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May 2026
6.0 - New design

Whats new in 6.0.0

  • New design for landing page, installer and packager.

  • Multilingual installer support (English, German, Italian, French, Dutch, Spanish)

  • Dark-mode installer / landing page based on system settings

  • Support for file-path-base deployment targets (file://///mynetwork/myapp, universal-deployment limited, landing page does not allow local installation for universal deployment)

October 2025
5.2 - Universal Deployments and .NET Core Support!

Whats new in 5.2.2

  • Minor cosmetic issues

Whats new in 5.2.1

  • Bugfix: Legacy PFX Sign did not work anymore

Whats new in 5.2.0

  • Added new signing mode 'Windows Command' for cloud HSM keylocker signing or alternatives. 

Whats new in 5.1.6

  • Bugfix: Packager crashed with VS 2022 Version 17.9.1 and above. Dependency to System.Drawing.Common removed which caused the Crash.

Whats new in 5.1.5

  • Removed dependency on .NET Framework 4.5 upgraded to .NET Framework 4.7.2

Whats new in 5.1.4

  • New Option: You can ship pdb-files if needed

Whats new in 5.1.3

  • Bugfix: Universal-Install failed if package was not installed and started package was not of newest version

  • Added Strong Name for NugGet-Package

Whats new in 5.1.2​

  • Bugfix: simplDeploy.Mayor.exe.config was missing, which caused installer to crash silent, when .NET Framework 4.7.2 was not installed on the client. Now corresponding message appears.

Whats new in 5.1.0

  • Support for .NET-SDK-Projects (also called .NET Core)
    CSPROJ and VBPROJ

Whats new in 5.0.1

  • Bugfix: Removed http:// from visible url on landingpage for universal deployment

Whats new in 5.0.0

  • Create Universal Deployments that can be placed anywhere​

New signing mode for cloud HSM Keylocker

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Issue with VS 2022 Version 17.9.1

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​There is an issue with the current Version of Visual Studio 2022. If you update your VS-Installtion to the Version 17.9.1 you will face the issue above if you tie-up your project.

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This Issue is fixed with newest Version 5.1.6 also update your nuget-package simpldeploy.integration to Version 5.1.6​

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Checkout our Documentation > 4 - Automate your deployment for further information

December 2021
4.0 - Visual Studio 2022
 

Whats new in 4.0.2?

  • Bugfix: Special-Characters in Product-Name or Publisher-Name caused packaging to fail

  • Bugfix: simplDeploy.Mayor.exe kept running while updating, this caused several issues

  • Improvement: Destination folder is now being validated not to conflict with project path (previously packaging failed with non-specific error)

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Whats new in 4.0.1

  • simplDeploy is free again and doesnt require a license-key!

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Whats new in 4.0

  • Support added for VisualStudio 2022

  • Free-License period extended to 30th of June 2022 (only for V4!)

  • Visual Studio 2019 not supported. Since a lot changes to the Extensions are required to support Visual Studio 2022, which is now 64-bit, we decided not to keep supporting Visual Studio 2019. Please Upgrade to VisualStudio 2022 to keep using simplDeploy.

February 2020
3.0 - Speed up your deployment

Whats new in 3.0?

  • Your simplDeploy-Packages are now compressed by default. This enables quicker download especially for customers with a poor internet-bandwidth.

  • Project-File can now be changed from within the isolated simplDeploy-Packager-Shell

  • Both SHA1 and SHA256 Signatures are now added to all your signed deployments

  • Timestamps are now added to all your signed deployments

  • New order-button in packager-window to cleanup your target-list

  • Your Project-Path is now displayed in the simplDeploy-Packager-Window from within VS

 

Whats new in 3.0.1:

  • You can redirect the installation-folder now with variable %SIMPLDEPLOY%

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Whats new in 3.0.2:

  • Bugfix: Shortcuts where created with the wrong path.

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Whats new in 3.0.3:

  • Bugfix: variable %SIMPLDEPLOY% was not always recognized.

 

Whats new in 3.1.1:

  • Timestamp-server can be configured

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Whats new in 3.3.2?

  • Bugfix: Uninstall failed, when using different version of package.exe than the one installed. Also wrong version was displayed in uninstall-dialog

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Whats new in 3.3?

  • Bugfix: Uninstall didn't work properly if install location has moved meanwhile (%SIMPLDEPLOY%)

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Whats new in 3.3.1?

  • Bugfix: Mayor threw IndexOutOfRangeException, when Version-Name had a certain length.

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Whats new in 3.3.2?

  • Bugfix: Uninstall failed, when using different version of package.exe than the one installed. Also wrong version was displayed in uninstall-dialog

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Whats new in 3.3.3?

  • Free version again, please upgrad to vs 2022 if possible

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Whats new in 3.3.4?

  • Bugfix: Special-Characters in Product-Name or Publisher-Name caused packaging to fail

  • Bugfix: simplDeploy.Mayor.exe kept running while updating, this caused several issues

  • Improvement: Destination folder is now being validated not to conflict with project path (previously packaging failed with non-specific error)

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Bugs fixed:

  • When you moved your project simplDeploy didn't recognize the change in project-path

  • Under certain circumstances the number of packages beeing tied up was displayed wron in console/packager-window

  • The default-project-path was not corrected when you moved your project.

May 2019
January 2019
2.0 - Automate your packaging-process

Whats new in 2.0?

  • Command-Line-Interface for automating packaging-process outside VS (Open the extensions install folder an you'll find simplDeploy.Packager.exe)

  • Check for updates inside your application (use Nuget-Package: simplDeploy.Integration)

  • Better Support for Terminal-Server-Environments
    - If user has no permission to create shortcut in Startmenu it's created on Deskop
    - If Shortcut already exists no shortcut is created
    - Shortcuts are now created with Variables %LOCALAPPDATA% to share them with other users

  • Better support for pinning application with startup-arguments to taskbar
    - A shortcut is created on install providing the startup-arguments. This way if the started application gets pinned to windows taskbar the startup-argument is taken into account.

    2.0.1:

  • Bugfix for VS 2017 (Error for dependency to Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.15.dll)

  • Bugfix for Root-URL's without sub-path (for example: www.mysoftware.com)

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1.9 - support for VS 2019 RC

Whats new in 1.9?

  • We officially support Visual Studio 2019 RC

  • Partial support for all project-types (e.g. FancySoftware.vbproj)

  • Add your custom uninstall procedures

  • Save password to signing-certificate

  • Bugfixes (NullReferenceExcpetion on update, corrupt simplDeploy.config prevented packager from opening, Error on install if spaces in file-names)

  • Requires now only .NET 4.5 (1.8 and lower required 4.6.1) on customer side (installed by default on all versions of windows - except Vista and XP)

  • command line install (for more info call your package with /?)

1.8 - signed packages

Whats new in 1.8?

  • Sign your package for best experience with security authorities

  • Pass startup arguments to your application depending on deployment target

1.7 - first public release
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