Released: Jun 21, 2023

Updates in 2023 R1

Funktionen

• App Updates Check for Suite/Advanced UI Projects - This new feature lets you configure additional settings before building for periodically checking and displaying available updates when an application is deployed on a target machine.
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 integration - Added support for creating, editing and building InstallScript projects from Visual Studio 2022.
• Define Installation Condition for Windows Package Manager Prerequisite - Determine whether a Windows Package Manager (WPM) prerequisite package is already installed on the target machine.
• Enhanced Setup.exe to Verify Digital Signature - In previous releases, an option was introduced in the Settings.xml file to enforce the digital signature of the MSI matching with the setup.exe setup launcher. In this release, that option has been extended to make sure the digital signature of the MSI has not been tampered with.
• New Setup Prerequisites are now available - In the Redistributables explorer of the Application Data view, this release introduces the following new setup prerequisites:
  • Microsoft OLEDB Driver for SQL Server 19.3.0 (x64).
  • Microsoft OLEDB Driver for SQL Server 19.3.0 (x86).
  • Microsoft .NET 6.0 SDK 6.0.408 (x64).
  • Microsoft .NET 6.0 SDK 6.0.408 (x86).
  • Microsoft .NET 7.0 SDK 7.0.302 (x64).
  • Microsoft .NET 7.0 SDK 7.0.302 (x86).
• Build Setup launcher with Security Features - All InstallShield setup launchers are now built with the the latest security features like control-flow-guard, enforced-code-integrity and aslr.
• Handle installers above 2 gigabytes - This release enables LargeAddressAware flag for all setup.exe setup launchers, so that setup.exe setup launchers can handle addresses larger than 2 gigabytes during runtime.

Fehlerkorrekturen

• Installation of the Microsoft .NET 5.0 Desktop Runtime 5.0.3 prerequisites triggered an installation of the Microsoft .NET 5.0 Desktop Runtime 5.0.3, resulting in the display of a failed message due to a higher version of the redistributable already being pre-installed on the target machine. This issue has been fixed.
• For an InstallScript project, the S Exceptions dialog box appeared with a truncated text. This issue has been fixed.
• In a Basic MSI project, a build Warning-7065 appeared when the Include MSI Engine setting enabled in the Setup.exe tab. This issue has been fixed.
• An InstallScript project included an incorrect Brazilian Portuguese translation. This issue has been fixed.
• The Predefined minimum database server version drop down failed to display both the SQL Server 2019 Express and SQL Server 2022 Express options. This issue has been fixed.
• A forced repair on a manipulated / replaced executable in SUPPORTDIR led to regeneration of a security vulnerability. This issue has been fixed.
• Users failed to use the context-sensitive help for all keyword in InstallShield 2021 scripts. This issue has been fixed.
• The _isres_0x0411.dll file was not digitally signed, and therefore the Smart App Control on Windows 11 blocked the InstallShield DLL. This issue has been fixed.
• InstallShield prerequisite detected a Windows Server 2016, although the prerequisite condition was set to only run on Windows 10. This issue has been fixed.
• The InstallScript support/engine files extraction to a Temp directory led to a possibility of a DLL hijacking issue. This issue has been fixed.
• InstallScript installers failed to run, if a path provided to the FeatureSetTarget with a drive did not exist. This issue has been fixed.
• Suite project failed to display the package name on ISParcelStatus when Download from the Web option was selected. This issue has been fixed.
• When Visual Studio 2022 was not launched in an administrative mode for the first time, it failed to start. This issue has been fixed.
• The _isuser_0x0411.dll file in the Temp folder was not digitally signed, and therefore the Smart App Control on Windows 11 blocked files /executables. This issue has been fixed.
• Manual installation of the Docker SAB failed and displayed an error message: ISDEV : fatal error -7159: The product license has expired or has not yet been initialized. This issue has been fixed.
• Opening the project led to observe InstallShield crash, creation of .dmp files, and display a message Exception ACCESS_VIOLATION (0XC0000005). This issue has been fixed.