We’ve been working hard over the summer here at Advanced Installer to ship a release packed with new features and improvements to help make your return to work as smooth as possible.

Starting with Advanced Installer 22.9, you can now create native desktop shortcuts in MSIX packages, addressing one of the platform's long-standing limitations.

Our monthly release schedule includes important UX changes for the Custom Actions and Prerequisites views. It also includes new launch conditions for VC++ redistributables, along with new updates for .NET 8.0.17 and 9.0.6.

Advanced Installer 22.7 brings important speed improvements and more platform support to make your packaging job easier. This release includes faster dialog loading for Embedded and Enhanced UIs, improved registry exclusion logic during repackaging, and enhanced control over VM profiles and user profile actions.

Advanced Installer 22.6 introduces the SBOM Generator Integration, providing built-in support for creating Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) reports. This feature ensures compliance with security and regulatory standards by allowing you to generate and include an SBOM within your installation packages, offering full transparency over your software components.

Discover the latest improvements in Advanced Installer 22.5, featuring security and feature updates for the LZMA SDK (v24.09) and a fix for CVE-2024-11477, addressing a remote code execution vulnerability in 7-Zip's LZMA compression.

Advanced Installer 22.4 introduces the long awaited MSIX Custom Install Actions feature, allowing you to bundle and install third-party redistributable files, such as .exe or .msi, alongside your MSIX packages.

Advanced Installer 22.3 introduces built-in support for Windows Server 2025, enabling seamless configuration of Windows Features and Server Roles directly within your installation packages.

The latest version of Advanced Installer, 22.2, introduces nested context menus for file associations in MSI packages, simplifying file type management and navigation.

The latest version of Advanced Installer introduces a new predefined custom action that enables copying Current User registry values to all users during installation.

The latest release of Advanced Installer brings us into the final stages of the WinUI migration. Replacing an outdated UI framework while adding new predefined functionality is always a challenge.

Discover the latest updates in Advanced Installer 21.9, featuring the powerful new nested Context Menus for File Associations in MSIX. This feature provides a more organized and efficient user interface for managing file associations, allowing for easier navigation and improved usability.

Discover the latest updates in Advanced Installer 21.8, featuring WinUI 2.x support in the Embedded UI for sleeker, modern MSI installers, available in all the commercial editions.

We have extended our Trusted Signing Integration capabilities to further enhance security and streamline your development processes. Now, you can sign your projects directly within Visual Studio using the Azure Trusted Signing in the Visual Studio Extension. This integration simplifies your workflow by enabling you to sign your packages without leaving your development environment.

Advanced Installer 21.6 is out, bringing essential updates and improvements to streamline your software packaging and deployment workflows. This release introduces custom context menu for file associations installed via MSIX, simplifying user interactions with your applications.

This release brings improvements useful mostly to software vendors creating packages from scratch, with a few exceptions on MSIX repackaging. The focus of the release are our most used features: prerequisites, installer dialogs/themes and automation.

Advanced Installer 21.4 is here, marking a significant milestone in MSIX deployment with its new capability to target external application shortcuts to files or URLs.

As we unveil Advanced Installer 21.3, the final release of the year, we reflect on a transformative 2023. In 2023, Advanced Installer has made remarkable steps in enhancing user experience and functionality.

We are excited to introduce a powerful new feature in Advanced Installer: the ability to run .NET and .NET Framework code as a predefined custom action.

We are thrilled to introduce a groundbreaking feature in Advanced Installer - the ability to test your installation packages directly within Windows Sandbox.