⬆️ The Biggest Atlas Update

Atlas v0.3.0 is Atlas' largest individual update ever with over 🌐 1,400 GitHub commits, 📁 570+ file changes and ⌨️ 21,500+ lines altered.

We fixed many of the security issues, fixed numerous bugs, added new features, and took in lots of community feedback. This includes adding back Windows Defender as an optional component, Windows Update support, and enabling UAC by default.

Information on how to install and more is over on our documentation, which has also seen various improvements and is also open source. Additionally, Windows 11 is now supported!

💿 Supported Versions

You can download the latest Windows 11 23H2 and Windows 10 22H2 directly from Microsoft on our documentation.

• Windows 11 23H2
• Windows 11 22H2
• Windows 10 22H2

🪵 Changelog

• Options in AME Wizard
  • Defender
  • Core Isolation
  • Mitigations
  • Bluetooth, removing Edge, power saving
  • Choosing a replacement browser (optional)
• No more 'Reticulating Splines'
• Ability to toggle Defender fully at a component level
• All known compatibility issues from v0.2.0 have been solved
• Windows Update is now accessible, and is set to manual updates by default
  • Retains optimisations, including component removals
• Installing Hyper-V is the same as regular Windows
• Installing Atlas in a Hyper-V guest works correctly
• Drive Optimization scheduling is left default
• Improved anticheat compatibility, VAC (Valve's Anticheat) and FACEIT work properly
• Mobile hotspot works
• UAC is enabled by default
• Improved multi-user account support
• Application installer issues fixed
• Browser updates fixed
• High CPU usage on startup fixed
• Atlas folder restructure on the desktop
  • Also not copied to every single user anymore, it's in C:\Windows\AtlasDesktop
• Edge WebView is added back
• Entire Playbook tweak restructure
  • config.yml has had its tweaks split up into individual files
• New component removal system, which persists through updates via Windows Update
• Removal of certain logging has now been reverted
• Windows Security has been added back
  • Core isolation is now configurable
• Scheduled tasks, services, autologgers and driver lists have been remade
• Process Hacker is no longer used in the Playbook

...and lots more minor fixes and improvements!

💵 Donations

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❔ Support

• Documentation
• Discord server
• AtlasOS Forum