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Just about a month ago, we announced the availability of WiX v4 Preview 1 and the first preview of HeatWave Community Edition. Today, we're pleased to announce that the release of both WiX v4 and HeatWave Community Edition gets one step closer, with the release of WiX v4 Release Candidate 1 and the next preview of HeatWave Community Edition.

Today's meeting is the last in 2022: We agreed that a meeting between Christmas and New Year's Eve (or Day) would probably be sparsely attended, what with being full of Christmas goose and/or spiked eggnog. So we're pushing the next meeting to 5-January, which lines us up well for the next release candidate build of WiX v4 -- no, not -rc.1, that's tomorrow -- the one after that.

In a change of pace from the past couple of months, we're no longer working hard on and looking forward to releasing WiX v4 Preview One, because it was released as scheduled on 11-November. This should not come as a surprise to anyone reading this blog, because this blog is where we announced both and HeatWave, FireGiant's extension for WiX v4 in Visual Studio 2019 and Visual Studio 2022. So now we've switched focus to working hard on and looking forward to release WiX v4 Release Candidate One in the near future. For details, read on.

FireGiant is pleased to announce that WiX v4 Preview 1 is available! We're even more pleased to announce the first preview of HeatWave Community Edition, FireGiant's extension for WiX v4 in Visual Studio 2019 and Visual Studio 2022.

After some technical difficulties that Rob solved by turning everything off and back on again, we had a brief meeting to discuss WiX v4 status and the new scheduled release date. Spoiler alert: We're on schedule!

All our issues are about WiX v4. In fact, they're all about WiX v4.0-preview.1, which we've previously suggested could ship on Halloween. Will it? Well, see, Halloween is pretty scary, so read on for a schedule update.