v4.0.2.19
Software
Dashboard 4.0 Release Notes - August 1, 2023 (4.0.2.19)
Known Issues
- Gaming Mode 2.0 auto-detection for game launches is sometimes failing to detect games from the default parent “Epic Games” folder. If you experience this issue, please add a folder that directly points to your game (e.g. add folder “C:\Program Files\Epic Games\Fortnite” instead of “C:\Program Files\Epic Games”).
Application
- New and improved graphical design and user experience to modernize the application and leave room for future growth.
- Added support for Western Digital CFExpress products through supported Western Digital CFExpress USB-C readers, such as the SanDisk SDDR-F451 and SanDisk Pro Reader, and Thunderbolt readers.
- Added support for detection and display of unrecognized devices on the My Devices page.
- Disabled GPU rasterization by default, as this was causing problems for users. If you want to re-enable GPU rasterization, pass the new command line argument “-enablegpu-support”.
- Improved no-code configuration capability for the application and improved the default configurations shipped with the release to better support offline users.
- Restructured the application to allow for finer grain partial loading of features, which should prevent cases where some unsupported features would cause an entire device to not be detected.
- Added a notification tab to the Overview page to streamline how various Dashboard notifications can appear, including firmware updates, application updates, and other offers.
- Simplified drive erase options to a generic erase and updated the embedded toolkit to support a generic erase. Most erases should continue to be done outside of the Windows environment in the embedded toolkit.
- Added the capability to open a given drive’s primary partition in Windows Explorer from the Overview page.
- Added an indication for DirectStorage compatible devices.
- Fixed a bug which could display data from a previous drive when switching to a new drive that failed some commands.
- Removed the ATA Controller table as it was outdated and no longer valuable to users.
Installer (5.3.2.4)
- Minor adjustments to user experience and structure changes to support Dashboard 4.0 release.
Full Changelog: https://wddashboarddownloads.wdc.com/wdDashboard/WesternDigitalDashboardReleaseNotes.pdf
Package
- Update to 4.0.2.19 (#1)
- Updated description's screenshot to reflect UI overhaul
- Updated
projectUrl
anddocsUrl
, since the old URLs now redirect elsewhere - Enhanced update script
- Ignore updates when Western Digital fails to update the standalone installer binary (checking against last ETag response header and checksum)
- Add support for
Force
switch
- Minor script reformatting/cleanup
Full Changelog: v3.8.2.9...v4.0.2.19