WinRAR - What's new in the latest version Version 3.80 beta 4 1.

In some situations previous beta versions could fail to create RAR recovery volumes. 2. In previous beta versions it was impossible to change a name of next volume in "Next volume" dialog. Volume name specified by user was ignored. Version 3.80 beta 3 1. Console RAR displays the percent of repacked data when updating files in solid archive. Previously the repacking progress indicator was available only in GUI WinRAR. 2. Switch -ieml.[arcname] did not delete an archive after emailing it even if dot character was specified in the switch. Version 3.80 beta 2 1. Bugs fixed: a) beta 1 could display random garbage characters in context menu in Windows x64; b) beta 1 could display only a part of files in tar.gz archives; c) beta 1 could fail to set timestamps for files extracted from ZIP archives; d) beta 1 could issue a rename error message and abort when creating RAR volumes with Unicode characters in archive name. Version 3.80 beta 1 1. Added support for ZIP archives containing Unicode file names in UTF-8 format. When creating ZIP archive, WinRAR stores names in Unicode only if they cannot be stored correctly using the current single byte character set. 2. Added decompression support for WinZip AES encrypted ZIP archives. 3. Improved Unicode support for RAR and ZIP archive names. 4. "Ask before overwrite" and "Skip existing files" update modes are now available in archiving dialog. They allow to specify WinRAR behavior when updating already existing files in archive. Unlike already available "Fresh existing files only" and "Add and update files", these new modes ignore file date and compare only file names. Command line equivalents of these modes are:

a) switch -o enables "Ask before overwrite" archiving mode; b) switch -o- enables "Skip existing files" archiving mode; c) switch -o+ enables "Overwrite all" mode (default for archiving). 5. New "Add to context menu" option in "Profile parameters" dialog. If this option is on, the profile name will be displayed in Explorer context menus allowing to activate a profile from context menu. 6. New -cp<profile name> switch allows to select a compression profile in command line mode. It is supported only by GUI WinRAR.exe, not by rar.exe. 7. New "Options" page of archiving dialog contains the group of settings modifying the behavior of "Delete files after archiving" option from "General" page: a) Delete files. Delete files normally like in previous WinRAR versions. b) Move files to Recycle Bin. Deleted files are placed to Recycle Bin. Command line equivalent of this option is -dr switch. c) Wipe files. Before deleting file data are overwritten by zero bytes to prevent recovery of deleted files. Command line equivalent of this option is -dw switch. All these options have an effect only if "Delete files after archiving" is on. You can enable any of these options in the default compression profile to change the default behavior of "Delete files after archiving". 8. WinRAR "Extraction path and options" dialog is now resizable. You can use the mouse to drag its border to the desired size and provide more space for folder tree pane. WinRAR will store new dimensions of this dialog. 9. New "Update" SFX script command and "Update mode" group of options in "Update" page of "Advanced SFX options" dialog. These command and options allow to check time and implement file time based updating; 10. SFX script "Shortcut" command and "Add shortcut..." command in "Advanced SFX options" dialog now allow to specify an icon file containing an icon associated with shortcut. 11. New "Wipe temporary files" option in "Settings/Security" dialog provides more secure, though slower, way to delete temporary WinRAR files. 12. WinRAR and RAR display the total progress bar when unpacking a multivolume RAR archive if all volumes are present in the same folder. 13. WinRAR and RAR automatically expand names of environment

variables in list files. For example, a list file can contain lines like: %windir%\*.exe %USERPROFILE%\Desktop This feature is available only in Windows RAR version. 14. Added support of TAR archives with non-zero "extra field" data. 15. Added support of TAR archives, which does not contain the end of archive entry consisting of 512 zero bytes. 16. Improved Unicode support when dragging files from WinRAR window. 17. Shift+Tab key combination can be used in main WinRAR window to switch the input focus between interface elements (files, comment, tree, address) in reverse order. In previous versions Shift+Tab used the same order as Tab. 18. Corrected a possible WinRAR crash when opening truncated UDF ISO files. Version 3.71 1. Archive names in rar.log error log file always include the full path. 2. WinRAR tray icon is compatible with high DPI display modes. 3. If you modified a file in archive with encrypted names using an external editor, WinRAR will not ask for archive password again when prompting to update a file. It will use a password which you entered when opening an archive, 4. Bugs fixed: a) switch -tl and "Set archive time to latest file time" option could fail in previous version. Sometimes they set archive time to current system time instead of latest file time; b) if -ag switch mask contained archive number, month and minute characters, WinRAR placed 'I' character instead of minute value into generated archive name for archive numbers exceeding 1; c) high ASCII names in ISO files using ISO 9660 format without Joliet format extension were displayed incorrectly; d) WinRAR could crash when decompressing some of corrupt RAR archives; e) if "Turn PC off when done" option was set in "Convert archives" command, WinRAR turned PC off after converting the first archive in selected group instead of after converting the entire group; f) if user specified a non-existent destination path in SFX archive in Vista, SFX could enter into infinite "create new SFX window" loop; g) WinRAR could fail to unpack an individual file from subfolder

of ACE archive using the drag and drop. Version 3.70 1. Numerous Windows Vista compatibility changes: a) help format changed from old HLP to newer HTML based CHM; b) GUI self-extracting modules attempt to request for administrator permissions if they cannot create destination folder under current user account; c) Log file rar.log and WinRAR theme files are stored in %APPDATA%\WinRAR folder instead of WinRAR program files folder. Exported settings file settings.reg is also stored in %APPDATA%\WinRAR folder by default, but it is possible to select another folder in "Save WinRAR settings" and "Load WinRAR settings" dialogs. WinRAR searches for registration key and settings.reg both in its program files folder and in %APPDATA%\WinRAR; It is possible to set the string value "AppData" in Registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\WinRAR\Paths to override the default %appdata%\WinRAR path for WinRAR settings. For example, if you wish to store theme files in WinRAR folder, set this value to "c:\Program Files\WinRAR". d) Vista compatibility changes in WinRAR shell integration; e) New "Request administrative access" option in "Advanced" page of "Advanced SFX options" allows to create SFX archive, which will request the administrative access when started in Windows Vista. Command line equivalent of this option is -iadm switch. 2. Added support for ISO 13346 (UDF) file format. This format is frequently used in ISO images of DVD disks. 3. Added Unicode support for ISO 9660 files, so WinRAR should handle non-English file names in .iso files better. 4. Design changes in window displaying archiving and extraction progress: a) it provides more space for file names, allowing lengthy names; b) it displays the current archive name in separate line, allowing much longer archive names than before; c) when archiving, it displays the current compression ratio in separate line; d) it can use both standard Windows and classic WinRAR progress bars. Turn on "Windows progress bars" option in WinRAR "Settings/General" dialog to use standard progress bars. By default this option is

on if some Windows visual style is active and off if Windows Classic theme is selected. Windows progress bars are two color only, so they do not indicate the current compression ratio. But now the ratio is displayed in separate line; e) "Mode..." button moved to bottom of window. 5. GUI self-extracting modules support following command line switches: -d<path> -p<pwd> -s -s1 -s2 -sp<par> set the destination path specify a password silent mode, hide all same as -s silent mode, hide start dialog specify parameters for setup program

6. GUI self-extracting modules do not pass the entire command line to setup program like they did in previous versions. If you need to get access to entire command line of SFX archive, parse sfxcmd environment variable which contains this command line. 7. New switch -sc<charset>[objects] allowing to select character sets for archive comments and list files. It replaces -fcu switch introduced in RAR 3.60, which was removed from list of supported switches. Now you need to specify -scuc instead of -fcu to use Unicode comments. Unlike -fcu, -sc also supports OEM and ANSI charset. 8. New "Save archive copy as..." command in "File" menu. This command may be useful if you opened an archive from Internet directly in WinRAR and then decided to save it on local disk. 9. "Word wrap" command added to "View" menu of WinRAR internal viewer, so you can change the wrapping mode of already opened viewer window. State of this option is not stored between viewing sessions. If you need to change the default word wrap mode, use WinRAR "Settings/Viewer" dialog. 10. Buttons "Up" and "Down" added to "Organize profiles" dialog. Using these buttons you can change position of selected profile in the list. 11. Operation progress is displayed when adding the recovery record. 12. If WinRAR is minimized to tray and mouse is over its icon, WinRAR diplays a message about the current operation progress. In previous versions it included only percent done, now it also contains the time left information. 13. Console RAR displays "Calculating the control sum" message when calculating CRC32 control sum for newly created RAR volume. Previous versions also calculated the volume control sum, but did it silently. 14. Archives history list in "File" menu allows Unicode names, providing more reliable support for non-English archive names.

15. Stack overflow vulnerability has been corrected in password processing module of console RAR and UnRAR. GUI WinRAR is not affected. We are thankful to the iDEFENSE LABS for reporting this bug. Version 3.62 1. Bugs fixed: a) stack overflow vulnerability has been corrected in WinRAR module processing 7-Zip archives; b) WinRAR GZip module could set a wrong file date when unpacking GZip archives. Version 3.61 1. Corrected a bug in multithreaded text compression module, which under some circumstances might result in corrupt archived data. This bug was present only in multithreaded mode and only in WinRAR 3.60. RAR versions for other platforms are not affected. 2. Resolved a compatibility issue preventing WinRAR 3.60 to run in Windows 95. Version 3.60 1. Multithreaded version of RAR compression algorithm improves the compression speed on computers with several CPU, dual core CPU and processors with hyperthreading technology. Multithreading is enabled by default, but you can disable it in "General" part of "Settings" dialog. In the command line mode you can control multithreading with -mt<threads> switch. 2. WinRAR can display the folder tree panel allowing to navigate in disk and archive folders. Use "Options/Folder tree" submenu to enable the folder tree. It can be configured separately in file and archive management modes. Folder tree replaces "Browse for folder" command previously available in "File" menu and uses its Ctrl+T keyboard shortcut. 3. Now WinRAR "Rename" command also works with ZIP archives. Previous versions could rename files only in RAR archives. 4. Added decompression of LZH archives created with "-lh7-" algorithm. 5. New "Remove duplicate folders from extraction path" option in "Settings/Compression" dialog. If this option is on and you unpack an archive which root folder has no files and only one 'somename' folder and if destination folder is new or empty and also ends with '/somename', WinRAR will exclude one 'somename' from resulting 'somename/somename' path.

6. New "Define volume sizes..." button in "Settings/Compression". This button activates "Define volume sizes" dialog. Here you can customize the list of predefined volume sizes associated with "Split to volumes, bytes" field in archiving dialog. 7. Speed of RAR general compression increased for some data types. Depending on data type and size the gain may achieve 5 - 15%. 8. New "Rename automatically" option in the extraction dialog and command line -or switch to rename extracted files automatically if file with the same name already exists. You can also enable the auto-renaming mode directly from the overwrite confirmation prompt with "Rename All" button. Renamed files will get names like 'filename(N).txt', where 'filename.txt' is the original file name and 'N' is a number. 9. "Set modification time" option in "Advanced" part of extraction dialog is accessible also for ZIP archives. Previously it could be changed only for RAR archives. 10. "Multithreading" option added to "Benchmark and hardware test" command, so you can compare performance of usual and multithreaded versions of RAR compression algorithm. 11. New 'ch' (change archive parameters) command line mode command. Its purpose is to apply switches like -av, -tl and -cl to archive. 12. New 'cv' command line mode command. It provides the command line interface to WinRAR "Convert archives" command. It is supported only by winrar.exe, not by rar.exe. 13. New command line -sl<size> and -sm<size> switches to set size limits of processing files. 14. New command line -fcu[file] switch allows to read archive comments from Unicode files. It also modifies behavior of "cw" command, setting the comment output format to Unicode. 15. 7Z added to list of formats stored without compression when using -ms switch without a parameter. 16. Switch -e[+]<attr> is now supported by most of command line operations including extracting and deleting files. Previously it was supported by only archiving command. 17. It is allowed to use environment variables in archive name in archiving dialog, in destination path in extraction dialog, in folder names on "Compression" and "Paths" pages in WinRAR settings. For example, you can enter '%temp%' in "Folder for temporary files" field.