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3 | 3 | ## About
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5 | 5 | WinDiff is an open-source web-based tool that allows browsing and comparing
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| -symbol and type information of Microsoft Windows binaries across different |
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| -versions of the operating system. The binary database is automatically updated |
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| -to include information from the latest Windows updates. |
| 6 | +symbol, type and syscall information of Microsoft Windows binaries across |
| 7 | +different versions of the operating system. The binary database is automatically |
| 8 | +updated to include information from the latest Windows updates (including |
| 9 | +Insider Preview). |
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10 | 11 | It was inspired by [ntdiff](https://github.com/ntdiff/ntdiff) and made possible
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11 | 12 | with the help of [Winbindex](https://github.com/m417z/winbindex).
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34 | 35 | A scheduled GitHub action fetches new updates from `Winbindex` every day and
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35 | 36 | updates the configuration file used to generate the live version of WinDiff.
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36 | 37 | Currently, because of (free plans) storage and compute limitations, **only KB**
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| -**updates less than one year old are kept** for the live version. You can of |
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| -course rebuild a local version of WinDiff yourself, without those limitations if |
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| -you need to. See the next section for that. |
| 38 | +**and Insider Preview updates less than one year old are kept** for the live |
| 39 | +version. You can of course rebuild a local version of WinDiff yourself, without |
| 40 | +those limitations if you need to. See the next section for that. |
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41 | 42 | Note: `Winbindex` doesn't provide unique download links for 100% of the indexed
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42 | 43 | files, so it might happen that some PEs' information are unavailable in WinDiff
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| -because of that. However, as soon as these PEs are on VirusTotal, these will be |
| 44 | +because of that. However, as soon as these PEs are on VirusTotal, `Winbindex` |
| 45 | +will be able to provide unique download links for them and they will then be |
44 | 46 | integrated into WinDiff automatically.
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46 | 48 | ## How to Build
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