IzPack 5.0.8 released

[René Krell]

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.
• Fixed update of 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 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.