Probably surprisingly there is a 4th release candidate of IzPack 5.0.0 available now.

Thanks to all of you guys which participated by means of reporting, testing, contributing code and maintaining the documentation.

Once more be aware of the fact that although it is considered quite stable according to the user reports and many automatic unit and integration tests, IzPack 5 release candidates still serve for the purpose of testing and reporting.

IzPack 5.0.0 RC4 brings you just a couple of improvements and bug fixes, but we'd like to increase the speed a bit towards 5.0.0 and bring in just bugfixes and improvements not breaking anything.

New features should rather wait unless 5.0.0 will be released and a 5.0 branch will be created.

Compiling:
The IzPack sources and the IzPack Maven plugin is tested to be compatible to Maven up to version 3.2.3, while it is still compatible to maven 2.2.1.

Testing:
Feel free to test and report bugs, either to the mailinglist user@izpack.codehaus.org or if you can describe some technical background file an issue at https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/IZPACK.

For a list of what has been changed since 5.0.0-rc3, see IzPack 5.0.0 RC4 changelog in JIRA.For a the complete release notes of implemented features, improvements, bugfixes and common tasks in IzPack 5.0.0 see Release Notes - IzPack - Version 5.0.

Although there has been done much work since 5.0.0-rc4, there are still some open issues.

We would be glad to have an 5.0.0 final release soon. We will see how things are going on, its on you all, volountary developers, documenters and testers.

There might be more changes visible in the source code repository, for a complete log of particular changes (experts only) see log on GitHub, where the active development happens.

Enjoy the new version 5.0.0 RC4 and keep in touch.

René