Advanced Installer 20.8 Release Notes

On June 28th, 2023 Caphyon Ltd. is proud to announce the release of Advanced Installer 20.8 in Free, Professional, Enterprise and Architect editions. This release is available for download on the Advanced Installer website.

We are excited to introduce a new Advanced Installer Visual Studio Extension improvement. Our latest update brings support for publishing .NET AOT applications directly from Visual Studio.

This integration empowers developers to seamlessly build MSIX or MSI packages for their AOT applications without having to switch between different tools or environments. Advanced Installer Professional is required to build MSIX packages, while MSI packages can be built using our free edition.

Watch the video below and learn how to create an MSIX package for a native AOT application using the Advanced Installer Visual Studio extension.

New features, bug fixes, and general improvements are included in the current release. See the full list below.

New features
  • Advanced Installer Visual Studio Extension: support for publishing .Net AOT projects
Enhancements

  • Requested by customer
    CLI support for the Updates Targets section of the updates configuration project

  • Requested by customer
    Included date and time column in the "Recent Project" list from Start Page
  • Updated the install conditions for the "WebView2" prerequisite

  • Requested by customer
    Added padding for the checkboxes in the "OptionalFeatsDlg" dialog
  • App Installer theme updates: optimized the way we manage properties during runtime, placed additional dialogs under an optional custom install mode
Bug fixes

  • Reported by customer
    The "File version" and "Product name" details are not stored in the EXE metadata when an EXE patch is created

  • Reported by customer
    Custom action "upgrade options" should not be available if action is scheduled before "FindRelatedProducts"

  • Reported by customer
    COM class becomes corrupted after changing the version of its file
  • Fixed build error: Creating resources.pri file(s) failed to import resources.pri file

  • Reported by customer
    The Control Panel icon is not displayed during installation from the command line with the /qb parameter
  • "LicenseAgreementDlg" is added while using the AppInstaller theme when activating Analytics

  • Reported by customer
    Launch application keeps "ExitDialog" in the background
  • COM registry keys are not hidden after importing a reg file

  • Reported by customer
    Loading error for "ViewReadmeText" control after conversion to version 20.7.1

  • Reported by customer
    Fixed translation issues on Surface theme: Hyperlink control is not displayed correctly for the Italian language and the Reboot dialog is not translated

  • Reported by customer
    Version details are missing from the "Recent Project" and Type details are moved under the Version column in Advanced Installer version 20.6

  • Reported by customer
    IIS Response Header value is not added correctly

  • Reported by customer
    When the main setup is executed under the System account, the extraction of the prerequisite fails
  • The "Cannot find the [.log file]" error occurs after canceling a mandatory pre-install prerequisite

  • Reported by customer
    Start Powershell Script fails when PowerShell 2.0 is disabled

  • Reported by customer
    Self-repair is launched after uninstalling another Advanced Installer version

  • Reported by customer
    Repackaging fails on machines configured in Japanese

  • Reported by customer
    The extraction folder is not removed after installing an EXE setup that uses LZMA compression and requires a reboot