Features

• UI for Environment Variables
  • With the brand new tab Environment Variables there is no longer a need to deep dive into MSI tables. This tab is installed by the MSI package via a simple and user-friendly Package Designer interface.
  • The long set of prefixes, combinations and special characters in the Environment table are now presented as a dialog with available and compatible settings, written in simple language.
  • The new tab enables users to control variable name and value, its installation type, actions on install/uninstall, order and component, which will trigger variable installation/de-installation.
• UI for Services
  • The Package Designer Services tab allows users to install and control Microsoft Windows services. It combines the content of both the ServiceInstall and ServiceControl tables into a single place which makes it easier to find the resources affected by the MSI.

Features

• Setup Capture
  • Content of the "%WINDIR%\Servicing" folder is now included in the exclusion list to improve package purity.
• MSI Generator
  • ARP for MSI packages are now pre-filled and enabled by default.
• MSI Editor
  • Added the ability to manage and change MSI database code page setting which is by default set to UTF-8. MSI packages can now be opened with old tools for MSI that do not support UTF-8 code pages.
  • All shortcuts are now set as Advertised by default according to best practice.
  • When removing resources (files, registry, etc.) from MSI packages, their containing components, if empty, will now also be removed.
  • When adding/editing the per-user Environment Variables, Active Setup is now automatically integrated.
  • Microsoft Windows Service identifiers (display name, service name, etc.) are now automatically pre-filled when selecting a new service executable file.
  • When adding a new Service Install entry, the respective Service Control record is now automatically added to manage the installed Windows Service.
  • The splash screen when running MSI Editor functions from Launcher is now displayed to indicate the application loading.

Fixes

• Setup Capture
  • Wrong type detection of some registry values.
  • Failure to start Remote Setup Capture if snapshot.config cannot be copied as the access is denied.
  • Issue with the upgrade of PACE Tuner installation on VMware ESXi.
• MSI Generator
  • Ignoring the shortcut settings and building always the advertised shortcuts.
  • Incorrect displaying of the system folders that the user can add to the MGP project.
  • Skipping some registry values with the wrongly detected value type when building MSI.
  • Ignoring permissions during MSI build if these permissions apply to the file that was not captured.
  • Crashing on opening a corrupted MGP project.
  • The automatically generated MSI PackageCode is not displayed on the Package tab.
  • Lack of ability to manually set the MSI PackageCode on the Package tab.
  • Failure of MSI building with the error ‘Length cannot be less than zero. Parameter name: length’.
  • Problem with opening massive projects such as captured Matlab.
  • Impossibility to build MSI if arguments for the Windows Service executable contain multiple slashes ‘//’ in a row.
  • Minor UI/UX changes with exclusion filters.
  • The total number of components in built MSI is greater than 65536, resulting in freezing of the installation.
  • The built MSI incorrectly stores changes to the existing Environment Variables. It leads to variable overwriting instead of appending a new value.
  • Issue with the permission inheritance on editing files and folder of the project.
  • Impossibility to build MST if there are only permission changes to be saved to MST.
• MSI Editor
  • The MSI that was rebuilt to uncompressed sources can’t install files with the error ‘Error reading from file….’.
  • After MSI rebuilding, the CAB name may exceed the max allowed of 8 characters in some cases.
  • Replacing the file with the ‘Rebuild existing CAB’ option leads to CAB corruption.
  • After adding or replacing files with the ‘Rebuild existing CAB’ appears the error ‘CAB with the same name already exists…’.
  • Crash on opening a corrupted MSI package.
  • Crash on opening MSI that has an incorrect (abnormal) date in Summary Info.
  • Image type in Summary Info is not changed according to the selected Media settings on the package rebuild.
  • Size of the MSI package with internal CABs after the rebuild is not reduced.
  • On import, the versioned files are saved to the MsiFileHash table.

Features

• View and manage the Environment Variables that are installed by your MSI package using the simple Package Designer user interface.
• New Package Designer Services tab helps you install and control Microsoft Windows services.