InstallAnywhere 7.1 Release Notes
Macrovision Corporation
September 6th, 2005

What's New in InstallAnywhere 7.1

InstallAnywhere continues to deliver the functionality developers need to be successful in today's software industry. InstallAnywhere now delivers J2SE 5.0 support, Action Groups, dynamic Merge Modules, shared components, more uninstaller functionality as well as many other new features. For a complete list of the new functionality in InstallAnywhere 7.1, see the “What's New” file in the InstallAnywhere folder.

Below, you can see the list of fixes and improvements that have been made since the previous release:

- The "Auto-clean when building" option NO longer resets the VM Component to the "Standard" type.
- The uninstaller now runs in the same UI mode executed by the installer.
- Merge module’s uninstaller runs when uninstalling in silent or console mode.
- You can now build projects that have NO panels at pre-install or post-install.
- Magic folders are now resolving correctly at install time when passed to dynamic merge modules.
- Modified the behavior of the FOLDER filters in the Speedfolder and Modify Text File actions in order to match the behavior of the FILE filters, making it consistent to how the filters used to work in IA 6.
- Now, it is possible to have two or more speedfolder actions pointing to the same source directory and having different set of filters.
- Empty folders no longer display as a file in the preview of filters in the Speedfolder action.
- The FOLDER filters now have precedence over FILE filters.
- Regular expressions in the exclusion list now work correctly with FOLDER filters.
- Build Dialog NO longer hangs when canceling the build of an MSI installer.
- Fixed the filters in the Modify Text File action.
- The Modify Text File (Single File) action now works inside Action Groups.
- Actions of dynamic merge modules are now completely read-only in the parent installer.
- Pre-Install Summary no longer hangs when the Choose Install Set panel is disabled by a rule.
- Magic folders passed back to the parent installer from merge modules are now resolving correctly.
- Empty merge modules now build correctly.
- Windows installers are now fully silent when run in silent mode.
- Fixed font scaling issues in Asian languages.
- Removing a component leaves NO longer leaves the customizer disabled.
- Build output NO longer displays unexpected error message when building CD-ROM installers.
- Variables context are now restored back to parent installer’s at the end of pre- and post-install.
- Merge module variables containing paths are NO longer corrupted when passed from install to post-install.
- You can now pass features through the command-line using the new $CHOSEN_INSTALL_FEATURE_LIST$ variable.
- Fixed a few more issues with passing variables to merge modules.
- You can now force the user to scroll through the whole text in License Agreement panel.
- Fixed UI options of the Console template.
- You can now execute the Install Time Merge Module action without any failures.
- Speed Folder filter Ignore Case setting used to always be reset to “Yes”.
- Projects importing dynamic merge modules will now build properly when external resources are referenced by actions placed in the pre-install and post-install phases.
- In console mode, the Choose Install Set panel, when added under an Action Group, will now display the Choose Features panel when requested by the user to customize the install.
- The Ant task provided with InstallAnywhere to build projects from an Ant script will now automatically find the install location of InstallAnywhere 7.1 in order to execute the build command.
- InstallAnywhere projects importing dynamic merge modules can now be built on headless machines (or in processes without display.)
- Some Mac OS X issues have also been fixed:
* Installers are now displaying the native Choose Folder dialog.
* Mac OS X launchers now run by default on JVM 1.3 and above.
* New shortcuts to the Dock are now properly created and the Dock is only restarted when being updated.
* Fixed keyboard focus issues in the Choose Install Folder dialog on Mac OS X with Java 1.4
* Fixed UI look & feel issues in the installers running on the 1.5 version of the Mac OS X Java VM.
* Fixed conversion issues of IA 6 projects regarding the Mac OS X settings.
* Default install folder on Mac now resolves to Application’s directory.

To read the complete release notes: http://www.zerog.com/releaseNotes/ReleaseNotes71.htm