Alchemy August 2024

Note: To view issues you may encounter when using Alchemy that we are working to address in future releases, see Known Issues.

MAGE

248.43322 (Released 22nd August 2024)

This marks the first release of the new Usage Reporting Web App, Alchemy's Management and Generation Environment (MAGE). The following features are included as part of this release.

New Features

  • Create and manage Partner, Customer, and User entities. For more information, see Adding Entities via MAGE.

  • Create Packager Tokens and Proof of Concept (PoC) Tokens. For more information, see Creating an Auto Packager Token and Generate a PoC Token.

  • Create Token Signing Certificates. For more information, see Generate the Token-Signing Certificate.

  • View Usage Events on a Customer and confirm usage is being reported correctly without the need for Data Requests. For more information, see Viewing Usage Events.

AAV

4.7.2408.28156 (Released 22nd August 2024)

New Features

Add ability to configure file permissions when redirecting with PackageIsolation.

Bug Fixes

  • Photoshop is slow to launch.

  • Log lines written before the config has parsed get ignored.

4.7.2408.28143 (Released 9th August 2024)

New Features

  • Package Isolation can return both the original and protected files regardless of whether we enumerate the original path or the redirected path. This is now also the same for registry enumeration.

  • Supports the Events.xml component and the creation of PostProgramStop events. For more information, see Events (Events.xml).

Bug Fixes

AAV is requiring a run token to have both the run:offline and deploy:offline scopes for an offline run token. The deploy scope is not required and now AAV will only require the run:offline scope for an offline run token.

Package Runtimes

4.7.2408.3771 (Released 30th August 2024)

New Features

  • Usage event reporting is now controlled using license token claims, which means the writing of offline usage data can be disabled.

  • During an uninstallation using the deploy tool, user components are removed for all registered users. Previously, only components for the current user were removed.

Bug Fix

Shortcuts previously failed to launch if trigger events were used outside of the registration workflow. This issue has been fixed with this release.

4.7.2408.3738 (Released 16th August 2024)

Bug Fixes

This release introduces improvements related to COM Registry validation, which occurs during the deployment of Compatibility Packages. Previously, this step could extend time to deployment significantly when dealing with large ComRegistry.xml files. However, these new improvements increase efficiency to minimize the processing time required during this step.

4.7.0208.3729 (Released 9th August 2024)

New Features

This release introduces the Events component, which is a new optional feature in Compatibility Packages that enables advanced control over various stages of deployment, registration, and execution processes. These events are managed via the Events.xml file. For more information, see Events (Events.xml).

Bug Fixes

  • Previously, the Package Management Executable crashed when the server returned a content type of utf-8 while running the --verify command. With this release, this content type is now supported and will result in the correct error message being returned by the server.

  • Previously, the deployment executable displayed a UAC prompt if running with Admin privileges and not elevated, even if those permissions were not required for the application. This issue has been fixed with this release.

Auto Packager

4.7.2408.44127 (Released 30th August 2024)

New Features

  • When creating packages, additional shell extensions are now included to detect the Current Version ProgId as well as the Version Independent ProgId. This ensures all references are accounted for within FileAssociations.xml regardless of which ProgId they use.

  • Original app icons and text are now displayed in the Open With > Choose another app menu.

    Note: This feature has fixed a known issue in Alchemy, whereby the virtualised application sometimes appears with the Cloudhouse name and logo instead. For more information, see 3 - Virtualised application sometimes appears with the Cloudhouse name and logo in the "Open With -> Always use this app" menu.

  • Original app icons are now displayed in Windows Explorer when the virtualised application is set as the default for file extensions that it is not normally associated with.

  • Service subkeys are now captured and configured to deploy to the native registry location. This allows for the capture of additional configuration that certain services define via subkeys.

  • During packaging, fonts typically installed by the application being packaged are now captured, included in the package, and automatically installed on target machines during deployment.

  • Update Package Runtimes to version 4.7.2408.3771.

  • Update AAV to version 4.7.2408.28156.

4.7.2408.43209 (Released 9th August 2024)

New Features

  • Original application icons are now displayed in Windows Explorer when a packaged application is set as the default for a given file extension.

  • Right-click context menus are now captured when configured using Application Capabilities.

  • Registry entries related to shell extensions do not overwrite existing entries in context menus.

  • A notification is now displayed when reparse points are detected. You can then use this notification to identify if an important directory has been incorrectly ignored by the Auto Packager. For more information, see Reparse Points Notification.

  • Exclusion list has been updated to include additional registry keys.

  • Package Runtimes updated to version 4.7.2408.3729.

  • AAV updated to version 4.7.2408.28143.