installation of advanced installer suddenly failes with Error: Parse config ini file error

[mvielitz-dina]

Since yesterday, our action for creation of the advanced installer fails, though no changes on our side have been made:

2s
Prepare all required actions
Getting action download info
Download action repository 'caphyon/advinst-github-action@v1.1' (SHA:5913c0b7a077746ae0eb9c7329abb6a20f2d2987)
Warning: `pre` execution is not supported for local action from './.github/actions/build-installer'
Run ./.github/actions/build-installer
  with:
    applicationName: ***
    applicationLicense: ***
    applicationVersion: 19.9
    buildPlatform: x64
    latestTag: v2.3.0
    version: 2.3.0
  env:
    BUILD_CONFIGURATION: Preview
    LATEST_TAG: v2.3.0
    VERSION: 2.3.0
    DOTNET_ROOT: C:\Program Files\dotnet
Run caphyon/advinst-github-action@v1.1
  with:
    advinst-version: 19.9
    advinst-license: ***
    aip-path: Installer/***.Installer.x64/***.Installer.x64.aip
    aip-package-name: ***_2.3.0.0.exe
    aip-output-dir: D:\a\***\***\installer\
    aip-commands: UpdatePathVariable -name FilePath -value D:\a\***\***\bins -valuetype Folder
  RefreshSync APPDIR\***
  SetVersion 2.3.0.0
  
    advinst-enable-automation: false
  env:
    BUILD_CONFIGURATION: Preview
    LATEST_TAG: v2.3.0
    VERSION: 2.3.0
    DOTNET_ROOT: C:\Program Files\dotnet
Error: Parse config ini file error

we use a fixed version number 19.9 for compatibility and licensing reasons. is there anything we need to change?

best regards

[dlemstra]

I also ran into this issue and updating the action to the latest version fixed it for me. I suspect that the older version of the action was not backwards compatible.

[oleksii-kshenskyi-processmaker]

My investigation showed that they started using the UTF 16 LE encoding for their updates.ini file on the server side that >= 2.0 action is fetching. But the 2.0 action was attempting to fetch the file in UTF-8, so the parser died. Probably/hopefully this is fixed in 2.0.2 3 days ago? Fetching myself to try, thanks @dlemstra for the tip.

[dlauener]

Same issue. We were already using v2.0, but issue corrected in v2.0.1
Had to update the GitHub yaml workflow line:

uses: caphyon/advinst-github-action@v2.0.2