Advanced Installer 23.1 Release Notes
On September 25th, 2025 Caphyon Ltd. is proud to announce the release of Advanced Installer 23.1 in Free, Professional, Enterprise and Architect editions. This release is available for download on the Advanced Installer website.
Advanced Installer 23.1 introduces AppInstaller UI customization, allowing you to design a unique installation experience directly from our graphical interface. No more manual XML editing — you can now configure the installer window title, checkbox positions, accent colors, logos, button text, and alignment options with just a few clicks.
We’ve also expanded automation support with new PowerShell commands for changing ProductCodes and component GUIDs, as well as adding prerequisites from the predefined list.
Command-line options now include setting EULA files for multiple languages, giving you greater flexibility in multilingual deployments.
Explore the full list of updates below, and watch our video tutorial to see how to customize the AppInstaller UI for your MSIX packages in Advanced Installer.
New features, bug fixes, and general improvements are included in the current release. See the full list below.
- Support for customizing the MSIX AppInstaller UI
- Advanced Installer Extension for Visual Studio 2026
- SBOM now included for Advanced Installer setup package
- PowerShell automation support for the "Change ProductCode and component's GUIDS" option
Requested by customer - PowerShell automation support for adding a prerequisite from the predefined list
Requested by customer - Command line option to set the EULA file for multiple languages
Requested by customer - Allow "ImageButton" customization using the Color Picker
Requested by customer - Added the possibility to undo the "Move to repository" option
- Support for ProductVersion synchronization with a DLL file from the project, using different source files from disk for each build
Requested by customer - Updater now selects the download folder in the following order: custom path, prerequisites/updates, and then Windows Downloads
Requested by customer - Increased the default size of the Dialogs behaviour tab
- Update .NET 8 prerequisites to the latest version 8.0.20
- Update .NET 9 prerequisites to the latest version 9.0.9
- IIS HTTPS website bindings were not preserved during upgrade
Reported by customer - License preview was empty
Reported by customer - Logo preview reset to default when switching themes or views in AppInstaller
- AppV 5.x build view was missing at import
- Scintilla password fields were not disabled by default for the Scheduled Task User Account
- The project was marked as modified when setting custom tool signing from COM
- Cropped text in a prerequisite's command line field when using 175% DPI scaling
- Prerequisite's Installation tab broke when interacting with Uninstall/Maintenance/Rollback checkboxes
- The left menu in MSIX Editor included more views than expected
- Help button from the "Active setup command" dialog had no effect
- Visual Studio import crashes on the solution file with no project configuration defined
Reported by customer - Digital signature missing for some DLLs in Advanced Installer installation