7-Zip Stable Releases & Discussion

I legit thought 7-zip was abandonware at this point. Great to see it being updated.

 

7-Zip 21.05: first stable version of 2021 released
November 21, 2021
https://www.ghacks.net/2021/11/21/7-zip-21-05-first-stable-version-of-2021-released/

 

FYI maybe it's just me. I had v19 installed W7P64 working perfectly. Uninstalled it. Installed 21.05 & the 7-zip icon was missing on ALL compressed files & start menu entry. I uninstalled & installed a few times, nada. What worked was I right clicked on the start menu entry & selected change Icon. I selected of the two the unfamiliar (new) one. Now all my 7-zip icons are back. Really weird though.

 

Stable Release
7-Zip 21.06 (November 25, 2021)
Website
Announcement

 

nice and cool, again with extra pack and more.

 

7-Zip Portable 21.06 (file archiver) Released (November 29, 2021) (PortableApps.com)

 

7-Zip 21.07 (December 26, 2021)
Website
Announcement

 

7-Zip Portable 21.07 (file archiver) Released (December 27, 2021) (PortableApps.com)

 

TY. That's really quick between releases for 7z.

 

I still have 64 bit version 2018-04-30 can I just update it with the 64 bit 21.07 over it?

 

7-Zip 21.07 Final released with VHDX disk image extracting support
December 28, 2021

 

in the past 3 years 7z got a lot of security fixed, not updating an archiver is absolute no-go because of malware prepped archives. hell... and yes you should update rather you loose settings or not.

 

Thank you and I am not sure I even customized it so not afraid to loose setings.

 

Can I just rename 7-Zip.chm to 7-Zip.chmxxx?

 

Safer to use Explzh

https://www.ponsoftware.com/en/

 

Is the .chm file considered the issue or is this a 7-zip issue or a combination of the 2?

 

The company I work for provides .chm files with our products. I was just wondering if there was a greater issue I needed to be aware of.

 

Malwarebytes (Premium) blocked access to this site giving a Trojan warning alert.

 

Interesting. I am wondering with the death of IE very near, will this issue just go away in a few weeks? Will .chm files open at all? I'm looking into it but haven't found much yet.

 

You could try xCHM.

[Edit]
The above link is probably not the official one, according to the maintainer of this Github repo:
https://github.com/rzvncj/xCHM

Only source code available there however.

It's available as a package on Linux distro's.
Arch Linux. Debian. Gentoo. FreeBSD. NetBSD. Mint Linux. Solaris. CentOS / RedHat 5.3, by Oliver Niesner. Ubuntu. SuSE. T2 SDE Linux. Fedora.

MacPorts provides xCHM.

 

CHM is a compiled html+files file in an archive compatible to ZIP. its the combination of 7z and its chm.

open the chm with 7z itself and have a look.

easy to resolve - push chm into sandboxie and let the box clear after usage

replacement with "pdf" wont help, it is not able to start from 7z because of jump marks.