Setup Matters

We're mere moments away from the vernal equinox which here in WiX-land means we're in shipping season, more than naked equinox dancing under the waning gibbous moon. In today's meeting, we had a big chunk of issues to triage, including those Rob and I preemptively fixed, so almost half were already closed. WiX v6 is coming soon!

WiX v6.0.0-rc.2, the second and final release candidate of the second release of the new annual WiX release cadence, is now available for your packaging business and pleasure. Download it, use it—it's an easy job to switch from WiX v4 and WiX v5—and report any bugs you discover.

Today's meeting was postponed a week due to the time we took to handle the WiX documentation consolidation, the sunsetting of WiX v3 and v4, and the release of WiX v6-rc.1. Then, due to the phenomenon known as "clock madness" for which Rob is Patient Zero, it was postponed an additional 30 minutes. Rob also announced the Open Source Maintenance Fee as a way of addressing the open-source sustainability crisis. Stay tuned for how the Open Source Maintenance Fee will apply to WiX.

WiX v6.0.0-rc.1, the first release candidate of the second release of our annual release cadence, is now available for your packaging business and pleasure. Download it, use it—it's an easy job to switch from WiX v4 and WiX v5—and report any bugs you discover.

As we discussed earlier this year, WiX v3 faces a deadline for the end of community support. That deadline has arrived.

As we discussed at last month's WiX Online Meeting, we decided to consolidate the WiX documentation with existing (and future) FireGiant documentation. You can see the results—with a gorgeous new visual design—at https://docs.firegiant.com.