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Upgrading from IzPack 4.3 to 5.0

IzPack installation files try to preserve backwards compatibility as much as possible yet version 5.0 introduced some incompatible changes - mostly for consistenency:

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  • The <native> elements must now be contained in a <natives> wrapping element under 5.0.
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    titleAvoid using the <natives> element with 4.3

    The izpack installer will silently ignore the <native> tags contained inside a <natives> element but does not throw an error when you use your 5.0 installer file with version 4.3.x.

Using the IzPack Maven Plugin

Release 5.0 of IzPack introduces a new implementation of the izpack-maven-plugin currently found at http://izpack.codehaus.org/izpack-maven-plugin/. In contrast to the documentation there, an explicit dependency to the izpack-standalone-compiler is no longer needed.

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