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Product updates

All updates for licensed products are downloadable from Gridmetric Customer Portal

2012-05-14 : Application Virtualization Explorer 2.3.5 has been released

This update fixes regression in registry find & replace operation and adds support for manually creating new virtual application (OSD) without access to the executable. Upgrading is recommended for all users.

2012-05-11 : Application Virtualization Explorer 2.3.4 has been released

This update fixes minor issues in the product and enhances registry file import failure detection. Upgrading is recommended for all users.

2012-05-11 : Lib-V 2.0.9 has been released

This release fixes minor issue in virtual registry encoding. Upgrading is recommended for all R/W Edition users.

2012-04-12 : Application Virtualization Explorer 2.3.3 has been released

This update fixes critical issue in saving out 64-bit App-V packages as well as minor issues in scripting support. Upgrading is strongly recommended for all users.

2012-04-12 : Virtualization Encoder 2.3.1 has been released

This release fixes critical issue in processing 64-bit App-V packages. Upgrading is strongly recommended for all Virtualization Encoder users and trial evaluators.

2012-04-12 : Lib-V 2.0.8 has been released

This release fixes critical issue in encoding 64-bit App-V packages. Upgrading is strongly recommended for all R/W Edition users.

2012-03-30 : Virtualization Encoder 2.3.0 has been released

This release adds support for defining filesystem ACLs for virtual files, improves compatibility with 4.6 SP1 Sequencer when creating new 4.6 format packages by having randomized short name for a root directory in cases of long package roots and enhances directory import functionality. Upgrading is recommended for all current Virtualization Encoder users and trial evaluators.

2012-03-21 : Lib-V 2.0.7 has been released

This release fixes minor issues in the product and enhances filesystem importation functionality. Upgrading is recommended for all R/W and R/O Edition users.

2012-02-13 : Virtualization Encoder 2.2.3 has been released

This update fixes documentation and adds support for usage of quoted filepaths in certain processing directives.

2012-02-08 : Application Virtualization Explorer 2.3.2 has been released

This update fixes various small issues related to application and icon operation in AVE as well as other discovered problems. Upgrading is recommended for all users.

2011-12-27 : Application Virtualization Explorer 2.3.1 has been released

This update changes .NET framework activation order for AVE and fixes OS selection issue. Upgrading is recommended for all 2.3.0 users.

2011-12-12 : Announcing Application Virtualization Explorer 2.3 release

This new version adds number of enhancements and new features into product, including even more enhanced scripting support and ability to create packages from scratch directly inside AVE itself. These new features make it easier than before to handle almost all of your App-V package maintenance, support and troubleshooting tasks with AVE's familiar and industry's easiest App-V package editing interface.

Upgrading to new version is highly recommended for all AVE customers with valid maintenance in effect.

2011-11-08 : Virtualization Encoder 2.2.2 has been released

This update fixes failing encoding of a new package. Upgrading is recommended for all users and trial evaluators.

2011-10-11 : Lib-V 2.0.6 has been released

This update improves compatibility for virtual registry encoding.

2011-10-06 : Application Virtualization Explorer 2.2.8 has been released

This update fixes issues with script editing and package root directory renaming. Upgrading is recommended for users using these functionalities.

2011-10-04 : Virtualization Encoder 2.2.1 has been released

This update fixes critical issue when saving out 32-bit App-V packages in 4.6 format and subsequently trying to use those package on 64-bit machines. This update also fixes issue in virtual registry encoding.

2011-09-29 : Application Virtualization Explorer 2.2.7 has been released

This update fixes few minor issues in the product.

2011-09-22 : Application Virtualization Explorer 2.2.6 has been released

This update fixes critical issue when saving out 32-bit App-V packages in 4.6 format and subsequently trying to use those package on 64-bit machines.

Upgrading to 2.2.6 is strongly recommended for all customers working with App-V 4.6 packages. Additionally, all customers who have saved App-V 4.6 packages with previous version(s) of AVE are advised to download 32-bit fixup tool from the Customer Portal and process all existing 32-bit packages saved from AVE with the tool.

2011-09-21 : Lib-V 2.0.5 has been released

This update improves compatibility for virtual registry encoding and fixes issues with running 4.6 packages in 64-bit systems. Upgrading to this release is advised for all Lib-V customers.

2011-09-19 : Application Virtualization Explorer 2.2.5 has been released

This update fixes few minor issues in the product. Upgrading is recommended for customers experiencing problems with importing saved package to Management Server or changing (simulated) virtual drive letter.

2011-09-14 : Lib-V 2.0.4 has been released

This update adds a support for supplying customized MSI template for App-V package MSI generation.

2011-09-07 : Application Virtualization Explorer 2.2.4 has been released

This update adds support for new AVE licensing models: Per machine (workstation) and per machine (Terminal Servers).

2011-09-06 : Virtualization Encoder 2.2.0 has been released

Gridmetric's SFT Encoder is now known as Virtualization Encoder. New version 2.2 fixes number of technical issues in the encoded SFT package file as well as adds support for App-V 4.6 SP1 -level packages. Upgrading is strongly recommended for all customers and trial evaluators.

2011-08-01 : Application Virtualization Explorer 2.2.3 has been released

This update fixes issue when opening 4.6 SP1 Package Accelerator -generated package. Upgrading is recommended for customers experiencing this issue.

2011-08-01 : Lib-V 2.0.3 has been released

This update fixes a few minor package decoding issues in the product.

Upgrading is recommended for all Lib-V R/W and R/O Edition customers.

2011-06-29 : Application Virtualization Explorer 2.2.2 has been released

This update contains minor fixes relate to file importing to sequence and OSD & SPRJ parsing. Upgrading is recommended for customers experiencing issues in opening or saving packages.

2011-05-23 : Application Virtualization Explorer 2.2.1 has been released

This update contains few minor corrections. Upgrading is recommended for customers experiencing issues with SFT saving.

News in brief

2011-09-28 Gridmetric partners with InstallAware

Gridmetric becomes a technology partner for InstallAware, providing package viewing capabilities for App-V packages based on our Application Virtualization Explorer (AVE) technology.


2011-05-10 Application Virtualization Explorer gains Microsoft's Windows 7 logo certification status.