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2026 7

  1. Introducing version-specific System Manifest delivery during Windows OOBE
  2. Publishing Blocklist Enforcement During Driver Signing
  3. Introducing Cloud-Initiated Driver Recovery for Windows Update
  4. Updated Graphics Driver Publishing Policy: From 4-Part to 2-Part HWID + CHID Targeting
  5. Introducing Control Over Driver Update Acceptance (DUA) Creation on Shared Driver Submissions
  6. Upcoming changes to driver metadata and publishing validations in Hardware Dev Center
  7. Attention: HDC is changing the policy on signing unreferenced files in driver packages

2025 10

  1. Driver Isolation Ruleset Changes for WHCP and Attestation Submissions
  2. Action Required: Account Verification for Windows Hardware Program Begins October 16, 2025
  3. Signing with the new 2023 Microsoft UEFI certificates: what submitters need to know
  4. HLK July Refresh Release for Windows 11 Version 24H2 and Windows Server 2025
  5. Action Required: HLK Submission Packager Changes Coming in July
  6. Removal of unwanted drivers from Windows Update
  7. Changes to Pre-Production Driver Signing
  8. End of Servicing and Retirement Plan for Device Metadata on Windows
  9. New Firmware and Camera Measures
  10. Upcoming Changes to INF Validation in HDC

2024 5

  1. 2025 Driver Release Calendar and Block Out Dates
  2. ACTION REQUIRED: HDC API users may need to update code for accessing submission blobs by Aug 28th
  3. ACTION REQUIRED: New Agreement governing access to Hardware Dev Center
  4. InfVerif Error Code 1199
  5. Get Verifiable Credentials

2023 9

  1. RESOLVED: HDC Web Dashboard Outage
  2. 2024 Driver Release Calendar and Block Out Dates
  3. NX Exception for SHIM Community
  4. Update: Create a New Support Request
  5. Update to Graphics Ecosystem Measures
  6. Updated Attestation Signed Driver Publication Requirements - December 2023 Reminder
  7. ACTION REQUIRED: New Agreements governing access to HDC
  8. New Audio & Graphics Measures
  9. Forbidden characters in filenames, and INF encoding

2022 7

  1. New Audio Measures
  2. 2023 Driver Release Calendar and Block Out Dates
  3. New Graphics Ecosystem Measure
  4. New UEFI CA memory mitigation requirements for signing
  5. Introducing preproduction signing level
  6. Hardware Dev Center Submission Portal is now accepting Windows 11, version 22H2 submissions
  7. Partners are unable to publish drivers where Server 2022. and Windows 11 install sections in INFs

2021 5

  1. Driver Release Calendar 2022 and Updates to our Block Out Dates
  2. IMPORTANT: All Partners must reassociate their signing certificates!
  3. New PnP Measure Failure Report now available
  4. Hardware Dev Center Submission Portal is now accepting Windows Server 2022 Submissions
  5. [UPDATED]: Microsoft UEFI Signing Requirements

2020 24

  1. 2021 Driver Shiproom Schedule
  2. Planned HDC Flight Report Outage: Friday, November 20 8:00am to 5:00pm PST
  3. Reminder: Upcoming Driver Release Schedule Dates
  4. Redefining servicing of Manual drivers
  5. New Cohort Failure Report
  6. New Graphics Ecosystem Measure
  7. Updated: Driver Release Calendar 2020
  8. UPDATE: PLANNED DOWNTIME: June 18, 2020 8:00AM - 4:00PM
  9. PLANNED DOWNTIME: June 18, 2020 8:00AM - 4:00PM
  10. Three new measures for Graphics driver evaluations
  11. New driver evaluation policy
  12. New measure for graphics driver evaluations
  13. UPDATED: Driver Shiproom Schedule for 2020
  14. New Bluetooth Driver Policy
  15. Change in Publishing Behavior - Manual Drivers
  16. RESOLVED: HDC is unavailable
  17. 20H1 HLK Studio Now Available!
  18. New measures to understand Windows Update success
  19. Updates to Gradual Rollout
  20. RESOLVED: HDC Partial Outage
  21. Shipping Label Changes, and Manual Drivers
  22. HDC REST API v2.0!
  23. Driver Shiproom Timeout Detection and Recovery Measures
  24. UPDATED: Driver Shiproom Schedule for 2020

2019 14

  1. iPXE Security Assurance Review
  2. UPDATE: Hardware Partner Center – SHA 1 signing deprecation notice
  3. REMINDER: Driver Shiproom Schedule for 2019
  4. New Driver Shiproom measures for Firmware
  5. Driver Shiproom Measure for crashes and hangs in games
  6. Windows 19H2 Release will not bring updates to the Windows Hardware Compatibility Program
  7. Driver shiproom measure for IAudioClient::Initialize success on the audio driver being flighted
  8. Driver shiproom measure for crashes in the audio service, including the Audio Device Graph Isolation
  9. Reject drivers with Audio Processing Object .dll versions hitting Driver Incident Grade bugs
  10. Driver Titles on Windows Update
  11. Hardware Partner Center – SHA 1 signing deprecation notice
  12. Upcoming Hardware Dev Center changes that enable support for Retpoline compiled binaries
  13. HDC UI update: “It requires a reboot” check box removed
  14. The Hardware Dev Center has a new blog location!