NSIS 3.08 (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)

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NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is a small, efficient, capable, professional open source system to create Windows installers. It is designed to be as small and flexible as possible and is therefore very suitable for internet distribution.

Being a user’s first experience with your product, a stable and reliable installer is an important component of succesful software. With NSIS you can create such installers that are capable of doing everything that is needed to setup your software.

NSIS is script-based and allows you to create the logic to handle even the most complex installation tasks. Many plug-ins and scripts are already available. You can create web installers, communicate with Windows and other software components. Also you can install or update shared components and more.

NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) Features:

Generates self-contained executable installers
Support for ZLib, BZip2 and LZMA data compression
Uninstall support (installer can generate an uninstaller)
Customizable user interface (dialogs, fonts, backgrounds, icons, text, checkmarks, images etc.)
Classic and Modern wizard interface
Fully multilingual, support for multiple languages (including RTL languages) in one installer. More than 40 translations are already available, but you can also create your own.
Page system. You can add standard wizard pages or custom pages
User selection of installation components, tree for component selection
Multiple install configurations (usually Minimal, Typical, Full), and custom configuration
Installer self-verification using a CRC32 checksum
Small overhead over compressed data size (34 KB with default options)
Ability to display a license agreement in text or RTF format
Ability to detect destination directory from the registry
Easy to use plug-in system. Lots of included plug-ins for creation of custom dialogs, internet connections, HTTP downloading, file patching, Win32 API calls, etc.
Installers can be as large as 2GB
Optional silent mode for automated installations
A preprocessor with support for defined symbols, macros, conditional compilation, standard predefines
A lovely coding experience with elements of PHP and assembly. Includes user variables, a stack, real flow control, etc.

Installers have their own VMs that let you write code that can support:

File extraction (with configurable overwrite parameters)
File/directory copying, renaming, deletion, searching
Plug-in DLL calling
DLL/ActiveX control registration/unregistration
Executable execution (shell execute and wait options)
Shortcut creation
Registry key reading/setting/enumerating/deleting
INI file reading/writing
Generic text file reading/writing
Powerful string and integer manipulation
Window finding based on class name or title
User interface manipulation (font/text setting)
Window message sending
User interaction with message boxes or custom pages
Branching, comparisons, etc.
Error checking
Reboot support, including delete or rename on reboot
Installer behavior commands (such as show/hide/wait/etc.)
User functions in script
Callback functions for user actions

Changes in NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) 3.08:

Added !uninstfinalize
Added $USER.. and $COMMON.. alias constants
Added GetDLLVersion /ProductVersion switch
Added GetWinVer instruction
Disallow start maximized mode
Added /LAUNCH compiler switch
PEAddResource now supports the res:// protocol
System::Store can push/pop the flags state

Changes in NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) 3.07:

Unicode is now the default.
Added nsExec /MBCS switch
Memento now supports overridable storage macros
Fixed Unicode compiler crash
Fixed !addplugindir relative path bug
Fixed StrClb Unicode bug
Fixed ${GetTime} hour padding
Updated Albanian (patch #303), Corsican and Japanese (maboroshin PR)
Fixed clipped Chinese text

Changes in NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) 3.06.1:

Fixed SetBrandingImage crash

Changes in NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) 3.06:

Major Changes

DeleteRegKey /ifempty now also checks for values, not just subkeys. Use /ifnosubkeys for the old behavior.
Added GetKnownFolderPath
Added UnpinShortcut macro (Integration.nsh)

Minor Changes

Added IfShellVarContextAll and IfRtlLanguage
Added !define /intfmt
Added Date/Time nsDialogs controls and macros
MultiUser: Fixed INSTALLMODE_FUNCTION and added INSTALLMODEPAGE_SHOWUSERNAME

Translations

Updated German (SebStange PR) and Simplified Chinese

Build System

Primitive SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support
Python 3 fixes
GCC 10 memmove workaround

Changes in NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) 3.05:

Major Changes

Added PEAddResource and PERemoveResource
Added LoadAndSetImage
Allow quoted library path in System::Call
Improved nsExec Unicode and tab output parsing

Minor Changes

Added experimental ManifestLongPathAware attribute
%1 in !finalize command can be specified multiple times
Fixed -O stderr stream issue
Fixed InstallLib .NSI space-in-path bug
StrFunc now supports a “using” idiom to help with forward-declaration of functions
Added SectionInstType
Zero uninitialized data in icon group
Automatically doubles ampersands in the Name attribute
Fixed nsDialogs CB/LB_Get/SetItemData macros

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