What's new in VMware InstallBuilder 24.3.0 2024-03-08
Mar 8, 2024
- Properly detect macOS 13
- Support programmatically disabling buttons
- Improved <getFreeDiskSpace> to gracefully handle scenarios with erroneous filesystems on macOS
- Improve language detection on macOS
- Updated documentation
- Updated internal dependencies
New in VMware InstallBuilder 23.11.0 2023-11-29 (Nov 30, 2023)
- Updated internal dependencies
- Added new <createParentIfNotExists> setting to <yamlFileSet> action
- Improved building on Windows to gracefully handle AntiVirus temporary file locks
- Documented <showDownloadableComponentsProxyPage> setting
- Removed misleading log message in <addScheduledTask> action
- Fixed <addScheduledTask> not properly handling the <executionTimeLimit> setting
- Fixed <propertiesFileTest> rule making the GUI builder crash
- Fixed AutoUpdate not properly handling <downloadLocation> elements without trailing slashes
- Fixed CFBundleGetInfoString not honoring project information in uninstaller.app bundle
New in VMware InstallBuilder 23.10.1 2023-10-03 (Oct 3, 2023)
- Fixed initialization regression on Windows x86 installers
New in VMware InstallBuilder 23.7.0 2023-08-03 (Aug 3, 2023)
- Allow using custom scripts when signing Windows installers
- Improved DLL handling on Windows
- Fixed RPM generation when packing directories with spaces
- Fixed Windows installers failing to launch from some malformed working directories
- Fixed osx-x86_64 type not properly working on <platformTest> rule
- Fixed <linkParameter> incorrectly wrapping text in some scenarios
- Fixed choice dialogs style on macOS when running in osx mode
New in VMware InstallBuilder 23.4.0 2023-04-25 (Apr 26, 2023)
- Added new starts_with and ends_with tests to <compareText> rule
- Improved <choiceParameter> alignment on Windows
- Always include osx-arm64 uninstaller runtime when it is included in the installer
- Fixed splash screen transparency on Windows when running in Qt mode
- Fixed floating licenses not properly working on some M1 machines
New in VMware InstallBuilder 23.1.0 2023-01-13 (Jan 14, 2023)
- Rebrand to Backstaff
- Updated internal dependencies
- Updated documentation
- Fixed macOS signatures not being properly created when using binary launchers and supporting osx-arm64
New in VMware InstallBuilder 22.10.0 2022-10-26 (Oct 27, 2022)
- Support using HTML values in <infoParameter> for all graphical modes
- Added new <enableGlobMatching> setting to <deleteFile> action to allow deleting special filenames
- Improved generation of unique identifiers
- Improved DLL loading on Qt installers
- Improved windows 32-bit runtimes to prevent false positives in some antivirus vendors
- Updated documentation
New in VMware InstallBuilder 22.8.0 2022-08-09 (Aug 9, 2022)
- Added Swiss and Austrian languages
- Updated internal dependencies
- Fixed some HTML licenses making installers crash on Windows x64 when running in win32 mode
- Fixed malformed osx-arm64 signatures when using built-in signing
New in VMware InstallBuilder 22.6.0 2022-07-14 (Jul 16, 2022)
- Fixed binary launcher not properly generated when building osx-arm64 installers
- Fixed <httpGet> action adding erroneous leading characters in the downloaded response when using the osx-arm64 runtime
New in VMware InstallBuilder 22.3.0 2022-05-13 (May 14, 2022)
- Improved signing errors reporting
- Updated internal dependencies
- Support built-in macOS signing using G2 certificates
- Fixed typo in Ukrainian translation
- Fixed qt installers crashing on Linux systems reporting incorrect screen metrics
New in VMware InstallBuilder 21.12.0 2021-02-01 (Feb 2, 2022)
- Added support for Windows 11 and Windows 2022
- Improved temporary file creation on macOS
- Improved Java versions detection
- New windows_os_build_number built-in variable
- Support Centos 6 in linux-arm64 installers
- Fixed DMGs created on Windows not working on macOS Monterey
- Fixed Linux installers failing on some Wayland environments
New in VMware InstallBuilder 21.12.0 2021-02-01 (Feb 2, 2022)
- Added support for Windows 11 and Windows 2022
- Improved temporary file creation on macOS
- Improved Java versions detection
- New windows_os_build_number built-in variable
- Support Centos 6 in linux-arm64 installers
- Fixed DMGs created on Windows not working on macOS Monterey
- Fixed Linux installers failing on some Wayland environments
New in VMware InstallBuilder 21.9.0 2021-10-13 (Oct 14, 2021)
- Support AdoptOpenJDK vendor when autodetecting Java
- Improved visibility of installer initialization errors on Windows
- Improved <createJavaLaunchers> creation to avoid creation issues with the file being locked on Windows
- Fixed macOS Admin launcher not stored as executable when using <createOsxBundleZip>
- Support query parameters in AutoUpdate download URLs
- Enforced AutoUpdate macOS bundle permissions
- Fixed display issues on macOS Monterey
- Fixed Builder popups failing on macOS Monterey
- Fixed osxsigner tool not signing the osx-arm64 runtime when using native signing
New in VMware InstallBuilder 21.6.0 2021-06-25 (Jun 28, 2021)
- Enabled Qt Professional and Professional flavors to build linux-arm32 and linux-arm64
- Updated documentation and updated its look and feel
- Always include osx-x86_64 runtime when generating uninstallers on macOS M1 machines
- Support using three lines of text in installer pages titles without any cropping
- Improved installers compatibility when running on macOS M1
- Improved uninstaller launching process on Windows
- Enforce full path to reg command on Windows
- Fixed environment modification actions not properly preserving Unicode characters on Unix
- Fixed installers crashing on some macOS 10.14.6 environments
New in VMware InstallBuilder 21.3.0 2021-04-06 (Apr 6, 2021)
- Fixed macOS binary launcher executable permissions not enforced when using <createOsxBundleZip>
- Support using osx-x86_64 and osx-arm64 checks in <platformTest> rule
- Fixed Qt mode on arm macOS Big Sur incorrectly displayed when using dark mode
- Fixed malformed admin launcher on macOS arm when signed using the built-in mechanism
- Enforce PIE binary flags on macOS osx-x86_64
- Fixed builder osx-arm64 application crashing on macOS when clicking on top bar menu items
- Fixed code signing of big exe files on Windows x64
New in VMware InstallBuilder 20.12.0 2020-12-28 (Dec 29, 2020)
- Added macOS ARM support
- Added initial support for Linux ARM
- Improved Linux distribution detection
- Improved buttons look and feel on macOS Catalina and newer
- Improved dependencies loading on Windows 7
- Fixed redraw glitch on Windows when using some complex parameter gro
New in VMware InstallBuilder 20.9.0 2020-10-15 (Oct 16, 2020)
- Add support for properly detecting macOS Big Sur as running platform
- Improve <portTest> rule to never fail and log errors instead
- Added support for Zsh shell
- New <propertiesFileTest> rule
- Improved random number generator on Windows platforms
- Fixed macOS installers not properly detecting the proper runtime when running on Apple Silicon ARM Macs
- Fixed installer buttons look and feel on macOS Big Sur
- Fixed HTTPS connections not properly validating when using a proxy
- Prevent hidden parameters from invoking their rules
New in VMware InstallBuilder 20.7.0 2020-08-21 (Aug 22, 2020)
- Improved internal dependencies loading on Windows
- Log uninstaller exit code
- Updated internal dependencies on Windows x86
- Fixed <userTest> account type checks not properly working on Windows x64
- Fixed <runProgram> failing to run inside internationalized directory wen using <wrapInScript> on Windows
- Fixed Qt installers looking for plugins by default at install time
New in VMware InstallBuilder 20.4.0 2020-05-05 (May 5, 2020)
- Fixed build failure when providing malformed booleans for the <enableDebugger> setting
- Fixed high memory usage at build time when packing files by dereferencing links on Windows
- Updated internal dependencies
New in VMware InstallBuilder 20.3.0 2020-04-02 (Apr 2, 2020)
- Prevent installers from using cmd.exe from the installer directory when executing batch scripts on Windows
- Fixed AutoUpdate not honoring proxy settings configured in the INI file when running in interactive mode
- Fixed wrapping glitch in complex parameter groups after revisiting the welcome page on macOS
- Enforce output directory normalization when provided through --setvars
- Fixed crash searching nodes in GUI builder tree in some scenarios
New in VMware InstallBuilder 20.2.0 2019-02-19 (Feb 21, 2020)
- Rebranded to VMware InstallBuilder
- Improved timestamping error detection when signing macOS installers on non-macOS platforms
- Prevent uninstaller from crashing when failing to check for empty directories because of lack of permissions
New in VMware InstallBuilder 20.1.0 2019-01-30 (Jan 31, 2020)
- Fixed Linux installer crashing when exiting on some environments
- Improved internal dependency libraries loading on Windows
- Support using built-in variable ${build_project_directory} in <include> directive
- Improved crash file generation
New in VMware InstallBuilder 19.12.0 2019-12-30 (Dec 30, 2019)
- Updated internal dependencies on Linux/Linux x64 runtimes
- Added Ukrainian language
- Fixed <httpPost> action hanging in some environments when using SSL and contacting a server with an invalid certificate
- Fixed qt mode crashing on some macOS environments when displaying the splash screen
- Fixed builder crash when trying to paste previously deleted tree nodes
- Fixed build failure when enabling the debugger and using signed Windows uninstallers
- Fixed build failure when using custom CA bundles and using signed Windows uninstallers
New in VMware InstallBuilder 19.11.0 2019-12-02 (Dec 3, 2019)
- Updated HTTP/HTTPS internal dependencies
- Improved AutoUpdate handling of malformed update.xml files
- Support --setvars command-line option when building the AutoUpdate
- Support customizing license file location when building the AutoUpdate
- Improved images rendering on macOS Builder
- Improved Windows installers exit handling
- Added .NET 4.8 autodetection
- Updated documentation
- Fixed <enableSsl> not honored on Windows at uninstallation time when using signed uninstallers
- Fixed startmenu shortcuts not being created on windows-x64 installers
- Fixed HTTP actions not honoring customized Accept header
- Fixed false signing failure detection when building on macOS Catalina
New in VMware InstallBuilder 19.10.0 2019-10-15 (Oct 17, 2019)
- Fixed Arabic and Persian languages not properly displayed on macOS 10.15 when running in Qt mode
- Fixed crash on macOS versions older than 10.9 when using the osx-x86_64 runtime and running in Qt mode
New in VMware InstallBuilder 19.9.0 2019-10-02 (Oct 2, 2019)
- Fixed <runProgram> action failing on macOS 10.15 when running in the <postUninstallationActionList>
- Fixed Asian languages not being properly displayed on macOS 10.15 when running in Qt mode
- Preserve built-in registry keys wowMode when updating 32bit Windows installations with Windows 64bit
- Support customizing built-in command-line flags descriptions
- Fixed signing of big DMGs on Windows
New in VMware InstallBuilder 19.8.0 2019-09-01 (Sep 2, 2019)
- Improved <findFile> performance
- Improved disabled controls look and feel on macOS
- Improved widgets text wrapping on macOS
- Added support for HTML licenses in xwindow mode
- Fixed Gtk and Qt proxy pages duplicating its description text
- Fixed <queryWMI> returning only a single result in windows-x64 installers
- Fixed deletion of registry keys when not providing a specific <name> and setting <wowMode> to 32 in windows-x64 installers
- Updated documentation
New in VMware InstallBuilder 19.7.1 2019-07-21 (Jul 22, 2019)
- Improved <kill> action detection by <path>
- Always generate HFS+ dmgs on newest macOS versions to make them compatible with 10.12 and older
- Fixed search Builder GUI search popup crashing on some environments
- Fixed <defaultUnixFilePermissions> not being properly honored
- Fixed <queryWMI> action not properly working in windows-x64 installers
- Fixed <wowMode> not being properly honored in windows-x64 installers
- Fixed <singleInstanceCheck> always triggering in windows-x64 installers
New in VMware InstallBuilder 19.7.0 2019-07-10 (Jul 11, 2019)
- This release addresses an important security issue in Windows related to how installers are signed on this platform. More details to follow.
- Fixed macOS signature not being properly validated on versions older than 10.11.6
New in VMware InstallBuilder 19.6.0 2019-06-28 (Jun 28, 2019)
- Support creating macOS signatures with hardened runtime enabled to allow notarization
- POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY: Changed <osxPlatforms> default value to osx-x86_64
- New installer_http_proxy variable to programmatically access the provided proxy information
- Updated documentation
- Fixed some Windows configuration attributes not being properly applied to Windows-x64 Java launchers
- Fixed proxy page not honoring the provided configuration when running in text mode
- Fixed Linux builder failing on some environments with misconfigured time zone
- Fixed missing localized string
New in VMware InstallBuilder 19.5.0 2019-05-13 (May 13, 2019)
- Added new windows-x64 build platform
- Added 64bit version of osxsigner tool
- Fixed malformed logic in <iniFileTest> rule
- Fixed welcome page displaying truncated trailing letters on some macOS environments
- Updated documentation
New in VMware InstallBuilder 19.4.1 2019-04-17 (Apr 17, 2019)
- Fixed incorrect final page layout on macOS when enabling the osx-x86_64 runtime
- Improved <setInstallerVariableFromRegEx> error reporting
New in VMware InstallBuilder 19.4.1 2019-04-16 (Apr 17, 2019)
- Fixed incorrect final page layout on macOS when enabling the osx-x86_64 runtime
- Improved <setInstallerVariableFromRegEx> error reporting
New in VMware InstallBuilder 19.4.0 2019-04-09 (Apr 10, 2019)
- Improved <getPermissions> error reporting when operating over non-existent files
- Fixed Windows AutoUpdate generation failing because of malformed default icon
- Allow <componentTest> rule to take into account parent components in its checks
New in VMware InstallBuilder 19.3.0 2019-03-26 (Mar 26, 2019)
- New <validatedActionGroup> action
- Added <useLauncherDirectoryAsWorkingDirectory> to Java launchers to allow preserving the current working directory on execution
- Added Windows Server 2019 support
- Improved documentation
- Updated zlib dependency on Linux and Windows
- Fixed macOS installers always exiting with zero code when enabling <requireInstallationByRootUser>
- Fixed some Builder popups not kept on top when running on macOS
- Fixed installers aborting at startup on some solaris and linux-ia64 environments
- Fixed macOS installers incorrectly wrapping text on some languages
- Fixed custom <uninstallerDirectory> not being removed on macOS
- Fixed outdated welcome screen
- Fixed <findFile> returning malformed results when invoked in the installer_directory
New in VMware InstallBuilder 19.2.0 2019-02-04 (Feb 4, 2019)
- Fix security fixes with installers when using the <enableEncryption> functionality
New in VMware InstallBuilder 19.1.0 2019-02-01 (Feb 1, 2019)
- Added support for FreeBSD 10 and higher
- New <iniFileTest> rule
- Improved GUI responsiveness during <autoDetectJava> action
New in VMware InstallBuilder 18.12.0 2018-21-31 (Jan 1, 2019)
- Reduced memory usage building and running big project installers
- Fixed license page text not properly wrapping in some macOS scenarios when running in Qt mode
- Updated documentation to include new Java 11 bundles
- Fixed "InstallLocation" Windows registry value being improperly quoted
New in VMware InstallBuilder 18.11.0 2018-11-30 (Dec 1, 2018)
- Fixed popup button localization not properly working on OS X when running in Qt mode
- Fixed <choiceParameterGroup> failing in some text mode scenarios when wrapped in a <booleanParameterGroup> with <validationType> set to always
- T27733 Improve linux details detection
New in VMware InstallBuilder 18.10.0 2018-11-01 (Nov 1, 2018)
- Added support for MacOS 10.14
- Improved detection of Windows system and user folders
- Fixed fail to validate floating license error
- Fixed not being able to disable HTTP proxy from installer GUI in certain cases
New in VMware InstallBuilder 18.8.0 2018-10-01 (Oct 1, 2018)
- New <getDiskUsage> action
- Improved boolean parameter display in win32, osx and xwindow GUI modes
- Improved performance of multiple actions using pattern for matching files
New in VMware InstallBuilder 18.8.0 2018-08-29 (Aug 29, 2018)
- Allowed the debugger to run in all unattended modes
- Improved system DPI granularity handling on Windows
- Improved <labelParameter> wrapping on some macOS environments
- Properly quoted UninstallString and Location registry entries on Windows
New in VMware InstallBuilder 18.7.0 2018-07-25 (Jul 26, 2018)
- Improved <singleInstanceCheck> on Unix platforms
- Fixed incorrect label wrapping in some macOS environments
New in VMware InstallBuilder 18.6.0 2018-06-29 (Jun 29, 2018)
- Add <addFilesToUninstaller> option to <unzip>, <unpackFile> and <unpackDirectory> actions unpacking files to have them automatically removed by uninstaller
- Improved generation of DMGs over 4GB
- Allow signing of DMGs over 4GB
- Make <propertiesFileSet> add a trailing newline when appending new values
- Use display language rather than region for auto-detecting language on Windows
New in VMware InstallBuilder 18.5.2 2018-05-28 (May 28, 2018)
- Fixed AutoUpdate hanging in some macOS environments when enabling the osx-x86_64 runtime
- Fixed AutoUpdate not honoring the <enableSslSupport> setting on osx-x86_64 runtime
New in VMware InstallBuilder 18.5.1 2018-05-24 (May 25, 2018)
- Fixed installers using the osx-x86_64 runtime hanging in some macOS scenarios when enabling <requireInstallationByRootUser> and running in qt mode
- Improved .NET autodetection to support version 4.7
- Update documentation
New in VMware InstallBuilder 18.5.0 2018-05-10 (May 11, 2018)
- Added support for Java 10 version detection
- Fixed osxsigner external tool not signing the osx-x86_64 runtime when using native mode
- Fixed Abort/Retry/Ignore dialog buttons in qt mode when using the osx-x86_64 runtime
- Fixed error showing the uninstallation finished popup in osx mode when disabling uninstallation confirmation in the osx-x86_64 runtime
- Fixed "setuid is not allowed" error on macOS when using unattended mode with minimal UI
- Fixed crash occurring in some scenarios when using qt mode with the osx-x86_64 runtime at initialization time
New in VMware InstallBuilder 18.4.0 2018-04-18 (Apr 19, 2018)
- Added initial retina display support for osx mode when using the 64-bit runtime
- Fixed final page checkboxes alignment in osx and xwindow modes
New in VMware InstallBuilder 18.3.0 2018-03-28 (Mar 28, 2018)
- Fixed DMG background image not being properly configured in some environments
- Fixed HTML license text encoding handling in win32 and osx installation modes
New in VMware InstallBuilder 18.2.0 2018-02-28 (Feb 28, 2018)
- Allow <preShowHelpActionList> to modify which parameters/components will be displayed in the help menu
- Fixed <kill> action not working with 64-bit binaries on Windows
- Improved horizontal parameter group layout in gtk mode
- Improved <linkParameter> look and feel in osx and win32 modes when displayed inside parameter groups
New in VMware InstallBuilder 17.12.0 2017-12-21 (Dec 21, 2017)
- Support generating large DMG files on Linux
- Fixed crash opening some external files from the Builder on macOS
New in VMware InstallBuilder 17.11.0 2017-12-01 (Dec 1, 2017)
- Improved Java autodetection to fully support Java 9
New in VMware InstallBuilder 17.10.0 2017-10-30 (Oct 30, 2017)
- Fixed InstallBuilder not fully exiting at end of installation on some Linux environments
New in VMware InstallBuilder 17.10.0 (Oct 27, 2017)
- Improved uninstallation speed when using GUI
New in VMware InstallBuilder 17.9.0 (Oct 2, 2017)
- Allow modification of <passwordParameter>'s <askForConfirmation> in it's <preShowPageActionList>
- Fixed installer appearing minimized on OS X when running with splash screen disabled in Qt mode
- Fixed installers failing to start inside directories containing special characters
- Properly display license files with BOM character
New in VMware InstallBuilder 17.8.0 (Sep 4, 2017)
- Improved <labelParemeter> alignment on win32/osx/xwindow modes
- Documentation updates
- POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY: Made parameter group validation in text mode behave as in GUI modes, not running <postShowPageActionList> unless validation succeeds
New in VMware InstallBuilder 17.7.0 (Jul 27, 2017)
- Added Retina Display support for the Builder application
- Added support for macOS High Sierra (10.13)
- Reduced memory usage when signing big DMG files
- Improved option files BOM support
- Improved <registerWithPackageDatabase> documentation
- Removed trailing spaces when creating Windows services without arguments
- Limited number of cores when decompressing lzma-ultra/lzham-ultra with high page sizes on Linux x86
- Fixed FTP downloads not fully finishing in some environments
New in VMware InstallBuilder 17.6.0 (Jun 6, 2017)
- Added support for for option files encoded with BOM
- Fixed <fileContentTest> default logic
- Fixed occasional installer creation errors when using builder on certain Windows environments
- Fixed Cyrillic characters not being properly displayed in Qt mode
New in VMware InstallBuilder 17.4.0 (Apr 28, 2017)
- Added more translations for non-English languages
New in VMware InstallBuilder 17.3.0 (Mar 8, 2017)
- Fixed builder GUI issues when modifying <httpPost> actions
- Minor fix on Italian translations
New in VMware InstallBuilder 17.2.0 (Feb 27, 2017)
- Improved translations
- Improved Ubuntu OS detection
- Documentation updates
- Improved syncdebugtrace generation
- Fixed unzip action failing to uncompress files in certain scenarios
- Fixed AutoUpdate not properly detecting versions when using large version IDs
New in VMware InstallBuilder 17.1.0 (Jan 31, 2017)
- Allow sending data payloads in <httpPost> action
- Added support for Windows Server 2016
- Improved error handling when running on Linux systems with misconfigured or non-existent font support
- Disabled <runAsShell> property for <runProgram> action on Solaris due to incompatibilities
- Fixed DMG verification errors on some OS X environments
New in VMware InstallBuilder 16.12.0 (Dec 31, 2016)
- Minor documentation fixes
New in VMware InstallBuilder 16.11.1 (Dec 6, 2016)
- Fixed new DMG building tools not properly bundled
New in VMware InstallBuilder 16.11.0 (Dec 2, 2016)
- Added support for building signed DMG files
- Fixed allignment issues in for non-Qt based installers
New in VMware InstallBuilder 16.10.0 (Dec 2, 2016)
- Fixed potential DLL hijacking vulnerability on Windows
- Fixed issue when centering a non-progress dialog windows in Win32, XWindow and OSX modes
- Fixed when used inside a in Qt mode
- Improved log file localisation on Windows
New in VMware InstallBuilder 16.9.0 (Dec 2, 2016)
- Improved UI responsiveness when running long action lists
- Prevent installer cancellation while uninstaller creation
- Fixed pop-ups centering when running in multi-monitor setups
- Fixed action not properly interpreting the attribute
New in VMware InstallBuilder 16.8.0 (Sep 7, 2016)
- Added support for using PKCS12 files with the osxsigner tool
- Fixed action affecting versions without build specifier in certain cases
- Fixed temporary file left behind when cancelling the installation while unpacking
- Fixed action hanging in some corner cases in Qt mode
New in VMware InstallBuilder 16.7.0 (Aug 3, 2016)
- Improved action to recognize .NET framework 4.6
- Fixed project property not working properly
- Fixed Java autodetection functionality to allow versions with 3 digits
- Fixed Windows nested signing not working properly in certain environments
New in VMware InstallBuilder 16.6.0 (Jul 5, 2016)
- Improved Windows signing methods to allow nesting multiple signatures
- Improved final page check boxes by making their labels clickable
- Improved error reporting when failing to pack non readable files
- Fixed build error on Windows if any of the version components includes a leading 0 followed by another digit
- Fixed some strings not being localized in the Autoupdate
- Fixed folder ownership issue in certain scenarios
- Fixed dialogs not being shown in unattended graphical mode when using 32bit installer on 64 Linux systems
- Fixed Java launchers failing to print to console in certain Windows environments
New in VMware InstallBuilder 16.4.0 (Apr 26, 2016)
- New AutoUpdate action list autoUpdateInitializationActionList to allow executing actions at initialization time
- Fixed runProgram failing in some Windows scenarios at build time when invoked from builder-cli
- Fixed OK button not being properly localized in showChoiceQuestion dialog when running in gtk mode
- Properly set a default value for the property of the getDiskUsage action
New in VMware InstallBuilder 16.3.0 (Mar 31, 2016)
- New queryWMI action to allow querying WMI from InstallBuilder
- New osxApplicationBundleName and osxApplicationBundleVersion properties for Java launchers
- Improved infoParameter look and feel when used inside a parameterGroup in Qt mode
- Improved performance of uninstallation and unpacking process in upgrade mode
- Fixed icons not working properly for CLI-based Java launcher on Windows
- Fixed not properly working on some Windows environments
- Fixed builder recent files not correctly saved with paths including non-ascii symbols
New in VMware InstallBuilder 16.1.0 (Feb 3, 2016)
- Improved LZMA/LZHAM ultra compression settings in CD-ROM mode
- Improved Windows icons handling to support arbitrary sizes
- Fixed AutoUpdate not properly exiting after launching updates in unattended mode
- Improved action
- New project property
- Added new options 'nativeAbsolutize' and 'nativize' to action
- Make Action Groups show their in the builder GUI tree if non empty
- New project property to allow configuring the dpiAware Windows executable manifest setting
- POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY: Disabled UPX compression by default on Windows
- Updated documentation
- Made a Linux-only property
- Fixed action not properly working on CD-ROM mode
- Fixed HTML widgets not properly handling mouse clicks on non-qt modes
New in VMware InstallBuilder 15.10.1 (Nov 12, 2015)
- Added option to use a specific shell with
- Fixed internal XML tag being incorrectly serialized in action
New in VMware InstallBuilder 15.10.0 (Nov 12, 2015)
- Fixed HTTPS downloads sometimes not working correctly when proxy is enabled
- Fixed builder proxy preferences dialog not always properly saving its data
- Fixed issues with OS X signing in some Linux environments
- Fixed ${required_diskspace} in CD-ROM mode
- Improved license page look and feel on OS X 10.11 when running in Qt mode
- Improved action to use the full detected version when ordering its results
- Fixed installers throwing an unknown error when trying to enable/disable components inside a component group from command line
- Fixed component selection page losing focus when enabling components
New in VMware InstallBuilder 15.9.0 (Sep 21, 2015)
- Added support for Windows 10 and OS X 10.11
- Allow and actions to configure extra HTTP headers
- Added new to allow configuring the timestamp format for the default log messages
- Added Azerbaijani, Basque, Persian, Indonesian, Kazakh, Turkmen and Vietnamese languages to InstallBuilder
- Added SNI support for HTTPS connections
- New installer_pid built-in variable
- New action to allow retrieving the current working directory
- Added setting to action
- Allow using a proxy when time stamping Windows installers signing
- Improved proxy settings handling in HTTPS connections
- Improved detection of Debian 8 and CentOS 7 platforms
- Improved detection of domain accounts
- Improved permissions handling in and action
- Improved uninstaller creation to avoid issues with antivirus software on Windows
- Silenced debug messages printed to console when calling action on Linux
- Fixed incorrect default values for and rules
- Fixed Linux legacy mode failing in parallel decompression mode
- Fixed cmd+c/cmd+v bindings on OS X when running in Qt mode
- Fixed not properly accepting input in text mode after providing incorrect values
- Fixed not properly expanding vertically in Qt mode
- Fixed building of downloadable components not properly calculating the number of cores in the machine
- Fixed enabling focus to disabled child parameters
- Fixed CDROM mode failing in some environments
- Fixed conditional slide images rules not being properly recalculated after changes
- Fixed text wrapping not being properly calculated in GTK mode
- Fixed memory leak in XML manipulation actions
- Fixed not properly displayed in GTK unattended with dialogs mode
- Fixed top translucent menu on OS X when running in Qt mode
- Fixed unzip action not properly working on some scenarios when running on AIX
- Fixed platform_install_prefix not always using the 64bit program files path when enabling
New in VMware InstallBuilder 15.1.0 (May 12, 2015)
- Allow signing Windows and OS X installers on Windows, Linux and OS X
- Support DMG with custom backgrounds creation on Windows, Linux and OS X
- Improved LZMA/LZMA-ultra compression and decompression speed
- New compression algorithms LZHAM and LZHAM-ultra
- Fixed splash screen not properly refreshed on Fedora 21
- Improve action to merge directories on destination
- Allow specifying specific products in rule
- Allow searching in the Builder tree
- Fixed Builder GUI popups not being big enough to accommodate all settings in some cases
- Fixed LZMA-Ultra compression error when building in directories with spaces
New in VMware InstallBuilder 9.5.5 (Jan 24, 2015)
- Fixed installers failing on some RHEL/CentOS 7 environments when running in text mode
- Fixed slide images not always being properly refreshed on xwindow mode
New in VMware InstallBuilder 9.5.4 (Jan 19, 2015)
- Improved parameters wrapping on gtk mode
- Added new installer_http_code built-in variable to retrieve the result of HTTP actions
- Improved performance unpacking folders with a large number of files
- Reduced time spent in files to pack calculation at build time
- Reduced TLS initialization time on Windows
- Added to action
- Added RHEL 7 platform detection
- Improved action to allow overwriting directories on destination
- Allow configuring the for which will add the startup item
- Allow configuring look and feel behaviour of unselected options in parameters
- Improved component selection page to properly scale with wide installers
- Fixed issues loading some PNG images on CentOS 7
- Fixed gtk mode failing to start on RHEL/CentOS 7
- Fixed encoding errors in environment-manipulation actions
- Fixed Qt installers not being properly set on top of other windows when launched on some OS X environments
New in VMware InstallBuilder 9.5.3 (Nov 10, 2014)
- Fixed installer window not being properly centered on Windows when running in Qt mode and using large left side images
- Improved "Abort, Retry, Ignore" dialog to properly translate its buttons
- Removed extra debug messages printed on Windows
- Updated documentation
New in VMware InstallBuilder 9.5.2 (Nov 5, 2014)
- Added TLS v1.1 and v1.2 support
- Improved performance of GUI mode when unpacking large amount of small files
- Added Major and Minor version to Windows ARP Menu information
- Fixed dialog failing on some environments
- Improved CPU detection
New in VMware InstallBuilder 9.5.1 (Oct 17, 2014)
- Enabled TLSv1 support in HTTPS actions
- Improved builder tool look and feel on Windows when using HiDPI configurations
- New action
- Improved multiline-text wrapping on 'win32' and 'osx' modes
- Improved to fallback to 'user' scope on Windows in case of error
- Improved setting to support variables
- Fixed OS X installer generation failing on some environments because of permission denied errors
- Fixed 'installer_command_line_arguments' built-in variable not properly calculated on some Windows environments
- Fixed 'osxsigner' tool not properly signing installers with enabled
- Fixed RPM installers not properly cleaned up after uninstallation
New in VMware InstallBuilder 9.5.0 (Sep 30, 2014)
- Allow generating installers larger than 2GB on Windows, Linux and OS X
- Make XML Editor popups ask for confirmation when closed with unsaved changes
- Allow configuring the LZMA-Ultra compressor block size through the setting
- New rule to allow checking for resource limits on Unix systems
- Fixed ampersand not properly shown in the final page using Qt mode on Windows
- Allow Java launchers to be built at build time
- Improved how the "Fonts" directory location is calculated on Windows
- Added and to action
- Improved to also detect "Stop Pending" status as running.
- Added to allow providing a fallback temporary directory
- Dropped OS X 10.2 support
- Fixed XML Editor popup not providing details in its error when providing incorrect code
- Fixed not properly wrapping its text in GTK mode
- Fixed "Add Shortcut" Builder dialog throwing an error when closing the popup
- Fixed LZMA-Ultra compression not properly detecting duplicated files when packing in some environments
- Fixed InstallBuilder installer and AutoUpdate not including PPC runtimes
New in VMware InstallBuilder 9.0.2 (Jun 26, 2014)
- Improved Gtk mode to properly run in systems without the recently deprecated Pangox library
- Improved Java detection on Unix
- Improved German translation
- Fixed CDROM build mode not properly working when using the the GUI builder
- Allow customizing CFBundleIdentifier OS X setting in the AutoUpdate and Java launchers
- Fixed error when displaying some combinations of multiline text labels in qt mode
- Fixed error when providing incorrect values for the project setting
- Fixed language selection dialog not being focused on OS X when running in Qt mode
- Fixed Java Launcher creation failing in some environments when using downloadable components
- Fixed AutoUpdate build when disabling osx-ppc runtime inclusion
- Fixed Builder Preferences menu failing because of denied permissions in some Windows environments
- Fixed RPM installation hanging on Alt linux
New in VMware InstallBuilder 9.0.1 (May 15, 2014)
- Fixed Windows single-platform licenses not being properly validated by the Builder
- Fixed Builder "Recent Projects" menu entry not listing results on Windows
- Fixed and not properly working on osx mode
- Fixed tag of actions not properly handling the "codepage" type
- Properly handle 301/302 redirects for URLs containing ports in and actions
New in VMware InstallBuilder 9.0.0 (May 9, 2014)
- Added new compression algorithm LZMA-ultra to allow higher compression ration and faster decompression
- Added official support for OS X 10.9 and improved Windows 8 support
- Added support for Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2
- Improved support for Ubuntu 14.04
- Added floating licenses support
- Added Retina Display support on OS X in qt mode
- New feature to allow creating user defined rules
- Added support for HTML licenses in all flavors for Windows, Linux and OS X
- Reduced memory consumed when unpacking files
- Reduced memory consumed by downloadable components
- Reduced memory consumed by update installers
- Reduced installation time in GUI mode, specially on Windows
- Reduced uninstaller startup time on Windows
- Fixed signing issues on 10.9 when enabling
- New ${installbuilder_output_directory} and ${installbuilder_output_filename} built-in variables to allow retrieving the output directory and output installer filename at build time
- New tag to allow compressing generated OS X installers as ZIP files
- New action to allow retrieving the total disk space
- New action to retrieve the name and PID of the application using a given port
- Added support for IPv6 in rule
- New ${machine_swap_memory} built-in variable to allow retrieving the amount of swap memory in the system
- Improved license pages look and feel on OS X
- Improved Java launchers creation to avoid making the installer unresponsive while serializing them
- Improved action to recognize OpenJDK versions on FreeBSD and JRE 7 on OS X
- Allow language files to support UCN escape sequences
- Added Thai and Latvian languages
- Improved Chinese, Czech, Norwegian, Danish and Japanese translations
- Allow running installers with the debugger enabled directly from the builder
- Improved win32 mode to make the installers automatically adapt to different DPI settings
- Improved rule to support 'linux-x86' as a valid platform
- Improved action to support backreferences
- Improved parameter to allow grouping pages
- Allow editing custom action instances in the builder GUI
- Allow action to also remove links
- Allow folders to configure whether to have its files added to the uninstaller or not
- Allow downloadable components feature to reuse already downloaded files
- Improved action to recognize .NET framework 4.5
- Improved to ignore malformed lines
- Allow Java launchers to read and override its values from a .properties file
- Allow disabling pinning shortcuts to Start elements on Windows 7/Windows 8
- Added linux-s390x as an independent build platform
- Make the builder warn the user and ask for confirmation if unsaved changes are not properly applied when closing a project
- Allow "Select All" keyboard bindings in all text widgets
- Improved mode to perform a full uninstallation when no more visible components remain installed
- Make start menu shortcut creation fall back to use the user's directory when it has no permissions to write in the global scope
- Make installer serialize the ARP Menu registry keys under the HKEY_CURRENT_USER root key when the scope is set to user
- Deprecated Windows 2000 and ME platforms
- Set uninstaller.dat file permissions on Unix so only the owner can modify it
- POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY: Changed default value so only osx-intel support is included by default
- POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY: Added ".git" and ".hg" to tag
- Fixed not properly preserving the source file encoding
- Fixed Java launchers not being properly cleaned up at uninstallation on OS X
- Fixed file permissions issues when adding environment variables when running as root on OS X
- Fixed xwindow mode and builder crashing on Ubuntu 14.04 32bit
- Fixed and actions not properly preserving file encodings
- Fixed language selection dialog not alphabetically ordering its languages
- Fixed enter key binding on some OS X environments
- Fixed upgrade mode failing in some environments when upgrading installations built by old InstallBuilder versions
- Fixed builder creating corrupted binaries in some environments when enabling encryption
- Fixed downloadable components not being properly cleaned up if the uninstaller creation is disabled
- Fixed wrapping issues in qt mode
- Fixed not allowing ampersand (&) characters in its options text
- Fixed setting not being taken into account when uninstalling individual components
- Fixed rule failing in some Windows environments
- Fixed setting not being honoured when writing registry keys
- Fixed setting not being applied to pages
- Fixed ${installer_interactivity} built-in variable not being defined at uninstallation time
- Fixed slow redraw of pages when enabling fixed fonts
- Fixed error trying to load projects with strange characters in its filename
- Fixed long component selection pages being cut off on Windows and OS X
- Fixed some window grabbing issues in some environments when using the builder
- Fixed win32, osx and xwindow modes not being properly centered when using large window heights
- Fixed XML comments format not properly preserved by the builder
New in VMware InstallBuilder 8.6.0 (Jun 30, 2013)
- Improved text wrapping on Gtk mode
- Improved to also work at uninstallation time
- Added Serbian and Lithuanian languages
- Improved required_diskspace variable to also work at build time
- Reduced delay when calculating the files to unpack
- Improved to support spaces in the path
- Improved rule
- Improved download progress meter reporting
- Improved Chinese language autodetection
- Allow Java launchers to be executed in the background
- Added new setting
- Allow configuring JRE/JDK selection order for Java launchers
- Made builder ignore missing images if they do not belong to the platform being built
- Made action ignore directories
- Improved builder error reporting when packing distribution files with empty
- Improved InstallBuilder XML errors reporting
- Improved detection of HTTP idle connections
- Allow configuring whether or not component groups should appear expanded
- Allow reusing already downloaded components if their checksum matches
- Fixed errors when downloading components bigger than 2GB in some environments
- Fixed component groups not properly displaying Unicode characters in Qt mode
- Fixed RPM and DEB packages failing to install in some environments
- Fixed GUI glitch in file and directory parameters in Windows 2008 SP2 x64 when enabling 64bit mode
- Fixed incorrect progress message when enabling at uninstallation time
- Fixed rule default logic
New in VMware InstallBuilder 8.5.2 (Feb 7, 2013)
- Fixed language selection dialog location for multiple monitors on Windows
- Fixed archives created with action creating directory records showing as files in Windows Explorer
- Added detection of missing distribution file/directory in CD-ROM mode
- Fixed support for HTTP chunked encoding transfers in InstallBuilder
- Added handling of HTTP error codes for autoupdate
- Improved unpacking and removal of read-only files or directories
- Improved handling of archives with incorrect file/directory mode for action
New in VMware InstallBuilder 8.5.1 (Oct 24, 2012)
- Updated documentation
- Improved Windows 8 and Windows 2012 compatibility
- Improved handling of errors in Windows services actions
- Improved and actions to support Windows domains
- Make AutoUpdate iterate over the list of mirrors in case of error when running in unattended mode
- Added high resolution icon for OS X installers compatible with Retina Display
- Improved look and feel
- Improved action
- Fixed uninstallation not being aborted when closing the uninstaller window in some scenarios
- Fixed page wrapping on Gtk mode
- Fixed choice selection widget crashing in some Windows environments
- Fixed uninstaller creation failing in some Windows scenarios when calling the installer using a relative symbolic links
New in VMware InstallBuilder 8.5.0 (Aug 7, 2012)
- Improved performance when building downloadable components
- Reduced uninstaller creation time on Solaris
- Fixed dialog failing in some environments
- Updated documentation
- Fixed required_diskspace built-in variable not properly calculated when enabling
- Fixed Qt Installers are not properly centered on Windows
- Prevent the uninstaller from aborting when trying to close the window
- Fixed and explanation text wrapping
- Fixed component description label not properly wrapping on some environments
- Fixed --onlyprojectfiles command line flag not working when using downloadable components
New in VMware InstallBuilder 8.3.0 (Jul 16, 2012)
- Disabled the debugger in platforms other than Windows, Linux and OS X
- Improved Java launchers to support generating console applications
- Improved xwindow mode to support the setting
- Added French translation to the AutoUpdate tool
- Added text mode support when using minimalWithDialogs UI mode
- Improved platform_name built-in variable to allow identifying CDROM builds programmatically
- Updated documentation
- New installer_error_code and installer_error_code_original built-in variables
- Fixed rule not properly working in some scenarios
- Fixed some files being packed twice on Windows
- Fixed not properly working in some Windows scenarios
- Fixed uninstaller not properly finding its data file in some scenarios
- Fixed not triggering the in case of error
- Properly set the installation log permissions when configuring the and settings
- Fixed action not properly configuring its scope
- Fixed components not allowing programmatic selection at some points of the installation when enabling
New in VMware InstallBuilder 8.2.0 (Apr 28, 2012)
- New feature: Password protected encryption of installer payload
- Added support for ksh shell in environment variable actions
- Improved action to allow configuring the bitness (32bit/64bit) of the target Java runtime
- Improved action to support wildcards
- Improved ini file actions to support both hashes and semicolons as comment characters
- Fixed 32 bit installers crashing in Linux Mint x64 when running in gtk mode
- Fixed system language not being properly detected in some Unix environments
- Fixed unattendedmodeui setting not properly displaying its default value in the help menu
- Fixed failing at uninstallation time in some environments
- Fixed required parameters being mandatory even if its parent parameter is not selected
- Fixed nested uninstaller calls not properly working on Windows
New in VMware InstallBuilder 8.1.0 (Mar 8, 2012)
- Updated documentation
- Reduced memory consumed by big installers
- Improved Builder GUI drag and drop when using non-default DPI settings
- Improved startup time in qt mode when using a big number of directory parameters
- Fix crash when failing to delete locked DLLs
- Fixed installers failing when displaying some component groups configurations
- Fixed Windows shortcuts cache not being properly refreshed on uninstallation
- Fixed downloadable components not properly verifying the download checksum in some environments
- Fixed action not properly working when invoked inside loop actions
- Fixed AutoUpdate not properly normalizing the update download location
- Fixed failing in some Windows 64bits environments when is enabled
- Fixed some actions not properly executed in the
- Fixed installer not being deleted in some environments when is enabled
New in VMware InstallBuilder 8.0.2 (Jan 25, 2012)
- Improved example projects and made them easily accessible through the builder GUI
- Added HTTPS support for Linux, Windows and OS X for and actions as well as for the autoupdater
- Improved downloadable components to allow resuming failed downloads
- Added new tag to action
- Improved error handling when none of the configured allowed display modes can be initialized
- Improved built-in pages to display runtime changes of the property
- Fixed HTTP-related actions failing in some Windows 64bit environments
- Fixed rule not properly checking child components
- Fixed Qt mode not properly displaying right-to-left languages
- Fixed Gtk custom style not properly wrapping some parameter pages text
- Fixed action failing in some Windows environments when passing arguments containing % characters
- Fixed installer failing when launched in some partially broken HP-UX environments
- Fixed incorrect encoding in Italian language
- Fixed crashing when providing multiple options with the same text
- Fixed InstallBuilder's User Guide link in start menu on Windows
- Fixed Gtk progress bar writing warnings to console in some environments
- Fixed not being properly vertically aligned
New in VMware InstallBuilder 8.0.1 (Dec 1, 2011)
- Added new installer_command_line_arguments built-in variable
- Added new regular expressions section to the documentation
- Allow to be used in the
- Prevent from failing because of warnings when adding the services
- Improved slide show images alignment on OS X and Windows in qt mode
- Fixed debugger failing in some environments when editing the executed action list
- Fixed debugger crashing when right clicking in the Variables Editor root node
- Fixed builder crashing when editing actions and enabling advanced syntax mode
- Fixed builder crashing when building projects on some solaris-intel environments
- Fixed Gtk mode crashing in directory selection in some partially broken environments
New in VMware InstallBuilder 8.0.0 (Nov 10, 2011)
- Implemented built-in debugger
- Improved component system to allow tree component selection
- Improved component system to allow downloading components from a remote server at runtime
- Improved component system to allow adding and removing components from an installation
- New to allow enabling/disabling a set of child parameters dynamically
- New to allow exclusively enabling a parameter from a set of childs dynamically
- Updated documentation
- Improved quickbuild performance in GUI mode
- Added new dotnet_framework_type built-in variable
- Improved all languages translations
- Improved AutoUpdate to support redirects
- Fixed slide show alignment on qt mode
- Improved GUI to allow hiding advanced settings
- Prevent components configured with canBeEdited=0 from being configured from the command line
- Make evaluation version message more clear on qt and gtk modes
- Fixed Java launchers throwing an unknown error message when the launched application returned with a non-zero exit code
New in VMware InstallBuilder 7.2.6 (Oct 20, 2011)
- Updated documentation
- Fixed qt mode text widget not properly wrapping its content on Windows
- Added support for tcsh shell in environment variable actions
- Fixed rule not properly recognizing osx-intel type on some 64bit environments
- Improved Italian translation
- Improved .password suffix to support nested variables
- Speed up uninstaller creation on Windows
- Now aborting the installation when canceling the language selection also triggers the
- Improved AutoUpdate to support the feature
- Fixed builder crashing in some Windows environments when browsing for image files
- Fixed action not properly handling parameters
New in VMware InstallBuilder 7.2.5 (Sep 7, 2011)
- Updated documentation
- Improved Dutch language support
- Fixed language files not being properly loaded when including a BOM
- Improved action to properly deal with SELinux
- Fixed packed folders not being deleted when using multiple hierarchy tags.
- Improved Installer.RebootRequired string to allow variables
- Fixed custom uninstaller directory not being deleted in some environments
New in VMware InstallBuilder 7.2.4 (Aug 10, 2011)
- Updated documentation
- Allow executing .cmd scripts on Windows
- Added contextual menu to GUI entry widgets to allow restoring the original value being edited
- Fixed installers not deleting the current file being unpacked when canceling the installation in some environments
- Improved properties editor dialog to validate user input
- Fixed and actions failing in some Windows environments because of the download file being locked
- Improved registry actions to work with and actions
New in VMware InstallBuilder 7.2.3 (Aug 2, 2011)
- Improved Italian, Czech and Russian language support
- Added support for HTTP redirects in and actions
- New --verbose command line flag added to command line builder
- Added new tag to file manipulation actions to allow configuring the EOL handling
- New rule
- Improved performance of action
- Improved AutoUpdate to allow configuring its output directory and filename
- Improved built-in pages language strings to support variables modified at any point at runtime
- Improved widget alignment in nested parameter groups in qt mode
- Fixed action failing in some environments
- Dropped Windows 98 support
- Added examples for all actions to the documentation
- Improved deb generation to allow providing custom conffiles files
- Improved action to properly work on OS X 10.7
- Fixed action failing in some environments
- Fixed installers failing on OS X with some thirdparty system fonts configuration
- Improved the file packing filters to support semicolon separated patterns
- Improved command line builder to support displaying text mode popups when building
- Improved GUI builder to accept the information provided through the --setvars flag
- Added new built-in variable installbuilder_ui
- Allow Arabic language to be selectable through the GUI builder
- Allow providing short version of registry root keys to registry actions
- Allow launching scrips from directories containing "&" characters
- Improved final page text wrapping
- Fixed some environment variable actions now properly working in some Windows environments
New in VMware InstallBuilder 7.2.2 (Jun 21, 2011)
- Updated documentation
- New Search dialog for GUI Builder XML editor
- Disabled "Save" and "Save As" menu entries in GUI Builder when no project is loaded
- Fixed action not properly registering variables in some scenarios.
- Skipped mirror selection page in AutoUpdate tool when just one option is available
- New action to create absolute paths
- Fixed not saving the password when accepting the dialog by pressing enter
- Improved rule to also include default Windows firewall
- Improved Russian language support
- New project setting to allow disabling the creation of the Add Remove Programs entry on windows
- Improved action to support latest Windows versions
- Added Support for shiftjis encoding on HP-UX in text mode
New in VMware InstallBuilder 7.2.1 (Jun 6, 2011)
- Improved Albanian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Danish, Finnish, Argentine Spanish, Slovak, Swedish and Turkish language support
- Updated documentation
- Speed up installer startup time when being launched from a network drive
- New and actions
- Improved administrator user check in HP-UX platform
- Improved and action settings to support variables
- Improved minimalWithDialogs mode look and feel
- Fixed text not being correctly wrapped in some in osx and win32 modes
- Fixed entries misaligned in some languages
- Fixed GUI "Files" tree not being updated when manually deleting elements from the XML editor
- Fixed action not properly handling case insensitivity
New in VMware InstallBuilder 7.2.0 (May 20, 2011)
- Improved packing filters to allow excluding files to pack at any depth of the directory hierarchy
- Added Albanian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Danish, Finnish, Argentine Spanish, Slovak, Swedish and Turkish language support
- Allow modifying the exit code in the
- Allow disabling Xft fonts support in xwindow mode to reduce installers size
- Improved language autodetection on Windows
- Updated documentation
- Allow executing .cmd scripts on Windows
- Added new variable installation_aborted_by_user
- Removed --enable-components, --disable-components and --optionfile options from uninstaller help menu
- Improved refresh rate to allow properly displaying quick actions progress text
- Fixed default installation language not being properly resolved in uninstaller help menu
- Fixed error in GUI builder when using file dialogs in some scenarios
- Fixed scope issue in custom actions
- Replaced missing occurrences of "Ok" text in buttons to all uppercase "OK" per UI guidelines
- Fixed setting failing in some environments
New in VMware InstallBuilder 7.1.1 (May 13, 2011)
- Fixed action failing in some environments
New in VMware InstallBuilder 7.1.0 (May 13, 2011)
- Fixed installer startup failing in some scenarios when being launched from a symbolic link
- Fixed rule failing in some environments
- Fixed installation log containing unnecessary empty new lines when using disabling the file unpacking process
- Fixed comboboxes not being properly displayed in Windows Vista and 7 in win32 mode
- Improved look and feel of the Builder and installers in OS X and Windows
- Improved to properly handle invalid SID provided as username
- New project property to configure the style of the language selection dialog
- Improved reported errors when loading invalid XML files
- Updated documentation
- Fixed uninstaller not being removed on HP-UX
New in VMware InstallBuilder 7.0.5 (Apr 19, 2011)
- New split HTML version of the documentation
- Significantly improved action performance
- Improved installers to allow variables in most of the project tags
- Improved GUI to accept variables in choice and boolean-like properties
- New property added configure how and should validate bundles in OS X
- Allow to receive keyboard focus on Qt mode
- Improved OS X bundle launcher script to support projects with UTF-8 characters in their full name
- Improved Polish translation
- Fixed not properly working
- Removed outdated syntax from demo projects
- Updated command line builder icon on Windows
- Fixed action not properly handling project references
- Show more verbose errors in and actions when invoked outside loop
- Fixed XML comments not being preserved in the GUI editor in some scenarios
- Fixed installers failing on HP-UX, AIX and FreeBSD 4 in some system language configurations
New in VMware InstallBuilder 7.0.4 (Apr 2, 2011)
- Updated documentation
- Added to the action to allow specifying the order of the detected Java versions
- Added rule
- Added action
- Improved Italian, French, Norwegian, Korean and Spanish translations
- Included English language file in the installers as a reference
- Improved build performance in Solaris, FreeBSD, AIX, HP-UX and IRIX
- Fixed action failing when providing an empty
- Fixed main progress bar not properly configured in some scenarios
- Fixed rule throwing an error when providing a malformed port
- Changed "Ok" buttons text to all uppercase "OK" per UI guidelines
- Fixed registered estimated size on Windows 7 not being properly calculated
- Fixed RPM database registration not honoring files removed from uninstaller
- Fixed rollback functionality not properly handling the original drive
New in VMware InstallBuilder 7.0.3 (Mar 8, 2011)
- Added Czech language support
- Added Norwegian language support
- Updated documentation
- New action to allow custom actions to modify project level variables
- Provided a default value for installer-language command line flag in the help menu
- Improved action to accept variables in the tag
- Improved and action properties to accept variables
- Added support for Bourne shell (sh) in actions related to environment variables
- Fixed installer refreshing issue when quickly pushing 'next' button multiple times on Windows
- Fixed installer not properly loading images in some environments
- Properly handle standard streams redirection on Windows Java launchers
- Improved regular installer registration with RPM database
- Fixed GUI XML editor not properly preserving comments
New in VMware InstallBuilder 7.0.2 (Feb 9, 2011)
- Updated documentation
- Allow the tag of the action to contain variables
- Provide more verbose error when the builder does not have permissions to write in the output directory
- Improved look and feel of the "custom"
- Improved wrapping of text when using radiobuttons style in gtk mode
- Added new built-in variable machine_cpu_count
- Improved action performance
- Added tag to the Autoupdate tool to allow configuring its execution level
- Improved quickbuild in GUI mode to pack differences in packed files in addition to project changes
- Added machine_cpu_speed and machine_total_memory built-in variables to OS X platform
- Fixed popup XML editor failing in some scenarios
- Fixed gtk buttons not being properly localized after the language selection when using
- Fixed setting failing with the new compression system
- Fixed builder crashing on some OS X environments when using Asian languages
- Fixed command line quickbuild not properly working in some environments with the new compression system
- Fixed reporting incorrect data in some OS X environments
- Fixed not properly working when used in the action
New in VMware InstallBuilder 7.0.1 (Feb 9, 2011)
- Fixed XML Editor failing to load some projects
- Improved XML editor performance when editing big XML projects
- Remove incorrect validation in and elements
New in VMware InstallBuilder 7.0.0 (Feb 9, 2011)
- Ability to create custom actions to reuse code snippets
- New action to create Java launchers
- New in depth documentation
- Allow downloading ready to use JREs from the GUI builder
- Added built-in variables inspector to the builder
- Added search functionality to builder actions dialog
- New built-in XML editor in the GUI builder
- Improved to work on Windows domains
- Improved continuous progress popup layout
- Fixed action not properly working on some Windows 64bit environments
- Display component selection default description in Qt and Gtk modes
- Localize OS X translucent menu bar
- Fixed Korean and Chinese languages not being properly autodetected on some Windows environments
- Fixed ${machine_ipaddr} not being properly resolved in some Windows 64bit environments
- Asynchronously check for updates in the builder
- Making permissions errors when building more verbose
- Moved language selection dialog after the
- Make sure the log contains all the information after an error
- Improved packing method to improve packing and unpacking speed and reduce installers size and memory consume
- Fixed multidisk cdrom installers not retrying asking the first disk after a failed try
- POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY: Changed Unix installer extension from .bin to .run to make installers recognized as executable in some environments such as latest versions of Ubuntu
- Fixed destination field validation
- Fixed failing on OS X if the disk volume tested contains spaces
New in VMware InstallBuilder 6.5.6 (Oct 28, 2010)
- Improve administrator user check in Solaris platform
- Added Xft font support in Solaris
- Added rule
- Fixed dialog buttons not being localized in qt mode
- is now accessible through the GUI
- Allow created OS X environment variables to be accessible from GUI applications
- Fixed Autoupdate tool not properly launching the downloaded installers in some OS X scenarios
- Fixed key bindings not properly working on xwindow, osx and win32 modes when selecting some languages
- java_autodetected and dotnet_autodetected are now set to 0 if the detection fails
- Fixed UI becoming not responsive when using to unpack big directories
- Fixed not properly representing its value in some UI modes when using variables
- Support zh_HK as valid language code
- Fixed errors when trying to overwrite hidden files on Windows
- Now in_empty and is_not_empty rules conditions in rule now take into account hidden files
New in VMware InstallBuilder 6.5.5 (Oct 5, 2010)
- New action
- New options is_type and is_not_type to registryTest rule
- Implemented new project property to configure the icon on OS X
- Added Java Web Start binary to the list of autodetected targets in action
- Upgrade Autoupdate tool to support high color depth icons
- Allow viewing XML code of elements from the GUI
- Fixed description in the GUI
- Fixed popups sometimes not working when being resized in Solaris
- Modified position of "Created with an evaluation version" text in unregistered installers
- Fixed Chinese and Brazillian language autodetection on Unix
- Fixed wrapping in welcome and installation finished pages in Qt installers on Windows and OS X
- Fixed integer validation in action
- Fixed GUI context menu on OS X
- Improved page wrapping in Gtk custom style
- Properly deal with incorrect paths when creating the rollback directory
- Fixed Suse version autodetection failing in some environments
New in VMware InstallBuilder 6.5.4 (Sep 20, 2010)
- Implemented drag and drop of nodes in the GUI builder
- Make folders' accessible through the GUI
- Added OS X service manipulation actions , , and
- Added rule to check OS X services state
- Fixed XML load errors displaying an incorrect line number in some unicode files
- Implemented new action
- Improved language autodetection in OS X
- Added tag in to specify the display order of the elements
- Added is_windows_admin_account, is_windows_user_account, is_windows_guest_account to rule
- Properly wrap descriptions when used inside a on xwindow, win32 and osx modes
- Allow distribution files and directories to be configured through the GUI
- Improved error when loading an incorrect project to display line number and file
- Wrap all text mode pages
- Allow resolving environment variables with parentheses
- Make action recursive
- Fixed InstallBuilder RELAX NG schema
- Improved keyboard navigation on xwindow mode
- Fixed incorrect font used in Chinese and Korean languages on Windows
- Fixed failing on OS X
- Make sure all actions defining variables resolve variables in the variable name
- Fixed deb/rpm helper binaries permissions
- Fixed action requiring write permissions over the target .ini file
- Properly handled errors retrieving available disk space
- Clean unnecessary helper binaries when upgrading Debian packages
- Added monthly date type in action
- Make Autoupdate tool to also look for the license in user directory on Windows
New in VMware InstallBuilder 6.5.3 (Aug 25, 2010)
- Added Korean language support
- Now any icon resolution is accepted for Windows installers
- Fixed OS X installers failing when requiring Admininstrator privileges and containing invalid characters in its
- Make keyboard focus visible on xwindow mode
- Fixed uninstaller not being properly created in some scenarios when launched with a symbolic link
- Added support for symbolic links in unzip action
- Allow component names to contain underscores
- Fix integers validation failing dealing with large integers
- Allow tag in action to contain variables
New in VMware InstallBuilder 6.5.2 (Aug 16, 2010)
- Properly localize --help menu
- Fixed GUI Builder failing when adding actions
New in VMware InstallBuilder 6.5.1 (Aug 16, 2010)
- Updated Brazilian Portugese language
- Fixed dialogs not being correctly centered on Windows in qt mode
- Fixed --version and --help Windows popups not being displayed
- Fixed minimal unattended ui mode not being correctly detected on Solaris
- Fixed Japanese and Chinese languages not being correctly displayed in xwindow mode
New in VMware InstallBuilder 6.5.0 (Aug 6, 2010)
- New action
- New mechanism to escape variable references
- Allow configuring Autoupdate tool proxy through the configuration file
- New and rules
- Added --help menu to the builder
- Added --license command line flag to the builder to provide an alternative license file
- Added --debugtrace command line flag to the builder
- Added --project command line flag to specify a project to load in the GUI builder
- Improved unattendedModeUI mode to support gtk and qt mode
- Added tag to action
- New windows-x86 platform type check added to rule
- Fixed refresh issue that affected download rate in Autoupdate Tool, specially on OS X
- New tag added to shortcuts to mark Windows shortcuts to run as Administrator
- Improved validation of boolean and integer type settings
- Added OS detection support for RHEL 6
- Use default Unix permissions in action running on Unix when unpacking files created on Windows
- Added tag to action and to to display HTML text in Qt mode
- Fixed "Test Run" button on GUI builder not correctly launching generated Windows installers in UAC environments
- Added tag to , and actions
- Added tag to elements
- New windows_os_uac_enabled built-in variable to check the state of the UAC on Windows
- New warnings to report command line flags that are provided multiple times
- Properly deal with multiple installation mode command line flags
- Fixed action failing in some scenarios when packing directories
- Enforce executable permissions in Unix shortcuts
- Added file and line number to duplicated tags warnings
- Fixed tcsh not being recognized as a valid shell by environment actions on Unix
- Added tag to disable the built-in confirmation popup on uninstallation
- Fixed uninstaller not being deleted on unattended mode on Windows in some scenarios
- Fixed title not being configurable in some UI modes
- Include state in rule description in GUI builder
- Added double click binding in "Files" section in the GUI builder
- Fixed / and actions being affected by the state of the Wow64 filesystem redirection
- Fixed crash on GUI builder when the tag of folder contains incorrect values
- Clean /opt/bitrock directory after deb/rpm uninstallation
- Fixed installer failing on Windows when TEMP environment variable containing multiple directories
New in VMware InstallBuilder 6.4.0 (Jun 12, 2010)
- Added support for nested variables
- Now all variable references are case insensitive
- New action
- Prevent GUI builder from accepting incorrect values in its dialogs
- Added new and actions
- New action
- New action
- Added new action
- Added matchHiddenFiles flag to , and actions
- Added new built-in variable windows_os_flavor
- Allow and actions to be accessed through the GUI
- Fixed Qt installer abnormaly resizing in "custom" mode
- Fixed patterns in folders' inclusion filters not resolved when using backslashes
- Allow to display a download progress bar when containing a single child action
- Normalize all relative paths to reference project directory in Autoupdate tool
- New validation of duplicated project tags
- Disabled RPM registration in platforms with non-native RPM support
- Increase size of builder project properties dialog
- Allow empty user and password to be provided in action
- New tag in action
- Disable language selection dialog when a value is provided through command line
- Allow InstallBuilder license to be saved to and loaded from user personal directory on Windows
- Added Japanese string for Installer.DirectorySelection built-in string
- Fixed glitch in button states after installation page
- Allow task name with spaces in action
New in VMware InstallBuilder 6.3.1 (May 5, 2010)
- New action
- New action
- New action
- Added tag to action
- Improved to autodetect system proxy settings
- Improved RPM integration
- Improved Qt look and feel on Windows and OS X
- Validate user provided input for parmeters while creating them.
- Added Windows support for user and group manipulation actions
- Fixed failing to delete keys on Windows 64bit
- Documented windows_os_service_pack
- Prevent fileTest rule from failing when testing a non-existent link
- Fixed autoupdate returning update available when check_for_updates was set to '0'
- Fixed Windows 7 not being recognized when Windows 7 Logo Toolkit is installed
- Fixed symbolic links not being properly packed when included as
- Fixed variables not being resolved in some Autoupdate project tags.
- Fixed error parsing Autoupdate projects containing utf-8 BOM
- Built-in registry keys are now created in the 64bit view when is enabled
- Fixed Windows 2008 autodetection failing in some environments
New in VMware InstallBuilder 6.3.0 (Feb 24, 2010)
- Now Windows installers set the default installation language from a previous installation when updating
- Reduced memory consumption when unpacking large single-file installers
- Multiple improvements in CDROM installers
- Allow HTML licenses file in Qt mode
- New installer_builder_version and installer_builder_timestamp built-in variables
- License parameters now accept multiple localized licenses
- New action to configure proxy to use with http actions
- New and actions
- New and Windows actions
- New action
- New and actions
- New .password suffix to mask passwords in log messages
- Support for osx-intel and osx-pcc in platform test
- Fixed proxy configuration in autoupdate failing in some environments
- Fixed autoupdate failing on OS X when using minimalWithDialog ui mode
- Properly set default output and project directory on Windows 7
- Prevent downloaded installers to by launched in text mode by the autoupdater
- New tag to match hidden files on Windows
- Fixed property being empty during build time
- FreeBSD 8 support
- Improve RPM removal process
- Fixed failing on Windows when using
- Fixed unpacking errors in some environments
New in VMware InstallBuilder 6.2.7 (Jan 26, 2010)
- File selection crashes if third-party Explorer extensions change locale
- Fixed unpacking error in some Windows environments due to antivirus software locking files
- New property in action to configure whether to use or not 8.3 format in the path
- Added encoding property in action and rule
- New action
- Allow file type filters in dialogs for xwindow, osx and win32 modes
- Include InstallBuilder version by default in the generated installers version info
New in VMware InstallBuilder 6.2.6 (Jan 26, 2010)
- w dialog
- New action to retrieve ACLs on Windows
- New action
- Added project property to mark locked files on Windows to be renamed instead of prompting the end-user to abort/retry/ignore
- Fixed build-time memory errors produced by the usage of with big executables
- Allow Autoupdate strings to be localized
- Added and tags to action
- Actions that modify the environment variables and PATH can now be applied to a particular user (Unix only)
- Fixed masking the the original error
- Fixed .desktop files on Unix not correctly working on some scenarios
- Avoid locked files error when unpacking on Unix
- Use SID for user default value on action
- Added is_empty and is_not_empty tests to rule
- Fixed registry actions not correctly resolving variables in their errors
- Fixed Autoupdate tool not modifying Windows executable resources
- Fixed some minor bugs in Autoupdate tool
- Improved windows-x64 rule
- Allow uninstaller icon to be customized
- Fixed not being deleted after a successful rollback
- Fixed validation failing in some environments
- Fixed software version registry key not being updated after an upgrade
- Give executable permissions to serialized .desktop files on Unix
New in VMware InstallBuilder 6.2.5 (Jan 26, 2010)
- Allow file filtering in folders
- Fix glitch in action popup on OS X builder
- New action to modify Windows permissions
- New action
- New project property
- Fixed "Administrator privileges required" string not shown in all languages
- Fixed action always following symbolic links
- Improved text entry field in GUI builder
New in VMware InstallBuilder 6.2.4 (Jan 26, 2010)
- Improved builder tool on OS X x86
New in VMware InstallBuilder 6.2.3 (Jan 26, 2010)
- Improved builder tool on OS X x86
- Added new windows_os_service_pack built-in variable
- Allow action to also insert text at the beginning
- Allow autoupdate to run and install installers in unattended mode
- New action.
- Fixed action not accepting paths as arguments on Windows 64bits
- Fixed action not correctly detecting 64bit Java installations on Windows
- Fix OS X installers Info.plist not correctly created when non-ASCII characters were used in the installer name
- Open file button fails on OS X if initial directory does not exist.
- addLibraryToPath action does not resolve variables in its path tag
- addLibraryToPath not working correctly on Linux x64 and OS X
- platformTest can now distinguish between hpux-ia64 and hpux-parisc
- addDirectoryToPath not working correctly on OS X
- launchBrowser action fails in some environments
New in VMware InstallBuilder 6.2.2 (Jan 26, 2010)
- Fixed and Readme file not correctly resized on Windows
- New rule
- Added additional information to autoupdate guide
- Expanded entry fields on builder GUI
- Fixed Unix services related actions not working correctly on some distributions
New in VMware InstallBuilder 6.2.1 (Jan 26, 2010)
- Fixed OSX version of the autoupdate not properly launching the downloaded installer
- Fixed installation step of installers launched by the autoupdate being skipped in some environments
- Added windows64bitMode project property to allow installers to behave as 64bit applications on Windows
- Added Windows 2008 R2 platform to platformTest rule
- Add SME linux to linux_distribution built-in variables
- Allow deleting nodes on OS X from the GUI
- New if/else action
- Added and properties to showText dialog action
- Allow Windows UAC level to be changed at built-time with property
- Validation of parameters' leftImage file at build time
- Component selection page resizable for Qt
- Added installer_ui_detail built-in variable to get the detailed installation mode
- Added aditional tests to componentTest rule
- Fixed platformTest type=windows-x64 not properly working in some environments
- Removed alpha channel from leftSide image to prevent some crashes on Solaris
- Fixed rules are not being evaluated for onErrorActionLists
New in VMware InstallBuilder 6.2.0 (Jan 26, 2010)
- Added project property and --debugLevel flag to control the verbosity level in installation log file
- Added new
- Fixed stringTest ascii and digit types
- Added windows-xp, windows-2003,windows-2008 and windows-7 to rule
- Fixed uninstaller failing because of missing DLL in some scenarios
- Fixed 's not being used in the installationLog
- Added Hebrew and Greek language support
- Fixed Linux installers unable to launch from a directory containing non-ASCII characters
- Added osx_version and osx_major_version built-in variables
- Fixed choiceParameter combobox style not correctly working when using variables in its "value" and "default" tags
New in VMware InstallBuilder 6.1.3 (Jan 26, 2010)
- Added "hidden" and "readonly" attributes to action
- Relative installation paths not always working in interactive mode
- Added action
- Fixed showQuestion dialogs are not working when enabled
- Display warnings on project load when incorrect choice parameters
- Fixed error loading a project with no components.
- Enabled optional timestamp in action.
- Fixed uninstaller on OSX when installing as root.
- Consider directories containing .DS_Store file as empty
- Added autoupdate support for OS X
New in VMware InstallBuilder 6.1.2 (Jun 22, 2009)
- Fix autoupdate customization tool unable to launch
New in VMware InstallBuilder 6.1.1 (Jun 22, 2009)
- Show the default components to install and allowed components in the help menu
- Add support for excluding files in many actions
- Fix upgrade installers on OS X not modifying uninstaller
- Fix deleteEnvironmentVariable not working correctly on Unix systems
- New negate option for all rules, allows negating any rule
- Fix builds from shared drives on Windows and VMWare mapped drives
- File readable test failed in some shared drives under Windows
- addDirectoryToPath action did not honor insertAt on Windows systems
- Fixed resizing of component selection screen in some GUI modes
- New unattended mode ui command line option
- Allow component selection page to resize horizontally
- Fix sometimes uninstaller failing when files where in use
- Support Windows x64 test in platformTest
- Fix linux-x64 not having GUI builder mode
- Fixed runAs failing when arguments contain quotes
New in VMware InstallBuilder 6.1.0 (Jun 22, 2009)
- Support for IBM iSeries, OS/400 Use existing AIX target.
- Fixed crashes when current Linux distribution version could not be determined
- Resizable component selection for X-window mode
- Added Windows 2008 and Windows 7 platforms to windows_os_* built-in variables
- Fixed paths always being relativized when saving project using the GUI
- Fixed symbolic links not being correctly registered in the uninstaller log
- New dialog
- Fixed "Open Project.." in GUI not opening last used directory
- Fixed dialog in Qt
- Added a delay option to action
- Added suport for UTF-8 encoding on .desktop files
- Added new
- Added is_symlink and is_symlink conditions to fileTest rule
- property in action no supports scripts with spaces.
- in Windows registry related actions and rules now admits variables
- Now the GUI allows nested startMenuFolders
- Fixed installed shortcuts on common Desktop not being refreshed properly on Windows Vista
New in VMware InstallBuilder 6.0.3 (Apr 27, 2009)
- Fix error in Unix systems when the HOME environment variable was not set
- Fix autoupdate failing to download updates when a file already existed
- The installer now returns an error code if an error occurs in postInstallationActionList even if the error does not stop the installer
- A new action list, preShowHelpActionList allows the content of the --help output to be dynamically modified
- Fix Choice parameter combobox not supporting a default value that contains variable references
- New variables machine_total_memory and machine_cpu_speed
- LC_ALL takes precedence over LANG when determining system language in Unix systems
- Fix distro detection on RedHat derivatives like Red Flag Linux or Scientific Linux
- Fix validationActionList being run twice for parameterGroups in Qt mode
New in VMware InstallBuilder 6.0 (Mar 13, 2009)
- Autoupdate functionality available for Windows and Linux
- Quickbuild functionality now can do incremental builds and only repackage new or changed files
- Support for right to left languages in Qt mode, in particular Arabic is now included
- Enhanced keyboard navigaton on Qt mode
- New rule for components, folders and shortcuts, allows specifying at build time whether to pack or not the given element
- New action, allows to perform basic arithmetic calculations
- New action, allows configuring the file system redirection behavior on Windows 64-bit systems
- New rule, allows checking whether a key or value exists on the Windows registry
- New property, allows customizing the application entry under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftware
- Ability to change the version information of generated Windows installers. This is the information that appears when you position the mouse over the icon.
- Custom style installers were not showing left image with parameter groups
- Fix typo in Dutch localization
- Fix addUnixDesktopStartUpItem not working on latest Ubuntu 8.10
- Fix InstallBuilder problems as admin when running on Mac OS X Snow Leopard
- Using runProgram with runAs option will now bring a graphical prompt on
- Linux systems with gksu or kdesu available when the installer is not
- already running with admin privileges
- External included files will now be serialized to separate files on disk when
- using the GUI
- New java_autodetected variable. Set to 0 unless autodetectJava action is successful and sets it to 1.
- Fix issue with builder CLI on Windows not working properly
- New .escape_backslashes suffix for escaping backslashes in values. Useful
- when dealing with Java properties
- New shutdown action to reboot the machine on Windows
- Fix addDirectoryToPath not working in previous version of InstallBuilder
New in VMware InstallBuilder 5.4.15 (Feb 24, 2009)
- Fix GTK segmentation fault on Linux installers on recent Linux distributions.
- New enableLinuxLegacySupport project property. You will now need to manually enable this setting if you need to support Linux versions older than 2.3 (older than Red Hat 9)
- Add --version info to the windows right-click menu properties
- Included progressText for all actions
- Added console command line builder to Windows
- Added support for HTTP basic auth (username & password) in httpGet and httpPost actions
- Do not create a file to save a request result if no file was specified in httpGet
- New registryTest rule to check for the existence of registry keys
- Enable or disable automatic filesystem redirection on Windows x64
- New shouldPackRuleList rule for components, folders and shortcuts
- Disable storage of installer creation time, to allow having binary-identical installers if built from the same files
- New installer variables to easily retrieve Linux Distribution data based on lsb_release: linux_distribution_id,linux_distribution_codename, linux_distribution_release, linux_distribution_description
- Force defaultLanguage to be in the list of allowed languages even when allowLanguageSelection is disabled
- Let the user customize the "Uninstallation did not complete successfully" string
- Let the user overwrite readonly files on Windows during installation by automatically changing the permissions
- Password field is reset to empty in all modes in case a validation fails
- Language selection window shows language in native spelling
- Fixed error with registerWithPackageDatabase on Fedora Core 10
- Fixed showProgressDialog in text mode overwriting the progressbar
- Fixed portTest throwing internal error when port is empty
- Fixed stringTest not working correctly with empty strings
- Fixed X Windows error on Solaris Intel 10
- Fixed uninstaller breaking due to installationLog initialization
- Fixed the issue with Qt installers creating the temporary images directory on CWD
- Fixed Qt installers not able to use enter/return key to navigate
- Fixed the issue with Installers that should not pack .DS_Store files on OS X
- Fixed Parameter group not showing left image
- Fixed GTK choice parameter freezeing the installer on some circumstances
- Fixed registryDelete that should silently ignore deleting non-existing keys
- Fixed Tk password parameter retype field not accepting enter key to show next page