This article summarises the changes and new features made to Cloudhouse Alchemy released throughout September 2023.

Auto Packager

4.6.2308.32573 (released 6th September 2023)

New Features

• AAV updated to version 4.6.2308.27763
• Package Runtimes updated to version 4.6.2308.3292
• Update exclusion list to include entries targeted at packaging on Windows 10 

Fixes

• Resolved an issue with the Auto Packager potentially crashing when rendering error messages after selecting a Usage Token
• Prevent crash when using the CLI in snapshot mode without providing an Initial Launch Executable

4.6.2309.32767 (released 20th September 2023)

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where Packager CLI did not create a package and gave no error message

4.6.2309.33086 (released 28th September 2023)

New Features

• File Copy Performance Improvements

Package Runtimes

4.6.2309.3303 (released 18th September 2023)

New Features

• Packages can be locked with a .pfx file.

• Do not deploy .pfx files that are at the root of a Package.

Fixes

• When the deployment fails during validation, the registry hive is not being cleaned up.

4.6.2309.3310 (released 29th September 2023)

New Features

• Excludes .pfx files from being included as part of the package hash.

• Supports validation of tokens created using our production signing certificate.

AAV

4.6.2309.27819 (released 21th September 2023)

New Features

• Hooking COM functions by name
• Improve security of dynamic hooking (Verification of Signing Certificates

Fixes

• AAV has nowhere to write logs if user has no local app data folder
• AAV COM virtualisation mutex uses default security descriptor instead of allow all
• AAV CLC file - dll names are case sensitive
• RedirectSystemColours feature fails on Windows 11 and Server 2022