Setup Matters

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.

After a couple of postponed meetings, we're back today to triage a bunch of bugs opened by a bunch of suspicious characters (Sean, Rob, and me). And oh yeah, we have a date for WiX v4.0-preview.1. Read on for details.

In proof that we truly live in the darkest timeline, all six of the six issues we triaged today ended up assigned to me. If that wasn't cruel and unfair enough, today is Star Trek Day, the most important holiday of my people. I'll just put on my ears real quick and get to work...

Two new issues and a handful of old issues to triage -- surely this would be a quick meeting? You might think so, unless, you know, you've watched any of the other 241 meetings we've held and seen how rarely that happens.