What's new in PKZIP Command Line 14
Jan 29, 2013
- Create and Extract OpenPGP files. Some organizations use encryption tools based on the OpenPGP standard, rather than X.509. PKZIP extracts and decrypts files that comply with the OpenPGP standard, RFC 4880. PKZIP can create passphrase-based OpenPGP-compliant files. You can also use OpenPGP keys to decrypt data within ZIP archives.
- Message Digest Display. Display the hash value (also called a "message digest") and CRC checksum for a file using the messagedigest command. This feature will help meet ONC Meaningful Use requirements.
- Digital Time Stamping for signed archives. When you need to establish not only who is responsible for a file or set of files, but also when it was created, digital time stamping is a critical service. PKZIP will verify existing time stamps.
- FastAES. Support for Intel® processors that implement AES-NI. Other processors may also gain from using a more optimized Advanced Encryption Standard algorithm. FastAES is not available when using FIPS 140 mode.
- Extract 7-Zip files and CD/DVD Data Image files. PKZIP now extracts 7-Zip and three types of files typically associated with CD and DVD data images: CDR, ISO, and IMG.
- Preserving Zone Identifier information in downloaded files. When you download a file from any other computer with Microsoft Internet Explorer, the browser attaches “security zone” information about the computer hosting the file in an alternate data stream. By default, PKZIP now preserves this information.
New in PKZIP Command Line 12 Release 5 (Jan 29, 2013)
- Include open files in ZIP archives. The OpenFile option allows you to include files in memory in archives.
- Extract WavPack files within ZIP archives. Open audio files compressed with this algorithm.
- Extract files from archives created on IBM z/OS using hardware compression tools. PKZIP for Windows Desktop can extract these files without special hardware.
- Changes in FIPS Mode. With FIPS mode selected, files must be signed with the SHA-256 algorithm (or higher). Also will not extract files encrypted with 112-bit (two-key) 3DES. These algorithms are still available outside FIPS mode.
New in PKZIP Command Line 12 Release 4 (Jan 29, 2013)
- Support for Windows 7. Windows 7 users enjoy all the benefits and functionality of PKZIP.
- Full support for opening and extracting files with the .zipx extension. PKZIP will work with Zip archives with the *.zipx extension.
- LZMA and PPMd compression. New lzma and ppmd options are added to support LZMA and PPMd compression methods.
New in PKZIP Command Line 12 (Jan 29, 2013)
- New CryptOptions option. The NoSmartCard option is now deprecated and replaced by the SmartCard suboption of new option CryptOptions. Another suboption (on by default) supports certificate-based AES encryption for recipients who use smart cards or run on Windows NT or Windows 2000. The suboption uses 3DES to protect access to the private key. You can turn this suboption off to use pure AES if you don't need to encrypt for recipients who use smart cards or earlier versions of Windows.
- Version command updated. The version command has a new product suboption and now lists major, minor, and step version numbers of the program and lists major and minor version numbers and the build number of the product.
- .Z archive extraction. PKZIP can now extract .Z archives.
- Extract path substitution. The substitution option can now be used with extract to extract multiple archives each into its own directory.
- ZDW extraction support. The translate option has new suboptions for EBCDIC line-ending translation to support extraction of mainframe data compressed using the SecureZIP for z/OS Zip Descriptor Word (ZDW) option to preserve variable length records.
- FIPS 140 compliant SFX engines. An SFX (self-extracting) archive created in FIPS mode now remembers that it is a FIPS SFX and applies FIPS-mode constraints when its files are extracted.
- Path performance improvements. The directories option now does pattern-matching on file names in a way that's faster and more consistent with releases prior to version 8.4. When processing a file specification that includes a path component, PKZIP looks only within the specified folder for the pattern to match. Versions 8.4 - 8.7 look for the entire file specification in all subfolders of the current folder. To perform an 8.4-style search, prefix the file specification with an asterisk "*".
New in PKZIP Command Line 8 Relese 5 (Jan 29, 2013)
- Self-extracting files. The PKZIP Self-Extractor, to create self-extracting archives, is now available again for use with PKZIP. Administrators can selectively distribute the separate PKZIP Self-Extractor license to control access to the feature.
- Streaming archive creation/extraction. The add command can write archives to special files such as named pipes and (UNIX) domain sockets. Similarly, the extract, test, and view commands can read archives from these same sources and from STDIN.
- Trusted extraction. A new verifySigner option constrains PKZIP to extract only archives signed using a certificate specified with the option. The option protects against being fooled by a valid signature made using a different certificate from the one that actually belongs to your expected correspondent.
- Embed a timestamp in archive names. A new substitution option works with the add command to embed a timestamp in the name of a new or updated archive. You construct the timestamp using tokens for such elements as day, month, year. The tokens are replaced by values when the command line is run.
- Wipe option renamed shred. The wipe option for securely overwriting deleted files is renamed shred and has a new dod5220 sub-option that overwrites files three times, to the DOD 5220.22-M specification.
New in PKZIP Command Line 8 Relese 4 (Jan 29, 2013)
- Create archives to STDOUT. The add command can now output archives to STDOUT instead of to a file.
- Translate line endings when adding. The translate option can now be used when adding to an archive as well as when extracting, to translate line endings for a specified platform.
- Create multiple, respective archives. A new archiveeach option creates and names a separate archive for each of multiple files specified in a single command line.
- Behavior change for newer and older. These options now behave as in version 6.0 when using a time unit of days: They now measure the interval (for example, five days) from the beginning of the current day (midnight) instead of from the current time.
- Behavior change for configuring silent option. Configuring the silent option no longer produces an interactive confirmation message. The change makes it easier to configure silent in scripts.
- New silent suboption for configuration command. The configuration command now has a silent suboption to suppress default display of the list of configuration settings when the command is used.
New in PKZIP Command Line 8 Relese 3 (Jan 29, 2013)
- New crl option. Warns if a certificate appears on an accessible list of revoked certificates.
- TAR file processing. Several problems with processing TAR files corrected.
New in PKZIP Command Line 8 Relese 1 (Jan 29, 2013)
- Bug fixes:
- PKZIP could not extract some archives containing encrypted file names
- Problem with display of language strings could result in incorrect message display or crash
- PKZIP tried to create an archive when preview option used with add command