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.

We're nearly there now, i'd say at very least 95% of the work has been completed on the new releases. Really sorry it's taking so long to complete them, especially to those who are waiting for CD/DVD orders to be fulfilled. You can find precise details of exactly whats left to be done in the new progress report.

On another note, Antonis is not the only one having hardware issues, i just tried to resize the partitions on my external USB hard drive, it failed and now i'm looking at a huge loss of data if i can't recover it :(, luckily none of it relating to AutoPatcher. Also, i have my practical driving test tomorrow :)

Lyndon

I have now moved back to my place, here in Lamia, Greece, since Easter vacation officially came to an end. Tomorrow (though the clock shows about 1am) I'll be back on my regular schedule again.

Work on AutoPatcher goes on of course! Doing my part, I continue to improve/adjust things in AutoPatcher 5.6 as requested by the rest of the team. I have added support for DirectX as it may come handy for some modules. Office detection support is still being worked on, with more applications becoming supported (Office 2003 has reached the 100% supported mark, along with Office 2007). The release info screen is being changed to provide better information on the loaded releases and addon packs.

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In a somewhat blog-like news post, I'll try to cover what we have been up to, but also answer some questions I see again and again (consider this something between a news post and a faq).

Let's get the obvious out of the way. There were no releases for March (except for Windows Vista, which was prepared by Renato a.k.a. Gandolas). We will go directly to April. And yes, the April releases will all be Full. The released date is set to April WID, 2007. WID being When It's Done. We do our best and hope to have it ready as early as possible, but honestly, we cannot set a deadline.
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