Reduces Microsoft’s already compressed run-time sizes by 13-17% for .NET and by 11-38% for SQL Server.
Features
IDE
- The InstallAware IDE is now able to access native file system and registry locations on ARM64 platforms (cellular PCs running on the Qualcomm Snapdragon processor).
Tools and Libraries
- The updated Win64 Setup template helps you build a single installer targeting X64, ARM64, and X86 platforms all from a single setup file.
- The new Build MSIX Package tool builds existing InstallAware projects as MSIX packages, either interactively or from the command line, as well as continuing to support legacy APPX package generation.
- The strongest 32-bit extraction compatible compression grade has been updated with a new heuristic compression analyzer, which substantially outperforms the previous 32-bit extraction compatible best compression grade.
- The command line build tool is now able to build files found at native file system locations on ARM64 platforms (cellular PCs running on the Qualcomm Snapdragon processor).
- PackageAware has been upgraded to capture native file system and registry changes on ARM64 platforms (cellular PCs running on the Qualcomm Snapdragon processor).
- The Group Policy Wizard now allows wrapping Native Engine setups without any MSI payload (for example, when the NO_MSI compiler variable is set to TRUE).
Plug-Ins
- The MS SQL Server plug-in has been updated to support server versions through 2017.
- The My SQL plug-in has been updated to support server versions through 8.x.
- The Oracle Database plug-in has been updated to support server versions through 18c.
- New application runtimes are available for Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7.2 in both 32-bit and 64-bit flavors.
- New application runtimes are available for Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime v.15.9 (for Visual Studio 2017) in both 32-bit and 64-bit flavors (including both X64 and ARM64 editions).
- The File Bag plug-in has been updated to fail silently when being run non-interactively (outside of the InstallAware IDE process, the Visual Studio Add-In, or the automation interface), ensuring its troubleshooting window does not stall an unattended build process.
Setup Engine
- The Native Code Setup Engine is now able to install files and registry keys to native system locations on ARM64 platforms (cellular PCs running on the Qualcomm Snapdragon processor) when a 64-bit installation mode is set.
- The Windows Installer Engine is now able to install files and registry keys to native system locations on ARM64 platforms (cellular PCs running on the Qualcomm Snapdragon processor) when a 64-bit installation mode is set.
- The new pre-defined compiler variable #CLOAK_DIALOG_LOADER# enables to suppress the progress dialog shown when temporary setup resources are being extracted and setup dialog resources are being loaded.
Updated Scripting Commands
- The Get OS or SP Level command now detects Windows 10 October 2018 Update (Redstone 5).
- The Get System Settings command now detects Windows 10 October 2018 Update (Redstone 5).
- The Get System Settings command now detects Windows on ARM (ARM64 processor running in x86 emulation mode). To maintain compatibility with legacy installation code, this command does not report ARM64 platforms as 64 bit operating systems, which would most likely be mistaken for an AMD64 or EM64T CPU instead.