# Kudos to installer packaging team

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/kudos-to-installer-packaging-team/112161>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [November 13, 2025, 4:27pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/kudos-to-installer-packaging-team/112161 "2025-11-13T16:27:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![greg.krueger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5f9b8f/32.png) [@greg.krueger](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/greg.krueger)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2025, 4:27pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/kudos-to-installer-packaging-team/112161/1 "2025-11-13T16:27:14Z")

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Just wanted to give a brief shout out to whoever there at Inductive works on the Installer packaging (Windows version). I hadn’t worked on Ignition in a while so when I went to download the 8.3 installer and saw it was up to 1.2 GB (used to be ~400MB back a few years ago)…I was worried it might be on the same bloat train as Rockwell. I didn’t time it exactly, but when I went to run it, I was very pleasantly surprised to see that the Gateway installer was still crazy fast, definitely less than a minute, I think maybe even \<30 seconds. So in an age where the v36 Studio5000 installer is 13GB and takes an hour to install, I wanted to thank whoever there at Inductive works on this for valuing all our time and keeping it streamlined.

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2025, 4:31pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/kudos-to-installer-packaging-team/112161/2 "2025-11-13T16:31:39Z")

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I think the size bloat is mostly Java runtimes, Native Launchers, and JXBrowser binaries.