Launch4j 3.50 released

Grzegorz Kowal — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 21:22:22 -0000

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

Launch4j 3.13 released

Grzegorz Kowal — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 20:17:51 -0000

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

Launch4j 3.12 released

Grzegorz Kowal — Thu, 17 May 2018 21:21:23 -0000

Ticket #179, #183 The generated executable fully supports Java 9 and newer (Sergey Karpushin).
Ticket #161 Support of update version higher than 99 (Sergey Karpushin).
Ticket #177 Launching on Java 9 JDK and newer is now possible (not just JRE).

Launch4j 3.9 released

Grzegorz Kowal — Wed, 20 Jul 2016 20:05:33 -0000

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.

Changes in version 3.9 (20-07-2016)
- Ticket #146 Fixed java version check where the update number was greater than 99 (e.g. 1.8.0_101).
- Enlarged the total classpath length to 30KB.
- Ticket #142 Unbound VersionInfo returns wrong LanguageID (Sebastian Bögl).
- Ticket #141 Ensure encoding of resource file to be iso-8859-1 (Thomas Scheithauer).
- More reactive splash screen response to main window appearance (Federico Fissore).
- FR #95 Launch4j should return an exit value (Sebastian Bögl).
- FR #94 Add the working directory classifier for OS X (Sebastian Bögl).
- FR #39 Launch Java VM through JNI (Ryan Rusaw) - BETA!
- FR #69 Configure the language property of generated executables (Sebastian Bögl).
- FR #77 Add legal trademarks as an additional field in version info tab (Sebastian Bögl).
- Added a simple example how to use the Maven plugin (demo/ExitCodeApp).

Launch4j 3.8 released

Grzegorz Kowal — Mon, 11 May 2015 17:21:05 -0000

Launch4j 3.8 released

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.

Changes in version 3.8 (09-05-2015)
* FR #59 Mavenized launch4j (thanks to taxone, Paul Jungwirth, Lukasz Lenart).
* Ticket #139 Sign4j compiles and works on Linux (Tim Angus).

Launch4j 3.7 released

Grzegorz Kowal — Sun, 01 Mar 2015 14:38:04 -0000

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.

Changes in version 3.7 (01-03-2015)
* Fixed false positive virus warnings that appeared in version 3.6.

Launch4j 3.6 updated

Grzegorz Kowal — Mon, 19 Jan 2015 20:12:20 -0000

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.

Changes in version 3.6.1 (19-01-2015)
* Removed compiled header files from .zip and .exe packages which caused a false positive virus warning.

Launch4j 3.6 released

Grzegorz Kowal — Tue, 06 Jan 2015 21:15:28 -0000

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.

Changes in version 3.6 (06-01-2015)
* FR #86 The 32/64 bit search is fully configurable (64, 64/32, 32/64, 32) - added option 32/64.
* FR #70 Java search sequence - bundled JRE can be used before or after the min/max version search (bundledJreAsFallback).
* Fixed: Crash when classpath contained wildcard patterns where the dependency was in the same directory as the launcher.
* Updated to Dev-Cpp 5.7.1, MinGW 4.8.1 (head_src and w32api files).
* Fixed Launch4j GUI application closing - the process was still running.

Launch4j 3.4 released

Grzegorz Kowal — Mon, 21 Apr 2014 17:38:02 -0000

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.

Changes in version 3.4 (21-04-2014)

FR #61 Added a new special variable JREHOMEDIR (Stefan Knoefel).
Ticket #130 Removed ant from launch4j classpath to fix problems with other ant versions.
Updated JGoodies libraries.
Added logging based on Launch4j environment variable for file association launch testing.

Launch4j 3.3 released

Grzegorz Kowal — Wed, 02 Apr 2014 19:13:21 -0000

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.

Changes in version 3.3 (02-04-2014)

FR #60 Check the registry during JRE search, so that only valid runtimes are taken into account.
Ticket #128 Updated MAC OS X 10.8 windres to 2.24.51.20140326 - version info was compiled incorrectly (Code Buddy).
Added support for Japanese characters (Toshimm).
Ticket #82, #125 Take configuration encoding into account and save file with UTF-8 encoding.

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