Is Self Attestation Driver signing being withdrawn

NTDEV
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I had some issues with signing a driver today (after accepting some agreements from Microsoft I managed to do this)

However after looking around at what could be the problem I came across this link.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/hardware-dev-center/updated-attestation-signed-driver-publication-requirements/ba-p/3754825

Is self attestation going away? Do we all have to go down the WHCP route?

I am not really sure what ‘retail audience’ means.

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No. What that says is Microsoft will no longer publish attestation-signed drivers in their driver library, which is what Windows searches if you tell it to “search for a suitable driver”.

Frankly, I didn’t think that was ever possible. I thought to PATH to the driver library always went directly through WHQL.

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@Tim_Roberts said:
No. What that says is Microsoft will no longer publish attestation-signed drivers in their driver library, which is what Windows searches if you tell it to “search for a suitable driver”.

Frankly, I didn’t think that was ever possible. I thought to PATH to the driver library always went directly through WHQL.

Okay thanks for that. My supervisor will be happy.