Changelog 2019

December 17, 2019

1.8.0.7261

New

Source: Win10 20H2 Preview build 19536 support (license date 12/17/2019)
Source: Win10 20H1 ‘2004’ Preview build 19037 support (moved license date to 12/17/2019)

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Source: ESD conversion on double-click/load directly will convert all editions by default
Components: Containers added to Store Apps compatibility, detached from HyperV
UI-Translation: Thanks for Polish (KrzysioZ), Chinese Traditional (Matt)

Fix

Source: Scratch location free space requirements lowered if an image is already mounted
Settings: Scrolling with a scrollbar wasn’t refreshing newly displayed icons on the expanded lists
Settings: ‘People Bar’ disabling setting was not working

November 26, 2019

1.8.0.7240

New

Settings: Cortana tray button
Settings-20H1: ‘Automatically save my restartable apps when I sign out and restart them after I sign’

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Post-setup: setupcomplete.cmd save location kept inside an image if already existed
Settings: ‘Allow Telemetry – Locked’ policy suboptions inside the existing setting
Settings: Renamed ‘Reopen my apps after an update or restart’ to ‘Use my sign in info to automatically finish setting up my device’
UI-Translation: Thanks for Polish (KrzysioZ) and Chinese Simplified (Gskening)

Fix

Registry: Integration of REG file with reg key deletion ‘-[REGKEY]’ permission error
Components: Internet Explorer removal XML open with leftover “IE ActiveX Interface Marshaling Library”
Components: Notification Center was disabled with Action Center instead of Push Notifications removal
Source: Exporting/Converting ESD into a new location, without overwriting the source, would error out
Source: ESD exporting would duplicate the full edition name in its description
Updates-Win7: KB2532531/2552343 integration order fix
UI-Translation: File-Settings-Proxy translation support
UI-Translation: Chinese installer custom checkbox names

November 15, 2019

1.8.0.7230

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Settings: ‘Use check boxes to select items’ Explorer option
UI-Translation: Thanks for Portugues-Brasil (Igor)

Fix

Settings: ‘Use only latest CLR’ was breaking SQL Express 2014 setup if set on image, due to explicit .NET 3.5 dependency
Updates: Crash after processing language packs over multiple images

November 3, 2019

1.8.0.7217

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UI-Translation: Thanks for Polish (KrzysioZ), Italian (gabritb01), Turkish (SALiH DRD)

Fix

UI: Was crashing in certain situations after processing

October 29, 2019

1.8.0.7215

New

Source: Win10 20H1 build 19008 support
Components: ‘ntlite.exe /forcelistcomponents’ switch for listing undetected components
Useful for repeating removals of partially removed or reinstalled components

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Components: ‘Event Viewer’ split 32-bit component
Updates: ‘Display Enhancement Service’ moved under CDPSvc, needed for ‘Night Light’
UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77)

Fix

Settings: ‘Tamper Protection’ and ‘Reserved storage’ options were listed only on 1903, now for newer builds as well
Components: Win10 1909 Cortana added to ‘Shell Search’ compatibility, disable instead until the Search/Cortana split in 20H1
Components: ‘Group Policy’ removal leftovers in 1903

October 10, 2019

1.8.0.7182

Fix

Source: 1903 to 1909 build (18362->18363) image version reading
Components: Disabling Compatibility options would not refresh the UI (regression in last update)

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UI-Translation: Thanks for Polish (KrzysioZ), Turkish (SALiH DRD)

October 8, 2019

1.8.0.7180

Fix

Components: Internet Explorer removal, even with IE Frame kept, WWW shortcut could not be created
Components: ForceShowComponents settings flag could crash UI after processing

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UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77), Polish (KrzysioZ)

September 25, 2019

1.8.0.7165

New

Settings: Win10 RS3+ (Win10 Pro and above)
– Start Menu ‘Choose which folders appear’ options
– Start Menu ‘App list’ and suboptions
– Start Menu ‘User tile’ and suboptions
– Start Menu ‘Power button’ and suboptions
– ‘Recently opened items in Jump Lists’ option
– ‘People bar’ option
– ‘Pinning to taskbar’ policy option

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UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Simplified (Gskening), Chinese Traditional (Matt), Dutch (René),
Farsi (Mona mon), French (tistou77), German (KrX), Greek (Soulimiotis), Korean (Redrabbit),
Polish (KrzysioZ), Portugues-Brasil (Igor), Spanish (Oleada), Turkish (SALiH DRD)

September 17, 2019

1.8.0.7137

New

Settings: ‘Desktop icon size’ option
Settings: Search ‘Find My Files’ (Enhanced search) option
Settings: Security Center ‘All notifications’ and ‘Non-critical notifications’ options

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Registry: REG file integration now can apply to protected keys

Fix

Settings: Win7 ‘Navigation Pane’ settings not remembered in preset
Settings: Search ‘Finish setting up my device online’ was not working for certain Win10 versions
Settings: ‘Notifications’, ‘Radios’ and ‘Diagnostics app access’ options were not working for certain Win10 versions
Components: ‘Web Account Manager’ now removes Settings – Sign-in Options
UI: Crash after finishing certain combination of tasks

September 11, 2019

1.8.0.7120

Fix

Updates: Windows 7 Servicing Stack SHA-2 dependency integration order
Components: Windows 7 ‘Component Store’ removal breaking Internet Explorer deployment

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UI-Translation: Thanks for Polish (KrzysioZ), Chinese Traditional (Matt)

September 3, 2019

1.8.0.7115

New

Source: Windows 10 1909 (19H2) support
Settings: ‘Search includes Bing web results’

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Source: Windows 10 20H1 build 18970 support
Unattended: Computer Name unattended prompt improvements (thx freMea)
Components: Windows 7 and 8.1 smaller image size after removals with Windows Update compatibility
Features: Allow Windows Update online usage if missing image files for enabling a feature
UI-Translation: Thanks for German (KrX), Turkish (SALiH DRD), Polish (KrzysioZ)

Fix

Updates: .NET Framework 4.8 integration order when using core, lang pack and update
Features: Preset saving of sub-component states if default-enabled by the parent
Features: Configuring Hyper-V in Win10 image from Win7 host is locked to protect image integrity

August 13, 2019

1.8.0.7095

New

Settings-20H1: ‘Suggest ways I can finish setting up my device online’ option

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General: Windows 10 build 18956 Insider Preview support
Downloader: State column split
UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Simplified (Gskening), Portugues-Brasil (Igor)

Fix

Components-Win7: Driver integration might fail after driver removals
Components-Win7: ‘Shell Search’ removal leftovers (first disable Feature for UI removal)

August 7, 2019

1.8.0.7080

Fix

Components-1903: ‘Device Management’ removal hanging Settins – WU window
Components-1903: ‘Mixed Reality’ removal breaking taskbar after cumulative update install, until Remove Returns is ran
Components-1607: ‘Modern App Support – 32 bit’ removal was breaking login
Features: State change of IIS subfeatures wasn’t detected on parent enable

July 16, 2019

1.8.0.7070

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Upgrade-Components: ‘Adobe Flash’ 32-bit component split
Upgrade-Components: OOBE and Autopilot unlocked for image removal in a fully unattended scenario

Fix

Components: ‘OneNote’ app removal had a start menu shortcut leftover
Components: ‘Internet Explorer’ removal could cause iernonce.dll popup on login
Components: ‘Telemetry Client’ removal was breaking the online .NET 3.5 install without the CAB package
Components-Win7: ‘Windows Firewall’ removal could break folder sharing
Components-Win7: ‘Remote Desktop Server’ removal could cause black screen on logon
Components-Win7: Driver removals could cause driver reinstall prompt after logon
Components-Win8.1: ‘Sami Extended Norway’ keyboard removal
Settings: Disabling ‘Automatic installation of sponsored apps’ could break some GPOs

July 5, 2019

1.8.0.7046

Fix

General: GPO using Workspaces may have access denied error after certain changes, permissions fixed
Components: ‘Remove Returns’ tool could break update compatibility on cleanup
Components: ‘Fax’ and ‘Internet Printing’ post-removal detection

July 4, 2019

1.8.0.7036

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Updates: Update cache directory location now supports relative folder [NTLITEDIR]

UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77), Turkish (SALiH DRD)

Fix

Updates: .NET 3.5 Feature on Demand reference was blocking .NET 3.5 package insertion
Updates: Improved 1903 cumulative update support after removing disabled features
Features: Features if upgraded might have been missing from the configuration list

July 2, 2019

1.8.0.7025

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Components: ‘COM+ API’ 32 and 64 bit split from ‘COM+’
Components: ‘Virtual WiFi’ split from ‘WLAN’
Updates: Clean updates method ‘DISM (ResetBase)’ split from ‘DISM (Compatible)’
UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77), Turkish (SALiH DRD), Chinese Simplified (Gskening), Farsi (Mona mon)

Fix

Components: ‘Azure Active Directory’ removal causing OOBEIDPS error in Win10 1809
Components: ‘Mobile Device Management (MDM)’ removal was crashing Settings-Accounts-Access work
Components: ‘Telemetry Client’ removal was breaking Troubleshooting wizards
Components: ‘Insider Hub’ removal breaking Win10 1903 Search tray popup
Components: ‘Fax’ removal could break Win10 1903 CU install
Components: Live removals and ‘Remove Returns’ could have leftover start menu icons
Components-Win8.1: ‘Text Prediction’ removal breaking Explorer Search box
Components-Win8.1: ‘Telemetry Client’ removal breaking Windows setup
Components-Win8.1: IEFrame 64 bit component detection
Components-Win8.1: removal compatibility improvements
Components-Win7: Non-English language pack causing removal crash
Components-Win7: Win7 Embedded removal compatibility improvements
General-Win7: Extreme memory usage during ‘Preparing Data’ on 99%
Source: Potential crash on Forget image

June 18, 2019

1.8.0.6996

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Components: ‘Speech API’ split from ‘Speech Recognition’
Components: ‘Push Notifications System Service’ split from ‘Push Notifications’
Components: ‘Cloud Notifications’ split from ‘Push Notifications’
Components: ‘Start Menu Experience Host’ removal unlocked
UI-Translation: Thanks for Turkish (SALiH DRD)

Fix

Components: ‘OpenSSH’ leftovers
Components: Improved cumulative update compatibility after removals
Updates: ‘Clean updates (Complete)’ Flash update handling

June 11, 2019

1.8.0.6976

New

Source: Windows 10 20H1 18912 support
Settings: Search (Taskbar) option
Settings: ‘Dark mode for Windows’ option
Unattended: ‘Full Name’ entry, can be used with Computer Name * for prefixed random computer name

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UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Traditional (Matt), Turkish (SALiH DRD)

Fix

Components: App live removal could cause default app change Settings crash in 1903 (TWINUI entry)
Components: ‘Accessibility tools’ removal could break cumulative update for 1903 Home image
Components: Certain app removals could break Search tray popup in 1903
Unattended: Disk template default EFI size increased to 260 MB due to 4KB-sector drives
Features: Non-English image ‘Feature on Demand’ names could be missing in certain situations

June 4, 2019

1.8.0.6962

New

Source: ‘Remove Reinstalls’ tool, useful for cleaning Win10 1903 cumulative update-returned component parts

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Installer: Chinese Simplified translation
Components: ‘Unified Telemetry Client (Asimov)’ renamed to ‘Telemetry Client’
UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77)

Fix

Components: ‘Windows Media Player 32-bit’ removal could cause errors when WMP 64 is opening videos from File Explorer
Components: ‘Unified Telemetry Client’ removal could break Search tray UI in Win10 1903 image
Components: ‘Unified Telemetry Client’ removal could break ‘Program Compatibility Assistant Service’ in Win10 1903 image

May 22, 2019

1.8.0.6942

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Update-Installer: Binaries signed by the official certificate

Fix

Components: Windows Remote Management (WS-Management) breaking 1903 CU install on reboot 98%
Components: 1809 removed components were returning on CU install (1903 still does, by Windows design, post-cleanup will be implemented)
Updates: 1903(.30) Clean Updates (Complete) could break CU install (same for DISM full reset base, that one is by Windows design)
Updates: 1809v2(.379) Clean Updates (Complete) could cause BSOD on latest CU install
Features: Already installed Feature On Demand uncheck/recheck was unnecessarily prompting for packages

May 14, 2019

1.8.0.6930

New

Features: ‘Features On Demand (Capabilities)’ adding and removing support on the Features page

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UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Simplified (Gskening), Turkish (SALiH DRD)

Fix

Components: ‘Internet Explorer’ removal could break setting the default browser
Components: ‘Windows Media Player’ feature disabling would make it undetectable for removal
Components: ‘RDP Client’ removal in Win10 1903 Home could break a cumulative update install

v1.8b merge

New

Components-1903: ‘Agent Activation Runtime’
Components-1903: ‘Cellular Time’
Components-1903: ‘Credential Enrollment Manager’
Components-1903: ‘Device Association Broker’
Components-1903: ‘Display Policy Service’
Components-RS5: ‘Clipboard User Service’
Components-RS5: ‘Targeted Content service – 32-bit’
Components-RS5: ‘Time Travel Debugger (TTD)’
Components-RS5: ‘USB UCSI driver’
Components: ‘Access Control List (ACL) UI – 32-bit’
Components: ‘COM+ (Component Services)’
Components: ‘COM+ Event System’
Components: ‘COM+ System Application’
Components: ‘Corruption Verifier’
Components: ‘Cumulative Update cache’
Components: ‘Desktop image downloader’
Components: ‘Device Guard’
Components: ‘Display Enhancement Service’
Components: ‘Distributed Transaction Coordinator (DTC)’
Components: ‘File Revocation Manager – 32-bit’
Components: ‘Human Interface Device Service’
Components: ‘Modern App support – 32-bit’
Components: ‘Packet Monitor (PktMon)’
Components: ‘PIN sign-in support’
Components: ‘System Event Notification Service (SENS)’
Components: ‘System Reset for Windows’
Components: ‘Text Services Framework (MSCTF)’
Components: ‘Web Account Manager’
Components: ‘WiFi Sync Provider’
Components: ‘Windows User Interface (TWINUI) – 32-bit’

April 30, 2019

1.7.6.6912

New

Source: Win10 1903 18362 support
Settings-1903: Defender ‘Tamper Protection’
Settings-1903: ‘Reserved storage’ (image only)

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Components: Better cumulative update and DISM compatibility after removals
Updates: Better update cleanup ‘Complete’ compatibility, removed ‘Compatible’ option
UI-Translation: Thanks for Chinese Simplified (Gskening), Russian (Den-s)

Fix

Unattended: German ISO selected Timezone value could be wrongly set
Components: Chinese ISO taskhostw crash on sysprep after removing all keyboards
Source: Online image listed non-existing “windows.wim” on unload

April 5, 2019

1.7.5.6842

New

Source: Windows RT (ARM 32-bit) basic loading support (no official support)
Components: ‘Netflix’ compatibility option

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Settings: Toggling Settings and Unattended page values with a single click, with color state indicators
Source: AOMEI Backupper load boot.wim support
Components-1903: CDPUser and Error Reporting services removal does not need live lock any more
UI-Translation: Thanks for Dutch (René), Turkish (SALiH DRD)

Fix

UI: Checking for updates no longer blocks UI
UI: Source page UI lists weren’t properly refreshing in certain multimonitor scaling situations
Updates: update.mum (extracted CAB) integration handling
Components: ‘Gaming Peripherals’ and ‘Input Processors’ leftovers
Components: Win8.1 ‘Unified Telemetry Client’ leftovers after the latest rollups
Source: Export/image file structure optimization was skipped if only non-deletable editions were on the image

March 19, 2019

1.7.4.6790

New

Downloader: Proxy support, enter credentials in File-Settings

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Source: Architecture handling rewritten, enables test ARM64 support preview
Source: Loading image edition directly that needs to be converted will keep all editions
UI: Yes and No to all options for components checking prompts (instead of just Skip all)
UI-Translation: Thanks for Korean (Redrabbit), Farsi (Mona mon)

Fix

Source: Propagating tasks from boot.wim to install.esd could crash the tool
Source: Expand state remembered for unmounted install images
Components: ‘Diagnostics’ removal was breaking directory ownership popup in Explorer
Components: ‘Media Player’ preset loading could recheck it
Components: TaskHostW could be crashing after a specific removal combination
Unattended: Autofill selects first available image language if the host language is absent
Post-setup: Error messages with % sign could cause a crash

March 11, 2019

1.7.3.6761

Fix

General: Temporarily removed expired tool certificate (blocked by admin popup)

February 19, 2019

1.7.3.6760

New

Source: Windows 10 Preview 20H1 build 18836 support
Source: Unload all mounted images in a folder option
Unattended: Disable mode, to remove any unattended settings from the image
Unattended: Autofill ‘Windows PE’ sub-option, sets only the boot segment with host choices
Components: ‘Text Services Framework (MSCTF)’ – 64 and 32 bit
Components: ‘Microsoft Edge’ compatibility option
Settings: ‘Action Center’
Settings: ‘Typing insights’

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Components: ‘Windows Performance Recorder’ split from ‘Performance Counters’
UI: Preset file operations unlocked during processing and loading
UI-Translation: Thanks for Turkish (SALiH DRD), Spanish (Oleada), Russian (Den-s),
Portuguese-Brasil (Igor), Italian (gabritb01), French (tistou77), Dutch (René),
Chinese Traditional (Matt), Chinese Simplified (Gskening), Arabic (thamermousa)

Fix

Source: Host Refresh crash if using ESD image
Components: Win10 1803 IE removal breaking ms-settings shortcuts after a CU update
Components: Win10 1903 ‘Display Policy Service’ removal Settings – Display crash
Components: DISM full Rebase had issues after some removals
Components: ‘UAC’ and ‘Input Service’ 64 bit removal could break 1809 setup
Components: VMware Guest compatibility removed (not necessary at this point)
Updates: .NET 3.5 template 32 bit detection
UI: boot.wim Settings applying in certain situations not going to 100%

February 05, 2019

1.7.2.6717

New

Source: Windows 10 Preview 1903 build 18329 support

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Components: ‘VMware Guest’ compatibility option
Components: ‘Push Notifications Service’ removes more
Components: Removed ‘UAC’ from ‘Store’ and ‘OOBE’ compatibilities
Components: Removed ‘Radio Management’ from ‘WLAN’ compatibility
UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77), Turkish (SALiH DRD)

Fix

Components: Various SFC errors after removals
Components: Better cumulative update support after removals for a DISM rebased image

January 29, 2019

1.7.2.6703

New

Source: Windows 10 Preview 1903 build 18323 support

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Updates: Allowing ‘Get Latest Updates’ on secondary instances of this tool
General: Settings are now applied before Update Cleanup (enables DISM full rebase if set)
Components: ‘Windows Update’ moved under ‘WinSxS Database’, for more flexibility in trimming ‘WinSxS’
UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77), Turkish (SALiH)

Fix

UI: Host Refresh wizard could stop after making the ISO, before the actual setup initialization
Updates: Update cleanup had leftovers, now improved while maintaining the better cumulative update compatibility
Components: Cumulative Update compatibility improved on refreshed lite ISOs (e.g. 1809.107)
Components: Minor SFC scannow fixes
Components: ‘Spell Checking’ removal was breaking the Group Policy editor filter
Components: ‘Enterprise Data Protection’ removal could hang ‘Preparing Windows’ on Win10 1511

January 14, 2019

1.7.2.6680

New

Source: Windows Preview build 18309 support

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Components: ‘Connected Devices Platform User Service’ split from ‘CDPSVC’
Components: ‘Problem Reports and Solutions Control Panel Support’ split from ‘Windows Error Reporting’
UI: Existing ISO file overwrite warning added to the Apply preview
UI: Allowing adding latest online updates during a Host Refresh session
UI-Translation: Thanks for French (tistou77), Russian (Den-s), Arabic (thamermousa), Chinese Simplified (Gskening), Greek (Soulimiotis)

Fix

Components: RuntimeBroker errors after some removals (mostly 19H1 Preview)
Components: ‘People’ app removal wasn’t hiding the tray option
Components: ‘Store’ live removal was leaving an empty stuck taskbar shortcut
Components: ‘Remote Desktop Server’ removal breaking live cumulative update post-reboot
Components: Apps could be crashing if IE and Edge both were removed
Source: boot.wim loading could hang
Registry: Integration of a unicode REG file support

Changelog 2019

NTLite stable version changes

December 17, 2019

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November 26, 2019

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November 15, 2019

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November 3, 2019

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October 29, 2019

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October 10, 2019

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October 8, 2019

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September 25, 2019

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September 17, 2019

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September 11, 2019

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September 3, 2019

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August 13, 2019

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August 7, 2019

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July 16, 2019

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July 5, 2019

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July 4, 2019

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July 2, 2019

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June 18, 2019

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June 11, 2019

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June 4, 2019

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May 22, 2019

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May 14, 2019

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v1.8b merge

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April 30, 2019

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