Released: Dec 5, 2025

Updates in 2025 R2

Features

• Ability to Display Long Title Across Multiple Lines Without Truncation - Previously, dimensions of the inner installer frame were unexpectedly altered to display the installer's long title in full within the installer UI. Users could not control this unexpected alteration of the dimensions within the installer UI when long titles were used. In InstallAnywhere 2025 R2, on the Installer UI > Look & Feel Settings > UI Panel Settings > Custom UI Designer > Outer Installer...

Released: Jul 14, 2025

Updates in 2025 R1

Features

• Support for macOS Universal Binaries
  • Previously, InstallAnywhere was compiled only for x64 Intel architectures. On macOS systems, powered by the Apple Silicon (Arm64/AArch64) architectures, InstallAnywhere relied on Rosetta-Apple's translation layer - to emulate x64 Intel environments. This emulation sometimes results in reduced performance, application hangs, and compatibility limitations on macOS platforms.
  • Starting with this release, InstallAnywhere is compiled as a Universal Binary...

Released: Jan 2, 2025

Updates in 2024 R2

Features

• Support for ARM64
  • Introduces support for ARM64 (AARCH64) Linux distribution, which enables you to build projects on both Windows and Linux operating systems running the ARM64 (AARCH64) architecture.

Released: Jul 17, 2024

Updates in 2024 R1

Features

• Added the ability to use 'Custom Signing' to leverage other signing technologies in addition to those provided out of the box.
• Added new 'IATextPane' control in custom code panels to display large static text.
• Added the ability to capture invalid JVMs via a new exit code.
• Added a new option to store exit code from 'Execute Ant Script' action.
• Passwords passed in Get password action are now available as encrypted in installvariable.properties.
• Added a new command line argument to set the...

Released: Dec 15, 2023

Updates in 2023 R2

Features

• New Variable to Generate Log on Specific Condition - In previous releases, InstallAnywhere generated a log file on all conditions during installation and uninstallation. This release introduces a new variable named-$IA_CONDITIONAL_LOG$ in the InstallAnywhere variables list to generate a log file on a specified condition during installation or uninstallation. This variable is recommended for use only in the Pre-Install or Pre-Uninstall view on the Sequence page.
  • The $IA_CONDITIONAL_LOG...

Released: Jul 21, 2023

Updates in 2023 R1

Features

• Added support for LZMA2 compression using 'Expand 7-Zip' action - The 'Expand Archive (7-Zip) action' now supports both LZMA and LZMA2 compression methods to expand a 7-Zip archive (.7z or .xz) on a target system.
• Customize Image, Label, and help settings for pre-uninstall and post-uninstall sequences - In this release, you can now enable and customize the following tabs:
  • Image settings - Customize the Image Settings tab on the Properties Customizer.
  • Label Settings - Customize the Label...

Released: Dec 14, 2022

Updates in 2022 R2

Features

• Added new properties to manage installer progress bar - In previous releases, InstallAnywhere installers displayed a single progress bar that showed the progress of the entire installer using a percentage from 0% to 100%. In this release, you have the option of displaying an “indeterminate progress bar” that indicates that installer is running but does not show the percentage of progress.
• Added new build property to manage JRE
  • In previous releases InstallAnywhere Installers for the...

Released: Jul 27, 2022

Updates in 2022

Features

• Enhanced Get User Input Panel - Advanced - Added a 'Disable Next button if mandatory fields are empty' checkbox option in the Get User Input panel to enable/disable the 'Next' button for notifying unfilled mandatory fields.
  • When checked, the 'Next' button in the 'Get User Input' panel would be disabled until user enters a value in the mandatory text field.
  • When unchecked, then a pop-up dialog appears prompting the user to provide values in the mandatory fields.
• New Project Property for...

Released: Oct 20, 2021

Updates in 2021 SP2

Features

• Support for Microsoft Windows 11 - Setups created with InstallAnywhere 2021 SP2 can now run on Windows 11.

Released: Jul 21, 2021

Updates in 2021 SP1

Features

• Support for Microsoft Windows Server 2022 - The Installer now runs on Microsoft Windows Server 2022 machines as well as with all Java versions.
• Codesign with the “Developer ID Application:” String - The Apple macOS installer now supports codesigning with “Developer ID Application:” string for the certificate name.

Fixes

• On Windows, Java application launched using a LaunchAnywhere launcher with display scaling set to a scaling factor greater than 100% caused display issues with the font...