[INTERNAL] List of rufus-4.7 enhancements and fixes

[pbatard]

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Medium Term

• Ultimately, we probably want to replace all mentions of ISO Mode with FST Mode...
• Add an "I've seen a deceptive ad on your website - How could you?!" entry to the FAQ
• Windows installer corrupts the backup GPT of the installer drive?!? What the hell?!? → Seen when installing Win11 and shutting down the machine after the installer bails out on the 59fd550 issue
• Do we have an issue unloading old UEFI:NTFS drivers (and have Google secretly been using our NTFS drivers in their Chromebooks)?
• Do we want to remote download the DBXs, like we do SBAT?
• We're going to have to take matters in our own hands when it comes to the buggy AMI NTFS driver and forcefully prevent the non UEFI:NTFS partition to boot when md5sum validation is applied...
• Do we want to open the log automatically in case of error?
• Double check that net accounts does report Maximum password age (days): Unlimited on local account creation → Looks good
• I am starting to see an awful lot of This system was unable to provide an English error message (NB: 0xC003045D is ERROR_IO_DEVICE = 1117L, which we should be able to get in English). Did we regress something with the last error message updates?
• ReFS formatting doesn't seem to work any more...

Long Term No Rush

• Add support for systemd-boot (if needed and whenever the hell we find an ISO that uses that). This'll probably mean looking for loader/entries/*.conf on the ESP and altering the labels.
• Add a .esp image copy mode?
• Is there any way we can make the regular MSVC exe behave the same as the App Store one? Even as it's the same executable binary, the App Store version is a lot less forgiving about exceptions and at any rate, you'd expect the standard MSVC binary to report stuff like access violations, especially when debugging in VS, yet it doesn't...
• The case of tails and its early write-error unless you zero the drive first... And now the case of Windows complaining that it needs a restart when you write a UEFI bootloader.
• Should we try to remove volume drive letter while saving to VHD just to be safe? We do lock the physical drive, but Windows being Windows, we may still have some bad surprises there...
• What on earth does one have to do to fix the device dropdown not displaying on startup issue?!? → Dammit, now this has moved to the Drive Properties label sometimes not being displayed
• Async/double buffering improvements for ISO mode
• Use VDS for GetDrivePartitionData() and use this opportunity to call on IVdsVolumeMF_GetFileSystemProperties() to get the file systems. Or we might switch to using WMI as Microsoft advises and create our own C++ wmi library interface. (Except WMI won't for Win7 users...)
• Also we should use VDS to query data for label sanitization
• Detect GPT that is smaller than disk size and ask user "Do you want to fix this?"
• Add support for .json provided custom commands to apply after the image has been created. e.g. something like:

{
  "commands": [
    {
      "image": "en_windows_7_ultimate_with_sp1_x86_dvd_619077.iso",
      "source_dir": "C:/my_dir/",
      "custom_var1": "SOME_VAR",
      "command": "my_command.exe some_flags %custom_var1% some_more_flags"
    }
  ]
}

• We don't detect Ubuntu ARM64 as Linux images where persistence can be enabled. We may want to change that.
• UI should be disabled during port cycle until we detect the cycled device again (with timeout in case the user yanked the device)
• Label changed by the user should not revert to ISO label once the drive has been created.