Release Notes¶

Version 1.4.4 (2023-07-18)¶

Improvements for the InstallForge builder environment:
- Enhancement Order of custom commands can be altered [IF-21]
- Enhancement InstallForge project files can be opened via drag-and-drop [IF-23]
- Enhancement Added tooltips for various input widgets in order to increase user experience [IF-22]
- Enhancement Git commit hash is displayed on the About InstallForge dialog window [IF-20]
Other:
- Enhancement InstallForge binary application files are code-signed [IF-19]

Version 1.4.3 (2023-06-16)¶

Improvements for setup packages created with InstallForge:
- Feature Official support for Windows 11 [IF-7]
- Feature Official support for Windows Server 2022 [IF-17]
- Feature Official support for Windows Server 2019 [IF-16]
- Enhancement Added Hebrew language file [IF-12]
- Enhancement Added Indonesian language file [IF-9]
- Enhancement Added Japanese language file [IF-9]
- Enhancement Added Swedish language file [IF-10]
- Enhancement Updated Ukraine language file [IF-11]
- Fix Fixed bug preventing path constant <ProgramFilesX64> from being resolved [IF-15]
- Fix Fixed bug the splash screen from being displayed when configured [IF-8]
Improvements for the InstallForge builder environment:
- Fix Fixed bug leading to possible Could not update all setup version information! log message issued by the IBE [IF-14]

Version 1.4.2 (2020-06-17)¶

Improvements for setup packages created with InstallForge:
- Enhancement Added Romanian language file (by Chris K.)
- Fix Fixed false positive issues with different anti-malware applications
Improvements for the InstallForge builder environment:
- Feature Added an automatic check routine for available updates
- Enhancement Updated some of the user interface icons
- Fix Fixed bug leading to a wrong working directory after updating InstallForge
Improved Visual Update Express version :
- Fix Fixed false positive issues with different anti-malware applications

Version 1.4.1 (2020-05-10)¶

Improvements for setup packages created with InstallForge:
- Feature Support for shortcut keys
- Enhancement Improved native setup engine with support for the Deflate, bzip2 and BriefLZ compression algorithms
- Enhancement Updated French language file (thanks to user slegros from the InstallForge community)
- Enhancement Updated English language file
- Enhancement Updated German language file
- Fix Fixed a display error in the user interface (installation progress dialog)
Improvements for the InstallForge builder environment:
- Fix Fixed a display error of the toolbar on high DPI screens
- Fix Fixed the automatic redirection of the Default Installation Path on the Files tab (when the default installation path is <ProgramFiles>\<Company>\<AppName>\ and no company name is given, InstallForge will use <ProgramFiles>\<AppName>\ instead)
- Fix Fixed automatic redirection of the default path for startmenu shortcuts (same behaviour as for the Default Installation Path)
Improved Visual Update Express version :
- Feature Support for a new command: ShellExecute
- Enhancement Several improvements for the update engine with better error handling and increased robustness
- Enhancement The update engine now detects the BOM of the updatescript.ini file automatically (either no BOM or UTF-8 is valid)
- Enhancement The dialog can now be minimized
- Enhancement Improved DownloadFile command: The second parameter can now contain an optional file name which will be used for the downloaded file
- Enhancement Improved DeleteFiles command: read-only files are also deleted
- Enhancement Improved DeleteDirectory command: read-only files are also deleted
- Fix Fixed several UI issues due to DPI Awareness

Version 1.4 (2020-04-24)¶

Extensive improvements for setup packages created with InstallForge:
- Feature Support for custom setup executable icons
- Feature Progress bar on taskbar is now supported for Windows versions newer than Windows 7
- Feature Support for custom setup executable manifest files
- Feature Support for custom setup executable icons
- Enhancement Completely new native setup engine with several enhancements and support for the LZMA compression algorithm without any limitation regarding the size of setup files
- Enhancement DPI aware graphical user interface
- Enhancement Changes in the GUI
- Enhancement Full Unicode support for setup files
- Enhancement Added additional path constants
- Enhancement Setup constants are now case-insensitive
- Enhancement Added fast verification of setup files (cyclic redundancy check)
- Enhancement Updated language files
- Enhancement Custom variable names are now case-insensitive
- Enhancement Custom variables are now initialized with a preceding [ and an appending ] character
- Enhancement Extended splash screen feature (support for PNG files, alpha-channel support and fade effect)
- Enhancement Icon displayed on the language selection dialog is now extracted from the setup executable icon (first found)
- Enhancement Extended browse folder dialog window with new capabilities, including: resizeable window, support for drag-and-drop, reordering, button to create a new folder and a context menu.
- Enhancement Improved reboot function (the ExitWindowsEx WinAPI call is now passing SHTDN_REASON_MAJOR_APPLICATION | SHTDN_REASON_MINOR_INSTALLATION | SHTDN_REASON_FLAG_PLANNED to the dwReason parameter, see also here)
- Other Removed support for custom dynamic link Libraries
- Improvements for the uninstaller
  - Feature Support for progress bar on taskbar
  - Feature Display icon shown in Apps and Features can now be changed
  - Enhancement Improved native uninstaller engine
  - Enhancement Uninstaller configuration files are now created in JSON format
  - Enhancement Icon of uninstaller is now modifiable
  - Enhancement Information for estimated installation size and date are provided for Apps and Features, resp. the uninstaller key
  - Enhancement Display icon shown in Apps and Features can now be changed
  - Enhancement Icon displayed on the uninstaller dialog is now extracted from the uninstaller executable icon (first found)
Improved InstallForge builder environment
- Feature Added PNG support for wizard and header image
- Feature Drag and drop support for the file manager
- Enhancement Improved GUI (DPI aware)
- Enhancement Full Unicode support
- Enhancement Improved product serial manager supporting custom masks
- Enhancement Improved license editor
- Enhancement Improved builder log widget
- Enhancement The IBE main window can now be minimized when building a setup package
- Enhancement The IBE now automatically adds specific version information to setup package executables using rcedit from GitHub
- Enhancement Value name in Add Registry Value dialog is now optional (for default registry value)
- Enhancement Added PNG support for wizard and header image
Improved Visual Update Express version
- Feature Support for secure connections (https)
- Enhancement DPI aware GUI
- Enhancement Full Unicode support (also for Unicode characters within the update script file)
- Enhancement Improved icon (16×16 px icon now has a higher quality; also added a 24×24 px icon)

Version 1.3.2.1 (2017-08-17)¶

Fix Fixed bug in the Visual Update Express module

Version 1.3.2 (2016-09-11)¶

Fix Fixed “Setup Error -f” bug due to a Unicode issue within the setup engine

Version 1.3.1 (2016-05-11)¶

Enhancement Improved setup engine making setups less vulnerable to changes in setup executable’s resource files

Version 1.3 (2016-03-29)¶

Feature InstallForge setups now display the installation progress on the taskbar (only on Windows versions newer than Windows Vista)
Feature Added option allowing users to disable the os-version check routine
Feature Added check routine for InstallForge project files of different versions
Feature Shortcut icons can be altered as of now
Feature Command line arguments can be passed when starting programs after finishing setups
Enhancement Support for Windows 10 and Window Server 2016
Enhancement When adding registry entries or variables, the value name field can be left empty
Enhancement Changed format of project files (content of project files is in pure ASCII format as of now)
Enhancement Integrated web help in InstallForge environment
Fix Fixed bug when loading project files with license texts
Fix Fixed possible crash when compiling projects with license texts
Fix GUI fixes within the IBE
Other Removed “Import Language..” from InstallForge environment menu

Version 1.2.9.2 (2014-04-10)¶

Enhancement Added Chinese (Simplified) language file (thanks to user JBob)
Enhancement Added Dutch language file (thanks to user walt61)
Enhancement Added Greek language file (thanks to JoyFoundry LTD)
Enhancement Added Hungarian language file (thanks to Pál L.)
Fix Fixed issue when checking for Windows 8.1

Version 1.2.9 (2014-04-10)¶

Feature Added support for custom commands
Enhancement Improved IBE
Fix Fixed -f setup error

Version 1.2.8 (2014-04-08)¶

Enhancement Compatibility with Windows 8.1
Enhancement Integration of the newest version of Visual Update Express
Enhancement Removed MSVCR100 dependency
Enhancement Fixed possible crash when building setups

Version 1.2.7 (2012-11-03)¶

Feature Visual Update Express integration
Enhancement Compatibility with Windows 8
Enhancement Improved setup engine
Enhancement New icon for the uninstallation module

Version 1.2.6.2 (2011-01-28)¶

Feature Registry entries can be removed optionally
Feature Default value of a registry key can be set

Version 1.2.5 (2010-10-18)¶

Fix Fixed bug in setup engine occurring on Windows Server 2003

Version 1.2.4 (2010-08-07)¶

Enhancement Improved uninstaller engine

Version 1.2.3 (2010-06-01)¶

Feature Added support for custom variables
Feature Added support for command-line parameters for shortcuts
Feature Name of the uninstaller file is alterable
Enhancement Improved uninstaller engine
Fix Fixed bug when displaying the name of the file currently being installed

Version 1.2.2 (2010-05-06)¶

Enhancement Setups request for admin mode
Enhancement Resumed online update service
Fix Fixed crash bug in the IBE

Version 1.2.1 (2009-04-29)¶

Enhancement Windows 7 compatibility

Version 1.2 (2008-07-01)¶

Feature Added option allowing setups to create shortcuts for all users
Feature Compression methods for setup packages can be changed
Feature Added support for environment variables for setup packages
Enhancement Optimized setup engine
Enhancement Changed order of setup dialogs

Version 1.1 (2007-11-13)¶

Enhancement Modifications in the GUI
Fix Bug fixes

Version 1.0.3 (2007-10-13)¶

Enhancement Updated FSU (online update module)

Version 1.0.2 (2007-10-10)¶

Enhancement Added new language files (French by GG, Italian by oridan, Portuguese by Rex)

Version 1.0.1 (2007-08-11)¶

Enhancement Added new images for the setup wizard dialog

Version 1.0 (2007-08-02)¶

Feature Multi-language support for online-updater
Enhancement Updated language files
Fix Fixed bugs in the setup engine and IBE

Version 0.9 (2007-07-17)¶

Enhancement Windows Vista support
Enhancement Updated language files

Version 0.8 (2007-05-20)¶

Fix Bugs in FSU (online update module) have been fixed
Fix Bug fixes in the setup engine

Version 0.7.1 (2007-05-04)¶

Enhancement GUI changes in setup wizard
Enhancement Updated language files
Fix Several bug fixes in the setup engine

Version 0.7 (2007-05-02)¶

Feature Setup packages display the size of files to be installed as of now
Enhancement GUI changes in setup wizard

Version 0.6 (2007-05-01)¶

Fix Fixed rendering issue for rebar control

Version 0.5 (2007-04-30)¶

Feature Implemented online update feature (FSU)
Fix Bug fixes

Version 0.4 (2007-04-29)¶

Feature Implemented splash-screen feature
Fix Bug fixes

Version 0.3 (2007-04-28)¶

Feature Implemented serial-check feature
Fix Bug fixes

Version 0.2 (2007-03-27)¶

Fix Bug fixes

Version 0.1 (2007-03-15)¶

Initial release