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A très bientôt sur le nouveau JPz'log.

I have just checked into to the Subversion trunk a few updates regarding the IzPack 3rd-party Swing look and feels support.

1. Liquid and JGoodies Looks have been updated to their latest versions.
2. Support has been added for the Toned-down Substance look and feel themes. The restriction to this themes family is due to the fact that the other families are either too dark ... or way too saturated^[1]

To use this new look and feel, here an extract of what you can put in your installer specification:

 <guiprefs height="600" resizable="yes" width="800">
     <laf name="substance" >
         <os family="unix"/>
         <param name="variant" value="moderate"/>
    </laf>
    (...)
 </guiprefs>

In this case, Substance will be used on Unix-like systems with the moderate theme.

You can already test those changes by checking out the current development version!

I am pleased to announce the release of the IzPack 3.10.2 Java installer generator. This is maintenance release which brings fixes.

Here is the full changelog:

• Vista/Java6 fixes (Stefan Wachter via Julien Ponge)
• Dutch Langpack fixes (Hans Aikema)
• Fix NPE for pack.id == null in dependencies/excludes (Hans Aikema)
• Indonesian Langpack fixes (Thomas Santosa via Hans Aikema)
• UserInputPanel and InstallerFrame: enable the next button for search dialogs (Michael Hagedorn via Julien Ponge)
• VariableSubstitutor: new Java source files support (Max Fedorov via Julien Ponge)
• French langpack updates (Loic, via Julien Ponge)
• Documentation update (Scott Plante via Julien Ponge)
• AutomatedUninstaller.writeUninstallData() out of sync with InstallerFrame fixed (Marius Nicolae via Marc Eppelmann)

It can be downloaded from:

• http://izpack.org/
• https://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/izpack/izpack-src/tags/3.10.2 (subversion tag).

Many thanks to the contributors and developers who have made this release possible!

Dennis Reil has registered IzPack on Ohloh.net, a funny website offering automated metrics on open source projects.

In a nutshell:

• 14 Person Years
• $773,016.

The next maintenance release of the IzPack Java installer is planned for this friday. This will probably the last one of the 3.10 stable branch as we should then focus of 3.11.

Here is the gift I announced last week: the IzPack Java Installer homepage has been moved to http://izpack.org/!

A transparent redirection has been set from the homepage, so the pagerank should not be affected. It should only take a few days before the web search engines properly refresh their indexes.

This move has been financed thanks to the Google Ads on the webpages.

Thanks to the ads that I have placed on the IzPack Java installer website, there will be soon a gift to the IzPack community. Basically it will help in the project promotion... But can you guess what it will be?