WiX v3.10 Release Candidate build available
The WiX v3.10 Release Candidate build is now available! The focus of the WiX v3.10 release is supporting Visual Studio 2015 and Windows 10. As anticipated — almost like it was intentional — we’ve also...
View ArticleWiX v3.10 Release Candidate 2 build available
After shipping “the” WiX v3.10 release candidate back in June, we finished off a couple of features that required us to wait for Visual Studio 2015 RTM to be released. We also took a couple of trivial,...
View ArticleWiX Toolset v3.10 released
Update: WiX v3.10.1 has been released. As planned, WiX v3.10 was released on (American) Labor Day. The RTM build is v3.10.0.2103. Download it here. Update: Rob also had words about WiX v3.10....
View ArticleWiX Toolset v3.10.1 Released
WiX v3.10.1 is a maintenance release of WiX v3.10 with the following important fixes: @barnson implemented a workaround for a Visual Studio 2015 issue that caused certain WiX standard custom actions to...
View ArticleWiX v3.10.2 released
An unpleasant first: We had to release a security update for the WiX Toolset. Here’s the recipe: 1 serving of DLL hijacking–a really bad Windows vulnerability because Windows first searches the...
View ArticleWiX v3.10.3 released
On 4 July 2016, the 240th anniversary of the approval and publication of the United States Declaration of Independence, the Juno spacecraft is scheduled to enter polar orbit around Jupiter and WiX...
View ArticleWiX v3.11 released
On Cinco de Mayo 2017, we released WiX v3.11. WiX v3.11 RTM is v3.11.0.1701. You can download the WiX Toolset v3.11 build tools and Visual Studio extensions here. The primary goal of the WiX v3.11...
View ArticleLabeling issues in WiX
During our last WiX Online Meeting, I talked myself into volunteering to study how other projects use labels in their issues. Here’s what I came up with: Some repos prefix their labels to sort them...
View ArticleProposed platform support in WiX v4.0
Update: See the meeting highlights at FireGiant for the video of the discussion. Given that WiX v4.0 is a major-version release and will have a number of significant changes in the build environment,...
View ArticleWiX v3.10.4 and WiX v3.11.1 released
Today, as we bid an indifferent farewell to the 12-month period known as 2017, we shipped WiX v3.10.4 and WiX v3.11.1 to mitigate a vulnerability in Burn. The vulnerability is a little tougher to...
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