I posted an article on the TMurgent LinkedIn pages about an issue with applications that have long filename paths and an important setting you want enabled on your systems.
Category: Packaging
PsfTooling 6.11.0.0 Release
PsfTooling is the free tool to work in conjunction with the Microsoft MSIX Packaging Tool. [Download_Page]
Release 6.11 Notes
This release includes the TMurgent branch of the PSF Version 2025.01.02. The previous version was from April so there is a lot in here just from the PSF. The relevant release notes for the PSF include the following:
…New Psf v2025.01.02
The Package Support Framework (PSF) was originally a Microsoft open-source project to help Win32/DotNet applications run when inside an MSIX Container. TMurgent has taken up the support for the PSF in our own fork here on GitHub.
Version v2025.01.02 of the Package Support Framework has been released. This release includes the following:
- A fix in DynamicLibraryFixup for applications that
AppV_Manage & TMEdit Releases
Today we have a couple of releases for Microsoft App-V tooling. With the cancellation of the End-Of-Life for the App-V Sequencer and Client, we are updating our tooling to catch up on a few things.
Release 5.18 of AppV_Manage
AppV_Manage is our free community tool, typically used by someone packaging applications into App-V and wants a quick way to test …
TMEditX 5.3 Release
TMEditX is the licensed and so much more capable tool for fixing up MSIX packages; better than PsfTooling since it doesn’t have to depend on the Microsoft MSIX Packaging Tool to create the final package. [Download_page]
- Feature: Improved support for signing using DigiCert KeyLocker cloud service by locating the KeyLocker tools from the registry.
- Feature: Added support for custom signing
TMEdit 2.0 Released. Yes, for App-V
TMEdit (not TMEditX) is our App-V package editor tool, used to improve packages for Microsoft App-V. It’s been a while since we had a release and I had been sitting on a few fixes requested by customers. But rather than just some bug-fixes, we have something new here.
First, TMEdit 2.0 is being released as an MSIX package. Why? …
TMEditX 5.2 Release
TMEditX is the licensed and so much more capable tool for fixing up MSIX packages; better than PsfTooling since it doesn’t have to depend on the Microsoft MSIX Packaging Tool to create the final package. [Download_page]
Features and Fixes
- PSF v2024.10.26 added to this version. See What’s new in PSF v2024.10.26? – Confessions of a Guru for details.
- Feature: Support
Why we think MSIX is now ready
Last week, at AppManagEvent in The Netherlands, we declared that (finally) MSIX is ready to be the first choice for enterprises to choose when repackaging applications for delivery to Windows.
It has been a long road for MSIX. When introduced 6 years ago, we said two things about MSIX:
- It would become the future of applications, replacing App-V and