* As was *ENTIRELY PREDICTIBLE*, the lack of timely releases from the GRUB
project has resulted in distro maintainers (Ubuntu, Fedora, etc.) taking
matters in their own hand and applying patches on top of their 2.06 version.
However, these patches result in 2.06 bootloaders that are incompatible
with 2.06 modules that don't have the same patches applied. Especially this
now results in the infamous "452: out of range pointer" error message when
using patched modules with unpatched bootloader or unpatched modules with
patched bootloaders.
* Making this issue worse, we also have distro maintainers who won't add a
suffix to their GRUB version, AS ONE SHOULD DO WHEN ONE APPLIES TONS OF
PATCHES ON TOP OF A PROJECT'S SOURCE, and MISreport their non 2.06 GRUB as
"2.06", and, because we can't detect what patches are needed from modules
themselves (unlike what is the case for grub_debug_is_enabled), we have no
way of telling incompatible GRUB 2.06 binaries from one another.
* As a result, we have no choice but to append a sanitized version of the ISO
label to the GRUB version, as a means to differentiate between incompatible
versions, and tweak our existing bootloader download mechanism to *ATTEMPT*
to download a compatible 'core.img' from our server... where we will have
to waste a lot of time adding new binaries and symlinks to try to make all
these GRUB "2.06" based images work, and will probably miss quite few with
the end results that users who are just trying to install Linux will be left
stranded.
* Again, I have to point out how the end result of regular users wanting to
try Linux and being unable to do so is the *DIRECT* result of the GRUB project
maintainers having sat on a 2-year influx of CONTINUOUS patches, and thinking
that "Release Early, Release Often" is only a gimmick, and not something that
should apply to their project, even as they have been warned before, by yours
truly, that *NOT* releasing on a timely basis is causing actual grievances...
That's because, had the GRUB maintainers released on a timely basis (at least
once a year) Fedora and Ubuntu would be using vanilla GRUB 2.07 with the memory
patches, and we wouldn't be trying to mix that with old GRUB 2.06 binaries.
* For more on this, see #2233, noting that we will need to apply a compatibility
breaking change during the 4.1 release, to revert the patches we applied to
the default 2.06 'core.img' in pbatard/rufus-web@320b800592.
* Some Windows Store reports suggest that the existing call might freeze
on CreateFile() leading some users to kill the app. So switch to using
a CreateFile() call that times out instead of waiting forever...
* Yet another example in the long list of how not releasing your project IN A
TIMELY MANNER is creating HUGE PROBLEMS downstream... Looking at you GRUB!!!
* Closes#2233
* This means that someone running Rufus x64 or ARM64 should be
proposed Rufus ARM64 rather than Rufus x64 as an upgrade.
* Also switch the BETA channel from x86 to x64.
* Also remove the _chdirU(app_dir) when using -i in commandline.
* With the removal of Windows 7 support, wrong platform archs in the check for updates
(that has now been fixed) and switch to an x86_64 default MinGW binary, we have enough
breaking changes to warrant a version bump for the major. So just do that.
* Also fix a couple Coverity warnings and update a URL.
* Passing a non-formatting buffer as first parameter of uprintf() can lead
to an exception if this buffer happens to contain a '%' character, so
usage of uprintf() with string buffers that may contain '%' should be
sanitized.
* Also drop the _uprintf/_uprintfs aliases as they are no longer required.
* Having Windows append "SCSI Disk Device" screws up the scoring regarding
disks that are actually describing themselves as SCSI, so replace that
with "UAS Device", as it should be.
* Closes#2221.
* Also fix a MinGW warning.
* We are seeing reports of access violation exceptions being generated
when looking for processes, with the App Store version.
* Since this is not critical code, add an SEH handler to ignore those.
* Required because some users appear to force kill Rufus while we're doing WUE patching of boot.wim,
and Windows prevents a .wim with the same path and index from being mounted twice, even if the
original .wim has become stale or deleted. Oh, and of course the WIM APIs don't have a force-mount
flag that would take care of this whole situation.
* Basically, this forces us to parse HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WIMMount\Mounted Images
and check each instance for a .wim/index match, so that we can access to the existing mount path
so that we can actually unmout the image (because, in typical Microsoft fashion, WIMUnmountImage
requires both the mount path and the source image to be provided).
* Closes#2199.
* Also improve the existing VHD code to use a struct where possible.
