7-Zip 4.62 released!

[franzon]

after 1 year, they finally have released the final version!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.7-zip.org/

HISTORY of the 7-Zip
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4.62		   2008-12-02
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- Some bugs were fixed.


4.61 beta	  2008-11-23
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- 7-Zip now supports LZMA compression for .ZIP archives.
- Some bugs were fixed.
- New localization: Sinhala.


4.60 beta	  2008-08-19
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- Some bugs were fixed.


4.59 beta	  2008-08-13
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- 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
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- 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.

[megamanXplosion]

Finally :)

Thanks for the update Franzon.

[Ci7]

thanks man

[ViZioN]

Thanks for the headsup.

[Pheee]

Nice, I love this program for my compression needs, installing now.

[Vista]

Does this program have any advantages over WinRAR? I'm especially interested in the extracting speeds.

[Minchino]

It's free! I think for a several formats it is faster, from the help file:

RAR Format

7-Zip provides superior decompression speed for RAR archives. For solid archives it decompresses only the minimum number of files needed. For example, consider a solid archive archive.rar containing 100000 files created by the command:

rar a archive.rar -s100 * -r

In this solid archive, each group of 100 files is compressed as one big file. To extract one file from that archive, 7-Zip will decompress (in memory) only some files from one group. As a result, 7-Zip can provide the combined advantages of solid compression and high speed of decompression.

Only thing letting it down IMO is the UI, but I do nearly everything from context menu's. It's could sorely do with a new icon and toolbar icon set. Lets hope for skinning like WinRAR some day. :)

[vajlent]

Thanx mate!

Agree with the toolbar icons, they are boring but i will make some new ones later and modify it with Restorator. ;)

[brentaal]

Nice to see a new stable release of this app :D

I just hope the author decides to focus a bit more on the GUI side in the future, changing the icons, etc, like others already said.

[Ficman]

Cool... Thanks

[Kronir]

Thanks for the heads up. Updating now. :D

[i_was_here]

For a minute I thought 7-Zip was staying in beta :rofl:

[etempest]

Cool, been waiting for the new version to official come out of beta.

[gollux]

Any security issues addressed in the upgrade? IOW, upgrade at liesure or upgrade immediately?

[Ci7]

Any security issues addressed in the upgrade? IOW, upgrade at liesure or upgrade immediately?

immediately better

[Scirwode]

Thanks for the update (Y) .

Scirwode

[inactive]

i just noticed the new version on there site and came here to make a thread on it but you already beat me to it.

anyways, thanks ;)

[xpgeek]

Updated. Thanks.