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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 ... [More] 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 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. [Less]

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 ... [More] 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 sudoThe 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. [Less]

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 ... [More] 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. [Less]

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 ... [More] 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 timeAs always you're invited to contribute to the code and documentation, or simply tell us your experience with this new release.Keep in touch. [Less]

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 ... [More] 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 [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. [Less]

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 ... [More] 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 variableBeyond 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. [Less]

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 ... [More] [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. [Less]

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 ... [More] expected[IZPACK-1269] UserInputPanel: Explicit rule field validators defined in UserInputSpec.xml are ignoredI 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. [Less]

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 ... [More] compiling[IZPACK-1267] Overriding single instance installer mode brokenHopefully 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. [Less]

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. [IZPACK-1267] Overriding single ... [More] 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. [Less]