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BitRock InstallBuilder is a development tool for building crossplatform installers for desktop and server software. With InstallBuilder, you can quickly create professional installers for Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, Solaris and other platforms from a single project file and build environment. In addition to installers, InstallBuilder will generate RPM and Debian packages and multiplatform CDs/DVDs. Its new automatic update functionality makes it easy to deliver updates directly to your users once they have your software installed.











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History updates (Complete changelogs since the listing on this site)
8.6.0 [09-14-13]
- Improved text wrapping on Gtk mode
- Improved
to also work at uninstallation time - Added Serbian and Lithuanian languages
- Improved required_diskspace variable to also work at build time
- Reduced delay when calculating the files to unpack
- Improved
to support spaces in the path - Improved
rule - Improved download progress meter reporting
- Improved Chinese language autodetection
- Allow Java launchers to be executed in the background
- Added new
setting - Allow configuring JRE/JDK selection order for Java launchers
- Made builder ignore missing images if they do not belong to the platform being built
- Made
action ignore directories - Improved OS X system language detection when running as Administrator
- Improved builder error reporting when packing distribution files with empty
- Improved InstallBuilder XML errors reporting
- Improved detection of HTTP idle connections
- Allow configuring whether or not component groups should appear expanded
- Allow reusing already downloaded components if their checksum matches
- Fixed errors when downloading components bigger than 2GB in some environments
- Fixed component groups not properly displaying Unicode characters in Qt mode
- Fixed symbolic link creation failing in some environments
- Fixed temporary images not being properly deleted on OS X
- Fixed default application bundle icon not being properly displayed on OS X 10.5
- Fixed RPM and DEB packages failing to install in some environments
- Fixed GUI glitch in file and directory parameters in Windows 2008 SP2 x64 when enabling 64bit mode
- Fixed incorrect progress message when enabling
at uninstallation time - Fixed
rule default logic
Other versions : 8.5.2 7.2.6 7.2.5 7.2.1 7.2.0 7.1.1 7.1.0 7.0.5 7.0.4 7.0.3 7.0.2 7.0.1 7.0.0 6.5.6 6.5.5 6.5.4 6.5.3 6.5.2 6.5.0 6.4.0 6.3.1 6.3.0 6.2.7 6.2.6 6.2.5 6.2.4
v8.5.2 [09-11-13]
- Fixed language selection dialog location for multiple monitors on Windows
- Fixed archives created with
action creating directory records showing as files in Windows Explorer - Added detection of missing distribution file/directory in CD-ROM mode
- Fixed support for HTTP chunked encoding transfers in InstallBuilder
- Added handling of HTTP error codes for autoupdate
- Improved detection of Brazilian Portuguese language on OS X
- Improved unpacking and removal of read-only files or directories
- Improved handling of archives with incorrect file/directory mode for
action
v7.2.6 [10-27-11]
- Updated documentation
- Fixed qt mode text widget not properly wrapping its content on Windows
- Added support for tcsh shell in environment variable actions
- Fixed
rule not properly recognizing osx-intel type on some 64bit environments - Improved Italian translation
- Improved .password suffix to support nested variables
- Speed up uninstaller creation on Windows
- Now aborting the installation when canceling the language selection also triggers the
- Improved AutoUpdate to support the
feature - Fixed builder crashing in some Windows environments when browsing for image files
- Fixed OS X bundles launcher script encoding not being properly configured
- Fixed Java launchers not being properly created on OS X
- Fixed
action not properly handling parameters
v7.2.5 [09-15-11]
- Updated documentation
- Improved Dutch language support
- Fixed language files not being properly loaded when including a BOM
- Improved
action to properly deal with SELinux - Fixed packed folders not being deleted when using multiple hierarchy
tags. - Improved Installer.RebootRequired string to allow variables
- Fixed custom uninstaller directory not being deleted in some environments
v7.2.1 [06-19-11]
- Improved Albanian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Danish, Finnish, Argentine Spanish, Slovak, Swedish and Turkish language support
- Updated documentation
- Speed up installer startup time when being launched from a network drive
- New
and actions - Improved administrator user check in HP-UX platform
- Improved
and action settings to support variables - Improved minimalWithDialogs mode look and feel
- Fixed text not being correctly wrapped in some
in osx and win32 modes - Improved environment actions on Unix
- Fixed
entries misaligned in some languages - Fixed GUI "Files" tree not being updated when manually deleting
elements from the XML editor - Fixed
action not properly handling case insensitivity
v7.2.0 [05-20-11]
- Improved packing filters to allow excluding files to pack at any depth of the directory hierarchy
- Added Albanian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Danish, Finnish, Argentine Spanish, Slovak, Swedish and Turkish language support
- Allow modifying the exit code in the
- Allow disabling Xft fonts support in xwindow mode to reduce installers size
- Improved language autodetection on Windows
- Updated documentation
- Fixed 32bit installers crashing in Ubuntu 11.04 64bit when running in gtk mode
- Allow executing .cmd scripts on Windows
- Added new variable installation_aborted_by_user
- Removed --enable-components, --disable-components and --optionfile options from uninstaller help menu
- Improved
refresh rate to allow properly displaying quick actions progress text - Fixed
throwing warnings to console in some corrupt Linux environments - Fixed default installation language not being properly resolved in uninstaller help menu
- Fixed error in GUI builder when using file dialogs in some scenarios
- Fixed scope issue in custom actions
- Replaced missing occurrences of "Ok" text in buttons to all uppercase "OK" per UI guidelines
- Fixed
setting failing in some environments - Fixed some graphic glitches in osx mode
v7.1.1 [05-09-11]
- Fixed
action failing in some environments - Fixed InstallBuilder license registration dialog failing on OS X
- Improved look and feel of
on OS X
v7.1.0 [04-30-11]
- Fixed installer startup failing in some scenarios when being launched from a symbolic link
- Fixed
rule failing in some environments - Fixed installation log containing unnecessary empty new lines when using disabling the file unpacking process
- Fixed comboboxes not being properly displayed in Windows Vista and 7 in win32 mode
- Improved look and feel of the Builder and installers in OS X and Windows
- Improved
to properly handle invalid SID provided as username - New
project property to configure the style of the language selection dialog - Improved reported errors when loading invalid XML files
- Updated documentation
- Fixed uninstaller not being removed on HP-UX
v7.0.5 [04-20-11]
- New split HTML version of the documentation
- Significantly improved
action performance - Improved installers to allow variables in most of the project tags
- Improved GUI to accept variables in choice and boolean-like properties
- New
property added configure how and should validate bundles in OS X - Allow
to receive keyboard focus on Qt mode - Improved OS X bundle launcher script to support projects with UTF-8 characters in their full name
- Improved Polish translation
- Fixed
not properly working - Removed outdated syntax from demo projects
- Updated command line builder icon on Windows
- Fixed
action not properly handling project references - Show more verbose errors in
and actions when invoked outside loop - Fixed XML comments not being preserved in the GUI editor in some scenarios
- Fixed installers failing on HP-UX, AIX and FreeBSD 4 in some system language configurations
v7.0.4 [04-03-11]
- Updated documentation
- Added
to the action to allow specifying the order of the detected Java versions - Added
rule - Added
action - Added
to configure uninstaller icon on OS X - Added
project tag to configure the OS X runtimes to build - Improved Italian, French, Norwegian, Korean and Spanish translations
- Included English language file in the installers as a reference
- Improved build performance in Solaris, FreeBSD, AIX, HP-UX and IRIX
- Fixed
action failing when providing an empty - Fixed main progress bar not properly configured in some scenarios
- Fixed
rule throwing an error when providing a malformed port - Changed "Ok" buttons text to all uppercase "OK" per UI guidelines
- Fixed registered estimated size on Windows 7 not being properly calculated
- Fixed RPM database registration not honoring files removed from uninstaller
- Fixed environment variables not being properly registered in some OS X terminal shells
- Fixed rollback functionality not properly handling the original drive
v7.0.3 [03-11-11]
- Added Czech language support
- Added Norwegian language support
- Updated documentation
- New
action to allow custom actions to modify project level variables - Reduced installer startup time on OS X when running in qt mode
- Provided a default value for installer-language command line flag in the help menu
- Improved
action to accept variables in the tag - Improved
and action properties to accept variables - Added support for Bourne shell (sh) in actions related to environment variables
- Fixed installer refreshing issue when quickly pushing 'next' button multiple times on Windows
- Fixed installer not properly loading images in some environments
- Properly handle standard streams redirection on Windows Java launchers
- Fixed AutoUpdate
property not properly working on OS X - Improved regular installer registration with RPM database
- Fixed qt mode post-uninstallation popups not displaying any icon on OS X
- Fixed GUI XML editor not properly preserving comments
v7.0.2 [01-28-11]
- Updated documentation
- Allow the
tag of the action to contain variables - Provide more verbose error when the builder does not have permissions to write in the output directory
- Improved look and feel of the "custom"
- Improved wrapping of
text when using radiobuttons style in gtk mode - Added new built-in variable machine_cpu_count
- Improved
action performance - Added
tag to the Autoupdate tool to allow configuring its execution level - Improved quickbuild in GUI mode to pack differences in packed files in addition to project changes
- Added machine_cpu_speed and machine_total_memory built-in variables to OS X platform
- Fixed popup XML editor failing in some scenarios
- Fixed gtk buttons not being properly localized after the language selection when using
- Fixed
setting failing with the new compression system - Fixed builder crashing on some OS X environments when using Asian languages
- Fixed command line quickbuild not properly working in some environments with the new compression system
- Fixed
reporting incorrect data in some OS X environments - Fixed
not properly working when used in the action
v7.0.1 [12-16-10]
- Fixed XML Editor failing to load some projects
- Improved XML editor performance when editing big XML projects
- Remove incorrect validation in
and elements
v7.0.0 [12-14-10]
- Ability to create custom actions to reuse code snippets
- New
action to create Java launchers - New in depth documentation
- Allow downloading ready to use JREs from the GUI builder
- Added built-in variables inspector to the builder
- Added search functionality to builder actions dialog
- New built-in XML editor in the GUI builder
- Improved
to work on Windows domains - Improved continuous progress popup layout
- Fixed
action not properly working on some Windows 64bit environments - Display component selection default description in Qt and Gtk modes
- Localize OS X translucent menu bar
- Fixed Korean and Chinese languages not being properly autodetected on some Windows environments
- Fixed ${machine_ipaddr} not being properly resolved in some Windows 64bit environments
- Asynchronously check for updates in the builder
- Making permissions errors when building more verbose
- Moved language selection dialog after the
- Make sure the log contains all the information after an error
- Improved packing method to improve packing and unpacking speed and reduce installers size and memory consume
- Fixed multidisk cdrom installers not retrying asking the first disk after a failed try
- POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY: Changed Unix installer extension from .bin to .run to make installers recognized as executable in some environments such as latest versions of Ubuntu
- Fixed
destination field validation - Fixed
failing on OS X if the disk volume tested contains spaces
v6.5.6 [10-29-10]
- Improve administrator user check in Solaris platform
- Added Xft font support in Solaris
- Added
rule - Fixed dialog buttons not being localized in qt mode
is now accessible through the GUI - Allow created OS X environment variables to be accessible from GUI applications
- Fixed Autoupdate tool not properly launching the downloaded installers in some OS X scenarios
- Fixed key bindings not properly working on xwindow, osx and win32 modes when selecting some languages
- java_autodetected and dotnet_autodetected are now set to 0 if the detection fails
- Fixed UI becoming not responsive when using
to unpack big directories - Fixed
not properly representing its value in some UI modes when using variables - Support zh_HK as valid language code
- Fixed errors when trying to overwrite hidden files on Windows
- Now in_empty and is_not_empty rules conditions in
rule now take into account hidden files
v6.5.5 [10-11-10]
- New
action - New options is_type and is_not_type to registryTest rule
- Implemented new
project property to configure the icon on OS X - Added Java Web Start binary to the list of autodetected targets in
action - Upgrade Autoupdate tool to support high color depth icons
- Allow viewing XML code of elements from the GUI
- Fixed
description in the GUI - Fixed popups sometimes not working when being resized in Solaris
- Modified position of "Created with an evaluation version" text in unregistered installers
- Fixed Chinese and Brazillian language autodetection on Unix
- Fixed wrapping in welcome and installation finished pages in Qt installers on Windows and OS X
- Fixed integer validation in
action - Fixed GUI context menu on OS X
- Improved page wrapping in Gtk custom style
- Properly deal with incorrect paths when creating the rollback directory
- Fixed Suse version autodetection failing in some environments
v6.5.4 [09-19-10]
- Implemented drag and drop of nodes in the GUI builder
- Make folders'
accessible through the GUI - Added OS X service manipulation actions
, , and - Added
rule to check OS X services state - Fixed XML load errors displaying an incorrect line number in some unicode files
- Implemented new
action - Improved language autodetection in OS X
- Added
tag in to specify the display order of the elements - Added is_windows_admin_account, is_windows_user_account, is_windows_guest_account to
rule - Properly wrap
descriptions when used inside a on xwindow, win32 and osx modes - Improved error when loading an incorrect project to display line number and file
- Wrap all text mode pages
- Allow resolving environment variables with parentheses
- Make
action recursive - Fixed InstallBuilder RELAX NG schema
- Improved keyboard navigation on xwindow mode
- Fixed incorrect font used in Chinese and Korean languages on Windows
- Fixed
failing on OS X - Make sure all actions defining variables resolve variables in the variable name
- Fixed deb/rpm helper binaries permissions
- Fixed
action requiring write permissions over the target .ini file - Properly handled errors retrieving available disk space
- Clean unnecessary helper binaries when upgrading Debian packages
- Added monthly date type in
action - Make Autoupdate tool to also look for the license in user directory on Windows
v6.5.3 [08-29-10]
- Added Korean language support
- Now any icon color depth is accepted for Windows installers
- Fixed OS X installers failing when requiring Admininstrator privileges and containing invalid characters in its
- Make keyboard focus visible on xwindow mode
- Fixed uninstaller not being properly created in some scenarios when launched with a symbolic link
- Added support for symbolic links in unzip action
- Allow component names to contain underscores
- Fix integers validation failing dealing with large integers
- Allow
tag in action to contain variables
v6.5.2 [08-19-10]
- Properly localize --help menu
- Fixed GUI Builder failing when adding
actions
v6.5.0 [08-06-10]
- New
action - New mechanism to escape variable references
- Allow configuring Autoupdate tool proxy through the configuration file
- New
and rules - Added --help menu to the builder
- Added --license command line flag to the builder to provide an alternative license file
- Added --debugtrace command line flag to the builder
- Added --project command line flag to specify a project to load in the GUI builder
- Improved unattendedModeUI mode to support gtk and qt mode
- Added
tag to action - New windows-x86 platform type check added to
rule - Fixed refresh issue that affected download rate in Autoupdate Tool, specially on OS X
- New
tag added to shortcuts to mark Windows shortcuts to run as Administrator - Improved validation of boolean and integer type settings
- Added OS detection support for RHEL 6
- Use default Unix permissions in
action running on Unix when unpacking files created on Windows - Added
tag to action and to to display HTML text in Qt mode - Fixed "Test Run" button on GUI builder not correctly launching generated Windows installers in UAC environments
- Added
tag to , and actions - Added
tag to elements - New windows_os_uac_enabled built-in variable to check the state of the UAC on Windows
- New warnings to report command line flags that are provided multiple times
- Properly deal with multiple installation mode command line flags
- Fixed
action failing in some scenarios when packing directories - Enforce executable permissions in Unix shortcuts
- Added file and line number to duplicated tags warnings
- Fixed tcsh not being recognized as a valid shell by environment actions on Unix
- Added
tag to disable the built-in confirmation popup on uninstallation - Fixed uninstaller not being deleted on unattended mode on Windows in some scenarios
- Fixed
title not being configurable in some UI modes - Include
state in rule description in GUI builder - Added double click binding in "Files" section in the GUI builder
- Fixed
/ and actions being affected by the state of the Wow64 filesystem redirection - Fixed crash on GUI builder when the
tag of folder contains incorrect values - Clean /opt/bitrock directory after deb/rpm uninstallation
- Fixed installer failing on Windows when TEMP environment variable containing multiple directories
- Fixed creation of symbolic links on OS X failing when target is an existing link to a non empty directory
v6.4.0 [06-13-10]
- Added support for nested variables
- Now all variable references are case insensitive
- New
action - Prevent GUI builder from accepting incorrect values in its dialogs
- Added new
and actions - New
action - New
action - Added new
action - Added matchHiddenFiles flag to
, and actions - Added OS X support for user and group manipulation actions
- Added new built-in variable windows_os_flavor
- Allow
and actions to be accessed through the GUI - Fixed Qt installer abnormaly resizing in "custom" mode
- Fixed patterns in folders' inclusion filters not resolved when using backslashes
- Allow
to display a download progress bar when containing a single child action - Normalize all relative paths to reference project directory in Autoupdate tool
- New validation of duplicated project tags
- Disabled RPM registration in platforms with non-native RPM support
- Increase size of builder project properties dialog
- Allow empty user and password to be provided in
action - New
tag in action - Disable language selection dialog when a value is provided through command line
- Allow InstallBuilder license to be saved to and loaded from user personal directory on Windows
- Added Japanese string for Installer.DirectorySelection built-in string
- Fixed glitch in button states after installation page
- Allow task name with spaces in
action
v6.3.1 [05-07-10]
- New
action - New
action - New
action - Added
tag to action - Improved
to autodetect system proxy settings - Improved RPM integration
- Improved Qt look and feel on Windows and OS X
- Validate user provided input for parmeters while creating them.
- Added Windows support for user and group manipulation actions
- Fixed
failing to delete keys on Windows 64bit - Documented windows_os_service_pack
- Prevent fileTest rule from failing when testing a non-existent link
- Fixed autoupdate returning update available when check_for_updates was set to '0'
- Fixed Windows 7 not being recognized when Windows 7 Logo Toolkit is installed
- Fixed symbolic links not being properly packed when included as
- Fixed variables not being resolved in some Autoupdate project tags.
- Fixed error parsing Autoupdate projects containing utf-8 BOM
- Built-in registry keys are now created in the 64bit view when
is enabled - Fixed Windows 2008 autodetection failing in some environments
v6.3.0 [02-27-10]
- Now Windows installers set the default installation language from a previous installation when updating
- Reduced memory consumption when unpacking large single-file installers
- Multiple improvements in CDROM installers
- Allow HTML licenses file in Qt mode
- New installer_builder_version and installer_builder_timestamp built-in variables
- License parameters now accept multiple localized licenses
- New
action to configure proxy to use with http actions - New
and actions - New
and Windows actions - New
action - New
and actions - New .password suffix to mask passwords in log messages
- Support for osx-intel and osx-pcc in platform test
- Fixed proxy configuration in autoupdate failing in some environments
- Fixed autoupdate failing on OS X when using minimalWithDialog ui mode
- Properly set default output and project directory on Windows 7
- Prevent downloaded installers to by launched in text mode by the autoupdater
- New tag to match hidden files on Windows
- Fixed
property being empty during build time - FreeBSD 8 support
- Improve RPM removal process
- Fixed
failing on Windows when using - Fixed unpacking errors in some environments
v6.2.7 [01-24-10]
- File selection crashes if third-party Explorer extensions change locale
- Fixed unpacking error in some Windows environments due to antivirus software locking files
- New
property in action to configure whether to use or not 8.3 format in the path - Added encoding property in
action and rule - New
action - Allow file type filters in
dialogs for xwindow, osx and win32 modes - Include InstallBuilder version by default in the generated installers version info
v6.2.6 [12-22-09]
- New
dialog - New
action to retrieve ACLs on Windows - New
action - Added project property
to mark locked files on Windows to be renamed instead of prompting the end-user to abort/retry/ignore - Fixed build-time memory errors produced by the usage of
with big executables - Allow Autoupdate strings to be localized
- Added
and tags to action - Actions that modify the environment variables and PATH can now be applied to a particular user (Unix only)
- Fixed
masking the the original error - Fixed .desktop files on Unix not correctly working on some scenarios
- Avoid locked files error when unpacking on Unix
- Use SID for user default value on
action - Added is_empty and is_not_empty tests to
rule - Fixed registry actions not correctly resolving variables in their errors
- Fixed Autoupdate tool not modifying Windows executable resources
- Fixed some minor bugs in Autoupdate tool
- Improved windows-x64 rule
- Allow uninstaller icon to be customized
- Fixed
not being deleted after a successful rollback - Fixed
validation failing in some environments - Fixed software version registry key not being updated after an upgrade
- Give executable permissions to serialized .desktop files on Unix
v6.2.5 [11-12-09]
- Allow file filtering in folders
- Fix glitch in action popup on OS X builder
- New
action to modify Windows permissions - New
action - New
project property - Fixed "Administrator privileges required" string not shown in all languages
- Fixed
action always following symbolic links - Improved text entry field in GUI builder
v6.2.4 [10-15-09]
- Improved builder tool on OS X x86
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