New Features in R1

InstallShield 2023 R1 Express Edition includes the following new features:

New Setup Prerequisites Available
Ability to Build Setup launcher with Security Features
Ability to Handle Installers Above 2 Gigabytes

New Setup Prerequisites Available

In the Redistributables explorer of the Application Data view, InstallShield 2023 R1 Express Edition introduces the following new setup prerequisites:

Microsoft OLEDB Driver for SQL Server 19.3.0 (x64)
Microsoft OLEDB Driver for SQL Server 19.3.0 (x86)
Microsoft .NET 6.0 SDK 6.0.408 (x64)
Microsoft .NET 6.0 SDK 6.0.408 (x86)
Microsoft .NET 7.0 SDK 7.0.302 (x64)
Microsoft .NET 7.0 SDK 7.0.302 (x86)

Note:This issue was tracked in ISDEV-43005.

Ability to Build Setup launcher with Security Features

All InstallShield 2023 R1 Express Edition setup launchers are now built with the the latest security features like control-flow-guard, enforced-code-integrity, and aslr.

Note:This issue was tracked in ISDEV-42510.

Ability to Handle Installers Above 2 Gigabytes

InstallShield 2023 R1 Express Edition enables LargeAddressAware flag for all setup.exe setup launchers, so that setup.exe setup launchers can handle addresses larger than 2 gigabytes during runtime.

Note:This issue was tracked in ISDEV-43244.