Software Update: Inno Setup 4.1.8

Inno Setup is a program with which you can easily put together an installation program. Support for zip, bzip2 and lzma compression is available as well as possibilities to make ‘silent’ installations. Version 4.1.8 was recently released with the following changelog:

• Two new [Setup] section directives have been introduced:
  • AppendDefaultDirName, which defaults to yes and reintroduces the “AppendDir” behavior of Inno Setup 4.1.0 and earlier — that is, when a new folder is clicked on the Browse dialog displayed by the Select Destination Location wizard page, Setup will automatically append the last component of DefaultDirName onto the new path.
  • AppendDefaultGroupName, which also defaults to yes and provides similar behavior for the Select Start Menu Folder wizard page.
• The Compression [Setup] section directive now defaults to lzma. In almost all cases, lzma compresses better than the other supported methods. Previously, zip was the default. (ML)
• Executable files are now compressed even better, thanks to a new encoding/decoding pass that optimizes x86 JMP & CALL instructions. The size of the installer for Inno Setup itself has dropped almost 50 KB due to this change.
• on [Files] entries, the flags external and recurse subdirs may now be combined. (ML)
• Livened up the Select Destination Location and Select Start Menu Folder wizard pages by adding icons to them.
• Added edit boxes to the folder browser dialogs.
• Some messages have been added and removed in this version. (View differences in Default.isl)
  • New messages: SelectDirLabel3, SelectDirBrowseLabel, SelectStartMenuFolderLabel3, SelectStartMenuFolderBrowseLabel.
  • Deleted messages:
    SelectDirLabel2, SelectStartMenuFolderLabel2.
• Minor tweaks.