PACE Suite 5.6.1: Cumulative Updates

Review all available new releases of the application packaging tool here.

Highlights:

• Improved exclusion filters
• Enhanced stability of work with large packages
• Ability to manage the MSI database code page
• Upgraded management of Environment variables, automatic integration of Active Setup
• Fixed issues connected to Media settings, CAB creation
• Corrected type detection of some registry values
• Automatic clean-up of empty component(s) when removing its last resource

The detailed list of improvements and fixed issues

Improvements

• Content of the folder ‘%WINDIR%\Servicing’ is included in the exclusion list to improve packages’ purity.

• By default, the ARP for the MSI package is pre-filled and enabled.

• Ability to manage and change the MSI database code page setting which is per default set to UTF-8. With this improvement created MSI packages can be opened with old tools for MSI that do not support UTF-8 code pages.
• By default, all shortcuts are set as Advertised according to the best practices.
• When removing resources (files, registry, etc.) from the MSI package, the containing Components and ,if empty, their references with Features will also be removed.
• When adding/editing the per-user Environment Variables, Active Setup is automatically integrated.
• Windows Service identifiers (display name, service name, etc.) are automatically pre-filled on selecting a new service executable file.
• When adding a new Service Install entry, the respective Service Control record is automatically added to manage the installed Windows Service.
• The splash screen on the running functions of MSI Editor from Launcher is displayed to indicate the loading of the application.

Fixed Issues

• Wrong type detection of some registry values.
• Failure to start Remote Setup Capture if snapshot.config cannot be copied as the access is denied.
• Issue with the upgrade of PACE Tuner installation on VMware ESXi.

• Ignoring the shortcut settings and building always the advertised shortcuts.
• Incorrect displaying of the system folders that the user can add to the MGP project.
• Skipping some registry values with the wrongly detected value type when building MSI.
• Ignoring permissions during MSI build if these permissions apply to the file that was not captured.
• Crashing on opening a corrupted MGP project.
• The automatically generated MSI PackageCode is not displayed on the Package tab.
• Lack of ability to manually set the MSI PackageCode on the Package tab.
• Failure of MSI building with the error ‘Length cannot be less than zero. Parameter name: length’.
• Problem with opening massive projects such as captured Matlab.
• Impossibility to build MSI if arguments for the Windows Service executable contain multiple slashes ‘//’ in a row.
• Minor UI/UX changes with exclusion filters.
• The total number of components in built MSI is greater than 65536, resulting in freezing of the installation.
• The built MSI incorrectly stores changes to the existing Environment Variables. It leads to variable overwriting instead of appending a new value.
• Issue with the permission inheritance on editing files and folder of the project.
• Impossibility to build MST if there are only permission changes to be saved to MST.

• The MSI that was rebuilt to uncompressed sources can’t install files with the error ‘Error reading from file….’.
• After MSI rebuilding, the CAB name may exceed the max allowed of 8 characters in some cases.
• Replacing the file with the ‘Rebuild existing CAB’ option leads to CAB corruption.
• After adding or replacing files with the ‘Rebuild existing CAB’ appears the error ‘CAB with the same name already exists…’.
• Crash on opening a corrupted MSI package.
• Crash on opening MSI that has an incorrect (abnormal) date in Summary Info.
• Image type in Summary Info is not changed according to the selected Media settings on the package rebuild.
• Size of the MSI package with internal CABs after the rebuild is not reduced.
• On import, the versioned files are saved to the MsiFileHash table.