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-------------------9.20
2010-11-18
------------------------- Some bugs were fixed.
9.19 beta
2010-11-11
------------------------- The console version now doesn't show entered password.
- Some bugs were fixed.
9.18 beta
2010-11-02
------------------------- 7-Zip now can unpack SquashFS and CramFS filesystem images.
- 7-Zip now can unpack some TAR and ISO archives with incorrect headers.
- New small SFX module for installers (in Extra package).
- Some bugs were fixed.
9.17 beta
2010-10-04
------------------------- Disk fragmentation problem for ZIP archives created by 7-Zip was fixed.
9.16 beta
2010-09-08
------------------------- 7-Zip now supports files that are larger than 8 GB in TAR archives.
- NSIS support was improved.
- Some bugs were fixed.
- New localizations: Hindi, Gujarati, Sanskrit.
9.15 beta
2010-06-20
------------------------- Some bugs were fixed.
- New localization: Tatar.
9.14 beta
2010-06-04
------------------------- WIM support was improved.
9.13 beta
2010-04-15
------------------------- 7-Zip now stores NTFS file timestamps to ZIP archives.
- New additional "Open archive >" item in context menu allows to select
archive type for some files.
- Some bugs were fixed.
- New localization: Uyghur.
9.12 beta
2010-03-24
------------------------- ZIP / PPMd compression ratio was improved in Maximum and Ultra modes.
- The BUG in 7-Zip 9.* beta was fixed: LZMA2 codec didn't work,
if more than 10 threads were used (or more than 20 threads in some modes).
9.11 beta
2010-03-15
------------------------- 7-Zip now supports PPMd compression in ZIP archives.
- Speed optimizations in PPMd codec.
- The support for archives in installers was improved.
- Some bugs were fixed.
- New localization: Kazakh.
9.10 beta
2009-12-22
------------------------- The BUG in 7-Zip 9.09 beta was fixed:
7-Zip created incorrect ZIP archives, if ZipCrypto encryption was used.
9.09 beta
2009-12-12
------------------------- 7-Zip now can unpack Apple Partition Map (APM) disk images.
- Speed optimizations in AES code for Intel's 32nm CPUs.
- Speed optimizations in CRC calculation code for Intel's Atom CPUs.
- Some bugs were fixed.
9.07 beta
2009-08-27
------------------------- It's possible to specify Diff program in options (7-Zip File Manager).
- Some bugs were fixed.
9.06 beta
2009-08-17
------------------------- 7-Zip now can unpack MSLZ archives.
- Partial parsing for EXE resources, SWF and FLV.
- Some bugs were fixed.
9.04 beta
2009-05-30
------------------------- 7-Zip now can update solid .7z archives.
- 7-Zip now supports LZMA2 compression method.
- 7-Zip now supports XZ archives.
- 7-Zip now can unpack NTFS, FAT, VHD and MBR archives.
- 7-Zip now can unpack GZip, BZip2, LZMA, XZ and TAR archives from stdin.
- 7-Zip now can open/copy/compress disk images (like \\.\c:) from \\.\ folder.
- 7-Zip File Manager now doesn't use temp files to open nested archives
stored without compression.
- New -scrc switch to calculate total CRC-32 during extracting / testing.
- New -scc{WIN|DOS|UTF-8} switch to specify charset for console input/output (de
fault = DOS).
- Some bugs were fixed.
4.65
2009-02-03
------------------------- 7-Zip File Manager now can calculate SHA-256 checksum.
- Some bugs were fixed.
4.64
2009-01-03
------------------------- The bug in 7-Zip 4.63 was fixed: 7-Zip could not decrypt .ZIP archives
encrypted with WinZip-AES method.
4.63
2008-12-31
------------------------- 7-Zip now can unpack ZIP archives encrypted with PKWARE-AES.
- Some bugs were fixed.
4.62
2008-12-02
------------------------- Some bugs were fixed.
4.61 beta
2008-11-23
------------------------- 7-Zip now supports LZMA compression for .ZIP archives.
- Some bugs were fixed.
- New localization: Sinhala.
4.60 beta
2008-08-19
------------------------- Some bugs were fixed.
4.59 beta
2008-08-13
------------------------- 7-Zip now can unpack UDF, XAR and DMG/HFS archives.
- 7-Zip File Manager now keeps encryption when you edit encrypted file inside ar
chive.
- 7-Zip File Manager now allows to change current folder from the address bar dr
op-down list.
- It's allowed to use -t switch for "list" and "extract" commands.
- Some bugs were fixed.
- New localizations: Icelandic, Kurdish Sorani.
4.58 beta
2008-05-05
------------------------- Some speed optimizations.
- 7-Zip now can unpack .lzma archives.
- Unicode (UTF-8) support for filenames in .ZIP archives. Now there are 3 modes:
1) Default mode: 7-Zip uses UTF-8, if the local code page doesn't contain re
quired symbols.
2) -mcu switch: 7-Zip uses UTF-8, if there are non-ASCII symbols.
3) -mcl switch: 7-Zip uses local code page.
- Now it's possible to store file creation time in 7z and ZIP archives (-mtc swi
tch).
- 7-Zip now can unpack multivolume RAR archives created with
"old style volume names" scheme and names *.001, *.002, ...
- Now it's possible to use -mSW- and -mSW+ switches instead of -mSW=off and -mSW
=on
- Some bugs were fixed.
- New localizations: Punjabi (Indian), Pashto.
4.57
2007-12-06
------------------------- The BUG in command line version was fixed: -up3 switch
could work incorrectly.
4.56 beta
2007-10-24
------------------------- Some bugs were fixed.
4.55 beta
2007-09-05
------------------------- Some bugs were fixed.
4.54 beta
2007-09-04
------------------------- Decompression speed was increased.
4.53 beta
2007-08-27
------------------------- "Test" and "Info" buttons now work for open archives.
- The bug in 7-Zip 4.48 - 4.52 beta was fixed:
7-Zip could create .ZIP archives with broken files.
- Some bugs were fixed.
4.52 beta
2007-08-03
------------------------- 7-Zip now can unpack Compound files (msi, doc, ...).
- Some bugs were fixed.
4.51 beta
2007-07-25
------------------------- Bug was fixed: 7-Zip 4.50 beta could not open some .7z archives.
4.50 beta
2007-07-24
------------------------- New switch for command line version:
-ssc[-] enables/disables case-sensitive mode for file names.
- Speed optimizations for AES encryption.
- Some bugs were fixed.
4.49 beta
2007-07-11
------------------------- 7-Zip now can unpack WIM archives.
- 7-Zip now replaces incorrect characters in filenames during extracting.
4.48 beta
2007-06-26
------------------------- Encryption strength for .7z format was increased.
Now it uses random initialization vectors.
- Some bugs were fixed.
4.47 beta
2007-05-27
------------------------- Bugs of 7-Zip 4.46 beta were fixed: BZip2 could work incorrectly.
4.46 beta
2007-05-25
------------------------- New fast compression mode for Deflate method in Zip and GZip.
- New "Compress shared files" option in GUI and -ssw switch.
- Some bugs were fixed.
- New localization: Norwegian Nynorsk.
4.45 beta
2007-04-17
------------------------- Now it's possible to specify the size of solid block and the number
of CPU threads in "Add to archive" dialog box.
- Default dictionary size was increased: Normal: 16 MB, Max: 32 MB.
- Speed optimizations.
- Benchmark was improved (new "b" command in command line version).
- The number of DLL files was reduced.
- Now it's possible to associate 7-zip with combined types like .tbz2
- switch -mhcf=off is not supported now.
- If -t{Type} switch is not specified, 7-Zip now uses extension of archive to
detect the type of archive.
- Some bugs were fixed.
- New localization: Welsh.
4.44 beta
2007-01-20
------------------------- Speed optimizations for LZMA, Deflate, BZip2 and unRAR.
- 7-Zip now supports file pathnames longer than 260 characters.
- Some bugs were fixed.
- New localizations: Bangla, Bashkir, Nepali.
4.43 beta
2006-09-15
------------------------- 7-Zip now can use multi-threading mode for compressing to .ZIP archives.
- ZIP format supporting was improved.
- 7-Zip now supports WinZip-compatible AES-256 encryption for .ZIP archives.
- New context menu items for .ZIP archives creating.
- 7-Zip now uses order list (list of extensions) for files sorting for compressi
ng
to .7z archives. It can slightly increase compression ratio in some cases.
- 7-Zip now restores modification time of folders during .7z archives extracting
.
- Some bugs were fixed.
- New localizations: Armenian, Marathi.
4.42
2006-05-14
------------------------- Compressing speed and Memory requirements were increased.
Default dictionary size was increased: Fastest: 64 KB, Fast: 1 MB,
Normal: 4 MB, Max: 16 MB, Ultra: 64 MB.
- BZip2 compressing / decompressing now can work in multi-threading mode
- Bug was fixed: 7-Zip 4.27 beta created incorrect multivolume archives.
- "Duplicate filename" collision problem between names with ligatures was fixed.
4.27 beta
2005-09-21
------------------------- 7-Zip can unpack CHM/HXS (MS HTML HELP) archives
- 7-Zip can unpack multivolume CAB archives
- Now 7-Zip deletes files to the Recycle Bin by default.
Shift+Delete deletes files permanently.
- Some bugs were fixed
- New localization: Tatarish
4.26 beta
2005-08-05
------------------------- LZH format support (extracting only)
- Some bugs were fixed
- New localization: Ido
4.25 beta
2005-07-31
------------------------- 7-Zip now doesn't interrupt the compressing when it can not
find specified file as in version 4.24 beta. It just shows warning.
- 7-Zip now supports standard selection mode in the file list
- Some bugs were fixed
4.24 beta
2005-07-06
------------------------- 7-Zip now supports right-click Drag and Drop in Explorer
- Command line version now supports short file names (like FILENA~1.TXT)
- If there are no wildcard names and there is no -r switch in command line,
7-Zip now checks that specified files exist on disk before compressing.
- Some bugs were fixed
4.23
2005-06-29
------------------------- Drag and Drop support
- 7-Zip File Manager now can copy files from one archive to another
- Some bugs were fixed
- New localizations: Extremaduran, Malay
4.20
2005-05-30
------------------------- No changes
4.19 beta
2005-05-21
------------------------- BZip2 code was rewritten. Now it supports 3 modes: Normal, Maximum and
Ultra. In Normal mode it compresses almost as original BZip2 compressor.
Compression ratio in Maximum and Ultra modes is 1-3% better for some files,
but Maximum Mode is about 3 times slower and Ultra Mode is about 8 times
slower than Normal mode.
- Console version now prints all messages to stdout by default,
and if -so switch is specified, 7-Zip prints messages to stderr.
3.13
2003-12-11
------------------------- Some small bugs were fixed
3.12
2003-12-10
------------------------- Now you can select compression method, dictionary size
and word size in "Add to archive" dialog box. Also it
shows memory usage.
- 7-Zip File Manager now contains toolbars.
- New "Benchmark" command in 7-Zip File Manager.
It measures compressing and decompressing speeds and
shows rating values.
- Some bugs were fixed.
3.11
2003-10-06
------------------------- 7-zip now use limitations for solid block size
for increasing the speed of random file decompressing:
- in Store mode:
0 B
- in Fast mode:
16 MB
- in Normal mode: 256 MB
- in Maximum mode: 1 GB
- in Ultra mode:
4 GB
- 7z.exe, 7za.exe and SFX modules now support Unicode
file names under Windows NT/2000/XP/2003.
7zn.exe and 7zan.exe were removed from package.
- Some bugs were fixed
- New localization: Afrikaans
3.10
2003-09-27
------------------------- Drag-and-Drop from external application
- GUI version (7zG.exe) can compress files with absolute paths
- Compression dialog doesn't suggest bzip2 and gzip2 types when
there are more than one selected file
- Optional auto renaming for existing files during extraction
in command line version (-aot switch).
- Some bugs were fixed
3.09.02
2003-09-20
------------------------- Optional limitation for solid block size for increasing
the speed of random file decompressing (-ms switch)
2003-04-29
2002-03-25
2000-12-21