https://sourceforge.net/p/launch4j/news/2022-11-15T21:22:22.857000ZRecent posts to news2022-11-15T21:22:22.857000Z2022-11-15T21:22:22.857000ZGrzegorz Kowalhttps://sourceforge.net/u/grzegok/https://sourceforge.netc3b27edbd88f7b7635b42637cfbdb9a97e4028a1

<div class="markdown_content"><ul> <li>Ticket #218, #222 Support min/max version check during path search (Barry McGillin, Han Shum).</li> <li>Ticket #224 Setting multiple relative paths for bundled JREs is not working (Wladimir Leite).</li> <li>Simplified and consistent configuration for finding 64-Bit runtimes and JDKs during path and registry search.</li> <li>Path is now the primary search, registry secondary for better compatibility with latest runtimes.</li> <li>Please see the docs regarding configuration changes.</li> </ul></div>

2021-02-05T20:17:51.318000Z2021-02-05T20:17:51.318000ZGrzegorz Kowalhttps://sourceforge.net/u/grzegok/https://sourceforge.net6796f3b4a3ed5135b197173e6e6f6f6feeb14372

<div class="markdown_content"><ul> <li>FR #127 Added multiple bundled JRE path search (%JAVA_HOME%).</li> <li>Allow equal sign in environment variable assignments.</li> <li>Fix sign4j warnings for implicit definition of lseek, read, write, close, and access (foss1024).</li> <li>Add launch4j console mode launch script for *nix (Luke S).</li> <li>Tickets #172, #186, #198, #200, #206 Launch4j GUI supports also Java 1.9 and up.</li> </ul></div>

2018-05-17T21:21:23.671000Z2018-05-17T21:21:23.671000ZGrzegorz Kowalhttps://sourceforge.net/u/grzegok/https://sourceforge.net2ce4a4d67d85cb04430f86d1c31c87665a9e003b

<div class="markdown_content"><ul> <li>Ticket #179, #183 The generated executable fully supports Java 9 and newer (Sergey Karpushin). </li> <li>Ticket #161 Support of update version higher than 99 (Sergey Karpushin). </li> <li>Ticket #177 Launching on Java 9 JDK and newer is now possible (not just JRE). </li> </ul></div>

2016-07-20T20:05:33.810000Z2016-07-20T20:05:33.810000ZGrzegorz Kowalhttps://sourceforge.net/u/grzegok/https://sourceforge.neteb013c2b7e67972f96d47be736bad9e7bab3fca5

<div class="markdown_content"><p>Launch4j is a cross-platform Java executable wrapper for creating lightweight Windows native EXEs. It provides advanced JRE search, application startup configuration and better user experience.</p> <p>Changes in version 3.9 (20-07-2016)<br/> - Ticket #146 Fixed java version check where the update number was greater than 99 (e.g. 1.8.0_101).<br/> - Enlarged the total classpath length to 30KB.<br/> - Ticket #142 Unbound VersionInfo returns wrong LanguageID (Sebastian Bögl).<br/> - Ticket #141 Ensure encoding of resource file to be iso-8859-1 (Thomas Scheithauer).<br/> - More reactive splash screen response to main window appearance (Federico Fissore).<br/> - FR #95 Launch4j should return an exit value (Sebastian Bögl).<br/> - FR #94 Add the working directory classifier for OS X (Sebastian Bögl).<br/> - FR #39 Launch Java VM through JNI (Ryan Rusaw) - BETA!<br/> - FR #69 Configure the language property of generated executables (Sebastian Bögl).<br/> - FR #77 Add legal trademarks as an additional field in version info tab (Sebastian Bögl).<br/> - Added a simple example how to use the Maven plugin (demo/ExitCodeApp).</p></div>

2015-05-11T17:21:05.912000Z2015-05-11T17:21:05.912000ZGrzegorz Kowalhttps://sourceforge.net/u/grzegok/https://sourceforge.net71f6106f7254813bf935be88b30971b3ab61cef7

<div class="markdown_content"><p>Launch4j 3.8 released</p> <p>Launch4j is a cross-platform Java executable wrapper for creating lightweight Windows native EXEs. It provides advanced JRE search, application startup configuration and better user experience.</p> <p>Changes in version 3.8 (09-05-2015)<br /> * FR #59 Mavenized launch4j (thanks to taxone, Paul Jungwirth, Lukasz Lenart).<br /> * Ticket #139 Sign4j compiles and works on Linux (Tim Angus).</p></div>

2015-03-01T14:38:04.223000Z2015-03-01T14:38:04.223000ZGrzegorz Kowalhttps://sourceforge.net/u/grzegok/https://sourceforge.netbc0e351711f1df929099587bfc99536ad70585e7

<div class="markdown_content"><p>Launch4j is a cross-platform Java executable wrapper for creating lightweight Windows native EXEs. It provides advanced JRE search, application startup configuration and better user experience.</p> <p>Changes in version 3.7 (01-03-2015)<br /> * Fixed false positive virus warnings that appeared in version 3.6.</p></div>

2015-01-19T20:12:20.545000Z2015-01-19T20:12:20.545000ZGrzegorz Kowalhttps://sourceforge.net/u/grzegok/https://sourceforge.nete34634b5870bdce92d3317f864130739a2a1c5de

<div class="markdown_content"><p>Launch4j is a cross-platform Java executable wrapper for creating lightweight Windows native EXEs. It provides advanced JRE search, application startup configuration and better user experience.</p> <p>Changes in version 3.6.1 (19-01-2015)<br /> * Removed compiled header files from .zip and .exe packages which caused a false positive virus warning.</p></div>

2015-01-06T21:15:28.841000Z2015-01-06T21:15:28.841000ZGrzegorz Kowalhttps://sourceforge.net/u/grzegok/https://sourceforge.net01fe2bdbccad92c7d31c7ca398b30d7ecef51eb5

<div class="markdown_content"><p>Launch4j is a cross-platform Java executable wrapper for creating lightweight Windows native EXEs. It provides advanced JRE search, application startup configuration and better user experience.</p> <p>Changes in version 3.6 (06-01-2015)<br /> * FR #86 The 32/64 bit search is fully configurable (64, 64/32, 32/64, 32) - added option 32/64.<br /> * FR #70 Java search sequence - bundled JRE can be used before or after the min/max version search (bundledJreAsFallback).<br /> * Fixed: Crash when classpath contained wildcard patterns where the dependency was in the same directory as the launcher.<br /> * Updated to Dev-Cpp 5.7.1, MinGW 4.8.1 (head_src and w32api files).<br /> * Fixed Launch4j GUI application closing - the process was still running.</p></div>

2014-04-21T17:38:02.877000Z2014-04-21T17:38:02.877000ZGrzegorz Kowalhttps://sourceforge.net/u/grzegok/https://sourceforge.net6669a77029e19ec7472bbbe9a9a2992149a91cc5

<div class="markdown_content"><p>Launch4j is a cross-platform Java executable wrapper for creating lightweight Windows native EXEs. It provides advanced JRE search, application startup configuration and better user experience.</p> <p>Changes in version 3.4 (21-04-2014)</p> <ul> <li>FR #61 Added a new special variable JREHOMEDIR (Stefan Knoefel).</li> <li>Ticket #130 Removed ant from launch4j classpath to fix problems with other ant versions.</li> <li>Updated JGoodies libraries.</li> <li>Added logging based on Launch4j environment variable for file association launch testing.</li> </ul></div>

2014-04-02T19:13:21.343000Z2014-04-02T19:13:21.343000ZGrzegorz Kowalhttps://sourceforge.net/u/grzegok/https://sourceforge.net5647a106ffd647c8850fefbdece19ac6e8377ca0

<div class="markdown_content"><p>Launch4j is a cross-platform Java executable wrapper for creating lightweight Windows native EXEs. It provides advanced JRE search, application startup configuration and better user experience.</p> <p>Changes in version 3.3 (02-04-2014)</p> <ul> <li>FR #60 Check the registry during JRE search, so that only valid runtimes are taken into account.</li> <li>Ticket #128 Updated MAC OS X 10.8 windres to 2.24.51.20140326 - version info was compiled incorrectly (Code Buddy).</li> <li>Added support for Japanese characters (Toshimm).</li> <li>Ticket #82, #125 Take configuration encoding into account and save file with UTF-8 encoding.</li> </ul></div>