WinRAR 5.70 beta 1 Released (January 28, 2019) Download Changelog Spoiler: Changelog v5.70 beta 1 Version 5.70 beta 1 1. "Files to process" option on "Time" page of archiving dialog allows to choose files based on modification, creation or last access file time. Previously it was possible for modification time only. 2. Command line -ta, -tb, -tn, -to switches accept 'm', 'c' and 'a' modifiers after the switch name. So file time conditions can include not only the file modification time as in previous versions, but also creation and last access time. 3. WinRAR file list can display creation and last access file times if they are available. Creation and last access columns are disabled by default and can be enabled in "Select file list columns" dialog. This dialog is opened after right clicking on file list column headers or after pressing "File list/Files/Columns..." button in WinRAR settings. 4. "Double extensions for archives" and "Archives in subfolders" options on "Files" page of archiving dialog modify behavior of "Put each file to separate archive" option. You can switch between archive names in filename.ext.rar and filename.rar style with "Double extensions for archives". You can create a separate archive for every file in selected subfolders or store the entire contents of every selected folder in separate archive depending on the state of "Archives in subfolders" option. 5. New -ad1 switch can be used when unpacking multiple archives recursively, such as 'rar x -r -ad1 arc\*.rar'. It creates a separate folder for files unpacked from each archive, but unlike already existing -ad switch, it creates such folders in each archive folder. 6. If context menu "Extract each archive to separate folder" is applied to archives from different folders in Windows Explorer "Search results", subfolders with unpacked files are created in each archive folder. Previous versions created them all in a folder of right clicked archive. 7. New "File list/List style/Checkboxes" option in WinRAR settings allows to use checkboxes to select file list items. 8. New "File list/Files/Exact sizes" option in WinRAR settings. If this option is on, file sizes are always displayed in bytes. If it is off, sizes are rounded up and use units such as KB or MB. Smaller files can be still displayed in bytes. 9. If several console RAR are started with -ioff switch, PC is turned off by RAR copy finished last. Previously this switch was processed by first finished copy. 10. Read and write buffer size is increased for .iso files. It can help to improve .iso extraction performance in some cases, such as for network drives. 11. If "Delete archive" option in extraction dialog is applied to a set of RAR and REV volumes in volname.part# format, WinRAR will delete REV volumes as well. Previously only RAR volumes were deleted keeping REV files intact. 12. If "Delete archive" option in extraction dialog is applied to set of ZIP volumes with .zip.001, .zip.002, .zip.003 extensions, WinRAR will delete all ZIP volumes. Previously only .zip.001 volume was deleted for such volume naming scheme. 13. If we unpack arcname.rar using "Extract to arcname\" Explorer context menu command and "arcname" file already exists, WinRAR shell extension will propose "Extract to arcname~1\" instead. Previously this context menu command attempted to create a folder with same name as already existing file and failed. 14. If we pack a shortcut file with .lnk extension from Explorer context menu, .lnk file itself is added to archive. Previous versions added .lnk file target instead of .lnk file. 15. Windows does not allow executables exceeding 4 GB, so WinRAR issues an error immediately when attempting to create 4 GB or larger RAR SFX volumes. Previously WinRAR issued such error only after creating the first RAR volume. 16. Total extraction progress is displayed for 7z multivolume archives. Accuracy of 7z total extraction progress is improved. 17. Nadav Grossman from Check Point Software Technologies informed us about a security vulnerability in UNACEV2.DLL library. Aforementioned vulnerability makes possible to create files in arbitrary folders inside or outside of destination folder when unpacking ACE archives. WinRAR used this third party library to unpack ACE archives. UNACEV2.DLL had not been updated since 2005 and we do not have access to its source code. So we decided to drop ACE archive format support to protect security of WinRAR users. We are thankful to Check Point Software Technologies for reporting this issue. 18. Bugs fixed: a) console RAR mixed up source and destination file sizes and times in the overwrite prompt when updating a file in RAR archive with -o switch; b) dragging files from 32-bit applications to 64-bit WinRAR window did not work; c) WinRAR Shift+Del command applied to a folder could fail to delete some its subfolders. This command is used to delete files and folders permanently instead of moving them to Recycle Bin; d) folder tree panel could not change folders if archived pathnames started from path separator, such as in archives created by tar tool with --absolute-names option; e) if relative "Path=.\somefolder" was specified in SFX comment and SFX archive needed to elevate privileges when extracting, it created 'somefolder\somefolder' instead of 'somefolder'; f) commands modifying an existing RAR4 volume reset the volume number field to 1. While it did not affect extraction, WinRAR displayed a wrong volume number for such volumes; g) fixed a crash when reading a comment from a corrupt RAR file; h) toolbar in "Find" command "Search results" window was not adjusted to different toolbar icon sizes properly.
WinRAR 5.70 beta 2 Released (February 21, 2019) Download Changelog Spoiler: Changelog v5.70 beta 2 Version 5.70 beta 2 1. "Find" command "Disks and folders" drop down list has been renamed to "Search area". Additionally to already existing choices, it includes a new "Selected items" option restricting search to files and folders selected in WinRAR file list. 2. "Find" command displays the number of found items in status bar. 3. Switches -ta, -tb, -tn, -to now allow any number of modifiers in the same switch to set the same date for all specified times. For example, -tamc20190215 will process files modified and created after 2019-02-15. New 'o' modifier permits to switch from AND to OR logic, so -tamco20190215 includes files modified or created after 2019-02-15. It is also allowed to specify several time filtering switches with different dates in the same command line, like: -taco20190201 -tbmo20190210 Switches -ta and -tn also include files matching the specified date exactly. Switches -tb and -to exclude such files. 4. "Diagnostic messages" window displays archive names in a separate column to provide the better message visibility for lengthy archive names. 5. Switch -isnd[-] in command line WinRAR mode allows to override "Enable sound" option in WinRAR settings. Use -isnd to turn sound notifications on and -isnd- to turn them off. 6. Bugs fixed: a) disabling "Packed" file list column also affected "Type" column inside of archives leaving it blank; b) WinRAR issued "The specified password is incorrect" message infinitely when extracting an encrypted file from RAR archive without name encryption if a wrong global password was set; c) "File list/Files/Exact sizes" option in WinRAR settings did not work inside of archives.
WinRAR 5.70 Released (February 25, 2019) Download Changelog Spoiler: Changelog v5.70 Version 5.70 1. "Files to process" option on "Time" page of archiving dialog allows to choose files based on modification, creation or last access file time. Previously it was possible for modification time only. 2. Command line -ta, -tb, -tn, -to switches accept 'm', 'c' and 'a' modifiers after the switch name. So file time conditions can include not only the file modification time as in previous versions, but also creation and last access time. Such switch can include multiple modifiers to set the same date for all specified times. For example, -tamc20190215 will process files modified and created after 2019-02-15. New 'o' modifier permits to switch from AND to OR logic, so -tamco20190215 includes files modified or created after 2019-02-15. It is also allowed to specify several time filtering switches with different dates in the same command line, like: -taco20190201 -tbmo20190210 Switches -ta and -tn also include files matching the specified date exactly. Switches -tb and -to exclude such files. 3. WinRAR file list can display creation and last access file times if they are available. Creation and last access columns are disabled by default and can be enabled in "Select file list columns" dialog. This dialog is opened after right clicking on file list column headers or after pressing "File list/Files/Columns..." button in WinRAR settings. 4. "Double extensions for archives" and "Archives in subfolders" options on "Files" page of archiving dialog modify behavior of "Put each file to separate archive" option. You can switch between archive names in filename.ext.rar and filename.rar style with "Double extensions for archives". You can create a separate archive for every file in selected subfolders or store the entire contents of every selected folder in separate archive depending on the state of "Archives in subfolders" option. 5. New -ad1 switch can be used when unpacking multiple archives recursively, such as 'rar x -r -ad1 arc\*.rar'. It creates a separate folder for files unpacked from each archive, but unlike already existing -ad switch, it creates such folders in each archive folder. 6. If context menu "Extract each archive to separate folder" is applied to archives from different folders in Windows Explorer "Search results", subfolders with unpacked files are created in each archive folder. Previous versions created them all in a folder of right clicked archive. 7. New "File list/List style/Checkboxes" option in WinRAR settings allows to use checkboxes to select file list items. 8. New "File list/Files/Exact sizes" option in WinRAR settings. If this option is on, file sizes are always displayed in bytes. If it is off, sizes are rounded up and use units such as KB or MB. Smaller files can be still displayed in bytes. 9. If several console RAR are started with -ioff switch, PC is turned off by RAR copy finished last. Previously this switch was processed by first finished copy. 10. Read and write buffer size is increased for .iso files. It can help to improve .iso extraction performance in some cases, such as for network drives. 11. If "Delete archive" option in extraction dialog is applied to a set of RAR and REV volumes in volname.part# format, WinRAR will delete REV volumes as well. Previously only RAR volumes were deleted keeping REV files intact. 12. If "Delete archive" option in extraction dialog is applied to set of ZIP volumes with .zip.001, .zip.002, .zip.003 extensions, WinRAR will delete all ZIP volumes. Previously only .zip.001 volume was deleted for such volume naming scheme. 13. If we unpack arcname.rar using "Extract to arcname\" Explorer context menu command and "arcname" file already exists, WinRAR shell extension will propose "Extract to arcname~1\" instead. Previously this context menu command attempted to create a folder with same name as already existing file and failed. 14. If we pack a shortcut file with .lnk extension from Explorer context menu, .lnk file itself is added to archive. Previous versions added .lnk file target instead of .lnk file. 15. Windows does not allow executables exceeding 4 GB, so WinRAR issues an error immediately when attempting to create 4 GB or larger RAR SFX volumes. Previously WinRAR issued such error only after creating the first RAR volume. 16. Total extraction progress is displayed for 7z multivolume archives. Accuracy of 7z total extraction progress is improved. 17. "Find" command "Disks and folders" drop down list has been renamed to "Search area". Additionally to already existing choices, it includes a new "Selected items" option restricting search to files and folders selected in WinRAR file list. 18. "Find" command displays the number of found items in status bar. 19. "Diagnostic messages" window displays archive names in a separate column to provide the better message visibility for lengthy archive names. 20. Switch -isnd[-] in command line WinRAR mode allows to override "Enable sound" option in WinRAR settings. Use -isnd to turn sound notifications on and -isnd- to turn them off. 21. Nadav Grossman from Check Point Software Technologies informed us about a security vulnerability in UNACEV2.DLL library. Aforementioned vulnerability makes possible to create files in arbitrary folders inside or outside of destination folder when unpacking ACE archives. WinRAR used this third party library to unpack ACE archives. UNACEV2.DLL had not been updated since 2005 and we do not have access to its source code. So we decided to drop ACE archive format support to protect security of WinRAR users. We are thankful to Check Point Software Technologies for reporting this issue. 22. Bugs fixed: a) console RAR mixed up source and destination file sizes and times in the overwrite prompt when updating a file in RAR archive with -o switch; b) dragging files from 32-bit applications to 64-bit WinRAR window did not work; c) WinRAR Shift+Del command applied to a folder could fail to delete some its subfolders. This command is used to delete files and folders permanently instead of moving them to Recycle Bin; d) folder tree panel could not change folders if archived pathnames started from path separator, such as in archives created by tar tool with --absolute-names option; e) if relative "Path=.\somefolder" was specified in SFX comment and SFX archive needed to elevate privileges when extracting, it created 'somefolder\somefolder' instead of 'somefolder'; f) commands modifying an existing RAR4 volume reset the volume number field to 1. While it did not affect extraction, WinRAR displayed a wrong volume number for such volumes; g) fixed a crash when reading a comment from a corrupt RAR file; h) toolbar in "Find" command "Search results" window was not adjusted to different toolbar icon sizes properly.
WinRAR 5.71 beta 1 Released (April 2, 2019) Download Changelog Spoiler: Changelog v5.71 beta 1 Version 5.71 beta 1 1. "Convert archives" command: a) improved performance when processing a lot of small archives in Windows 10; b) fixed memory leaks which could lead to excessive memory use when converting to ZIP format. 2. Corrupt ZIP archive processing: a) "Repair" command replaces packed and unpacked file sizes stored in local file header with sizes from central directory if local header sizes look invalid; b) file extraction is stopped at unpacked size stored in ZIP headers even if available packed data allows further extraction. It is done to prevent unexpected hard drive space usage. 3. Ctrl+C allows to abort RAR "l" command quickly. In previous versions it could take several seconds until list command stopped. 4. Bugs fixed: a) if "Save archive name" and "Add to context menu" options were set in compression profile parameters and profile was invoked from Explorer context menu, WinRAR proposed an automatically generated archive name instead of name saved in profile. b) WinRAR displayed an unneeded pair of round brackets in "Archive" column of "Diagnostic messages" window for system error messages; c) "Extract to folder\" Windows Explorer context menu command could fail to unpack ZIP archives if their names included a numeric part followed by .zip extension, arbitrary data was present before the first file record and "Remove redundant folders from extraction path" WinRAR option was switched on; d) in "RAR x -x<mask> arcname" command, parent folders of files matching the specified mask also were excluded from extracting; e) "Find" command returned the current folder own name additionally to its contents for "Current folder" search area if folder name matched "File names to find" mask; f) if "Find in files" and "Find in archives" are both enabled, "Find" command did not match an archive name itself against "File names to find" mask after searching inside of archive. So it did not display archive names for masks like *.rar and applied this mask only to files inside of archives; g) when running an executable directly from archive, WinRAR 5.70 did not set a temporary folder with unpacked files as current. So executables attempting to access other archived files in current folder could fail to work; h) WinRAR could be inaccessilbe for few seconds after closing an archived file opened in internal viewer in Windows 10; i) dragging a file to subfolder of ZIP archive with "Store full paths" option enabled produced invalid pathnames consisting of repeated subfolder name. Same invalid pathnames were produced if adding files to ZIP archive with -ap<folder> -ep2 switches.
WinRAR 5.71 beta 2 Released (April 16, 2019) Download Changelog Spoiler: Changelog v5.71 beta 2 Version 5.71 beta 2 1. Master password processing: a) if password stored in compression profile is protected with master password and user entered a wrong master password after choosing a profile, "the specified password is incorrect" message is displayed before repeating request; b) if -cp<profile_name> switch is used, profile stores a password protected with master password and user cancels the master password prompt, the entire archiving command is cancelled. Previous versions continued archiving without a password. 2. When repairing archives in command line, it is allowed to specify a name of existing destination folder also without trailing path separator. Previously "r" command accepted only "destfolder\" format. Path separator is still required if destination folder does not exist. 3. Bugs fixed: a) WinRAR could crash when attempting to display some types of archive comments in GUI shell, resulting in a denial of service; b) current archive name was not updated in hint message associated with tray icon when repairing several archives in background.
WinRAR 5.71 Released (April 29, 2019) Download Changelog Spoiler: Changelog v5.71 Version 5.71 1. "Convert archives" command: a) improved performance when processing a lot of small archives in Windows 10; b) fixed memory leaks which could lead to excessive memory use when converting to ZIP format. 2. Corrupt ZIP archive processing: a) "Repair" command replaces packed and unpacked file sizes stored in local file header with sizes from central directory if local header sizes look invalid; b) file extraction is stopped at unpacked size stored in ZIP headers even if available packed data allows further extraction. It is done to prevent unexpected hard drive space usage. 3. Ctrl+C allows to abort RAR "l" command quickly. In previous versions it could take several seconds until list command stopped. 4. Bugs fixed: a) WinRAR could crash when attempting to display some types of archive comments in GUI shell, resulting in a denial of service; b) if "Save archive name" and "Add to context menu" options were set in compression profile parameters and profile was invoked from Explorer context menu, WinRAR proposed an automatically generated archive name instead of name saved in profile. c) WinRAR displayed an unneeded pair of round brackets in "Archive" column of "Diagnostic messages" window for system error messages; d) "Extract to folder\" Windows Explorer context menu command could fail to unpack ZIP archives if their names included a numeric part followed by .zip extension, arbitrary data was present before the first file record and "Remove redundant folders from extraction path" WinRAR option was switched on; e) in "RAR x -x<mask> arcname" command, parent folders of files matching the specified mask also were excluded from extracting; f) "Find" command returned the current folder own name additionally to its contents for "Current folder" search area if folder name matched "File names to find" mask; g) if "Find in files" and "Find in archives" are both enabled, "Find" command did not match an archive name itself against "File names to find" mask after searching inside of archive. So it did not display archive names for masks like *.rar and applied this mask only to files inside of archives; h) when running an executable directly from archive, WinRAR 5.70 did not set a temporary folder with unpacked files as current. So executables attempting to access other archived files in current folder could fail to work; i) WinRAR could be inaccessible for few seconds after closing an archived file opened in internal viewer in Windows 10; j) dragging a file to subfolder of ZIP archive with "Store full paths" option enabled produced invalid pathnames consisting of repeated subfolder name. Same invalid pathnames were produced if adding files to ZIP archive with -ap<folder> -ep2 switches.
WinRAR 5.80 beta 1 Released (August 30, 2019) Download Changelog Spoiler: Changelog v5.80 beta 1 Version 5.80 beta 1 1. "Preserve source files last access time" option on "Time" page of archiving dialog permits to preserve the original last access time of archiving files. 2. Command line -tsp switch can be used to preserve the original last access time of archiving files. It can be combined with other -ts switches, like: rar a -tsc -tsp arcname files 3. It is allowed to combine several modifiers in the same -ts switch. For example, we can use -tscap instead -tsc -tsa -tsp. 4. WinRAR can read default values of command line switches from rar.ini text file, which can be stored either in the same folder as WinRAR.exe or in %APPDATA%\WinRAR folder. This file includes strings in following format: switches=<any RAR switches separated by spaces> switches_<command>=<any RAR switches separated by spaces> First applies switches to all and second to individual commands. For example: switches=-m5 -s switches_x=-o+ Most of switches specified in rar.ini are used only in the command line mode. Some switches can be applicable both in shell and in command line modes. Previously this rar.ini format was supported only by console RAR. 5. Command line -agf<default_format> switch specifies the default format string for -ag switch. It has a practical value only if placed to rar.ini configuration file or to RAR environment variable. For example, if we set RAR environment variable to -agfYYYY-MMM-DD, we can use -ag without a parameter with YYYY-MMM-DD format string assumed. 6. Switches -ed and -e+d can be used in archive processing commands for any combination of RAR and archive operating systems. In older versions RAR for Windows could not use them for Unix RAR archives also as RAR for Unix for Windows RAR archives. 7. Previously "Test" command failed to check integrity of archived NTFS alternate data streams and issued "Unknown data header format" warning if size of such stream exceeded 16 MB. This limitation is removed now. 8. Archiving speed for large NTFS alternate data streams on multi-core CPUs is increased. 9. "Find" command: a) when extracting encrypted files directly from "Search results" dialog, password prompt was issued for every found file even if all files belonged to same archive. Now password is requested only once per archive; b) Ctrl+A hotkey selects all files in "Search results". 10. Archive comment window: a) previous versions did not allow to use Ctrl+W shortcut to close WinRAR when comment window had keyboard focus. Now Ctrl+W works also from comment window; b) mouse wheel is supported also for comments with ANSI Escape sequences; c) for some lenghty comments with ANSI Escape sequences last line of comment was visible only partially even after scrolling up to bottom. It is displayed comletely now. 11. Maximum path length for files in 7z archives is increased up to 2048 characters. While such lengthy paths were already supported for RAR and ZIP formats, previous versions limited the path length to 260 characters for 7z archives. 12. If archive or file name is too lengthy to fit to archiving or extraction progress window, it is truncated. Previously such names were truncated at the end, making the file extension invisible. This version truncates them removing the path component and symbols in the middle, but preserving beginning of file name and file extension. 13. If files selected for archiving differ only by extension, a proposed archive name is based on their name part. For example, archiving dialog will propose Readme.rar if we selected Readme.txt and Readme.doc. Previous versions always generated the archive name based on parent folder name for several selected files. 14. "Symlink" and "Hardlink" is diplayed in "Type" column for symlink and hardlink records in .tar archives. Previous versions displayed a proper type for such records only in .rar archives. 15. Copying and pasting files from large archives could fail if extraction took a lot of time. This version can paste files from such archives as well, but we have to start extraction already on "Copy" command and not on "Paste" to achieve this. 16. Similarly to RAR5 volumes, recovery volumes in RAR4 format use the same width of volume number field as corresponding RAR volumes. While previously WinRAR could create arc.part01.rar and arc.part1.rev in RAR4 format, now both types of volumes will use "part01". 17. "Set font..." button in "Settings/File list" also changes the folder tree panel font. Previously it changed only the file list font. 18. Bugs fixed: a) if non-existent path is specified in archive name in archiving dialog, WinRAR proposes to create such path. Previous versions could create such path in WinRAR start-up folder instead of currently displayed folder; b) WinRAR could crash when adding the recovery record in RAR5 format on CPUs not supporting CPUID EAX=7 command and returning random data in response. These are some CPUs from early 2000s; c) WinRAR failed to create archives after dragging files with right mouse button in Windows shell, dropping them to another folder, selecting "Add to archive..." in context menu and enabling "Put each file to separate archive" option; d) "winrar r *.zip" command repaired only the first ZIP archive in the set if all archives had numeric names like 1.zip, 2.zip and signatures in the beginning of archives were missing; e) previous WinRAR version failed to unpack folder records in archives created by RAR 1.50; f) in rare cases WinRAR failed to extract and reported an error for valid .gz archives produced by some compression optimization tools; g) progress bar in tray icon never reached 100% in high DPI mode; h) creation and last access time was not displayed for archived folders if folder records were stored in archive after folder contents; i) "Skip encrypted archives" option in "Convert archives" command did not work for 7-Zip archives with headers encryption. 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WinRAR 5.80 beta 2 Released (September 26, 2019) Download Changelog Spoiler: Changelog v5.80 beta 2 Version 5.80 beta 2 1. "Find files" and command line mode "i" commands: a) if "Use all tables" option or "t" modifer of "i" command are used, additionally to already supported ANSI, OEM and UTF-16 encodings WinRAR will search the specified string in UTF-8 files as well; b) better support for Unicode text strings; c) better performance, especially for case insensitive search; d) hexadecimal search output includes both text and hexadecimal representation of found matches. 2. File and total progress bar is displayed when unpacking tar.bz2, tar.gz, tar.lz, tar.xz, tar.z archives. Previously only the total progress was displayed properly for tar.bz2, tar.gz and tar.z. Neither file nor total progress was displayed for tar.lz and tar.xz. 3. "File list/Files/Exact sizes" option also changes the file size format in WinRAR status bar. 4. Added support for one more variation of TAR format archives. 5. Bugs fixed: a) WinRAR extraction commands in Windows Explorer context menu failed if -ag switch was added to rar.ini file.
WinRAR 5.80 beta 3 Released (October 20, 2019) Download Changelog Spoiler: Changelog v5.80 beta 3 Version 5.80 beta 3 1. "Export settings to file" command in "Options" menu saves both HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\WinRAR and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WinRAR Registry data to Settings.reg, so user defined variables in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\WinRAR\Policy are also preserved. Previously it exported only HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\WinRAR data. 2. Bugs fixed: a) previous beta versions failed to unpack ZIP archives with mismatched order of local file records and central directory entries; b) if we opened archive properies in Windows Explorer and selected some text on "Comment" page, selection was lost when moving the mouse cursor outside of properties dialog.
WinRAR 5.80 Released (December 11, 2019) Download Changelog Spoiler: Changelog v5.80 Version 5.80 1. "Preserve source files last access time" option on "Time" page of archiving dialog permits to preserve the original last access time of archiving files. 2. Command line -tsp switch can be used to preserve the original last access time of archiving files. It can be combined with other -ts switches, like: rar a -tsc -tsp arcname files 3. It is allowed to combine several modifiers in the same -ts switch. For example, we can use -tscap instead -tsc -tsa -tsp. 4. WinRAR can read default values of command line switches from rar.ini text file, which can be stored either in the same folder as WinRAR.exe or in %APPDATA%\WinRAR folder. This file includes strings in following format: switches=<any RAR switches separated by spaces> switches_<command>=<any RAR switches separated by spaces> First applies switches to all and second to individual commands. For example: switches=-m5 -s switches_x=-o+ Most of switches specified in rar.ini are used only in the command line mode. Some switches can be applicable both in shell and in command line modes. Previously this rar.ini format was supported only by console RAR. 5. Command line -agf<default_format> switch specifies the default format string for -ag switch. It has a practical value only if placed to rar.ini configuration file or to RAR environment variable. For example, if we set RAR environment variable to -agfYYYY-MMM-DD, we can use -ag without a parameter with YYYY-MMM-DD format string assumed. 6. Switches -ed and -e+d can be used in archive processing commands for any combination of RAR and archive operating systems. In older versions RAR for Windows could not use them for Unix RAR archives also as RAR for Unix for Windows RAR archives. 7. Previously "Test" command failed to check integrity of archived NTFS alternate data streams and issued "Unknown data header format" warning if size of such stream exceeded 16 MB. This limitation is removed now. 8. Archiving speed for large NTFS alternate data streams on multi-core CPUs is increased. 9. "Find" command: a) when extracting encrypted files directly from "Search results" dialog, password prompt was issued for every found file even if all files belonged to same archive. Now password is requested only once per archive; b) Ctrl+A hotkey selects all files in "Search results". 10. Archive comment window: a) previous versions did not allow to use Ctrl+W shortcut to close WinRAR when comment window had keyboard focus. Now Ctrl+W works also from comment window; b) mouse wheel is supported also for comments with ANSI Escape sequences; c) for some lenghty comments with ANSI Escape sequences last line of comment was visible only partially even after scrolling up to bottom. It is displayed comletely now. 11. Maximum path length for files in 7z archives is increased up to 2048 characters. While such lengthy paths were already supported for RAR and ZIP formats, previous versions limited the path length to 260 characters for 7z archives. 12. If archive or file name is too lengthy to fit to archiving or extraction progress window, it is truncated. Previously such names were truncated at the end, making the file extension invisible. This version truncates them removing the path component and symbols in the middle, but preserving beginning of file name and file extension. 13. If files selected for archiving differ only by extension, a proposed archive name is based on their name part. For example, archiving dialog will propose Readme.rar if we selected Readme.txt and Readme.doc. Previous versions always generated the archive name based on parent folder name for several selected files. 14. "Symlink" and "Hardlink" is diplayed in "Type" column for symlink and hardlink records in .tar archives. Previous versions displayed a proper type for such records only in .rar archives. 15. Copying and pasting files from large archives could fail if extraction took a lot of time. This version can paste files from such archives as well, but we have to start extraction already on "Copy" command and not on "Paste" to achieve this. 16. Similarly to RAR5 volumes, recovery volumes in RAR4 format use the same width of volume number field as corresponding RAR volumes. While previously WinRAR could create arc.part01.rar and arc.part1.rev in RAR4 format, now both types of volumes will use "part01". 17. "Set font..." button in "Settings/File list" also changes the folder tree panel font. Previously it changed only the file list font. 18. "Find files" and command line mode "i" commands: a) if "Use all tables" option or "t" modifer of "i" command are used, additionally to already supported ANSI, OEM and UTF-16 encodings WinRAR will search the specified string in UTF-8 files as well; b) better support for Unicode text strings; c) better performance, especially for case insensitive search; d) hexadecimal search output includes both text and hexadecimal representation of found matches. 19. File and total progress bar is displayed when unpacking tar.bz2, tar.gz, tar.lz, tar.xz, tar.z archives. Previously only the total progress was displayed properly for tar.bz2, tar.gz and tar.z. Neither file nor total progress was displayed for tar.lz and tar.xz. 20. "File list/Files/Exact sizes" option also changes the file size format in WinRAR status bar. 21. Bugs fixed: a) if non-existent path is specified in archive name in archiving dialog, WinRAR proposes to create such path. Previous versions could create such path in WinRAR start-up folder instead of currently displayed folder; b) WinRAR could crash when adding the recovery record in RAR5 format on CPUs not supporting CPUID EAX=7 command and returning random data in response. These are some CPUs from early 2000s; c) WinRAR failed to create archives after dragging files with right mouse button in Windows shell, dropping them to another folder, selecting "Add to archive..." in context menu and enabling "Put each file to separate archive" option; d) "winrar r *.zip" command repaired only the first ZIP archive in the set if all archives had numeric names like 1.zip, 2.zip and signatures in the beginning of archives were missing; e) previous WinRAR version failed to unpack folder records in archives created by RAR 1.50; f) in rare cases WinRAR failed to extract and reported an error for valid .gz archives produced by some compression optimization tools; g) progress bar in tray icon never reached 100% in high DPI mode; h) creation and last access time was not displayed for archived folders if folder records were stored in archive after folder contents; i) "Skip encrypted archives" option in "Convert archives" command did not work for 7-Zip archives with headers encryption.
WinRAR 5.90 beta 1 Released (January 29, 2020) Download Changelog Spoiler: Changes v5.90 beta 1 Version 5.90 beta 1 1. RAR compression speed is improved for CPUs with 16 and more cores. 2. "Fastest" method (-m1 command line equivalent) typically achieves a higher compression ratio for highly compressible data types when creating RAR5 archives. 3. Maximum number of utilized threads is increased from 32 to 64. Command line -mt<threads> switch accepts values from 1 to 64. 4. "Multithreading" parameter on "General" page of WinRAR settings is replaced with "Threads" input field, where you can specify the desired number of CPU threads. It can take values from 1 to maximum number of available logical CPU units. 5. WinRAR displays packed and unpacked folder sizes when browsing archive contents. 6. "Total folders" field is added to list of archive parameters displayed by WinRAR "Info" command. Same field is added to "Archive" page in archive properties in Windows Explorer. 7. Window including a progress bar and "Cancel" button is displayed if reading archive contents takes noticeable time. It can be useful for archive formats with slower access to contents, such as large TAR based archives like .tar.gz and tar.bz2. 8. Archiving and extraction progress windows, also as progress windows for some other commands, can be resized. 9. "Repair" performance for RAR5 archives with recovery record and without data shifts is improved. It deteriorated in WinRAR 5.80 and is now restored to original level. 10. Password prompt is not issued when performing recovery record based repair for RAR5 archives with encrypted file names. This command can be performed without providing a password. 11. If folder for converted archives in "Convert archives" command does not exist, WinRAR attempts to create it. Previous versions failed to create converted archives in non-existent destination folder. 12. Bugs fixed: a) "Repair" command could erroneously display "Recovery record is corrupt" message when processing an archive with valid recovery record. This message did not prevent further repair operation; b) if quick open information option was set to "Do not add" in default compression profile and this profile was loaded by some command or dialog, WinRAR ignored quick open information when browsing contents of RAR archives. For example, it happened after opening archiving or password dialogs; c) Ctrl+C "Copy" shortcut key did not work in archive comment window; d) if "Put each file to separate archive" and "Archives in subfolders" options were set, WinRAR ignored the destination path specified in archive name field.
WinRAR 5.90 beta 2 Released (February 4, 2020) Download Changelog Spoiler: Changes v5.90 beta 2 Version 5.90 beta 2 1. Added extraction support for GZIP archives with optional header checksum field. 2. If non-existent path was specified as a start-up folder in WinRAR settings, previous versions displayed an empty file list. Now the current folder is used instead. 3. Bugs fixed: a) beta 1 could produce corrupt archives when using small 128 KB - 1 MB compression dictionaries with delta or executable compression and source data size exceeding the dictionary size.
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WinRAR 5.91 beta 1 Released (May 31, 2020) Download Changelog Spoiler: Changes v5.91 beta 1 Version 5.91 beta 1 1. Dialogs are centered inside of WinRAR window similarly to WinRAR 5.80 and not inside of entire screen as in WinRAR 5.90. 2. When editing an archived file with external software, extra measures are taken to reduce the probability of interfering with editor and opening its temporary files while editor still may need them. 3. "Version to extract" field in archive properties opened from Windows Explorer context menu provides the additional information about ZIP compression and encryption algorithms, such as LZMA or AES. This information was already available in WinRAR "Info" command, but missed in archive information accessible from Windows Explorer. 4. "MS DOS" and "Unix" host OS types are recognized and included for LZH archives in "Info" command. Previously the host OS field was always "Unknown" for LZH archive format. 5. Files created by external editor and matching "Settings/Viewer/ Ignore modifications for" masks are never added to archive. Previously WinRAR still added them if some file not matching these masks was also created or modified. 6. Bugs fixed: a) empty file names were displayed inside of some Unix LZH archives; b) WinRAR could not process more than 999 7z volumes in a single set; c) if user cancelled the user account control prompt after changing "Integrate WinRAR into shell" option, a new state of this option was displayed in "Settings" dialog, even though the actual state of shell integration was not modified; d) the main window size could be too small on the first run after clean install with no previous WinRAR version present; e) WinRAR could stop responding after editing an archived file with external software in Windows 10 version 2004.
WinRAR 5.91 Released (June 29, 2020) Download Changelog Spoiler: Changes v5.91 Version 5.91 1. Dialogs are centered inside of WinRAR window similarly to WinRAR 5.80 and not inside of entire screen as in WinRAR 5.90. 2. When editing an archived file with external software, extra measures are taken to reduce the probability of interfering with editor and opening its temporary files while editor still may need them. 3. "Version to extract" field in archive properties opened from Windows Explorer context menu provides the additional information about ZIP compression and encryption algorithms, such as LZMA or AES. This information was already available in WinRAR "Info" command, but missed in archive information accessible from Windows Explorer. 4. "MS DOS" and "Unix" host OS types are recognized and included for LZH archives in "Info" command. Previously the host OS field was always "Unknown" for LZH archive format. 5. Files created by external editor and matching "Settings/Viewer/ Ignore modifications for" masks are never added to archive. Previously WinRAR still added them if some file not matching these masks was also created or modified. 6. Bugs fixed: a) empty file names were displayed inside of some Unix LZH archives; b) WinRAR could not process more than 999 7z volumes in a single set; c) if user cancelled the user account control prompt after changing "Integrate WinRAR into shell" option, a new state of this option was displayed in "Settings" dialog, even though the actual state of shell integration was not modified; d) the main window size could be too small on the first run after clean install with no previous WinRAR version present; e) WinRAR could stop responding after editing an archived file with external software in Windows 10 version 2004.
I just found that I had a previous copy of the old installer. The certificate was not expired but it has been revoked. Now I'm wondering why.