I’m pleased to announce that we will soon push a 3.11.0 beta 2 version to the public! We’ve done some interesting work in the last few SVN commits with Dennis Reil.

Especially, the conditions framework has received some interesting enhancements and bug fixes. There are now some default conditions defined on the operating system identification so that you don’t necessarily have to write a conditions.xml file yourself if all you do is check for a particular OS.

I have performed a few tweaks / fixes to JDKPathPanel, InputPathPanel and ProcessPanel.

In terms of new features, you can now add a requiresjdk tag in your XML installation files to specify wether the software that is being installed requires a JDK or simply a JRE. The idea is to perform a simple check (actually: “can I call javac?”). If you need more complex verifications, then JDKPathPanel is probably what you need.

I have yet to define a precise date for this new beta version… my plan is to announce it at the same time as a big surprise:

Tip: (the logo of a famous software has been blured on the above screenshot)

More news next time… and meanwhile you can still speculate regarding the big surprise