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Highlights of WiX v3.0.5120.0

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WiX v3.0.5120.0 was released on Friday, 20-March-2009. You can download it from http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/3.0.5120.0/.

There are 23 v3.0 bugs still open.

Developer ID Description
Bob NEW FEATURE. Added the MSI SDK help file to the WiX installer. We’re shipping the 4.5 RTM version until MSI 5.0 is released.
Heath Performance regression when using .wixpdb files
Aaron Malformed documentation that broke the Web site contents
Jason Heat’s project harvester doesn’t handle linked project items.
Mike IIS custom actions could fail during uninstall because of missing data.
Eric WixGamingExtension doesn’t support uninstalling from Game Explorer.
Mike CloseApplication custom action didn’t support 64-bit processes.
Jason 1966509 Resource class doesn’t handle named resource types
Jason 2166555 Add more error information to DTF InstallerExceptions
Brian 2485646 Heat generates FileSource inconsistently
Mike 2580643 IIS7: secure WebAddress causes install to fail
Jason 2591044 DTF Database corruption when database not committed
Jason 2616261 EmbeddedUI breaks when CustomAction is included
Heath 2655021 Id attribute in FileSearch error
Bob 2672243 MSI 5.0 Table MsiServiceConfig not working
Bob 2672249 Missed functionality in MSI 5.0 table MsiLockPermissionsEx
Brian 2672296 WiX 3.0.5106.0 breaks heat COM harvesting
Brian 2672300 Heat adds registry entry for TypeLib HELPDIR not attribute
Rob 2674951 Missing flags in EmbeddedUI
Mike 2683227 IIS metabase is not saved before creating backup
Jason 2687145 ArithmeticOverflowException in Installer.UseFeature
Jason 2687285 FeatureInstallation.Usage throws when no usage data
Bob 2689061 Docs say FeatureGroupRef is a valid child of FeatureRef.
Bob 2689869 Impossible to bind multiple CheckBoxes to same property
Jason 2694706 MakeSfxCA does not ignore abstract EmbeddedUI classes
Jason 2694488 RegistrySearch for type “file” return directory path only

Highlights of WiX v3.0.5106.0

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WiX v3.0.5106.0 was released on Friday, 6-March-2009. You can download it from http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/3.0.5106.0/.

There are 26 v3.0 bugs still open.

New features

  • Brian added stable-id generation to Heat. See his writeup of how the new features work.
  • I added the InstallExecute and InstallExecuteAgain standard actions, for scheduling RemoveExistingProducts after either one and before InstallFinalize.

Bug fixes

Highlights of WiX v3.0.5027.0

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WiX v3.0.5027.0 was released on Friday, 27-February-2009. You can download it from http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/3.0.5027.0/.

There are 35 v3.0 bugs still open.

Bug fixes

Highlights of WiX v3.0.5020.0

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WiX v3.0.5020.0 was released on Friday, 20-February-2009. You can download it from http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/3.0.5020.0/.

There are 33 v3.0 bugs still open.

New features

  • Eric added support to setupexe for caching and applying secure transforms instead of applying the transforms to the database and therefore invalidating Authenticode signatures.
  • Heath added support for PowerShell v2 to PSExtension.

Bug fixes

Highlights of WiX v3.0.5014.0

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WiX v3.0.5014.0, Valentine edition, was released on Saturday, 14-February-2009. You can download it from http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/3.0.5014.0/.

There are 33 v3.0 bugs still open.

New features

  • Mike added an error message when using strings that can’t be converted to the database’s code page.

Bug fixes