WiX v3.0.4617.0 was released on Friday, 17-October-08. You can download it from http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/3.0.4617.0/.

Known issues

• We tried a fix for 2163032: WiX Install Path but it didn’t take. Therefore, WiX still installs into a directory that will fail to build .wixproj projects created with earlier versions. A complete fix has been implemented for the next release.

New features

• Mike added support to the NativeImage custom actions in WixNetFxExtension to support later versions of the underlying Common Language Runtime of the .NET Framework.
• Mike also added additional code in the PermissionEx/SecureObjects custom actions to properly roll back registry permissions during failed major upgrades.
• Heath added support for explicit patch states to DTF’s PatchInstallation class.
• Jason‘s bucking for ownership of Heat with several new features:
• Making Heat’s Visual Studio project harvester work with MSBuild 3.5 projects.
• Adding HarvestProjects as a target in wix.target to run Heat against the HeatProject item group.
• Adding the -t switch to heat.exe and Transforms property to the HeatFile, HeatDirectory, and HeatProject tasks to apply XSL transformations to Heat output.
• Aaron added the VS90_SP1 property in WixVSExtension to detect Visual Studio 2008 SP1 by checking a particular file’s version. That overcomes a bug in VS setup that in a mildly twisted set of circumstances causes the registry-based detection of the VS90_SP_LEVEL property to report a lower SP level than the main VS product.

Bug fixes

• Jason fixed some DTF bugs in the SourceList.MediaList and Database.IsReadOnly methods and the MakeSfxCA tool.
• Mike fixed a bunch of typos in the documentation, error messages, and command-line messages.
• Eric fixed 1515041: XmlFile attempts and fails to edit locked file on uninstall.
• Rob fixed 1631870: wixca.dll, scaexec.dll fail to run on WinNT4.
• Eric fixed a bug introduced implementing 1903673: EventManifest/@parameterFileName attribute.
• Heath fixed 1955989: Author min version to process transforms and patches.
• Heath fixed 1961300: PatchTransform.Validate should check for removed components.
• Mike fixed 2076641: Error building with Dutch localisation.
• Mike fixed 2113607: Errors in german localization.
• I fixed 2124834: Missing space before [ProductName] in spanish es-ES.
• I fixed 2124836: Install button not wide enough for japanese.