InstallAnywhere 2020
Release Notes
October 2019
Introduction
InstallAnywhere is the leading multiplatform installation and container development solution for application producers who need to deliver a professional and consistent installation experience for physical, virtual, and cloud environments as well as container deployments.
For the latest information about this release of InstallAnywhere, including updates to these release notes, see the online version of the InstallAnywhere 2020 release notes.
New Features in 2020
InstallAnywhere 2020 includes the following features:
| • | Support for Java 13 |
| • | Mac OS X Notarization |
| • | Support for Digital Signature using Windows Store |
| • | Enhancements |
| • | Resolved Issues |
Support for Java 13
InstallAnywhere 2020 now supports the latest version of Java, Version 13.
OUsing InstallAnywhere 2020, you can:
| • | Create Java 13 VM packs |
| • | Create installers which uses bundled Java 13 VM pack |
| • | Create installers that can detect a Java 13 on the host and run automatically |
Mac OS X Notarization
Starting in macOS 10.14.5, all new or updated kernel extensions and all products from developers new to dispersing with Developer ID must be notarized so as to run. Starting in macOS 10.15, by default, the notarization is required for all products.
Notarization likewise ensures your users if your Developer ID signing key is uncovered. The notary service keeps up a review trail of the product appropriated utilizing your signing key.
In InstallAnywhere 2020, you can automatically notarize your application with ease. InstallAnywhere now supports notarizing macOS or OS X–based installers with a Developer ID Application certificate during the build time.
The process of notarizing your authentication wrappers, your installers, and your uninstallers varies, depending on whether you are performing the notarizing step at build time on the InstallAnywhere build machine or on a separate designated notarization machine.
You can specify whether and how you want InstallAnywhere to notarize your OS X–based installer at build time. If you notarize the installer, end users can download your installer from outside the Mac App Store and install the product without being blocked by the Gatekeeper. The App Notarization settings in this area are:
| • | Notarize the Generated Installer |
| • | Developer Username |
| • | Developer App Specific Password |
| • | Notarization Response Timeout (min) |
Support for Digital Signature using Windows Store
InstallAnywhere 2020 provides he Certificate Selection dialog box to specify which certificate you want to use to sign your files. InstallAnywhere lets you choose between the following options:
| • | You can specify the .pfx certificate file on your machine that you want to use for signing. |
| • | You can reference a certificate store that contains the certificate that you want to use for signing. |
Enhancements
Enhancements in InstallAnywhere 2020
This section lists enhancements that were included in InstallAnywhere 2020:
| • | JVM Specification Files for Java 10 and 11 |
| • | HTTPS Protocol Option in Download File Action |
| • | Edit TextField to Display as Read-Only |
| • | Warning for an Invalid Java VM |
| • | Restrict Installation Location |
| • | Support for OpenJDK |
| • | New Version of Apache Commons-Codec |
| • | Support for InstallAnywhere Registration and License |
| • | Support the Amazon Corretto JVM |
JVM Specification Files for Java 10 and 11
Now in InstallAnywhere 2020, you have JVM specification files available for Java 10 and 11 in the default folder ($IA_HOME$/resource/jvms).
HTTPS Protocol Option in Download File Action
You can now use the Download File action to download a file during installation using HTTPS protocol. You specify information regarding this action on the Download File Action customizer.
Edit TextField to Display as Read-Only
The new Editable option in the Configure Textfield dialog box will help you to configure Textfields to display as read-only. By default, the selection box will be set as True and will remain editable. When you set the Editable option to False, it is non editable.
Warning for an Invalid Java VM
Previously, there was no warning/caution message displayed while selecting a Java VM which was not valid for the InstallAnywhere installation.
In this release, there will be an error message when you select a Java VM that is not on the valid VM list from the Choose Java VM panel.
Restrict Installation Location
Previously for projects with Maintenance Mode and Instance Management enabled, the Product Name (Installation Location) was displayed as the Display Name in the Add or Remove Programs (Programs and Features).
Now you have an option, where you can restrict the display of the installation location for an instance in the Display Name displayed in the Add or Remove Programs (Programs and Features).
Support for OpenJDK
Now InstallAnywhere supports OpenJDK Virtual machines.
New Version of Apache Commons-Codec
Now in InstallAnywhere 2020, a newer version of Apache Commons is listed that will make its classes available to Custom Code.
Support for InstallAnywhere Registration and License
Previously, there was no message whether or not InstallAnywhere was registered or licensed.
Now in InstallAnywhere, you have a command output that will display whether your copy of InstallAnywhere is registered and licensed.
Support the Amazon Corretto JVM
Now in InstallAnywhere 2020, the runtime is tested and verified to support the Amazon Corretto JVM.
Important Information
Note the following important information regarding InstallAnywhere 2020:
| • | Evaluating InstallAnywhere |
| • | Obtaining the Installation and License Files for InstallAnywhere |
Evaluating InstallAnywhere
Note that if you have not purchased a license for InstallAnywhere, you can install it and use it for a limited number of days without setting up the licensing. When you are using InstallAnywhere in this scenario, it operates in evaluation mode. The licensing wizard that InstallAnywhere displays whenever you launch InstallAnywhere in evaluation mode shows you how many days are left in the evaluation period. If you do not set up the licensing within the evaluation period, InstallAnywhere stops working when the evaluation period ends. You can set up licensing at any time before or after the evaluation period ends.
When you use InstallAnywhere in evaluation mode, there is a time limit for running installers that it creates. If you build an installer in the evaluation version of InstallAnywhere, your installer will stop working after 3 days.
When you use InstallAnywhere in evaluation mode, InstallAnywhere limits you to a maximum of five successful builds of Docker containers.
Obtaining the Installation and License Files for InstallAnywhere
You can obtain the installation and license files for InstallAnywhere through the Flexera Product and License Center. For instructions, see the Download and licensing instructions for InstallAnywhere. If you purchased concurrent licenses of InstallAnywhere, the license server software is also available for download from that same site.
Resolved Issues
This section lists the customer issues that were resolved in the following versions of InstallAnywhere 2020:
InstallAnywhere 2020
The following issues have been resolved in InstallAnywhere 2020.
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IOJ-1926696 |
Previously, while selecting the Windows target in the Build tab, under the ‘With VM’ checkbox (only on Windows Server 2019), the “VM to bundle with installer” drop-down was disabled; Because of which, the build failed. This issue is resolved in this release. |
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IOJ-1559270 |
Previously, if there was an action group with subgroups and the last panel in the last subgroup had a rule that was being resolved to false then the Pre-Install summary of the Installation wizard was skipping all the panels from the enclosing group. This issue is resolved in this release. |
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IOJ-1559951 |
Previously, the Custom or IA variable defined in the Project view were displayed in the debug log even though it was configured in the configure variables to "exclude value only" or "Exclude variable entirely'. This issue is resolved in this release. |
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IOJ-1561276 |
Previously, choosing a ‘Get User Input - Advanced Panel’ action; After adding/selecting the Textfield, the Configure Textfield dialog box wasn’t closing even after clicking on the ‘Close/Exit’ button. This issue is resolved in this release. |
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IOJ-1561400 |
Previously, while navigating to the Pre-Install task, all the collapsed Action Groups in the Pre-Install Task were automatically expanded in Linux. This issue is resolved in this release. |
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IOJ-1560202 |
Previously on a Unix/Linux environment, if any environment variable contained \u in value, the installer crashed with an exception “Malformed \uxxxx encoding”. This issue is resolved in this release. |
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IOJ-1560688 |
Previously in the Installer, the scrollbar was missing when the text exceeded the panel size in the Custom Code panel. This issue is resolved in this release. |
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IOJ-1561455 |
In the Pre-Uninstall phase, the "Get User Input - Advanced" panel has two radio buttons (Yes/No) and by default - the ‘Yes’ radio button was selected as the Default value to enable multiple locales. And while performing the uninstallation process, neither of the (Yes/No) radio buttons were selected in a Non-English locale. This issue is resolved in this release. |
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IOJ-1723088 |
Previously, during pre-install, install or post-install phase was set to a UNC network path, the log wasn’t available in the location. This issue is resolved in this release. |
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IOJ-1742475 |
Digital Signing broke when a custom icon was used for the LaunchAnywhere launcher for the target application. This issue is resolved in this release. |
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IOJ-1924903 |
Previous versions of InstallAnywhere used zlib version 1.0.4 which was known to have vulnerabilities. This issue is resolved in this release. The version of zlib has been upgraded to 1.2.11 to avoid the vulnerabilities. |
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IOJ-1992471 |
While building a project and running the installer, the text (Cancel and Previous buttons) were truncated when Windows 7 was set at a display resolution of 1920 x 1080 and a scaling of 125%. This issue is resolved in this release. |
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IOJ-1990585 |
The Custom code action failed with ClassNotFoundException when using InstallAnywhere 2018 SP1 Hotfix D or Hotfix I. This issue is resolved in this release. |
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IOJ-1927113 |
Previously when both, Oracle Java 8 JDK and OpenJDK 11 were present in the target machine and OpenJDK 11 was set as the default JVM. After adding Without VM installer for Linux, an error occurred. This issue is resolved in this release. |
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IOJ-1991121 |
Previously the scrollbar wasn’t working when the text exceeded the panel size in the Custom Code panel. This issue is resolved in this release. |
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IOJ-1818811 |
Previously when using the 64 bit Windows Console launcher, an irrelevant/confusing message (Unable to locate 32 bit installer to execute) was displayed when the launcher was renamed and executed from the command prompt. This issue is resolved in this release. |
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IOJ-1753361 |
During the Pre-Install phase, when there were multiple instances in different locations, in Silent mode, the Variable IA_INSTALL_INSTANCE_NUM was not incremented each time. This issue is resolved in the release. |
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IOJ-1899071 |
The upgrade that used “Product that Share My Upgrade Code” failed to launch on a machine that had a product created with InstallAnywhere 2013 or earlier. This issue is resolved in this release. |
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IOJ-1915443 |
While running the Installer and navigating to Choose Java VM panel, the OJDKBUILD JVM version 8 was missing from the list. Because of which, the JVM Validation failed with a debug output entry for OJKBUILD JVM version 8. This issue is resolved in this release. |
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IOJ-1913982 |
Windows DLL failed to load when running the installer on Windows Server 2019 with JVM that outputs correct os.name of Windows Server 2019. This issue is resolved in this release. |
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IOJ-1895466 |
Previously the Installer failed to launch when running the With VM target bundled with IBM JRE 1.8 SR5 FP20. This issue is resolved in this release. |
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IOJ-1896493 |
While using the ActionGroup.getChildren() on an action group that contained a Get User Input Console, an error (Error setting visual children for 'com.zerog.ia.installer.actions.ActionGroup') occurred in the project automation. In addition, the ‘Get User Input Console’ along with any actions following it in the action group was getting removed from the project. This issue is resolved in this release. |
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IOJ-1866007 |
Earlier, the disk space check reported available free space for root file system /, instead of Targeted File System such as /home. This issues is resolved in this release. |
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IOJ-1921600 |
While silently installing the upgrade, the silent upgrade install failed to upgrade an existing instance and displayed an Instant Management error (Aborting installation as the user has either canceled the installation or exceeded the maximum number of instances allowed.). This issue is resolved in this release. |
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IOJ-1913353 |
Previously, when using the Pre-Install Summary panel in the Installer, the panel background color changes while navigating back and forward. This issue is resolved in this release. |
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IOJ-1913973 |
When running the uninstaller using the command prompt, the Silent uninstall crashed and exited with java.lang.ClassCastException when passing installvariables.properties file to uninstaller launcher. This issue is resolved in this release. |
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IOJ-1912814 |
After uninstalling the project, the install.dir.* directory is left behind in /tmp by the uninstall, which can take up considerable disk space depending on the total size and the number of install.dir.* directories. This issue is resolved in the release. |
System Requirements
The following are the system requirements for InstallAnywhere 2020:
| • | Requirements for Systems That Are Running InstallAnywhere (Authoring Environment) |
| • | Requirements for Docker Images |
| • | Requirements for Target Systems (Installer Run-Time Environment) |
| • | Supported Java Virtual Machines |
| • | Requirements for Virtual Appliances |
| • | Supported Hypervisors and Platforms for Virtual Appliances |
Requirements for Systems That Are Running InstallAnywhere (Authoring Environment)
RAM
256 MB; 512 MB preferred
Hard Disk Free Space
500 MB
Color
High color (16-bit color depth)
Resolution
Minimum 1200 x 800
Operating System
InstallAnywhere runs on the latest versions of these operating systems, fully updated with the most recent patches and service packs.
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Linux |
Note • When you install InstallAnywhere on a Linux system, the installation attempts to create a symbolic link to the default Linux loader (/lib/ld-linux.so.2) if a link with the same name is not already present. The symbolic link is necessary for the host ID to be displayed on the Host ID dialog, and it is also necessary for successful node-locked licensing. The link is present on systems that are Linux Standard Base (LSB) 3 compliant, but it may not be present on systems that are not LSB compliant. For more information, see Knowledge Base article Q209204. |
Installers can be built from any supported authoring platform for any other supported target platform or language. Localizations for 32 languages are included.
Requirements for Docker Images
Support for building Docker images from InstallAnywhere 2017 when Docker is installed on the platforms below.
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Docker 1.7.1 |
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Requirements for Target Systems (Installer Run-Time Environment)
RAM
64 MB
Color
High color (16-bit color depth)
Resolution
Minimum 640 x 480
Operating System
Installers run on any version of these operating systems, as long as the operating system supports Java 6, 7, or 8 (but Oracle Java 7 or 8 for OS X). InstallAnywhere-generated installers are not supported on beta versions or on early-access releases unless they are explicitly mentioned.
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Supported Java Virtual Machines
InstallAnywhere supports the following Java virtual machines:
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Supported Versions |
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IBM |
1.7.x, 1.8.x, 9 |
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HP |
1.7.x, 1.8.x, 9 |
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Sun/Oracle |
1.7.x, 1.8.x, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
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OpenJDK |
1.7.x, 1.8.x, 9, 11, 12 |
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Amazon Corretto |
8, 11 |
The InstallAnywhere installer installs JRE 1.7.0_60 VM packs. Any Java virtual machine can be bundled with an installer ensuring that the target system meets the minimum requirements for both the installers and your applications. To download additional JRE VM packs, visit http://www.flexerasoftware.com/installanywhere/utilities and click the VM Packs tab.
InstallAnywhere-generated installers are not supported on beta versions or on early-access releases of Java.
Requirements for Virtual Appliances
The following are requirements for virtual appliances:
| • | System Requirements for Building and Auto-Deploying Virtual Appliances |
| • | Supported Hypervisors and Platforms for Virtual Appliances |
System Requirements for Building and Auto-Deploying Virtual Appliances
The following table lists the system requirements for building and auto-deploying virtual appliances from within InstallAnywhere.
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Requirements |
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VMware vSphere 5/vCenter |
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Supported Hypervisors and Platforms for Virtual Appliances
InstallAnywhere supports the creation of virtual appliances that run on VMware vSphere 5 and Amazon EC2 hypervisors. A VMware vSphere 5 virtual appliance is deployable on a licensed VMware vSphere 5 Server (standalone) or a licensed VMware vSphere 5 Server that is managed by a licensed VMware vCenter 5 Server.
The following table identifies the operating systems that are supported on the supported hypervisors.
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Supported Operating Systems |
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Known Issues
For a list of known issues, see the InstallAnywhere 2020 Known Issues knowledge base article.
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