Software Update: NSIS 2.0

Nullsoft Scriptable Install System version 2.0 has finally been released, after a long time of development with betas and release candidates. The program, as the name implies, is a software package that makes installations easy. After creating a simple script, the program makes a nice compact installer, an uninstall option can also be given. The release notes look like this:

The wait is finally over: the second generation of NSIS, the popular installer creation system for Windows, is out. Almost 2 years of hard work have gone in to NSIS 2 since the first alpha was released, but it has all been worth it. After numerous alphas, betas and release candidates (17 to be exact), each with more and more features, we feel that NSIS 2 has reached a state where it truly deserves the major version jump; and we are extremely proud of the result.

Some of the delights that await you are: a modern user interface, an easier plug-in system, better file compression, and multiple languages. Every pre-release of NSIS 2 has seen the number of applications using NSIS grow, and they can’t all be wrong.

We would like to thank everyone who has pitched in ideas, submitted patches, reported bugs, written new plug-ins, created pages in the Archive, and generally spread the word about NSIS 2

“It’s great, it’s here, it’s been and will be fun.”[break]The full changelog is here to read.