Alchemy May 2024

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

Auto Packager

Enforces licensing. It is no longer possible to run Packager without a valid license. For more information, see Management Executable Online Licensing (Default) and Management Executable Offline Licensing.
Virtualised applications now see the current version of the installed prog ids as the original prog id rather than the Compatibility Package specific prog id.
Adds additional entries to the PATH environment variable if files included in the Compatibility Package came from directories on the PATH.
Displays the original icon and text in the "Open With" right-click context menu when using Open With ProgIds. For information on known issues with the right-click context menus, see Known Issues.

Enforces licensing. It is no longer possible to run Cloudhouse.Container.Deployment.exe, Cloudhouse.Container.Run.exe, or Cloudhouse.Package.Management.exe without a valid license. For more information, see Management Executable Online Licensing (Default) and Management Executable Offline Licensing.
Removes the Usage Reporting executable, which has been deprecated due to the introduction of new licensing functionality. For more information, see Management Executable Online Licensing (Default) and Management Executable Offline Licensing.
Creates an alias for the %GUID% variable and exposes it for usage in AAV. This alias is %PackageID%. For more information, see Supported Variables.
Obfuscates the binaries.

Previously, getting all Windows usernames would sometimes fail with strange characters. This error occurred during an uninstall but is now fixed.
Fixed a failure when saving the package diff which was caused by obfuscating the DTOs.

Enforces licensing. It is no longer possible to run AAV without a valid license. For more information, see Management Executable Online Licensing (Default) and Management Executable Offline Licensing.
Introduces improvements to Package Isolation causing additional redirections with registry paths.
Obfuscates the AAV binaries.

ProgIds referenced via OpenWithProgIds in FileAssociations.xml are now included in packages.
Background directory context menus (and other similar context menus) are now virtualised.
File system packaging is now faster when utilizing Single Machine Reverse Packaging.

Registry values with names that contain only blank values are now captured.
Errors that occur when scanning advertised shortcuts no longer result in crashes.