New Features in 3.2

Mist 3.2 continues our commitment to frequent updates. Mist 3.2's theme is improving the user experience, and providing several enhancements. These include:

UI Improvements
- Modernized User Interface
- Package Designer Details
  - Modernized Package Designer UI
  - Improved package dashboard
  - Package surface can scroll during drag and drop
  - When adding a task to the designer, vertical padding is added beneath it
- Added visual notification to the Windows task bar when a build finishes
- Added context menus to the Configuration designer
- Project View multi-select works with shift+click
SSIS 2012
- Fixed emission issues with package and project parameters
- Fixed emission issues with log events
- Proper emission of project connections with the Execute Package task
- Native support for Expression task
- Added protection level to package projects
- Added package parameters to Expression Builder
Package Import
- Import without IDs is now the default behavior
- The following now import correctly
  - Log Events in SSIS 2012
  - Output paths for packages with script components
  - Packages with package parameters
  - Packages with connection names containing a backslash
  - Script tasks and components that use VB
Logical View
- Execute Transformers context menu now sorts transformers alphabetically
- Execute Transformers context menu now displays transformers that start with an underscore
- Fixed duplication error when duplicating a package that references a script task or component
Project Designer
- Use Project Deployment is only enabled when targeting SSIS 2012
Biml
- Added ValidationReporter.Report(IFrameworkItem, Severity, Message Recommendation) overload
- Several improvements to error and validation reporting
Setup
- Streamlined installer
- Eliminated the SQL Server prerequisites from Mist installations