InstallShield 2025 R2

The following issues have been resolved in InstallShield 2025 R2:

Issue Number

Issue Summary

ISDEV-44438

Attempting to delete a comment—included an apostrophe or a single quotation mark—from the Comments field in the General area for a feature in the Setup Design view led to a failure in deletion, with the Windows Installer Error 2237 error displayed. This issue has been fixed.

ISDEV-44479

ISDEV-44739

Using the SYSINFO.bIsVirtualMachine flag and ISDetectVM function—both in the SetAllUsers.dll file within the <ISRedistPlatformDependentFolder> directory—incorrectly detected a physical Windows machine as a Hyper-V virtual machine. This issue has been fixed.

ISDEV-44498

A crash was observed when a large number of features were included using the Required Features setting in the General area for a feature in the Setup Design explorer. This issue has been fixed.

ISDEV-44519

A truncated name issue observed when attempting to enter the full name of a target database catalog on the SQLLogin dialog and other SQL related dialogs in an InstallScript MSI project. This issue has been fixed.

ISDEV-44684

Launching a Basic MSI based setup.exe file—build using the InstallShield 2023 R2 Premier Edition—resulted in the following error:

Error reading setup initialization file.

This issue has been fixed.

ISDEV-44719

Certain InstallShield DLLs and executable binaries were identified without digital signatures. This issue has been fixed by applying digital signatures to all those DLLs and executable binaries, using a valid code-signing certificate, in alignment with internal security and compliance requirements.

ISDEV-44687

An upgrade failure was encountered while updating InstallShield from version 2012 to version 2025, caused by the presence of outdated Microsoft library files. This issue has been fixed.

ISDEV-44528

Using the Export Components Wizard to export a component from a Basic MSI to Merge Module project resulted in an InstallShield crash. This issue has been fixed.

ISDEV-44798

Running a Suite/Advanced project-based uninstaller resulted in a potential high severity based security vulnerability, causing unintended deletion of arbitrary files and folders. This issue has been fixed.

ISDEV-44626

The build log displayed incorrect signing messages when no digital signature was configured. This issue has been fixed. Additionally, icon files are now signed only when the Sign Files in Package setting is set to Yes and the Exclude Patterns and Files setting is properly configured.

ISDEV-44860

Clicking the hyperlinks associated with error codes in the build log redirected to an invalid web page instead of the help article in the Revenera community. This issue has been fixed.