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NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is a 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, install or update shared components and more.
Features:
- Small overhead size
- Compatible with all major Windows versions
- Unique compression methods
- Script based
- Multiple languages in one installer
- Many features and checks for the target system
- Custom dialogs and interfaces
- Plug-in system
- Support for web installation, file patching
- Project integration, different releases and automatic builds
- Easy and human readable file formats
- Portable Compiler
What's New in version 2.37:
- Fixed a bug introduced in 2.32 that caused blurry icons on Windows versions prior to XP (bug #1956350)
- Use $PROGRAMFILES as a default for $PROGRAMFILES64 instead of "C:Program Files" (bug #1947702)
- Automatically select language in case there is only one available choice (bug #1939571)
- MultiUser: Fixed build errors with manual inclusion of StrFunc.nsh
- Support for compression of files up to 2GB (patch #1948700)
- Fixed ${NSD_OnBack} (bug #1947388)
- Fixed nsDialogs::SelectFileDialog return value for user cancelation (bug #1955803)
- Fixed possible BgImage crash when calling BgImage::Destroy more than once (patch #1951248)
- Minor documentation improvements
- Translation: Brazilian Portuguese updates
- Translation: Polish updates (patch #1927421)
- Translation: Slovak updates (patch #1939669)
- Translation: Spanish updates
- Build System: SCons requirement upgraded to 0.98
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