Patch Notes

Sparkle 2.22.0

• Added back Discord RPC

• Added Discord RPC toggle in settings

• Added input validation for app IDs

• Fixed Clicking a link in changelog modal replaces the Sparkle window

• Added remove-edge tweak

• Added disable-taskbar-search tweak

• Added Images to Sparkle Installer

• Updated Sparkle Installer to be interactive

• You can now change where you install Sparkle

• Optimized Debloat+ (it should be faster now)

If you have disable-location-tracking or detailed-bsod It is HIGHLY RECOMENDED YOU REAPPLY THEM. you may do this by holding alt and pressing the reapply button.

• Fixed Severely incorrect disable-location-tracking tweak

• Fixed detailed-bsod tweak applying the incorrect value

• Added sanitization for IP and hostname in DNS handling

• Added sanitization for restore point names to prevent code execution

• Fixed set-services-to-manual tweak setting values incorrectly on unapply

• Fixed disable-telemetry Setting the wrong value when unapplied

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You may now see the logs of the package manager with the new App Install terminal You can now debloat apps installed on your system rather than picking from a list with the debloat-windows tweak

• Updated Electron to V43

• Added App Install terminal (you can now view logs for the apps that you're installing)

• Added Debloat+ Beta (you can now debloat apps installed on your system rather than selecting a list. Warning this is a very early feature and may not work as intended)

• Added admin status check for edge cases where sparkle is not running as admin

• Optimized Cleaner Page Logic

• Optimized DNS Ping test on DNS Manager Page (Total time drops from 5-10+ seconds to ~1-2 seconds)

• Restore Page now uses the new Table Component

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You can now change the Animation Direction from Up, Left, or Off.

• Added configurable animation direction (Up, Left, Off) for improved accessibility

• Added TTL caching to the system info backend

• Refactored tweak application flow to await NvidiaProfileInspector

• Improved IPC listener cleanup to correctly remove specific listeners

• Fixed online status not updating after successful network requests

• Updated system info tests to support backend caching

• Removed electron-toolkit utils dependency in favor of internal is.dev helper

• Fixed unwanted files and folders being included in application bundles

Checksums

Debloat Tweak has animated border: New homepage loading UI Old Tweak Modal (No Markdown Support) New Tweak Modal (Markdown Supported)

• Refactored GPU Detection

• Added Tests with vitest

• Added foobar2000 to apps

• Added Localsend to apps

• Updated Modal Styles

• Added styles for disabled inputs

• Added Animated Border to debloat-windows tweak

• Bumped dependencies

• Refactor System info logic for speed

• Tweak info modals now support Markdown

• Added Clear System info cache to settings

• Redesigned Home Page Loading UI

• Changed Some Icons around the app

Other Screenshots:

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Changes

• Enhanced app installation text

• Updated Chocolatey installation success message to include restart prompt

• Simplified and sped up Chocolatey and Winget installation checks

• Added various developer options section to settings page

• Created Scoop bucket (currently not working)

• Added uv to apps

• Added YASB to apps

• Added disable RDP warnings tweak

• Added force local apps toggle to settings

• Fixed reapply button now only shows for reversible tweaks

• Added Phone Link to debloat script

• Updated Debloat Script Theme to dark mode

• Bumped debloat script version

• Fixed some debloat script logic

• Fixed React strict mode disabled in dev to prevent unnecessary rerenders and double fetching

• Updated cmd style on utilities page

• Fixed broken app icons

• Added option to hide app icons on apps page for improved performance

• Added Tortoise Git

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Changes

• Added no-sandbox flag to help sparkle run on more systems

• Fixed Toasts getting stuck when Appling tweaks too quickly

• Fix Chocolatey apps appearing in search when winget is selected.

• Added Offline Modal

• Added Tweak Reapply Logic, Press Alt when on the tweaks page to reapply any tweak

• Fixed Some broken app icons

• Updated Docs to match app logic

• Added Selected Apps Button on apps page to view currently selected apps

• Added Warning to the revert applied tweaks tab

• Added Package manager selection modal on apps page first visit

Checksums

Changes

• Added "Restart your Windows Search and UI to fix display issues" utility - by @cyfung1031

• Added folder sizes to Clean page, along with a full Clean page redesign

• Added tweak reversal page to backups

• Added confirmation modal for the "Delete All" button on restore points

• Moved the Clean button to the top of the page on clean page

• Updated Clean Page Design

• Removed Windows Updates utility

• Modal backgrounds are no longer blurred

Development

• DEV: Switched back to pnpm

• DEV: Migrated to path aliases and modularized IPC handlers

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🩹 2.16.1 Patch

• Fixed auto updater not working correctly

• Improved auto updater with periodic 5-minute checks

• Fixed issue #91 (Restore Points tab font not supporting Cyrillic characters)

• Added issue templates for bug reports, feature requests, and tweaks

• Fixed issue templates path configuration

• Changed default behavior so Sparkle no longer runs in the system tray automatically

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2.16.0

• Refactored App Installing. Apps now install in the background rather than a blocking modal.

• Added DNS Ping Tester

• Fixed Broken App icons

• Fixed Utilities page commands failing

• Broken app icons now show sparkle logo

• Added Cleanup page now shows paths

• Minor UI Changes

• Minor Text Changes

• Attempt to Fix Auto update

• Removed New badge from Utilities page

• Added Tweak Risk Badge to Tweaks page and Docs

• Revamped Docs Design

• Added [Donations Page](https://docs.getsparkle.net/donations), [Contributing Page](https://docs.getsparkle.net/contributing) to Docs

• Updated [Uninstall Page](https://docs.getsparkle.net/uninstall/) To include more detail in the docs

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🩹 2.15.1 Patch

• Updated dependencies to latest secure and stable versions

• Updated Parcoil Text in some places

• Migrated electron-vite config to v5

• Adjusted Chocolatey package metadata

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• More apps where added by @mostwise

• Removed Automatic Defender Exclusion (This can cause AntiMalware apps to think sparkle is malware)

• Added "Bun" to apps list

• Updated Apps style

• Utilities page now shows what command is being run

• Tweaks Page style Changes

• Fixed issue where User was able to close first restore point modal

• Removed Discord RPC (bloated, not needed, may add back in the future)

• Refactored DNS Logic. It is now handled in TypeScript rather than raw PowerShell scripts

• Relocated Tweaks to inside of app bundle for security purposes

• Fixed [optimize-network-settings](https://docs.getsparkle.net/tweaks/optimize-network-settings/) tweak. Issue: #83

This patch features size improvements to Sparkle. Sparkle used to bundle everything in the backend, such as React, PostHog, and even Tailwind with all of their dependencies. All of this led to Sparkle being over 400 MB, with modules duplicated in both the frontend and backend. The ASAR was over 150 MB on its own, and after removing frontend dependencies from the backend, it’s now sitting at just 12 MB that’s a huge difference. Another thing: for some reason, Electron ships with all locales by default. That folder alone was 43 MB, so cutting it down to just en-US reduced it to only 518 KB. We also used to include Sentry in both the frontend and backend, but Sentry and its dependencies (like OTEL) were almost 50 MB. We decided to remove Sentry since we don’t really need it. users can report issues directly on GitHub. Before: After:

• Added Recommended To Debloat Tweak

• Added Tweak Recommended Preset

• Updated Sparkle Logo

• Added 2 new tweaks

• Changed Discord RPC library

Changes

• Added Disable Telemetry Tweak back

• Dashboard page now shows iGPUs

• 3 new Utilities where added

• Added Search bar to Utilities page

• Added some more debug logging

Debloat Tweak v1.1.0 Changes

• You now select what you want to remove rather than selecting what you want to keep.

• Fixed Window bugs where closing brings up the "Debloat Complete" window

• Added Remove Recommended Apps Preset

• Added Admin Check if not running as admin then starts a new Powershell window as admin

Changes

• Added Chocolatey Support

• Added System File Checker to Utilities page

• Added DISM Health Restore to Utilities page

• Added Check Disk to Utilities page

• Made Winget Optional

• Added Option to change default package manager.

• Fixed some bugs

• Removed installed apps check (This has been broken for a while and needs to be refactored)

• Added 8 new Apps

• Removed Winget check from home page

• Fixed some launch issues

Other

• Sparkle is now written in TypeScript rather than JavaScript.

Changes

• Switched to Start-BitsTransfer for more reliable downloads

• Made Winget installation optional

• Added a dismissible warning for Winget installation

Fixes

• Fixed Discord RPC issues affecting some systems

• Cleaned up and updated documentation

• Improved power scheme detection by switching to GUID-based checks

Upcoming

• A major code rewrite is coming soon

• The project will be ported from JavaScript to TypeScript

• This rewrite won’t affect the user interface or how users interact with the app but some bugs may occur

• Revamped Utilities Page

• Added sidebar toggle

• Fixed HAGS tweak and others failing.

• Changed Sparkle Window size limit

• Added More apps to debloat script

• Added Sparkle Like theme to debloat script

2.10.5 Patch: Fix winget installer always starting. Feat: 3 New tweaks. -24 hour clock -remove bing search

• unpin widgets and taskview from taskbar.

• Add handling for windows installs with defender striped.