WiX v3.0.5006.0 was released on Friday, 6-February-2009. You can download it from http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/3.0.5006.0/.

There are 29 v3.0 bugs still open.

New features

• Brian added support for ID generation using a FIPS-compliant hash algorithm. (2545539 [[WiX is not FIPS compliant]])

Bug fixes

• Eric fixed 1992593 [[Inconsistency when harvesting Typelibs as Admin on Vista]].
• Eric fixed 2435678 [[Visual Studio builds referenced project, but not WiX project]].
• Heath fixed 2542585 [[FileSearch returning folder path not working]].
• Rob fixed 2553659 [[using <?foreach ?> generates CNDL5153 preprocessor warning]].
• Neil fixed 2555688 [[Heat cannot harvest websites]].
• Fred Teichmann offered a typo fix: 2567422 [[Localization bug in WixUI_de-de.wxl]].
• Mike fixed 2568677 [[IISConfigure & Leaked MSIHANDLE]].

WiX v3.0.4930.0 was released on Friday, 30-January-2009. You can download it from http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/3.0.4930.0/.

There are 31 v3.0 bugs still open.

Bug fixes

• Brian fixed 1615167 [[Registry rows generated by Class element are not unique]].
• Eric fixed 1918949 [[heat.exe 3.0.3815.0 crashes with ArgumentNullException]].
• Eric fixed 1918961 [[heat.exe 3.0.3815.0 crashes with NullReferenceException]].
• Eric fixed 2155318 [[Certificate issues on Windows Vista]].
• Heath fixed 2378630 [[Pyro sets bad File.Attributes for delta-patched files]].
• Rob fixed 2530926 [[Performance Counters fail to install on Windows XP]].
• Neil fixed 2533182 [[NAntTasks don't initialise exedir]].
• Neil fixed 2535552 [[NAntTasks aren't documented in the WiX help file.]].
• Fredrik fixed 2540057 [[Error installing COM+]].
• Mike fixed 2543674 [[iis extension doesn't support properties]].
• Mike fixed 2543875 [[iis extension doesn't set web site path]].
• Mike fixed 2548516 [[IIsExtensions+SetupBld requires access to the original MSI]].

WiX v3.0.4923.0 was released on Friday, 23-January-2009. You can download it from http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/3.0.4923.0/.

v3.0.4923.0 is the fifth post-beta build of WiX v3.0. There are 32 v3.0 bugs still open in the bug tracker.

New features

• Neil Sleightholm added several features to Heat:
  • Switch to suppress braces around generated GUIDs (-g1).
  • Switch to suppress bogus Visual Basic 6.0 COM registration (-svb6).
• John Twomey changed the preprocessor to issues warnings for redefined variables instead of errors, to be consistent with the behavior of the C/C++ preprocessor.
• Aaron added documentation for the WixExitEarlyWithSuccess custom action in WixUtilExtension.

Bug fixes

• I fixed 2090736 [[Russian localization]].
• Neil fixed 2474846 [[Harvest project with satellites misses culture specific part]].
• Aaron fixed 2513737 [[Install button text cut off in Japanese in WixUI_Minimal]].
• I fixed 2520505 [[Documentation for the -cc and -resusecab switches]].
• Fredrik fixed all the COM+ and MSMQ extension bugs:
  • 1584258 [[ComPlusAssembly while uninstall linked .dll file not removed]]
  • 1590800 [[pubca - InitializesServerApplication not working]]
  • 1733349 [[LGHT1076 ICE03 warning from ComPlusExtension.dll]]
  • 1768957 [[Error in MessageQueue Element (PubCA)]]
  • 1914217 [[Cannot add 64bit com+ component (3.0.3907.0)]]
  • 2283546 [[COM+ repair increases DLL ref count]]