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Dear PowerArchiver users, After 3 months of private beta testing with alpha testers as well as users with an active PowerArchiver Select maintenance and support plan, we are ready to start public beta testing of PowerArchiver 2017!. This is the most important PowerArchiver version in our not-so-short history (PA started development in 1998. first release…

Dear PowerArchiver users, As PowerArchiver 2017 Beta 1 is being released today and here is an update on the Advanced Codec Pack original article from a few months ago. What is - Advanced Codec Pack (.pa format)? Advanced Codec Pack combines the best available codecs and filters into one fantastic package. Most of the codecs…

Dear PowerArchiver users, We are happy to announce that we have added a jpeg compression codec to PowerArchiver 2017. After testing several available jpeg codecs, together with our internally developed one, we have decided to add the Lepton codec as the jpeg codec in our advanced codec pack (.pa format). Among several candidates, Lepton has…

Dear users, We have exciting additional information about PowerArchiver 2017 and its advanced codec pack - the .pa format. We have added a very important new feature, a data deduplication filter called fma-rep1. It helps in achieving significantly better compression on huge files and is quite unique among our commercial peers. What is fma-rep? The…

Dear PowerArchiver Users, Together with the new Advanced Codec Pack (.pa format) and an innovative new Reflate codec, we are happy to introduce more new interesting features to explorer in PowerArchiver 2017. We also focused on features that were mostly mentioned in our user Wishlist section such as improved startup speed, dual panel explorer mode…

Dear users, We are very pleased to introduce latest generation of PowerArchiver! PowerArchiver 2017 is the most exciting release in our long history (since 1998). What makes it exciting you ask? PowerArchiver 2017 brings our new special feature - Advanced Codec Pack (.pa format). It is an Advanced Codec Pack that combines the best available…

Dear users, We are proud to introduce Reflate, the essential part of our new Advanced Codec Pack (.pa)! Reflate was designed in-house, by our compression engineer Eugene Shelwien. The main requirement for reflate was to address the needs of today's corporate environment, where the most used formats in exchange are PDF, DOCX and other Microsoft/Open…

Dear PowerArchiver Users, We are pleased to announce the upcoming PowerArchiver 2017 release, the most important release in our history (18 years since the first one)! PowerArchiver 2017 brings the much anticipated .PA (Advanced Codec Pack) format. It features a set of advanced codecs and filters that make .PA, most likely, the most advanced compression…

Dear users, PowerArchiver 2016 16.10.24 has been released today on the slow ring! This release has been published on the fast ring few days ago. There are some small improvements based on your requests. As usual, Slow Ring releases are delayed to ensure more testing time so if you want latest PowerArchiver version, make sure…