2.01

F.9 2.01

Released on September 24th, 2004

F.9.1 Release Notes

See Compiling NSIS Sources for information about compiling makensis on POSIX platforms
NSIS doesn't create installers for Linux/Mac OS X etc., but you can compile Windows installers on these platforms
UpgradeDLL is still provided in UpgradeDLL.nsh for backwards compatibility

F.9.2 Changelog

F.9.2.1 Major Changes

Compiler (makensis) supports POSIX platforms (Linux, *BSD, Mac OS X, etc.)
New system for DLL/TLB library setup

F.9.2.2 New/Changed Commands

Added BGFont that allows setting the background text font
Added SW_HIDE to ExecShell's accepted show modes
RMDir can now be used with both /r and /REBOOTOK at the same time
Extended maximum binary data for WriteRegBin to 3 * NSIS_MAX_STRLEN
Added !execute

F.9.2.3 Minor Changes

LZMA exehead is now 34KB and should also decompress faster
Windows 95 (OSR2)/98/ME no longer see drive free space capped to 2GB
Modern User Interface: New orange theme by MoNKi
Speedup background gradient painting
LogicLib 2.5: Added AndIf, AndUnless, OrIf, OrUnless. Avoids unused variable warnings by requiring !defines before using certain features.
StrFunc: Added support for uninstaller, some fixes and improvements. See the readme for a complete changelog
The plug-ins folder is properly removed when the system is rebooted
SetOutPath "-" works again
Fixed a bug which made plug-ins that didn't have lower case extension not be found
Fixed a bug that caused directories with drives that had their current directory set to an invalid directory to not be accepted in the directory selection page
Fixed a crash in makensis caused by defining a macro in a file included by another macro
makensis shows meaningful errors for compression errors instead of just magic numbers
Fixed a bug with AllowRootDirInstall used along with InstallDirRegKey that caused the directory in the registry to be ignored
Fixed FileRead setting the error flag when a null character is the first character it reads
Fixed a bug which caused the background gradient to paint slowly
File paths relative to the root folder work again
Added Colors.nsh
Made Times New Roman default font for the background text because it should always have support for the locale's language
Fixed compilation of NSISdl under VS.NET
SetCtlColors /BRANDING wasn't working right, if just one of the background or text color were specified
Language file fixes and improvements

F.9.2.4 Utilities and Plug-ins

System: New, hopefully more informative, documentation; fixed some bugs
Banner: Added getWindow to allow greater control over the banner window
InstallOptions 2.41: Bitmaps are now automatically centered, fixed a bug which prevented enabling the next button from the leave function of InstallOptions pages, fixed a rare freeze
Zip2Exe 0.32: Fixed codepage problems
nsExec: Always create a valid input handle, fixed a problem when called from a path with spaces
VPatch: Close all open file handles when one of them fail to open
NSISdl: Added /NOIEPROXY (based on memph's code)