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.
