See this blog post.įor games that included the DirectX SDK REDIST folder in their installation, there is no impact as that continues to work. These components are strictly serviced as part of the Operating System. it doesn’t change Direct3D, DirectDraw, DirectSound, DirectInput, etc.) at all. Impact for existing gamesĪs I’ve communicated numerous times, this legacy installer never installs DirectX (i.e. The payload DLLs are still using SHA-1, and there are known security issues, so it is highly recommended you move to the replacements mentioned in this post.

As of February 20, 2021, these three downloads have been republished using SHA-256 signing for the ‘outer’ containers–there’s been no change to the contents or binaries. In January 2021 they were removed from the Microsoft Download Center. This impacted the legacy DirectX SDK, the DirectX End-User Runtime, and the DirectX End-User Runtime Web Installer. The original timeline was stretched out a bit due to COVID-19, but as of January 2021 this content is no longer hosted by Microsoft servers. Microsoft announced last year that it was retiring all SHA-1 signed content from Microsoft Downloads in this blog post since the SHA-1 algorithm is no longer considered secure.

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