Fido

• Remove Windows 8.1 downloads from the list since the ISOs are no longer available from Microsoft

• Revert to using Invoke-WebRequest instead of curl (#91)

• Add UEFI Shell 2.2 24H1 ISO downloads

• Work around the latest Microsoft download access restrictions [#88].
• Add timeouts to web requests.

• Work around the latest Microsoft download access restrictions [#88].
• Add timeouts to web requests.

• Add Windows 11 23H2 v2 downloads

• Add UEFI Shell 2.2 23H2 ISO downloads
• Also fix the Windows 11 23H2 build number, since Microsoft are utterly incapable of properly populating it, when they create the install.wim's XML index on their retail ISOs...

• Replace Windows 11 22H2 downloads with 23H2.
• Note that Microsoft has no plans to ever release a Windows 10 23H2, so the last Windows 10 release is still 22H2.

• Fix a regression that may prevent Rufus from running the script (pbatard/rufus#2315)

• Add UEFI Shell 2.2 23H1 download

• Add Windows 10 22H2 v1 ISO downloads

Note that the Chinese specific Windows 10 22H2 download remains v0, even if Fido describes it as v1.

• Add Windows 11 22H2 v2 ISO downloads (and remove Windows 11 22H2 v1 ones, since the ISOs are no longer available from Microsoft)

This release removes Windows ISOs that Microsoft is no longer allowing users to download.

Basically, this restricts downloads to only the most recent release for each Windows version (which currently means 22H2 only for Windows 10 and Windows 11).

• Fix encoding for some error messages
• Add a -Locale parameter for testing

• Remove Windows 7 ISO download links (since these have now been removed by Microsoft) (#64)
• Improve code for P/Invoke (#62) (Courtesy of Dmitry Nefedov)

• Actively prevents Linux/non-Windows platform usage, since it is too much of a liability (#58, #60).

• Improve error message handling.
• Use Start-BitsTransfer for commandline downloads (#56).
• Remove the -DisableProgress commandline option now that we use Start-BitsTransfer.

• Drop Windows 7 support (Too much of a liability to maintain. You had your run; move on!!!)
• Fix Error: Could not parse languages for some non English locale due to Microsoft returning different HTML content.
• Fix connection to https://vlscppe.microsoft.com for Windows 8.x.

• Fix Error: Could not parse languages due to Microsoft's latest changes (pbatard/rufus#2146)

• Improve error handling and reporting when querying vlscppe.microsoft.com