WiX v3.0.4325.0 was released on Friday, 25-July-08. You can download it from http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/3.0.4325.0/.
New features
Mike Carlson changed the preprocessor to stop evaluating expressions in a false <?if?> block. That lets you check for the presence of a preprocessor variable, for example, and use it in the block "knowing" that it’s defined.
Bug fixes
Jason and Mike [...]
WiX v3.0.4318.0 was released on Friday, 18-July-08. You can download it from http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/3.0.4318.0/.
New features
Neil Enns, still late of the MSBuild team and still working on secret stuff, added two new properties to the OsInfo custom actions that detect the presence of a WDDM driver and whether Desktop Window Manager (DWM) composition is enabled. See [...]
Loc variables — using !(loc.id) syntax to refer to strings defined in a .wxl file — let you use a single set of source files to build multiple localized installers. Common uses include obvious localizable strings like the product name and error messages. Slightly less common, but just as important to the localization process, are [...]
WiX v3.0.4311.0 was released on Friday, 11-July-08. You can download it from http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/3.0.4311.0/.
New features
Neil Enns, late of the MSBuild team and now working on secret stuff, contributed a new section of how-to topics for WiX.chm. (This was actually new in v3.0.4220, but I didn’t catch it. Mea culpa!)
Neil also added support for [...]
Burn is the name of the new WiX chainer. (Burn is brought to you by the letter B, which stands for bootstrapper.) Though we’re working to ship WiX v3 without Burn, work on Burn continues — it turns out that several members of the WiX virtual team need a chainer for their day jobs. As [...]