Version history for NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

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Changes from v2.38 to v2.39

• Added !define /file and !searchparse (patch #2016254)
• Added service pack macros (AtLeastServicePack, IsServicePack, AtMostServicePack) for WinVer.nsh (patch #2036802)
• Added more nsDialogs list box handling macros
• Added Unicode version compatible System string type (patch #2025721, RFE #1961307)
• Fixed nsDialogs atom leak (bug #2053522)
• Minor documentation improvements
• Show hand cursor for nsDialogs links (patch #2004129)

Changes from v2.37 to v2.38

• Notes:
• NSIS 2.38 is released. This release fixes a bug that caused stack pollution for nsDialogs users and the usual collection of bug fixes and minor improvements. nsDialogs users are urged to upgrade.
• Changes:
• Major Changes
• Fixed a bug in nsDialogs that caused it to pollute the stack if callbacks are not set for each control (bug #2013317)
• Minor Changes
• Added IfNotThen support for LogicLib (patch #1990761)
• Added support for NTFS mounts points on the directory page (bug #1946112)
• Fixed branding image control detection on Debian, due to improper identification of static controls (bug #1951417)
• Log actual creation of directories and not just failures and final directory (patch #1992325)
• Made log close when LogSet off is used (patch #1986692)
• Minor documentation improvements (including bug #1990955)
• MultiUser: Fixed MULTIUSER_INSTALLMODE_INSTDIR handling for the uninstaller
• Modern UI
• Document page leave callback function (bug #1964719)
• Fixed MUI_FINISHPAGE_CANCEL_ENABLED
• Fixed wasted variable warnings (bug #1995024)
• Translations
• Fixed French translation of MUI_UNTEXT_FINISH_INFO_REBOOT (patch #1967032)
• Removed non-ANSI characters from French display name (bug #1979491)
• Updated Slovenian (patch #2014106)

Changes from v2.36 to v2.37

• Major Changes:
• Fixed a bug introduced in 2.32 that caused blurry icons on Windows versions prior to XP (bug #1956350)
• Use $PROGRAMFILES as a default for $PROGRAMFILES64 instead of "C:\Program Files" (bug #1947702)
• Minor Changes:
• Automatically select language in case there is only one available choice (bug #1939571)
• MultiUser: Fixed build errors with manual inclusion of StrFunc.nsh
• Support for compression of files up to 2GB (patch #1948700)
• Utilities and Plug-ins:
• Fixed ${NSD_OnBack} (bug #1947388)
• Fixed nsDialogs::SelectFileDialog return value for user cancelation (bug #1955803)
• Fixed possible BgImage crash when calling BgImage::Destroy more than once (patch #1951248)
• Minor documentation improvements:
• Translation:
• Brazilian Portuguese updates
• Polish updates (patch #1927421)
• Slovak updates (patch #1939669)
• Spanish updates
• Build System:
• SCons requirement upgraded to 0.98

Changes from v2.35 to v2.36

• nsExec: Support for x64 disabled redirection (RFE #1778973, bug #1889317)
• Modern UI:
• Added missing MUI_UNFUNCTION_DESCRIPTION_BEGIN and MUI_UNFUNCTION_DESCRIPTION_END
• Fixed start menu page setting the error flag (bug #1891106)
• nsDialogs
• NSD_AddStyle and NSD_AddExStyle for easy customization (patch #1900588)
• NSD_CB_AddString, NSD_CB_SelectString, NSD_LB_AddString and NSD_LB_SelectString for easier handling of combo and list boxes
• NSD_CreateNumber and NSD_SetTextLimit for limited input fields
• NSD_SetImage, NSD_SetStretchedImage, NSD_ClearImage and NSD_FreeImage for image handling
• NSD_SetState, NSD_GetState, NSD_Check and NSD_Uncheck for handling of check boxes and radio buttons (patch #1900588)
• NSD_SetText for easily setting control's text
• OnClick support for labels (bug #1908732)
• Support for edit box change notification in combo box
• Minor Changes:
• Fixed exception handling of UPX compressed icons (bug #1896500)
• Fixed InstallDirRegKey example in bigtest.nsi
• Fixed Memento's documentation to include ${MementoSectionDone}
• Fixed rare decompression error with 0x4001 bytes of compressed data (bug #1874297)
• LangFile.nsh: Added LANGFILE_INCLUDE_WITHDEFAULT to load language file with defaults being obtained from a default file. This replaces the LANGFILE_DEFAULT setting and makes it easier to use LangFile.nsh for multiple sets of languages file without having to care about the different LANGFILE_DEFAULT settings.
• Minor documentation improvements (including bug #1891266, bug #1894033, bug #1896803)
• MultiUser: Fixed error when a custom installation mode initialization function is used only for the installer
• MultiUser: Fixed default installation mode based on registry key (bug #1913029)
• MultiUser: Fixed no uninstaller handling (MULTIUSER_NOUNINSTALL)
• Utilities and Plug-ins:
• MakeNSISW: Avoid opening executables with identical folder names when opening script's folder (bug #1891066)
• nsExec: Fixed return code handling so 259 won't cause an infinite loop (bug #1909458)
• VPatch: Added MD5 functions (RFE #1900226)
• Translation:
• Albanian updates (patch #1919360)
• French fixes (patch #1916564)
• Polish updates (patch #1894983)
• Build System:
• Fixed build of NSIS Menu with wxGTK (bug #1900233)
• Use CRLF for DSW and DSP files to avoid corruption messages
• Various build fixes for GCC 4.3, amd64 and Linux in general

Changes from v2.34 to v2.35

• Added MultiUser - installer configuration for multi-user Windows environments
• More user friendly corrupted installer message (RFE #1795426)
• Switched all examples to Modern UI 2
• Minor Changes:
• Fixed uninitialized memory leaking into resources (bug #1874297)
• Minor documentation improvements (including bug #1861941, bug #1883917)
• Modern UI 2: Fit images in welcome/finish page by default and fix support for MUI_(UN)WELCOMEFINISHPAGE_BITMAP_NOSTRETCH (bug #1875945)
• Modern UI 2: Fixed default finish page reboot selection (bug #1864690)
• Modern UI 2: Fixed MUI_STARTMENU_GETFOLDER (bug #1864507)
• Modern UI 2: Fixed unreferenced mui.StartMenuPage.Create warning (bug #1861944)
• New simplified code for installation of VisualBasic 6 runtime
• Simplified NSIS Menu providing easier access to all documentation
• Utilities and Plug-ins:
• Added keyboard cues support for LINK controls in nsDialogs (patch #1871856)
• Fixed a rare nsDialogs crash on Windows 98 with non-standard builds of nsDialogs (bug #1889720)

Changes from v2.33 to v2.34

• Modern UI 2: Simpler code, easier to extend and makes use of the faster nsDialogs
• Minor Changes:
• Added IfNot support for LogicLib (patch #1846785)
• Added some deprecation messages in MUI2 (bug #1784470)
• Allow overwrite of LANGFILE_*_NAME defines in new LangFile.nsh (bug #1848952)
• Better RTL support in instfiles and components page (bug #1841573)
• Fixed deletion of files with relative paths, a.k.a the EVE bug (bug #1851273)
• Fixed input verification of GetCurInstType and GetFullPathName
• Fixed WordFind handling of MBCS characters (bug #1852141)
• Minor documentation improvements (including bug #1842326)
• Use CRLF in examples (bug #1835866)
• Warn of comments containing line-continuation character, only when it really has an effect (bug #1701051, RFE #1686589)
• Utilities and Plug-ins:
• Added missing stack handling in nsDialogs examples
• Added NSD_GetState for checkboxes and radio buttons, NSD_SetFocus, NSD_CreatePassword and NSD_CreateDropList (patch #1848940)
• Fixed documentation of nsDialogs::SelectFolderDialog (bug #1841120)
• Fixed NSD_CreateComboBox so it'd work like InstallOptions (bug #1851136)
• Translations:
• Bulgarian updates
• German fixes
• Build System:
• Fixed build issues on Mac OS (bug #1851365)
• Fixed endianity issues introduced in version 2.32 (bug #1851365)

Changes from v2.32 to v2.33

• Major Changes
• Modern UI: Fixed a bug, introduced in 2.32, that caused display problems for the welcome and finish pages on Windows 9x (bug #1831677)
• Minor Changes
• Modern UI: Allow MUI_LANGDLL_ALLLANGUAGES to be defined after insertion of MUI_LANGUAGE macro
• Utilities and Plug-ins
• Made nsExec's internal process always exit cleanly to avoid false return values and delays (reported in the forum)
• nsDialogs: Added OnClick support for static controls
• VPatch: Fixed VPatchFile macro path handling (bug #1829540)
• Translations
• Spanish updates
• Build System
• Separate strip options for win32 and cross-platform binaries

Changes from v2.31 to v2.32

• Added support for mismatching installer and uninstaller icons
• NSIS source code is now hosted on Subversion instead of CVS
• Fixed synchronization that could allow the user to cause extraction errors in rare cases (reported in the forum)
• Fixed syntax validation of Var
• Modern UI 2 beta: Fixed 3-line title on welcome/finish page
• Modern UI 2 beta: Fixed components page description and lock
• Modern UI 2 beta: Fixed default language selection from registry
• Modern UI 2 beta: Fixed MUI_DIRECTORYPAGE_BGCOLOR
• Minor documentation improvements (including bug #1811876, bug #1819946)
• NsDialogs: Added link support
• Bulgarian corrections
• Fixed Japanese and Norwegian Nynorsk MUI line breaks (bug #1817289)
• Check compiler's -m32 flag before the linker's to avoid gcc segfault

Changes from v2.30 to v2.31

• Added BST_* definitions to WinMessages.nsh (bug #1792422)
• Added SetRegView lastused
• Minor documentation improvements
• Library will now revert registry view settings (SetRegView) after it's finished
• Modern UI: Fixed empty welcome page with Chinese (bug #1786899)
• Modern UI: Fixed finish button text (bug #1789492)
• Modern UI: Fixed uninstaller comportments page text (bug #1793811)
• Modern UI: Fixed unused function warnings
• Modern UI 2 beta: Fixed header bitmap issues, including NOSTRETCH and compilation errors
• Modern UI 2 beta: Fixed language selection dialog
• Modern UI 2 beta: Fixed reboot finish page
• Modern UI 2 beta: Fixed unloading of nsDialogs on finish page
• Modern UI 2 beta: Fixed unused variable warnings
• MakeNSISW: Fixed command line parsing error (bug #1796053)
• Korean corrections
• Persian improvements (patch #1776386)
• Romanian improvements (patch #1783853)
• Fixed build failures with MinGW's GCC 4 (bug #1800834)

Changes from v2.29 to v2.30

• This release includes a beta of Modern UI 2. Please report any issues and suggestions.
• The format of Modern UI language files has been modified to better support external strings. Private language files should be converted (and submitted as a patch in the spirit of open source).
• Fixed a bug introduced in version 2.29 that caused invalid $SMPROGRAMS value on Windows 98 (bug #1766268)
• Modern UI 2 beta: Simpler code, easier to extend and makes use of nsDialogs
• Added InstallOptions.nsh with relevant usage macros, based on the old Modern UI macros
• Added LangFile.nsh allowing creation of langauge files that can be included with a single command with defaults for missing strings (when LANGFILE_DEFAULT is set)
• Added LB_ERR and CB_ERR to WinMessages.nsh (bug #1771644)
• Fixed CreateDirectory logging (patch #1768584)
• Fixed escaping of quotes with $\ in macros (bug #1713708)
• Minor documentation improvements
• Modern UI 1.80: New language files structure based on LangFile.nsh
• Modern UI 1.80: MUI_LANGDLL_DISPLAY now reads previous settings on silent installations as well
• Modern UI 1.80: Added MUI_CUSTOMFUNCTION_MOUSEOVERSECTION (patch #1762003)
• Various nsDialogs improvements including RTL support, more macros in nsDialogs.nsh and initial documentation
• Catalan returns
• Danish corrections
• Slovak corrections (patch #1762627)
• More HPUX fixes (bug #1755148, bug #1753063, bug #1758873, patch #1758863)
• Ignore known failing tests by default on POSIX

Changes from v2.28 to v2.29

• Major Changes
• Added nsDialogs - a replacement for InstallOptions
• Minor Changes
• Disable Windows error messages for the entire installer and not just for an incomplete list of fail-points (bug #1741061)
• Fixed incorrect large version handling of GetFileVersion (bug #1742255, patch #1742562)
• Fixed the ReverseSection macro in Sections.nsh (bug #1742793)
• Minor documentation improvements
• Simplified REG_MULTI_SZ reader
• Use SHGetFolderPath where available to better support all users' folders
• Utilities and Plug-ins
• Banner: Avoid possible hangs when called from page callbacks (bug #1743801)
• NSISdl: added /TRANSLATE2 for more "translator-friendly" strings (patch #1656076)
• NSISdl: support downloads over 2gb (patch #1723131)
• Translations
• Added International Spanish
• Build System
• Added support for HPUX (patch #1714416)

Changes from v2.27 to v2.28

• Added a workaround for a Windows 2000 bug that caused infinite loops when hitting a key in the instilfes page (bug #1733692)
• Improved compiler error strings (patch #1722147)
• Modern UI: added MUI_STARTMENUPAGE_BGCOLOR and MUI_DIRECTORYPAGE_BGCOLOR (patch #1706187)
• Modern UI: added MUI_LANGDLL_ALLLANGUAGES that forces the language selection dialog to display all languages (patch #1724876)
• InstallOptions: corrected documentation of TxtColor (bug #1716614)
• NSISdl: added compatibility with some buggy servers that don't close the connection (bug #1713562)
• NSISdl: fixed 100% CPU usage during domain resolution (bug #1713560)
• Valencian and Catalan are no longer installed (patch #1558822)
• Added IGNORETESTS for ignoring certain test files
• Added wxWidgets to the requirement list
• System now builds with GCC, but without System::Get and System::Call (patch #1711089)

Changes from v2.26 to v2.27

• Fixed a bug introduced in 2.26 that made $PROGRAMFILES and $COMMONFILES unavailable in the uninstaller
• Disable the X button on InstallOptions pages when CancelEnabled is 0
• Fixed incomplete MessageBox usage line (bug #1709460)
• Added TOOLSET option to allow selection of specific build tools (e.g. scons TOOLSET=mingw)

Changes from v2.25 to v2.26

• Installation on x64 systems is now fully supported with $PROGRAMFILES64, SetRegView and Library's LIBRARY_X64 option.
• Added LIBRARY_X64 option for InstallLib and UnInstallLib for installing and uninstalling x64 libraries
• Added $PROGRAMFILES32, $PROGRAMFILES64, $COMMONFILES32 and $COMMONFILES64
• Added $EXEPATH and $EXEFILE
• Added $(^Language) language string which holds the language name (RFE #1235616)
• Added LIBRARY_IGNORE_VERSION option for InstallLib (patch #1699435)
• Added VXD support for GetDLLVersionLocal on Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista (patch #1706624)
• Avoid Library warning when UnInstallLib is unused (bug #1692761)
• Fixed error handling of CopyFiles on Windows NT4 (bug #774966)
• Fixed font name encoding broken since 2.24
• Fixed LogicLib duplicate labels across included files
• Fixed preservation of folder attributes with File /a (bug #1699474)
• Improved unused variable warning (bug #1701050)
• Library macros no longer require version information for DLL files on POSIX
• Minor documentation improvements (including RFE #971467)
• Modern UI: added MUI_FINISHPAGE_CANCEL_ENABLED
• Modern UI: added MUI_FINISHPAGE_REBOOTLATER_DEFAULT (RFE #1143843)
• Modern UI: block unsupported languages in the language selection dialog (RFE #1564986)
• Modern UI: disable Cancel button on the finish page (bug #1267491)
• Modern UI: reduce flicker caused by MUI_HEADER_TRANSPARENT_TEXT (patch #1696610)
• Support Quit in show page functions
• Added SetRegView to allow access to the x64 registry view
• Installer icon support for MessageBox using MB_USERICON (patch #1682748, RFE #1530388)
• InstallOptions 2.47: line breaks support in Link controls (patch #1683186, RFE #1495949), added HLine and VLine controls (patch #1683189)
• MakeNSISW: fixed broken command line parameter handling introduced in the last version (bug #1696534)
• UserInfo: return effective user group on Vista, added GetOriginalAccountType (patch #1687456, bug #1684777)
• Added Afrikaans translation (patch #1699558)
• French corrections (patch #1676101)
• German corrections
• Added SKIPTESTS option
• Avoid a lot of code warnings (bug #1676243)
• Detect wxWidgets instead of assuming its existence on POSIX (bug #1672315)
• Fixed big-endian platform support broken since 2.24

Changes from v2.24 to v2.25

• Added Memento.nsh for easy persistency of user selections across different runs of the installer (RFE #1677624)
• Fixed a bug introduced in 2.24 that allowed the license page to be skipped even with agreement check box or radio buttons (bug #1664428)
• Added Vista manifest to StartMenu.nsi example to avoid backward compatibility mode that moves shortcuts (bug #1664957)
• Both dashes and slashes are supported as switch prefixes on makensis.exe (bug #1661503)
• Delete uninstaller temporary directory on reboot (patch #1660626)
• Distribute Plug-in example with the NSIS package and not only with the source code
• Fixed lossy Unicode conversion of dialog template strings (bug #1662190)
• Fixed Sections.nsh macros support for $0 as input (bug #1664648)
• Fixed uninstallers support for the /D= command line switch
• Improved logging of WriteReg commands
• Minor documentation updates and fixes (including patch #1662419)
• Added bitwise operators support for !define /math (RFE #1669513)
• __PAGEEX__ contains the page type (patch #1644712)
• InstallOptions 2.46: Use installer's name for message boxes (bug #1661677)
• MakeNSISW: Use Escape button to close (RFE #1666501)
• Math: Removed mathcrt.lib
• StartMenu: Refuse empty paths (bug #1684751)
• Fixed Galician language files (bug #1663795)
• Added APPEND_LIBPATH and APPEND_CPPATH instead of the malfunctioning CPPPATH and LIBPATH
• Added ChangeLog to Source code packages (patch #1680508)
• Avoid some warnings on VS2005 (patch #1667950)
• Fixed lzma test segfault on POSIX (bug #1666873)
• More strict-aliasing compatibility (bug #1635841)
• NSIS Menu finally built from source

Changes from v2.23 to v2.24

• Library uninstall-reinstall-reboot problems workaround (bug #1097642)
• Minimized number of cases where an error message appears in silent mode
• New compiler predefines for code scope (patch #1644712)

Changes from v2.22 to v2.23

• Fixed compiler crash on Mac OS X (patch #1611866)
• Fixed deletion of start menu icons in NSIS installer on Vista (bug #1611251)
• Fixed incorrect nsExec message handling in silent mode (bug #1605581)
• Fixed System crash when System::Store is called on an empty private stack (bug #1620178)
• Fixed System crash with parenthesis in filename (bug #1616267)
• Minor VPatch documentation enhancements (patch #1624292)
• Fixed build failures on mingw32 (bug #1610773)
• Fixed build problems with MSVCTOOLKIT=yes

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