OpenWebStart v1.1.8

Installation guidance can be found here.
This release provides the following fixes and features:

• Improve remote debugging settings and add support for Java 11 (#248) (#271)
• Fix broken SingleInstanceService (AdoptOpenJDK/IcedTea-Web#645)
• Prevent passing Java 9 arguments to a Java 8 VM.
• Add support for HIDPI JVM arguments.
• Add warning to UI about risk of allowing to specify JVM download server in JNLP
• Fix error for downloading files which are located at the root of a server.
• Replace custom XML Parser with Java DocumentBuilder
• Add support for absolute path in Firefox config (AdoptOpenJDK/IcedTea-Web#629)
• Add support for JNLP/JNLPS protocol

OpenWebStart v1.1.7

Installation guidance can be found here.
This release provides the following fixes and features:

• Add support for JVM arguments regarding Java 9 module system
• Add support for extracting JVMs from a *.tar.gz archive
• Add support for extracting JVMs from an archive with sub-directory structure (#208)
• Add deployment.proxy.same to supported properties in response.varfile
• Add first documentation in github (guide and FAQ)
• Improve logging in case of download error
• Fix hanging of threads after application has terminated (#158)
• Fix error in downloading from socket (AdoptOpenJDK/IcedTea-Web#618)

OpenWebStart v3.0.0-alpha1

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

First 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.

OpenWebStart v1.1.6

Installation guidance can be found here.
This release provides the following fixes and features:

• fix for a bug introduced with v1.1.5 that prevents to properly read the server white list
• introduce new "vendor" attribute in a java/j2se element to specify the JVM vendor in the JNLP file
• introduce new property "ows.jvm.manager.vendor.allowFromJnlp" to specify JVM vendor for unattended installations
• introduce new property "ows.jvm.manager.cache.dir" to make the location of the jvm-cache configurable for centralized environments

OpenWebStart v1.1.5

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

• allow to configure max days for unused JVMs before removed from local JVM cache
• add new JVM Manager update strategy "Use local only" (no remote endpoint lookup)
• pass secure properties as VM arguments at launch time (e.g. http-agent)
• extend white list of allowed VM arguments to be compliant with Java 8
• allow to set logging configuration during unattended installation
• add support for multiple proxies returned by PAC
• remove autosave in IcedTea-Web configuration ITW 270
• improve handling of special characters (e.g. Umlaute) in shortcut names for Windows ITW 190
• improve IPv6 support
• fix loading splash images with version of JNLP file
• fix locking of config with default values
• fix hanging of OWS while looking up localhost in certain situations
• fix spelling and improve wording consistency of UI labels (English and German language bundles)
• update splash screen to new design
• update internal JVM to Adopt 8u242

OpenWebStart v1.1.4

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

• fix handling of empty trust managers
• handle empty strings as null in settings UI for proxy

OpenWebStart v1.1.3

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

• fix loading of initial parameters from unattended installation
• fix loading of Linux system proxy settings

OpenWebStart v1.1.2

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

• add support for URIs in PAC
• fix bug in bypass localhost checkbox
• add support for remote debugging of JNLP applications to Settings UI
• add button to show certificates to Java Console
• use PKIX trust manager instead of simple trust manager
• trim whitespace in version attributes
• improve parsing of Windows proxy settings (empty field support)
• save installation location for windows multi-user installation to registry

OpenWebStart v1.1.1

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

• Support two different installation mode
  • single user installation which requires no admin privileges
  • multi user installation which requires admin privileges
• Add system proxy support for Linux
• Change default proxy mode to "System"
• Fix different bugs regarding proxy and PAC
• Fix loading of resources for specific arch/os/locale
• Support selecting from multiple JRE entries in JNLP file

OpenWebStart v1.1.0

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

• Support for system proxy on MacOS & Windows
• Support for new proxy features
• Several bugs in the proxy settings were fixed
• Support for exclusions in the proxy settings
• Win 32 builds for OpenWebStart
• Cleanup of logging settings
• Installation of OWS requires admin rights
• Bug fixed: Handling of cached files resulting in Error "Unknown Main-Class"
• Bug fixed: Start JNLP without a element
• Bug fixed: Detecting properties of already installed JVMs
• Bug fixed: Passing arguments to javaws executable
• Add a flag to include the local filesystem into the codebase of a JNLP application
• Displaying of cache content was not working
• Extension JNLP without resources caused an signature exception