Setup Matters

We're at that point in Northern Hemisphere summer where the weather is actively taunting us. For me here in the USA Midwest, late July is usually the swampiest part of summer. But this week, it's comfortable during the day and actually chilly at night. It won't last, of course. Rob's dealing with the outdoors at body temperature, which is the weather being so mean to all those Washingtonians who don't have air conditioning because it's hardly ever needed. Until it is. I wonder if I could buy a nice three-bedroom cave somewhere...

Our fortune continues this month: We have only a few issues reported and none indicate an incoming storm of fallout from the release of WiX v7 back in April. We'll count it as skill more than luck, but either way, it's giving me time to roll the ol' icosahedrons and figure out what I'm working on in WiX v8. Gotta have something to do when staying in the air conditioning away from the bright daystar.

We held our last meeting a week early so it's been five weeks between meetings. It took a little bit to get back into the groove of things. Luckily, we had a relatively small number of bugs and none that suggested I inadvertently introduced a bunch of bugs into the recently-released WiX v7. So things are looking up as we look forward to Northern Hemisphere summer.

WiX v7 was released on schedule and we're enjoying spring weather with occasional April showers bringing May WiX v8 features. Or later, because our next milestone is WiX v8.0.0-rc.1 in ten months. Pick up WiX v7 and get your bug reports and feature requests in, because 2027 will be here before you know it.

Spring is here and warmer, wetter weather brings us new releases. First up is WiX v7, which we might've mentioned occasionally. As we love the opportunity to simultaneously ship software, we're also bringing out new releases of FireGiant's HeatWave and HeatWave Build Tools for your packaging fun.

Today we held our last meeting before the (scheduled) release of WiX v7 on 6-April. There were no ship-stopping issues for us to triage—but it's not too late to find a bug that sounds so bad it spikes our blood pressure. Go test WiX v7.0.0-rc.2 and see what you can find.