Release candidate 1 of the popular win32 installer/uninstaller system NSIS 2.0 is out. NSIS 2 supports multiple languages and features an easy plugin system, while being the smallest installer available, with an overhead of only 34 KB with the default options.
The most noticeable new features in this release are LZMA compression, which provides up to 20% better compression ratios, LogicLib library for easier scripting, and a vastly improved silent installers support.
NSIS provides very advanced tools for distribution of files that not only software developers will benefit from; if you ever need to distribute a package of files via email or web, you'll love NSIS 2.0.
Major Changes

LZMA compression support. Added SetCompresssorDictSize.

Modern UI 1.68: New settings for extra space for title and text on Welcome page and Finish page, improved handling of verbose settings, language file string for uninstaller reboot information, more

Shell folders are now detected using shell API functions and not the registry. This is the recommended method by Microsoft. New constants have been added in the process ($FONTS, $SENDTO and more...).

Added LogicLib to distribution (easier conditional execution etc.)

Added DirVerify and GetInstDirError to allow custom error checking when the installation directory is invalid or the drive does not have enough space

Support for reading environmental variables on compile time: $%envVarName%

Added /SD parameter for MessageBox. Allows to set default for silent installers.

New conditional compilation options: !ifmacrodef and !ifmacrondef.

New sections macros for mutually exclusive section selection

Improved RTL support by adding WS_EX_RTLREADING wherever possible
Utilities and Plug-ins

InstallOptions 2.3: Added new control type "Button", added new flag "NOTIFY", added new flag "NOWORDWRAP" for multi-line text boxes, reduced size down to 12K

MakeNSISw: More options to set the compression method

Zip2Exe 0.31: Fixed compression setting, LZMA compression support

VPatch 2.1: Better error handling and exit code for GenPat
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Devious Comments
Hrm... big changelog... better update...
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