Hi All, As most of you should be aware, I'm migrating the existing Codelerity installers to the Friends of Apache NetBeans foundation. These will be a key source of packages for users as we are not including installers in the Apache NetBeans 26 release. The community installers will continue to be built with NBPackage from the official Apache NetBeans binary zip release.
The migration has included partly automating the installer build process with GitHub Actions. There is some more work to do leading up to NetBeans 27. The installer repository includes the build workflows - https://github.com/Friends-of-Apache-NetBeans/netbeans-installers Longer term we should be able to open up access to this process to any other members of the PMC who are interested in helping with it. Release candidate installers for 26-rc3 are at - https://github.com/Friends-of-Apache-NetBeans/netbeans-installers/releases/tag/v26rc3-build1 They were built in the workflow at - https://github.com/codelerity/foan-netbeans-installers/actions/runs/14901730393 This is a copy of the repo (see same hash) so that we can use Codelerity's secrets for these builds. The NetBeans 26 community installers will continue to be signed by Codelerity until FoAN has everything in place to take this over. The workflow uses a single-source Java file to handle downloading and validating NBPackage, the NetBeans zip and the Java runtimes. The build.properties file has the actual links and hashes for the various artefacts. There will be a landing page similar to the existing one at https://www.codelerity.com/netbeans/ once the main release is ready. This will obviously replace that link on the download page once we get to NB26 - see current community installers links at https://netbeans.apache.org/front/main/download/nb25/ - the first two sections will need revising. I just thought I'd share an update on progress here, in case of interest, questions, concerns, etc. Thanks and best wishes, Neil --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@netbeans.apache.org For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
