Backstaff Software acquires InstallBuilder

 We are excited to announce that Backstaff Software has acquired InstallBuilder from VMware and will take on ongoing development and maintenance of the software. 

At Backstaff Software, we are committed to improving and enhancing InstallBuilder and we will continue to provide technical support to existing and future customers. 

We have worked closely with VMware to make the transition seamless. Effective today, Dec 15th 2022, customers will be able to: 

• Continue to use InstallBuilder as always. No further action is required from our customers. Existing licenses will continue to be valid and work without interruption 
• Download InstallBuilder releases and access documentation at https://installbuilder.com, as usual 
• Purchase or renew licenses at https://installbuilder.com/purchase.html
• Access support by emailing support@installbuilder.com  
• Contact sales at sales@installbuilder.com 

We would love to hear from our users about feature suggestions, issues, and comments you want to share with us! That feedback will be greatly appreciated and will help to continue to improve InstallBuilder.

Myrian Mencos

CEO

Backstaff Software

InstallBuilder 22.10.0 released

InstallBuilder version 22.10.0 has been released. Our engineers have been working on the following improvements and bug fixes:

• Support using HTML values in <infoParameter> for all graphical modes
• Added new <enableGlobMatching> setting to <deleteFile> action to allow deleting special filenames
• Improved generation of unique identifiers
• Improved DLL loading on Qt installers
• Improved windows 32-bit runtimes to prevent false positives in some antivirus vendors
• Updated documentation

UPDATE:

We have created a CVE entry for the "Improved DLL loading on Qt installers" (CVE-2022-31694) issue fixed in InstallBuilder 22.10.0.

InstallBuilder 22.3.0 released

 InstallBuilder version 22.3.0 has been released. Our engineers have been working on the following improvements and bug fixes:

• Improved signing errors reporting
• Updated internal dependencies
• Support built-in macOS signing using G2 certificates
• Fixed typo in Ukrainian translation
• Fixed qt installers crashing on Linux systems reporting incorrect screen metrics

InstallBuilder 21.12.0 released

InstallBuilder version 21.12.0 has been released. Our engineers have been working on the following improvements and bug fixes:

• Added support for Windows 11 and Windows 2022
• Improved temporary file creation on macOS
• Improved Java versions detection
• New windows_os_build_number built-in variable
• Support Centos 6 in linux-arm64 installers
• Fixed DMGs created on Windows not working on macOS Monterey
• Fixed Linux installers failing on some Wayland environments