PowerArchiver - Revision History

PowerArchiver Revision History

PowerArchiver 2004 Version 9.11
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Version 9.11 [December/2004]
Maintenance release

Changes:

* Faster ZIP compression in certain situations.
* Improved support for HP-UX file systems accessible on a LAN.
* Drag and Drop improvements.
* Various fixes and smaller enhancements.

Version 9.10 [November/2004]
New features and improvements

Changes:

* Improved TAR support: support for GNU TAR standard to handle
long filenames (over 100 chars, @Longlink files) for UnTar.

* Improved Explorer mode when browsing drives:
- Saving column sizes/order
- View Menu can be used when browsing drives
- D&D works to and from explorer mode
- Multiselect now works in explorer mode
- Smart key press focusing enabled

* Explorer view - enabled drag and drop of folders/paths from
archive to the explorer when Explorer view is enabled.

* PA Backup Express Lite - support for 128bit AES encryption
added.

* SFX support - support added for additional CAB SFX's.

* "Open With" menu improved, now faster display with real icons.

* GZIP support - added support for some extended GZIP archives.

* ZLIB/Compress support added (tar.z, *.z files).

* Progress window:
- total progress added to the progress window.
- FTP progress information improved in sys tray.

* Various other small enhancements and fixes.

Version 9.02 [September/2004]
Maintenance release

Changes:

* Various fixes and smaller enhancements.

Version 9.01 [August/2004]
Maintenance release

Changes:

* Improved speed when Multilanguage support has been installed in Windows.
* Improved window position saving.
* Various other fixes and smaller enhancements.

Version 9.0 [July/2004]
First PowerArchiver 2004 Release

Major Changes:

* 7-Zip support: create and extract 7z files. 7-Zip is a new archive format with an open architecture and very strong compression.

* Full support for ZIP AES encryption (supports: PKZip 5.1 (full), Secure Zip 8.0 and WinZip 9.0).

* New TAR support: now supporting extended TAR specification.

* New Explorer View: considerably faster Explorer View when going through archives, with a completely changed method of browsing you hard drive that is now much like Windows Explorer and supports Explorer shell extensions.

* Compression Profiles: you can now create and use different compression profiles. This allows you to setup a compression profile and use it throughout PowerArchiver.

* UNICODE support for 7-Zip and RAR, and better support for both formats throughout the application.

Improvements:

* Optimized and reduced memory usage.

* "Normal" relative option of saving folder names when compressing single folders.

* Updated icons with more style and color.

* Improved large text (120 dpi) support throughout the application.

* Improved System Tray information.

* Changed certain Configuration options to be easier to understand.

* Improved RAR support, now with smarter handling of multivolumes.

* Convert tool added to PowerArchiver Shell Extensions.

* Improved installer now recognizes current installation folder.

* Improved MSI installation for business users.

* Improved automatic package installation tool.

* Improved translation process for translators.

* Names added to the FTP profiles.

* Many other improvements, optimizations and bug fixes.

Version 8.80 [April/2004]
road to 9.0: final 8.x release

Changes

* Optimizations and bug fixes

* Implemented better way of opening and editing files

Version 8.70 [January/2004]
road to 9.0: optimizations for all compression formats

Changes

* UnRar optimizations: better CRC error info, partial support for UNICODE (when all files are being extracted),
fixed all known issues.

* ZIP optimizations: support for file sizes in overwrite dialogue, support for spans (multivolumes) larger than 4 GB,
minor other fixes and optimizations.

* All other formats have been updated (TAR, GZIP, LHA, ARJ, ZOO and BH).

* Fixes for minor issues: issue that appeared during large file SFX creation, issue with file date filter in backup,
fix for sorting files by type.

* Better error info when compressing locked files.

* New feature: default path added to FTP profiles.

* Installation updated, smaller file size, more options, and MSI installations and advanced setups are available for
all translations (only for registered business license users).

* Minor other small fixes and enhancements.

Version 8.60 [August/2003]
road to 9.0: optimizations and minor fixes

Changes

* Optimized loading and sorting of archives: much improved speed when loading and sorting archives.
In most cases, PowerArchiver is now 200%-500% faster.
* Minor fixes and enhancements.

Version 8.50 [July/2003]
road to 9.0: many improvements throughout the program.

Major changes:

* Internal Viewer: additional support for more than 14 graphic formats
(PNG, JPEG, TIFF, Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, Autodesk images files,
SGI, Truevision images, PCX, ...).

* Encoding Support: Added full yENC support.

* Windows XP ClearType support.

* Encryption Support: Added AES (256-bits) algorithm support to PAE.
Backwards compatible with all PowerArchiver 2002 versions.

* Web Update Enhancements: New web update check facility that has ability to preview
version changes before downloading update.

* New toolbar: it can be docked or float and it works better with Win98.
It is also much smaller and takes up less space allowing for more buttons to be shown.

* Solved all minor graphic issues when using Win98 and certain graphic cards.

* PowerArchiver is now faster, load times are significantly improved.

* Memory usage has been optimized and reduced.

Improvements and fixes:

* "Open with..." option in PowerArchiver works exactly as in Windows Explorer now.

* Option for enabling/disabling "Compress to ??? + Options"
in Explorer Shell Extensions.

* Option for disabling saving of archives opened from Internet
Explorer and associated programs.

* Default folders now work in shell extensions as well.

* Explorer view now shows current folder path.

* Optimized PowerArchiver when working with 100,000+ files in the archive.

* Full support when using WindowBlinds 4.x for skinning PowerArchiver 2003.

* Huge overall interface improvements, enhancements, optimizations
and bug fixes.

Version 8.1 [Feb/2003]
Enhancements and bug fixes

Improvements:
* Drag & Drop support now in all file windows such as SFX Wizard, Multi Extract, etc.
* "Open With" menu implemented
* Option to save temporary internet files implemented (from IE, Outlook, etc)
* You can now additionally dock the toolbar to the left and right
* New dll's for Unrar and UnAce
* Lots of small issues solved
* Faster than ever
* Small improvements throughout the program
* New skins added

Version 8.00 [2002]
Completely new release

Major changes:

--> * Unlimited ZIP size support:
Create and work with extremely large ZIP files (over 4 GB and
over 65535 files), fully compatible with the new PkZip 4.5
standard.

* Support for Deflate64:
Improved compression results (both size and speed).

* Encryption Support:
Encrypt/decrypt files or archives using 5 different methods:
Blowfish (128-bits), DES (64-bits), Triple DES (128-bits),
and AES (128-bits).

* FTP Support:
Create and upload archives using one operation, upload
archives after backup, and more. Multiple FTP profiles supported.

* PowerArchiver Password Manager (PPM):
Save password used in password protected archives. All data
encrypted via secure 256-bit encryption.

* Windows XP support:
When running under Windows XP, PowerArchiver 8.0 operates as
a native Windows XP program and completely supports XP
themes. There is no need to set compatibility mode.

* New icons, new look, new images, everything in new XP-like
design.

* CAB SFX support:
Support for reading/extracting CAB SFX archives from main
program and explorer shell extensions.

* RAR v3 support:
Support for reading/extracting new RAR v3 archives.

* SFX creation:
Support for creating powerful CAB SFX archives. More features
for both ZIP and CAB SFX archives.

* Added full MIME (Base 64) support.

* Update edited files:
Open, edit and updates files under archive with only one
operation. Easy as in Windows Explorer.

* Added "Find First" and "Find Next" file function.

* SFX Wizard:
Wizard-like interface for creating powerful SFX archives in
just a few steps.

* Plug-In Support:
You can now download a separate plug-in for PGP support.

* DBCS Support:
Improved Chinese and Japanese (DBCS encoded) names processing
in ZIP archives.

Improvements:

--> * Huge overall improvements in all areas.

* More columns in main file list (type, crc, etc.).

* All tools improved, including Archive Converter, Batch Zip,
Multi-Extract and PBS.

* Support for large archives (over 2 GB).

* Complete support for PKZIP 4.0 and PKZIP 4.5 disk spanning
(while maintaining old PowerArchiver v7.00 support).

* VMS file support.

* Better support for all formats (lots of bug fixes and
improvements in ALL formats).

* Configuration improvements.

...and much, much more.

Version 7.00 <-> 7.02 [08/21/2001]

--> * PowerArchiver Auto Backup: easily create backup scripts and
do backups with only one action
* AutoUpdate: check for new versions and install PowerArchiver
updates automatically
* Batch Zip: compress individual files to individual archives
with only one action
* support for viewing && extracting ACE v2.0 archives
* new window for displaying progress of archive operations
* improved Add window with new options and new way of selecting
files (optional)
* function to ZIP and mail files directly with just one click
directly from Windows Explorer: "Compress & E-Mail..."
* support for relative folder info when using d&d from Windows
Explorer
* Floating Comments (optionally): instead of showing archive
comments upon opening ZIP archives in new window, comments
are now shown in the bottom of the main window
* Flat Scrollbar (optionally)
* improved explorer shell extensions with new features
* many, many improvements (better integration with Windows
2000/XP, Freshen, improved spanning support in 'Write disk
span', opening archive in archive, ...)
* lot of speed improvements
* many bug fixes

Version 6.11 [03/01/2001]

--> improved help with new topics, design changes, misc
improvements, many, many bug fixes, ...

(v6.10.1 --> bug fixes (grid lines, extracting/creating empty
folders, icon problems in archive list, ...)
(v6.11 --> bug fixes, misc. improvements, ...)

Version 6.00 [09/01/2000]

--> skinnable toolbar (don't forget to visit
http://skins.powerarchiver.com), faster Explorer Shell
Extensions, each icon for each archive type, new browsing tree
for Extract window, "All Archives" in Favorites, Frozen-6
method for creating LHA archives, "Set Font" function, new
redesigned "About" window, faster browsing in "Add" window,
sortable listing in "Add" window, support for silent
installation, many misc. features and updates, many bug fixes.

Version 5.6 [06/21/2000]

--> tool for repairing corrupted ZIP archives, creating RAR, ACE,
ARJ, LHA and BH SFX archives, many minor bug fixes and many
minor updates including optimizations, ...

Version 5.5 [04/12/2000] (SR-1 [05/17/2000])

--> support for decompressing BZIP compressed files, support for
creating TAR.BZ2 archives (using "BZIPed TAR" method while
adding files to TAR archive), tool for extracting multiple
archives, internal viewer now supports GIF files, "Background"
&& "Minimize" buttons for extract/add window in Windows
Explorer, "Elapsed time" feature in extracting/adding windows
in Windows Explorer, ...
Many, many bug fixes (faster drag&drop to Windows Explorer,
icons on Windows 2000, saving favorites improved, ...)

(SR-1 --> bug fixes (opening some ZIP, TGZ archives, extracting
files that contain local characters in filenames from ZIP
archives, extracting empty folders from ZIP archives, many
small misc. problems), small misc. features)

Version 5.1 [03/05/2000]

--> "Mail Archive" and "Email-It" feature for Explorer Shell
Extensions, support for extracting more than one archive with
one click using Explorer Shell Extensions, internal viewer now
support viewing multiple files, added feature to automatically
show Zip comment when opening archive, small image on status
bar when archive has a comment, bug fixes.
Web site moved to a new location: http://www.powerarchiver.com.

Version 5.01 [01/11/2000]

--> Bug fixes (extracting from LHA archives, extracting spanned
archives, problems with large archives (over 1 GB), few misc.
changes), ...

Version 5.0 [01/07/2000]

--> EasyZip renamed to PowerArchiver, added support for writing
TAR and TAR.GZ archives, internal viewer now displays RTF, BMP,
ICO, WMF, EMF and JPG (JPEG) files, tool for detecting archive
formats, selecting custom toolbar buttons now available using
"Small buttons", small misc features and many bug fixes.

Version 4.6 [12/01/1999] (SR-1 [12/08/1999])

--> Improved context sensitive menus (added many options and new
features), added complete support for BH (BlakHole - fast
archive format by Carl Bunton, that has better compression than
ZIP, ARJ and LHA formats) format (creating, deleting,
extracting, ...), some bug fixes, ...

(SR-1 --> small changes on "Explorer Style" toolbar images,
some small bug fixes)

Version 4.5 [11/10/1999]

--> Now support for creating CAB and LHA (LZH) archives, two modes
of viewing files (Classic - all files in the same listing,
Explorer - navigation through archive like through folders in
Windows Explorer), option to use only one instance, tool to
convert archives to other formats (for example ZIP -> CAB),
reading and writing ZIP spanned disks, few misc features, ...

Version 4.1 SR-1 [10/07/1999]

--> Option to change between new style and old style toolbar
images, some small bug fixes, ...

Version 4.1 [10/01/1999]

--> New help, now using "Microsoft Html Help", customisable
toolbar, bug fixes, ...

Version 4.0 [08/27/1999]

--> "Built-in support!" for reading and extracting CAB, LHA, ARJ,
ACE, ARC, ZOO, GZ and TAR archives, support for XXE and UUE
Encoded files, improved context-sensitive menus, printing
list of files in archive, added some misc features, ...

Version 3.5 [07/05/1999]

--> Better integration with Windows (context sensitive menus),
improved SFX Archive, many, many bug fixes, added support
for reading RAR SFX Archives, added some misc features, ...

Version 3.0 [06/05/1999]

--> RAR limited (read-only) support, faster file list loading,
better help, better integration with Windows (adding any file
to any archive with SendTo function), some misc features, bug
fixes, ...

Version 2.6 [05/05/1999]

--> Dragging files from PowerArchiver to Explorer, some misc.
features, ...

Version 2.5 [04/15/1999]

--> Renaming files in archive as in Windows Explorer, installing
archives (if they have SETUP.EXE or INSTALL.EXE in the central
directory), checking for viruses in archive, writing comments,
bug fixes (like those when click on archive in Windows
Explorer), some misc features, ...

Version 2.2 [03/31/1999]

--> Finally PowerArchiver works correctly on Windows NT, selecting a
group of files to add (like *.mp3), corrected bug when there
is no associated program with selected file (now starting
default viewer), saving some new options (like spanning options,
default compression, last view choice), removed drag to
explorer function because stability, removed testing function
because stability, returned back old menu style, bug fixes, ...

Version 2.1 [03/17/1999]

--> Only few corrections on interface, some bugs fixes, ...

Version 2.0 [03/10/1999]

--> Support for creating multiple spanning disks, testing Archive,
viewing comments, converting Self-Extracting Archives to .ZIP
Archives, Help Tutorial improved, setting password, ...

Version 1.0 [03/01/1999]

--> Self-Extracting Archives can be created, added "Find files"
feature, some bug fixes, interface improved, ...

Version 1.0b [02/01/1999]

--> Selecting viewstyle for icons, added "as Web page" feature,
added "View last output" feature, some bug fixes, ...

Version 0.9b [01/01/1999]

--> Improved help, some bugs fixes, ...

Version 0.65b [12/01/1998]

--> Slight integration with Windows Explorer added. Now be click
with right mouse button on Archive you can Extract it in
current directory, or in subdirectory named ".\archive\".,
some bugs fixes, ...

Version 0.6b [11/01/1998]

--> Added CheckOut feature, added file properties, help
improved, ...

Version 0.5b [09/01/1998]

--> Only base features (New, Open, Favorite, Add, Extract,
Delete, View, Drag and Drop, Configuration, Help, Copy Archive,
Delete Archive, Move Archive, Rename Archive), ...