1.0.3

Merged PRs:

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

1.0.2

Closed issues

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

1.0.1

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)

1.0.0

v1.0.0

README [ci skip]

1.0-rc1

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

0.10.0

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

0.9.0

New Features

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

Bug Fixes

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

0.8.0

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)
• 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

0.7.1

A fix release for 0.7.0

0.7.0

Security

• 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.