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Version history for Zipware

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Changes for v1.3 - v1.4 Beta

  • Released as Beta due to major version updates of underlying 7-Zip and WinRar code.
  • Added option to create new folders within archive using the context menu.
  • Changed progress window so that it allows resizing when warnings and logs occur.
  • Changed progress window text to show total archive count when creating/extracting multiple archives.
  • Changed the default colour profile used by Zipware when installing it on Windows 8 and above.
  • Updated unRar version from 5.30 to 5.40.
  • Updated Zipware's underlying 7-zip version to 16.02 which fixes the 2 vulnerabilities listed below.
  • Updates/fixes in 7-zip 16.02 - now can extract ext2 and multivolume VMDK images.
  • Updates/fixes in 7-zip 16.02 - now can extract ext3 and ext4 (Linux file system) images.
  • Updates/fixes in 7-zip 16.02 - now can extract GPT images and single file QCOW2, VMDK, VDI images.
  • Updates/fixes in 7-zip 16.02 - now can extract solid WIM archives with LZMS compression.
  • Updates/fixes in 7-zip 16.02 - now can extract .zipx (WinZip) archives that use xz compression.
  • Updates/fixes in 7-zip 16.02 - created incorrect ZIP archives, if ZipCrypto encryption was used.
  • Updates/fixes in 7-zip 16.02 - could not correctly extract ISO archives that are larger than 4 GiB.
  • Updates/fixes in 7-zip 16.02 - could not open some 7z archives created by another software.
  • Updates/fixes in 7-zip 16.02 - "Compress shared files" and -ssw switch didn't work.
  • Updates/fixes in 7-zip 16.02 - NSIS support was improved.
  • Updates/fixes in 7-zip 16.02 - ZIP, NSIS, HFS, AR, DMG support was improved.
  • Updates/fixes in 7-zip 16.02 - Improved compression ratio in some 7z format for EXE and DLL files > 16 MB.
  • Updates/fixes in 7-zip 16.02 - could not extract ZIP archives encrypted with PKWARE-AES method.
  • Updates/fixes in 7-zip 16.02 - LZMA decompression speed was improved.
  • Updates/fixes in 7-zip 16.02 - now can unpack UEFI BIOS files.
  • Updates/fixes in 7-zip 16.02 - Vulnerability - http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0093/
  • Updates/fixes in 7-zip 16.02 - Vulnerability - http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0094/
  • Fixed bug that occassionally caused the file counter on the main progress window to show 0.
  • Fixed bug in archive info window which would sometimes show buttons off the screen.
  • Fixed bug in drag and drop from archive that caused incorrect message about user cancelling operation.
  • Fixed minor bugs and optimised some code.



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