Yes, you heard it right, the releases we have been working on since March are finally complete :)

Anyone who is waiting for CD/DVD orders to be fulfilled, fear not, our sales guy is working his ass off creating the new disk for you and you'll have them real soon!

There are a few things you should be aware of at this time: 1) The Vista and x64 releases are incompatible with each other and with the rest of the releases, so don't install them in the same folder! This will hopefully be resolved in the June 2007 releases. 2) Our download section is under construction, with all the new releases we're creating for all you lucky people it just wasn't cutting it any more, it was getting cluttered so i'm re-designing it. There are links there though pointing to the forum threads where you will find download links. 3) The new documentation and translation packs based on AutoPatcher 5.6 have not yet been created, so as of yet there are no translations.

Anyway, happy downloading, and touch wood it doesn't take me so long next month :p
Blaze

It has just come to our attention that paypal operates a 60 day refund window rather than a 90 day windows as previously thought. After that you can only be refunded the amount sales receives after paypal fees are taken out. For example, after 60 days, from a $7 order, you would only be able to get back $6.50.

The new releases we have been working hard to complete since March are literally just around the corner now. However, if you are fed up waiting and wish for a refund, please try to request one before 60 days have passed.

Once again, thank you for your patience and understanding regarding the delays. Blaze

Update: Okay, time for another status check. I know i said it would be done by today (Sunday) but it's slipped again slightly, partly because my brothers keep making so much damn noise i can't concentrate and won't shut the hell up, partly because this last feature that i thought should be easy became the most complicated piece of code in the entire script due to the fact i had to build in a tracking system to prevent a potential infinite loop which may have resulted in a system crash.

So, plan:
- Monday: finish up last little bits to the script; compile the releases; do a little final testing; start the upload process;
- end of Monday or Tuesday: the upload will be complete, Ben can get a copy and send off those long overdue CD/DVD's, and the releases can spread to other mirrors;
- late on Tuesday or sometime Wednesday release to public.

Since many people are wondering how is the new AutoPatcher 5.6, we want them to take a look inside, so that you may get used to it.

There's a huge list of new thing in AutoPatcher 5.6, such as:

• New detections: Windows Media Player, Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger, DirectX, .Net and Windows Installer
• Microsoft Office components detection: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, Project, Publisher, OneNote, FrontPage, InfoPath, Visio, SharePoint Designer and Groove. This means that we are already creating AutoPatcher for Office (XP/2000/2003 and 2007).
• We now can detect hotfixes that were slipstreamed.

And many, many more (you can see some new features in the screenshots.

The visual structure isn't really different from the v5.1, but has some new things, such as you may see next.



Let's start AutoPatcher! (more...)

For the time being, only AutoPatcher Vista and AutoPatcher XP/2003 x64 are released.

In the next days, Blaze will release AutoPatcher 2000, 2003 and XP, so please just wait a little bit longer. :)

Please check the respective pages for the details.


Edit: See the look of the new install script created by Blaze that will be used in AutoPatcher XP, 2000 and 2003:

Thanks.