Setup Matters

As you might have heard, WiX v6.0.1 is coming out and its coming out day is today. WiX v6.0.1 is now available for your packaging pleasure.

Whoo! I'm so happy to be back in the Deployment Dojo. Season 2 is here and we will be exploring MSBuild. That may be a bit of a surprise but setup development often requires working closely with the build system. So this season let's level up our MSBuild skills.

WiX v6 is done and WiX v7 is in progress but who doesn't love a bug-fix release? WiX v6.0.1 is coming up soon with a selection of fixes we've made for FireGiant customers and maybe—just maybe—a fix for an annoying bug I added to make sure everyone appreciates and adores me.

Since our last meeting, we fixed some last-minute WiX v6 bugs, shipped WiX v6, and began working on WiX v7. And that's just in our copious spare time. In future meetings, we're going to tackle the many, many issues we've been hoarding dutifully maintaining over the years. Join us live for some lightning-round triage!

Today is the 55th annual Earth Day (plus or minus 1,657,100,000,000 other, more mundane days) and we celebrate in part by releasing HeatWave v1.0.6 and HeatWave Build Tools v6.0.0, with full support for WiX v6.

WiX v6.0.0 is now available. Update your .wixproj files, load up the WiX CLI package on your favorite build machine, and update the .NET tool installation if you have one. And if you make money using WiX, take note of the new Open Source Maintenance Fee.