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WiX v3.0 has been released!

Executive summary: Download WiX v3.0 RTM here.

On schedule and under budget (seeing as how I’m no longer around to get my weekly WiX paycheck), WiX v3.0 has been released to SourceForge and marked RTM/stable. The WiX v3.0 RTM build number is 3.0.5419.0, which was released 19-Jun and is, I’m pleased to point out, a prime number. (Well, the 5419 part is, anyway.)

Rob, Candy, and I built a stabilization/escrow plan that locked down the WiX core toolset (basically wix.dll), then extensions, and finally Votive, documentation, setup, and everything else. I’m happy to say we stuck to that plan very well, taking only one targeted and isolated fix to the Differ class used by Torch.

There were bugs reported in the final weeks of v3.0 that we concluded weren’t important enough to “reset escrow” and delay the release of WiX v3.0. Most of those bugs are in the queue to be fixed in WiX v3.5.

Speaking of…Work on WiX v3.5 has already started in earnest. Burn is coming together nicely and for the trailblazers, Votive is now available for Visual Studio 2010 beta.

There’s plenty more work to do, in WiX v3.5 and beyond, but for now, I’m really proud of the work we’ve done in WiX v3.0.

See Rob’s post.

Comments 4

  1. Vijay wrote:

    eXcellent work team. I’m all set to download this and try out..!!!

    Congrats for the release :-)

    Cheers’
    Vijay

    Posted 06 Jul 2009 at 21:37
  2. Anthony Wieser wrote:

    Thanks for all your hard work, and a great tool.

    Who won last check-in chicken?

    Posted 09 Jul 2009 at 10:33
  3. Dan Jagnow wrote:

    I’m a big fan of WiX. Thanks for all the years of hard work that you guys have poured into it, and congratulations on the big release. I’m looking forward to exploring the new goodies in v3.0.

    Posted 09 Jul 2009 at 13:16
  4. Ian Ceicys wrote:

    Awesome! I can’t wait to start playing with Wix 3.0

    Posted 11 Jul 2009 at 21:33

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  1. From WiX v3.0 now available for download « C# Hacker – The Rambling Coder on 07 Jul 2009 at 07:39

    [...] Its been a while watching the various incremental builds coming out for Wix 3, but now we are at the RTM the beginning for 3.0! Over this past weekend it has been marked RTM , the 3.0.5419 build of WiX v3.0 was declared the final production build. Read more about the various Wix announcements http://www.joyofsetup.com/2009/07/04/wix-v3-0-has-been-released/ [...]

  2. From WiX v3.0 released « Konstantin Vlasenko on 13 Jul 2009 at 04:25

    [...] leave a comment » The final build of WiX v3.0 has been released. You can download it from http://sourceforge.net/projects/wix/files/. Read more about the release by Rob and Bob. [...]