WinRar 3.42 Available!

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New Version of our favorite compression tool!

Change Log from 3.40 version...

RAR - What's new in the latest version


   Version 3.42

   1. Fixed a buffer overflow bug in WinRAR GUI "Delete" command,
      which could cause a crash when deleting a file in corrupt
      archive.


   Version 3.41

   1. Bugs corrected in this version:

      a) when adding new files to already existing RAR solid archive,
         RAR 3.40 compression ratio was lower than in RAR 3.30;

      B) WinRAR "Repair" command could crash when repairing
         a corrupt ZIP archive.

   2. If archived Unicode name is invalid, RAR 'l' and 'v' commands
      display ASCII file name instead of corrupt Unicode.


   Version 3.40

   1. "Fastest" (-m1) RAR compression method has been modified
      to provide much higher compression speed and lower ratio.
      It may be useful for tasks requiring the high speed like
      regular backups.

      You may increase "Fastest" speed even more selecting 64KB
      compression dictionary instead of default 4MB.

   2. WinRAR is able to decompress archives created by Unix 'compress'
      tool (.Z files). Like GZIP and BZIP2 archives, WinRAR opens
      tar.Z and .taz files in one step, so users do not need to
      unpack .tar manually.

   3. WinRAR is able to decompress archives created by 7-Zip
      (.7z files). "Find" command is not supported for this
      archive type.

   4. New "Security" dialog in WinRAR settings:

      a) "File types to exclude from extracting" option to prevent
         extracting of potentially dangerous files like .exe, .scr
         and .pif;

      B) "Propose to select virus scanner" option modifies behavior
         of "Scan archive for viruses" command. You may turn it off
         if you wish to skip the virus scanner selection dialog.

   5. New command line switch -ep3 allows to save and restore
      full file paths including the drive letter.

      WinRAR shell equivalent of -ep3 switch are options
      "Store full paths including drive letter" in "Files/File paths"
      page of archiving dialog and "Extract absolute paths"
      in "Advanced/File paths" page of extracting dialog.

   6. You may select and compress disks directly in "My Computer"
      view in WinRAR shell. Just choose "My Computer" in WinRAR
      address bar, select disks to compress and press "Add".
      If you selected more than one item, WinRAR will automatically
      set "Store full paths including drive letter" archiving mode.

   7. If you selected several disks in Windows Explorer "My Computer"
      view and started archiving from context menu, WinRAR will
      automatically set "Store full paths including drive letter" mode
      when compressing them.

   8. New command line switch -oc to restore NTFS "Compressed" attribute
      when extracting files. RAR always saves "Compressed" attribute
      when creating an archive, but does not restore it unless -oc switch
      has been specified.

      WinRAR shell equivalent of -oc switch is "Set attribute Compressed"
      option in "Advanced" part of extracting dialog.

   9. Starting from this version RAR volumes contain the volume number
      field.

      If archive was created by WinRAR 3.40 or newer, you may view
      the volume number in the top line of "Info" dialog and
      in the address bar.

      In the command line mode the volume number is displayed
      by 'L' and 'V' commands in the line with the total volume
      information.

      This feature may be useful if original volume names are lost
      and you need to rename volumes to correct names.

  10. Commands 'L' and 'V' display NTFS "Compressed" attribute
      in archive listing.

  11. Switch -ag may include an optional text enclosed in '{' and '}'
      characters. This text is inserted into archive name.
      For example: -agHH{hours}MM{minutes}

      Same feature is supported in "Generate archive name by mask"
      field of WinRAR archiving dialog.

  12. If switch -ac is specified, RAR will not reset "Archive"
      attribute of those files, which size or modification time
      was changed after starting the archiving operation.

      So files modified after placing them to archive and before
      clearing "Archive" attribute, will be included to next incremental
      backup. The same is true for WinRAR "Clear attribute "Archive"
      after compressing" GUI option.

  13. If you use "Add to favorites" command inside of archive
      subfolder, WinRAR will save the subfolder and restore it
      when accessing to this favorite item. Previous versions
      were able to restore only the root archive folder.

  14. When editing archived files, WinRAR proposes to update them
      immediately after detecting that file was changed. Previous
      versions waited until an external editor terminates before
      updating a changed file.

  15. If you drop an archive to WinRAR address bar or toolbar,
      WinRAR will display its contents even if other archive
      is opened now. Previous versions proposed to add a dropped
      archive to browsing one.

      You may still drop an archive to WinRAR file list if you
      need to add it to browsing archive.

  16. Corrected processing of corrupt LZH archives to exclude
      a possible crash when reading corrupt LZH file headers.

  17. RAR and WinRAR display the operation progress while
      repairing an archive containing the recovery record.

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