install4j

What's new in this version:

New features:
- New UI for the IDE and updated artwork for installers
- DMG styling for macOS media files with a default styling option enabled by default
- Widget styles have been added to change fonts, colors, and other aspects of all widgets that are shown in installer applications
- Command line launchers and services of macOS media files are now binary executables instead of POSIX scripts, support entitlements, and do not start a separate "java" process anymore
- For macOS installer applications, the JVM is now started in-process, fixing problems with incorrect titles and icons in the Dock
- For single-bundle archive media files on macOS, all launchers are now nested as separate application bundles in the main application bundle
- For single-bundle archive media files on macOS, out-of-process installer applications are now nested application bundles and properly show in the Dock
- Added a "Set installation directory" action with various installation scopes and optional handling of update installations. The action manages the sys.?installForAllUsers installer variable for coordinating with other components
- Added the "Installation scope chooser" form component and the "Installation scope" screen for asking users whether to perform a user-specific or a global installation
- Code signing is now a separate section in the install4j IDE
- Added an optional separate PKCS #11 certificate file entry for situations where the certificate or the full certificate chain cannot be found in the keystore
- Improved matching of private keys and certificates for PKCS #11, leading to fewer code signing errors
- The environment variable DYLD_?LIBRARY_?PATH can now be set on macOS for the install4j command line compiler to load PKCS #11 libraries
- Added an "Additional binaries to be signed" option for Windows code signing so you can sign external binaries as well
- The PKCS #11 session is now kept alive to speed up code signing
- Added support for the Apple Service Management framework that allows you to manage launch agents and launch daemons from within a single-bundle archive
- The "Add a startup executable" action now also works on Linux
- The "Add a startup executable" action uses LaunchAgents instead of LoginItems on macOS, providing a better user experience
- The "Add a startup executable" action now supports setting arguments for the launcher
- The "Add a startup executable" action now supports starting the launcher immediately
- Extended the "Update alert" form component into a "Streamlined installation chooser" form component, retaining the old behavior as an option
- Support for renaming packages for RPM and DEB media files with the new "Replaced packages" option in the "Package options" step of the media wizard.
- Added a JDK provider for IBM Semeru
- Added support for the new Apple .icon bundles with the "iconcompiler" command line utility that creates .car and .icns files on macOS. When a .car file is found next to an .icns file, install4j will use it.
- Added support for custom UI scaling in the Installer ? Look & Feel step
- Added a -jvm=?/path/?to/?jreBundle VM parameter for installers and generated launchers to set the used JRE explicitly. This is supported in .vmoptions files and with -J-jvm=?... as command line argument.
- Major improvement to the startup times of the install4j IDE and the command line compiler
- The Windows icon compiler has been modernized to produce much smaller icon files
- Linux: Generated installers wizards have correct window and widget sizes with all OpenJDK distributions under Linux when a HiDPI resolution is set. Previously this was the case only for the Jetbrains JRE.

API changes:
- API: Added com.?install4j.?api.?UiUtil#?getWizardWindow to get the topmost wizard window
- API: Added com.?install4j.?api.?macos.?MacServiceManagement to support the new "Agents and daemons" feature for single-bundle archive media files
- API: Beans can now be composed, via com.?install4j.?api.?beaninfo.?Install4JPropertyDescriptor.?setNestedBean. With #setNestedBeanCategory you can set a category for all properties of the nested bean, and with #setNestedBeanPropertyFilter you can only include selected properties.
- API: Added com.?install4j.?api.?context.?Context#?getAllUsersDefaultInstallationDirectory and com.?install4j.?api.?context.?Context#?getUserWritableDefaultInstallationDirectory
- API: added com.?install4j.?api.?Util#?hasAllUserInstallationRights
- API: added com.?install4j.?api.?windows.?service.?WinServices#?isInstalled
- API: AbstractFormComponent#?getInitValue now handles string values for boolean, integer, and enum values as well

Fixed:
- "Request privileges" action: On Linux and Unix, if the "Show failure if requested privileges cannot be obtained" and "Show failure if current user is not root" properties were not selected, the action would report success even if it failed to obtain privileges
- "Installation directory chooser" form component: The "Check if directory is writable" property was ignored in unattended and console mode
- Code editor: The selection was not cleared after refactorings
- Code editor: Wrong bracket highlight could be painted after a refactoring
- Code editor: Refactoring on an expression instead of on a script would produce broken code
- Bean titles in the HTML project export had the wrong color if dark mode was active
- An in-process installer application could change the title of an unrelated topmost window when it did not become the topmost window
- It was not possible to enter colors in textual form in bean properties
- Merged projects could not use their "static fields and methods" code
- When editing compiler variables with the value dialog, the project was not marked as modified and the old value was restored when saving the value
- If JRE creation was canceled during compilation, an empty directory had to be deleted manually before the next build
- Console mode: Console output sometimes started in the wrong column
- macOS installers: The About menu was not localized
- macOS single bundle archives: Some actions did not work correctly if the single bundle archive was renamed manually
- Linux services: Improved the reliability of the check whether systemd is available
- Linux privilege elevation could be very slow under certain circumstances