As Rob announced, a beta release of WiX v3.0 is coming soon, probably on Friday, 5-December. We had a dress rehearsal last Thursday at WiX night, complete with my pushing the build up to the WiX SourceForge.net releases page.
The beta release is our stake in the ground: We’ve implemented the features we plan to implement [...]
Monthly Archives: November 2008
WiX v3.0 beta coming soon
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Highlights of WiX v3.0.4721.0
Saturday, November 22, 2008
WiX v3.0.4721.0 was released on Friday, 21-November-08. You can download it from http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/3.0.4721.0/ or from the WiX SourceForge.net releases page.
New features
I implemented 2062684: FirewallException should allow port to be a formatted value.
Bug fixes
I fixed 1581071: dark.exe crash on buggy msi.
Heath fixed 1979490: Torch throws exception when diffing two wixouts (or wixpdbs).
I fixed [...]
Highlights of WiX v3.0.4714.0
Saturday, November 15, 2008
WiX v3.0.4714.0 was released on Friday, 14-November-08. You can download it from http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/3.0.4714.0/.
Bug fixes
Mike re-fixed 2166658: LNK1103 when linking against WiX SDK in VS2005 by changing the build system to optionally support Visual Studio 2005.
I fixed my own bug, 2267508: WIXUI_EXITDIALOGOPTIONALTEXT isn’t documented, by adding documentation.
Highlights of WiX v3.0.4707.0
Saturday, November 8, 2008
WiX v3.0.4707.0 was released on Friday, 7-November-08. You can download it from http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/3.0.4707.0/.
New features
Not exactly a feature except for those working on it, but Jason did the thankless work of merging the SDK source code so that VS2005 and VS2008 Votive builds share the same code.
I added attributes to WixGamingExtension’s Game element to [...]