Application Virtualization Explorer Releases

Released: Oct 14, 2021

Updates in v5.11.x

v5.11.2

Updated Jan 31, 2023

Fixes

  • Fixed loading issue for packages containing invalid Virtual COM configuration.

v5.11.1

Updated Aug 9, 2022

Fixes

  • Fixed startup issues with running AVE with policy hardened Windows 10/11.

v5.11.0

Updated Oct 14, 2021

Features

  • Added full support for Microsoft Windows 11 ADK based App-V packages.

Released: Jul 21, 2020

Updates in v5.10.x

v5.10.1

Updated Nov 20, 2020

Features

  • Improved virtual application handling.

Fixes

  • Minor issues related to virtual application extensions.

v5.10.0

Updated Jul 21, 2020

Features

  • Adds full support for Windows 10 2004 based App-V packages.

Released: Jul 16, 2019

Updates in v5.9.x

v5.9.1

Updated Dec 9, 2019

Features

  • It is now possible to prevent paths in package script's arguments being encoded, this may avoid some script failures when running the script outside the VE.

Fixes

  • Packages with certain incorrect virtual COM type library entries would fail to load due to strict format validation, this is now changed so that AVE will allow loading these VCOM entries and pass-through it to the saved package to maintain compatibility with Sequencer.

v5.9.0

Updated Jul...

Released: Oct 5, 2018

Updates in v5.8.0

Features

  • AVE now fully supports and recognizes App-V packages created with Windows 1809 ADK.
    While the APPV package format or supported features has not been updated, 1809 release of ADK ships with updated MSI wrapper package for App-V packages.
  • Registry file import to virtual registry now supports key removal format (for example, [-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Foo]) which will mark the specified removed registry key as deleted in the virtual registry.
  • It is now possible to change the icon for...

Released: May 14, 2018

Updates in v5.7.0

Features

  • AVE now fully supports and recognizes App-V packages created with Windows 1803 ADK. While the APPV package format or supported features has not been updated, 1803 release of ADK ships with updated MSI wrapper package for App-V packages.
  • AVE will now warn if App-V 5.0+ package scripts are run with ScriptRunner.exe with synchronous wait and rollback parameters defined both in the script's main settings and as ScriptRunner's parameters.

Released: Dec 29, 2017

Updates in v5.6.1.2351

Fixes

  • Loading machine context scripts from Deployment Configuration File would fail and subsequently any such script would be dropped on re-save, this is now fixed and machine context scripts show up and are preserved correctly.
  • Previously AVE would incorrectly allow setting machine context for scripts in Dynamic User Configuration files, this is now prevented.

Released: Dec 19, 2017

Updates in V5.6.1

Features

  • Full support for Windows 10 1709 based App-V packages.
  • Improved package scripting support

Released: Jul 16, 2017

Updates in V5.5.0

Features

  • Import of external/manually edited AppxManifest.xml into package is now supported.
  • AVE now makes it possible to change any virtual file's Feature Block (FB) assignment using new "Re-assign to feature block" action. Note that this re-assignment changes all blocks of the given file to the selected FB, individual blocks cannot be adjusted.
  • Files added or imported to the Scripts -directory at the root of the package's filesystem are now automatically assigned to the Publishing Feature Block...

Released: Aug 28, 2015

Updates in this release

Updates in 5.0

New features and enhancements in this build:

  • App-V 5.1 packages are now fully supported.
  • Windows 10 is now fully supported.
  • Windows 10 can be now selected as one of the supported system for App-V 5.1 packages. Please note that this option is visible for 5.0 packages in AVE as well, but App-V 5.1 is the first client that supports new values.
  • New packages created from AVE now default to App-V 5.0 SP2 format.
  • When adding new new virtual applications to 5.0 package, AVE uses alternate...

Released: Jul 27, 2015

Updates in this release

Updates in 4.3.0

New features and enhancements:

  • Added new feature for doing local package expansions.
  • Added new feature for generating App-V package for AVE itself directly from within AVE.
  • 5.0 format version can now be selected during new package creation, previously it was automatically set to 5.0 RTM/SP1 level.
  • Package scripts screen now allows directly creating an empty script file inside the package, and creating a package script out of it.
  • Package configuration screen now shows package...