VMware has now announced the 4.5 release of Thinapp, just after XenApp 6.0 has been announced.
Version 4.5 released yesterday introduces a number of new features the list includes:
Support for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2
Existing packages can be upgraded through a new Relink utility. Need to rebuild or repackage applications.
Support for MSI packages larger than 2GB without requiring multiple CAB files
Support for capturing on partially non-clear PCs (experimental)
When installing an MSI based application ThinApp 4.5 can automatically detect files and registry entries that the application requires even if those entries already exists on the capture PC. This results in correct captures even in the case where some libraries are installed on the PC.
Journaling of Virtual file system meta data and virtual registry
Actually introduced in ThinApp 4.0.4, VMware decided to unveil it with 4.5.
The purpose of journaling is to support the ability to recover gracefully in the event disk writes are incomplete or the disk state becomes inconsistent when sets of disk writes are not flushed atomically.
ThinApp 4.5 also introduces a number of improvements in different areas, including:
- I/O performance for VDI
- Memory sharing for suites of applications and Terminal Server
- Startup time
- Application white listing.