IzPack News

IzPack 5.1.3 released

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 15 Jul 2018 23:45:00 +0000

Dear community,

release 5.1.3 of our latest stable branch is available now.

Highlights:

JDK 9/10 support for installation
Bug fixes and improvements

This release adds the following list of changes in particular:

New features

[IZPACK-1602] - RegistrySpec rootFallback
[IZPACK-1619] - Allow previous nav button to be disabled on ShortcutPanel
[IZPACK-1620] - Ability to change Next text for summary panel

Bug

[IZPACK-1469] - WebDir tag is creating packages but installation is failing
[IZPACK-1527] - enableOverrideArtifact=true make version append twice to artifact name
[IZPACK-1552] - Property substitution issue
[IZPACK-1583] - Configurations actions merge decides based on first attribute
[IZPACK-1588] - Java 9: java.lang.ClassCastException: java.base/jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader cannot be cast to java.base/java.net.URLClassLoader
[IZPACK-1592] - In Izpack 5.1.2 a variable within a localized combo box label is not substituted correctly
[IZPACK-1593] - Travis: Reactivate GUI integration tests
[IZPACK-1596] - Izpack-maven-plugin does not allow attaching of artifact without classifier
[IZPACK-1601] - Install fails for izpack-dist-5.1.2.jar and other izpack installers on Java 9
[IZPACK-1603] - NullPointerException in SetupShortcut when checkbox is unchecked
[IZPACK-1604] - Warning at shortcut creation : "Shortcut [...] has URL but type ('') is not 'Link'
[IZPACK-1606] - UserInputPanel : Combo fields won't show the id in console installations
[IZPACK-1613] - Wrong system language displayed with Java 9
[IZPACK-1616] - Exception if reg entry with REG_EXPAND_SZ is empty
[IZPACK-1618] - BuildResource are not copied in AntActionUninstallerListener
[IZPACK-1623] - NoClassDefFoundError in installer when compiled using Java 9
[IZPACK-1624] - Ignored element within archive when present

For detailed information see also the Github changelog of version 5.1.3 compared to 5.1.2.

The new release should be replicated to all mirrors of Sonatype Nexus or Maven Central soon, be patient.

This time, there should be mentioned contributions sent by Adam Jurčík, Adam Retter, Adrien Lesur, Andreas Kuhtz, Austin Wells, Frank Cornelis, Luca Baraldi, Oto Soares, Patrick Reinhart, Paulo Lobo, Philip Ritzkopf, Samir Hadzic, Simon Erhardt and Zdeněk Vaník (in alphabetical order) and all the reports and hints from the mailing lists and our issue tracker.

As always, You're invited to contribute to the code and documentation, or simply write us some news regarding this free project.

Fingers crossed.

IzPack 5.1.2 released

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 20:45:00 +0000

Dear community,

release 5.1.2 of our latest stable branch is available now.
There has been quite a long time of silence, so I'd like to renew development with a clean state and honour all contributors by publishing their precious work results.

Highlights:

Improved field processors by adding the ability to store results in different variables to avoid manipulating the original field variable.
Failures can now be ignored in ProcessPanel.
Better support for Windows UNC paths.
Bug fixes

This release adds the following list of changes in particular:

Improvement

[IZPACK-1013] - ProcessPanel - add job switch to ignore failures
[IZPACK-1568] - Allow several field processors and store the result in separate variables

Bug

[IZPACK-1562] - Mac: app requires Java 1.8, which is not found even though it is installed
[IZPACK-1566] - Logging from a configuration file throws exceptions
[IZPACK-1567] - UiThreadingViolationException in InstallationTest
[IZPACK-1570] - Resources loaded from refpack is not relative to pack definition
[IZPACK-1572] - Izpack does not allow UNC paths on windows
[IZPACK-1573] - Tooltip with field of type "rule"
[IZPACK-1574] - Thrown GUI exceptions difference in size of Close button on windows

For detailed information see also the Github changelog of version 5.1.2 compared to 5.1.1.

The new release should be replicated to all mirrors of Sonatype Nexus or Maven Central soon, be patient.

This time, there should be mentioned contributions sent by Christopher Christopher, Lukáš Petrovický, Michael Aichler, Tomas Forsman and Zdeněk Vaník (in alphabetical order) and all the reports and hints from the mailing lists and our issue tracker.

As always, You're invited to contribute to the code and documentation, or simply write us some news regarding this free project.

Fingers crossed.

IzPack 5.1.1 released

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 15 May 2017 10:36:00 +0000

Dear community,

the first maintenance release 5.1.1 of our latest stable branch is available now.

Highlights:

Re-introduced field processors and add configuration options - best experience of them ever!
Support of the <xfragment> tag has been removed, use the standard XInclude way instead
All GUI tests have been integrated to the Continuous Integration (Travis) and run for each pull request and merge automatically now, without activating special profiles. Thanks to Michael Aichler for this awesome work.
Many many improvements and fixes of automatic unit and integration tests.
Performance improvements in the compiler
Important bug fixes

This release adds the following long list of changes in particular:

Story

[IZPACK-1543] - Drop special handling of the <xfragment> tag for XIncludes

Improvement

[IZPACK-1486] - Automated License and Summary Panel
[IZPACK-1528] - Unable to report progress in UninstallerListener#beforeDelete and InstallerListener#beforePacks
[IZPACK-1535] - UserInputpanel field processors - make them parameterizable and allow to define an optional backup variable
[IZPACK-1548] - Refactor duplicate code for licence loading
[IZPACK-1550] - Integrate GUI tests into CI
[IZPACK-1558] - Add support for running integration tests without unit tests
[IZPACK-1561] - Use buffered output stream when packaging files (approx. 6x faster)
[IZPACK-1529] - Add code coverage to the build system

Bug

[IZPACK-1111] - processors are triggered twice
[IZPACK-1363] - <executable>: attribute "class" needed, if "type" is "jar"
[IZPACK-1487] - ConfigurationActionListener: condition attribute value not validated at compilation time for the <configurable> tag
[IZPACK-1522] - Look and Feel parameters are overwritten if used multiple times with different OS constraints
[IZPACK-1530] - LanguageDialogTest fails with NPE
[IZPACK-1531] - Invoking GUIPrompt#showMessageDialog within a test causes NPE in JOptionPane
[IZPACK-1532] - GUIPromp#showMessageDialog not invoked on EDT
[IZPACK-1533] - Variables blocking during panel transitions does not reflect panel changes based on conditions
[IZPACK-1534] - Tests in UserInputPanelTest#testCheck fail due to wrong assumptions
[IZPACK-1536] - Licence panel test in PanelDisplayTest fails (Resource not found)
[IZPACK-1537] - Tests in UserInputPanelTest#testRuleField fail
[IZPACK-1538] - Tests in UserInputPanelTest#testTextBox fail
[IZPACK-1539] - Tests in UserInputPanelTest#testRefreshDynamicVariables fail
[IZPACK-1540] - GUIComboField looses selected item on view update
[IZPACK-1541] - Selected language not honored in console based installer for TargetPanel and Shortcut Panel
[IZPACK-1542] - NPE when <logging level="OFF" />
[IZPACK-1544] - Tests in TargetPanelTests fail
[IZPACK-1545] - Tests in PDFLicencePanel fail
[IZPACK-1546] - Nested <param> tags ignored in field validator definition (for example "pattern" parameter of RegularExpressionValidator)
[IZPACK-1547] - ICEpdf throws NPE in AbstractPageViewComponent
[IZPACK-1549] - Timing issues and optimizations in GUI tests
[IZPACK-1555] - Initialization of TestGUIInstallationContainer in PicoRunner causes NPE
[IZPACK-1556] - InstallationTest fails due to invalid XML
[IZPACK-1559] - Typo 'reuseFork' in surefire plugin configuration

For detailed information see also the Github changelog of version 5.1.1 compared to 5.1.0.

The new release should be replicated to all mirrors of Sonatype Nexus or Maven Central soon, be patient.

This time, there should be mentioned contributions sent by Andreas Kuhtz, Michael Aichler, Tomas Forsman and Zdeněk Vaník (in alphabetical order) and all the reports and hints from the mailing lists and our issue tracker.

As always, You're invited to contribute to the code and documentation, or simply write us some news regarding this free project.

Fingers crossed.

IzPack 5.1.0 released

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 20:36:00 +0000

Dear community,

after providing 7 release candidates, we proudly present the final major release 5.1.0
Please note this is not just a bug fix release and make also break things if you don't check and adapt your existing environment. Not all wishes could be fulfilled neither all remaining known bugs fixed, but no real blocker of IzPack's declared core functionality has been found at the moment. We are still compatible to JDK 6.

Highlights:

Introduced configurable logging optionally either to the installer descriptor or as command line option, you can specify log files (including rolling archives), log levels to console and the log file or use your own log handler from within IzPack descriptors to send the log output anywhere. Furthermore, IzPack has been made fully compliant to Java Util logging and does no longer break the default configuration facilities of the JVM, it enhances them instead. The -logfile installer command line option can now be used to redirect all log entries to a dedicated file.
The <file unpack="true" ... > option does now additionally recognize and extract many more compression formats (bzip2, gzip, pack200, snappy, Z, XZ, LZMA, deflate) and compressed or uncompressed archive file formats (zip, jar, ar, cpio, arj, 7z, dump, tar) and allows to select their content by a nested <archivefileset> regardless of the file suffix (but by analyzing the file contents)
The compression of pack files has been reinvented and supports now several more compression algorithms (gz, bzip2, xz, lzma, deflate)
The <pack200> tag has been moved from the global <info> level to the level of single pack files to let you chose the application of this highly efficient Java bytecode compression method for single files which are directly assigned this way, no longer globally and implicitly depending on the file suffix .jar. Furthermore, Pack200 can now be customized.
The mixed automated mode introduced in IzPack 5.0.10 has been enhanced by the possibility of adding custom value mappers to your defaults files, for instance for encoding or decoding password hashs
An IzPack installer does now know the command line options -debug, -trace and -stacktrace as a convenient counterpart of the according system properties settings (-DDEBUG=true etc.)
Improvements in ConfigurationHandler auto-numbering handling
Allow the execution of subsequent installer listeners if a warning is thrown during the execution of an InstallerListener instead of aborting the installation.
Using the ProcessPanel, there can now be specified whether the installation may continue after a failing job.
Removed long-term deprecated and unused code and reduced footprint of the installer code.
Re-vamped and optimized the packaging and unpacking format and code which is now more transparent and allows to better plug in several compression approaches.
IzPack Maven plugin migrated from 2.2.1 to the Maven 3.2.5 API.
API improvements, especially for packaging metadata and variable substitution.
Compiled against the latest releases of picocontainer 2.15 and Apache Ant 1.9.9
The IcePDF library uses now a version which is available in Maven Central - no need to add the additional icesoft repository any longer for building.
Validating of any IzPack XML descriptor is now always active, the according Maven plugin, Ant task and command line options have been removed.
Many bugfixes.

This release adds the following long list of changes in particular:

New Feature

[IZPACK-1435] - Provide variable value overrides from external file for all installation modes
[IZPACK-1472] - Introduce customizable installer logging
[IZPACK-1493] - <file> tag: Auto-recognize archive file format and allow archive filesets to be defined
[IZPACK-1499] - Reintroduce pack compression and support more compression algorithms for it (gz, bzip2, xz, lzma, deflate)
[IZPACK-1500] - Move pack200 compression option from <info> to pack file level and make it configurable

Improvement

[IZPACK-1032] - Support of tar.gz for unpack
[IZPACK-1443] - Check box field - allow variable references in the set attribute value
[IZPACK-1478] - Offer streams API for variable substitution on the fly
[IZPACK-1479] - Replace IOHelper utility methods by commons.io implementations where possible
[IZPACK-1480] - Do not allow duplicate translation resources during compiling
[IZPACK-1482] - ConfigurationInstallerListener - handle auto-numbered key-value-pairs also for numbers embedded into the key name
[IZPACK-1485] - Allow specifying whether installation may continue after failing processpanel job
[IZPACK-1489] - Allow execution of subsequent installer listeners if a warning is thrown during the execution of an InstallerListener
[IZPACK-1503] - Remove the 'validating' compiler option - make XML validation obligatory
[IZPACK-1507] - Handling deprecation of Encoding entry in ShortcutsPanel
[IZPACK-1517] - Remove standalone compiler jar from officially deployed artifacts
[IZPACK-1521] - Make it possible to add a refpack relative to the base directory

Story

[IZPACK-1495] - IzPack 5.1 code revamp
Sub-tasks:
- [IZPACK-1436] - Add default value mappers for reading from (or saving to) the file
- [IZPACK-1496] - Migrate the IzPack Maven plugin to the Maven 3.0 API
- [IZPACK-1497] - Serialize actual size of packed file data instead of the size of the original file to enable compression
- [IZPACK-1498] - Remove dependency of packaging stream to Apache Ant
- [IZPACK-1502] - Move PackInfo, ExecutableFile, ParsableFile and UpdateCheck to API
- [IZPACK-1504] - Update ICEpdf dependency to 6.2.0 from Maven Central
- [IZPACK-1510] - Remove dependency and packaging of jakarta-regexp to installer
- [IZPACK-1511] - Update picocontainer to 2.15
- [IZPACK-1512] - Update Apache Ant dependency to 1.9.9
- [IZPACK-1518] - Remove deprecated classes and methods wherever possible

Other Tasks

[IZPACK-770] - Document logging and tracing for developers and users
[IZPACK-1494] - Remove deprecated ExtendedInstallPanel

Bug Fixes

[IZPACK-1298] - <executable> with <fileset> do not update executable file mode.
[IZPACK-1393] - Console installation does not write Installation Group contents to auto-install XML
[IZPACK-1422] - Attribute "regroot" for dynamic variable is not documented.
[IZPACK-1429] - Exceptions that are thrown in izpack GUI do not have any boundaries
[IZPACK-1440] - Loose pack with zipfile and unpack="true" causes NPE
[IZPACK-1447] - Console installer force password fields to have a value
[IZPACK-1450] - NPE when using validators extending PanelValidator and missing <configuration> section
[IZPACK-1451] - Java Version check fails for Update Versions > 99
[IZPACK-1452] - Unsupported <field> layout attributes in the documentation
[IZPACK-1453] - <pack> element doesn't allow the 'os' attribute by XSD, although it is implemented
[IZPACK-1456] - UserInputPanel: Check box field doesn't reflect the underlying variable value when the panel is activated
[IZPACK-1458] - Minor flaws in distributed installer
[IZPACK-1459] - Another NPE when using validators extending PanelValidator and missing <configuration> section
[IZPACK-1460] - Misleading message "Validation failed - continuing installation"
[IZPACK-1461] - Variable handling in filesets for executable files is broken
[IZPACK-1462] - Issues in UNIX shortcut handling - code review
[IZPACK-1463] - Missing translations and empty contents for SummaryPanel in czech installer language
[IZPACK-1464] - UserInputPanel - Search field issues
[IZPACK-1466] - Non-canonical paths do not work in exists condition
[IZPACK-1467] - Possible deadlock in GUI mode if Next button is locked from a panel implementation
[IZPACK-1468] - Variable references in labels, descriptions, statictext fields and field tooltips are resolved just during initialization
[IZPACK-1471] - Substance laf
[IZPACK-1476] - XML Schema does not allow uninstaller attribute in run-privileged element
[IZPACK-1481] - Avoid warning: "Resource customicons.xml not defined. No custom icons available"
[IZPACK-1483] - Fix <properties> tag parsing and handling
[IZPACK-1484] - Installer frame does not show localized title
[IZPACK-1488] - AntActionInstallerListener action fails if it contains a variable reference containing a '&' character in its value at runtime
[IZPACK-1490] - ConfigurationActionListener: <variables> tag not accepted during compilation
[IZPACK-1491] - Add missing brazilian translations
[IZPACK-1501] - Signatures not stripped from jar files when being added as <jar>
[IZPACK-1508] - Default quoting of Exec value with '' prevents valid .desktop files to be created
[IZPACK-1514] - JUnit test fails if build on Java with non-numeric version parts
[IZPACK-1519] - Fix NPE if <uninstaller write="false" /> is configured
[IZPACK-1522] - Look and Feel parameters are overwritten if used multiple times with different OS constraints
[IZPACK-1523] - <enableOverrideArtifact> true is not honored

For detailed information see also the Github changelog of version 5.1.0 compared to 5.0.10.

The new release should be replicated to all mirrors of Sonatype Nexus or Maven Central soon, be patient.

Many thanks to all developers and users contributing code, translations, improving the documentation of this project (special thanks to Ron Wheeler for the permanent documentation observation) or pointing out things in discussions in the mailing lists or social networks. This time, there should be mentioned contributions from Andreas Kuhtz, Guilherme Pacheco (brazilian translations), Jan-Willem Willebrands, Kalle Richter, Karsten Rölling, Peter Hübner, Tomas Forsman and Zdeněk Vaník (in alphabetical order) and all the reports from the mailing lists and our issue tracker.

You're invited to contribute to the code and documentation, or simply write us some news regarding this free project.

Fingers crossed.

IzPack 5.1.0-RC7 release candidate available

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 09:09:00 +0000

Dear community,

we're on the final run to 5.1.0, and bring the next major release candidate IzPack 5.1.0-RC7 to you.

There has been now removed compiling and deploying the standalone compiler artifact which slowed down compilation and has been grown to big size meanwhile. You can still compile it by your own locally by activating the Maven profile build-standalone-jar.
Furthermore there have bean cleant up some unwanted installer dependencies introduced with RC6.

Against 5.1.0-RC6, this release adds the following changes in particular:

[IZPACK-1515] - Post-fix for this issue: Unpacking 7z during compiling does not work.
[IZPACK-1517] - Remove standalone compiler jar from officially deployed artifacts.

For detailed information see also the Github changelog of version 5.1.0-RC7 compared to 5.1.0-RC6.

The new release should be replicated to all mirrors of Sonatype Nexus or Maven Central soon, be patient.

As every time, You're invited to contribute to the code and documentation, or simply write us some news regarding this free project.

Fingers crossed.

IzPack 5.1.0-RC6 release candidate available

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 21 Mar 2017 12:21:00 +0000

Dear community,

to not to go easy with your attention, there is the next major release candidate IzPack 5.1.0-RC6 available.

Like the previous RC's, this version brings a couple of bug fixes. Special thanks to Zdeněk Vaník for his contributions and Tomas Forsman for reporting the broken 7-zip extracting compiler feature.

Against 5.1.0-RC5, this release adds the following changes in particular:

Bug Fixes

[IZPACK-1422] - Attribute "regroot" for dynamic variable is not documented.
[IZPACK-1515] - Unpacking 7z during compiling does not work.
[IZPACK-1516] - Install panel displays wrong step numbers when some packs are deselected.

For detailed information see also the Github changelog of version 5.1.0-RC6 compared to 5.1.0-RC5.

The new release should be replicated to all mirrors of Sonatype Nexus or Maven Central soon, be patient.

As every time, You're invited to contribute to the code and documentation, or simply write us some news regarding this free project.

Fingers crossed.

IzPack 5.1.0-RC5 release candidate available

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 09:10:00 +0000

Dear community,

shortly after the previous RC4 there is the next major release candidate IzPack 5.1.0-RC5 available.

This version brings a fix of the new pack compression feature, which has been unfortunately broken on the way. Thanks to Rom Kisel for the quick hints and example.
Furthermore, there is an improved unit test (thanks to Peter Hübner).

Against 5.1.0-RC4, this release adds the following changes in particular:

Bug Fixes

[IZPACK-1497] - Serialize actual size of packed file data instead of the size of the original file to enable compression. Post-fix: Deserializing of compressed pack files in installer did not work (used wrong size information of resulting target file).
[IZPACK-1514] - JUnit test fails if build on Java with non-numeric version parts.

For detailed information see also the Github changelog of version 5.1.0-RC5 compared to 5.1.0-RC4.

The new release should be replicated to all mirrors of Sonatype Nexus or Maven Central soon, be patient.

As every time, You're invited to contribute to the code and documentation, or simply write us some news regarding this free project.

Fingers crossed.

IzPack 5.1.0-RC4 release candidate available

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 13 Mar 2017 15:50:00 +0000

Dear community,

after a long quiet period we are now back with the next major release candidate: IzPack 5.1.0-RC4 has been released and is officially available now.
Actually there were also a RC1, RC2 and RC3, but before announcing them we already found regressions. This time we believe we can present the new release to a broader audience.
Please note this is not just a bug fix release and make also break things if you don't check and adapt your existing environment. Not all wishes could be fulfilled neither all remaining known bugs fixed, but no real blocker of IzPack's declared core functionality has been found at the moment. We are still compatible to JDK 6.

Highlights:

Introduced configurable logging optionally either to the installer descriptor or as command line option, you can specify log files (including rolling archives), log levels to console and the log file or use your own log handler from within IzPack descriptors to send the log output anywhere. Furthermore, IzPack has been made fully compliant to Java Util logging and does no longer break the default configuration facilities of the JVM, it enhances them instead. The -logfile installer command line option can now be used to redirect all log entries to a dedicated file.
The <file unpack="true" ... > option does now additionally recognize and extract many more compression formats (bzip2, gzip, pack200, snappy, Z, XZ, LZMA, deflate) and compressed or uncompressed archive file formats (zip, jar, ar, cpio, arj, 7z, dump, tar) and allows to select their content by a nested <archivefileset> regardless of the file suffix (but by analyzing the file contents)
The compression of pack files has been reinvented and supports now several more compression algorithms (gz, bzip2, xz, lzma, deflate)
The <pack200> tag has been moved from the global <info> level to the level of single pack files to let you chose the application of this highly efficient Java bytecode compression method for single files which are directly assigned this way, no longer globally and implicitly depending on the file suffix .jar. Furthermore, Pack200 can now be customized.
The mixed automated mode introduced in IzPack 5.0.10 has been enhanced by the possibility of adding custom value mappers to your defaults files, for instance for encoding or decoding password hashs
An IzPack installer does now know the command line options -debug, -trace and -stacktrace as a convenient counterpart of the according system properties settings (-DDEBUG=true etc.)
Improvements in ConfigurationHandler auto-numbering handling
Allow the execution of subsequent installer listeners if a warning is thrown during the execution of an InstallerListener instead of aborting the installation.
Using the ProcessPanel, there can now be specified whether the installation may continue after a failing job.
Removed long-term deprecated and unused code and reduced footprint of the installer code.
Re-vamped and optimized the packaging and unpacking format and code which is now more transparent and allows to better plug in several compression approaches.
IzPack Maven plugin migrated from 2.2.1 to the Maven 3.2.5 API.
API improvements, especially for packaging metadata and variable substitution.
Compiled against the latest releases of picocontainer 2.15 and Apache Ant 1.9.9
The IcePDF library uses now a version which is available in Maven Central - no need to add the additional icesoft repository any longer for building.
Validating of any IzPack XML descriptor is now always active, the according Maven plugin, Ant task and command line options have been removed.
Many bugfixes.

This release adds the following long list of changes in particular:

New Feature

[IZPACK-1435] - Provide variable value overrides from external file for all installation modes
[IZPACK-1472] - Introduce customizable installer logging
[IZPACK-1493] - <file> tag: Auto-recognize archive file format and allow archive filesets to be defined
[IZPACK-1499] - Reintroduce pack compression and support more compression algorithms for it (gz, bzip2, xz, lzma, deflate)
[IZPACK-1500] - Move pack200 compression option from <info> to pack file level and make it configurable

Improvement

[IZPACK-1032] - Support of tar.gz for unpack
[IZPACK-1443] - Check box field - allow variable references in the set attribute value
[IZPACK-1478] - Offer streams API for variable substitution on the fly
[IZPACK-1479] - Replace IOHelper utility methods by commons.io implementations where possible
[IZPACK-1480] - Do not allow duplicate translation resources during compiling
[IZPACK-1482] - ConfigurationInstallerListener - handle auto-numbered key-value-pairs also for numbers embedded into the key name
[IZPACK-1485] - Allow specifying whether installation may continue after failing processpanel job
[IZPACK-1489] - Allow execution of subsequent installer listeners if a warning is thrown during the execution of an InstallerListener
[IZPACK-1503] - Remove the 'validating' compiler option - make XML validation obligatory
[IZPACK-1507] - Handling deprecation of Encoding entry in ShortcutsPanel

Story

[IZPACK-1495] - IzPack 5.1 code revamp
Sub-tasks:
- [IZPACK-1436] - Add default value mappers for reading from (or saving to) the file
- [IZPACK-1496] - Migrate the IzPack Maven plugin to the Maven 3.0 API
- [IZPACK-1497] - Serialize actual size of packed file data instead of the size of the original file to enable compression
- [IZPACK-1498] - Remove dependency of packaging stream to Apache Ant
- [IZPACK-1502] - Move PackInfo, ExecutableFile, ParsableFile and UpdateCheck to API
- [IZPACK-1504] - Update ICEpdf dependency to 6.2.0 from Maven Central
- [IZPACK-1510] - Remove dependency and packaging of jakarta-regexp to installer
- [IZPACK-1511] - Update picocontainer to 2.15
- [IZPACK-1512] - Update Apache Ant dependency to 1.9.9

Other Tasks

[IZPACK-770] - Document logging and tracing for developers and users
[IZPACK-1494] - Remove deprecated ExtendedInstallPanel

Bug Fixes

[IZPACK-1298] - <executable> with <fileset> do not update executable file mode.
[IZPACK-1393] - Console installation does not write Installation Group contents to auto-install XML
[IZPACK-1429] - Exceptions that are thrown in izpack GUI do not have any boundaries
[IZPACK-1447] - Console installer force password fields to have a value
[IZPACK-1450] - NPE when using validators extending PanelValidator and missing <configuration> section
[IZPACK-1451] - Java Version check fails for Update Versions > 99
[IZPACK-1452] - Unsupported <field> layout attributes in the documentation
[IZPACK-1453] - <pack> element doesn't allow the 'os' attribute by XSD, although it is implemented
[IZPACK-1456] - UserInputPanel: Check box field doesn't reflect the underlying variable value when the panel is activated
[IZPACK-1458] - Minor flaws in distributed installer
[IZPACK-1459] - Another NPE when using validators extending PanelValidator and missing <configuration> section
[IZPACK-1460] - Misleading message "Validation failed - continuing installation"
[IZPACK-1461] - Variable handling in filesets for executable files is broken
[IZPACK-1462] - Issues in UNIX shortcut handling - code review
[IZPACK-1463] - Missing translations and empty contents for SummaryPanel in czech installer language
[IZPACK-1464] - UserInputPanel - Search field issues
[IZPACK-1466] - Non-canonical paths do not work in exists condition
[IZPACK-1467] - Possible deadlock in GUI mode if Next button is locked from a panel implementation
[IZPACK-1468] - Variable references in labels, descriptions, statictext fields and field tooltips are resolved just during initialization
[IZPACK-1471] - Substance laf
[IZPACK-1476] - XML Schema does not allow uninstaller attribute in run-privileged element
[IZPACK-1481] - Avoid warning: "Resource customicons.xml not defined. No custom icons available"
[IZPACK-1483] - Fix <properties> tag parsing and handling
[IZPACK-1484] - Installer frame does not show localized title
[IZPACK-1488] - AntActionInstallerListener action fails if it contains a variable reference containing a '&' character in its value at runtime
[IZPACK-1490] - ConfigurationActionListener: <variables> tag not accepted during compilation
[IZPACK-1491] - Add missing brazilian translations
[IZPACK-1501] - Signatures not stripped from jar files when being added as <jar>
[IZPACK-1508] - Default quoting of Exec value with '' prevents valid .desktop files to be created

For detailed information see also the Github changelog of version 5.1.0-RC4 compared to 5.0.10.

The new release should be replicated to all mirrors of Sonatype Nexus or Maven Central soon, be patient.

Many thanks to all developers and users contributing code, translations, improving the documentation of this project (special thanks to Ron Wheeler for the permanent documentation observation) or pointing out things in discussions in the mailing lists or social networks. This time, there should be mentioned contributions from Andreas Kuhtz, Guilherme Pacheco (brazilian translations), Jan-Willem Willebrands, Kalle Richter, Karsten Rölling and Zdeněk Vaník (in alphabetical order) and all the reports from the mailing lists and our issue tracker.

You're invited to contribute to the code and documentation, or simply write us some news regarding this free project.

Fingers crossed.

IzPack 5.0.10 released

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 12 Sep 2016 09:00:00 +0000

Dear community,

IzPack 5.0.10 has been released and is officially available now.
Not that many issues have been solved compared to 5.0.9, especially with regard to the holiday time, but it is worth to bring this to the public.

Highlights:

There is a new automated mode available now processing option files (containing key-value pairs, similar to properties). The main intention of this mode is to provide default values for variables and automated installers from an external file, which override default variable values for all installation modes, GUI, console and automated installations. Built-in defaults act as fallback, if there are no default values in the provided external file. Therefore this mode is less restrictive regarding the input and probably survives also certain installer changes without generating a new installation record each time.
The web installer mode had been broken since IzPack 5, this is fixed now (thanks to Marco Meschieri for this contribution).
Several bugfixes.

This release adds the following changes in particular:

New Feature

[IZPACK-1421] - Provide variable value overrides from external file

Bug

[IZPACK-961] - IzPack 5 unable to create web installer
[IZPACK-1427] - In console mode, hidden packages are not installed
[IZPACK-1429] - Exceptions that are thrown in izpack GUI do not have any boundaries
[IZPACK-1430] - Pressing CTRL-C in the language dialog in console mode still shows a stacktrace
[IZPACK-1433] - Global temporary folder never gets deleted
[IZPACK-1437] - Changes for IZPACK-1413 broke the generation of auto-install.xml for -console installs

For detailed information see also the Github changelog of version 5.0.10 compared to 5.0.9.

The new release should be replicated to all mirrors of Sonatype Nexus or Maven Central soon, be patient.

Many thanks to all developers and users contributing code, translations, improving the documentation of this project or pointing out things in discussions in the mailing lists or social networks. This time, there should be mentioned contributions from Karsten Rölling, Marco Meschieri and Zdeněk Vaník (in alphabetical order) and all the reports from the mailing lists and our issue tracker.

You're invited to contribute to the code and documentation, or simply write us some news regarding this free project.

Fingers crossed.

IzPack 5.0.9 released

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 29 Jun 2016 22:39:00 +0000

Dear community,

the IzPack release 5.0.9 has been finished and is officially available now.

Highlights:

The dynamic variables are now preordered depending on the dependencies between them considering unresolved variable references and variable conditions depending on other variables at compile time. This way we could reduce dynamic variables refreshing to one cycle at install time, which is a nice optimization and provides more dedicated results for installation and debugging of more complex installers with many dependencies between the dynamic variables. Special thanks to Tom Helpstone for cooperation in this feature, providing a clean algorithm for this and adding a lot of unit tests to make this a safe implementation - this has been quite a big piece of work.
The run class of the button user input field is now checked for existance at compile time.
The target version of classes merged to the installer is checked at compile time and prior to loading of merged JARs at installation time.
The "contains" condition has been improved.
Many bugfixes.

This release adds the following changes in particular:

New Feature

[IZPACK-1414] - UserInputPanel: Check for run class of button field at compile time
[IZPACK-1415] - Checking merged JARs target version

Improvement

[IZPACK-1405] - Contains Condition does not evaluate <value>
[IZPACK-1406] - Preorder dynamic variables according to references among them at compile time
[IZPACK-1407] - Contains Condition - specification / implementation not clear

Bug

[IZPACK-986] - DynamicInstallerRequirements are broken
[IZPACK-1174] - Schema for panelType element missing jar attribute
[IZPACK-1395] - Pack element <depends> missing in XSD?
[IZPACK-1399] - Reading from INI Files: no variable substitution in attribute "section"
[IZPACK-1400] - Maven Build: installer does not recognize external overwritten property
[IZPACK-1401] - GUI "custom" field doesn't show default value for "rule" subfields
[IZPACK-1408] - ContainsCondition: regex does match to whole value only
[IZPACK-1409] - ContainsCondition: use case of attribute byLine
[IZPACK-1410] - UserInputPanel: Attributes missing in XSD for button field
[IZPACK-1411] - ContainsCondition: NPE with <file> and <value byLine="true" regex="true">
[IZPACK-1412] - Dynamic variables locking does not work in autoinstall mode
[IZPACK-1413] - UserInputPanel automation: auto-install.xml should not contain variables of fields which are not displayed
[IZPACK-1416] - TreePacksPanel packs required space is not summed up with required space of sub packs
[IZPACK-1417] - loose="true" is not working
[IZPACK-1419] - LooseFileUnpacker does not close the InputStream
[IZPACK-1420] - Different behavior in automated/silent install compared to GUI or console install
[IZPACK-1424] - Splashscreen is not displayed correct

For detailed information see also the Github changelog of version 5.0.9 compared to 5.0.8.

The new release should be replicated to all mirrors of Sonatype Nexus or Maven Central soon, be patient.

Many thanks to all developers and users contributing code, translations, improving the documentation of this project or pointing out things in discussions in the mailing lists or social networks. This time, there should be mentioned contributions from Andreas Kuhtz, Tom Helpstone and Zdeněk Vaník (in alphabetical order) and all the reports from the mailing lists and our issue tracker.

You're invited to contribute to the code and documentation, or simply write us some news regarding this free project.

Fingers crossed.

IzPack 5.0.8 released

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 18 Apr 2016 22:30:00 +0000

Dear community,

the IzPack bug fix release 5.0.8 is out now.

Highlights:

Fixed many of the XSD validation errors. If you'll find more they are still considered highest priority to not break any functionality!
Reading the .installationinformation file can now be turned off for updates on previous files which wrote this file.
AntActionSpec.xml is now cross-checked whether the contained conditions are defined in install.xml at compile time.
Fixed update with our distribution installer (files haven't been overwritten if the original timestamps where newer).

This release adds the following changes in particular:

New Feature

[IZPACK-1368] - Izpack .installationinformation should be able to be turned off through header

Improvement

[IZPACK-1374] - AntActionListener - add compiler cross check whether referenced pack exists

Bug

[IZPACK-1273] - LicensePanel: Next button doesn't activate if user activates radio button Accept by keyboard
[IZPACK-1357] - CompilerHelper: Fix "Resource leak: 'jis' is not closed at this location"
[IZPACK-1358] - Class/Type/Iterator/Map should be parameterized
[IZPACK-1359] - remove unused imports
[IZPACK-1360] - PackInfo: unused parameter on getter
[IZPACK-1367] - Custom conditions with fully qualified path names in type no longer accepted
[IZPACK-1370] - UserInputPanel: Field type "button" not accepted (by XSD)
[IZPACK-1371] - Logger warning on nonconforming version string: [CompareVersionsCondition] For input string: ""
[IZPACK-1372] - PacksModel.dfsVisit(PacksModel.java:808): NullpointerException when clicking on checkbox
[IZPACK-1375] - Fatal error: Missing instance of class java.util.logging.Handler for command line build
[IZPACK-1376] - Using AntActionInstallerListener forces to add commons-io.jar explicitly
[IZPACK-1377] - XSD is missing 'webdir' element for installation descriptor
[IZPACK-1379] - White background on staticText and description in customized UserInputPanel
[IZPACK-1380] - Dynamic variables of executable type uses stderr="true" by default
[IZPACK-1382] - "os" attribute not accepted for <parsable>/<executable> to specify OS family
[IZPACK-1383] - "os" attribute not accepted for <singlefile>/<file>/<fileset> in packs to specify OS family
[IZPACK-1385] - Distribution installer does not overwrite existing files
[IZPACK-1386] - "condition" attribute not accepted for <file> and <singlefile> tags in packs
[IZPACK-1387] - <processor> tag nested to field <spec> not accepted during compiling UserInputSpec.xml resource
[IZPACK-1388] - Missing attributes of <fileset> inside <pack> in installation schema
[IZPACK-1389] - Dynamic variables have attribute unset="false" by default, but should be "true"
[IZPACK-1390] - Unrecognized attributes to pack and refpack elements in 5.0.7

For detailed information see also the Github changelog of version 5.0.8 compared to 5.0.7.

The new release should be replicated to all mirrors of Sonatype Nexus or Maven Central soon, be patient.

Many thanks to all developers and users contributing code, translations, improving the documentation of this project or pointing out things in discussions in the mailing lists or social networks. There should be mentioned contributions from Hardy Rex, Sebastiaan van Erk, Tom Helpstone and Zdeněk Vaník (in alphabetical order) and all the reports in from the mailing lists and our issue tracker.

Famous last words: As always you're invited to contribute to the code and documentation, or simply tell us your experience with this new release.

Keep in touch.

IzPack 5.0.7 released

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 01 Mar 2016 14:23:00 +0000

Dear community,

on behalf of the IzPack team and contributors I'm pleased to announce the IzPack bug fix release 5.0.7.

This version took us quite a lot of time, but it moved quite a big step forward within the 5.0 stable release series.

Highlights:

The compiler uses all built-in XSDs for parsing - no more ignored tags and attributes due to misspelled identifiers - this might break your build if your descriptors are not defined according to the official XSD (which is positive, though, if the XSD is correct), but in case there has been something forgotten in the XSD you might be angry. The compiler really uses them for validating of all possible XML descriptors, not just for the install.xml. Nevertheless, in case of trouble we're prepared to fix drawbacks and release quickly. Clean XSDs are highest priority at the moment, please be constructive, patient and help us to clean them up!
New PDFLicencePanel
New VersionComparisonMajor condition
Significant improvements of the console installation mode (all panels, overall layout, more translated text items)
Significant improvements in logging and console output of the compiler and installer
Fixes, improvements and consolidation of all three (1 more in 5.0.7) types of license panels. There can be optionally activated word-wrapping and paging of longer texts for all license panels in console installation mode depending on the format of your license text.
More compiler cross-checks of existing references between descriptors
Customizing: Panel validators can be given configuration options
Plenties of bug fixes

This release adds the following fixes and improvements in particular:

New Feature

[IZPACK-1312] - Adding PDF Licence Panel
[IZPACK-1320] - Add version comparison condition not assuming missing minor parts of one of the operands to be 0

Improvement

[IZPACK-1300] - Validate all XML descriptors against XML Schema Definitions during compiling
[IZPACK-1313] - izpack5.0.6: Install izpack demo with console mode don't have language choose step. Please add LanguageConsoleDialog.
[IZPACK-1315] - Panel conditions in userInputSpec.xml not checked during compiling, installer fails later
[IZPACK-1317] - Improve logging formatting for Maven / Ant
[IZPACK-1318] - [HTML]LicencePanel, [HTML]InfoPanel - make paging and wordwrap for the console installation mode configurable
[IZPACK-1322] - Provide API for configurable validators to implementing better custom panel validators
[IZPACK-1328] - Various compiler and installer logging improvements
[IZPACK-1329] - Consolidate license panels functionality and translations
[IZPACK-1332] - Ambiguous meaning of <native> attribute stage
[IZPACK-1336] - Add <consoleprefs> tag similar to the <guiprefs>
[IZPACK-1340] - Test should run on Windows OS without administrative rights
[IZPACK-1346] - Compiled installer contains needless resources - save size by removing them
[IZPACK-1353] - Consolidate behavior of TargetPanel in GUI and console installation mode
[IZPACK-1354] - Do installer requirement checks after the language dialog has been confirmed

Bug

[IZPACK-1025] - Uninstaller window i18n
[IZPACK-1170] - IzPack Ant task does not work if you use try to embed the install config inline
[IZPACK-1185] - Substance L&F not compatible with Java 8, Liquid L&F not compiling
[IZPACK-1301] - NPE Exception when using compound conditions with pack selection
[IZPACK-1302] - Bad message from console installer when pressing CTRL-C in TargetPanel
[IZPACK-1305] - No Shortcut panel on Windows 7: invalid path to load ShellLink.dll and ShellLink_x64.dll
[IZPACK-1307] - New LicenceConsolePanel pagination does not work reliably for long lines
[IZPACK-1309] - Panel validators let console installer fail in case of validation failures instead of redisplaying the user input console panel beginning from first field
[IZPACK-1311] - PacksConsolePanel - fix Redisplay, add panel title, don't show hidden packs
[IZPACK-1314] - UserInputPanel - choice fields (radio/combobox) badly handles pre-set values, difference between console and GUI installation mode
[IZPACK-1316] - UserInputPanel "check" field - initial value not consistent in several combinations of true/false/set attributes in spec
[IZPACK-1319] - TargetConsolePanel: Not asking whether the directory should be created in console installation mode
[IZPACK-1321] - Executables seem to stack/repeat witch each pack
[IZPACK-1324] - HTMLLicenceConsolePanel not updated to support multiple instances of HTMLLicencePanel
[IZPACK-1325] - NullPointerException in PacksPanelBase
[IZPACK-1326] - GUI installation mode - InstallerFrame initializes debugger and thus triggers additional evaluating of all conditions
[IZPACK-1327] - Print headline for all built-in console-mode panels
[IZPACK-1330] - Test failure under Windows
[IZPACK-1331] - Integrationtest failures under Windows
[IZPACK-1333] - FinishPanel must respect customized uninstaller path
[IZPACK-1334] - <uninstaller> tag not compiled according to documentation
[IZPACK-1335] - NPE in "contains" condition
[IZPACK-1337] - Add missing nested tag <string> to "empty" condition in XSD
[IZPACK-1338] - Fix exception handling in installer during refreshing dynamic variables
[IZPACK-1339] - Variables not resolved in static text fields and field labels of UserInputConsolePanel
[IZPACK-1341] - Fileset selectors not parsed in <pack> definitions - add them to the XSD
[IZPACK-1342] - Console installer regressions
[IZPACK-1344] - PacksConsoleInstallationTest fails on system with different language than english
[IZPACK-1347] - Custom actions are not executed during automated installation
[IZPACK-1348] - Privilege elevation does not work for Windows 10
[IZPACK-1349] - Empty ConfigurationActionsSpec (and other xml structures) should be allowed again
[IZPACK-1350] - Installer fails under Windows if Uninstaller icon is configured
[IZPACK-1352] - UserInputPanel: "file" and "multifile" fields ignore the fileextdesc attribute
[IZPACK-1355] - Write test with limited user returns error even when it is able to write INSTALL_PATH
[IZPACK-1361] - element <executable>: documentation and XSD does not match
[IZPACK-1362] - <executable>: XSD is missing attributes "type" and "class"
[IZPACK-1364] - <executable>: XSD is missing attribute "failure"

For detailed information see also the Github changelog of version 5.0.7 compared to 5.0.6.

The new release should be replicated to all mirrors of Sonatype Nexus or Maven Central soon, be patient.

Many thanks to all developers and users contributing code, translations, improving the documentation of this project or pointing out things in discussions in the mailing lists or social networks. There should be mentioned contributions from Andreas Kuhtz, Brad Fisher, Diego Vivo, Lukas Eberli, Peter Hübner, Qiang He, Tom Helpstone, Zdeněk Vaník (in alphabetical order).

Big thanks also to our "documentation revision daemon" in the background, Ron Wheeler, which is always prepared to fix typos, ambiguous explanations and makes the documentation more comprehensible to the users.

BTW, in relation to the scale of changes happened in this release I'm sure there will be another minor release soon with hot fixes (especially regarding the XSDs). Therefore, let's use our human mind for deciding the release date instead of defining a constant release cycle.

As always you're invited to contribute to the code and documentation, or simply tell us your experience with this new release.

Keep in touch.

IzPack 5.0.6 released

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 09 Nov 2015 21:32:00 +0000

Dear community,

on behalf of the IzPack team and contributors I'm pleased to announce the IzPack bug fix release 5.0.6.

This time we focus especially on fixes in console installations, furthermore there have been fixed several translations and a remaining problem with the rule field in UserInputPanels.

This release adds the following fixes and improvements in particular:

[IZPACK-1244] Interrupting a console installation with CTRL-C causes a JLine exception stacktrace on the console output
[IZPACK-1246] PM WARNING: Cannot write to '/usr/share/applications' java.io.IOException: Permission denied when creating shortcuts under Linux
[IZPACK-1287] Invalid type XSD schema (izpack-types.xsd)
[IZPACK-1289] UserInputPanel: Console installer ignores <createForPack> tag in UserInputSpec.xml resource, but panel validators are fired anyway
[IZPACK-1292] UserInputPanel: Combo/radio fields show choices in console installations also if their choice conditions evaluate false
[IZPACK-1293] PacksConsolePanel: Predefined and visible default values for pack selection are ignored and user is forced to enter 'Y' or 'N'
[IZPACK-1294] LicenceConsolePanel: Provide JLine pagination instead if JLine can be initialized with the terminal
[IZPACK-1295] Console installer execute packs in different order than GUI installer
[IZPACK-1296] UserInputPanel: Rule field set/default spec attribute not applied if it refers to variable
[IZPACK-1297] Linux Shortcuts not installed when run as sudo

The following translations were partly wrong or totally broken and have been fixed:

French
Japanese
Swedish

Beyond the above changes there has been fixed the variable resolution in console text panels (like license panel texts), there has been fixed a problem that packs were installed in arbitary order while using console mode. Regarding the build there have been reintegrated as much as possible automatic unit and integration tests, more tests have been added and some code cleanup has been also done. For detailed information see also the Github changelog of version 5.0.6 compared to 5.0.5.

The new release should be replicated to all mirrors of Sonatype Nexus or Maven Central soon, be patient.

Special thanks to all developers and users contributing code, translations or improving the documentation of this project. As always you're invited to contribute to the code and documentation, or simply tell us your experience with this new release.

Keep in touch.

IzPack 5.0.5 released

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 22 Sep 2015 23:49:00 +0000

Dear community,

on behalf of the IzPack developers and contributors it is a pleasure to announce the IzPack bug fix release 5.0.5.

Apologizes for the short release cycle, but there has been introduced a serious issue in 5.0.4 sometimes not displaying all contents of Swing UserInputPanel instances when activated. This is is fixed now.

This release adds the following fixes and improvements in particular:

[IZPACK-1275] Dynamic variable with unset="false" does overwrite default from static variable
[IZPACK-1285] UserInputPanel: Fields not rendered after activating panel the first time

As always you're invited to contribute to the code and documentation, or simply tell us your experience with this new release.

Keep in touch.

IzPack 5.0.4 released

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 21 Sep 2015 12:01:00 +0000

Dear community,

on behalf of the IzPack developers and contributors it is a pleasure to announce the IzPack bug fix release 5.0.4.

This release adds the following fixes and improvements:

[IZPACK-586] Spaces in install path break shortcuts in Linux/Unix
[IZPACK-1256] support multiple license agreements using HtmlLicensePanel
[IZPACK-1278] Improve compiler error message when using variables expected to be resolved in the source path of a definition
[IZPACK-1280] UserInputPanel in console installers - not working dynamic evaluation of field conditions triggered by user input at one and the same panel
[IZPACK-1281] Uninstaller misses JLine dependencies for console mode
[IZPACK-1284] Rule field value does not always show the current value of the underlying variable

Beyond the above fixes being correctly created in IzPack JIRA there are some standalone pull requests integrated also that should be mentioned here:

[PR #386] ProcessPanel: Logging stacktrace in case of exception, if -DSTACKTRACE=true was specified
[PR #388] UserInputPanel: When activating a panel, the event handling should be deactivated.

As always you're invited to contribute to the code and documentation, or simply tell us your experience with this new release.

Keep in touch.

IzPack 5.0.3 released

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 24 Jul 2015 16:48:00 +0000

Dear community,

here is another quick release. For your convenience, the IzPack team announces the next bug fix release 5.0.3.

This release adds the following fixes:

[IZPACK-1239] UserInputPanel: HostAddressValidator not working as expected
[IZPACK-1269] UserInputPanel: Explicit rule field validators defined in UserInputSpec.xml are ignored

I found it worth not to delay these important UserInputPanel fixes.

As always you're invited to contribute to the code and documentation, or simply tell us your experience with this new release.

Keep in touch.

IzPack 5.0.2 released

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 23 Jul 2015 21:39:00 +0000

Dear community,

here we are again, shortly after the last release the IzPack team announces the next bug fix release 5.0.2.

This release adds the following fixes:

[IZPACK-1266] References to conditions izpack.selected. denied during compiling
[IZPACK-1267] Overriding single instance installer mode broken

Hopefully this helps some of you.

As always you're invited to contribute to the code and documentation, or simply tell us your experience with this new release.

Keep in touch.

IzPack 5.0.1 released

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 22 Jul 2015 21:41:00 +0000

Dear community,

here we are again, the IzPack team announces the first bug fix release 5.0.1.

This release adds a couple of improvements and fixes:

IZPACK-1262: UserInputPanel - dir/file input field: If user input does not exist as path offer the best bet (nearest existing path) in the directory dialog
IZPACK-1263: ConfigurationInstallerListener: configurableset ignores autonumbered properties beginning on index > 0
IZPACK-1264: ConfigurationInstallerListener: Numbered properties not consolidated and moved to the end of the file when patching
IZPACK-1265: AntActionInstallerListener: Log file not created for attribute if its parent directories do not exist

Hopefully this makes things run smoother.

As always you're invited to contribute to the code and documentation, or simply tell us your experience with this new release.

Keep in touch.

IzPack 5.0.0 released

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 15 Jul 2015 22:47:00 +0000

Dear community,

in behalf of all developers and contributors, and after a short sprint of critical bugfixes, I'm proud to present the final release IzPack 5.0.0. It is a big honour and duty after several years of development to all of you committers and documentation maintainers, bug reporters and those just waiting to migrate.

IzPack 5.0.0 has been really a big piece of work, beginning in 2009 with the work of Anthonin Bonnefoy, who heavily refactored the core and introduced Maven builds and the PicoContainer framework to IzPack, continuing with work of several contributors. Tributes to you all who participated in this!

The list of changes is too big to be added in this post, please see the previous announcements or consult the source code at Github to explore all the commits.

If you migrate from IzPack 4 and earlier please be aware of breaking changes, although the basic principles and XML interfaces have been kept. Please ask in the mailing lists or social networks before reporting bugs.

Using IzPack

There are several ways of integrate IzPack into your build. See the documentation to get an idea how this can be done.

Compiling IzPack

For those who want to compile IzPack by their own:
The IzPack sources and the IzPack Maven plugin are tested to be compatible to Maven up to version 3.2.5. This release does no longer support Maven 2.2.1. The minimum Maven version required is now 3.0.

IzPack is still considered to be compiled and deployed based on JDK 6. Due to the backward compatibility of laster JDK versions there's currently still no reason to increase, while it works.

Reporting Issues

Feel free to test and report bugs, either to one of the proper mailing lists or if you can file an issue Atlassian JIRA instance which is finally set up and ready. Please do not use te Github issue tracker if possible, although it is still enabled.

Please check also the project website hosted at Github (the izpack.org domain is still kindly owned and donated by the project founder - thank you Julien).

Enjoy the new version 5.0.0 and keep in touch.

IzPack 5.0.0 Snapshot available for testing

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 15:58:00 +0000

Currently there are all fixes done intended to go into the final 5.0.0 release of IzPack. The latest snapshot has been also deployed to OSS Sonatype Snapshots and should be available for your Maven builds.

Here is a list of the latest fixes:

IZPACK-1252 Crashes if custom listener's afterpack throws InstallerException without root cause exception
IZPACK-1253 ClassCastException in Unpacker if non-IzPackException is given as root cause to InstallerException from listener
IZPACK-1254 UserInputPanel: readonly/displayHidden fields not displayed read-only
IZPACK-1255 UserInputPanel: Continue refreshing panel variables which are not shown depending upon a condition
IZPACK-1257 ConfigurationInstallerListener: Preserving auto-numbered options broken
Github Issue #361 Test Error Windows (RegistryInstallerListener)

From now on you are invited to test and report. I'd accept only blocker issues that affect the core functionality of IzPack. There is not enought manpower at the moment to support the native launchers, which can be added later. Other issues would go to later releases.

After an initial version 5.0.0 I suggest to start a stable maintainance branch of 5.0.0 and the trunk will probably continue to be 5.1 for upcoming bigger changes. This may not happen immediately but can be expected to happen soon.

If there will be no complaints I expect a final 5.0.0 release already this week.

Relocation of IzPack services after Codehaus termination completed - a summary

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 11 Jun 2015 13:11:00 +0000

Dear community,

The migration of the IzPack services formerly hosted at Codehaus has been done.

We had do divide different services to separate providers, there hasn't been available a compact offer comparable to the services the Codehaus in such a short time. There are some smaller drawbacks which couldn't be avoided, see below.

If you are wondering where to find some service the project offers visit out web site http://izpack.org/.
This site will always redirect to whatever source of information the IzPack projects offers.

Below I provide a list of new services divided by providers:

IzPack@Github

If you want to participate in development or improving our website, grab a Github account and send pull requests. All you need is the basic idea and the knowledge in using GIT and the Github services.

Don't use the Github issue tracker or Wiki at this time. We use more advanced services for this.

Source code

The IzPack source code is hosted at https://github.com/izpack/izpack.
See the Developing and contributing section about how to contribute code changes.

Fork the Github repository, create a branch using an according JIRA issue as the branch name for each change and send pull requests from this branch to be able to create a changelog for each release and not get mixed up changes from your master branch for several issues at once.

Web page

The IzPack website is hosted at https://github.com/izpack/izpack.github.com.
For bigger changes or refactory use a special branch for each change. Send pull requests.

The resulting website izpack.github.com is directly forwarded to izpack.org by an according DNS configuration.

IzPack@Sonatype

Sonatype provides the service of deploying snapshots and releases to the Maven Central repository.

For us being an open source project with the appropriate license, Sonatype offers a staging repository for our deployed binaries along with using the Nexus Professional repository service for free.
See our wiki page Deploying IzPack for more information how this is set up and used.

IzPack@Atlassian

We have been set up a new JIRA and Confluence cloud instance kindly provided by Atlassian we received an on-demand open source license for. The central address is https://izpack.atlassian.net/.

Although the number of registered users is limited everyone is currently allowed to sign up.

Important:
There is a drawback after importing the legacy issues from Codehaus JIRA: There are the same user accounts used for JIRA and Confluence, each of both can be enabled separately for each user. The former users have been recreated along with the issues they participated in, but just their synonyms. There are auto-generated user names and the mail addresses got lost. If you have been alread signed up to Codehaus, before signing up again try to find your user name in some older issues and ask by mail to (re)set your user name and mail address. Please tell me the full name shown in the issues, your current e-mail address and at least one Codehaus JIRA issue you participated in for security reasons. This will save work of moving references to issues and cleaning up duplicate user accounts. After that you will be probably able to reset the password of this migrated account and log in again. If you feel this is a problem for you just sign up straight away and from time to time I will try to clean up the user accounts manually. Former Confluence-only users must re-register in each case.

You can sign up to JIRA and Confluence with one and the same user account. It is your choice which one of both services you want use.

Issue tracker - JIRA

IzPack issues will continue to be tracked to JIRA. The central address is https://izpack.atlassian.net/.

By the way, the former Codehaus administrators kindly offered a HTTP redirection from the old Codehaus issues to the new address at Codehaus itself in case there are still old links. This has been activated for all former IZPACK issues and their issues IDs have been kept.

I will deactivate the Github issue tracking to not confuse anyone and because it is just too plain at the moment. There is no real advantage for us at the moment in using Github issues.

Special thanks to Tom Helpstone for helping out migrating the old issues the best way possible.

Confluence - Wiki

The IzPack Wiki has been reimported and left on Confluence. It seems to be the more comfortable choice and better user experience compared to the Github Wiki at the moment.

The central entry point to IzPack Confluence is at https://izpack.atlassian.net/wiki, or check the IzPack documentation directly. The content is considered to be up to date for Izpack 5, feel free to help us directly improving the documentation.

IzPack@Google

Google Groups - mailing lists

Regarding the mailing lists we ended up in reusing the existing mailing lists at Google Groups. There is a main reason - we kept all the old messages and subscribers from the Codehaus mailing lists mirrored there automatically and can continue to use it slightly.

Please note in advance that these are real mailing lists and you do not need necessarily an Google account at all to join them, see this support notice.

The existing subscribers have been left and don't probably have to re-subscribe. All existing lists have been left, just the mail addresses change.

In particular, there are activated the following lists:

izpack-announce@googlegroups.com
Read more about the izpack-announce group.
Do no longer use the former list ~~announce@izpack.codehaus.org~~!
If you are not a member you can subscribe by sending an e-mail to:
izpack-announce+subscribe@googlegroups.com.
izpack-user@googlegroups.com
Read more about the izpack-user group.
Do no longer use the former list ~~user@izpack.codehaus.org~~!
If you are not a member you can subscribe by sending an e-mail to:
izpack-user+subscribe@googlegroups.com.
izpack-dev@googlegroups.com
Read more about the izpack-dev group.
Do no longer use the former list ~~dev@izpack.codehaus.org~~!
If you are not a member you can subscribe by sending an e-mail to:
izpack-dev+subscribe@googlegroups.com.

If you are not a member of one of the above groups of your interest you may subscribe to them with or without being logged on as Google user on the web interface or by mail. For more help on Google Groups visit the according help center.

Be invited to join us again.

Google Plus - Social Networking

IzPack has its own page at Google+. We will forward blog posts there and it is open for discussions for registered Google users.

The address is https://plus.google.com/+izpack/.

IzPack@Twitter

IzPack has a Twitter account. We will forward blog posts there and it is open for your tweets for registered Twitter users. Or just follow us to get the latest news.

Leave us a reply in case of problems or ideas.
Keep in touch.

IzPack 5.0.0 RC5 available

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 03 Jun 2015 10:11:00 +0000

After the detour of moving from Codehaus hosting, the IzPack team and contributors are finally proud to present the 5th release candidate of IzPack 5.0.

Thanks to all of you guys which made this happen and helped by sending pull requests with code changes and those of you which improved the documentation. Not to forget about the users testing snapshots and sending JIRA issues and comments in the mailing lists.

IzPack 5.0.0 RC5 brings you just a couple of improvements and bug fixes, even a small set of new features with an uncritical implementation which should not break any existing environment. The migrated new documentation is considered to be up to date.
Unfortunately I haven't got reimported the JIRA issues from Codehaus to our new cloud instance at Atlassian.

Be aware of the fact that although it is considered stable according to the user reports and many automatic unit and integration tests, IzPack 5 release candidates still serve for the purpose of testing and reporting.

Version 5.0.0 RC5 is intended to be the last one in the series of 5.0 release candidates. If there won't be any complaints there will follow up a 5.0.0 final release soon.

Changes

Here's the list of noteworthy changes against 5.0 RC4:

New features:

IZPACK-1229: Filter for lowercase and uppercase
IZPACK-1219: Allow installer to expire on specified date
IZPACK-1195: Improve and enhance displaying of readonly UserInputPanels

Improvements of existing features:

IZPACK-1248: UserInputPanel - "custom" input field layout improvements for console/GUI installers
IZPACK-1247: Console installer - no title displayed for warning/error messages in comparison to GUI installer
IZPACK-1231: AntActionsInstallerListener: Improve error handling and messageboxes
IZPACK-1207: Make TargetPanel.warn ("The directory already exists! Are you sure you want to install here and possibly overwrite existing files?") message optional
IZPACK-1201: Split user input field attribute "set" into "set" and "default"
IZPACK-1200: Allow default value overrides of dynamic variables from the <variables> section
IZPACK-1199: Don't refresh a dynamic variable if it has been set by the user on a UserInputPanel
IZPACK-1173: Make single-instance locking of the installer configurable

Bugfixes:

IZPACK-1250: Installer with '(1)' in the file name cause generated uninstaller to fail
IZPACK-1249: UserInputPanel - "custom" type input field - Swing button labels "Add"/"Remove" not translated
IZPACK-1245: Console installer: panel DataValidator emitting a WARNING called three times before the panel switches
IZPACK-1242: Dynamic variable definitions with the same name and conditionid overwritten, although applying different filters for each of them
IZPACK-1241: Builds using custom packaging type izpack-jar sometimes fail after fresh IzPack snapshot deployments
IZPACK-1240: Message boxes after validation failures cannot be closed using ENTER, but just by ESC, SPACE or clicking on the Close button
IZPACK-1239: HostAddressValidator not working as expected
IZPACK-1238: UserInputPanel: input fields not focused automatically on panel activation
IZPACK-1234: Usage of variables for pack content
IZPACK-1232: PacksConsolePanel prints the id of the packs in console mode, not the localized pack names
IZPACK-1228: Defining an unknown filter in dynamic variable is silently ignored
IZPACK-1227: NullPointerException in ConfigurationInstallerListener, if patchFile hasn't been defined in the descriptor
IZPACK-1226: ConfigurationInstallerListener does not remove entries as configured
IZPACK-1225: IzPack 5.0rc3 Compile error Unable to create directory
IZPACK-1224: Build failing - maven 3.2.5, JDK 1.6 on Windows 7
IZPACK-1222: Some text is hardcoded in english in console classes
IZPACK-1218: Dynamic variables: escape="false" ignored for reading values from configuration files
IZPACK-1216: Dynamic Variables with conditions depending on a dynamic variable
IZPACK-1215: cyclic reference does produce a loop
IZPACK-1214: File/Dir fields with property readonly=true problems in Console mode
IZPACK-1212: UserInputPanel: Radio defaults apply just for the first radio field on one and the same panel
IZPACK-1211: UserInputPanel: Missing variable resolution in attribute <field><spec text="..."/><field> including the according translations
IZPACK-1210: IzPack cannot build with JDK 8
IZPACK-1206: PacksConsolePanel does auto-select and skip conditioned packs if the conditions evaluate true
IZPACK-1205: UserInputPanel: displayHidden and readonly attribute flaws
IZPACK-1203: UserInputPanel choice fields (radio, combo) with conditions on each don't use current condition state
IZPACK-1202: NPE in AndCondition due to a bad condition definition
IZPACK-1194: "contains" condition does not work for checking plain <variable> values
IZPACK-1191: misspelling laf name results in NullPointerException
IZPACK-1182: Evaluation of dynamic variables, which depends on another one, fails
IZPACK-1180: ConfigurationInstallerListener: Nested <entry> remains empty if it didn't exist before
IZPACK-1178: Cannot create shortcuts on unix platforms.
IZPACK-1177: AutomationHelper not found
IZPACK-1176: Maven Dependencies in izpack-native-* still refer to 5.0.0-rc3-SNAPSHOT
IZPACK-1175: Class is a raw type. References to generic type Class<T> should be parameterized Sub-task
IZPACK-1160: Dynamic variables unset if none of a couple of dynamic variable definitions fits conditions although set in UserInputPanel

I've added a single page and a RSS feed exported from the previous Codehaus JIRA (which isn't accessible any longer) to the web site.

There are some more smaller changes. If you are a developer you can look at the the changelog on Github.

Compiling

The IzPack sources and the IzPack Maven plugin is tested to be compatible to Maven up to version 3.2.5. This release is the first one no longer supporting Maven 2.2.1, because this would confuse the deployments and introduce additional maintainance in the code. The minimum Maven version required is now 3.0.

IzPack is still considered to be compiled and deployed based on JDK 6. Due to the backward compatibility of laster JDK versions there's currently still no reason to increase, while it works.

Testing

Feel free to test and report bugs, either to one of the proper mailing lists or if you can file an issue currently just at the our Github issue tracker. The new Atlassian JIRA instance is still in maintainance and new issues might get lost. I will drop a note as soon as the import of the old issues is fine or whether we'll start just with a clean JIRA content.

Please check also the project website hosted at Github (the izpack.org domain is still kindly owned and donated by the project founder - thank you Julien).

Regarding the migration out of Codehaus I will drop another post, the documentation of the new services is almost done.

Enjoy the new version 5.0.0 RC5 and keep in touch.

Mailinglists migration

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 27 May 2015 07:39:00 +0000

For this migration, I choosed to reuse the existing mailing lists at Google Groups.

Please note in advance that these are real mailing lists and you do not need necessarily an Google account at all to join them, see this support notice.

The existing subscribers have been left and don't probably have to re-subscribe. All existing lists have been left, just the mail addresses change.

In particular, there are activated the following lists:

izpack-announce@googlegroups.com
Read more about the izpack-announce group.
Do no longer use the former list ~~announce@izpack.codehaus.org~~!
If you are not a member you can subscribe by sending an e-mail to:
izpack-announce+subscribe@googlegroups.com.
izpack-user@googlegroups.com
Read more about the izpack-user group.
Do no longer use the former list ~~user@izpack.codehaus.org~~!
If you are not a member you can subscribe by sending an e-mail to:
izpack-user+subscribe@googlegroups.com.
izpack-dev@googlegroups.com
Read more about the izpack-dev group.
Do no longer use the former list ~~dev@izpack.codehaus.org~~!
If you are not a member you can subscribe by sending an e-mail to:
izpack-dev+subscribe@googlegroups.com.

Be invited to join us again.

Migration from Codehaus - update

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 26 May 2015 23:02:00 +0000

Just an update for avoiding rumours about the migration getting stuck:

The Atlassian instances mentioned are still active and we got Open Source Licenses applied.

Documentation:
Especially Confluence (https://izpack.atlassian.net/wiki) is functional and you can register and continue with the documentation. I restructurede it a bit and pointed out the reference documentation for IzPack 4 and IzPack 5.
In case we would decide to migrate somewhere else we can export the spaces and convert it uite easily to whatever format we want.

Issues tracker:
I have still an open issue at Atlassian about how to reimport and set up JIRA again. The instance (https://izpack.atlassian.net) works, but is still standing by for importing the old issues.
In case you got issues to report you can add them to https://github.com/izpack/izpack/issues meanwhile. I'm still in hope we get the issues back to JIRA.

Source code:
The source code is at https://github.com/izpack/izpack as it has been before and you can send pull requests.

Important! Codehaus services will be terminated already this week forever! Got to migrate to another platform...

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 14 May 2015 15:04:00 +0000

There is an important information to all contributors and the folks waiting for an IzPack 5.0 RC5 release:

Some of you have probably noticed before I did - all Codehaus services get definitely terminated forever this sunday, 17th of May 2015. See http://www.codehaus.org/.

This means we have to migrate as soon as possible the following services:
- JIRA (to JIRA or another issue tracker)
- Confluence (to Confluence or some other Wiki)
- Continous integration and release tooling (Cloudbees and Travis already connected to Github, not sure about releases and a repository manager)
- Mailing lists (if there are some)

Fortunately, the source code is already hosted a long time at Github and has been just synchronized with Codehaus GIT after releases. This means the source code is definitely saved.
Also the website sources of izpack.org are hosted at Github.

My favourites for the future development platform are Github and BitBucket. BitBucket has two pros - they are sponsored by Atlassian and provide JIRA and Confluence again, maybe a chance to reimport the data exported from Codehaus 1:1 instead of a painful migration to Github issues and markdown. Nevertheless, we have our developer base at Github and contributors are used to send Github pull requests, so If there would be a chance to migrate the documentation (Confluence) and issues (JIRA) to Github we would be fine.

Unfortunately, for the above reasons, I got to postpone the release of 5.0 RC5 a few days again.
Any help appreciated with migrating, especially of the documentation.
I have bulk-exported all JIRA issues and Confluence in the available formats locally.

Also these mailinglists won't probably work any longer after sunday this week.
For communication after this date or from now you can still use IzPack's Google+ page: https://plus.google.com/+izpack/

Don't worry - the IzPack project will definitely continue!
We just got to survive this migration :-)