RAR - What's new in the latest version Version 3.51 1.

Bugs fixed: a) fixed two vulnerabilities, which could be exploited with specially crafted ACE and UUE/XXE archives; b) previous version did not delete some of temporary files; c) WinRAR could crash when processing very long (more than 1024 characters) archive name parameter in the command line. Version 3.50 1. Now it is possible to change WinRAR's loo by installing interface themes. Theme files are available on http://www.rarlab.com/themes.htm Theme files are RAR archives, just open them in WinRAR to install. You can manage installed themes using "Options/Themes" menu. 2. WinRAR supports decompression of ZIP archives created using Zip64 format extension. Zip64 was introduced to remove original ZIP format limitations on archived file size. 3. Added support of multivolume (multipart) CAB archives. 4. New options in "Advanced" part of extraction dialog: a) "Delete archive" options allow to delete extracted archives; b) "Chec authenticity information" option controls processing of authenticity information in RAR archives. 5. "Wait if other WinRAR copies are active" option in "Advanced" parts of archiving and extraction dialogs. If enabled, it waits while other WinRAR copies are creating, modifying or unpac ing an archive and starts the operation only when other WinRAR tas s are complete. If you are going to perform several archiving or decompressing tas s, such queued execution can help to reduce the amount of dis see s and improve overall performance. 6. WinRAR is able to integrate to Windows context menus also on Windows x64 systems. 7. SFX modules: a) SFX modules are not compressed by UPX anymore, so they are larger now. UPX compression caused numerous false alerts by antivirus software. If you wish to use compressed modules, you can get UPX from http://upx.sourceforge.net and compress *.sfx files in WinRAR folder;

b) The default SFX logo can be replaced by a custom bitmap file. You can do it either with "Load SFX logo from the file" option in "Text and icon" part of "Advanced SFX options" dialog or using -iimg<name> command line switch. Note that -iimg is not supported by console RAR, only GUI WinRAR recognizes it. This option is not supported in Windows 95, 98 and Me. Also you cannot use it if you compressed SFX modules by UPX. c) It is possible to specify user defined SFX icons larger than 32x32 and with any color depth. Li e the previous item, this improvement is valid only if SFX modules are not compressed by UPX and your operating system is not Windows 9x/Me; d) DOS.SFX module moved to RAR/DOS32 distributive. If you need to create DOS SFX archives using WinRAR, just copy DOS.SFX to WinRAR folder. 8. "Wizard" command allows to specify a password when creating or updating an archive. 9. Previous WinRAR versions unpac ed the complete archive contents if the user pressed Enter or double clic ed on *.exe, *.htm and *.html files. Now it is possible to define file mas s to unpac everything for. Such mas s can be entered on the "Viewer" page of the "Settings" dialog. For example, if you wish to unpac only a file under the cursor when you double clic on archived HTML file, remove "*.htm *.html" from this field. 10. Additional file name extensions for archive formats supported by WinRAR can be specified in the "User defined archive extensions" field on the "Integration" page of the "Settings" dialog. For example, if you have files with ".001" extension, which are in RAR format, you can enter "001" here to associate WinRAR with such files. 11. New "Show encrypted or compressed NTFS files in color" option in "File list" page of "Settings" dialog. 12. New "Loc toolbars" option in "General" page of "Settings" dialog and in the menu displayed after clic ing the right mouse button on the toolbar. "Loc toolbars" prevents accidental toolbar moving or resizing. 13. "Repair" and "Extract" commands replace invalid characters (colon, question mar , etc.) by underscore also in file names in ZIP archives. Previously WinRAR did it only for RAR archives. 14. New -n<mas > and -n@<listfile> switches set additional include filters, so only files matching the mas will be processed. 15. New -id[c,d,p,q] switch. Additionally to previously available -idp switch (disable percentage indicator), switches -idc, -idd and -idq instruct the console RAR to hide the copyright message, "Done" message and all information messages. 16. Switch -e+<attr> allows to specify file include attributes mas . For example, you can use -e+h switch to compress only hidden files. 17. Switch -ver[n] supports the optional 'n' parameter also when archiving. It limits the maximum number of file versions.

18. If the short name of an already existing file is equal to the long name of an unpac ing file, WinRAR changes the short name of the already existing file before unpac ing. In such situation previous versions prompted to overwrite the existing file even though long file names were not equal. 19. Security changes: a) WinRAR shell does not allow to run *.pif files. Archived PIF files is one of typical ways for computer viruses to distribute; b) WinRAR shell does not allow to run files having 5 or more continuous spaces in the name. For example, "calc.txt .exe". Viruses frequently add such spaces to confuse users and hide the real extension. WinRAR shell removes these continuous spaces except first and last also when displaying names of such files in the file list. 20. In Windows XP WinRAR highlights the sorted column in the file list using the different color, li e it is done in Windows Explorer. Version 3.42 1. Fixed a buffer overflow bug in WinRAR GUI "Delete" command, which could cause a crash when deleting a file in a corrupt archive. Version 3.41 1. Bugs corrected in this version: a) when adding new files to an already existing RAR solid archive, RAR 3.40 compression ratio was lower than in RAR 3.30; b) WinRAR "Repair" command could crash when repairing a corrupt ZIP archive. 2. If archived Unicode name is invalid, RAR 'l' and 'v' commands display ASCII file name instead of corrupt Unicode. Version 3.40 1. "Fastest" (-m1) RAR compression method has been modified to provide much higher compression speed and lower ratio. It may be useful for tas s requiring the high speed li e regular bac ups. You may increase "Fastest" speed even more selecting 64KB compression dictionary instead of default 4MB. 2. WinRAR is able to decompress archives created by Unix 'compress' tool (.Z files). Li e GZIP and BZIP2 archives, WinRAR opens tar.Z and .taz files in one step, so users do not need to unpac .tar manually. 3. WinRAR is able to decompress archives created by 7-Zip

(.7z files). "Find" command is not supported for this archive type. 4. New "Security" dialog in WinRAR settings: a) "File types to exclude from extracting" option to prevent extracting of potentially dangerous files li e .exe, .scr and .pif; b) "Propose to select virus scanner" option modifies behavior of "Scan archive for viruses" command. You may turn it off if you wish to s ip the virus scanner selection dialog. 5. New command line switch -ep3 allows to save and restore full file paths including the drive letter. WinRAR shell equivalent of -ep3 switch are options "Store full paths including drive letter" in "Files/File paths" page of archiving dialog and "Extract absolute paths" in "Advanced/File paths" page of extracting dialog. 6. You may select and compress dis s directly in "My Computer" view in WinRAR shell. Just choose "My Computer" in WinRAR address bar, select dis s to compress and press "Add". If you selected more than one item, WinRAR will automatically set "Store full paths including drive letter" archiving mode. 7. If you have selected several dis s in Windows Explorer "My Computer" view and started archiving from the context menu, WinRAR will automatically set the "Store full paths including drive letter" mode when compressing them. 8. New command line switch -oc to restore NTFS "Compressed" attribute when extracting files. RAR always saves "Compressed" attribute when creating an archive, but does not restore it unless -oc switch has been specified. WinRAR shell equivalent of -oc switch is "Set attribute Compressed" option in "Advanced" part of extracting dialog. 9. Starting from this version RAR volumes contain the volume number field. If the archive was created by WinRAR 3.40 or newer, you may view the volume number in the top line of "Info" dialog and in the address bar. In the command line mode the volume number is displayed by 'L' and 'V' commands in the line with the total volume information. This feature may be useful if original volume names are lost and you need to rename volumes to correct names. 10. Commands 'L' and 'V' display NTFS "Compressed" attribute in archive listing. 11. Switch -ag may include an optional text enclosed in '{' and '}' characters. This text is inserted into the archive name. For example: -agHH{hours}MM{minutes}

Same feature is supported in the "Generate archive name by mas " field of WinRAR archiving dialog. 12. If switch -ac is specified, RAR will not reset the "Archive" attribute of those files, which size or modification time was changed after starting the archiving operation. So files modified after placing them to an archive and before clearing "Archive" attribute, will be included in next incremental bac up. The same is true for WinRAR "Clear attribute "Archive" after compressing" GUI option. 13. If you use the "Add to favorites" command inside of an archive subfolder, WinRAR will save the subfolder and restore it when accessing this favorite item. Previous versions were able to restore only the root archive folder. 14. When editing archived files, WinRAR proposes to update them immediately after detecting that file was changed. Previous versions waited until an external editor terminates before updating a changed file. 15. If you drop an archive to the WinRAR address bar or toolbar, WinRAR will display its contents even if an other archive is opened right now. Previous versions proposed to add a dropped archive to browsing one. You may still drop an archive to WinRAR file list if you need to add it to browsing archive. 16. Corrected processing of corrupt LZH archives to exclude a possible crash when reading corrupt LZH file headers. 17. RAR and WinRAR display the operation progress while repairing an archive containing the recovery record.