InstallAnywhere 2021

The following issues have been resolved in InstallAnywhere 2021.

Issue Number

Issue Summary

IOJ-2162825

IOJ-2155918

While building Installer, the exception was written to stderr when Set Windows Registry action created empty key, the key does not exist on the system, and with logging is enabled. This issue has been fixed. Now, the Installer does not throw any exception.

IOJ-2151979

Checkboxes associated with each feature are not visible when Choose Install Set panel was initially displayed; selecting any of the checkbox refreshed the page and displaying the checkboxes. Now, the checkboxes are displayed for all the features in the Choose Install Set Panel.

IOJ-2151380

On the Choose Install Set panel, the feature names were truncated with Java 9 or higher versions when DPI scaling is set to 125%. This issue has been fixed. The feature names are displayed fully on Choose Install Set panel when scaling set to 125%, 150% and 175%.

IOJ-2125373

The bottom border of the language selection drop-down widget is not visible for the Traditional Chinese language selection. This issue has been fixed.

IOJ-2123222

Windows launcher failed when the same installer was launched simultaneously with another instance. This issue has been fixed.

IOJ-2115323

For Mac Installer, the build log output wrote “.zip file” instead of “.app file” in IA 2020 SP1. This issue has been fixed.

IOJ-2113600

LaunchAnywhere launcher with -javaagent option for macOS was not installed successfully during installation. This issue has been fixed.

IOJ-2102856

Icon displayed on Dock when installing a Merge Module on macOS was not related to the product being installed. Now, the icon displayed on Dock is same as parent icon.

IOJ-2099994

License Agreement panel was not refreshed with the content of license file when IA Variable used to specify path to existing file that was updated during runtime. This issue has been fixed.

IOJ-2099986

Installer threw NullPointerException and exited during initialization, if the Product Registry file in /var did not exist and user.home was not readable. Now, the Installer launches without any error.

IOJ-2097298

Extracted macOS web installer on macOS 10.15 (Catalina) lacked execute permission on executable stub in App Bundle and failed to launch. This issue has been only fixed when building on macOS.

IOJ-2081150

JavaDocs for com.zerog.ia.auto.project.InstallerUI did not explain about which splash screen (100%, 150%, 200%) is set by methods setSplashScreenImage(), setSplashScreenImage1(), and setSplashScreenImage2(). Now, the JavaDocs for com.zerog.ia.auto.project.InstallerUI has been updated with explanation for splash screen (100%, 150%, 200%) is set by methods setSplashScreenImage(), setSplashScreenImage1(), and setSplashScreenImage2().

IOJ-2080568

Installer step labels were not wrapped when "Allow label text to wrap" is checked. This issue has been fixed. Now, the Installer step labels are wrapped and displayed fully.

IOJ-2079782

Text on the right side of Get User Input panel and few other panels were not fully visible. Text was cut off. This issue has been fixed. Now, the text on panels is not cut off and is fully visible.

IOJ-2079773

On panels, line that begins with a space was not left justified. This issue has been fixed. Now, text is aligned based on the Text Justification even when there is a space at the beginning of the sentence.

IOJ-1902003

Billboard image displayed blurry on normal and High DPI. This issue has been fixed. Now, the Billboard image is displayed clearly.

IOJ-2116477

Image displayed for Installer Steps was distorted even when configured not to scale horizontally or vertically. This issue has been fixed.

IOJ-2113645

Installer Steps Image displayed pixelated/blurry on macOS. This issue has been fixed.

IOJ-2095381

When Splash Screen was scaled, the language selection drop-down option and OK button were displayed off the screen. This issue has been fixed.

IOJ-2090274

Billboard images displayed on macOS were blurry and/or pixelated. This issue has been fixed.

IOJ-1992790

On macOS, Splash screen image displayed larger and pixelated with installer built with InstallAnywhere 2018 SP1. This issue has been fixed. Now, the splash screen displays clear.

IOJ-1930984

On Linux, Introduction Panel text on right side of panel was truncated and cut off. This issue has been fixed. Now, the Introduction Panel text are wrapped correctly.

IOJ-1882431

The standard install log warning message was incorrect when referencing the C drive as the source location for Copy File Action. This issue has been fixed. The correct warning message is shown in standard install log when referencing C drive as source location for Copy File Action & Move File Action.

IOJ-2098020

When Require Root was set to Yes, Require Root check failed and the non-root user was allowed to proceed with the installation. This issue has been fixed. The Installer allows only the root user to proceed with installation. For non-root user, it displays the error associated with the Requires Root property and forces to quit the Installer.

IOJ-2092378

Java style comments were shown in launcher scripts in the install location of InstallAnywhere 2020 SP1. This issue has been fixed.

IOJ-2081153

No documentation was provided for different splash screen images (100%, 150%, 200%). The documentation for the splash screen has been added.

IOJ-2087653

Feature Short Name changed when copying Feature Name using Ctrl+C but not changing the value of Name. This issue has been fixed. Now, Value of name field is copied to clipboard and the values in both the Name and Short Name fields are not altered.

IOJ-2148302

While migrating project with Choose Folder Panel from IA 2017 to IA 2020 SP2 resulted in unsupported type messages in build output. This issue has been fixed.

IOJ-2115903

In InstallAnywhere 2020, the word CS-ERROR was written in the output log and it was confusing as the output did not contain any error. This issue has been fixed and the word CS-ERROR is not written in the output log or console.

IOJ-2087406

When the path to install.jar on macOS contained a directory that ends in .app, the Pure Java installer failed to launch with the error. This issue has been fixed.

IOJ-1994291

Splash screen image displayed pixelated/blurry on high DPI settings on windows. This issue has been fixed. Now, the splash screen displays clear and scales appropriate, as per the DPI settings.

IOJ-1991737

The help text appeared while running the Installer on a Linux machine with GUI not enabled was misleading. This issue has been fixed on Linux. The help text is displayed correctly now.

IOJ-1739948

A Without VM Windows Pure 64 Bit installer failed to launch even when a 64-bit JVM was present on the 64-bit machine. This issue has been fixed. Now, no launcher error displayed while launching Pure 64 Bit installer on 64 bit machine.

IOJ-1725830

Added the ability to customize the text displayed by the help dialog.

IOJ-2166657

Typo found in the "What's New in InstallAnywhere 2018 SP1" section of the Help is fixed.