OpenWebStart v1.8.0

This release provides the following fixes and features:

• Improve key used for caching application resources
• Update the bundled JVM to version 8u372
• Improve caching of keystore passwords
• Improve handling of proxy errors
• Fix setting of properties from extension jnlps
• Update the default JVM download server to provide newer versions of JVMs, including those for Java 17
• Minor updates of User Guide and FAQ documentation

OpenWebStart v1.7.0

This release provides the following fixes and features:

• Provide an OWS native Mac Silicon (ARM) installer
• Update the bundled JVM to version 8u345
• Fix OWS to be able to run Jnlp applications with Java 18
• Enable specification of shortcut handling and update strategy in the response.varfile
• Fix a bug in check for installer update when starting itw-settings
• Update the default JVM download server to provide newer versions of JVMs, including those for Java 17
• Renewal of the Code Signing Certificates for Windows installers expired on 12th July 2022
• Minor updates of User Guide and FAQ documentation

OpenWebStart v1.6.0

This release provides the following fixes and features:

• Provide an OWS native Mac Silicon (ARM) installer
• Update internal JVM to version 8u332
• Add support for detecting local OpenJDK VMs (#498)
• Fixed not to use pack200 compression if the current JVM does not support it (#499)
• Fixed OWS I4J installer Update hangs when the network or update server is down (forum)
• Fixed icon tag, size attribute specified as [width]x[height] not recognized by JNLP parser (AdoptOpenJDK/IcedTea-Web#867)
• Minor updates of User Guide and FAQ documentation

NOTE: Mac Silicon users that previously installed a OWS Intel x64 version (prior to 1.6.0) are encouraged to uninstall and reinstall the aarch64 version.

OpenWebStart v1.5.2

This release provides the following fixes and features:

• Improve the shortcut creation by providing settings to control the behavior (overwrite, preserve or create unique name)
• Improve documentation for unattended installation and system-wide trust store
• Improve logging

OpenWebStart v1.5.1

This release provides the following fixes and features:

• Fix a bug while installing 32 bit JVM on OWS for 64 bit OS
• Fix a bug while deleting jnlp apps in the cache
• Fix a bug while displaying information of jnlp app in cache
• Fix the issue of collision of desktop shortcut link names
• Improve logging by providing an option to log jnlp file content

OpenWebStart v1.5.0

This release provides the following fixes and features:

• Updated bundled Java to Eclipse Temurin jdk8u312-b07
• Fix JVM download and unzip bug
• Fix reading of Icons bug due to JDK 8_312
• Fix potential collision of icons in cache
• Prevent storing incomplete downloaded files in cache
• Properties for HTTP connect and read timeouts
• Fix ImageIO Service Loader
• Support Amazon Corretto JDK in local JVM search
• Support Eclipse Adoptium JDK as vendor and migrate Adopt to Adoptium
• Fix use of System Proxy when there is no access to Registry
• Add Support for jars with ECDSA signature
• Fixed Windows desktop path with accented letter (äöüéá...)
• Reduce access to files which are shared between multiple running OWS instances (Cache, Config and Log)
• Updated OpenWebStart user guide and added more FAQs

OpenWebStart v1.4.0

This release provides the following fixes and features:

• Updated embedded Java to 8u292
• Display error when passing Java 9+ arguments to a Java 1.8 VM (#413)
• UI Improvements for dark mode (AdoptOpenJDK/IcedTea-Web#753)
• Add support for the JAVAWS_VM_ARGS env variable (#398)
• Fix handling of SOCK proxy (#360)
• Have the vendor from the JNLP take precedence if the settings are set to "any vendor"
• Handle more properties in response.varfile (#410)
• Allow applications to have no JARs defined in the main JNLP
• Fix issues with JNLP files containing no resources just extensions
• Prevent warning when launching a local JNLP file (AdoptOpenJDK/IcedTea-Web#265)
• Improve documentation on jnlp vendor selection (forum)
• Close progress dialog correctly (#414)
• Fix file lock issues during update of OWS on Windows (forum)
• Fix handling of multi release jars
• Fix exporting of certificates
• Fix handling of stale lock files on Windows NTFS

OpenWebStart v1.3.3

This is a bugfix release fixing some small issues

• Cache Corruption on Windows because of missing file lock (see ITW #707)
• New download dialog shouldn't steal focus (see #333)
• OWS allow to specify 32 bit JVM in JNLP file (see #374)
• Creation of Desktop/Menu entries fails (see #388)
• Creation of desktop entries fails on Windows if desktop is moved (see #243, #386, #388)

See 1.3.0 for a full list of changes introduced with the 1.3.x release.

OpenWebStart v1.3.2

This is a bugfix release fixing some small issues

• Fix null pointer deference when looking up versioned resources in the cache (see ITW #728).
• Accept broken XML if it uses <?-- instead of <!-- for comments (see ITW #469)
• Improve logging during cache cleanup.
• Fix handling of SOCK proxy (see #360).
• Lazy load pac file in proxy configuration (see #373).
• Change the path available in user.dir to the actual working directory (see #361).

See 1.3.0 for a full list of changes introduced with the 1.3.x release.

OpenWebStart v3.0.0-alpha2

Warning: This release is intended for early adopter testing and not yet ready for production use.

Second release with a new implementation of the class loader.
The new implementation slims down on rarely used features and sets higher priority on maintainability.

• improve lazy loading of jars
• re-design of dialogs

The following features are known to be broken:

• Sandboxing (only applications with all-permissions are currently supported)
• Remembering of user decisions is missing
• Using the Java service provider pattern (ServiceLoader) will download all jars.