NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) July 14,

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NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is a professional open source system to create Windows installers. It is designed to be as small and flexible as possible and is therefore very suitable for internet distribution.

Being a user's first experience with your product, a stable and reliable installer is an important component of succesful software. With NSIS you can create such installers that are capable of doing everything that is needed to setup your software.

NSIS is script-based and allows you to create the logic to handle even the most complex installation tasks. Many plug-ins and scripts are already available: you can create web installers, communicate with Windows and other software components, install or update shared components and more.

Release Name: 2.29

Notes:

The most notable addition in this release is nsDialogs -

a faster and far more capable replacement for InstallOptions. It allows

creating controls of any type directly from the script and removes the need to

mess with slow INI files. It integrates directly into the script by calling

functions for notification, including change notification for edit boxes. This

release also includes the usual assortment of bug fixes and improvements.

Changes:

Major Changes

* Added nsDialogs - a replacement for InstallOptions

Minor Changes

* Disable Windows error messages for the entire installer and not just for

an incomplete list of fail-points (bug #1741061)

* Fixed incorrect large version handling of GetFileVersion (bug #1742255,

patch #1742562)

* Fixed the ReverseSection macro in Sections.nsh (bug #1742793)

* Minor documentation improvements

* Simplified REG_MULTI_SZ reader

* Use SHGetFolderPath where available to better support all users' folders

Utilities and Plug-ins

* Banner: Avoid possible hangs when called from page callbacks (bug

#1743801)

* NSISdl: added /TRANSLATE2 for more "translator-friendly" strings (patch

#1656076)

* NSISdl: support downloads over 2gb (patch #1723131)

Translations

* Added International Spanish

Build System

* Added support for HPUX (patch #1714416)

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