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❗PLEASE NOTE: This is the last official release as I'm going to sunset this project for personal reasons.

Added

• Support country specific locales such as Brazilian Portuguese (pt-BR)
• Translation of messages to Brazilian Portuguese (#115, Thanks to @israelins85 for his contribution)

Changed

• Changed Adopt OpenJDK link and name to Adoptium

Removed

• Removed the option to fund this project

Added

• Also expand variables $APP_PACKAGE, $JAVAROOT and $USER_HOME in Oracle style PList files
• Also expand variable $APP_ROOT in Apple style PList files
• Oracle JVMDefaultOptions key: expand variables $APP_PACKAGE, $APP_ROOT, $JAVAROOT, $USER_HOME (#99)

Changed

• Improved language detection by reading the user preferred languages from the macOS System Preferences instead of using the system locale (#101, thanks to @Flexperte for his valuable feedback)
• Improved logging for JAVA_HOME detection (#100)

Fixed

• Fixed a crash when /usr/libexec/java_home returns no JVMs (#93)

Added

• Support for macOS 11.0 "Big Sur" (#91)
• Support for JDK's installed via SDKMAN! (#95)
• Apple VMOptions key: expand variables $APP_PACKAGE, $JAVAROOT, $USER_HOME (#84)
• Translation of messages to Spanish (PR #88, Thanks to @fvarrui for his contribution)
• Added a CI action for automated releases that builds and publishes binary releases with shc (#85, #87, PR #96)

Changed

• Suppress empty -splash option if no splash image is specified in Info.plist (#94)
• Replace Travis CI with GitHub Actions CI

• Fixed an issue related to Java 4-8 version number detection (PR #81, Thanks to @thatChadM for his contribution)

• If java is missing, offer a choice between Oracle and AdoptOpenJDK download buttons (#78)
• Support Array style Java:Arguments for Apple Plist style (#76)
• Bugfix: do not crash if CFBundleIconFile is provided without ".icns" extension (#75)
• Minor French translation fix (PR #73, Thanks to @ebourg for his contribution)

• Bugfix: Variables $APP_PACKAGE, $JAVAROOT, $USER_HOME in JVMOptions key (Oracle) or Java:Properties key (Apple) were not expanded (#69)

• Bugfix: changes for the new Java 10 java -version formatting (#66)

• Bugfix: fix typo in JVMOptions expansion on java exec call (PR #63, Thanks to @michaelweiser for his contribution)
• Added a basic Travis CI build pipeline running a shellcheck test for errors and executing the basic testsuite

• Bugfix: remove build number from JVM version number when creating comparable version number or extracting major version (fixes #61)

Milestone

https://github.com/tofi86/universalJavaApplicationStub/milestone/6?closed=1

Commits

https://github.com/tofi86/universalJavaApplicationStub/pull/60/commits

Changelog:

• Completeley overhauled algorithm for JVM detection (JRE and JDK)
  • JDK has no longer precedence over JRE
  • All Java Virtual Machines on the system are taken into account
  • See Readme section 'How the script works' for more details
• NEW special syntax in Plist key JVMVersion to specify a maximum JVM version requirement in addition to the minimum requirement.
  • See issue #51 for examples
• Support JVMVersion also in Oracle PList style (#59)
• Implemented logging to syslog facility which can be viewed via Console.app (#49)
• Translation of messages to Chinese (PR #55, Thanks to @acely for his contribution)
• Added a table with 'Supported PList keys' to the Readme file
• Refactoring of functions, bash syntax, etc... (#46, #50, #56)
• Bugfix: pass JVM options with spaces correctly to the java exec call (#14)
• Bugfixes: better handling of MainClass arguments with spaces (#57, #58)
• Bugfixes: issues #47, #48, #52