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What changed between BGinfo 4.25.0.0 and 4.32.0.0? #834

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Snicelory opened this issue Nov 14, 2024 · 3 comments
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What changed between BGinfo 4.25.0.0 and 4.32.0.0? #834

Snicelory opened this issue Nov 14, 2024 · 3 comments

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@Snicelory
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Snicelory commented Nov 14, 2024

Before asking tough, I have to ask why there is in generall no mention of change logs/release notes anywhere?
Just the main page lists some highlights, but that's nowhere near as useful as real lists of all changes.
Not even with the Wayback Machine I can get to see, if there is some mention of BGinfo in there.

In my organisation I tried to convince them to update BGinfo to 4.32.0.0 from 4.25.0.0. Not because I saw an direct advantage to that, but because the latest version already has security problems (https://www.varonis.com/blog/exploiting-bginfo-to-infiltrate-a-corporate-network) and updating may at least help with other security issues. Like the versions are 4 years apart, that's more than enough time to fix some security issues.

Edit:
I saw that there is a Sysinternals Blog (https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/users/markrussinovich/365340?messages.widget.messagelistfornodebyrecentactivitywidget-tab-main-user-message-lists-0=solutions), but the newest mention if BGinfo comes from jun 27, 2019 about v4.26. That brings me one Version closer to my target. Sad that those posts stopped. It wasn't as useful as standard release notes, but way better than nothing. Did it go on somehow and it's just somewhere else now?

So, because my colleges want me to show some concrete reason to update, I need notes on the new releases, otherwise I have nothing to show of.
If that would be possible, I would appriciate it a lot!

Kind Regard,
Marcel

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foxmsft commented Nov 14, 2024

Hey Marcel,

check the Sysinternals Blog. For example, this bginfo query.

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Snicelory commented Nov 19, 2024

Ok yeah that solved my issue, and yeah there are two updates, where it would be important to have that version running.
For anyone else reading this, I pieced together every link to a Bginfo update, that I could find with the methode mentioned in the comment above. They are at the bottom.

I still think, release notes for Sysintrnals are solved using a very unpractical way and are very hard to find.
Just put a link to a text document on every tool's page with all the news for that tool.
Like NirSoft does it: https://www.nirsoft.net/

The Updates on the Sysinternals Blog:

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/sysinternals-blog/update-bginfo-v4-10/725732

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/sysinternals-blog/updates-bginfo-v4-11-processmonitor-v1-24/725771

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/sysinternals-blog/new-tool-ad-insight-v1-0-and-various-updates/725776

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/sysinternals-blog/updates-zoomit-v2-10-process-monitor-v1-34-bginfo-v4-13/725806

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/sysinternals-blog/updates-process-monitor-v1-37-handle-v3-41-process-explorer-v11-21-debugview-4-7/725815

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/sysinternals-blog/updates-autoruns-v9-4-bginfo-v4-15-zoomit-v3-03--new-marks-blog-post-pushing-the/725857

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/sysinternals-blog/updates-livekd-v3-1-bginfo-v4-16-procdump-v1-6-autoruns-v9-55--new-marks-blog-po/725879

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/sysinternals-blog/autoruns-v11-70-bginfo-v4-20-disk2vhd-v1-64-process-explorer-v15-40/726007

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/sysinternals-blog/update-autoruns-v13-5-sigcheck-v2-3-rammap-v1-4-bginfo-v4-21-sysmon-v3-11-adinsi/726033

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/sysinternals-blog/sysinternals-update-procdump-v9-autoruns-v13-71-bginfo-v4-22-livekd-v5-62-proces/726072

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/sysinternals-blog/autoruns-v13-81-bginfo-v4-23-handle-v4-11/726079

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/sysinternals-blog/bginfo-v4-24/726080

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/sysinternals-blog/bginfo-v4-25/726085

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/sysinternals-blog/sigcheck-2-70-bginfo-v4-26-and-vmmap-v3-22/726092

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/sysinternals-blog/sigcheck-2-70-bginfo-v4-26-and-vmmap-v3-22/726092

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/sysinternals-blog/bginfo-4-28/869906

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/sysinternals-blog/zoomit-v6-0-bginfo-v4-30-psexec-v2-40-procmon-v3-90-and-sigcheck-v2-90/3576786

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/sysinternals-blog/zoomit-v6-01-bginfo-v4-31-and-procmon-v3-91/3586676

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/sysinternals-blog/sysmon-v14-1-coreinfo-v3-6-accessenum-v1-35-bginfo-v4-32-and-notmyfault-v4-21/3641271

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Oh the issue is still open.
Writing this, so it will be closed.

Thanks for the help!

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