Software update: NSIS 2.11

Joost Verburg released version 2.11 of the Nullsoft Scriptable Install System yesterday. This open source program makes it easy to create installation packages under Windows. After creating a script, the program then creates a nice compact installer, in which uninstall options can also be added. The following changes have been made to this:

Major Changes

• Added a workaround for a bug that prevented detection of some special folders (eg $DESKTOP for all users) on Windows 9x (bug #1008632)
• Fixed a crash caused by copying very long details to clipboard in the installation log page (bug #1314004)

New/Changed Commands

• Added !tempfile, !delfile and !appendfile for cross-platform handling of text files during compilation
• Fixed ChangeUI input handling (patch #1348473)
• SectionIn RO is no longer case sensitive

Minor changes

• Added support URL to the NSIS package entry in the Add/Remove control panel (RFE #1349867)
• Fixed comment handling (patch #1324898)
• Fixed duplicate RegTool test in Library
• Fixed invalid language selection according to $LANGUAGE in .onInit when only primary language match is found (bug #1328629)
• Fixed missing RegTool error after install-reboot-install-reboot sequence with Library
• Fixed portability issues with LogicLib (bug #1320297, patch #1248336)
• Fixed SetOverwriteifdiff always overwriting on FAT file system (bug #1338423)
• Fixed wrong size of red.bmp check box image
• Larger browse button for localized texts (bug #1314682)
• Minor documentation improvements and fixes (including bug #1349810)
• Sort language names in language selection dialog
• Use the temporary directory for Library temporary files, instead of the possibly write-protected installation directory

Utilities and Plugins

• Added /OEM switch for OEM to ANSI conversion in nsExec (patch #1346737)
• Added /PROXY switch for manual proxy configuration in NSISdl (patch #1334166)
• Added solid compression check box to zip2exe (patch #1334155)
• Added stdin in MakeNSISw to allow xcopy to run
• Added timestamp handling to zip2exe (bug #1349853)
• Fixed input validation of nsExec
• InstallOptions 2.44: Added HWND and HWND2 entries to the INI file to avoid messy calculations of the correct control id

Translations

• Slovenian translation fixes and improvements

Build System

• Added a workaround for linking errors caused by a bad library included in recent Platform SDK versions
• Check for and use -pthread linker flag
• Improved FreeBSD portability
• Nicer error message for SCons version older than 0.96.90

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