Release notes
The following are the new features and bug fixes in Baseline Shield v12.7 release:
General: Display warning message on Windows desktop when license authentication fails.
General: Add command line switch ShdCmd.exe /ChkActivate to authenticate license.
General: Fix installation problem for system with more than 16 partitions.
Kernel Driver: The restrict Internet access feature supports multiple network cards.
Kernel Driver: Add ASYNC I/O mode to Shdbus.sys driver.
Pre-OS: Pre-OS supports large volume data processing for upate baseline and uninstall.
Pre-OS: Fix bug caused by interrupted update baseline followed by snapshot restore.
Pre-OS: Add snapshot integrity check before restore.
Pre-OS: Fix the bug that non-administrator user cannot disable auto restore from the pre-OS.
EndPoint Manager: EPM uninstalls Baseline Shield clients to the current system no longer requires reboot.
EndPoint Manager: New license control for Baseline Shield EPM.
EndPoint Manager: New student attendance feature.
EndPoint Manager: New EPM share screen to clients computer feature.
EndPoint Manager: New Live Screen feature to monitor client computer's desktop in real time.
EndPoint Manager: New EPM setting for configuring restart/shutdown count-down timer.
EndPoint Manager: New EPM detailed view selection.
EndPoint Manager: New UltraVNC based client remote control.
EndPoint Manager: EPM can modify client computer's name.
EndPoint Manager: New toolbar.
EndPoint Manager: EPM uses new web-based User's Guide.

Release notes
The following are the new features and bug fixes in Eazy Fix v12.5 release:
General: Minor GUI tweak(shield.exe).
General: Redesign how Baseline Shield works with Windows Updates(shield.exe).
General: Bug fix in the installer(x64.exe)'s detection of system being encrypted by Bitlocker.
General: Bug fix in the uninstaller(shdserv.exe)'s failure to remove driver files.
General: Add new command line switch shdcmd.exe /Getfile(shdcmd.exe).
General: Add new setup parameter to exclude the system from EPM screen lock(setup.ini).
General: Renew security certificate for digital signing.
General: Check Baseline Shield release against Windows service pack installation for compatibility support(setup.exe).
General: Bug fix disable and re-enable the demo setup could reset the demo time(shdtray.exe).
General: Bug fix after disable/enable protection, user profiles moved to the exemption drive become unaccessible(shdsync.exe).
General: Add vsncache configuration option in the installer(setup.exe).
General: Encrypt user password in Setup.ini file(Setup Configuration Wizard.exe).
General: New restrict resource usage: block access to Control Panel.
General: New restrict resource usage: block access to CMD/Powershell.
General: New restrict resource usage: block access to Task Manager.
General: New restrict resource usage: block access to Windows registry.
General: New restrict resource usage: block installing new software.
Kernel Driver: Bug fix in driver(shield.sys) logging flush.
Kernel Driver: Support 4K sector HDD(Shieldf.sys).
Kernel Driver: Bug fix in processing disk dirty flags in 4K sectors disk(Shieldf.sys).
Kernel Driver: Bug fix in processing IOCTL_DISK_GET_DRIVE_GEOMETRY_EX in shieldm fails if sector size is 4096 bytes(Shieldm.sys).
Kernel Driver: Bug fix in processing FixupTrueSectorForEncrypt failure if sector size is 4096 bytes(Shieldm.sys).
Kernel Driver: Bug fix in FindTrueSectorW_COW for disk sector size is 4096 bytes(Shdbus.sys).
Kernel Driver: Bug fix in BackupNtfsMft for disk sector size is 4096 bytes(Shdbus.sys).
Kernel Driver: Bug fix in LogLevel for disk sector size is 4096 bytes(Shdump.sys).
Kernel Driver: Support Windows 11's partition modification by ioctl(Shield.sys).
Kernel Driver: Add new device driver to prevent license hack patch(Shieldmf.sys).
Pre-OS: Redesign the pre-OS EFI bootloader to comply with Microsoft new EFI code signing requirements(shdmgr.ef_).
Pre-OS: Add debug mode for pre-OS EFI bootloader(shdmgr.ef_).
Pre-OS: New code signing certificate for UEFI secure boot(shdloader.efi).
Pre-OS: Bug fix in pre-OS installer for handling MBR disk marked as GPT parition(shield.efi).
Pre-OS: Bug fix in EfiConsoleControlProtocol not found(shield.efi).
EndPoint Manager: Add columns in the detailed view to show clients' OS build number and display version(RmConsole.exe).
EndPoint Manager: Add option to show/hide the built-in groups(RmConsole.exe).
EndPoint Manager: Add scheduled task for send message(RmConsole.exe).
EndPoint Manager: Add target directory selection for send files(RmConsole.exe).
EndPoint Manager: Prevent screen lock on the system with EndPoint Manager(EPM) console(RmConsole.exe).
EndPoint Manager: Allow EPM to re-activate clients with a new product ID(RmConsole.exe, RmServer.exe).
EndPoint Manager: Allow EPM to disable client's access to the system control panel(RmConsole.exe).
EndPoint Manager: Allow EPM to disable client's access to the system command prompt and Powershell(RmConsole.exe).
EndPoint Manager: Allow EPM to disable client's access to the system task manager(RmConsole.exe).
EndPoint Manager: Allow EPM to disable client's access to the system registry(RmConsole.exe).
EndPoint Manager: Allow EPM to disable clients installing new software(RmConsole.exe).
EndPoint Manager: Display clients' CPU information in EPM(RmConsole.exe).
EndPoint Manager: Bug fix client connection fails with Invalid network packets error(RmServer.exe).

What is New
The following are the new features and bug fixes in Eazy Fix v12 release:
General: New Windows GUI
General: Windows 11 kernel support
General: Check and automatically renew one year license after the license is renewed on the license server.
General: Add function to check whether the EFI loader is ours before setup.
General: Monitor boot file changes if EFI parition is not protected.
General: Fix setup problem caused by previous uninstall failed to remove the bootmgfw.dat file.
General: Record log info if bootmgfw.efi was changed.
General: Check bootmgfw.efi file for problems before setup.
General: Fix the bug of SetBlockInfo.
General: Fix the bugs of caching encrypted sectors.
General: Fix the bugs of restoring BCD/EFI backup using the FixTools.
General: Add snapshot validator.
General: Automatically adjust DST after a rollback if computer is not connected to a time server.
General: Add setup.ini settings for configuring registry exclusion during setup.
General: Fix shdcmd defrag task bug.
General: Add shdcmd AutoChkdsk
General: Add shdcmd /mode to show current kernel mode.
General: Backup BCD in the boot folder for system recovery.
General: Fix restore@logoff bug due to insufficient user privilege.
General: Fix caculating maxtablesectors bug.
General: Allow re-activation of already activated setup with a new product ID.
General: Fix the bugs of checkmbr when shutting down.
General: Fix the bugs of protecting multi-disks.
General: Fix loop checkpoint.
General: Support move user profile to a local unprotected drive.
General: Fix Exemption virtual Drive loading too slow for the redirected user profile problem.
General: Add a post-setup program settings configuration wizard.
Kernel Driver: Add safety codes for invalid snapshot index flag.
Kernel Driver: Force clear hibernation mark if boot failed.
Kernel Driver: Fix the bugs of SmartDiskReadWriteSector.
Kernel Driver: Fix the bugs of mounting snapshot in optimize thread.
Kernel Driver: Remove shdsync in bootexec if protect system was disabled.
Kernel Driver: Fix the bugs of optimizing snapshot 0 in shdserv.
Kernel Driver: Fix the bugs of Base64Decode.
Kernel Driver: Fix the bugs of SwitchProtectMode.
Kernel Driver: Add functions to support volume filter.
Pre-OS: New pre-OS skin.
Pre-OS: Add mouse driver for EFI pre-OS.
Pre-OS: Add a command line shell to the EFI pre-OS module.
Pre-OS: Add pre-OS command line to chkdsk EFI partition.
Pre-OS: Add functions to support encrypted EFI file.
Pre-OS: Add restore EFI option to the pre-OS restore function.
Pre-OS: Remove block information if disk cannot be accessed from the pre-OS.
EndPoint Manager: New EPM toolbar.
EndPoint Manager: Add settings to turn off EPM's Activity Log feature.
EndPoint Manager: Fix EPM screenshot bug related to send message.
EndPoint Manager: EPM monitor clients visited web sites.
EndPoint Manager: EPM monitor client launched programs.
EndPoint Manager: EPM monitor windows system events.
EndPoint Manager: Record EPM lock screen message in win32data.

What is New
The following are new features and bug fixes in the new build:
General: Renew digital signature.
General: Adjust low free space safety stops.
General: Calibrate system reserve partition protection strategy.
General: Add USB offline activation.
General: Add shcmd.exe /state command line to query snapshot defragment status.
General: Add efiprotect setting in the setup.ini to protect EFI partitions.
General: Add usebootx64 setting in the setup.ini to bypass 3rd party UEFI bootstraps.
General: Add 5 seconds delay to flush drive cache before shutdown.
General: Add minidump to setup.
General: Add Snapshot Validator.
General: Add Restore when computer shutdown option.
Kernel Driver: Fix the bug that snapshot defragment fail to dismount virtual drives upon completion.
Kernel Driver: Fix fastrestore=1 caused system BSOD bug.
Kernel Driver: Do not defrag the protected hidden system reserve partitions.
Pre-OS: Add Back to Start in the pre-OS recovery menu.
EndPoint Manager: Add toolbar.
EndPoint Manager: Add view client settings.
EndPoint Manager: Add Last snapshot deletion in detailed view.
EndPoint Manager: Add server detailed logging.
EndPoint Manager: Add Key Management Server (KMS) for internal license control.

What is New
The following are the new features and bug fixes in the new build:
General: Add setup switch to disable Windows 10 from automatically installing Windows Updates.
General: Add setup switches to exclude user Desktop and Documents from restore.
General: Add Snapshot Validator tool.
General: Add dynamic disk support.
General: Fix setup problem on single larger than 2TB partition.
General: Fix "Update baseline failed" error caused by shdserv.exe crashing.
General: Minor UI refreshment.
Pre-OS: Fix the UEFI BIOS 1GB memory allocation limitation.
Pre-OS: Renew UEFI bootloader Microsoft digital signing.
EndPoint Manager: Fix a bug in EPM scheduled task to wakeup client on LAN.

Known Issues
The following are known problems or bugs in the current release:
None

What is New
The following are the new features and bug fixes in the new build:
General: Fix "subscription license cannot be activated automatically during setup" problem.
General: Modify GetComputerID function to generate random machine ID for computer with same HDD serial number.
General: Fix snapshot table corruption caused by power reset during hibernation shutdown.
General: Do not optimize snapshot if the snapshot is not consistent (red color snapshots).
General: Add option to install optional Windows updates.
General: Show Windows update status.
General: Refresh Windows UI.
Driver: Fix the bugs of flushing disk cache when receiving power down.
Driver: Divide the kernel driver in Fast Restore Mode and Space Saving mode.
Pre-OS: Add DiskVerifyInfoIndex to partition structure.
Pre-OS: Fix the bugs of updating sectors which is being written by another thread.
Pre-OS: Fix the bugs of displaying build number in UEFI pre-OS recovery console.
EndPoint Manager: Save the console detailed view column layout and width in the setting.ini file.
EndPoint Manager: Add count of Window 10 workstations to group properties.

Known Issues
The following are known problems or bugs in the current release:
None

What is New
The following are the new features and bug fixes in the new build:
General: GUI face-lift
General: Renew Microsoft Authenticode signing certificate
General: New license design for perpetual and subscription based license
General: New RSA encryption based license authentication
General: Remove offline activation support
General: Remove pre-activated license support
General: Show License Maintenance remaining days in About
General: Add program setting: automatically disable Baseline Shield to install Windows Updates that changes bootloader (BCD)
General: Modify the tray icon class (CShdTray) to reduce the chance of loading tray icon time-out error
General: Add option to hide uninstaller from Windows Control Panel/Add and Remove programs
General: Add multi-user support in Baseline Shield
General: Add command line switch shdcmd.exe /defragnow to defrag baseline
General: Installer prompts error if the system disk is encrypted or compressed
General: Modify Setup INI wizard to support the new program settings
Driver: Add asynchronous communication model to the device derivers
Driver: Add disk cache to synchronous communication model drivers
Driver: Patch disk IO that occurs after Windows has started the shutdown process
Driver: Fix the bug of locking dump file in redirecting dump thread
Driver: Support resuming in uninstall and update baseline process
Driver: Fix BSOD caused by disabling Baseline Shield
Driver: Move license authentication from COM to driver
Pre-OS: Expand the pre-OS module data cache from 4GB to 32GB for processing update baseline
Pre-OS: Increase shield.res to 1.5MB to support Windows O.S. upgrades
Pre-OS: Add option to install Baseline Shield bootloader into PBR (instead of MBR) for systems that changes MBR frequently
Pre-OS: Add shdcmd.exe /logodelaytime command
Pre-OS: Add "Switch to VGA mode" to the pre-OS Recovery Console menu
Pre-OS: Fix the bugs on updating sectors during uninstall
EndPoint Manager: Change name from Remote Management Console (RMC) to EndPoint Manager
EndPoint Manager: Add scheduled tasks for remote run
EndPoint Manager: Modify the Send Files function
EndPoint Manager: Add Copy/Cut/Paste commands for managing clients between groups
EndPoint Manager: Add check license maintenance feature
EndPoint Manager: Add install Windows Updates feature
EndPoint Manager: Add Windows Updates column in the Detail View to show Windows update status
EndPoint Manager: Administrator can limit user rights to selected groups
EndPoint Manager: Administrator can limit scheduled tasks to selected groups
EndPoint Manager: Add backup EndPoint Manager server database feature
EndPoint Manager: Add restore EndPoint Manager server database feature
EndPoint Manager: Add Automatically query and add clients to group
EndPoint Manager: Add clients settings for setting Baseline Shield clients new settings
Many small compatibility problems reported by customers through technical support