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More details for security issue with NSIS <3.11

CVE-2025-43715 was filed by Sandro Poppi for the security vulnerability fixed with NSIS 3.11.

Posted by Amir Szekely 2025-04-17

NSIS 3.11 released

NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is a professional open-source tool for the development of Windows installers. It is designed to be as small and flexible as possible and is therefore highly suitable for internet distribution.

This is a special Windows 3.11 style release. Still fits on a floppy disk.

It also includes a fix for possible privilege escalation if you run your installers as SYSTEM. Check out the release notes for more details.... read more

Posted by Amir Szekely 2025-03-08

NSIS 3.10 released

NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is a professional open-source tool for the development of Windows installers. It is designed to be as small and flexible as possible and is therefore highly suitable for internet distribution.

This release has some bug fixes.

Download:
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Release notes:
https://nsis.sourceforge.io/rn/v3.10

Posted by Amir Szekely 2024-03-30

NSIS 3.09 released

NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is a professional open-source tool for the development of Windows installers. It is designed to be as small and flexible as possible and is therefore highly suitable for internet distribution.

This release has a lot of bug fixes and a new !assert command.

Download:
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Release notes:
https://nsis.sourceforge.io/rn/v3.09

Posted by Amir Szekely 2023-07-02

NSIS 3.08 released

NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is a professional open-source tool for the development of Windows installers. It is designed to be as small and flexible as possible and is therefore highly suitable for internet distribution.

This release is filled with features that a lot of people have been requesting for a while. Enjoy!

Download:
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Release notes:
https://nsis.sourceforge.io/rn/v3.08

Posted by Amir Szekely 2021-09-25

NSIS 3.07 released

NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is a professional open-source tool for the development of Windows installers. It is designed to be as small and flexible as possible and is therefore highly suitable for internet distribution.

This release makes Unicode the default along with a bunch of other fixes and improvements.

Download:
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Release notes:
https://nsis.sourceforge.io/rn/v3.07

Posted by Amir Szekely 2021-07-24

NSIS 3.06.1 released

NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is a professional open-source tool for the development of Windows installers. It is designed to be as small and flexible as possible and is therefore highly suitable for internet distribution.

NSIS 3.06.1 is the 20th anniversary edition. The original public release of NSIS v1.0f was on July 31st, 2000.

This release adds a few useful commands and switches, along with bug fixes and translation improvements.... read more

Posted by Amir Szekely 2020-08-01

NSIS 3.05 released

NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is a professional open-source tool for the development of Windows installers. It is designed to be as small and flexible as possible and is therefore highly suitable for internet distribution.

NSIS 3.05 adds some new commands to make development easier, fixes a few issues and deprecates ANSI targets.

Download:
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Release notes:
https://nsis.sourceforge.io/rn/v3.05

Posted by Amir Szekely 2019-12-16

NSIS 3.04 released

NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is a professional open-source tool for the development of Windows installers. It is designed to be as small and flexible as possible and is therefore highly suitable for internet distribution.

NSIS 3.04 improves Windows 10 and ARM64 detection along with the usual collection of improvements, bug fixes and language file updates.

Download:
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Posted by Amir Szekely 2018-12-16

NSIS 3.03 released

NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is a professional open-source tool for the development of Windows installers. It is designed to be as small and flexible as possible and is therefore highly suitable for internet distribution.

NSIS 3.03 adds improved 64-bit support for the System plugin, a couple of language file improvements, WinVer.nsh additions and more.

Note that Python 2.7 and above is now required to build NSIS.... read more

Posted by Amir Szekely 2018-01-30

NSIS 3.02.1 released

NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is a professional open-source tool for the development of Windows installers. It is designed to be as small and flexible as possible and is therefore highly suitable for internet distribution.

NSIS 3.02.1 fixes a couple of language file bugs that were introduced in 3.02.

Download:
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Release notes:
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/rn/v3.02.1

Posted by Amir Szekely 2017-08-01

NSIS 3.02 ready

NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is a professional open-source tool for the development of Windows installers. It is designed to be as small and flexible as possible and is therefore highly suitable for internet distribution.

NSIS 3.02 adds better registry support with new WriteRegMultiStr command, new WriteRegNone command, and improved 64-bit support. It also includes the usual collection of bug fixes and improvements.... read more

Posted by Amir Szekely 2017-07-24

NSIS 3.01 ready

NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is a professional open-source tool for the development of Windows installers. It is designed to be as small and flexible as possible and is therefore highly suitable for internet distribution.

NSIS 3.01 adds new icons, improves documentation, fixes translations, and includes the usual collection of bug fixes and improvements.

Download:
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Posted by Amir Szekely 2016-12-11

NSIS 3.0 ready

NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is a professional open-source tool for the development of Windows installers. It is designed to be as small and flexible as possible and is therefore highly suitable for internet distribution.

Long-awaited version 3 of NSIS is finally ready. It comes with optional Unicode support, still works on all the same versions of Windows, supports Windows 10, and adds a lot of other small features and fixes. Huge thanks goes out to Anders and Wizou for making this happen and Jim Park for the original patch.... read more

Posted by Amir Szekely 2016-07-25

NSIS 3.0rc2 ready

NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is a professional open-source tool for the development of Windows installers. It is designed to be as small and flexible as possible and is therefore highly suitable for internet distribution.

NSIS 3.0rc2 is the second and hopefully last release candidate for NSIS 3. It contains a fix for nested ${Switch} statements and some minor fixes.

Download:

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Posted by Amir Szekely 2016-07-09

NSIS 3.0 first release candidate ready

NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is a professional open-source tool for the development of Windows installers. It is designed to be as small and flexible as possible and is therefore highly suitable for internet distribution.

NSIS 3.0rc1 is the first release candidate for NSIS 3. It contains additional DLL hijacking prevention code, a fix for !appendfile on POSIX that broke LogicLib, some documentation improvements and other small touchups.... read more

Posted by Amir Szekely 2016-04-03

NSIS 2.51 released

NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is a professional open-source tool for the development of Windows installers. It is designed to be as small and flexible as possible and is therefore highly suitable for internet distribution.

NSIS 2.51 is a maintenance release addressing security issues.

Download:

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Release notes:

http://nsis.sourceforge.net/rn/v2.51

Posted by Amir Szekely 2016-04-02

NSIS 3.0b3 released

NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is a professional open-source tool for the development of Windows installers. It is designed to be as small and flexible as possible and is therefore highly suitable for internet distribution.

NSIS 3.0b3 is released with security enhancements and the usual assortment of bug fixes and improvements.

Download:

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Release notes:

http://nsis.sourceforge.net/rn/v3.0b3

Posted by Amir Szekely 2015-12-27

NSIS 2.50 released

NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is a professional open-source tool for the development of Windows installers. It is designed to be as small and flexible as possible and is therefore highly suitable for internet distribution.

NSIS 2.50 is a maintenance release addressing security issues.

Download:

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Release notes:

http://nsis.sourceforge.net/rn/v2.50

Posted by Amir Szekely 2015-12-27

NSIS 2.49 released

NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is a professional open-source tool for the development of Windows installers. It is designed to be as small and flexible as possible and is therefore highly suitable for internet distribution.

NSIS 2.49 is a maintenance release addressing issues with CreateShortcut command on Windows Vista introduced in recently released 2.47.

Download:

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Posted by Amir Szekely 2015-12-16

NSIS 2.48 released

NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is a professional open-source tool for the development of Windows installers. It is designed to be as small and flexible as possible and is therefore highly suitable for internet distribution.

NSIS 2.48 is a maintenance and security release.

Download:

http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Download

Release notes:

http://nsis.sourceforge.net/rn/v2.48

Posted by Amir Szekely 2015-12-11

NSIS 2.47 released

NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is a professional open-source tool for the development of Windows installers. It is designed to be as small and flexible as possible and is therefore highly suitable for internet distribution.

NSIS 2.47 is a maintenance and security release.

Download:

http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Download

Release notes:

http://nsis.sourceforge.net/rn/v2.47

Posted by Amir Szekely 2015-12-09

NSIS 3.0b2 released

NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is a professional open-source tool for the development of Windows installers. It is designed to be as small and flexible as possible and is therefore highly suitable for internet distribution.

NSIS 3.0b2 is released with Windows 10 support, build fixes and bug fixes.

Download:

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Release notes:

http://nsis.sourceforge.net/rn/v3.0b2

Posted by Amir Szekely 2015-08-05

NSIS 3.0b1 released

NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is a professional open-source tool for the development of Windows installers. It is designed to be as small and flexible as possible and is therefore highly suitable for internet distribution.

NSIS 3.0b1 is released with lots of build fixes, revival of nightly builds, automatic execution of our test suite along with the nightly build to make sure releases are always up to snuff, and lots of patches from our loyal users.... read more

Posted by Amir Szekely 2014-10-07

NSIS 3.0b0 released

NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is a professional open-source tool for the development of Windows installers. It is designed to be as small and flexible as possible and is therefore highly suitable for internet distribution.

NSIS 3.0b0 is released. POSIX builds are back with a bang along with Unicode and preprocessor fixes.

Download:

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Release notes:

http://nsis.sourceforge.net/rn/v3.0b0

Posted by Amir Szekely 2014-05-11
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