As everyone monitoring the WiX repo on GitHub knows, there's recently been activity hinting at an upcoming release of WiX. (And if you're not monitoring the WiX repo, why not?! All the cool kids are doing it! You want to be cool, right?) Well, the hints were right and today we're announcing the release of WiX v5.0.1.
WiX v5.0.1 is a minor bug-fix release for WiX v5.0.0. It's available today, 16-July-2024, and contains a number of fixes for bugs affecting supported FireGiant customers and a few consumer-reported issues that we decided were important enough to backport from WiX v6. Here's a list of all the fixes:
Overriding scheduling of FindRelatedProducts results in error WIX7009, from @avivanoff
WiXToolset.Dtf.WindowsInstaller No Longer Supports .NET prior to 4.6.2, from @chrpai
Standard bootstrapper options page moves focus to install location field every time a checkbox is toggled, from @ssrmm
Use after free when Util:User CreateUser functionality used, from @bevanweiss
Produce a wix-cli.msi, from @robmen
WixToolset.Firewall.wixext missing version information, from @robmen
wix extension listdoes not display machine-wide extensions, from @robmenManaged CustomActions leave behind
SFXCAfolders, from @robmen
One feature to note is the new MSI package to install the WiX command-line tools and extensions. It's intended for build machines that run builds using the wix.exe command-line tool. But because the wix.exe command-line tool is a .NET tool, it requires the .NET SDK to download the NuGet package and unpack it in the path, so we've seen a lot of YAML in the wild dedicated to installing wix.exe and the WiX extensions. All of that can be replaced by installing wix-cli-x64.msi on your build images.
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