Advanced Installer 22.8 Release Notes

On June 24th, 2025 Caphyon Ltd. is proud to announce the release of Advanced Installer 22.8 in Free, Professional, Enterprise and Architect editions. This release is available for download on the Advanced Installer website.

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.

Multiple MSIX PSF improvements for existing fixups and a couple of new PowerShell COM objects are now available.

This release deprecates App-V 4.x and ThinApp support.

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

New features

  • Requested by customer
    Automatic file formatting for EULA content, when using a dark theme
Enhancements
  • Redesigned the custom actions organization, for easier understanding and troubleshooting
  • Making the prerequisite command line options more intuitive for each UI stage
  • The SBOM report is now included within the setup package, preventing file tampering and simplifying redistribution

  • Requested by customer
    Added predefined launch conditions for VC++ runtimes
  • Update .NET prerequisites to the latest version, 8.0.17 and 9.0.6
  • Updated Trusted Signing tools detection and installation methods

  • Requested by customer
    Support editing MSIX packages containing fixups with empty config files

  • Requested by customer
    Support editing MSIX packages where fixups contain ".dll" extension in their name
  • Support editing MSIX packages with empty registry hives

  • Requested by customer
    Improve resource synchronization for projects using pre-build events

  • Requested by customer
    Option to set metadata for Comments and LegalTrademark

  • Requested by customer
    PowerShell automation support for setting EXE metadata

  • Requested by customer
    PowerShell automation support for configuring a custom sign tool
  • Improved the certification validation methods
  • Advanced Installer integration with the Windows Defender Exclusion engine - no more blocked builds due to incorrect false-positive flagging
  • Update TargetFramework to NET 9.0 for our predefined custom action template

  • Requested by customer
    Fixed the Visual Studio extension detection on x86 machines
  • Improved the parsing of XML manifests for greater package compatibility
Bug fixes
  • Crash when setting the Surface theme as current after visiting the Custom Actions view
  • The "Inherit used theme" option made the installer unresponsive
  • A .NET custom action was hanging when logging
  • Updated the bootstrapper file costing process, to better support property-based folders
  • The COM interface was not correctly checking a floating license
  • Reboot prompt triggered with UI during a silent major upgrade installation
  • Adding Eula in a Simple project accidentally changed the build type to EXE
  • Error handling during file costing, for packages with Enhanced UI
  • A UI crash occurred when trying to load certain project settings, no data was corrupted
  • The Move Folder custom action was leaving an empty folder in the source location
  • Launch conditions messages were blocking a silent installation when the option "Limit to basic user interface" was enabled and a prerequisite was included
  • A UI error message was blocking a silent installation if a prerequisite's URL is inaccessible
  • Fixed the edit path control layout
  • Fixed the default command line options set for chained packages
  • InstallTypeDlg was not automatically added when changing the installation type