After another long period of development the 3rd release candidate of IzPack 5.0.0 is available now.

Thanks to the IzPack team and this time especially its contributors, which made this possible. Many thanks also to all reporters in Jira and the mailing lists which helped beating some of the bugs and inconveniences, and not to forget all the people who helped improving the documentation.

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 RC3 brings you dozens of improvements and bug fixes.

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.

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

For a list of what has been changed since 5.0.0-rc2, see IzPack 5.0.0 RC3 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-rc3, there are still some open issues, and probably there will come some more. Nevertheless 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 RC3 and keep in touch.

René