OpenWebStart v1.0.0

Installation guidance can be found here.
Among others, this release provides the following improvements and features:

• When doing an unattended installation the defined configuration (in the "response.varfile") will be imported to OpenWebStart
• Zulu Community Edition (8 and 11) is provided as runtime by the download server
• Support for the ExtendedService API
• Additional configuration property to allow the local filesystem as part of codebase
• Converting of HTTP to HTTPS for download of resources can be disabled
• The internal JVM of OpenWebStart can not be added to the JVM manager anymore
• Properties that were locked can be unlocked by unattended installation
• Default installation path of Corretto is added to JVM finder functionality
• The "Applet Security", "JVM Settings" and "Policy Settings" panels are removed from the settings
• The advanced dialog for Unix specific options has been removed from the "Desktop Integration" panel
• A disclaimer has been added to the about dialog
• The installer displays the license of OpenWebStart
• The default vendor is * (any vendor)

OpenWebStart v0.5.1

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

Installation guidance can be found here.

This release includes fixes for the following issues:

• RejectedExecutionException for JNLP files with a large number of resources
• NullpointerException for JNLP files with whitespace in their path
• NullpointerException when Content-Type was missing in server response

Also we added an implementation for JarDiff support

OpenWebStart v0.5.0

Warning: This release is intended for early adopter testing and not yet ready for production use.
Installation guidance can be found here.
Among others, this release provides the following improvements and features:

• Configurable auto update functionality
• Possibility to define several configurations by using the unattended installation
• Possibility to lock specific configuration options in the settings by using the unattended installation
• OpenWebStart now automatically supports 1.8+ JVMs. The configuration option in the JVM manager has been removed.
• Server whitelist that can be defined by unattended installation
• A new algorithm to load resources
• An "about" dialog

OpenWebStart v0.4.0

This is a pre-release of OpenWebStart 0.4.0

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

Installation guidance can be found here.

Among others, this release provides the following improvements and features:

• new cache implementation supporting versioned resources
• launching multiple JNLP applications on mac
• improved settings dialog

OpenWebStart 0.3.2

This is a pre-release of OpenWebStart 0.3.2

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

Installation guidance can be found here.

This release includes fixes for the following issues:

• fix of handling of modules in Java 9+

This fixes the issues when launching managed applications with a Java version 9 or greater.

OpenWebStart 0.3.1

This is a pre-release of OpenWebStart 0.3.1

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

Installation guidance can be found here.

This release includes fixes for the following issues:

• fix security dialog opens as minimized window and no content on Windows
• fix start-up performance issue when loading favicon on Windows

This fixes the start-up problems of the Java tutorial JNLP examples.

OpenWebStart v0.3.0

This is a pre-release of OpenWebStart 0.3.0

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

Installation guidance can be found here.

Among others, this release provides the following improvements and features:

• JVM Manager
• fix for broken desktop shortcuts on Windows

OpenWebStart v0.2.0

This is a pre-release of OpenWebStart 0.2.0

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

Installation guidance can be found here.

Among others, this release provides the following improvements and features:

• installers for MacOS and Linux
• the -Xnofork and -nosecurity arguments are no longer required
• new system property "deployment.javaws" to enable the started application to detect its execution context
• code signing for the installers
• unattended installation

OpenWebStart v0.1.2-alpha

This is a pre-release of OpenWebStart 0.1.2-alpha

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

Installation guidance can be found here.

This release includes fixes for the following issues:

• Problems with -console parameter to show stdout and stderr on the console

OpenWebStart v0.1.1-alpha

This is a pre-release of OpenWebStart 0.1.1-alpha

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

Installation guidance can be found here.

This release includes fixes for the following issues:

• Problems when using Proxy Auto Config (PAC) files