7-Zip Extra history

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9.35 beta 2014-12-07

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- SFX modules were moved to LZMA SDK package.

9.34 alpha 2014-06-22

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- Minimum supported system now is Windows 2000 for EXE and DLL files.
- all EXE and DLL files use msvcrt.dll.
- 7zr.exe now support AES encryption.

9.18 2010-11-02
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- New small SFX module for installers.

9.17 2010-10-04
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- New 7-Zip plugin for FAR Manager x64.

9.10 2009-12-30
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- 7-Zip for installers now supports LZMA2.

9.09 2009-12-12
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- LZMA2 compression method support.
- Some bugs were fixed.

4.65 2009-02-03
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- Some bugs were fixed.

4.38 beta 2006-04-13

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- SFX for installers now supports new properties in config file:
Progress, Directory, ExecuteFile, ExecuteParameters.

4.34 beta 2006-02-27

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- ISetProperties::SetProperties:
it's possible to specify desirable number of CPU threads:
PROPVARIANT: name=L"mt", vt = VT_UI4, ulVal = NumberOfThreads
If "mt" is not defined, 7za.dll will check number of processors in system to
set
number of desirable threads.
Now 7za.dll can use:
2 threads for LZMA compressing
N threads for BZip2 compressing
4 threads for BZip2 decompressing
 Other codecs use only one thread.
Note: 7za.dll can use additional "small" threads with low CPU load.
- It's possible to call ISetProperties::SetProperties to specify "mt" property
for decoder.

4.33 beta 2006-02-05

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- 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.
- 7z/LZMA now can use only these match finders: HC4, BT2, BT3, BT4

4.27 2005-09-21
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- Some GUIDs/interfaces were changed.
IStream.h:
ISequentialInStream::Read now works as old ReadPart
ISequentialOutStream::Write now works as old WritePart