Back to work :( Summer was not so nice: it wasnt a really hot season and temperatures were almost below

the average values; on the counter side, ZipGenius for Android went on in the spare time and we are ready to release the alpha to our testers. While away from office, we discussed about the roadmap of the ZipGenius project and found that we never released a true roadmap to our users/friends. Now its time to do that because ZipGenius is a grown-up project and everything needs to be perfectly organized. Our roadmap consists of three color-code threads: RED - items marked in red refer to ZipGenius 6.x for Windows GREEN - items marked in green (quite) obviously refer to ZipGenius for Android BLUE - items marked in blue refer to ZipGenius 7.x for Windows BLACK - items marked in black refer to other sub-projects (like Cutter) The timetable goes from september 2011 to July 2012.

MONTH September 2011

TOPICS

COMMENTS

ZG6 - update CryptoZip source code While not mentioned here, to version 2.3 ZG7 development is going ZipGenius 6.3.2.3100 release on with lower priority. ZG for Android - alpha release to testers ZG6 - update of ZGSignature source code - no release ZG for Android - 2nd alpha release to testers ZG7 - porting of CryptoZip source code v2.3 as foundation for CryptoZip v3.0 October will be a key month: all the major ZG projects will converge in order to port updated source code and techniques from ZG6 to ZGAndroid and ZG7. This is the first step that will lead to ZG6 end of development.

October 2011

November 2011

ZipGenius 6.3.3.1000 release ZGAndroid port of new ZGSignature source code ZG7 - port of new ZGSignature source code On December 2011 we will halt the active development of ZG6. We have to do that or we will never release ZG7. ZG6 will just get only bugfixes. ZGAndroid will get the highest priority and ZG7 will get higher priority than ZG6. ZG7 wont get the

December 2011

ZipGenius 6.3.4.1000 release ZG6 END OF DEVELOPMENT ZGAndroid - 3rd alpha release to testers ZG7 - alpha testers recruitment begins

highest one because we wait to see which direction will take Windows 8 UI development. Anyway, we wont go the Ribbon way. January 2012 ZGAndroid - first public beta release ZG7 - first alpha release to testers NEW WEBSITE!!! ZGAndroid - release candidate

February 2012 March 2012

ZGAndroid - final release and publishing in the Android Market ZGAndroid - mini website online ZG7 - second alpha release to In April we will finally testers put the first milestone in ZGX - ZipGenius for Linux developing ZipGenius for Linux: we could go the Java way by porting the source code of ZGAndroid with the requested edits. ZG7 - release candidate ZG7 - final release

April 2012

May 2012 June 2012 July 2012

Nothing planned right now.

As you may see, there is alot of work ongoing. We will put ZipGenus 6 to rest on December 2011 after almost 5 years of service. This release has already shown off how much mature is its codebase, beside small bugfixes along the way. We have to stop its development or we will never have the time to develop ZipGenius 7: we are not Microsoft, Google or other big software company. Were just a bunch of friends that develop software in the spare time, trying to make it as good as we would like a software to be: we must be the first people to like it or we dont release it.