IzPack 5.0.10 released

[René Krell]

Dear community,


IzPack 5.0.10 has been released is officially available now.
Not that many issues have been solved compared to 5.0.9, especially with regard to the holiday time, but it is worth to bring this to the public. 

Highlights:

• There is a new automated mode available now processing option files (containing key-value pairs, similar to properties). The main intention of this mode is to provide default values for variables and automated installers from an external file, which override default variable values for all installation modes, GUI, console and automated installations. Built-in defaults act as fallback, if there are no default values in the provided external file. Therefore this mode is less restrictive regarding the input and probably survives also certain installer changes without generating a new installation record each time.
• The web installer mode had been broken since IzPack 5, this is fixed now (thanks to Marco Meschieri for this contribution).
• Several bugfixes.

This release adds the following changes in particular:

New Feature

• [IZPACK-1421] - Provide variable value overrides from external file

Bug

• [IZPACK-961] - IzPack 5 unable to create web installer
• [IZPACK-1427] - In console mode, hidden packages are not installed
• [IZPACK-1429] - Exceptions that are thrown in izpack GUI do not have any boundaries
• [IZPACK-1430] - Pressing CTRL-C in the language dialog in console mode still shows a stacktrace
• [IZPACK-1433] - Global temporary folder never gets deleted
• [IZPACK-1437] - Changes for IZPACK-1413 broke the generation of auto-install.xml for -console installs

For detailed information see also the Github changelog of version 5.0.10 compared to 5.0.9. 

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. This time, there should be mentioned contributions from Karsten Rölling, Marco Meschieri and Zdeněk Vaník (in alphabetical order) and all the reports from the mailing lists and our issue tracker. 

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

Fingers crossed.