De developers van PowerArchiver hebben na enkele maanden van ontwikkeling versie 8.50 uitgebracht. Dit in- en uitpak programma kan verschillende compressie-technieken aan. De ingepakte bestanden zijn via vijf verschillende encryptie-methodes te beveiligen. De volgende veranderingen zijn doorgevoerd in deze release:
Major changes:
- Internal Viewer: additional support for more than 14 graphic formats (PNG, JPEG, TIFF, Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, Autodesk images files, SGI, Truevision images, PCX, ...).
- Encoding Support: Added full yENC support.
- Windows XP ClearType support.
- Encryption Support: Added AES (256-bits) algorithm support to PAE. Backwards compatible with all PowerArchiver 2002 versions.
- Web Update Enhancements: New web update check facility that has ability to preview version changes before downloading update.
- New toolbar: it can be docked or float and it works better with Win98. It is also much smaller and takes up less space allowing for more buttons to be shown.
- Solved all minor graphic issues when using Win98 and certain graphic cards.
- PowerArchiver is now faster, load times are significantly improved.
- Memory usage has been optimized and reduced.