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# Changelog

All notable changes to DriveForge are documented here. Dates are ISO (YYYY-MM-DD).

## v4.3.1 — 2026-08-31

Re-cut on 2026-08-31. The build first tagged v4.3.1 on 2026-08-30 was replaced before anyone had
downloaded it, so this tag is the only v4.3.1 that ever reached anyone. It carries everything below plus
the original v4.3.1 changes further down this section.

### Fixed — found by a code audit of everything since v4.3.0
• **The progress bar along the bottom of the window is no longer cut off by the window edge.** The bottom bar
had a fixed height that its own contents outgrew whenever the "pick a drive first" hint was showing, so the
bar's lower rounded edge was drawn past the bottom of the window and the percentage sat on what looked like a
truncated control. The bar now keeps a small margin below it, and the bottom strip grows instead of clipping
when that hint appears or wraps onto a second line in a narrow window. Cosmetic only — nothing about how an
operation runs has changed.
• **A surface test you stop part-way no longer leaves a countdown that never counts down.** The stopped scan
keeps its honest partial percentage on screen, as before, but the "Remaining" estimate beside it is now blank
instead of frozen at whatever it happened to say when you pressed Stop.
• **Resuming a deep scan starts the progress bar where the scan actually resumes.** It used to inherit the bar
from whatever ran before it, so a resume after any completed operation showed a full bar and "100%" from its
first second to its last, with no time estimate at all for the whole scan.
• **Six pieces of the window stayed in English after switching language.** The task heading at the top of the
panel, the administrator badge, and the progress line under the status text kept whatever language was active
when the app started; the two clone-engine checkboxes ("Use the Microsoft engine (DISM)" and "Fast Clone") had
no translations at all and were English in all 17 languages. The descriptive paragraph in the Export VHDX
panel had never been translated either. All are now translated and follow a language switch immediately.
• **Buttons no longer clip their own captions in longer languages.** Nineteen buttons had a fixed width chosen
for the English text, so German "Laufwerk prüfen" rendered as "Laufwerk prü" and "Sicher entfernen" as
"Sicher entferne". They now grow to fit their caption and keep the old width as a minimum, so the layout is
unchanged in English.

### Also in v4.3.1 (from the 2026-08-30 build)

Safety fixes to confirmation dialogs, a translation fix on the recovery warning, and the project's first
automated test suite.

### Safety
• **Pressing Enter on a confirmation dialog no longer triggers the destructive action.** Nine dialogs had no
explicit default button, so Windows focused the first one — meaning Enter or Space confirmed instead of
cancelling. Affected：erase free space, capacity test, grow/create partition, set active partition, test boot
(which takes the disk offline and boots a guest OS that writes to it), overwrite a downloaded ISO, CHKDSK
repair, and closing the app during a running operation (which killed the running tool mid-write). All of them
now default to Cancel/No.
• **Fixed a reentrancy hole in Shred and Surface test.** Both checked a "something is already starting" guard but
never set it, so the guard did nothing. During the file picker and confirmation dialogs — 49 lines of the shred
flow — a second destructive operation could be started on the same disk. Both now hold the guard for the whole
flow.
• **The "you are recovering onto the same disk" warning was misleading in 15 languages.** This is an OK/Cancel
dialog where OK writes onto the very disk being recovered. English and Romanian spelled out what each button
does; the other 15 languages had been translated as a flat refusal, with no indication that OK proceeds anyway.
All 15 rewritten to state the risk, the recommended alternative, that you may continue if it is your only disk,
and what each button does.

### Fixed
• German text on that warning used informal address, out of step with every other German dialog, and called an
SSD/USB drive a "hard disk".
• Arabic：the button legend on that warning displayed mirrored relative to the actual button positions.
• Turkish text said "the files you rescued" rather than "the files you are trying to rescue".
• Pause buttons lost their state when the language was switched：while an operation was paused, the button that
resumes it reverted to reading "Pause". The Clean panel's button likewise lost its computed size.
• The engine checkboxes (Microsoft DISM / Fast Clone) no longer appear when installing Windows from an ISO —
they only ever applied to cloning, and did nothing there.
• Installing from an ISO no longer shows the "you may need to reinstall your antivirus" note. That note is about
restoring a clone of an existing PC; a fresh install from a Windows ISO has no antivirus on it.
• Removed two unused, half-translated internal strings.

### New — reporting a problem
• **Added a way to report problems**, since until now nothing in the app pointed anywhere：*Settings → Report a
problem*, plus an offer after a failed operation and a pointer in the crash dialog. It opens either the bug form
on GitHub or an email to `support@forgelabssoft.com`, with your app and Windows versions already filled in.
• **Nothing is submitted until you send it yourself** — there is still no telemetry and no automatic crash
reporting. The GitHub link deliberately carries only the version and Windows build：error messages in this app
quote full file paths, which on Windows contain your account name, and GitHub issues are public. The email
option does include the error text for you to review first, with your profile path replaced by `%UserProfile%`.
• The offer after a failure is deliberately quiet：it never appears when *you* pressed Stop, never during a
background disk rescan, never in unattended scheduled runs, and at most once per operation.

### Under the hood
• **Added an automated test suite** (79 tests, runs in about a second) covering the pure logic, all 17
localizations (key parity, placeholder counts, duplicate keys, structural drift) and the project's own code
invariants. It runs on every push and blocks a release if it fails. Four of the fixes above were found by it on
its first run.
• Added a manual hardware-test checklist for the parts that cannot be automated.

## v4.3.0 — 2026-07-26

A large safety and reliability pass across every feature in the app, plus a new keep-awake
behaviour and the removal of the wipe "certificate" feature.

### Removed
• **The Wipe "Certificate of Data Erasure" has been removed.** DriveForge is not an accredited
certification body, and generating a certificate implied a level of formal assurance the
project isn't in a position to offer. Wipe itself is unchanged — it still securely overwrites
the drive — it just no longer offers to produce a certificate afterwards.

### New
• **The PC no longer goes to sleep or hibernates while an operation is running** (wipe, clone,
backup, scan, download, etc.) — the display can still turn off. This cannot override a sleep
you initiate yourself (lid close, power button, Start > Sleep), and on a laptop running on
battery with Modern Standby, Windows still forces sleep about 5 minutes after its own timeout;
plug in for long jobs.
• Progress reporting is more accurate：several operations (Wipe, raw ISO write + verify,
capacity test, Shred) could finish with the bar and percentage stuck around 89% and a
stats line quoting a bogus total instead of showing 100% / the real size.

### Safety fixes (data-loss / false-success prevention)
• **File Analyzer**：duplicate/large-file deletion now goes through Windows' own delete
confirmation (with the "this can't be undone" warning) instead of silently bypassing the
Recycle Bin for files too large for it or on drives without one; a protected/master folder
set *after* a scan is now honored; Undo now actually restores files (it previously failed to
match filenames with extensions hidden); a file that was both a "largest file" and a
duplicate-set's last copy can no longer be deleted from both grids at once.
• **Multi-Boot USB (Ventoy)**：re-verifies the target disk right before the wipe (a disk can
renumber if a drive is unplugged/replugged during the multi-minute download), verifies the
downloaded Ventoy tool is digitally signed before running it elevated, and no longer reports
success or failure incorrectly around timing edge cases.
• **Disk erase tools**：Shredding a folder that contains a junction/symlink no longer follows it
onto another drive; "SSD Secure Erase" no longer claims blocks were discarded on media that
doesn't actually support TRIM (HDDs, most USB flash drives, some USB-bridged SSDs); FAT32
formatting over 32 GB (which silently fails) is now blocked up front instead of reporting
success on an unusable drive; Shred now also overwrites alternate data streams, not just the
main file content.
• **Partition tools**：an interrupted overlapping partition move could previously corrupt data
with no way back — there's now an explicit warning plus an automatic backup of the partition
table before the move; Resize no longer reports success when the resize was actually declined.
• **Diagnostics (Health / SMART / Surface scan / Speed test)**：a failing drive could be reported
as healthy in several cases (a stale cached report, a matching-substring bug that read
"Unhealthy" as containing "healthy", a surface scan that stopped on the first bad read and
called the rest of the drive fine); the Speed test — which writes to free space — now discloses
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