Release Candidate 3

Release candidate 3 of NSIS 2, the popular win32 installer/uninstaller system, is out. NSIS 2 includes a new Modern UI, supports multiple languages and features an easy plugin system. NSIS is still the smallest win32 installer available, with an overhead of only 34 KB (with default options).

This release fixes some minor bugs, adds some more nice graphics you can include in your installer and updates some language files.

Release notes: https://sourceforge.net/project/show...ease_id=212576
Download: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/n...3.exe?download

Changes:
Minor Changes

• Fixed some bugs with LZMA/bzip2 and non-solid compression
• Fixed a bug that caused escaping not to be ignored on extended !define lines
• Language files updates and fixes
• Fixed installer crash when certain language strings were not referenced in all languages
• Some new and improved graphics
• Made CreateShortcut case insensitive when parsing hot key
• Some documentation improvements and fix-ups
• Modern UI 1.69: Made all uninstaller pages work without installer pages and fixed top text on uninstaller license page

Utilities and Plug-ins

• MakeNSISW: Fixed resize bug, fixed some UI issues in the settings dialog
• NSIS Update: Improved UI
• InstallOptions: Fixed minor problems with the new NOTIFY flag

Can one compile an makensis.exe v2.0rc3 which builds nonsolid LZMA installers?

Yes. Simply undefine the appropriate defines in config.h and recompile. But there is no need to do it yourself, a precompiled build is already available:

Ah, that's nice! Thank you!

Did anyone monitoring the SF package get a notification about the new version? My internet connection wasn't behaving well when I sent it so I don't know if it was eventually sent or not.

By the way, in the final version of NSIS 2.0, will it be possible to set solid/nonsolid in a script file (e.g. SetCompressor lzmanonsolid or something like that)? That would be very nice too 🙂

Probably in a future NSIS 2.x release.