions merge path so a future remote-definitions rollout could never reach it. Built-in Windows-tool actions (DISM, SFC, WMI reset, …) stay defined in code for the same reason.
  • Fixed a data-loss bug in the Activision/Call of Duty cleanup rule: the old activision-crashes entry treated every immediate child of %LocalAppData%\Activision — including all of Call of Duty, which can hold Call of Duty\players (real user settings) — as permanently-deletable junk. Replaced with two narrower entries: one scoped to Call of Duty itself (now Recycle-Bin risk, not permanent, and excludes players via a new exclude field on known-location rules), and one scoped to the bootstrapper's crash-reports folder specifically.

v1.0.1 — 2026-07-18 · Program Files installer

  • The installer is now a per-machine MSI (WinButler-win.msi) that installs to C:\Program Files\WinButler with a proper UAC prompt. The v1.0.0 Setup.exe was per-user (%LocalAppData%) and could never launch the app it had just installed — WinButler requires administrator rights, so non-elevated Setup ended in "the requested operation requires elevation" and a partially-completed install. Setup.exe is no longer shipped; the portable zip remains for no-install use.
  • Auto-updates work unchanged in Program Files: the app always runs elevated, so the updater it spawns can write there.

v1.0.0 — 2026-07-18 · First public release

  • Auto-updates via Velopack: releases ship as a WinButler-win-Setup.exe installer on GitHub Releases; installed copies check for updates on launch, download them in the background (delta updates after the first release), and offer a one-click "restart to update" — never a silent forced restart. Dev runs (dotnet run) skip all of this.
  • Windows 10/11 only, now enforced at build time: the project targets net10.0-windows (building on non-Windows hosts fails with a clear error), and the manifest declares only the Windows 10/11 compatibility GUID.
  • New tag-driven release pipeline: pushing a v* tag cut from master packs and publishes the installer + update feed automatically.

v7 — 2026-07-18 · UI bugfix & polish pass

  • Fixed the indeterminate ProgressBar: busy spinners now animate (the template previously rendered a static empty track).
  • Fixed the ScrollBar twice over: vertical thumb-drag direction was inverted, and the track outside the thumb was a dead zone — page up/down now works like a native scrollbar. Thumbs also keep a usable minimum size on huge lists.
  • Raised muted-text contrast to meet WCAG AA at small sizes; restored the red danger-button hover.
  • Disk Explorer: header/row column alignment, first-visit empty state, treemap tooltips that actually appear, luminance-aware treemap labels.
  • Unified page conventions: consistent empty states with a SCAN button, hover states across cards/rows, combo-box placeholders, text trimming on clip-prone labels, first tooltips/automation names.
  • Confirm dialog gained a severity model: destructive actions stay red; safe operations (redirect move/undo) get an accent variant.
  • Removed the vestigial red/green accent-swap machinery and its duplicated color tokens — the theme now has a single green LED accent.

v6 — 2026-07-06 · Four new cleaning surfaces

This milestone absorbed FocusedWolf's Windows cleanup batch script into WinButler's native rule engine — credit to them for the original catalog of cleanup locations.

  • Split the rule catalog into per-domain files under Data/definitions/ (cache, redirect, apps, browsers, drivers, launchers, games, windows), merged fail-closed at load.
  • App & Game Leftovers: a curated known-locations catalog (~55 entries) for logs, dumps, and installer leftovers outside the cache scanners' territory, with a real-I/O test pinning the two scanners' disjointness.
  • Steam-aware cleaning: locates every Steam library via libraryfolders.vdf and offers shader/download/temp caches, dumps, and logs per library.
  • System Tools: one-click DISM, SFC, and Windows Update cache flush with live streamed output; dry-run prints the exact command sequence without launching anything.
  • Privacy sweep: clears Explorer Recent/MRU history and 7-Zip file-manager history, with registry access behind a testable seam.

v5 — 2026-07-03 · Production hardening

  • Crash protection everywhere: guarded async commands, structured logging to %APPDATA%\WinButler\logs, AppDomain/TaskScheduler backstops, a startup error window.
  • MFT parser hardened against malformed volumes (bounds-checked fixups, overflow-safe attribute walks, per-record recovery, fuzz tests).
  • Cancellation support across every long operation, with CANCEL buttons on each page.
  • Confirm dialog wired into every real destructive action; dry-run never prompts.
  • Redirect safety: reparse-point guards on delete paths, atomic undo-ledger writes, orphaned-redirect reconciliation.
  • Roughly 3× lighter MFT tree build and ~4× faster directory walks.

v4 — 2026-07-01 · "Duly Doted" redesign, Dev Junk, Dashboard

  • Full custom theme: true-black canvas, embedded fonts, LED accent, custom control themes throughout.
  • Dev Junk: per-tool cards (JetBrains, Android SDK, npm, Cargo, …) showing on-disk vs. reclaimable size; live git checkouts are auto-locked out of bulk cleaning.
  • Dashboard: whole-app overview with per-category cards and Clean All.
  • Headless UI test suite (Avalonia.Headless) plus the tools/ui-harness/ capture/automation scripts.

v3 — 2026-06-30 · Disk Explorer

  • Real NTFS $MFT parser (WizTree-style) with a virtualized list and a squarified treemap; recursive-walk fallback for non-NTFS volumes.

v2 — 2026-06-30 · Redirect to Drive

  • Directory-junction redirection: copy → verify → delete → junction, with an undo ledger.
  • Rule-driven cache classification (SafeCaches) and the externalized JSON definitions catalog.

v1 — 2026-06-30 · Core cleaner

  • Electron leftover, temp-file, and cache scanners with risk classification.
  • Dry-run on by default as a true no-op; hybrid delete (Safe → permanent, Caution/Risky → Recycle Bin); credential/key deny-list.