I had a message up about this on the 0.18.1 and 0.18.2 releases and hoped enough people would have managed to do that upgrade so that 1.0 would not cause this issue too many times, but more people are still running into this than I had expected.
But even those release notes are rarely read. Ideally the check would be built into the installer, but MSI is such a mystery to me that this is beyond what I could hope to do with it.