July 18th, 2012· Disabled the debugger in platforms other than Windows, Linux and OS X
· Single platform Linux edition can now build both x86 and x64 binaries
· Improved Java launchers to support generating console applications
· Improved LZMA support on Linux x64
· Improved xwindow mode to support the setting
· Added French translation to the AutoUpdate tool
· Added text mode support when using minimalWithDialogs UI mode
· Improved platform_name built-in variable to allow identifying CDROM builds programmatically
· Updated Linux Distributions detection and added Amazon Linux distribution to the list of platforms
· Updated documentation
· New installer_error_code and installer_error_code_original built-in variables
· Fixed rule not properly working in some scenarios
· Fixed some files being packed twice on Windows
· Fixed not properly working in some Windows scenarios
· Fixed uninstaller not properly finding its data file in some scenarios
· Fixed not triggering the in case of error
· Properly set the installation log permissions when configuring the and settings
· Fixed action not properly configuring its scope
· Fixed components not allowing programmatic selection at some points of the installation when enabling
May 1st, 2012· New feature: Password protected encryption of installer payload
· Added support for ksh shell in environment variable actions
· Improved action to allow configuring the bitness (32bit/64bit) of the target Java runtime
· Improved action to support wildcards
· Improved installer images initialization on OS X
· Improved ini file actions to support both hashes and semicolons as comment characters
· Fixed OS X installers prompting twice for privilege elevation when enabling
· Fixed 32 bit installers crashing in Linux Mint x64 when running in gtk mode
· Fixed system language not being properly detected in some Unix environments
· Fixed GUI buid log not allowing text selection on OS X
· Fixed unattendedmodeui setting not properly displaying its default value in the help menu
· Fixed failing at uninstallation time in some environments
· Fixed required parameters being mandatory even if its parent parameter is not selected
· Fixed nested uninstaller calls not properly working on Windows
March 9th, 2012· Updated documentation
· Reduced memory consumed by big installers
· Improved Builder GUI drag and drop when using non-default DPI settings
· Improved startup time in qt mode when using a big number of directory parameters
· Improved Qt mode on OS X to use the native buttons order
· Fixed OS X installers failing in some environments when displaying the final page
· Fix crash when failing to delete locked DLLs
· Fixed installers failing when displaying some component groups configurations
· Fixed Windows shortcuts cache not being properly refreshed on uninstallation
· Fixed downloadable components not properly verifying the download checksum in some environments
· Fixed action not properly working when invoked inside loop actions
· Fixed AutoUpdate not properly normalizing the update download location
· Fixed failing in some Windows 64bits environments when is enabled
· Fixed some actions not properly executed in the
· Fixed installer not being deleted in some environments when is enabled
January 26th, 2012· Improved example projects and made them easily accessible through the builder GUI
· Added HTTPS support for Linux, Windows and OS X for and actions as well as for the autoupdater
· Improved downloadable components to allow resuming failed downloads
· Added new tag to action
· Improved error handling when none of the configured allowed display modes can be initialized
· Improved built-in pages to display runtime changes of the property
· Fixed HTTP-related actions failing in some Windows 64bit environments
· Fixed rule not properly checking child components
· Fixed Qt mode not properly displaying right-to-left languages
· Fixed Gtk custom style not properly wrapping some parameter pages text
· Fixed action failing in some Windows environments when passing arguments containing % characters
· Fixed installer failing when launched in some partially broken HP-UX environments
· Fixed incorrect encoding in Italian language
· Fixed crashing when providing multiple options with the same text
· Fixed InstallBuilder's User Guide link in start menu on Windows
· Fixed Gtk progress bar writing warnings to console in some environments
· Fixed not being properly vertically aligned
December 1st, 2011· Added new installer_command_line_arguments built-in variable
· Added new regular expressions section to the documentation
· Allow to be used in the
· Prevent from failing because of warnings when adding the services
· Improved slide show images alignment on OS X and Windows in qt mode
· Fixed debugger failing in some environments when editing the executed action list
· Fixed debugger crashing when right clicking in the Variables Editor root node
· Fixed builder crashing when editing actions and enabling advanced syntax mode
· Fixed builder crashing when building projects on some solaris-intel environments
· Fixed machine_ipaddr built-in variable not being properly defined on OS X Lion
· Fixed Gtk mode crashing in directory selection in some partially broken environments
November 14th, 2011· Implemented built-in debugger
· Improved component system to allow tree component selection
· Improved component system to allow downloading components from a remote server at runtime
· Improved component system to allow adding and removing components from an installation
· New to allow enabling/disabling a set of child parameters dynamically
· New to allow exclusively enabling a parameter from a set of childs dynamically
· Updated documentation
· Improved quickbuild performance in GUI mode
· Added new dotnet_framework_type built-in variable
· Improved all languages translations
· Improved AutoUpdate to support redirects
· Fixed slide show alignment on qt mode
· Improved GUI to allow hiding advanced settings
· Prevent components configured with canBeEdited=0 from being configured from the command line
· Make evaluation version message more clear on qt and gtk modes
· Improved linux_distribution_version autodetection on CentOS
· Fixed dialog not being properly centered on OS X,
· Fixed Java launchers throwing an unknown error message when the launched application returned with a non-zero exit code
September 13th, 2011· Updated documentation
· Improved Dutch language support
· Fixed language files not being properly loaded when including a BOM
· Improved action to properly deal with SELinux
· Fixed packed folders not being deleted when using multiple hierarchy tags.
· Improved Installer.RebootRequired string to allow variables
· Fixed custom uninstaller directory not being deleted in some environments
August 10th, 2011· Updated documentation
· Allow executing .cmd scripts on Windows
· Added contextual menu to GUI entry widgets to allow restoring the original value being edited
· Fixed installers not deleting the current file being unpacked when canceling the installation in some environments
· Improved < project > properties editor dialog to validate user input
· Fixed < httpGet > and < httpPost > actions failing in some Windows environments because of the download file being locked
· Improved registry actions to work with < foreach > and < while > actions
August 2nd, 2011· Improved Italian, Czech and Russian language support
· Added support for HTTP redirects in < httpPost > and < httpGet > actions
· New --verbose command line flag added to command line builder
· Added new < endOfLineConversion > tag to file manipulation actions to allow configuring the EOL handling
· New < fileIsLocked > rule
· Improved performance of < unpackDirectory > action
· Improved AutoUpdate to allow configuring its output directory and filename
· Improved built-in pages language strings to support variables modified at any point at runtime
· Improved widget alignment in nested parameter groups in qt mode
· Fixed < addScheduledTask > action failing in some environments
· Dropped Windows 98 support
· Added examples for all actions to the documentation
· Improved deb generation to allow providing custom conffiles files
· Improved < autodetectJava > action to properly work on OS X 10.7
· Fixed action failing in some environments
· Fixed installers failing on OS X with some thirdparty system fonts configuration
· Improved the file packing filters to support semicolon separated patterns
· Improved command line builder to support displaying text mode popups when building
· Improved GUI builder to accept the information provided through the --setvars flag
· Added new built-in variable installbuilder_ui
· Allow Arabic language to be selectable through the GUI builder
· Allow providing short version of registry root keys to registry actions
· Allow launching scrips from directories containing "&" characters
· Improved final page text wrapping
· Fixed some environment variable actions now properly working in some Windows environments
July 25th, 2011· Updated documentation
· New Search dialog for GUI Builder XML editor
· Disabled "Save" and "Save As" menu entries in GUI Builder when no project is loaded
· Fixed action not properly registering variables in some scenarios.
· Skipped mirror selection page in AutoUpdate tool when just one option is available
· New action to create absolute paths
· Fixed not saving the password when accepting the dialog by pressing enter
· Improved rule to also include default Windows firewall
· Improved Russian language support
· New project setting to allow disabling the creation of the Add Remove Programs entry on windows
· Improved action to support latest Windows versions
· Added Support for shiftjis encoding on HP-UX in text mode
May 9th, 2011· Fixed < unzip > action failing in some environments
· Fixed InstallBuilder license registration dialog failing on OS X
· Improved look and feel of < showProgressDialog > on OS X
April 29th, 2011· Fixed installer startup failing in some scenarios when being launched from a symbolic link
· Fixed "processTest" rule failing in some environments
· Fixed installation log containing unnecessary empty new lines when using disabling the file unpacking process
· Fixed comboboxes not being properly displayed in Windows Vista and 7 in win32 mode
· Improved look and feel of the Builder and installers in OS X and Windows
· Improved "getWindowsACL" to properly handle invalid SID provided as username
· New "languageSelectionStyle" project property to configure the style of the language selection dialogue
· Improved reported errors when loading invalid XML files
· Updated documentation
· Fixed uninstaller not being removed on HP-UX
April 5th, 2011· Updated documentation
· Added "selectionOrder" to the "autodetectJava" action to allow specifying the order of the detected Java versions
· Added "checkFreeDiskSpace" rule
· Added "clearWindowsACL" action
· Added "osxUninstallerApplicationBundleIcon" to configure uninstaller icon on OS X
· Added "osxPlatforms" project tag to configure the OS X runtimes to build
· Improved Italian, French, Norwegian, Korean and Spanish translations
· Included English language file in the installers as a reference
· Improved build performance in Solaris, FreeBSD, AIX, HP-UX and IRIX
· Fixed "httpPost" action failing when providing an empty "queryParameterList"
· Fixed main progress bar not properly configured in some scenarios
· Fixed "portTest" rule throwing an error when providing a malformed port
· Changed "Ok" buttons text to all uppercase "OK" per UI guidelines
· Fixed registered estimated size on Windows 7 not being properly calculated
· Fixed RPM database registration not honouring files removed from uninstaller
· Fixed environment variables not being properly registered in some OS X terminal shells
· Fixed rollback functionality not properly handling the original drive
February 7th, 2011· Updated documentation
· Allow the < scope > tag of the < addEnvironmentVariable > action to contain variables
· Provide more verbose error when the builder does not have permissions to write in the output directory
· Improved look and feel of the "custom" < style >
· Improved wrapping of < choiceParamter > text when using radiobuttons style in gtk mode
· Added new built-in variable machine_cpu_count
· Improved < unpackFile > action performance
· Added < requestedExecutionLevel > tag to the Autoupdate tool to allow configuring its execution level
· Improved quickbuild in GUI mode to pack differences in packed files in addition to project changes
· Added machine_cpu_speed and machine_total_memory built-in variables to OS X platform
· Fixed popup XML editor failing in some scenarios
· Fixed gtk buttons not being properly localized after the language selection when using < overrideGtkButtonText >
· Fixed < enableLinuxLegacySupport > setting failing with the new compression system
· Fixed builder crashing on some OS X environments when using Asian languages
· Fixed command line quickbuild not properly working in some environments with the new compression system
· Fixed < getFreeDiskSpace > reporting incorrect data in some OS X environments
· Fixed < addEnvironmentVariable > not properly working when used in the < foreach > action
December 16th, 2010· Fixed XML Editor failing to load some projects
· Improved XML editor performance when editing big XML projects
· Remove incorrect validation in < distributionFile > and < distributionDirectory > elements
August 9th, 2010· New "consoleWrite" action
· New mechanism to escape variable references
· Allow configuring Autoupdate tool proxy through the configuration file
· New "antivirusTest" and "firewallTest" rules
· Added --help menu to the builder
· Added --license command line flag to the builder to provide an alternative license file
· Added --debugtrace command line flag to the builder
· Added --project command line flag to specify a project to load in the GUI builder
· Improved unattendedModeUI mode to support gtk and qt mode
· Added "delay" tag to "stopWindowsService" action
· New windows-x86 platform type check added to "platformTest" rule
· Fixed refresh issue that affected download rate in Autoupdate Tool, specially on OS X
· New "runAsAdmin" tag added to shortcuts to mark Windows shortcuts to run as Administrator
· Improved validation of boolean and integer type settings
· Added OS detection support for RHEL 6
· Use default Unix permissions in "unzip" action running on Unix when unpacking files created on Windows
· Added "htmlText" tag to "showText" action and "htmlValue" to "infoParameter" to display HTML text in Qt mode
· Fixed "Test Run" button on GUI builder not correctly launching generated Windows installers in UAC environments
· Added "title" tag to "showQuestion", "showInfo" and "showWarning" actions
· Added "ruleList" tag to "startMenuFolder" elements
· New windows_os_uac_enabled built-in variable to check the state of the UAC on Windows
· New warnings to report command line flags that are provided multiple times
· Properly deal with multiple installation mode command line flags
· Fixed "zip" action failing in some scenarios when packing directories
· Enforce executable permissions in Unix shortcuts
· Added file and line number to duplicated tags warnings
· Fixed tcsh not being recognized as a valid shell by environment actions on Unix
· Added "askForConfirmationOnUninstall" tag to disable the built-in confirmation popup on uninstallation
· Fixed uninstaller not being deleted on unattended mode on Windows in some scenarios
· Fixed "showProgressDialog" title not being configurable in some UI modes
· Include "negate" state in rule description in GUI builder
· Added double click binding in "Files" section in the GUI builder
· Fixed "httpGet"/"httpPost" and "setWindowsACL" actions being affected by the state of the Wow64 filesystem redirection
· Fixed crash on GUI builder when the "platforms" tag of folder contains incorrect values
· Clean /opt/bitrock directory after deb/rpm uninstallation
· Fixed installer failing on Windows when TEMP environment variable containing multiple directories
· Fixed creation of symbolic links on OS X failing when target is an existing link to a non empty directory
April 27th, 2009· Fix error in Unix systems when the HOME environment variable was not set
· Fix autoupdate failing to download updates when a file already existed
· The installer now returns an error code if an error occurs in postInstallationActionList even if the error does not stop the installer
· A new action list, preShowHelpActionList allows the content of the --help output to be dynamically modified
· Fix Choice parameter combobox not supporting a default value that contains variable references
· New variables machine_total_memory and machine_cpu_speed
· LC_ALL takes precedence over LANG when determining system language in Unix systems
· Fix distro detection on RedHat derivatives like Red Flag Linux or Scientific Linux
· Fix validationActionList being run twice for parameterGroups in Qt mode
November 8th, 2008· Installers are now able to register Windows file extensions at the user scope.
· New actions 'encodeBase64' and 'decodeBase64' allow to encode/decode any string using base64.
· New 'componentTest' rule, allow to check the presence of a component on the current project.
· Link creation now supports abort/retry/ignore.
· Fixed issue in OS X case-sensitive HFS+ file systems.
· Fix 'showProgressDialog' action for Linux 64-bit platforms.
· POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY: Japanese language code is now 'ja' instead of the current 'jp'. Most customers will not be affected because 'jp' is also recognized automatically, but there may be an issue is you explicitly use variable 'installation_language_code' in you code.
· Fixed issue with 'registryGetKey' and 'registryGetMatch' not being case-insensitive in certain cases.
· Fix missing text messages on OS X root installations.
· Fix OS X firewall warning being thrown when running the installers.
· New 'uninstallationLogFile' project property, allow to configure the path for the log file during uninstallation.
· Installers now show a meaningful error message when the specified encoding is incorrect or not supported.
· New convenience 'isTrue' and 'isFalse' rules.
September 19th, 2008· The cancel button is now disabled during uninstallation.
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