F.63 2.01
Released on September 24th, 2004
F.63.1 Release Notes
- See Compiling NSIS Sources for information about compiling makensis on POSIX platforms
- NSIS doesn't create installers for Linux/Mac OS X etc., but you can compile Windows installers on these platforms
- UpgradeDLL is still provided in UpgradeDLL.nsh for backwards compatibility
F.63.2 Changelog
F.63.2.1 Major Changes
- Compiler (makensis) supports POSIX platforms (Linux, *BSD, Mac OS X, etc.)
- New system for DLL/TLB library setup
F.63.2.2 New/Changed Commands
- Added BGFont that allows setting the background text font
- Added SW_HIDE to ExecShell's accepted show modes
- RMDir can now be used with both /r and /REBOOTOK at the same time
- Extended maximum binary data for WriteRegBin to 3 * NSIS_MAX_STRLEN
- Added !execute
F.63.2.3 Minor Changes
- LZMA exehead is now 34KB and should also decompress faster
- Windows 95 (OSR2)/98/ME no longer see drive free space capped to 2GB
- Modern User Interface: New orange theme by MoNKi
- Speedup background gradient painting
- LogicLib 2.5: Added AndIf, AndUnless, OrIf, OrUnless. Avoids unused variable warnings by requiring !defines before using certain features.
- StrFunc: Added support for uninstaller, some fixes and improvements. See the readme for a complete changelog
- The plug-ins folder is properly removed when the system is rebooted
- SetOutPath "-" works again
- Fixed a bug which made plug-ins that didn't have lower case extension not be found
- Fixed a bug that caused directories with drives that had their current directory set to an invalid directory to not be accepted in the directory selection page
- Fixed a crash in makensis caused by defining a macro in a file included by another macro
- makensis shows meaningful errors for compression errors instead of just magic numbers
- Fixed a bug with AllowRootDirInstall used along with InstallDirRegKey that caused the directory in the registry to be ignored
- Fixed FileRead setting the error flag when a null character is the first character it reads
- Fixed a bug which caused the background gradient to paint slowly
- File paths relative to the root folder work again
- Added Colors.nsh
- Made Times New Roman default font for the background text because it should always have support for the locale's language
- Fixed compilation of NSISdl under VS.NET
- SetCtlColors /BRANDING wasn't working right, if just one of the background or text color were specified
- Language file fixes and improvements
F.63.2.4 Utilities and Plug-ins
- System: New, hopefully more informative, documentation; fixed some bugs
- Banner: Added getWindow to allow greater control over the banner window
- InstallOptions 2.41: Bitmaps are now automatically centered, fixed a bug which prevented enabling the next button from the leave function of InstallOptions pages, fixed a rare freeze
- Zip2Exe 0.32: Fixed codepage problems
- nsExec: Always create a valid input handle, fixed a problem when called from a path with spaces
- VPatch: Close all open file handles when one of them fail to open
- NSISdl: Added /NOIEPROXY (based on memph's code)