What's new in MSI Wrapper 11.0.53.0
Jan 11, 2024
New in MSI Wrapper 10.0.51.0 (Jul 24, 2022)
New in MSI Wrapper 10.0.50.0 (Feb 22, 2021)
- Improved security for specific installation scenarios.
New in MSI Wrapper 9.0.42.0 (Nov 23, 2020)
- Control visibility of entries in Apps & Features (Add or Remove Programs). Works for both the MSI and the wrapped installer.
- Set the MSI package platform to either x86 (32-bit) or x64 (64-bit).
New in MSI Wrapper 9.0.34.0 (Jan 3, 2020)
- Support for SHA512 and fix for SHA1 license keys.
- Minor bug fixes.
New in MSI Wrapper 9.0.30.0 (Apr 10, 2019)
- Installation is now canceled if before/after actions returns a non zero exit code.
- Control MSI file properties from XML configuration files.
- All features are now available in the unregistered version.
- The unregistered version adds a registration note to the installed program name.
- Version check in GUI was added.
- Output setting in config files is now relative to the location of the config file instead of the current directory.
New in MSI Wrapper 8.0.26.0 (Aug 14, 2018)
- FIPS compliant license check. Users with FIPS enabled could not enter the professional license key.
New in MSI Wrapper 8.0.25.0 (Jul 10, 2018)
- Minor changes in the user interface.
New in MSI Wrapper 8.0.24.0 (May 16, 2018)
- New [FilesDir] macro that expands to the folder location where the executable is extracted and run.
- Fix for [SourceDir] macro. It was not initialized correctly in some configurations.
- The current directory for the executable installer is now the location of the executable if the "include files" feature is used.
New in MSI Wrapper 8.0.21.0 (Feb 16, 2018)
New in MSI Wrapper 8.0.20.0 (Feb 15, 2018)
- Include other files than the executable itself.
- Run commands before and after the wrapped installer runs.
New in MSI Wrapper 7.1.12.0 (Jan 17, 2017)
- Support for empty manufacturer setting.
- Improved error messages when patching the MSI.
New in MSI Wrapper 7.1.11.0 (Aug 3, 2016)
- Fix for encoding of quotes.
New in MSI Wrapper 7.1.9.0 (Jan 26, 2016)
- Reads the license from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE if it is not found under HKEY_CURRENT_USER.
New in MSI Wrapper 7.0.8.0 (Nov 14, 2015)
- New feature to map exit codes and signal a pending restart
- New MSI SQL tool to manipulate MSI database tables from the command line
New in MSI Wrapper 6.0.96.0 (Jul 29, 2015)
- Use comment setting in file properties
- Minor improvements
New in MSI Wrapper 6.0.92.0 (Jun 1, 2015)
- Fixed registration of DLL to work for all users.
- Setup now installs MSI Wrapper for all users.
- Supports setting a specific Product ID instead of an auto generated one.
New in MSI Wrapper 6.0.91.0 (Dec 18, 2014)
- New: Auto detect if the wrapped setup installed per user or per machine.
- New: Option to force elevation of wrapped installer and uninstaller.
- Fix: User Interface Level (UILevel) is now used during uninstall.
New in MSI Wrapper 5.1.89.0 (Aug 2, 2014)
- New fix for the temporary file problem with icons.
New in MSI Wrapper 5.1.88.0 (Jul 28, 2014)
- Fixes temporary file problem with icons.
New in MSI Wrapper 5.1.87.0 (Jun 24, 2014)
- New: Test MSI in elevated mode.
- New: Icon export feature.
- New: Save setup icon in configuration file.
New in MSI Wrapper 5.1.83.0 (Jun 17, 2014)
- Shows the wrapped setup and uninstaller on top of the Windows Installer progress bar.
- Control if the MSI requires permission elevation.
- Fixes error 740 caused by elevation problems.
- Support for uninstalling multiple wrapped applications in uninstall process.
- Discontinued the use of a proxy process.
New in MSI Wrapper 4.1.54.0 (Mar 5, 2014)
- Support for impersonation. The wrapped installer can now run in the security context of the logged in user instead of the Windows Installer service.
New in MSI Wrapper 4.1.50.0 (Oct 25, 2013)
- Fixed problem where MSI worked with manual install but hanged or froze with GPO.
- New feature: Environment variable substitution in configuration values when running MsiWrapperBatch.exe.
New in MSI Wrapper 4.1.47.0 (Oct 4, 2013)
- Fixed problem with Windows XP support.
- Uninstall will only try to run elevated on operating systems starting with Windows Vista.
- Support for multiple valid exit codes from wrapped executable. Previously, only exit code zero was considered a success.
New in MSI Wrapper 4.1.43.0 (Sep 5, 2013)
- Better support for converting WISE installers to MSI.
- Forces UAC elevation when running uninstall scripts.
New in MSI Wrapper 4.0.41.0 (May 15, 2013)
- New: MSI custom actions transferred from VB Script to a native Win32 DLL. This will make MSI packages install on systems that have problems with the scripting engine.
New in MSI Wrapper 3.2.33.0 (Apr 19, 2013)
- New: Advanced Arguments added. Now you can control command line arguments for the wrapped setup based on the MSI user interface level.
New in MSI Wrapper 3.0.32.0 (Apr 11, 2013)
- Command line macros [SourceDir] and [OriginalDatabase] introduced
New in MSI Wrapper 3.0.31.0 (Mar 20, 2013)
- Support for wrapping setups without entries in the Add / Remove programs.
- Extended wait period when wrapped installers are finishing.
- Uses SystemComponent instead of wrapped_uninstallstring entry in the registry.
New in MSI Wrapper 3.0.25.0 (Mar 12, 2013)
- Fix that allows you to run the MSI file multiple times.
- Does not show system components in list of application ids.
New in MSI Wrapper 3.0.18.0 (Dec 15, 2012)
- Allows license registration without administrative privileges.
New in MSI Wrapper 3.0.17.0 (Nov 28, 2012)
- Removed WiX dependency.
- Major performance improvement.
New in MSI Wrapper 2.0.10.0 (Nov 16, 2012)
New in MSI Wrapper 2.0.7.0 (Nov 16, 2012)
- Support for Windows 8.
- Support for Windows Server 2012.
- Improvements in upgrading functionality.