How to specify app version?

[vbissonnette92]

json file.pdf

Friends,

For my statistics package, I like to specify a version number that reflects the last update of the software. For example, currently the version is 25.7.2 (2025, July Release, 2nd attempt).

One of my Mac users needs the app-version to match the published version. As you can see with the attached image, the current app-version is 1.0.0. When packaging with JPackage, I could add an option to update the app-version:

• jpackage --type "dmg" --app-version "7.1.2025" --runtime-image "image" --input "target" --name "Stats_Homework" --main-jar "Stats_Homework-7.1.2025.jar"

In JDeploy, I attempted to modify the app-version in the .json file (see attached). I added this code:

"jdeploy": {
"jdk": false,
"args": [
""config": {",
""appversion": "25.7.2",",
""markdown": [],",
""json": [],",
""ignore": []",
"}"
],

No dice. The app-version is still 1.0.0.

Any advice on how to adjust the app-version in JDeploy?

Thank you.

Victor

[vbissonnette92]

Just following up... Does anyone have any ideas about how to specify the app-version of a package separately from specifying the version of that package?

[shannah]

On Mac, it looks like it just hard-codes the .app version as 1.0.0. It would be easy to make this configurable. I'll create a ticket to add this, hopefully for next release.

#199

(However, one problem is that this version will only reflect the version when it was installed. The auto-update only updates the app contents, not the .app, so the app version will never changed after installation - which makes this a bit problematic.

[vbissonnette92]

Thank you! I'll look forward to this update.

I'm only aware of one user that needs this. He maintains software for a school district, and they require that the .app-version matches the package version. I suspect that he will have to uninstall the software and re-install to update in the future. Also, it's not a terribly big deal for me to compile his package with jpackage.

Have a good day.