Version 1.17

   Release date: 2020-01-10
   Intended compatibility: WSUS Offline Update 11.8.3

   Bug fixes

    * New method for the calculation of dynamic Office updates


Version 1.16

   Release date: 2020-01-08
   Intended compatibility: WSUS Offline Update 11.8.3

   Bug fixes

    * The download of wsusscn2.cab indicated success, when the integrity
      check failed

    * Static download files in the ../static/custom directory were skipped

    * Corrected the spelling of files and directories

   User visible changes

    * Revised messages for the update of configuration files

   Internal changes

    * Better compatibility with FreeBSD 12.1, thanks to TheFlipside

   Documentation

    * New file "Differences_between_GNU-Linux_and_FreeBSD.txt"

    * Updated installations guides


Version 1.15

   Release date: 2019-07-30
   Intended compatibility: WSUS Offline Update 11.8b (r1064)

   New features

    * Automatic update of Sysinternals Utilities

    * The Linux scripts now use sigcheck64.exe on 64-bit hardware

    * Support for Windows Server 2019

    * Support for Internet Explorer 11 on Windows Server 2012


Version 1.14

   Release date: 2019-06-07
   Intended compatibility: WSUS Offline Update 11.7.2+ (r1052)

   New features

    * Support for Trusted Root Certificates and Certificate revocation
      lists

   Internal changes

    * Reordered the positional parameters for the function
      cleanup_client_directory

    * Modified the function log_debug_message to better handle multiple
      positional parameters

   Documentation

    * Updated files Installation_Guide.txt and Installationsanleitung.txt


Version 1.13

   Release date: 2019-05-14
   Intended compatibility: WSUS Offline Update 11.7

   New features

      New script create-iso-image.bash

      New file catalog-creationdate.txt

   Internal changes

      Support for .NET Framework 4.8 added

      Debug output for virus definition files disabled

      Revised function remove_obsolete_files

   Documentation

      New file exclude/About_the_ExcludeListISO-files.txt


Version 1.12

   Release date: 2019-04-10
   Intended compatibility: WSUS Offline Update 11.6.1+ (r1032)

   Internal changes

      Indirect addressing of virus definition files with "LinkIDs"


Version 1.11

   Release date: 2019-04-04
   Intended compatibility: WSUS Offline Update 11.6.1 and later

   New features

      The script update-generator.bash remembers the last used settings.

      Revised method for calculating superseded updates

      New script open-support-pages.bash

   Bug fixes

      Workaround for broken cabextract in Debian 10 Buster/testing

   User visible changes

      Better support for terminal colors

      Support for ExcludeListForce-all.txt

      Support for ExcludeList-superseded-exclude-seconly.txt

      Virus definition files are tested with cabextract.

      The scripts compare-integrity-database.bash and
      compare-update-tables.bash are configured with command-line
      arguments.

   Internal changes

      Reordered the sections at the top of the scripts
      update-generator.bash and download-updates.bash.

      The directories cache, log and timestamps are stored with absolute
      paths.

      The function seconly_safety_guard calculates the patch days for
      two months.

      The function log_message duplicates messages to the terminal and
      the log file unchanged.

      The function apply_exclude_lists now skips empty lines in input
      files.

      New function name_to_description and changed function
      language_name_to_locale.

      The file sh/exclude/ExcludeListUSB-w60.txt was simplified.

      Added Cygwin to known systems and unzip to needed packages, thanks
      to "slycordinator"

   Documentation

      A new file compatibility.txt was added.

      Some typos were corrected.

      The E-Mail address was replaced.


Version 1.10

  Release date: 2018-08-09
  Intended compatibility: WSUS Offline Update 11.4 and later

  Changes in this version

  - Bug fix: USB filters for w61 and newer erroneously excluded ndp46-*
    patches.

  - The script 10-show-selection-dialogs-with-dialog.bash was made
    more configurable, by moving the variable parts of the dialogs to
    a configuration section.

  - Small corrections to the installation guide.


Version 1.9

  Release date: 2018-07-30
  Intended compatibility: WSUS Offline Update 11.4 and later

  Changes in this version

  - The script update-generator.bash now uses the external utility
    "dialog", to display nicely formatted dialogs in the terminal window.

    The existing script, which uses the internal command "select" of
    the bash, is kept as a fallback, if dialog is not installed.


Version 1.8

  Release date: 2018-07-27
  Intended compatibility: WSUS Offline Update 11.4 and later

  Changes in this version

  - The documentation of the Linux download scripts is organized more
    like the Linux documentation in the directory /usr/share/doc.

  - The file 70-synchronize-with-target.bash was replaced with a more
    elaborate script copy-to-target.bash.

  Internal changes

  - The definition of the environment variables LINES and COLUMNS, and of
    the terminal colors was moved from the scripts update-generator.bash
    and download-updates.bash to the library messages.bash.

  - Hashdeep errors while checking the integrity of existing files are
    now reported as errors, not as warnings.

  - Corrected the copyright year of the files error-counter.bash and
    rebuild-integrity-database.bash to "2018".


Version 1.7

  Release date: 2018-05-25
  Intended compatibility: WSUS Offline Update Version 11.3 and later

  Changes in this version

  - Bug fix: The script download-updates.bash may crash, if running in
    bash version 4.3, for example as of Debian 8 Jessie, and only Office
    Updates are selected.

  See the file release_notes_1.7.txt for details.


Version 1.6

  Release date: 2018-05-04
  Intended compatibility: WSUS Offline Update Version 11.3 and later

  Changes in this version

  - Added support for .NET Framework 4.7.2

  - Bug fix: The function create_integrity_database did not create a
    hashes file, if the hashed directory was a symbolic link.

  See the file release_notes_1.6.txt for details.


Version 1.5

  Release date: 2018-05-01
  Intended compatibility: WSUS Offline Update Version 11.2.2 and later

  Changes in this version

  - Bug fix: The files ExcludeList-superseded.txt
    and ExcludeList-superseded-seconly.txt are
    renamed to ExcludeList-Linux-superseded.txt and
    ExcludeList-Linux-superseded-seconly.txt in the Linux scripts.

  - The installation guide has an example for Fedora 27 and a new chapter
    for optional packages.

  See the file release_notes_1.5.txt for details.


Version 1.4

  Release date: 2018-04-21
  Intended compatibility: WSUS Offline Update Version 11.2.2 and later

  Changes in this version

  - The setting of the progress style in Wget was revised. The progress
    bar is only used, if both standard output and error output are
    attached to a terminal.

  - Colors are used to highlight the keywords Info: Warning: Error:
    Failure: and Debug: in the terminal window.

  See the file release_notes_1.4.txt for details.


Version 1.3

  Release date: 2018-04-19
  Intended compatibility: WSUS Offline Update Version 11.2.2 and later

  Changes in this version

  - Wget 1.18 and higher now display a progress bar in the terminal
    window. Earlier versions still use the dot display, which is written
    to the log file.

  - The file get-all-updates.bash was revised. All examples now use
    comma-separated lists for the updates.

  - A small typo in the file rebuild-integrity-database.bash was
    corrected.

  See the file release_notes_1.3.txt for details.


Version 1.2

  Release date: 2018-04-17
  Intended compatibility: WSUS Offline Update Version 11.2.2 and later

  Changes in this version

  - Added support for the configuration file
    exclude/ExcludeList-superseded-exclude-seconly.txt

  See the file release_notes_1.2.txt for details


Version 1.1

  Release date: 2018-02-06
  Intended compatibility: WSUS Offline Update Version 11.1.1 and later

  Changes in this version

  - The scripts update-generator.bash and download-updates.bash create
    temporary directories with random names on each run.

  - Both scripts update-generator.bash and download-updates.bash check
    the user-ID and refuse to run as root.

  - Updates can be joined to a comma-separated list on the command-line,
    just like the needed languages.

  - The scripts support eight predefined, internal lists for Windows
    and Office updates.

  - Support of "backports" for old versions of WSUS Offline Update.

  Internal Changes

  - A separate library error-counter.bash was added.

  See the file release_notes_1.1.txt for details


Version 1.0

  Release date: 2018-01-19
  Intended compatibility: WSUS Offline Update Version 11.1 and later

  Changes in this version

  - After about one year in beta status, this version is now designated
    version 1.0.

  - Bugfix: The function download_single_file_failsafe was revised to
    delete partial files between tries.

  - Bugfix: The declaration of indexed arrays with "declare -ag"
    was removed.

  - The wget option --unlink was removed.

  - A new standalone script rebuild-integrity-database.bash was added.

  - Support for .NET Framework 4.7.1 was added.

  - Support for Office 2007 was removed.

  Internal Changes

  - The functions remove_german_language_support and
    remove_english_language_support now keep the file modification date.

  - The new filter function todos_line_endings changes the output of
    hashdeep to DOS line endings on the fly.

  - The functions trash_file and unpack_wsus_catalog_file were revised
    to produce more output.

  - The copyright was updated to 2018.

  See the file release_notes_1.0.txt for details.


Version 1.0-beta-5

  Release date: 2017-08-25
  Intended compatibility: WSUS Offline Update Version 11.0.1 and newer

  Changes in this version

  - The documentation files Quick_installation_guide.txt and
    Kurzinstallationsanleitung.txt were renamed in version 1.0-beta-4. If
    the old files are still present, they are removed now.

  - The environment variables LINES and COLUMNS are set to 24x80, if
    the script runs as a cron job.

  - The calculation of the file ExcludeList-superseded-seconly.txt
    was simplified.

  - A new function seconly_safety_guard tries to make sure, that the
    configuration files for security only updates are updated after the
    official patch day, to prevent unwanted side effect.

  See the file release_notes_1.0-beta-5.txt for details.


Version 1.0-beta-4

  Release date: 2017-06-23
  Intended compatibility: WSUS Offline Update version 10.9.2 and newer

  Changes in this version

  - The obsolete script DownloadUpdates.sh and related files will be
    deleted, if they are found in the same directory as the new Linux
    scripts.

  - The Linux scripts can do an initial installation of the WSUS Offline
    Update archive.

  - The integrity of the WSUS catalog file wsusscn2.cab is tested with
    cabextract.

  - The download script caches the file package.xml.

  - The same_day function uses three different time intervals for
    different tasks.

  - Languages can be joined to a comma-separated list on the command line.

  - Windows Vista was removed from selection dialogs.

  - unzip is copied to the client directory.

  - Added support for .Net Framework 4.7.

  See the file release_notes_1.0-beta-4.txt for details.


Version 1.0-beta-3

  Release date: 2017-03-30
  Intended compatibility: WSUS Offline Update version 10.9.1 - 10.9.2

  Changes in this version

  - Some more Service Packs are excluded, if the option -includesp is
    not used.

  - Empty download directories are now deleted, along with the
    corresponding hashes file.

  - A bug in the handling of empty directories was found and fixed.

  - The script 40-check-for-self-updates.bash was split into two smaller
    scripts, to handle its tasks separately.

  - An online check for new versions of the Linux scripts is introduced
    with the new script 50-check-sh-version.bash.

  - A new configuration variable "unattended_updates" is introduced to
    install new versions of WSUS Offline Update or the Linux scripts
    automatically.

  - A new file fix-file-permissions.bash was added to make the Linux
    scripts executable again, should they loose their file permissions.

  See the file release_notes_1.0-beta-3.txt for more details.


Version 1.0-beta-2

  Release date: 2017-01-09
  Intended compatibility: WSUS Offline Update version 10.9

  New features

  - The file client/autostart.ini will be rewritten to show an icon of
    the UpdateInstaller.exe and the built date of the medium. This file
    only works in Windows, and only, if it is in the root directory of
    a mounted ISO image, a real CD/DVD or a disk partition.

  - Introduced a configuration variable "prefer_seconly" to prefer
    security-only updates over the full quality update rollups for
    Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows
    8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2.

    This variable is supposed to be a permanent setting, and it should
    not be changed between different updates. Therefore, there is
    no command-line option for it. The variable is defined and set to
    "disabled" in the script download-updates.bash. It should be changed
    in the file preferences.bash.

  Changed features

  - The files Documentation.odt and Documentation.pdf are renamed to
    Manual.odt and Manual.pdf.

  Removed features

  - The files available-tasks/50-superseded-updates-revised.bash and
    extract-all-bundle-revision-and-update-ids.xsl, which implemented
    a more elaborate method for calculating superseded updates, have
    been removed.


Version 1.0-beta-1

  Initial release
  Release date: 2016-12-14
  Intended compatibility: WSUS Offline Update version 10.8 - 10.8.1
