IzPack 5.0.6 released

[René Krell]

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, be patient. 

Special thanks to all contributors and users supporting 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.