Advanced Installer 22.7 Release Notes

On May 13th, 2025 Caphyon Ltd. is proud to announce the release of Advanced Installer 22.7 in Free, Professional, Enterprise and Architect editions. This release is available for download on the Advanced Installer website.

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.

You'll also get improved support for .NET 8.0, .NET 9.0, Java 23, and the Windows 11 24H2 MSIX schema—ensuring your packages are ready for the latest platforms.

While 22.7 focuses on improvements and bug fixes, it's also the perfect time to explore the Editor for the Updater WinUI theme, introduced last month. This powerful editor gives you full control to customize the look and feel of your application updater using modern WinUI styling.

Check out our video to learn how to customize your application Updater with the WinUI theme editor.

New features, bug fixes, and general improvements are included in the current release. See the full list below.

Enhancements
  • Notify users when an invalid certificate is detected while setting up a Virtual Machine profile
  • Speed up the dialog UI loading when using Embedded UI or Enhanced User Interface
  • Update the Repackage profile to exclude registry entries under the Uninstall hive, preventing duplicate entries in the Control Panel for newly created MSIs

  • Requested by customer
    Improve the registry exclusion list used by the Repackager

  • Requested by customer
    Enable the "Copy To User Profile" custom action to overwrite existing files
  • Add additional search criteria when adding prerequisites via the CLI
  • Improved the "Existing Custom Actions" section in the Custom Actions view

  • Requested by customer
    Update the .NET custom action template to target .NET 8.0
  • Update MSIX schema for Windows 11 24H2 support
  • Predefined prerequisites and launch conditions for Java 23
  • Update .NET 8 prerequisites to the latest version 8.0.15
  • Update .NET 9 prerequisites to the latest version 9.0.4
Bug fixes
  • Fixed rare exception triggered when duplicating a macOS build

  • Reported by customer
    Long product names were not fully displayed on dialogs using the Classic theme
  • Corrected display issues with wizards on lower DPIs

  • Reported by customer
    Investigated and fixed frequent conversion issues in the Dialogs view

  • Reported by customer
    The "No Prefix" flag was ignored when "WinUI Rendering" option was set
  • Fixed tooltips for keyboard acceleration inside message boxes
  • The Appx manifest was invalid after editing and importing an MSIX package

  • Reported by customer
    The double colon character was stripped from the ReadMe link, resulting in an invalid URL
  • Fixed build errors related to .pri resources when importing MSIX/Appx files
  • The required attribute "Notification" was missing at build time when generating the assets
  • Removed unintended inclusion of AIStub when importing an MSIX package

  • Reported by customer
    Fixed a StackTrace error that occurred when opening an AppV package