I am pleased to announce that the IzPack team released today the version 4.1.0 of the software.

IzPack is a one-stop solution for packaging, distributing and deploying applications. It is fully cross-platform and generates a single installer. As such, it is an alternative to native solutions such as platform-specific installers and package managers. IzPack-generated installers only require a Java virtual machine to run.

This new version brings new features such as Pack200 compression support or better user-defined conditions. Improvements include a reduction of the installers size, the ability to set environment variables in ProcessPanel or variables substitution in HtmlInfoPanel. Finally, this release brings its usual set of bug fixes and minor improvements.

It is recommended that current users upgrade to this new release.

IzPack can be downloaded from http://izpack.org/downloads/ and is released under the permissive Apache License v2.0.

Many thanks go to the developers and contributors for their hard work!

Please find the release notes below. Feel free to repost this announcement to your favorite blogs and websites!

Release notes:

Bug

[IZPACK-72] - PortProcessor does not catch invalid error
[IZPACK-93] - Re-enabled button does not gain focus
[IZPACK-126] - Lost input data when navigating forward/backward in installer
[IZPACK-127] - Conditionid used instead of condition for job definitions
[IZPACK-141] - Information defined in info section are not available as build-in variable during compile time
[IZPACK-142] - Custom panel jars are not found with maven plugin
[IZPACK-151] - file unpack does not work with war files
[IZPACK-152] - UserPathPanel prints debug messages to console
[IZPACK-159] - IzPack2App: executable bit should be forced to be set on the Java application stub
[IZPACK-160] - Documention for file's override attribute missing "false" value
[IZPACK-167] - izpack2exe crashes when called from a different directory than where it resides
[IZPACK-168] - izpack2app does not properly work when called from the same folder as the script

Improvement

[IZPACK-63] - Reduce the installers size
[IZPACK-112] - Registry interaction: allow string key values to be extended
[IZPACK-114] - Ability to set environment variables when using ProcessPanel
[IZPACK-123] - Multiple HTMLInfo Panels showing different html files...
[IZPACK-124] - Parsing/Variable substitution of the content in HTMLInfoPanel
[IZPACK-130] - TestLangPacks: build.xml update: Added distribution dir and files and some other tasks. Added zip creation.
[IZPACK-149] - support encoding when interpolating izpack descriptor
[IZPACK-155] - InstallPanel overall progress bar should be indeterminate if there is only one pack to install
[IZPACK-157] - Raise the JVM heap size in IzPack scripts

New Feature

[IZPACK-82] - Pack200 support
[IZPACK-84] - Install Script Locator Framework
[IZPACK-110] - User Condition
[IZPACK-145] - Ablility to disable the attaching of the artifact in maven plugin
[IZPACK-147] - ability to customize the final name

Task

[IZPACK-129] - TestLangPacks: Added directory for distribution files.
[IZPACK-131] - TestLangPacks: Added version stamping into use for various files.
[IZPACK-132] - TestLangPacks: application name and version are taken from Manifest.mf file. Documentation update.
[IZPACK-134] - TestLangPacks: Tag for version 1.0-beta1
[IZPACK-137] - TestLangPacks: Added license file.
[IZPACK-139] - Italian langpack update.
[IZPACK-143] - TestLangPacks: Documentation update.
[IZPACK-144] - TestLangPacks: Tag for version 1.0.

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