Nullsoft Scriptable Install System is vandaag voorzien van een update naar versie 2.24. NSIS kan worden gebruikt om op een eenvoudige wijze installatiepakketten te creëren. Na het aanmaken van een script creëert het programma vervolgens een mooie compacte installer, waarin bijvoorbeeld ook uninstall-opties kunnen worden meegegeven. Het changelog van deze release laat de volgende veranderingen zien:
Major ChangesMinor Changes
- Library uninstall-reinstall-reboot problems workaround (bug #1097642)
- Minimized number of cases where an error message appears in silent mode
- New compiler predefines for code scope (patch #1644712)
New/Changed Commands
- Added /P command line option for setting process priority of makensis (patch #1638974)
- Added support for 64-bit PE on POSIX to GetDLLVersionLocal (patch #1643633)
- Append last part of InstallDir only to $INSTDIR on directory pages (bug #1174184)
- Avoid permissions change of output files for LineFind and FileJoin (bug #1631773)
- Fixed erroneous warnings on uninstall sections (bug #1631889)
- Fixed lossy Unicode conversion in resource editor (bug #1083492)
- Ignore invalid preprocessor commands in ignored block or comments
- Made VIAddVersionKey only query language tables instead of creating them and generating warnings (bug #1626504)
- Minor documentation updates and fixes (including bug #1642107, patch #1649187)
- Warn when continuing a comment line using backslash (bug #1554178)
Utilities and Plug-ins
- RegDLL and UnregDLL now use LOAD_WITH_ALTERED_SEARCH_PATH, so there's no need to use SetOutPath to set the working directory (bug #1638191)
Translations
- InstallOptions 2.45: Added FOCUS flag (patch #1634704) and fixed paste with ONLY_NUMBERS flag (bug #1652075)
- MakeNSISW: settings in HKCU instead of HKLM (bug #1411970) and MRU menu accelerators
Build System
- Added Galician translation (patch #1631765)
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- Added a workaround for building on x64 POSIX platforms (bug #1646170)
- Added a workaround for strict-aliasing compatibility (bug #1635841)
- Added compression tests
- Added STRIP, APPEND_CCFLAGS and APPEND_LINKFLAGS build options
- Fixed SCons 0.96.94 compatibility