IzPack 5.1.0-RC5 release candidate available

[René Krell]

Dear community,


shortly after the previous RC4 there is the next major release candidate IzPack 5.1.0-RC5 available.

This version brings a fix of the new pack compression feature, which has been unfortunately broken on the way. Thanks to Rom Kisel for the quick hints and example.
Furthermore, there is an improved unit test (thanks to Peter Hübner). 

Against 5.1.0-RC4, this release adds the following changes in particular:

Bug Fixes

• [IZPACK-1497] - Serialize actual size of packed file data instead of the size of the original file to enable compression. Post-fix: Deserializing of compressed pack files in installer did not work (used wrong size information of resulting target file).
• [IZPACK-1514] - JUnit test fails if build on Java with non-numeric version parts.

For detailed information see also the Github changelog of version 5.1.0-RC5 compared to 5.1.0-RC4. 

The new release should be replicated to all mirrors of Sonatype Nexus or Maven Central soon, be patient. 

As every time, You're invited to contribute to the code and documentation, or simply write us some news regarding this free project.

Fingers crossed.