Dear users,

We have just released PowerArchiver 2011 RC4 12.00.49. We have been working on this release for last 40 days and it adds FIPS 140.2 certification to PowerArchiver 2011 ZIP and ZIPX AES encryption as well as data transfer via SFTP and FTP/SSL.

List of changes:

• FIPS 140.2 certified ZIP/ZIPX AES encryption.
• FIPS 140.2 certified data transfer via SFTP/FTP/SSL
• Compatibility with ZIP and ZIPX archives that have been encrypted/signed with digital certificates.
• Compatibility with ZIP, ZIPX archives that have been encrypted with other non AES methods such as 3DES.
• Support for .GZ and .XZ single files (without TAR).
• Added Backup to Pro license.
• Compatibility with latest PAOP 2.10.05.
• Improved adding multiple files/folders to ISO via shell.
• Various smaller improvements and fixes.

With this latest release, PowerArchiver becomes the most compatible compression utility. PowerArchiver 2011 is only application that is fully compatible with all new ZIPX compression methods as well as all various encryption methods that are used in PkWare’s SecureZIP.

As always, you can download it from our download pages or simply patchbeam it.

Dear users,

We have just released PowerArchiver 2011 RC4 12.00.49. We have been working on this release for last 40 days and it adds FIPS 140.2 certification to PowerArchiver 2011 ZIP and ZIPX AES encryption as well as data transfer via SFTP and FTP/SSL.

List of changes:

• FIPS 140.2 certified ZIP/ZIPX AES encryption.
• FIPS 140.2 certified data transfer via SFTP/FTP/SSL
• Compatibility with ZIP and ZIPX archives that have been encrypted/signed with digital certificates.
• Compatibility with ZIP, ZIPX archives that have been encrypted with other non AES methods such as 3DES.
• Support for .GZ and .XZ single files (without TAR).
• Added Backup to Pro license.
• Compatibility with latest PAOP 2.10.05.
• Improved adding multiple files/folders to ISO via shell.
• Various smaller improvements and fixes.

With this latest release, PowerArchiver becomes the most compatible compression utility. PowerArchiver 2011 is only application that is fully compatible with all new ZIPX compression methods as well as all various encryption methods that are used in PkWare’s SecureZIP.

As always, you can download it from our download pages or simply patchbeam it.

Dear users,

We have just released PowerArchiver 2011 RC4 12.00.49. We have been working on this release for last 40 days and it adds FIPS 140.2 certification to PowerArchiver 2011 ZIP and ZIPX AES encryption as well as data transfer via SFTP and FTP/SSL.

List of changes:

• FIPS 140.2 certified ZIP/ZIPX AES encryption.
• FIPS 140.2 certified data transfer via SFTP/FTP/SSL
• Compatibility with ZIP and ZIPX archives that have been encrypted/signed with digital certificates.
• Compatibility with ZIP, ZIPX archives that have been encrypted with other non AES methods such as 3DES.
• Support for .GZ and .XZ single files (without TAR).
• Added Backup to Pro license.
• Compatibility with latest PAOP 2.10.05.
• Improved adding multiple files/folders to ISO via shell.
• Various smaller improvements and fixes.

With this latest release, PowerArchiver becomes the most compatible compression utility. PowerArchiver 2011 is only application that is fully compatible with all new ZIPX compression methods as well as all various encryption methods that are used in PkWare’s SecureZIP.

As always, you can download it from our download pages or simply patchbeam it.

For all of you that use PowerArchiver in corporate environment, we have added FIPS 140-2 certified encryption (ZIP and ZIPX AES 128bit, 192bit and 256bit) and Secure FTP downloads/uploads (SFTP as well as FTP SSL).

More about FIPS standard

Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 (FIPS 140-2) is entitled “Security Requirements for Cryptographic Modules.” It’s a standard that describes government requirements that hardware and software products should meet for Sensitive but Unclassified (SBU) use. The standard was published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has been adopted by the Canadian government’s Communications Security Establishment (CSE), and is being adopted by the financial community through the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).

FIPS 140-2 requires federal government agencies that use cryptographic-based security systems to protect sensitive information to comply with the standards. Any organisation that does any kind of business with any government agency is also required to comply with the standards.

PowerArchiver is using Windows cryptographic modules for certification/validation. Windows XP SP3 and newer are FIPS 140-2 certified, while previous versions are FIPS 140-1 certified. More info and certificates can be found here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc750357.aspx#e1

PowerArchiver is using OpenSSL cryptographic module for SFTP/FTP SSL certification/validation. More info and certificate can be found here: http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cmvp/documents/140-1/140val-all.htm#1051

You can now use PowerArchiver 2011/2012 (and any future versions) to securely exchange encrypted sensitive information with any US or Canadian government agency in compliance with FIPS 140 standards.

Here is PowerArchiver 2011 RC3 12.00.41 release. We have took your reports and implemented over 30 improvements. One of the biggest changes was to our VSS (Volume Shadow Copy) code which got some testing and should work much better and faster now.

List of changes:

• VSS (Volume Shadow Copy) – lot of testing and improvements. It should work a lot faster now when you have many files compressed via VSS. Should work on Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7, both 32bit and 64bit. Any file can be compressed!
• Improved Disc to Disc copy
• Improved Image Grabber (to ISO)
• 7-zip SFX – added support for LZMA2
• Updated Translations (21 now)
• Various smaller improvements throughout the application

If you have PowerArchiver 2011, you can Patchbeam this release and get it via 1-2 second update. If not, go to our dowload page and get it now!

Join us in creating next generation format. Lets work together! We are working on next format for PowerArchiver and we need your help – tell us what do YOU want in your compression format: what kind of files you compress the most, what other features you find interesting.

Here we have compiled the list of things we found interesting but please do not limit yourself – if you have some other idea, use this interface to send it to us (click on Give Feedback button at the bottom!) Don’t forget – we love you, lets do this!

here is the final version of PowerArchiver 2010, in 15 languages, including Polish.

List of changes in 11.70.10/11 :

• New UNRAR.DLL – Up to 10% improvement in speed compared to official unrar.dll v4.

List of changes in 11.70.08 :

• Auto complete support in Extract and Select folders – Previously we have only history MRU there but now you have both – you can easily use auto complete to find folder you want to extract to as well as have list of most recently used folders when you click on drop down arrow.
• Extract to filename/ option in Extract window – Often requested feature is now here – click to have archive automatically go into folder with its own name. Less typing for you!
• Improved help system – all of our tutorials are now connected with our YouTube channel, so newbie users can easily go there and get some video tutorial help! Click here for more info.

List of changes in 11.70.07 :

• Patchbeam Update Sytem – Superior update system that will update PowerArchiver within seconds! Click here for more info.

You can download it via Patchbeam or via our download pages.

We have setup few demos of our new Patchbeam update system to show you how cool our new update system is. While you are watching this, lets not forget that old updates took 30-60 seconds and 8 clicks of mouse. Patchbeam is down to less than 2 seconds total! Videos show full update and silent update from internal alpha 11.70.05 to official beta 11.70.08, and it happens so fast that you might not even notice it :).

Full update via manual activation:
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm3sSb_H_JU

Silent update with single click:
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtpyOeaGkZk

We hope you like this new experience! For more tutorials and videos, visit our youtube chanel at: http://www.youtube.com/user/Conexware

After long months of wait, we are happy to show your our latest product – Patchbeam update engine! As promised early this year, Patchbeam has been designed to seriously cut down the time it takes to update PowerArchiver, and with minimum interaction with the user.

Here is what our design goals were (and what we ended up with):

1. Smaller Installations. Our current installer is between 9 and 10 MB. We wanted to decrease update size to under 3 MB if possible. – result: updates as low as 500kb, almost 20x smaller than before!
2. Less interaction. You already have PowerArchiver installed and running. You do not need to interact with properly done update. Target was to lower number of clicks needed to 4. result: 1 click if you use silent update process in Vista/Windows 7, no clicks in XP!
3. Overall time for update. While 65 seconds is not bad, why not target 30 seconds or less? Lets do it! result: less than 2 seconds to update!

This was one of the most requested features ever, and we hope we made your life easier. Make sure you go to the Config> Auto update an check those silent update options for best experience. In the other news, PA 2011 is going well and you will be thrilled with all the new features! :). As we said before, we will now maintain current version as long as future release is in beta stage. That means that we will keep developing PA 2010 as long as PA 2011 is in beta stage, so in the future you will be able to get fixes and smaller improvements in shortest time possible!

thank you for reading!

edit: you can download it now.

edit2: you can check live demo of update system here: http://www.powerarchiver.com/blog/2010/11/01/demos-of-new-patchbeam-update-system/

I hope you are all doing well.

As our Facebook and Twitter followers know, we have been running sweepstakes for our Facebook and Twitter fans and we will be doing that every month from now on. All you have to do is be our follower on either, or both Facebook and Twitter and every month we will post on one of these sites and first 5 people who respond will get free license of PowerArchiver Standard. We did it on Facebook in September and we will do it on Twitter in October and we will continue doing it in the future!

jJesmo li vam već rekli koliko volimo svoje korisnike? Verzija PA 2009 je bila jako dobro prihvaćena. Veliki broj korisnika je kupio nadogradnju na ovu verziju kako bi imali i dodatne funkcije ili da nas jednostavno podrže, budući da se nijedna od novih funkcija nije odnosila na sažimanje – iz razloga što nismo hjeli “osakatiti” standardnu verziju ( u Pro verziju je dodana pržilica, FTP klijent, poboljšani backum i još nekoliko funkcija).

At the time, I saw some posts (on other forums and download sites, not on ours) where people doubted that Standard might be gimped in the future release (even though we said it wont be), and here is where we prove them wrong – PA 2010 is here, and most of the new features are compression related and available for all users that have upgrade to PA 2010.

As added benefit to Pro users, we sent them Beta 1 Preview ahead of time, and it seems that many of them enjoy it very much.

So there you go guys, win-win situation for everyone and we will reveal soon more new and exciting features in PA 2010 that are currently under wraps for those that are not Pro customers.

Thanks!