New System Information Unit release supports latest Win OSs

Yesterday (2021-09-12) I released a couple of updates to the System Information Unit - v5.6.0 and v5.6.1.

v5.6.0 adds support for detecting new Windows versions announced since the previous release last October 31st. Specifically:

  • Windows 10 Version 21H1
  • Windows 10 Version 21H2 (due late 2021)
  • DEV, Insider preview and beta releases of Windows 11
  • Windows 2018 Server Versions 2004 and 20H2
  • Windows 2022 Server Version 21H2

    • A new method was added to get an OSs revision number from the registry. This is TPJOSInfo.RevisionNumber.

    There were a few other minor changes. Take a look at the change log for more information.

    v5.6.1 followed a few hours later and simply marked a few more class methods as inline. This release also added details of v5.6.0 to the change log that got missed in the previous release and tweaked some other docs.

    v5.6.1 can be downloaded from SourceForge.


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