HISTORY of the 7-Zip -------------------- 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 archive. - 7-Zip File Manager now allows to change current folder from the address bar drop-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 required 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 switch). - 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 compressing 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 - Multi-threading mode now is default for multi-processor systems - 64-bit version now supports 1 GB dictionary - 7z/LZMA now can use only these match finders: HC4, BT2, BT3, BT4 - Compression ratio in Zip/GZip/Deflate in Ultra mode was increased - 7-Zip now can unpack ISO archives and some installers created by NSIS - Optional "Flat View" mode in 7-Zip File Manager - 7-Zip File Manager now can calculate CRC checksums for files - -x switch with relative paths now affects files specified with absolute paths - New switch for 7za.exe (console version): -slt. "l" (list) command with -slt shows technical information for archive. - New switch: -scs{WIN|DOS|UTF-8} specifies charset for list files. Default charset for list files is UTF-8 now. - Some bugs were fixed - New localizations: Albanian, Kurdish 4.32 2005-12-09 ------------------------- - Bug was fixed: 7-Zip 4.31 didn't work in Windows 95 4.31 2005-12-04 ------------------------- - Small changes - New localization: Basque 4.30 beta 2005-11-18 ------------------------- - Files 7zFMn.exe, 7zGn.exe, 7-zipn, 7za.exe, 7zC.sfx were removed from 7-zip package - 7-Zip now uses uncompressed SFX: 7z.sfx - Sfx modules 7z.sfx and 7zCon.sfx now use msvcrt.dll - Speed optimizations in LZMA maximum/ultra compressing. - LZMA now supports word size up to 273 - 7-Zip now reduces dictionary size for LZMA, if you compress files smaller than specified dictionary size. - 7-Zip now can use large memory pages: GUI: 7-Zip File Manager / Options / Settings / Use large memory pages. Command line version: -slp switch. This feature allows to increase speed of compressing. But 7-Zip can make some pause at starting of compressing for allocating large pages. Also Task Manager doesn't show real memory usage of program, if 7-Zip uses large pages. This feature works only on Windows 2003 / XP x64 / Vista. Also you must have administrator's rights for your system. Recommended size of RAM: 1 GB or more. To install this feature you must run 7-Zip File Manager at least once, close it and reboot system. - Some bugs were fixed 4.29 beta 2005-09-28 ------------------------- - Bug was fixed: 7-Zip 4.28 beta worked incorrectly in Windows 95/98/Me 4.28 beta 2005-09-27 ------------------------- - 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. - Some bugs were fixed - New...
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