IzPack 5.0.0 released

[René Krell]

Dear community,

in behalf of all developers and contributors, and after a short sprint of critical bugfixes, I'm proud to present the final release IzPack 5.0.0. It is a big honour and duty after several years of development to all of you committers and documentation maintainers, bug reporters and those just waiting to migrate.

IzPack 5.0.0 has been really a big piece of work, beginning in 2009 with the work of Anthonin Bonnefoy, who heavily refactored the core and introduced Maven builds and the PicoContainer framework to IzPack, continuing with work of several contributors. Tributes to you all who participated in this!

The list of changes is too big to be added in this post, please see the previous announcements or consult the source code at Github to explore all the commits.

If you migrate from IzPack 4 and earlier please be aware of breaking changes, although the basic principles and XML interfaces have been kept. Please ask in the mailing lists or social networks before reporting bugs.

Using IzPack

There are several ways of integrate IzPack into your build. See the documentation to get an idea how this can be done.

Compiling IzPack

For those who want to compile IzPack by their own:
The IzPack sources and the IzPack Maven plugin is tested to be compatible to Maven up to version 3.2.5. This release is no longer supporting Maven 2.2.1. The minimum Maven version required is now 3.0.

IzPack is still considered to be compiled and deployed based on JDK 6. Due to the backward compatibility of laster JDK versions there's currently still no reason to increase, while it works.

Reporting Issues

Feel free to test and report bugs, either to one of the proper mailing lists or if you can file an issue Atlassian JIRA instance which is finally set up and ready. Please do not use te Github issue tracker if possible, although it is still enabled.

Please check also the project website hosted at Github (the izpack.org domain is still kindly owned and donated by the project founder - thank you Julien).


Enjoy the new version 5.0.0 and keep in touch.