FreeArc — future plans
Tracker: planned improvements by version
Version 0.70 (July 2010)
- full support for zip, rar, 7z and other archive formats
Version 0.80 (September 2010)
- full-featured and handy GUI
- bsc, dispack and srep compression algorithms
Version 1.0 (November 2010) - Release!
- make documentation up-to-date
- solve problems with -ap, empty directories
- improve archive recovery, to make it no worse than in RAR
- keep compression options inside the archive
Version 2.0
- SFX-Installer module conigurable like in RAR/7-zip
- backup support (save file times/attributes/ACLs)
- support for archives containing millions of files
- LZMA2 with 1gb dictionary
- multi-volume and recovery volumes
- Reed-Solomon codes for data recovery
- Release freearc.dll and unarc.dll to support .arc in other archivers
- Support compression algorithms with several output streams
- files segmentation with further compression with lzma / ppmd / multimedia algorithms
- compression algorithm for bmp/tif files
- change archive format, in particular spread recovery record over the entire archive
Last updated May 30, 2010