Release Name: 2.24
Notes:
NSIS 2.24 is released. This release adds more useful predefines, allows easier
usage for non-admins, resolves some longstanding issues and includes the usual
collection of new features, bug fixes, improvements and translation updates.
Changes:
Major 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)
Minor Changes
* 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)
New/Changed Commands
* 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)
Utilities and Plug-ins
* 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
Translations
* Added Galician translation (patch #1631765)
Build System
* 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
Unfortuantely older 2.23 is offered so here the working directlink (server rotation script):
