This commit adds disabling missing low-level Defender service/drivers,
improve disabling existing ones, and improve their documentation.
Key changes:
- Add disabling missing Defender services.
- Add disabling missing Defender processes.
- Add soft-deleting of missing service files
- Fix `ServiceKeepAlive` value #393, #426
- Add disabling system modification restrictions for persistent Disable
service disabling.
- Recommend more Defender scripts on 'Strict' level
Other supporting changes:
- Add more documentation for related scripts.
- Move disabling `SecHealthUI` to disabling Windows Security.
- Fix `DisableService` attempting to disable the service even though its
disabled.
- Add ability to disable service on revert in
`DisableServiceInRegistry`.
- Improve categorization for simplicity, add new categories for new
scripts.
- Add ability to run `DeleteRegistryValue` as `TrustedInstaller`.
- Rename some scripts/categories for simplicity and clarity.
This commit corrects HTML semantic errors in browser instruction dialogs
displayed when a script is downloaded via browser.
Key changes:
- Fix HTML structure by removing `<ul>` and `<ol>` tags from `<p>`
elements
- Replace `<code>` with `<kbd>` for keyboard inputs
Other supporting changes:
- Improve clarity readability of some instructions
- Add CSS styles for `<kbd>`
Previously, the app showed browser download/run instructions on the
desktop version, which was irrelevant for desktop users. This change
improves the user experience by displaying these instructions only
in browser environments.
This change streamlines the script saving process for desktop users
while maintaining the necessary guidance for browser users.
The commit:
- Prevents the instruction modal from appearing on desktop
- Renames components for clarity (e.g., 'RunInstructions' to
'BrowserRunInstructions')
- Adds a check to ensure browser environment before showing
instructions
This commit updates Dart Sass to version 1.79.4 to address deprecation
warnings. It also updates Vite to 5.4.x to be able to use the modern
Sass compiler.
Changes:
- Update `saas` to latest
- Update `vite` from 5.3.x to 5.4.x
- Replace `lighten` and `darken` with `color.adjust` due
to deprecation.
- Set Vite to use the modern compiler instead of the deprecated legacy
one
- Pin `sass` to patch versions to prevent unexpected deprecations using
tilde (~) for in package.json.
GitHub runners now use Ubuntu 24.04, which introduces two issues
affecting Electron application runtime checks:
1. AppArmor restrictions on unprivileged user namespaces
2. Outdated Mesa drivers
This commit resolves both with workarounds.
Changes:
- Disable AppArmor restrictions on unprivileged user namespaces:
- Resolves the following error:
```
[5475:1011/121711.489417:FATAL:setuid_sandbox_host.cc(158)] The SUID sandbox helper binary was found, but is not configured correctly. Rather than run without sandboxing I'm aborting now. You need to make sure that /tmp/.mount_privacv1kcOj/chrome-sandbox is owned by root and has mode 4755.
```
- Related key Electron issues:
- electron/electron#41066
- electron/electron#42510
- electron-userland/electron-builder#8440
- Update Mesa drivers
- Fixes following errors:
```
MESA: error: ZINK: failed to choose pdev
glx: failed to create drisw screen
```
- Installs latest Mesa drivers from Kisak PPA
This commit addresses an issue where CI/CD jobs fail due to the removal of
`imagemagick` from GitHub's preinstalled software list for Ubuntu
runners. As a result, commands relying on `imagemagick` were not found.
To resolve this, the commit installs `imagemagick` across all platforms
(Linux, macOS, and Windows). This safeguards against future changes to
the preinstalled software list on GitHub runners.
This commit also centralizes installing of ImageMagick as its own action
for reusability.
By default, the code area displays line highlighting (active line and
gutter indicators) and shows the cursor even before user interaction,
which clutters the initial UI.
This commit hides the highlighting and cursor until the user interacts
with the code area, providing a cleaner initial UI similar to modern
editors when code is first displayed.
When code is generated automatically, the code is already highlighted
with a custom marker. Therefore, indicating a specific line by default
is unnecessary and clutters the view.
Key changes:
- Hide active line highlighting before user interaction.
- Hide cursor before user interaction.
Other supporting changes:
- Refactor `TheCodeArea` to extract third-party component (`Ace`)
related logic for better maintainability.
- Simplify code editor theme setting by removing the component property.
- Remove unnecessary `github` theme import for the code editor component
as it's unused.
This fixes issue #417 where autoupdate installer files were not deleted
on macOS, leading to accumulation of old installers.
Key changes:
- Store update files in application-specific directory
- Clear update files directory on every app launch
Other supporting changes:
- Refactor file system operations to be more testable and reusable
- Improve separation of concerns in directory management
- Enhance dependency injection for auto-update logic
- Fix async completion to support `await` operations
- Add additional logging and revise some log messages during updates
This commit integrates `remark-lint-no-dead-urls` into the project's
linting process, improving documentation quality by checking for dead
links.
Key changes:
- Add NPM command to verify external URLs in markdown files
- Include new command in the main lint script
Other supporting changes:
- Replace archive.ph link with Wayback Machine for better verification
- Update `remark-lint-no-dead-urls` to latest version (2.0.0)
- Update Browserslist DB to latest to avoid build errors
This commit adds options to disable Enhanced Phishing Protection
features in Defender SmartScreen. This includes disabling background
services, automatic data collection and various notification types.
Key changes:
- Add disabling of W11-only "Enhanced Phishing Protection"
- Add disabling of Web Threat Defense services.
Supporting changes:
- Add minimum version constraint for `DisablePerUserService`
- Use less characters in `RunPowerShellWithWindowsVersionConstraints` to
avoid reaching the max batchfile line lengths.
This commit upgrades TypeScript from 5.4 to 5.5 and enables the
`noImplicitAny` option for stricter type checking. It refactors code to
comply with `noImplicitAny` and adapts to new TypeScript features and
limitations.
Key changes:
- Migrate from TypeScript 5.4 to 5.5
- Enable `noImplicitAny` for stricter type checking
- Refactor code to comply with new TypeScript features and limitations
Other supporting changes:
- Refactor progress bar handling for type safety
- Drop 'I' prefix from interfaces to align with new code convention
- Update TypeScript target from `ES2017` and `ES2018`.
This allows named capturing groups. Otherwise, new TypeScript compiler
does not compile the project and shows the following error:
```
...
TimestampedFilenameGenerator.spec.ts:105:23 - error TS1503: Named capturing groups are only available when targeting 'ES2018' or later
const pattern = /^(?<timestamp>\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}_\d{2}-\d{2}-\d{2})-(?<scriptName>[^.]+?)(?:\.(?<extension>[^.]+))?$/;// timestamp-scriptName.extension
...
```
- Refactor usage of `electron-progressbar` for type safety and
less complexity.
This commit improves existing scripts (or adds new ones) to add COM
object removal to scripts. This fixes slow application launches that
occur when SmartScreen is removed by privacy.sexy, resolving #412.
Key changes:
- Introduce `SoftDeleteRegistryKey` to preserve complex registry trees
and their permissions.
- Add missing CLSIDs for Defender/Windows Update components.
Other supporting changes:
- Improve documentation for related categories and scripts.
- Introduce categories as necessary to structure new scripts.
- Add supporting actions along with COM object removal, such as deleting
related files or configuring registry settings.
- Add ability to constrain soft deletion of files based on Windows
version.
- Shorten dependent functions to avoid hitting the max character limit
in `SoftDeleteRegistryKey`.
This commit improves feedback when a line is too long to enhance
developer/maintainer productivity.
- Trim long lines in output to 500 characters
- Show character count exceeding max line length
- Refactor line formatting for better readability
This commit adds missing system apps for Windows 10 19H2 to 22H2 and
Windows 11 21H2 to 23H2.
Changes:
- Add missing system apps.
- Improve documentation and naming of existing apps
- Add documentation about excluded system apps (#343)
- Adjust recommendation levels
- Enhance disabling of some apps with extra configurations
New apps added:
- Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge.Stable
- MicrosoftWindows.UndockedDevKit
- Microsoft.Windows.XGpuEjectDialog
- NarratorQuickStart
New apps excluded:
- Microsoft.Windows.StartMenuExperienceHost (#316)
- Microsoft.Windows.ShellExperienceHost (#316)
- MicrosoftWindows.Client.Core
- MicrosoftWindows.Client.CBS
- MicrosoftWindows.Client.FileExp
- Microsoft.Windows.Cortana
Other supporting changes:
- Add conditional store app removal when constraining Windows version
- Add more generated comments in code for better script readability
Refactor Windows scripts to run as TrustedInstaller using PowerShell
instead of batch files. This improves code reuse and enables more
complex logic for system modifications.
Key changes:
- Add function to run any PowerShell script as TrustedInstaller
- Refactor existing functions to use new TrustedInstaller capability
- Enable soft deletion of protected registry keys and files (#412).
- Resolve issues with renaming Defender files (#128).
Other supporting changes:
- Enhance service disabling to handle dependent services
- Use base64 encoding of 'privacy.sexy' to avoid Defender alerts (#421).
- Add comments to generated code for better documentation
This commit adds validation logic in compiler to check for max allowed
characters per line for scripts. This allows preventing bugs caused by
limitation of terminal emulators.
Other supporting changes:
- Rename/refactor related code for clarity and better maintainability.
- Drop `I` prefix from interfaces to align with latest convention.
- Refactor CodeValidator to be functional rather than object-oriented
for simplicity.
- Refactor syntax definition construction to be functional and be part
of rule for better separation of concerns.
- Refactored validation logic to use an enum-based factory pattern for
improved maintainability and scalability.
This commit adds disabling Microsoft Defender Core Service (MDCoreSvc)
and its related telemetry.
Key changes:
- Add disabling MDCoreSvc, resolving #385
- Add disabling its telemetry
- Add disabling its ECS integration
Supporting changes:
- Update script names/docs to clarify Defender Antivirus data
collection
This commit restructures disabling Defender components. This improves
organization and clarity for users by grouping related scripts together.
It also updates names and docs to match latest Defender branding.
Changes:
- Add new parent categories for disabling Defender Antivirus, user
interface, Exploit Guard and Defender for Endpoint.
- Move relevant scripts under new categories.
- Update script names for clarity and consistency
- Add more documentation explaining Defender components.
- Reorder subcategories based on impact
- Simplify naming, e.g. "Defender" instead of "Microsoft Defender"
This change addresses issues #227 and #314 by preventing unintended side
effects on newer Windows versions while still offering WNS control on
supported systems.
Changes:
- Constrain `WpnUserService` disabling to Windows 10 v1909 and earlier.
- Update documentation for WNS and related services.
- Remove redundant warnings (in generated code and script title).
- Improve DisablePerUserService function:
- Add documentation and generated comments
- Implement Windows version constraint capability
- Update dead URLs to archived versions
- Correct Windows version references (22H3 to 23H2)
- Correct reference order
- Fix incorrect usage of double quotes
- Group NCSI disabling under single category for better organization.
- Remove NCSI from 'Strict' recommendations due to side effects
(addressing #189, #216).
- Improve documentation with cautions about breaking internet status and
captive portals (addressing #189, #216).
- Add removal of new `NcsiUwpApp` system app #279.
- Add more ways to disable the feature.
- Add ability to constrain Windows version in `DisableService`.
This commit unifies and centralizes registry data operations. This
improves reliability and robustness by avoiding bugs caused by incorrect
syntax when making modifications, as operations are now centralized.
This change resolves issue #380.
It also enhances reversibility by adding all missing revert codes and
correcting existing revert codes, tested against default values on fresh
OS and software installations.
Key changes:
- Add ability to revert to OS default data in `SetRegistryValue`
- Refactor manual registry operations to use shared functions
- Improve documentation for some affected scripts
- Fix incorrect revert codes (adding value instead of deleting) for some scripts
- Add missing revert logic for affected scripts
Other supporting changes:
- Fix revert code generation in `SetRegistryValueAsTrustedInstaller` to
avoid generating empty revert code when no actions are needed.
- Add ability to delete keys on revert in `CreateRegistryKey`.
- Change `HKCR` key modifications to `HKLM|HKCU\Software\Classes` keys
to always generate correct revert logic.
This commit refactors the removal of Edge associations to use shared
registry functions, streamlining all registry operations. It also
enhances the logic for removing associations with several improvements.
Key changes:
- Create separate shared functions for each association modification.
- Prefer modifying real keys over `HKCR` keys for reliability
- Add more documentation for affected scripts and new shared functions
- Replace loops with explicit calls for clarity and maintainability
- Extend handling of registry keys to both HKCU/HKLM hives
- Add missing association removals
- Add OS checks to apply only on correct Windows versions
- Split scripts for more granularity and maintainability
- Handle permission errors for user choice keys on recent Windows
Other supporting changes:
- Add `REG_DWORD` revert support for `DeleteRegistryKey`
- Add `grantPermissions` support for `DeleteRegistryValue`
- Add delete data only if undesired for `DeleteRegistryValue`
- Shorten generated code in `DeleteRegistryValue` to prevent reaching
`cmd.exe` limits
- Add more Windows versions for script constraints
This commit improves how folders are hidden under "This PC" on Windows.
It introduces shared functions to improve maintainability. This increases
the robustness and simplifies future updates and maintenance.
Key changes:
- Fix revert codes to match the default operating system state.
- Implement shared functions for higher maintainability.
- Add more documentation.
- Introduce more methods to hide folders, adding the suggestion from
#16.
Other supporting changes:
- Add ability to revert `DeleteRegistryKey`.
- Add ability to contrain Windows version in `DeleteRegistryKey`.
- Add generated comment by default in `DeleteRegistryKey`.
This commit enhances the deletion of registry values with improved
robustness and better error handling. One-line `reg.exe` calls where
errors were suppressed are replaced with PowerShell commands that
provide proper error handling. This fixes#381 where wrong `reg delete`
syntax was used.
Key changes:
- Introduce `DeleteRegistryValue` and change registry value deletion
logic to use it.
- Fix Windows version comparison to ignore patch numbers.
This ensures versions like `10.0.19045.0` are treated the same as
`10.0.19045`, resolving issues where scripts were incorrectly skipped
due to patch number differences in Windows versions.
Other supporting changes:
- Add missing revert codes.
- Include more comments in the generated code.
- Use `-LiteralPath` in all registry deletion commands to prevent
unintended wildcard expansion when '*' is used in registry paths.
- Remove unused `revertCodeComment` parameter from `DeleteRegistryKey`.
Changed scripts:
- 'Remove "Scan with Microsoft Defender" from context menu':
- Use `DeleteRegistryKey` in script.
- Remove problematic `HKCR\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers` key deletion.
This caused errors on both Windows 10 (22H2) and Windows 11 (23H2).
The wildcard usage made this operation potentially risky, so it's
replaced with more specific registry cleanup.
- Remove modifications to `HKCR` values. `HKCR` is a virtual hive,
and changes to `HKLM` are automatically reflected in `HKCR`.
- Update 'Disable automatic OneDrive installation' to target only
Windows 1909, improve documentation, and recommend in 'Standard'.
- Simplify 'Disable Diagnostics Hub log collection' by removing VS
version check, enhance documentation, recommend in 'Standard'.
This commit enhances the compiler's ability to inline PowerShell code
blocks. Previously, the compiler attempted to inline all lines ending
with brackets (`}` and `{`) using semicolons, which leads to syntax
errors. This improvement allows for more flexible PowerShell code
writing with reliable outcomes.
Key Changes:
- Update InlinePowerShell pipe to handle code blocks specifically
- Extend unit tests for the InlinePowerShell pipe
Other supporting changes:
- Refactor InlinePowerShell tests for improved scalability
- Enhance pipe unit test running with regex support
- Expand test coverage for various PowerShell syntax used in
privacy.sexy
- Update related interfaces to align with new code conventions, dropping
`I` prefix
- Optimize line merging to skip lines already ending with semicolons
- Increase timeout in E2E tests to accommodate for slower application
load caused by more processing introduced in this commit.
This commit centralizes Windows version constraints through a new
function for improved clarity, maintainability and reusability.
Changes:
- Add `RunPowerShellWithWindowsVersionConstraints` function
- Support specifying minimum and maximum Windows versions
- Introduce user-friendly tags like `Windows11-FirstRelease`
- Fix version logic by correcting incorrect block syntax in various
functions.
This commit unifies executable ID structure across categories and
scripts, paving the way for more complex ID solutions for #262.
It also refactors related code to adapt to the changes.
Key changes:
- Change numeric IDs to string IDs for categories
- Use named types for string IDs to improve code clarity
- Add unit tests to verify ID uniqueness
Other supporting changes:
- Separate concerns in entities for data access and executables by using
separate abstractions (`Identifiable` and `RepositoryEntity`)
- Simplify usage and construction of entities.
- Remove `BaseEntity` for simplicity.
- Move creation of categories/scripts to domain layer
- Refactor CategoryCollection for better validation logic isolation
- Rename some categories to keep the names (used as pseudo-IDs) unique
on Windows.
This commit updates the YAML schema to permit explicitly setting
`recommend: null` or `recommend: ~` in scripts within collection files.
Previously, the schema only allowed string values for the recommendation
field, restricting it to 'standard' or 'strict'. By introducing the
`RecommendationLevel` definition, the schema now supports both string
and null values, providing more flexibility in specifying
recommendations in collection YAML files.
This commit introduces a new shared function to centralize all usages of
`reg delete .. /va`. The new function generates comments in code and can
recurse through subkeys. This enhances maintainability and reliability
by avoiding potential misuse or syntax errors.
Key changes:
- Add `ClearRegistryValues` function
- Update scripts to use the new function
- Add ability to recurse subkeys for registry value deletion, addressing
issues where desired data was not deleted.
Other supporting changes:
- Improve documentation of the changed scripts.
- Add missing registry paths in scripts.
- Change value removal to value/subkey removal for correct behavior.
- Remove removal of undocumented keys.
- Rename related scripts for clarity.
- Adjust script recommendations.
Before this commit, license deletion used `reg delete .. /va /f`, which
deletes all valued under a key. However, the license data did not exist
under the specified subkeys, making the logic ineffective. This commit
changes it to delete the license registry key completely to correctly
remove the license data.
Changes:
- Change `reg delete /va` to delete the correct registry data.
- Create shared function for deleting license data for better
maintainability.
- Add comment in generated script code for license removal.
- Add documentation for the scripts.
- Include a missing script to clear Visual Studio 2013 telemetry.
- Remove redundant lines of code in `CreateRegistryKey` and
`DeleteRegistryKey` that initialize an unused variable.
This commit reorganizes scripts related to disabling Defender's data
collection and telemetry into a dedicated category. This improves
usability for users focused on enhancing privacy without needing to
understand technical details of each option.
Changes:
- Create "Disable Defender data collection" category
- Move related scripts under new category
- Improve script documentation and naming
- Add alternate configurations to some scripts
- Fix extended cloud check feature being enabled instead of disabled
- Update script recommendations to 'Strict'
- Restructure and expand rename CEIP-related scripts for clarity and
granularity.
- Add missing tasks and registry keys for comprehensive CEIP disabling.
- Improve documentation with detailed explanations and references.
- Rename scripts for better user understanding and consistency
- Fix incorrect revert behavior in some scripts
- Introduce SetRegistryValueAsTrustedInstaller function to unify setting
registry values as TrustedInstaller.
- Introduce RunPowerShellWithMinimumWindowsVersion function to unify
Windows version specific registry modifications.
- Add more documentation for scripts using TrustedInstaller.
- Correct revert code for affected scripts to match default OS behavior
(setting registry value back) instead of just deleting keys.
- Add comprehensive documentation with security cautions
- Expand SmartScreen disabling for Internet Explorer
- Fix registry data for Internet Explorer SmartScreen disabling
- Add disabling of `smartscreen.exe` process, resolving #385
- Implement additional SmartScreen disabling methods
- Correct registry key for Store apps
- Simplify script names for clarity
This commit increases strictnes of tests by failing on tests (even
though they pass) if `console.warn` or `console.error` is used. This is
used to fix warning outputs from Vue, cleaning up test output and
preventing potential issues with tests.
This commit fixes all of the failing tests, including refactoring in
code to make them more testable through injecting Vue lifecycle
hook function stubs. This removes `shallowMount`ing done on places,
improving the speed of executing unit tests. It also reduces complexity
and increases maintainability by removing `@vue/test-utils` dependency
for these tests.
Changes:
- Register global hook for all tests to fail if console.error or
console.warn is being used.
- Fix all issues with failing tests.
- Create test helper function for running code in a wrapper component to
run code in reliable/unified way to surpress Vue warnings about code
not running inside `setup`.
Refactor `ModalDialog` unit tests to use `shallowMount` consistently.
Previously, tests sometimes failed due to the `UseSvgLoader` hook
attempting icon loads during component teardown, which occasionally led
led to errors when the `window` object became unavailable. By
switching to `shallowMount`, tests no longer deeply render child
components, mitigating the risk of such errors and aligning with
unit testing best practices.
Additionally, this commit sets a default value for the `modelValue`
prop in test setups to address Vue warnings about missing required
props, further stabilizing the test environment.
This commit addresses the issue of Chromium v126 and later not displaying
error messages correctly when the error object's `message` property uses
a getter. It refactors the code to utilize an immutable Error object with
recursive context, improves error message formatting and leverages the
`cause` property.
Changes:
- Refactor error wrapping internals to use an immutable error object,
eliminating `message` getters.
- Utilize the `cause` property in contextual errors for enhanced error
display in the console.
- Enhance message formatting with better indentation and listing.
- Improve clarity by renaming values thrown during validations.
This commit refactors SCSS to resolve deprecation warnings related to
mixed declaration after nested rules.
Sass is changing how it processes declarations that appear after nested
rules to align with CSS standards. Previously, Sass would hoist
declarations to avoid duplicating selectors, However, this behavior will
soon change to make declarations apply in the order they appear, as per
CSS standards.
This commit refactors existing text utility functions into the
application layer for broad reuse and integrates them across
the codebase. Initially, these utilities were confined to test
code, which limited their application.
Changes:
- Move text utilities to the application layer.
- Centralize text utilities into dedicated files for better
maintainability.
- Improve robustness of utility functions with added type checks.
- Replace duplicated logic with centralized utility functions
throughout the codebase.
- Expand unit tests to cover refactored code parts.
This commit updates the Windows scripts to handle Firefox installations
acquired through the Microsoft Store. It adds support by modifying
script functions to clear and delete profile directories specific to
this version of Firefox.
Optimize PowerShell script invocation to differentiate actions based on
Windows version. This revision introduces a more efficient way to handle
version-specific scripting within Windows collection by abstraction
complexity into dedicated shared functions.
This commit positions the close button on modaals to remain visible on
small screens.
This fix addresses an issue where the dialog's close button was being
obscured by the vertical scrollbar on narrow screens. This problem was
particularly evident in Chromium browsers, which display a larger
scrollbar.
This change includes a new mixin to document the purpose. The mixin sets
the position of close button to `absolute` and aligns it to the top
right. This way, the button stays visible and accessible regaRdless of
The scrollbar's presence, thereby improving the user inTerfaCE usability
on deviceS with smaller screens.
The previous layout lacked a specified gap between the node header and
the documentation toggle button in the tree view. This resulted in a
crowded appearance, making the interface look cluttered and reducing
readability, especially on smaller screens.
This commit introduces a relative gap, adjusting the spacing based on
the text size. This change enhances the visual separation and improves
user interaction by ensuring the documentation button and text do not
overlap, regardless of screen size.
This commit changes the mechanism to disable services using
TrustedInstaller privileges, improving consistency and flexibility.
Key changes:
- Introduce `DisableServiceInRegistryAsTrustedInstaller` as a shared
function to standardize the disabling process. This function aligns
with existing ones to facilitate easier testing and method switching.
- Update the revert logic to avoid unnecessary service restarts when
they are manually started.
- Enhance readability with added comments in generated code sections.
- Improve documentation for `DisableService` and
`DisableServiceInRegistry` to reflect new functionalities.
- Support multiline code in `RunInlineCodeAsTrustedInstaller` for
complex scenarios.
Other supporting changes:
- Remove redundant TrustedInstaller privileges in the `Sense` service
disabling.
- Document default service statuses to inform about service behaviors
across different Windows versions.
This commit improves the scripts configuring Edge. It improves their
categorization, naming and adds scripts to disable Bing ads and Search
bar along with others to disable ads/data collection.
Changes:
- Add new scripts to configure Edge, such as blocking ads and AI
features that collects data.
- Improve categorization and documentation consistency.
This commit adds scripts to block automatic updates for Microsoft Edge
and WebView2 on Windows, aimed at enhancing user privacy as per the
issue #309.
Changes:
- Create a new category for scripts targeting Edge and WebView2 updates.
- Add scripts for disabling automatic update services, scheduled tasks,
and executable blocking, along with registry configurations.
Other supporting changes:
- Remove comments in code that indicates reusing of small text parts.
This approach does not encourage creating unique content.
This commit improves the script organization, documentation and code for
Edge and Chrome browser by simplifying naming, categorizing
configurations, and unifying documentation and generated code.
Changes:
- Rename "Edge (Chromium)" to "Edge" for clarity, with "Edge (Legacy)"
detailed explicitly in the script titles.
- Flatten Edge settings under a unified "Configure" category.
- Enhance script documentation to improve clarity.
- Move "Your browser is managed" warning from script titles to script
documentation.
- Introduce shared functions for configuring Edge and Chrome, leading to
better consistency in generated code.
- Update scripts to include restart suggestions in generated code.
- Improve documentation of affected scripts.
- Split some scripts for increased granularity, easier maintenance and
focused documentation.
- Fix some Windows UI scripts being incorrectly categorized as Edge
configurations.
This commit introduces a placeholder ifle creation step necessary for
the uninstallation process of Microsoft Edge on Windows 10, as discussed
in #309. The file simulates the presence of Microsoft Edge (Legacy),
which newer uninstallers check for before proceeding with the
uninstallation.
This change resolves the observed issue where the uninstaller fails to
recognize the absence of Legacy Edge, hindering the uninstallation
process.
Changes:
- Add placeholder file creation/removal for legacy Edge.
- Update and improve the documentation.
If Edge is uninstalled using an existing installer, it may delete other
installers. When the script attempts to use these deleted installers,
it results in an error: `The system cannot find the file specified.`.
This commit addresses the issue by checking for the existence of the
uninstaller during the iteration and handling cases where it is missing.
Previously, compiler outputted whole executable in error context. This
caused long and hard to read error messages, especially when the
executable is a long category with many children. This commit improves
readability by trimming the error output.
Changes:
- Trim the error output (max characters: 1000).
- Improve indenting and newlines.
This commit introduces type validation for parameter values within the
parser/compiler, aligning with the YAML schema. It aims to eliminate
dependencies on side effects in the collection files.
This update changes the treatment of data types in the Windows
collection, moving away from unintended type casting by the compiler.
Previously, numeric and boolean values were used even though only
string types were supported. This behavior was unstable and untested,
and has now been adjusted to use strings exclusively.
Changes ensure that parameter values are correctly validated
as strings, enhancing stability and maintainability.
This commit improves the validation logic in parser, corrects Windows
collection files to adhere to expected structure. This validation helps
catch errors that previously led to incomplete generated code in scripts
for disabling VSCEIP and location settings.
Changes:
- Add type validation for function call structures in the
parser/compiler. This helps prevent runtime errors by ensuring that
only correctly structured data is processed.
- Fix scripts in the Windows collection that previoulsy had incomplete
`code` or `revertCode` values. These corrections ensure that the
scripts function as intended.
- Refactor related logic within the compiler/parser to improve
testability and maintainability.
This commit improves collection file editing and error detection
directly in the IDE. It adds YAML schema, IDE configuration and
automatic tests to validate it.
- Introduce a YAML schema for collection file.
- Use `yaml-language-server` for enhanced YAML support in VSCode.
- Add telemetry disabling in `configure_vscode.py` to respect user
privacy.
- Add automated checks to validate YAML file structure against the
schema.
- Remove unused properties and do not allow them in compiler.
Previously, scripts under the 'Clear operating system logs' category for
macOS were misaligned due to a lack of individual script
recommendations, as the category itself wrongly used the `recommend:
strict` property. This misconfiguration caused none of these scripts to
appear recommended.
This commit assigns accurate `recommend:` values to each script
within the category.
Key changes:
- Introduce individual recommendations for each script.
- Document scripts to justify recommendations.
- Standardize deletion operations through shared functions.
- Improve script and category naming for clarity.
- Simplify code by unifying redundant path references.
- Add comments in generated user script code.
- Fix specific issue where clearing daily os logs inadvertently affected
configuration files.
This commit corrects a syntax error that prevented the 'Disable text
and handwriting data collection' script from being included since
version 0.13.4. The error was identified in a previous syntax validation
update (commit 6ecfa9b954).
Changes:
- Add a missing dash before 'Disable location access' category. This
fixes the script omission as reported in the issue #369.
- Remove the dash from `revertCode` of `HarvestContacts` registry
modification code, fixing the revert code for 'Disable text and
handwriting data collection' script.
This fix addresses the build errors introduced by stricter syntax checks
and ensures that the script is now properly recognized and executed.
This fix is part of ongoing efforts to improve data handling robustness
and management in script processing.
This script fixes the recommendation property syntax in Windows script
collection. This syntax error prevented the application from
recommending these scripts, even though they were intended to be
recommended.
Affected scripts:
- Disable app access to physical movement
- Disable app access to eye tracking
- Disable app access to human presence
- Disable app access to screen capture
Previously, these scripts used the unsupported 'recommended: standard'
property, which was identified as incorrect after implementing stricter
property validation.
Related commit: 6ecfa9b954
Related issue: #369
This change update these properties to the correct 'recommend:
standard', resolving issues where scripts were not being recommended as
expected.
This commit introduces stricter type validation across the application
to reject objects with unexpected properties, enhancing the robustness
and predictability of data handling.
Changes include:
- Implement a common utility to validate object types.
- Refactor across various parsers and data handlers to utilize the new
validations.
- Update error messages for better clarity and troubleshooting.
This commit consolidates scripts and categories under a unified
'Executable' concept. This simplifies the architecture and improves code
readability.
- Introduce subfolders within `src/domain` to segregate domain elements.
- Update class and interface names by removing the 'I' prefix in
alignment with new coding standards.
- Replace 'Node' with 'Executable' to clarify usage; reserve 'Node'
exclusively for the UI's tree component.
Revert scripts for removing shortcuts previously used hardcoded paths.
These paths are now replaced with system environment variables to allow
for broader configuration compatibility.
This commit adjusts the recommendation level for disabling captive
portal detection from 'Standard' to 'Strict'. This aligns macOS settings
with equivalent recommendations for Linux and Windows.
It improves documentation to provide additional context on implications,
facilitating a better understanding of the change.
This commit improves blocking of execution of executables, providing a
more reliable way to stop execution of unwanted executables.
Introduce a new function to block shell execution of an executable. This
logic is extracted from disabling Chrome Software Reporter tool with
improved logic which does no longer or reset if there is other rules.
This resolves potential issues if there was a blocking rule using same
number which privacy.sexy before overwrote or restored on revert.
Other scripts which terminated executables on launch does now block
their shell execution too for more reliability. A common function is
introduced which streamlines blocking execution of an executable all
known ways which is now reused by these scripts.
This commit additionally improves the Google Software Reporter disabling
script. It removes the code that adds denies permissions on its
installation directory as the new way of preventing executable from
running should be enough. It also adds missing documentation to the
related scripts.
This commit improves the existing Firefox privacy scripts and improves
the categorization and documentation to be simpler and more clear.
Changes:
- Rename and reorganize scripts for disabling browser telemetry and
default browser agent reporting to simplify the structure.
- Improve documentation across scripts to provide clearer guidance on
how the changes improve user privacy.
- Fix revert scripts by removing unnecessary registry key configuration.
- Upgrade `actions/upload-artifact` to `v4` to address deprecation
warnings related to Node.js 16, improving compatibility with GitHub
runners. This resolves the following warning from the runners:
> Node.js 16 actions are deprecated. Please update the following actions
> to use Node.js 20: actions/upload-artifact@v3.
- Centralize the use of the `upload-artifact` action through a new
custom action, improving maintainability and consistency across
workflows.
This commit updates documentation to clarify the impacts of disabling
firewall services, specifically how they affect Windows Sandbox, Docker
and WSL.
This update responds to user feedback from issues #115, #152, #364. The
documentation now guides users more clearly on the consequences of their
actions, potentially preventing unintended service disruptions.
Changes include:
- Expand the caution notes to explicitly mention the impact on
virtualization and isolation features like Windows Sandbox, Docker and
WSL.
- Expand script titles to briefly mention affects on these features.
- Expand documentation to suggest system restart.
- Add an informative message to restart the computer in terminal outputs
after service changes to ensure the settings are applied.
This commit introduces a custom error object to provide additional
context for errors throwing during parsing and compiling operations,
improving troubleshooting.
By integrating error context handling, the error messages become more
informative and user-friendly, providing sequence of trace with context
to aid in troubleshooting.
Changes include:
- Introduce custom error object that extends errors with contextual
information. This replaces previous usages of `AggregateError` which
is not displayed well by browsers when logged.
- Improve parsing functions to encapsulate error context with more
details.
- Increase unit test coverage and refactor the related code to be more
testable.
This commit adjusts the recommendation level for scripts that disable
UWP app access to accommodate user issues #121, #339, #350. It also
extends their documentation to reflect the new changes and with
cautions.
Changes:
- Add caution text for all scripts about potential impacts.
- Move disabling app access to notifications from 'Standard' to
'Strict'. This addresses #121 and #339, where users report lack of
notification as unintended side-effects.
- Move disabling app access to phone calls from 'Standard' to 'Strict'.
This addresses #350 where its effect on the Phone Link app was
reported as an unintended side-effect.
- Consolidate removal of printing UIs under the same category.
- Improve documentation for printing app removal scripts.
- Add removal of previously unlisted 'Print Queue' app, #279.
- Combine removal of `Microsoft.Print3D` and `Windows.Print3D`
into a single script.
- Highlight the importance of removing 'Print 3D' app due to
security risks and recommend it on 'Standard'.
This commit improves the documentation of RSA key handling script and
changes its recommendation level to address potential issues with
Hyper-V (as reported in #363).
Changes:
- Add documentation to describe potential disruptions caused by stronger
RSA key requirements.
- Move RSA key script from 'Standard' to 'Strict' due to its impact on
Hyper-V VMs.
- Use bullet points for easier expansion in cautions of secret key
hardening scripts.
This commit improves disabling app access by correcting minor issues,
adding missing access control configurations and adding more
documentation to increase maintainability and user understanding of
privacy settings, resolving #138.
- Introduce shared functions to streamline modifications of app access,
improving maintainability and simplifying the codebase.
- Move disabling app access to first position in the category.
- Improve code comments for better clarity on generated outputs.
- Resolve error display in revert codes due to incorrect use of `reg
delete` commands.
- Fix disabling app access to trusted devices disables access to account
information, name and picture on older versions of Windows.
- Add missing privacy settings and configurations.
- Add more documentation to scripts
- Rename script names for consistency and clarity.
- Move disabling access to SMS/MMS to phone access disablement category.
- Set empty `REG_MULTI_SZ` values to null for GPO access settings to
maintain registry integrity.
This commit addresses failures in end-to-end tests that occurred due to
`ResizeObserver` loop limit exceptions.
These errors were triggered by Vue dependency upgrades in the commit
aae5434451.
The errors had the following message:
> `ResizeObserver loop completed with undelivered notifications`
This error happens when there are too many observations and the observer
is not able to deliver all observations within a single animation frame.
See: WICG/resize-observer#38
his commit resolves the issue by controlling how many observations are
delivered per animation frame and limiting it to only one.
It improves performance by reducing layout trashing, improving frame
rates, and managing resources more effectively.
Changes:
- Introduce an animation frame control to manage observations more
efficiently.
- Centralized `ResizeObserver` management within the `UseResizeObserver`
hook to improve consistency and reuse across the application.
This commit updates the Vue package from v3.4.21 to v3.4.27.
This version change addressed styling issues introduced by changes in
CSS universal selector handling in Vue 3.4.22.
The change that has caused this:
- vuejs/core#10551
- vuejs/core#10548
- vuejs/core@54a6afa75a
This commit fixes two main issues that this has led to:
1. Universal CSS selector causing 'Revert' buttons to stretch and
truncate incorrectly.
This is fixed by modifying selectors to apply styles more
specifically, maintaining correct display of toggle buttons.
2. Universal `*` selector that's used to understand parent HTML
structure causing information tooltip icons to be misaligned.
This is fixed by replacing `*` with a new `InfoTooltipWrapper`
component, which manages layout concerns more explicitly and
maintainably.
Previously, quality checks were mistakenly configured to run only on
Ubuntu.
This commit modifies the CI/CD workflow to use the matrix strategy,
allowing the quality checks to be executed on macOS, Ubuntu and Windows.
Additionally, this update resolves the `MD034/no-bare-urls Bare URL
used` linting error that surfaced when testing on Windows.
This commit transitions from HTML-based issue templates to GitHub issue
forms, enhancing user experience by preventing accidental submissions
with comment-like metadata. This change makes submitting issues more
intuitive and reduces the chances of user errors (such as #355).
Key change include:
- Use a friendlier tone in the templates.
- Detail examples and descriptions to guide users more effectively.
- Rename templates for improved clarity and easy navigation.
- Add "a note from the maintainer".
- Include a direct link for donations to support the project.
This commit introduces a universal binary format in the distributed MDG
files for macOS, improving support for both Apple Silicon (ARM) and
Intel (x64) architectures.
It uses `electron-builder` to package both architectures into a single
executable, ensuring the application can natively on any macOS hardware
without depending on the GitHub runners' architecture. It fixes the
issue related to prior releases that supported only the architecture of
the build environment itself, which is subject to change.
Changes:
- Update DMG distribution to include both ARM64 and x64 architectures.
- Enhance system requirements documentation to reflect support for both
architectures.
- Modify CI/CD workflows to check desktop runtime errors for both ARM64
and x64 versions on macOS.
Resolves:
- Issue #348: Initial request for Apple Silicon support.
- Issue #362: Correction of distribution limited to ARM64 in release
0.13.3.
`electron-builder` support:
- electron-userland/electron-builder#5475
- electron-userland/electron-builder#5689
- electron-userland/electron-builder#5426
The recent addition of revert logic in first visible card on Windows
(Privacy Cleanup) in cec0b4b, introduced an issue where end-to-end (e2e)
started failing due to the handling of hidden elements.
This commit improves the test to correctly handle the hidden card
scenario, explicitly filtering visible elements to ensure that only
visible elements are handled.
This commit standardizes the management of registry keys and their
corresponding revert on delete action across all scripts using
`SetRegistryValue` function.
It improves script reliability, addresses previous errors, and corrects
the revert actions to match the default OS state when not explicitly set
by the OS.
Key changes:
- Use SetRegistryValue for uniformity.
- Remove error messages for non-existent registry keys, recognizing them
as expected states rather than errors.
- Add missing revert actions to scripts where they were absent.
- Correct the revert logic in existing scripts to match the default OS
configurations, particularly when the OS does not set a default value.
- Update documentation about default OS state for the related scripts.
This change improves maintainability by centralizing and standardizing
registry interactions, reducing the risk of errors and inconsistencies
in script behaviors.
The GitHub workflow for testing Docker builds on macOS was consistently
failing. This commit downgrades the macOS version used for Docker tests
to `macos-13`, which is the latest Intel-based macOS runner, instead of
the ARM-based `macos-14` which `macos-latest` points to.
This change is necessary because the hypervisor framework required for
Docker is not supported on the ARM-based macOS runners provided by
GitHub. This issue was causing failures when attempting to run Colima
with QEMU using `-accel hvf`, which is unsupported on these runners.
Switching to an Intel-based runner resolves this issue.
Related issues:
- actions/runner-images#9460
- actions/runner-images#9741
- abiosoft/colima#1023
This commit adds checks to rjeect functions with empty or whitespace
names. The compiler throws a specific errror when it encounters a
function data object lacking a proper name.
This provides early detection and clear feedback on invalid function
definitions, helping in faster debugging and ensuring script integrity
in the compilation process.
The enhancement aims to provide early detection and clear feedback
on invalid function definitions, aiding in faster debugging and
ensuring script integrity in the compilation process.
when it encounters a function data object lacking a proper name.
It covers scenarios where the function name might be an empty string,
undefined, or solely consist of whitespace.
This commit restructures the categorization of network security-related
scripts to improve clarity and align with user expectations. It involves
renaming and reorganizing categories to more accurately reflect their
functions beyond just IIS configurations.
This reorganization helps users find and utilize network security
scripts more efficiently and ensures that the categorization accurately
reflects the broader application of the scripts beyond server
configurations.
Changes:
- Merge network security enhancements under a single category.
- Rename categories for simplicity and increased technical accuracy.
- Flatten nested categories to streamline navigation and enhance
clarity.
- Update documentation to match the new category structures.
- Revise script recommendations to encourage broader use.
- Fix revert codes of some related scripts to reflect default OS
settings.
This commit addresses the issue where Windows GitHub runners experience
failures due to unstable Node.js releases, particularly version 20.13.0,
as detailed in nodejs/node#52884 and nodejs/node#52682.
The 'check-latest' input in the 'setup-node' GitHub Action forces
every job to verify and potentially install the latest Node.js version.
This input was originally introduced to reduce maintenance efforts to
keep CI/CD setup up-to-date with the latest Node version.
However, the necessity to always run the latest Node.js version is not
critical for the CI/CD setup. Additionally, it causes increased network
requests and may inadvertently introduce unstable Node.js versions.
This commit removes the 'check-latest' option to prevent the immediate
adoption of new, potentially unstable Node.js releases, thus simplifying
the CI/CD pipeline. This keeps CI/CD process is robust and predictable,
reducing the chances of unexpected disruptions in service deployment.
This commit addresses an issue in Chromium on Linux and Windows where
the appearance of a vertical scrollbar causes unexpected horizontal
layout shifts. This behavior typically occurs when the window is
resized, a card is opened or a script is selected, resulting in content
being pushed to the left.
The solution implemented involves using `scrollbar-gutter: stable` to
ensure space is always allocated for the scrollbar, thus preventing any
shift in the page layout. This fix primarily affects Chromium-based
browsers on Linux and Windows. It has no impact on Firefox on any
platform, or any browser on macOS (including Chromium). Because these
render the scrollbar as an overlay, and do not suffer from this issue.
Steps to reproduce the issue using Chromium browser on Linux/Windows:
1. Open the app with a height large enough where a vertical scrollbar is
not visible.
2. Resize the window to a height that triggers a vertical scrollbar.
3. Notice the layout shift as the body content moves to the right.
Changes:
- Add a CSS mixin to handle scrollbar gutter allocation with a fallback.
- Add support for modal dialog background lock to handle
`scrollbar-gutter: stable;` in calculations to avoid layout shift when
a modal is open.
- Add E2E test to avoid regression.
- Update DevToolkit to accommodate new scrollbar spacing.
This commit fixes a bug that causes tooltips to be slightly misaligned.
Tooltip positioning was incorrect during modal transitions due to their
initial movement, causing tooltips to align incorrectly at the start of
the animation rather than the end.
One way to solve this would be using `autoUpdate` from `floating-ui`
with `animationFrame: true`. However, this recalculates positions tens
of times per second, impacting performance. This is a monkey solution.
This commit adopts a more efficient approach by updating tooltip
positions only at the end of the transitions, which reduces calculations
and conserves resources.
Key changes:
- Addd transition end event listener for updating tooltip positions.
- Use throttling to eliminate excessive position recalculations.
Other supporting changes:
- Improve throttle function to support efficient recalculations of
positions:
- Add ability to optionally exclude the first execution (leading
call).
- Refactor to simplify it make it easier to follow and read.
- Fix a bug where initial calls were incorrectly throttled if
`dateNow()` returned `0`.
- Introduce and use a global hook for efficient DOM event management.
This greatily introduce safety, reuse and testability of event
listening.
This commit addresses the issue where scripts fail to execute on Windows
environments with usernames containing spaces. The problem stemmed from
PowerShell and cmd shell's handling of spaces in quoted arguments.
The solution involves encoding PowerShell commands before execution,
which mitigates the quoting issues previously causing script failures.
This approach is now integrated into the execution flow, ensuring that
commands are correctly handled irrespective of user names or other
variables that may include spaces.
Changes:
- Implement encoding for PowerShell commands to handle spaces in usernames
and other similar scenarios.
- Update script documentation URLs to reflect changes in directory
structure.
Fixes#351
- Correct incorrect attribute in `configure_vscode.py`.
- Introduce CI tests for early error detection in the script.
- Replace emojis with ASCII in CI logs to avoid Windows encoding issues.
This commit refines the configuration of TLS and DTLS protocols on
Windows to enhance compatibility and stability across different
Windows versions.
Changes:
- Enable TLS 1.3 exclusively on Windows 11 and newer, addressing
stability concerns with previous Windows versions, and resolving
issue #175.
- Enable DTLS 1.2, replacing DTLS 1.3 due to lack of support in
Windows. DTLS is enabled only on Windows 10 version 16007 and later
for compatibility.
- Reorganize script categories for better clarity and manageability.
- Update revert codes for registry deletions to prevent false negative
error outputs.
- Adjust recommendation levels to encourage more scripts due to system
stability and documentation improvements introduced in this commit.
- Remove incorrect registry keys previously set for .NET apps.
- Add missing 64-bit registry keys for .NET apps.
- Rename scripts for improved simplicity and consistency.
- Improve documentation for affected scripts, correcting the
misleading information about DTLS 1.2 vulnerability.
- Convert hexadecimal values to decimal in scripts to improve
clarity.
- Introduce shared functions to reduce redundancy and improve
script maintainability.
- Add more comments in generated code and simplify existing comments.
This commit refactors the icon and logo generation process by replacing
multiple dependencies with ImageMagick. This simplifies the build
process and enhances maintainability.
Key changes:
- Remove unnecessary icon files for macOS (.icns) and Linux
(size-specific PNGs). Electron-builder can now auto-generate these
from a single `logo.png` starting from version 19.54.0, see:
- electron-userland/electron-builder#1682
- electron-userland/electron-builder#2533
- Retain `ico` generation with multiple sizes to fix pixelated/bad
looking icons on Windows, see:
- electron-userland/electron-builder#7328
- electron-userland/electron-builder#3867
- Replaced `svgexport`, `icon-gen`, and `electron-icon-builder`
dependencies with ImageMagick, addressing issues with outdated
dependencies and unreliable CI/CD builds.
- Move electron-builder build resources to
`src/presentation/electron/build` for better project structure.
- Improve `electron-builder` configuration file by making it
importable/reusable without prebuilding the Electron application.
This commit updates the application startup behavior to prevent showing
a blank window until it's fully loaded on all platforms. This enhancement
improves the user experience by ensuring the UI only becomes visible
when it is ready to interact with.
This fix contributes to a smoother user experience by aligning the
window display timing with content readiness, thus avoiding the brief
display of an empty screen.
Changes:
- Set window to initially hide until fully loaded using the
`ready-to-show` event.
- Show the window, focus on it and bring it front once it is loaded.
Windows requires additional logic to put Window to front, see
electron/electron#2867.
- Parametrize the behavior of opening developer tools for easier
configuration during testing.
This commit modifies the blocking behavior of `r.bing.com` due to its
extensive use across multiple Windows features, including Copilot and
Maps. Previously, included in the 'Cortana and Live Tiles' block list,
this host was causing issues for Copilot functionalites, as noted in
issue #329. By excluding `r.bing.com` from block list, this update aims
to prevent unintended disruptions without compromising the privacy gains
of other scripts.
Changes include:
- Exclude `r.bing.com` from the "Cortana and Live Tiles" block list.
- Improve documentation to clarify the role and exclusions.
- Improve documentation with consistent header for blocked hosts.
This commit groups scripts related to disabling protocols under same
category, streamlining the process for disabling protocols like NetBios,
SMBv1, and various TLS/SSL versions. It improves the documentation and
scripts of the related scripts.
Key changes:
- Introduce new category for disabling insecure protocols and move
related scripts under it.
- Remove .NET configuration from TLS 1.0 disabling to prevent unwanted
side effects on .NET applications, maintaining system integrity.
- Remove the script disabling DTLS 1.1 as this protocol does not exist.
- Recommend previously not recommended scripts:
- SSL 2.0 in 'Standard' because it's already removed from Windows.
- SSL 3.0 in 'Standard' because it's already disabled by default.
- TLS 1.0 in 'Strict' as it's deprecated on Windows.
- TLS 1.1 in 'Strict' as it's deprecated on Windows.
- Rename and reorder scripts for consistency and enhanced readability.
- Fix revert codes to accurately reflect successful operations, by
adding `2>nul` on `reg delete` commands.
- Expand documentation to include detailed precautions and references,
aiding users in understanding the implications of their actions
(addressing user feedback from #57, #131, #183, #185).
Other supporting changes:
- Convert hexadecimal values to decimal to enhance script readability.
- Refactor scripts to utilize shared functions, improving maintainability.
- Add detailed comments within the scripts to aid in comprehension.
- Minor updates to other crypto scripts for consistency.
- Reorganize protocol listing by age for a logical script flow.
- Standardize comments across various TLS configuration scripts for
clarity.
- Fix enabling DTLS 1.3 being categorized as disabling insecure
connection.
This commit improves the management of script execution process by
enhancing the way terminal commands are handled, paving the way for
easier future modifications and providing clearer feedback to users when
scripts are cancelled.
Previously, the UI displayed a generic error message which could lead to
confusion if the user intentionally cancelled the script execution. Now,
a specific error dialog will appear, improving the user experience by
accurately reflecting the action taken by the user.
This change affects code execution on Linux where closing GNOME terminal
returns exit code `137` which is then treated by script cancellation by
privacy.sexy to show the accurate error dialog. It does not affect macOS
and Windows as curret commands result in success (`0`) exit code on
cancellation.
Additionally, this update encapsulates OS-specific logic into dedicated
classes, promoting better separation of concerns and increasing the
modularity of the codebase. This makes it simpler to maintain and extend
the application.
Key changes:
- Display a specific error message for script cancellations.
- Refactor command execution into dedicated classes.
- Improve file permission setting flexibility and avoid setting file
permissions on Windows as it's not required to execute files.
- Introduce more granular error types for script execution.
- Increase logging for shell commands to aid in debugging.
- Expand test coverage to ensure reliability.
- Fix error dialogs not showing the error messages due to incorrect
propagation of errors.
Other supported changes:
- Update `SECURITY.md` with details on script readback and verification.
- Fix a typo in `IpcRegistration.spec.ts`.
- Document antivirus scans in `desktop-vs-web-features.md`.
- Create system requirements documentation for desktop versions,
addressing issue #134.
- Reorganize related documents into `docs/desktop` for improved
structure and accessibility.
- Update references to address ARM chip emulation issues noted in user
feedback, issue #348.
This commit addresses reports in issue #131 about third-party cloud
services like MEGA and Dropbox being affected by hash disabling. It
updates the documentation to guide users on the potential impact,
adjusts the recommendation levels along with other minor improvements.
- Recommend hash disabling scripts in 'Strict'.
- Expand and refine documentation, adding warnings to inform user
decisions (addressing issues #57, #131, #175, #183).
- Add a new shared function to standardize hash disabling, increasing
code maintainability.
- Change from hexadecimal to decimal in scripts for clarity.
- Improve code comments for better understanding.
- Add comments in generated to code to make it easier to follow.
- Fix revert codes showing errors by using `2>nul` in `reg delete`
commands.
- Rename scripts for consistent naming conventions.
Supporting changes in other SSL/TLS handshake scripts:
- Update documentation for consistency.
- Rename shared functions for consistency and clarity.
- Improve generated code comments for clarity.
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