Released: Nov 23, 2021

Updates in 18.9

Features

• Added Automatic Folder Redirection Fixups (copy & redirect) for MSIX packages non-VFS resources.
• Added new MSIX declarations to support legacy context menus for packaged apps.
• Added Protocol associations support.
• Added predefined prerequisites for "Microsoft .NET 6.0" and "Microsoft PowerShell 7.2.0".
• Added predefined launch condition for "PowerShell 7.2" and ".NET Runtime 6.0".
• Font color changes for theme variations.
• Added support for deleting previous assets before generating new ones.
• Added support for importing multiple images from a specific folder.
• Added support for visual asset qualifiers (contrast-standard, contrast-high, contrast-black, contrast-white).
• Improved identifying exe files within a Microsoft PowerShell script when extracting application data.
• Asset Generator improvements: You can now set the Asset Generator settings as application-specific.
• You can now display a validation warning if the "Product Name" and "Manufacturer" contain characters that are not allowed in the files and folders naming.
• Improved automatically removing the version from extracted folder paths when using multiple instances.
• UWP synchronization for PreviewHandlers, ThumbnailHandlers, PropertyHandlers, and Ole Class.
• Updated "Microsoft .NET 5.0" prerequisites to latest version 5.0.12.
• Updated MSIX platforms to Microsoft Windows 10 version 21H2.

Fixes

• Disable the "Microsoft Store" distribution option when only "Server" is checked in the "Target Platforms" group.
• Application is incorrect set as HTML-based at .rpp import.
• Uninstall fails when using Maintenance Command Lines and the installer was removed from its original location.
• The application closes unexpectedly when clicking on the Dialogs page in QuickEdit mode.
• Installer fails when there is a chained package that marked the system for a reboot.
• Crash when trying to change the "Light" theme from re-opened projects.
• Encoding problems for some symbols when repackaging in Virtual Machines.
• Bootstrapper with ARM64 package type does not launch.
• Crash when editing an MSI package and accessing the "Dialogs" page.
• Crash on Assets when editing an MSIX package.
• When a property contains a hyphen in the SQL Script Replacements tab, another property substitution fails.
• A preinstall prerequisite's return code is not saved unless the EUI is enabled.
• WinRT EUI Combox losing items on changing selection.
• Prerequisite's extraction folder is not removed after installation on EXE with EUI.
• DPI change support for Setup.