New Features in 2025 R1
InstallShield 2025 R1 includes the following new features:
| • | Support High Contrast Mode in Advanced UI and Suite/Advanced UI Installations |
| • | Support for Building 64-Bit InstallScript-Based Setup Launchers |
Support High Contrast Mode in Advanced UI and Suite/Advanced UI Installations
In earlier versions, text elements—such as body text and header text—and navigation button labels on the wizard pages during an Advanced UI and Suite/Advanced UI installer installation were not legible when high contrast mode was enabled on the target system.
In InstallShield 2025 R1, the Advanced UI and Suite/Advanced UI installations have been enhanced to support the high contrast mode on the target system. With this enhancement, text elements—such as body text and header text—and navigation button labels on the each wizard pages are now clearly legible when high contrast mode is configured on the target system, ensuring improved accessibility and user experience.
For more information, see “Supporting High Contrast Mode on Wizard Pages in Advanced UI or Suite/Advanced UI Installation” in the InstallShield Help Library.
Support for Building 64-Bit InstallScript-Based Setup Launchers
Project:This information applies to the following project types:
| • | InstallScript |
| • | InstallScript MSI |
In InstallShield 2025 R1, a new setting named Architecture has been introduced on the Build tab of a release in the Releases explorer of the Media view. This setting provides enhanced flexibility by allowing you to build the InstallScript-based setup launcher for both 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x64) Windows platforms, or exclusively for 64-bit (x64) Windows platforms, depending on your deployment requirements.
With the introduction of this setting, you can now easily target the appropriate system architecture to better align with your application's runtime environment. The following are the available options:
| • | x86—Selecting this option builds a 32-bit setup launcher that will run on both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows platforms. |
| • | x64—Selecting this option builds a 64-bit setup launcher that is intended to run only on 64-bit Windows platforms. |
By default, this setting is set to x86.