What's new in Winclone 10.2
Oct 25, 2022
- Fixed issue with titles and dark mode in Ventura
- Added compatibility for Ventura
- Added warnings for lack of NTFS write support that links to kbase to install 3rd party driver
New in Winclone 10.1 (Feb 3, 2022)
- Updated Welcome text
- Fixed Winclone 10 installer referring to Winclone 9, Winclone 9 icon, and DMG
- App text copy edits
- Made icon small to look better in Monterey
- Fixed issue with mounting NTFS reader/write from command line
New in Winclone 10.0 (Oct 11, 2021)
- Monterey Support:
- Support for macOS 12 (Monterey) on Intel Macs
- Windows 11 Support:
- Support for Microsoft Windows 11
- New Features:
- Quick Install Windows 10 or Windows 11
- Updated Interface
- Updated Icon
- Bug Fixes
New in Winclone 9.1 (Sep 1, 2021)
New in Winclone 9.0 (Nov 15, 2020)
- Boot Camp driver injection for critical drivers including SSD, keyboard, trackpad, and others
- Big Sur Compatibility for Boot Camp cloning, migrating, package deployment, MDT, and SCCM
- Support for Windows 8 and later
- Fresh Big Sur look
- Support for MacOS 11.0 Big Sur
New in Winclone 8.1 (Mar 19, 2020)
- Fixed issue with “Make EFI Bootable” in Tools menu.
New in Winclone 8.0.2 (Feb 13, 2020)
- Enabled an imported WIM to be marked as WinPE Bootable.
New in Winclone 8.0.1 (Feb 13, 2020)
- Fixed "Already have license" button not working
- Improved error reporting in Winclone Menu
- Fixed crash for some users when clicking Save Image...
New in Winclone 8.0 (Feb 13, 2020)
- More Scheduling Options for Incremental Clones
- Support for Catalina Privacy Controls
- Security Enhancements
- New Logging Window
- Package Signing
- Updated Icon and Refreshed Interface
New in Winclone 7.3.4 (May 12, 2019)
- Fixed an issue with deploying Winclone packages that create a Boot Camp partition as a percentage of disk space.
New in Winclone 7.3.3 (May 12, 2019)
- Updates postinstall script for package installs of Winclone images from the recovery partition (MDS support). Winclone is now notarized and stapled.
New in Winclone 7.3.2 (Dec 18, 2018)
- Fixed issue with booting after restoring an image of Windows 7 on some older Macs.
New in Winclone 7.3 (Nov 1, 2018)
- Offline license validation
- Fix for progress bar during Make Image from WIM
- Volume to Volume cloning now verifies correct size prior to imaging and prompts when incorrect size
- Package creation now verifies the size of the image against the size of partition that is being created, and warns if too small
- Minor fix with Buy button
- Minor progress bar fixes
- Polish dark mode support
- Resize main window buttons for 10.14
- Update frameworks to latest
New in Winclone 7.2.1 (Oct 3, 2018)
- Support macOS Dark Mode.
- Incremental Imaging now supports re-associating a windows volume.
- Detect a boot camp partition with a package restore now works correctly for Fusion Macs where boot camp partition is on the second drive.
- Resolve issue with incremental backups showing correctly when Winclone app is launched.
- Better error handling of low disk space.
- Keyboard shortcut and menu now work correctly for opening console.
- In operations where an image file is specified, images can be dragged and dropped on interface.
- Packages now have the current date and time.
- Partition creation via package support added for 3TB Fusion drive macs on APFS (Mojave).
- Minor bug fixes.
New in Winclone 7.2 (Sep 25, 2018)
- Incremental Imaging Scheduler: Automatically update a Winclone image on a set schedule.
- Added the ability to re-associate a Windows volume with an incremental image file.
- Made Winclone images self-extracting by default.
- Fixed possible issue when Restore Image runs out of space.
- Fixed issue with opening console log.
- Fixed date shown when creating package files.
- Added drag and drop for restoring images.
- Miscellaneous bug fixes.
New in Winclone 7.1.4 (Sep 4, 2018)
- When creating a package, there is a new option to have the package create a Boot Camp partition if one does not exist.
- When creating a package, two new variable substitutions for Windows naming were added: Computer Name and Serial Number.
- When saving a package, Winclone will now give an error message when the disk is full.
- Fixed an issue that caused package restore on some legacy machines to sometimes fail.
- Fixed an issue where the macmini6,2 was incorrectly identified as a EFI bootable Mac. The macmini6,2 is now set to legacy bootable on restore.
New in Winclone 7.1.3 (Aug 13, 2018)
- Fixed issue with copying EFI files.
New in Winclone 7.1.2 (Aug 1, 2018)
- Fixed issue with Create Package selecting boot mode
- Fixed issue with Create Package showing correct image date
- Fixed issue with package deployments copying files from Sysprep folder
New in Winclone 7.1.1 (Jul 17, 2018)
- Fixed issue with WinPE package booting
- Improved cleanup of EFI partition on restore
- Added better logging info
- Fixed issue with Create Package caused by inability to find device
- Miscellaneous bug fixes
New in Winclone 7.1 (Jul 17, 2018)
New in Winclone 7.0.1 (Jul 17, 2018)
- Fixed issue where drive UUID is absent
New in Winclone 7.0 (Jul 17, 2018)
- New and improved user interface
- Incremental cloning
- Customized packaged deployment
- Import standard WIM images from Windows install media
- Automatic Windows naming during package deployment
- Automatic user creation during package deployment
- Automatic configuration of first startup during package deployment
- Automatic installation of Boot Camp drivers during first startup during package deployment
- Detection of different editions in WIM-based images
- Support for WindowsPE image booting for enterprise integration with Microsoft MDT and SCCM
- Ability to set a Boot Camp partition as WinPE bootable using customized BCD
- Better feedback during cloning operations
- Automatic configuration and installation of unattend.xml during deployment for Sysprep configuration
- Unified Logging
- Customized package installer pane for better log viewing
New in Winclone 6.2.2 (May 15, 2018)
- Added in a fix for the progress bar not showing up for some users.
- Updated progress bar with a tool tip that shows the current progress in percent.
New in Winclone 6.2.1 (Mar 14, 2018)
- Fixed issue with Winclone Backup constantly reporting issue with backup location is not found.
- Added verify operation with WIM-based clone creation.
- Updated opensource tools to resolve issue when creating WIM images from Windows that have large, uncompressible data.
New in Winclone 6.2 (Jan 23, 2018)
- rearranged prefs window a bit
- applied sound pref to all success sounds and added in completed dialog
- added in sleep for cli after unmounting
New in Winclone 6.1.9 (Dec 15, 2017)
- Fixed issue with Winclone Menu / Winclone Backup not recognizing pure Windows 10 install.
New in Winclone 6.1.8 (Nov 9, 2017)
- Fixed issue with Winclone Pro force efi / legacy option.
New in Winclone 6.1.7 (Oct 10, 2017)
- Boot Camp not detected if Windows folder was in app uppercase
- Added additional models for EFI boot detection
- Fixed issue with partition type if partition was no in the first 4
New in Winclone 6.1.6 (Oct 3, 2017)
- Winclone now detects Windows correctly if the Windows folder is in all uppercase.
New in Winclone 6.1.5 (Sep 21, 2017)
- Fixed Bullet Points in this list (thanks TC!)
- Improved log submission and feedback
- Improved error reporting for WIM errors
- Improved progress bar reporting
- Support for APFS for Winclone Backup
New in Winclone 6.1.4 (Sep 13, 2017)
- Fixed issue with block based restoring hanging at start
- Fixed issue with progress bar updating in block-based restoring
- Fixed progress bar updates across all image types
New in Winclone 6.1.3 (Sep 12, 2017)
- Changed launchd setting to reduce restore time on 10.13
- Fixed crash due to label issue in package restore in Winclone Pro
New in Winclone 6.1.1 (Aug 30, 2017)
- Added dialog box for Creators Update
- Fixed Completed Sound
- Better Checking for SIP-Enable
New in Winclone 6.1 (Aug 29, 2017)
- High Sierra Support
- Fixed issue with restoring to a disk image
- Improved logging
- Improved SIP support and warnings
New in Winclone 6.0.4 (Jun 8, 2017)
- Fixed issue with command line tool for 10.11 (affected Windows 7 restores)
- Added backup and restore of volume boot record for file based restores (affected Windows 7 restores)
New in Winclone 6.0.3 (May 19, 2017)
- Fixed text in Creators Update warning dialog box.
New in Winclone 6.0.2 (May 18, 2017)
- Added warning about Windows 10 creators update
- Additional bug fixes
New in Winclone 6.0.1 (Mar 22, 2017)
- Support for third-party NTFS drivers
- Fixed issue when removing pagefile with file-based imaging
- Fixed permission issue on image file with block-based imaging
- Fixed dialog text when saving to image file
- Various bug fixes
New in Winclone 6.0 (Mar 15, 2017)
- Support for new USB-C Macs - Winclone 6 supports cloning and restoring Boot Camp on Apple’s new USB-C MacBook and MacBook Pro models. The USB-C Mac models include disks equipped with a different block size than previous Mac models and most USB drives. Winclone 6 seamlessly clones Boot Camp between drives of all block sizes.
- Updated Interface - A pleasing new color scheme makes using Winclone 6 easier than ever.
- New Toolbar for Easy Access to common tasks - Winclone 6 improves the easy-to-use interface found in previous versions with a convenient toolbar for easier access to frequently used features and quick access to technical support and tutorial videos.
- In-App purchase of license and upgrades - Choose and purchase the edition that best suits your needs right in the app. When you need the additional power and features, upgrade to Winclone Standard or Pro without leaving the app.
- Read/Write Mounting of NTFS Volumes - Mount Boot Camp or other NTFS drives in read/write mode whenever you need to copy data between Mac and Windows volumes. All editions include support for mounting Boot Camp in read/write mode.
- Better Detection of Windows Version - Winclone 6 improves capability of identifying the Windows version to ensure your Boot Camp is compatible after migration to another Mac.
- Easy Access to Tutorial Videos - Jump straight to Winclone’s reference library of videos to get up and running or explore Winclone’s many features.
- Submit Support Ticket in the App - Need help? Send questions right from Winclone 6 to to get fast, friendly assistance from Twocanoes Software’s tech support team.
- Native Support for the WIM format as well as prior Winclone image format - Winclone 6 supports both block-based and file-based cloning for maximum flexibility and backward compatibility.
- Log Collection Compatibility for macOS - Winclone 6 supports Apple’s new logging format introduced in MacOS 10.12 (Sierra), making diagnostics and troubleshooting easier than ever.
- New Preference for Selecting File or Block-based imaging - Built for novices and experts alike, Winclone 6 makes it easy to integrate Winclone images with other industry standard deployment tools.
- Package support for USB-C Macs - Deploy Winclone packages to USB-C Macs with 4096-byte block drives
- Package support for WIM based Images - Deploy Winclone packages in WIM format to all supported Mac models
New in Winclone 5.0 (Mar 20, 2015)
- Winclone Backup for scheduled, incremental backup of Boot Camp user files
- Winclone Basic edition for simple, no-frills Boot Camp cloning
- Support for OS X Core Storage volumes
- Performance optimizations
- Updated user interface
New in Winclone 4.4 (Feb 27, 2014)
- Added more options for running Windows on internal or external drives.
New in Winclone 4.0 (Feb 27, 2014)
- Real PC Migration
- Disk-to-disk direct migration
- Windows PC to Winclone Image
- Windows PC to Boot Camp
- Supports Windows 7 higher
- Target disk mode imaging and restoring
- Migrate Boot Camp directly from one Mac to another
- Clone a Boot Camp partition to a sparse disk image
- Now recognizes ExFAT for destination partition format
- Fully backward-compatible with Winclone 3 files
- Improved design for easier navigation
- Select from various Sources
- One-button imaging
- One-button restoring
- Direct access to Console log
- Help menu option to send feedback via Twitter
- New notification tones
- Retina-ready
- Full screen mode window option
- Help menu option for full screen mode
- Network:
- Network Boot Camp migration
- Share Winclone images over the network
- Disk to disk over network
- Disk to file over network
- Share images over network
- Image or restore between Macs over the network
- Navigate to shared Winclone image
- Navigate to Boot Camp partitions on the network
- Speed:
- Optimized for faster imaging and restoring
- Clone quickly and easily
- Fast cloning, fast restoring
- Low CPU utilization so you can keep working
- Diagnostics:
- Log collection feature for troubleshooting
- Support for Auto Reference Caching OS X memory management
- 64-bit
- multi-processor support
- Uses Pigz data compression
New in Winclone 3.5 (Oct 20, 2012)
- Full support for Windows 8 OS and minor bug fixes
New in Winclone 3.4 (Jul 31, 2012)
- Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion compatibility.
New in Winclone 3.0.2 (Mar 12, 2012)
- Ability to restore legacy (DMG and SPARSEBUNDLE) type images
- Better error handling and dialogs
- Issue with "unable to set helper permissions" resolved
- Updated Software License to include Pro version terms
New in Winclone 2.3.3 (Dec 2, 2011)
- Incorporated "disk already not mounted" changes from roaringapps comments.
- Added additional documentation on restores in readme file (i.e. about not installing Windows after Boot Camp Assistant completes the repartition).
New in Winclone 2.3.2 (Dec 2, 2011)
- Removed support for Compressed images when your Bootcamp partition type is NTFS. Will fall back automatically to uncompressed.
- If you need compression, use the "special" image format.
New in Winclone 2.3.1 (Dec 2, 2011)
- Modified the output parsing for a few Lion commands where the syntax had changed from Snow Leopard.
- Added NTFSProgs to image.
New in Winclone 2.2 (Jul 28, 2009)
- Fixed issue vista starting up after cloning due to old version of ntfsprogs.
- Now requires ntfsprogs 2.0.0 and requires downloading before opening.
- Also fixed expand and shrink menu selections.
New in Winclone 2.1.2 (Jul 20, 2009)
- Fixed minor issue with quoting of gptfresh that caused issues at the end of restores.
New in Winclone 2.1 (Jul 18, 2009)
- Requires separate download of NTFSProgs. Automatically points to NTFSProgs downloads. Fixed ability to shrink uncompressed images.
New in Winclone 2.0.9 (Aug 29, 2008)
- Fixed issue affecting restoring a FAT32 image so that it bootable.
New in Winclone 2.0.8 (Aug 25, 2008)
- Fixed issue with resizing of NTFS filesystem not updating file size correctly
- Fixed issue where filesystem incorrectly identified
- Fixed issue where case sensitive HFS was being reported as a "non-Mac" drive
- Fixed issue with path to ntfstools_dir not quoted correctly
New in Winclone 2.0.5 (May 7, 2008)
- Fixed issue when expanding after restoring "special" format, minor fix to address crash when credits window is opened multiple times, minor fix to address issue restoring NTFS from DMG when filesystem is dirty, paragon NTFS filesystem now recognized as NTFS
New in Winclone 2.0.1 (Apr 30, 2008)
- 2.0 added features to mount images and clone fat32 volumes