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WiX Online Meeting 272 Highlights

Tuesday, November 28, 2023 by Bob Arnson

Here in the United States, the recent Thanksgiving holiday serves as the unofficial start of winter, the winter holiday season, overly-indulgent shopping, six weeks of "holiday diet cheat days" -- it all ties together. In that vein, Rob and I signed up for a couple more WiX v5 work items even as the new year (and our first scheduled prerelease of WiX v5) rapidly approaches...

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WiX Online Meeting 271 Highlights

Tuesday, November 14, 2023 by Bob Arnson

Eventually, we're going to have the WiX Online Meeting Musical Episode, because it's what all the cool shows do. But today was not that day. Instead, we spoke normally for our issue triage and a quick announcement of WiX v4.0.3.

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WiX Online Meeting 270 Highlights

Tuesday, October 31, 2023 by Bob Arnson

Happy Halloween! Over the years, WiX has had three releases on Halloween: WiX v3.8 RC, WiX v3.9, and WiX v3.10.1. There are no new releases today, but not for lack of trying. Did we used to intentionally target Halloween when releases were close or were those release dates just massive coincidences? Perhaps we'll never know. (Totally intentional. --Ed.)

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WiX Online Meeting 269 Highlights

Tuesday, October 17, 2023 by Bob Arnson

In today's meeting, we triaged new issues. That's it. There was no late-night livestream to report on. There was no pending release that needed its status reported. Er, well, that said, though we didn't talk about it in today's meeting, go update your HeatWave to get the latest bug fixes for WiX v4's Visual Studio integration, please and thank you.

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HeatWave v1.0.2 and HeatWave Build Tools Released

Friday, October 13, 2023 by Bob Arnson

As we approach the second Friday the 13th of the year, in this chilly month of October with Halloween just a couple weeks away, we figure it's time to ship some spooky software.

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WiX Online Meeting 268 Highlights

Tuesday, October 3, 2023 by Bob Arnson

In a throwback to the mid-2000s, I spent a late Thursday night/Friday early morning collaborating with Rob on some gory WiX internals. Unlike the mid-2000s, it was virtual, I was 2000 miles away, I was responsible for my own refreshments, and it was recorded.

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