Advanced Installer 23.6 Release Notes

On April 1st, 2026 Caphyon Ltd. is proud to announce the release of Advanced Installer 23.6 in Free, Professional, Enterprise and Architect editions. This release is available for download on the Advanced Installer website.

Version 23.6 introduces the Updater Cloud Add-On, enabling you to publish and manage update configuration files directly from Advanced Installer, without maintaining your own hosting infrastructure. Version 23.6 also expands support for ARM in Mixed Packages, helping streamline your release process.

This release includes 12 enhancements focused on security, automation, UX improvements, and updated .NET prerequisites.

Key updates include stricter Auto-Updater security controls (signature validation, embedded settings, and protected execution), SBOM updates to the latest SPDX format, PowerShell automation for the Builds Archive, and support for generating WinGet manifests per MSIX architecture.

Check the video below to learn how to use the new Updater Cloud Add-On in Advanced Installer.

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

New features
Enhancements
  • Security: Enforce matching digital signature for your update configuration files
  • Security: Hide/Embed your Auto-Updater settings inside the updater.exe stub file
  • Security: Updater.exe can ignore command-line calls with modified parameters
  • Updated SBOM to the latest SPDX format version

  • Requested by customer
    PowerShell automation for the "Archive" section in the Builds page
  • Added support for generating WinGet manifests per MSIX architecture

  • Requested by customer
    Changed the folder location for custom EXE prerequisite detection

  • Requested by customer
    Autocomplete the file name when adding a File Operation from a file’s context menu
  • Updated .NET 8 prerequisites to the latest version 8.0.25
  • Updated .NET 9 prerequisites to the latest version 9.0.14
  • Updated .NET 10 prerequisites to the latest version 10.0.5

  • Requested by customer
    Updated Windows App Runtime predefined prerequisite to the latest version 1.8.x
Bug fixes

  • Reported by customer
    "AI_AIP_FOLDER" was not resolved in MSM projects
  • "Directory ID" was reset when accessing FolderContextMenu -> Synchronization -> Settings
  • All dialogs were removed after deleting prerequisites

  • Reported by customer
    Prerequisite search stopped at the first find and returned an error; it is now recursive
  • App Installer settings were not duplicated when duplicating an MSIX build

  • Reported by customer
    Surface theme: AppLogoIcon was not displayed on Windows 11 OS

  • Reported by customer
    The extracted MSI file was not deleted at the end of the installation