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Create Full-History Compact Software Patches and Updates using PatchFactory v3

May 18, 2005 - AgenSoft, provider of software solutions for IT developers, announces the release of PatchFactory v3.2 for Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 - a new version of its professional software update solution.

PatchFactory provides software developers with a comprehensive solution for creating secure full-history software update modules. Designed for use on all 32-bit Windows platforms, these compact, self-installing patch files can be distributed on a diskette / CD-ROM or sent via email, web or LAN.

PatchFactory is new and innovative software updating and delivery solution, ensuring that end-users always have the latest version of your software or other all-important/critical data. PatchFactory performs almost any updating task, including synchronizing files, running an installer, updating your software, and even performing a custom action to keep your customers up-to-date and to significantly reduce your end-user support costs.

In its latest release, PatchFactory 3.2, AgenSoft developers have taken a truly innovative approach making it possible not just to create one patch for a certain software version, but also monitor all the software products, product versions and version components that may have different location on the end-user's machine. This innovation is based on the advanced functionality of the new release that includes a version tree, inheritance of properties within product versions and difference manager.

The innovative patch building features include cumulative patching to bring all in-field versions up to date using a single self-extracting executable, comparing files with size up to 2^63 Bytes (~8589934592 Gb) and flexible control under ratio "time/result" with the help of different comparing methods selection.

Among the new patch applying features are customizable dialogs, a familiar wizard-style runtime interface, use of key files and MD5 checks to ensure accuracy, international language support, silent install and silent uninstall with no user interaction required, which can be useful for system administrators and other programs calling the Update Installation program, smart automatic version check to determine the installed version, automatic Rollback at patch applying to guarantee that the end-user's system is successfully updated and Rollback / Uninstall of the update after installation.

PatchFactory v3 is priced at 295 EUR for a single developer (shareware) license.
Commercial and Corporate licenses are available.
More information and a free trial version can be obtained from http://www.agensoft.com

Company information
AgenSoft Inc. has been working in the field of professional software development since 2002. Headquartered in Moscow, Russian Federation, AgenSoft has been providing the global marketplace with high-quality innovative software products including their flagship software update tool PatchFactory.
Among the company’s clients are government institutions, large IT software and hardware companies and SMEs from all around the globe.