Paquet Builder versions

Create customized installers for software applications
Oct 19, 2020
3.7
Jun 28, 2017
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Oct 6, 2016
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Jan 15, 2016
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Mar 2, 2015
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Nov 23, 2014
May 1, 2014
May 13, 2013
Mar 9, 2008
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What's new

v3.7 [Jun 28, 2017]
Full support for 4K displays and screens with high DPI.
New UI images that are automatically rescaled according to screen resolution.
New custom action images.
Add new custom action: the action filter remembers up to 10 entries now.
Added Portuguese (Brazil) language.
Fixed import of REG file error (root key mismatch).
Fixed a rare bug in directive processing.
Minor improvements.

v3.6.1 [Oct 6, 2016]
Fixed "Error Code -5" when files from a multi-volume archive were extracted.
Improved behavior of the build progress bar.

v3.5.1 [Jan 15, 2016]
New Italian language (thanks to A. Consorte).
On Windows 10, sometimes EXE files requiring administrative rights could not be started by Setup packages.
Fixed: compression level was not saved.
Added delay between SHA1 and SHA256 code signing.
Added directive parameters for new code signing: SignCertifLocation and SignMethod.
Updated core DLL components.
Minor improvements.

v2.9.6 [Mar 9, 2008]
- New 7-Zip option: encrypt file names; thus you can prevent your users from reading the list of files inside a package using a hexadecimal editor for instance.
- Better detection to find out whether PBComp.exe (Paquet Builder Compression program) completed successfully or not.
- Fixed: when the user's Windows login name contained a period ("will.smith" for instance), PB did not create the correct temporary directory (packages for a Setup routine).
- Fixed the "76%" bug in Windows Vista for command-line & silent builds.
- Added support for Windows Vista icons (PNG-compressed icons); using such icons is not recommended because it will increase the size of your final package.
- PFX passwords are now hidden.
- Fixed %CURDATETIME%
- New button to automatically set the timestamp URL (digital certificates).
- Fixed: now Live Update does not display any message when Paquet Builder is run from the command line.
- Improved progress bar behavior on Windows Vista.
- New component option: you can now store file path information relative to the component's source folder.
- MSI plug-in: resource strings are now correctly loaded by the bootstrapper under Windows Vista; error messages instead of numbers are now displayed when they are available.
- MSI plug-in : the new bootstrapper from Microsoft does not work with Windows 9x/Me. If you want to run a MSI setup on Win98/ME, you can now enable the new option "use older bootstrapper version".
- New UI Level option for MSI plug-in: you can run MSI installations silently if you wish.
- New command-line switch for PBP projects: /l ; causes Paquet Builder to perform a live update of files & components.
- Introduced %PBLASTDLG% again for wizard packages; with that variable, you can now use the "Show an information panel" custom action to display an "end dialog box".
- New directive options: CryptFilenames, NoSourceSection and LiveUpdate. See the help for further information.
- Included German language file.

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