Current release of Jar2Exe is v2.5.x

V2.7.0: Major upgrade of Jar2Exe wizard, 2023-7-7

• Support Java 5 ~ Java 21
• Support ARM MacOS and ARM Windows. (Binary for ARM MacOS needs to be codesigned before run.)

V2.5.5: Minor feature upgrade and Bugfix of Jar2Exe wizard, 2023-3-16

• Bugfix of "platform encoding not initialized" error on Windows when multi JREs in PATH
• Support "singleinstance handover" to handover command line arguments to the first without starting a JVM.

V2.5.4: Minor fix of Jar2Exe wizard, 2021-3-18

• Support Java 5 ~ Java 14.
• Fix "(empty-jar)" as main jar at command line.
• Fix spring boot program startup error with Java 8 in some cases.

V2.5.3: Upgrade of Jar2Exe wizard, 2019-5-19

• Increase the complex of encryption, each file within jar using a different key to encrypt.
• Support Java 8 ~ Java 14. (Java 7 and below not supported)
• Detect JDK and JRE from registry on Windows.

V2.2.4: Upgrade of Jar2Exe wizard, 2019-6-11

• Support to wrap and encrypt Spring Boot project.

V2.2.3: Upgrade of Jar2Exe wizard, 2019-2-24

• Support to start with OpenJDK 10, OpenJDK 11.

V2.2.2: Upgrade of Jar2Exe wizard, 2017-12-18

• Support to start with JAVA 9.
• ClassLoader supports to load protected resources with path contains ".."

V2.2.1: Upgrade of Jar2Exe wizard, 2017-5-24

• Support to generate binary executables for ARM Linux.
• The installation of Linux service program supports UpStart init system.
• The installation of Linux service program supports SystemD init system.

V2.1.8: Upgrade of Jar2Exe wizard, 2017-2-26

• New option 'appid' to identify the same app when enable 'singleinstance' option.
• Support 'option -XstartOnFirstThread' for SWT application.
• Block the environment variable 'JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS' unless it is declared in configuration.

V2.1.7: Upgrade of Jar2Exe wizard, 2015-3-25

• Fix stdout redirect problem of GUI application on Windows 7.
• Generated binary executables for Mac OS X are compatible with 'codesign'.
• Support configuration item of 'splash' to specify an external image as the SplashScreen.
• Use another quick hash method to encrypt classes to let it be loaded more quickly.
• An empty starter program to let the generated program able to be launched by double-click on Linux.

V2.1.6: Upgrade of Jar2Exe wizard, 2014-9-17

• New feature of Jar2Exe wizard to create a <pure starter> without a jar file in the binary file.
• The config 'classpath' supports wildcard (*, ?) to add more jar files at a time.
• Upgrade Jar2ExeClassLoader to avoid load class problems.
• Upgrade class encryption to increase complexity of file name hash.
• For Windows, supports wildcard (*, ?) in arguments automatically expansion. (On *nix, this is done by shell).
• For Windows, new feature "runasadmin" of generated exe file to request administrator privilege before run.
• For Windows, new system property "j2e.is.elevated" to tell if the current program is running as administrator.

V2.1.5: New feature 'singleinstance' of generated binary file, 2014-7-28

• New config item 'singleinstance' to control instances allowed to be running, default 'false' means no limit.
• Support 'singleinstance true' to allow only one instance running at the same time.
• Support 'singleinstance custom' to enable communication between instances and let java program decide what to do.

V2.1.4: Bugfix of binary file for Mac OS X, 2014-4-16

• Fix the problem of binary file to run with bundled jre on Mac OS X in some cases.
• Fix the problem of closing a JavaFX program from Dock bar on Mac OS X.
• New config of 'assystemclassloader' to control 'Jar2ExeClassLoader' to be the 'getSystemClassLoader()'.

V2.1.3: Upgrade of Jar2Exe wizard, 2014-2-16

• Upgrade encryption algorithm of jar file protection to increase the difficulty of hacking.
• Compatible mode to let the ClassLoader more compatible with some third-party libraries.
• For Windows, generated exe can refer to Windows Registry in config file by ${REGISTRY_PATH\Item} format.

V2.1.2: New feature of Jar2Exe wizard, 2014-1-11

• SplashScreen supported on Linux and Mac OS X.
• Use awt.SplashScreen of JRE instead when JRE is 1.6 above.
• Bugfix of Window GUI program on Mac OS X.

V2.1.1: New feature of Jar2Exe wizard, 2013-10-23

• Support to generate binary files for Mac OS X.
• Generate universal binary with i386 and x86_64 for Mac OS X.
• 32bits of Jar2Exe can generate both 32 and 64bits of binary files. (Then 64bits of Jar2Exe is deprecated).

V2.0.x: Upgrade & Bugfix Jar2Exe wizard, 2012-10-10 ~ 2013-4-24

• Part of files in jar file can keep not hidden when hide function enabled.
• Provide a 'SelfUpgrade' class in integrate api to overwrite exe file itself for upgrade.
• Load/Save all configurations from/to a project file(.j2e|.bat).
• Jar2Exe Project file (.j2e) is associated with Jar2Exe, open Jar2Exe by double click (.j2e) file.
• External config can be disabled by internal config.
• Maxjre: Check jre version not higher than specified version.
• Customize the window title string for splash window.
• XP manifest
• Authorize switch, authorize or not generated exe file as product.
• Customize error messages such as: JRE not found.
• Find JRE from registry: to use 'JavaHome' if 'RuntimeLib' not found.
• Generated service program supports to add arguments like "/install auto arg1 arg2".
• Supports to "Config Internal" at Step 6 and "External" at Step 7.
• Generate exe files for Linux is supported.
• Export equivalent "command line" at the last step of Jar2Exe Wizard.
• Generated exe files redirect stdout and stderr to a file or pipe.
• Force Current Working Directory (forcecwd) is supported.

Upgrade History including Earlier Release:

 You can get complete upgrade history on Upgrade History page.