What's new in install4j 5.1.14
Oct 23, 2014
- Bugs fixed:
- Regression in 5.1.13: Java 6 splash screen did not work under some circumstances
- Regression in 5.1.13: Fixed "i4jinst.dll could not be loaded" on some Windows XP installations
New in install4j 5.1.9 (Jan 31, 2014)
- Bugs fixed:
- Regression in 5.1.8: Installed JREs could not be found on Windows anymore under some circumstances
- Unix services: After terminating a service with -SIGKILL, the unix daemon did not handle the status and stop command correctly
- Mac OS X Java 7 launchers: The minimum version of Mac OS X was set to 10.7 instead of 10.7.3 as required by Java 7
- Mac OS X Java 7 launchers: The generated VM options file defined in the launcher wizard was not created under Contents/vmoptions.txt
New in install4j 5.1.8 (Jan 15, 2014)
- Bugs fixed:
- Critical: Unix installers could delete the working directory if a CDPATH environment variable was defined and did not include the current directory
- Wide character support in Windows launchers. This solves problems with characters from outside the default code page in user home directory names
- Mac OS X: When Java 7 was used on an unsupported OS version (10.6 or lower), no warning was displayed and the installer would crash
- Mac OS X: JRE download progress was not always correct
- Mac OS X: environment variable replacement in launcher properties like class path and VM parameters did not work
- Mac OS X: .vmoptions file was placed before default VM parameters which prevented overriding
- Mac OS X: the installer variable sys.preferredJre did not include the trailing "Contents/Home/jre" directories
- Code signing: Compilation did not abort when counter signing failed
- If the system property "install4j.noLoggingFix" is set, do not initialize the logging subsystem of the JRE for launchers
- "Directory chooser" and "File chooser" form components: If the file or directory name was empty, there was a space character in the text field
- "Installation type" screen: Component folder selections were ignored in in the installer
- "Change cancel button state" action: Fixed NPE in unattended mode
- "Directory chooser" form component: Fixed NPE when pressing enter
New in install4j 5.0 (Jul 5, 2010)
- Improved elevation of privileges on Windows and Mac OS X
- Major improvements for installer variables, compiler variables and i18n messages
- More flexible and usable IDs
- Improvements for actions that operate on files
- Launcher integration for custom installer applications
- Improvements for the auto-update functionality
- Extensive support for Windows users accounts
- Improvements for service actions
- Improved handling of custom code and resources
- Corruption detection and checksum verification for installers and downloaded components
- Support for Windows processes
- Improvements for file distribution
- Improvements for JRE bundling
- Many new actions
- Improvements for form components
- Layout groups and tabbed panes in form screens
- More flexible configuration of installer applications
- Merging of other projects allow the modularization of your installers
- Index pane for the installer that is configurable in the install4j IDE and via the API
- Support for creating Debian archives