Setup Matters

Today's meeting happens only a week after our last one, a jarring change from our usual fortnightly schedule. It was for the good reason that we wanted a final checkpoint before our release of WiX v5 on Friday. Did we need that checkpoint? Were awful, recall-class bugs reported in the last few days? Are we shamefully slipping our schedule? Read on to find out! (But no, no, and no.)

As we approach WiX v5's release -- still scheduled for next Friday, 5-April-2024, the 20th anniversary of WiX's first open-source release way back in the olden times of 2004 -- it's time to ship some updates of FireGiant's leading WiX tools: HeatWave and HeatWave Build Tools.

After a weekend recovering from another heroic effort to keep WiX users safe, we're back to discuss what's in those releases and what's coming up in our next release, less than two weeks away. Join us for an earlier-than-fortnightly meeting next Tuesday, 2-April, for a final checkin before the scheduled release of WiX v5 on Friday, 5-April. And in the meantime, read on to see what we've been up to.

Usually, announcing a new release of WiX is a happy occasion, with celebrations involving cake and adult beverages. Today, not so much. We are...well, not happy, exactly, perhaps merely resigned...to announce security releases of WiX to address two security vulnerabilities, one in a WiX custom action and one in the Burn bootstrapper engine. FireGiant has fixed the vulnerabilities in new releases of WiX v3, v4, and v5. Read on for details about the vulnerabilities and how to get the latest fixes.

The second release candidate of WiX v5 is now available. It contains a small number of (also small) bug fixes -- and includes fixes for the security vulnerabilities we announced today.

Late last week we were very happy to announce that WiX v5.0.0-rc.1 had been released -- and today, we triaged a handful of issues from users who jumped on it and are helping us prove that WiX v5 is, after some fixes, at least, is going to be a great release. To look at our release plan and peek at the issues so far uncovered, read on.