Capsule changelog

Changelog History

• v1.0.3 Changes

  August 04, 2016

  🔀 Merged PRs:

  • #105 - Improved JRE detection
  • 📜 #106 - Improved argument parsing

• v1.0.2 Changes

  April 08, 2016

  Closed issues

  • #101: Thanks to @brasslock's profiling work, now Maven caplets are much faster to launch.

• v1.0.1 Changes

  October 07, 2015

  👌 Improvements

  • 👍 Better JDK search.
  • The capsule process's MBeans (JMX) now reflect the application's.

  Closed issues

  • #90
  • Let caplet JARs as well be added to the classpath.
  • 👍 Allow using options in embedded caplets.
  • 🛠 Fix 'liftoff'.
  • 🛠 Fix exec(java -version)

• v1.0.0

  September 10, 2015

• v1.0-rc1 Changes

  March 07, 2015

  🆕 New Features

  • Platform specific sections
  • JRE-version sections

  💥 Breaking Changes

  • Maven dependency resolution separated into a different project
  • = instead of , used to separate renamed libs in the Native-Dependencies attribute
  • 🏁 Unix-Script/Windows-Script abandoned in favor of Application-Script in platform specific sections
  • 🐧 Native-Dependencies-Linux/Native-Dependencies-Win/Native-Dependencies-Mac abandoned in favor of Native-Dependencies in platform specific sections.
  • 🏗 capsule-build project source moved to capsule-maven project

• v0.10.0 Changes

  November 21, 2014

  What's New

  • Caplet (custom capsule) chaining
  • More extension hooks for caplets
  • Capsule wrapping
  • Faster execution
  • 👍 Better error reporting
  • Class-Path attributes in embedded dependencies are now treated
  • ➕ Added capsule-build, utilities for build-tool plugins
  • 🏁 Various bug fixes (like support for very long class paths on Windows)

  🚀 Release Announcement

• v0.9.0 Changes

  September 22, 2014

  🆕 New Features

  • 🆕 New and improved methods for custom capsules
  • -Dcapsule.java.cmd to override Java executable selection

  🐛 Bug Fixes

  • 0️⃣ Include default (empty) scope in POM when getting dependencies from POM.
  • 🛠 Fixed capsule extraction when the capsule JAR was created on Windows

• v0.8.0 Changes

  September 03, 2014

  🆕 New Features

  • 👍 Capsule supports Maven's settings.xml for authentication of private repositories
  • A capsule's Maven repositories can be given ids (in the form id(url) rather than just url)
  • The CAPSULE_REPOS environment variable can now take a whitespace separated list (in addition to a comma-separated list)
  • ➕ Added a default log level attribute as well as a NONE log level
  • Programmatically set the capsule's mode in a custom capsule
  • 💻 The Args attribute can now address and reorder command line arguments with $*, $1, $2 etc.
  • 💻 Specify JVM arguments that apply only to the application on the command line via the capsule.jvm.args property
  • The application's (child) process pid is now published with a system property to be queried with jcmd or other tools.
  • 💻 Really executable capsules can now use "capsule trampolining" to execute the application directly in the parent process (the process launched at the command line) rather than in a child process.
  • 📚 The online documentation now includes Javadocs for all Capsule subprojects.

  🐛 Bug Fixes and Improvements

  • The Capsule JAR file size has been reduced from about 2MB to under 1.5MB (not relevant for fat capsules)
  • 0️⃣ JARs in the Capsule's root are now added to the default classpath in lexical-order, to prevent different behavior on different platforms (the order can be explicitly specified with the App-Class-Path attribute)

  💥 Breaking Changes

  • Repositories listed in the CAPSULE_REPOS environment variable are now prepended to the capsule's repositories rather than replace them
  • 👀 Some of Capsule's methods have changed names, which could affect custom capsules. See the Capsule class's Javadoc

• v0.7.1 Changes

  August 20, 2014

  🚀 A fix release for 0.7.0

• v0.7.0 Changes

  August 18, 2014

  🔒 Security

  • 0️⃣ Capsule now uses the new Maven Central HTTPS access by default.

  🆕 New Features and Enhancements

  • The following repository aliases are recognized: central (Maven Central https), central-http(Maven Central http), jcenter (jCenter https), jcenter-http(jCenter http), and local (for the local repository).
  • 👍 Capsule supports local repositories with file:... URLs.
  • Capsule does not allow SNAPSHOT dependencies unless the Allow-Snapshots attribute is set to true.
  • 👍 Better JVM installation search on Windows.

  🐛 Bug Fixes

  • #14
  • -Dcapsule.resolve sometimes fails.