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Highlights of WiX v3.0.5120.0

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 [...]

Posted 21 March 2009 † Bob Arnson § WiX ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged:

Highlights of WiX v3.0.5106.0

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 [...]

Posted 06 March 2009 † Bob Arnson § WiX ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged:

Highlights of WiX v3.0.5027.0

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 Rob fixed the MsiLockPermissionEx table (for use with MSI 5.0). Heath fixed 2542585 [[FileSearch returning folder path not working]]. Peter fixed 2610238 [[Schedule FindRelatedProducts before LaunchConditions]]. I fixed 2620719 [[MsiRMFilesInUse dialog controls unusable [...]

Posted 28 February 2009 † Bob Arnson § WiX ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged:

Highlights of WiX v3.0.5020.0

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 [...]

Posted 21 February 2009 † Bob Arnson § WiX ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged:

Highlights of WiX v3.0.5014.0

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 I fixed 2403521 [[Multi language merge module error]]. Brian fixed 2525582 [[AppId [...]

Posted 15 February 2009 † Bob Arnson § WiX ‡ Comments (4) ° Also tagged: