V12 Maintenance Release 4
This maintenance release is available for all users of PKZIP Server and SecureZIP Server v12.x.
If you are updating from 8.x, you will need to obtain a new license key. Your current v8.x key will not work with this update. Customers on maintenance should contact PKWARE Customer Service to obtain a new key for this update.
PKZIP/SecureZIP Server v12.4 Enhancements:
- 64-bit edition for use with 64-bit versions of Windows Vista and Windows 7
- Supports operation on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2
- Korean LDAP support
Program Fixes:
- 3971 Corrected a problem sending messages through some mail servers.
- 4788 Improved ability to install on multiple releases of Solaris
- 7211 Added ability to extract RAR files on UNIX
- 7423 Corrected a problem where an empty ZIP file may be left after an encryption error occurs.
- 7885 Corrected a condition where PKZIPC may report that it is "deflating" a file when it is actually storing it uncompressed.
- 7912 Corrected a display problem with the progress indicator appearing when compressing streamed files.
- 7986 Corrected problem where directory entries in LHA files were not recognized on UNIX
- 7991 Corrected a display problem for FTP information appearing when using the -CONFIG option.
- 7994 Improved Options commands in User Manual so users can cut and paste commands
- 8006 Corrected a problem extracting files in the .Z archive format when files contain less than 3 bytes of information.
- 8061 Improved error reporting for digital signatures that cannot be validated.
- 8260 Added support for opening ZIP files having a .ZIPX file extension.
- 8261 Added .ZIPX extension support for Server
- 8477 Remove support for using PPMd compression on 64-bit versions of Windows.
- 8542 Added PPMd support for Windows 64-bit systems
- 8586 The -lowercase command used in extracting files from archives now has two sub-options.
- archive (default) - Indicates only the path information stored in the archive will be made lowercase.
- full - Indicates all of the extract path will be made lowercase, including the extract to path specified on the command line.
- 8636 Corrected a problem with -dir=none and –path=none during extraction on Server
Instructions for Installing the Windows® Maintenance Release
Instructions for Installing the HP-UX® Maintenance Release
Instructions for Installing the IBM®-AIX® Maintenance Release
Instructions for Installing the Solaris™ Maintenance Release
Instructions for Installing the Linux® Maintenance Release
V12 Maintenance Release 3
This maintenance release is available for all users of PKZIP Server and SecureZIP Server v12.0 or v12.1. It provides the following product enhancements and fixes:
If you are updating from 8.x, you will need to obtain a new license key. Your current v8.x key will not work with this update. Customers on maintenance should contact PKWARE Customer Service to obtain a new key for this update.
Enhancements:
- New support for the PPMd data compression algorithm for .ZIP files
- New support for the LZMA data compression algorithm for .ZIP files
- Support for extracting multiple ZIP archives to individual folders
- Extract files from .Z format compressed files
- Added additional view information reporting starting disk number for split/spanned files
- Support using parameter substitution with -log and -logerror options
- Expanded -archivetype option to accept all supported archive types
- New support for HP-UX Itanium removes need to run PKZIP/SecureZIP using Aries emulation
PKZIP and SecureZIP Fixes:
- 3769 - Corrected a problem where a temp file may not be removed when a disk full condition occurs.
- 3785 - Corrected a problem with a file not appearing in an archive after a disk full condition occurs.
- 4645 - Added a message report when a ZIP file is already in use by another user.
- 5745 - Corrected a error in Help information for the -span option.
- 7127 - Corrected an unexpected program termination that may occur when
viewing a ZIP file encrypted for more than 3000 recipients.
- 7221 - Corrected a problem using the file rename feature when converting path separators.
- 7227 - Corrected a problem where -directory and -path options where not being using when extracting a file from STDIN.
- 7392 - Corrected an error in the User Manual for the -times option
- 7507 - Corrected a problem where directories in an archive are not deleted using
–delete.
- 7565 - Corrected a problem where a dot '.' used in command line with the -delete
option acts like a wildcard.
- 7567 - Corrected operation of the -silent=fileheader option.
- 7831 - Corrected a problem where streaming an input file larger than 4GB may
result in a incorrect archive.
- 7841 - Corrected a problem using the -logerror option on Windows systems that
resulted in an unexpected program termination.
- 7843 - Corrected a problem where PKZIP/SecureZIP may incorrectly report a
CRC error when extracting a file from a GZIP archive.
- 7963 - Corrected a problem processing data from a pipe when the file size is a multiple of the system _PC_PIPE_BUF value.
Instructions for Installing the Windows® Maintenance Release
Instructions for Installing the HP-UX® Maintenance Release
Instructions for Installing the IBM®-AIX® Maintenance Release
Instructions for Installing the Solaris™ Maintenance Release
Instructions for Installing the Linux® Maintenance Release
Maintenance Release 7
This maintenance release is available for all users of PKZIP Server and SecureZIP Server 8. It provides the following product enhancements and fixes:
Product Enhancements:
SecureZIP
- FIPS 140 support has been added which ensures that SecureZIP will use FIPS 140 validated cryptographic modules for creating secure archives
- Added support for stronger hashing algorithms; SHA 256, SHA 384 and SHA 512
PKZIP
- Added support for decrypting FIPS 140 based secure archives
- Added support for decrypting stronger hashing algorithms; SHA 256, SHA 384 and SHA 512
PKZIP and SecureZIP Fixes:
- 3276 - Corrected a problem with file names having trademark (TM) or copyright (c) symbols in the file name.
- 3936 - Corrected a problem with embedded archive files in a ZIP file where interim archive file was deleted when extracting.
- 4159 - Corrected a line wrapping problem when displaying machine information.
- 4517 - Corrected display of permission and mask values when extracting files from a PKSFX Self-Extracting File.
- 4778 - Corrected a problem where the program will not run on AIX 5.1 and reports an fd_select error.
- 4815 - Improved processing on UNIX/Linux when using pipe files.
- 5745 - Revised program Help documentation to correct size values identified for use with the -span option.
- 5848 - Corrected a problem when re-installing the software which may result in an evaluation key being installed on a machine.
- 5871 - Improved formatting of log reports.
- 5947 - Resolved a problem where an additional prompt to enter a password may appear when encrypting using a contingency key.
- 5948 - Corrected a problem with an abnormal program termination occurring when a corrupt policy file is used.
- 6154 - Improved memory allocation processes.
- 6217 - Corrected a problem when using the -optionchar command that prevented reading archives from stdin and writing archives to stdout.
Instructions for Installing the Windows® Maintenance Release
Instructions for Installing the HP-UX® Maintenance Release
Instructions for Installing the IBM®-AIX® Maintenance Release
Instructions for Installing the Solaris™ Maintenance Release
Instructions for Installing the Linux® Maintenance Release
Maintenance Release 5
This maintenance release is available for all users of PKZIP Server and SecureZIP Server 8. It provides the following product enhancements and corrections:
- Added Trusted Extraction option.
- Added support for streaming creation and extraction.
- Added support to specify password files.
- Added support to embed timestamp in archive names.
- Improved user help documentation.
- Added support to display number of days remaining in evaluation mode.
Instructions for Installing the Windows® Maintenance Release
Instructions for Installing the HP-UX® Maintenance Release
Instructions for Installing the IBM®-AIX® Maintenance Release
Instructions for Installing the Solaris™ Maintenance Release
Instructions for Installing the Linux® Maintenance Release
PKZIP for UNIX 6.x
Maintenance Release 3
The Command Line Only installation packages were designed for systems that do not have a GUI interface (i.e. CDE, X-Windows, etc.).
The Setup patch updates the packaged install script (setup.sh) to better integrate with new operating system releases.
Each update includes a README.TXT for additional installation instructions.
Windows Server Only
Click to view archived maintenance releases