7-Zip is a open source file archiver with a high compression ratio. The program supports 7z, XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP, WIM, ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DEB, DMG, FAT, HFS, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MBR, MSI, NSIS, NTFS, RAR, RPM, SquashFS, UDF, VHD, WIM, XAR, Z. Most of the source code is under the GNU LGPL license. The unRAR code is under a mixed license: GNU LGPL + unRAR restrictions. Check license information here: 7-Zip license.
You can use 7-Zip on any computer, including a computer in a commercial organization. You don"t need to register or pay for 7-Zip.
The main features of 7-Zip are:
- High compression ratio in 7z format with LZMA compression
- Compression ratio for ZIP and GZIP formats: 2-10 % better than the ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip
- Strong AES-256 encryption in 7z and ZIP formats
- Self-extracting capability for 7z format
- Integration with Windows Shell
- Powerful File Manager
- Powerful command line version
- Plugin for FAR Manager
- Localizations for 74 languages
7-Zip 26.00 changelog:
- improved code for ZIP, CPIO, RAR, UFD, QCOW, Compound.
- 7-Zip File Manager: improved sorting order of the file list. It uses file name as secondary sorting key.
- 7-Zip File Manager: improved Benchmark to support systems with more than 64 CPU threads.
- the bug was fixed: 7-Zip could not correctly extract TAR archives containing sparse files.
- some bugs were fixed.
Download: 7-Zip 26.00 (64-bit) | 1.6 MB (Open Source)
Download: 7-Zip 26.00 (32-bit) | 1.3 MB
Download: 7-Zip 26.00 (ARM64) | 1.5 MB
View: 7-Zip Website | Release Notes | Screenshot
