-HISTORY of the 7-Zip\r
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-4.62 2008-12-02\r
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-- Some bugs were fixed.\r
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-\r
-4.61 beta 2008-11-23\r
--------------------------\r
-- 7-Zip now supports LZMA compression for .ZIP archives.\r
-- Some bugs were fixed.\r
-- New localization: Sinhala.\r
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-\r
-4.60 beta 2008-08-19\r
--------------------------\r
-- Some bugs were fixed.\r
-\r
-\r
-4.59 beta 2008-08-13\r
--------------------------\r
-- 7-Zip now can unpack UDF, XAR and DMG/HFS archives.\r
-- 7-Zip File Manager now keeps encryption when you edit encrypted file inside archive.\r
-- 7-Zip File Manager now allows to change current folder from the address bar drop-down list.\r
-- It's allowed to use -t switch for "list" and "extract" commands.\r
-- Some bugs were fixed.\r
-- New localizations: Icelandic, Kurdish Sorani.\r
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-\r
-4.58 beta 2008-05-05\r
--------------------------\r
-- Some speed optimizations.\r
-- 7-Zip now can unpack .lzma archives.\r
-- Unicode (UTF-8) support for filenames in .ZIP archives. Now there are 3 modes:\r
- 1) Default mode: 7-Zip uses UTF-8, if the local code page doesn't contain required symbols.\r
- 2) -mcu switch: 7-Zip uses UTF-8, if there are non-ASCII symbols.\r
- 3) -mcl switch: 7-Zip uses local code page.\r
-- Now it's possible to store file creation time in 7z and ZIP archives (-mtc switch).\r
-- 7-Zip now can unpack multivolume RAR archives created with \r
- "old style volume names" scheme and names *.001, *.002, ...\r
-- Now it's possible to use -mSW- and -mSW+ switches instead of -mSW=off and -mSW=on \r
-- Some bugs were fixed.\r
-- New localizations: Punjabi (Indian), Pashto.\r
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-\r
-4.57 2007-12-06\r
--------------------------\r
-- The BUG in command line version was fixed: -up3 switch \r
- could work incorrectly.\r
-\r
-\r
-4.56 beta 2007-10-24\r
--------------------------\r
-- Some bugs were fixed.\r
-\r
-\r
-4.55 beta 2007-09-05\r
--------------------------\r
-- Some bugs were fixed.\r
-\r
-\r
-4.54 beta 2007-09-04\r
--------------------------\r
-- Decompression speed was increased.\r
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-\r
-4.53 beta 2007-08-27\r
--------------------------\r
-- "Test" and "Info" buttons now work for open archives.\r
-- The bug in 7-Zip 4.48 - 4.52 beta was fixed:\r
- 7-Zip could create .ZIP archives with broken files.\r
-- Some bugs were fixed.\r
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-\r
-4.52 beta 2007-08-03\r
--------------------------\r
-- 7-Zip now can unpack Compound files (msi, doc, ...).\r
-- Some bugs were fixed.\r
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-\r
-4.51 beta 2007-07-25\r
--------------------------\r
-- Bug was fixed: 7-Zip 4.50 beta could not open some .7z archives.\r
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-\r
-4.50 beta 2007-07-24\r
--------------------------\r
-- New switch for command line version:\r
- -ssc[-] enables/disables case-sensitive mode for file names.\r
-- Speed optimizations for AES encryption.\r
-- Some bugs were fixed.\r
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-\r
-4.49 beta 2007-07-11\r
--------------------------\r
-- 7-Zip now can unpack WIM archives.\r
-- 7-Zip now replaces incorrect characters in filenames during extracting.\r
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-\r
-4.48 beta 2007-06-26\r
--------------------------\r
-- Encryption strength for .7z format was increased. \r
- Now it uses random initialization vectors.\r
-- Some bugs were fixed.\r
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-\r
-4.47 beta 2007-05-27\r
--------------------------\r
-- Bugs of 7-Zip 4.46 beta were fixed: BZip2 could work incorrectly.\r
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-4.46 beta 2007-05-25\r
--------------------------\r
-- New fast compression mode for Deflate method in Zip and GZip.\r
-- New "Compress shared files" option in GUI and -ssw switch.\r
-- Some bugs were fixed.\r
-- New localization: Norwegian Nynorsk.\r
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-\r
-4.45 beta 2007-04-17\r
--------------------------\r
-- Now it's possible to specify the size of solid block and the number \r
- of CPU threads in "Add to archive" dialog box. \r
-- Default dictionary size was increased: Normal: 16 MB, Max: 32 MB.\r
-- Speed optimizations.\r
-- Benchmark was improved (new "b" command in command line version).\r
-- The number of DLL files was reduced.\r
-- Now it's possible to associate 7-zip with combined types like .tbz2\r
-- switch -mhcf=off is not supported now.\r
-- If -t{Type} switch is not specified, 7-Zip now uses extension of archive to \r
- detect the type of archive.\r
-- Some bugs were fixed.\r
-- New localization: Welsh.\r
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-\r
-4.44 beta 2007-01-20\r
--------------------------\r
-- Speed optimizations for LZMA, Deflate, BZip2 and unRAR.\r
-- 7-Zip now supports file pathnames longer than 260 characters.\r
-- Some bugs were fixed.\r
-- New localizations: Bangla, Bashkir, Nepali.\r
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-\r
-4.43 beta 2006-09-15\r
--------------------------\r
-- 7-Zip now can use multi-threading mode for compressing to .ZIP archives.\r
-- ZIP format supporting was improved.\r
-- 7-Zip now supports WinZip-compatible AES-256 encryption for .ZIP archives.\r
-- New context menu items for .ZIP archives creating.\r
-- 7-Zip now uses order list (list of extensions) for files sorting for compressing \r
- to .7z archives. It can slightly increase compression ratio in some cases.\r
-- 7-Zip now restores modification time of folders during .7z archives extracting.\r
-- Some bugs were fixed.\r
-- New localizations: Armenian, Marathi.\r
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-\r
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-4.42 2006-05-14\r
--------------------------\r
-- Compressing speed and Memory requirements were increased.\r
- Default dictionary size was increased: Fastest: 64 KB, Fast: 1 MB, \r
- Normal: 4 MB, Max: 16 MB, Ultra: 64 MB.\r
-- BZip2 compressing / decompressing now can work in multi-threading mode\r
-- Multi-threading mode now is default for multi-processor systems\r
-- 64-bit version now supports 1 GB dictionary\r
-- 7z/LZMA now can use only these match finders: HC4, BT2, BT3, BT4\r
-- Compression ratio in Zip/GZip/Deflate in Ultra mode was increased\r
-- 7-Zip now can unpack ISO archives and some installers created by NSIS\r
-- Optional "Flat View" mode in 7-Zip File Manager\r
-- 7-Zip File Manager now can calculate CRC checksums for files\r
-- -x switch with relative paths now affects files specified with absolute paths\r
-- New switch for 7za.exe (console version): -slt.\r
- "l" (list) command with -slt shows technical information for archive.\r
-- New switch: -scs{WIN|DOS|UTF-8} specifies charset for list files.\r
- Default charset for list files is UTF-8 now.\r
-- Some bugs were fixed\r
-- New localizations: Albanian, Kurdish\r
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-\r
-4.32 2005-12-09\r
--------------------------\r
-- Bug was fixed: 7-Zip 4.31 didn't work in Windows 95\r
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-4.31 2005-12-04\r
--------------------------\r
-- Small changes\r
-- New localization: Basque\r
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-\r
-4.30 beta 2005-11-18\r
--------------------------\r
-- Files 7zFMn.exe, 7zGn.exe, 7-zipn, 7za.exe, 7zC.sfx were removed from 7-zip package\r
-- 7-Zip now uses uncompressed SFX: 7z.sfx\r
-- Sfx modules 7z.sfx and 7zCon.sfx now use msvcrt.dll\r
-- Speed optimizations in LZMA maximum/ultra compressing.\r
-- LZMA now supports word size up to 273\r
-- 7-Zip now reduces dictionary size for LZMA, if you compress files \r
- smaller than specified dictionary size.\r
-- 7-Zip now can use large memory pages:\r
- GUI: 7-Zip File Manager / Options / Settings / Use large memory pages.\r
- Command line version: -slp switch.\r
- This feature allows to increase speed of compressing.\r
- But 7-Zip can make some pause at starting of compressing for allocating large pages.\r
- Also Task Manager doesn't show real memory usage of program, if 7-Zip uses large pages.\r
- This feature works only on Windows 2003 / XP x64 / Vista. \r
- Also you must have administrator's rights for your system.\r
- Recommended size of RAM: 1 GB or more.\r
- To install this feature you must run 7-Zip File Manager at least once, \r
- close it and reboot system.\r
-- Some bugs were fixed\r
- \r
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-4.29 beta 2005-09-28\r
--------------------------\r
-- Bug was fixed: 7-Zip 4.28 beta worked incorrectly in Windows 95/98/Me\r
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-4.28 beta 2005-09-27\r
--------------------------\r
-- Bug was fixed: 7-Zip 4.27 beta created incorrect multivolume archives.\r
-- "Duplicate filename" collision problem between names with ligatures was fixed.\r
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-\r
-4.27 beta 2005-09-21\r
--------------------------\r
-- 7-Zip can unpack CHM/HXS (MS HTML HELP) archives\r
-- 7-Zip can unpack multivolume CAB archives\r
-- Now 7-Zip deletes files to the Recycle Bin by default.\r
- Shift+Delete deletes files permanently.\r
-- Some bugs were fixed\r
-- New localization: Tatarish\r
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-\r
-4.26 beta 2005-08-05\r
--------------------------\r
-- LZH format support (extracting only)\r
-- Some bugs were fixed\r
-- New localization: Ido\r
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-\r
-4.25 beta 2005-07-31\r
--------------------------\r
-- 7-Zip now doesn't interrupt the compressing when it can not \r
- find specified file as in version 4.24 beta. It just shows warning.\r
-- 7-Zip now supports standard selection mode in the file list\r
-- Some bugs were fixed\r
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-\r
-4.24 beta 2005-07-06\r
--------------------------\r
-- 7-Zip now supports right-click Drag and Drop in Explorer\r
-- Command line version now supports short file names (like FILENA~1.TXT)\r
-- If there are no wildcard names and there is no -r switch in command line, \r
- 7-Zip now checks that specified files exist on disk before compressing.\r
-- Some bugs were fixed\r
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-\r
-4.23 2005-06-29\r
--------------------------\r
-- Drag and Drop support\r
-- 7-Zip File Manager now can copy files from one archive to another\r
-- Some bugs were fixed\r
-- New localizations: Extremaduran, Malay\r
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-\r
-4.20 2005-05-30\r
--------------------------\r
-- No changes \r
-\r
-\r
-4.19 beta 2005-05-21\r
--------------------------\r
-- BZip2 code was rewritten. Now it supports 3 modes: Normal, Maximum and \r
- Ultra. In Normal mode it compresses almost as original BZip2 compressor. \r
- Compression ratio in Maximum and Ultra modes is 1-3% better for some files, \r
- but Maximum Mode is about 3 times slower and Ultra Mode is about 8 times \r
- slower than Normal mode.\r
-- Console version now prints all messages to stdout by default,\r
- and if -so switch is specified, 7-Zip prints messages to stderr.\r
-- Some bugs were fixed\r
-- New localizations: Azeri, Georgian\r
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-\r
-4.18 beta 2005-04-19\r
--------------------------\r
-- Bug in v4.17 beta was fixed: 7-Zip File Manager could crash \r
- after some operations with archives\r
-\r
- \r
-4.17 beta 2005-04-18\r
--------------------------\r
-- To increase protection from viruses, 7-Zip now does not open \r
- files with more than 4 continuous spaces in the name. \r
- And 7-Zip changes such long spaces in name to " ... " in the file list.\r
-- Code size optimization\r
-- Some files were moved from main package to extra package:\r
- - Plugin for FAR Manager\r
- - SFX modules for installers (7zS.sfx and 7zSD.sfx)\r
-- New localizations: Asturian, Indonesian\r
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-\r
-4.16 beta 2005-03-29\r
--------------------------\r
-- Speed optimization (5%) for 7z / LZMA \r
-- 7za.exe now supports .Z archives\r
-- -r- switch in command line now is default for all commands \r
-- Some bugs were fixed\r
-- New localization: Uzbek\r
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-\r
-4.15 beta 2005-01-25\r
--------------------------\r
-- Z format supporting (extracting only)\r
-- 7-Zip now can extract ZIP archives compressed with "Shrink" method\r
-- 7-Zip now doesn't interrupt the compressing when it can not open file.\r
- 7-Zip just skips that file and shows warning.\r
-- Some bugs were fixed\r
-- New localization: Frisian\r
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-\r
-4.14 beta 2005-01-11\r
--------------------------\r
-- 7-Zip installer was created with NSIS.\r
- Now it installs 7-Zip for all users (under Windows 2000/XP).\r
-- Now 7-Zip can create multivolume archives\r
- (switch -v for command line)\r
-- Some bugs were fixed\r
-- New localizations: Breton, Farsi\r
-\r
-\r
-4.13 beta 2004-12-14\r
--------------------------\r
-- Switch "--" stops switches parsing\r
-- Some bugs were fixed\r
-\r
-\r
-4.12 beta 2004-11-18\r
--------------------------\r
-- Bug in v4.11 beta was fixed:\r
- 7-Zip created incorrect ZIP archives if file size was \r
- from 3.75 GB to 4 GB.\r
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-\r
-4.11 beta 2004-11-16\r
--------------------------\r
-- 7-Zip now shows file names during compressing/decompressing\r
-- 7-Zip now supports Zip64 extension of ZIP format. So now it's \r
- possible to compress files bigger than 4 GB to ZIP archives.\r
-- Some bugs were fixed\r
-- New localization: Galician\r
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-\r
-4.10 beta 2004-10-21\r
--------------------------\r
-- Bugs in v4.0* were fixed:\r
- - Some commands in command line with "-r" switch worked incorrectly,\r
- so 7-zip could skip some files during compressing\r
- - Some other bugs were fixed\r
-- Small internal changes\r
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- \r
-4.09 beta 2004-10-05\r
--------------------------\r
-- Bugs in v4.0* were fixed:\r
- - Renaming inside archives didn't work or worked incorrectly\r
- - GUI SFX didn't show extracting dialog at start\r
-- Small fixes in 7-Zip GUI (7zG.exe)\r
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-\r
-4.08 beta 2004-10-04\r
--------------------------\r
-- Bug in installer for v4.07 was fixed: when rebooting \r
- is required, it rebooted without asking user\r
-- Small fixes in 7-Zip GUI (7zG.exe)\r
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-\r
-4.07 beta 2004-10-03\r
--------------------------\r
-- Big amount of code was changed in this beta version.\r
- So don't use it for important data compressing. \r
- And test archive after compressing.\r
-\r
-- Unified command line interface to GUI and console versions\r
-- 7-Zip now can extract or test several archives in one command \r
-- 7-Zip now doesn't interrupt the compressing when file is locked by \r
- other application. 7-Zip just skips that file and shows warning.\r
- Note: previous versions of 7-Zip had bug, so they can not unpack \r
- non-solid and some solid 7z archives with such skipped files.\r
-- Command line interface was changed:\r
- - now it's possible to use absolute pathnames\r
- - syntax simplification:\r
- was: 7z a a Folder1\* Folder2\* -r\r
- now: 7z a a Folder1 Folder2\r
- - now it's possible to use complex wildcard commands, like *\*111*\*\r
-- More smart detection of archive type for files with unusual\r
- file name extensions\r
-- Supporting for RAR archives with encrypted headers\r
-- CPIO format supporting was improved\r
-- For GZip and BZip2 formats you can:\r
- - Compress from stdin (-si switch)\r
- - Compress to stdout (-so switch)\r
- - Extract to stdout (-so switch)\r
-- 7-Zip File Manager:\r
- - Split and Combine commands\r
- - new list view options: Full row select, Show grid lines\r
-- Internal reconstruction\r
-- Some bugs were fixed\r
-- New localizations: Friulian, Macedonian, Mongolian, Tamil, Thai\r
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-\r
-3.13 2003-12-11\r
--------------------------\r
-- Some small bugs were fixed\r
-\r
-\r
-3.12 2003-12-10\r
--------------------------\r
-- Now you can select compression method, dictionary size\r
- and word size in "Add to archive" dialog box. Also it \r
- shows memory usage.\r
-- 7-Zip File Manager now contains toolbars.\r
-- New "Benchmark" command in 7-Zip File Manager.\r
- It measures compressing and decompressing speeds and \r
- shows rating values.\r
-- Some bugs were fixed.\r
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-\r
-3.11 2003-10-06\r
--------------------------\r
-- 7-zip now use limitations for solid block size\r
- for increasing the speed of random file decompressing:\r
- - in Store mode: 0 B\r
- - in Fast mode: 16 MB\r
- - in Normal mode: 256 MB\r
- - in Maximum mode: 1 GB \r
- - in Ultra mode: 4 GB \r
-- 7z.exe, 7za.exe and SFX modules now support Unicode \r
- file names under Windows NT/2000/XP/2003.\r
- 7zn.exe and 7zan.exe were removed from package. \r
-- Some bugs were fixed\r
-- New localization: Afrikaans\r
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- \r
-3.10 2003-09-27\r
--------------------------\r
-- Drag-and-Drop from external application\r
-- GUI version (7zG.exe) can compress files with absolute paths\r
-- Compression dialog doesn't suggest bzip2 and gzip2 types when \r
- there are more than one selected file\r
-- Optional auto renaming for existing files during extraction \r
- in command line version (-aot switch).\r
-- Some bugs were fixed\r
-\r
-\r
-3.09.02 2003-09-20\r
--------------------------\r
-- Optional limitation for solid block size for increasing \r
- the speed of random file decompressing (-ms switch)\r
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-\r
-3.09.01 beta 2003-09-06\r
--------------------------\r
-- Automatic compression filter for executable files:\r
- dll, exe, ocx, sfx, sys, (-mf switch)\r
-- Compression levels in 7z now are:\r
- - Fast: 32 KB dictionary, BCJ filter\r
- - Normal: 2 MB dictionary, BCJ filter\r
- - Maximum: 8 MB dictionary, BCJ filter, max settings\r
- - Ultra: 32 MB dictionary, BCJ2 filter, max settings\r
-- Updating solid 7z archives now is supported, if it doesn't \r
- require repacking solid blocks\r
-- -mhcf switch for 7z format now is default\r
-- Some bugs were fixed\r
-\r
-\r
-3.08.04 beta 2003-08-24\r
--------------------------\r
-- Favorites menu in 7-Zip File Manager\r
-- Some bugs were fixed\r
-\r
-\r
-3.08.03 beta 2003-08-21\r
--------------------------\r
-- Automatic adding of extension to archive name in Compress Dialog\r
-- Some bugs in previous 3.08.* versions were fixed:\r
- - Storing columns width inside archives in File Manager\r
- - Opening archive inside archive\r
- - Quotes in list files in console version\r
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-\r
-3.08.02 beta 2003-08-20\r
--------------------------\r
-- Some bugs were fixed\r
-\r
-\r
-3.08 beta 2003-08-19\r
--------------------------\r
-- Compress dialog:\r
- - Supporting fast compressing mode (-mx=1 switch)\r
- - Multi-threading option for Multi-Processor systems \r
- or Pentium 4 with Hyper-Threading\r
- - Encrypt file names option\r
-- New context menu items:\r
- - Extract here\r
- - Extract to <Folder>\r
- - Compress and email\r
-- Internal reconstruction, registry using was reduced\r
-- New localization: Esperanto\r
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-\r
-2.30 Beta 32 2003-05-15\r
--------------------------\r
-- New features in compressing / decompressing window.\r
-- "Show password" option.\r
-- Some other small changes.\r
-- New localization: Valencian.\r
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-2.30 Beta 31 2003-04-29\r
--------------------------\r
-- Some bugs were fixed.\r
-\r
-\r
-2.30 Beta 30 2003-04-19\r
--------------------------\r
-- 7-Zip File Manager:\r
- - Showing .. item.\r
- - 1/2 Panels mode switching (F9).\r
-- Supporting Bzip2 compression in ZIP archives.\r
-- Some bugs were fixed.\r
-- Some optimization recompiling for reducing code size.\r
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-\r
-2.30 Beta 29 2003-04-07\r
--------------------------\r
-- 7-Zip File Manager:\r
- - "7-Zip" and "System" submenus in "Files" menu.\r
- - Path history and "Browse" button in "Copy" dialog.\r
-- RAR supporting was improved.\r
-- Some bugs were fixed.\r
-- Small changes in LZMA code.\r
-- New localizations: Hebrew, Vietnamese.\r
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-\r
-2.30 Beta 28 2003-02-16\r
--------------------------\r
-- Some bugs were fixed:\r
- - Updating 7z archives that are larger than 4 GB.\r
- - Using anti-items in 7z format.\r
- - Compressing empty files with password to zip format.\r
-- In max mode 7z now uses 8 MB dictionary instead of 4 MB.\r
-- 7-Zip File Manager:\r
- - Supporting file comments: Ctrl-Z.\r
- - New key alias for folder bookmarks: [Shift]+Alt+Number.\r
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-\r
-2.30 Beta 27 2003-01-24\r
--------------------------\r
-- Two BUGs in two previous beta versions (Beta 25 and Beta 26) \r
- were fixed:\r
- 1. Incorrect compressing to non-solid 7z archive\r
- when files have some very big sizes:\r
- 4 GB, 8 GB, 12 GB, 16 GB, ... \r
- 2. Incorrect percent showing in 7z compressing\r
- when files are bigger than 4 GB.\r
-- Supporting multivolume RAR and SPLIT archives. \r
-- Supporting DEB archives.\r
-- Supporting old version of CPIO format.\r
-- Some bugs were fixed.\r
-- New localizations: Korean, Swedish.\r
-\r
-\r
-2.30 Beta 26 2003-01-12\r
--------------------------\r
-- Supporting Deflate64 method in Zip archives.\r
-- Supporting Rar 1.50 archives.\r
-- Some bugs were fixed.\r
-\r
-\r
-2.30 Beta 25 2003-01-02\r
--------------------------\r
-- Encryption feature for 7z format (AES-256).\r
-- New optional archive header compressing mode (-mhcf).\r
-- Archive headers now always are compressed with LZMA method.\r
-- Updating non-solid 7z archives without -ms=off now is allowed.\r
-- Folder creating and item renaming inside archive now is supported.\r
-- Supporting encrypted Rar3 archives.\r
-- Supporting Unicode names in Rar3 archives.\r
-- Some bugs were fixed.\r
-- New localizations: Lithuanian, Voro.\r
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-\r
-2.30 Beta 24 2002-11-01\r
--------------------------\r
-- Some internal reconstructions.\r
-- -m switch syntax was slightly changed.\r
-- Some bugs were fixed.\r
-- New localizations: Catalan, Norwegian, Romanian.\r
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- \r
-2.30 Beta 23 2002-09-07\r
--------------------------\r
-- Encryption feature for zip format.\r
-- Percent indicating for some operations.\r
-- Some bugs were fixed.\r
-\r
- \r
-2.30 Beta 22 2002-08-31\r
--------------------------\r
-- New program: 7-Zip File Manager.\r
-- Command line version now doesn't allow absolute paths\r
- for compressing files.\r
-- New localizations: Belarusian, Greek.\r
-- Bug in FAR plugin was fixed:\r
- Incorrect updating when archive has no explicit \r
- directory items for file items.\r
-- Some bugs were fixed.\r
-\r
- \r
-2.30 Beta 21 2002-07-08\r
--------------------------\r
-- RAM requirements for LZMA (7z) compression were reduced.\r
-- Small bug in FAR plugin was fixed.\r
-\r
-\r
-2.30 Beta 20 2002-07-01\r
--------------------------\r
-- RAM requirements for LZMA (7z) decompression were reduced.\r
-- New localization: Turkish.\r
-- Some bugs were fixed.\r
-\r
-\r
-2.30 Beta 19 2002-04-11\r
--------------------------\r
-- Supporting RAR 3.0 archives.\r
-- New localizations: Danish, Ukrainian.\r
-\r
-\r
-2.30 Beta 18 2002-03-25\r
--------------------------\r
-- Compressing speed in 7z format was slightly increased.\r
-- New localizations: Estonian, Finnish.\r
-- Some bugs were fixed.\r
-\r
-\r
-2.30 Beta 17 2002-03-03\r
--------------------------\r
-- Supporting ARJ archives.\r
-- New localization: Chinese Simplified.\r
-\r
-\r
-2.30 Beta 16 2002-02-24\r
--------------------------\r
-- Supporting RPM and CPIO archives.\r
-- New fast compression mode for LZMA: -m0a=0.\r
-- New match finders for LZMA: bt4b, hc3, hc4.\r
-- Some bugs were fixed.\r
-\r
-\r
-2.30 Beta 15 2002-02-17\r
--------------------------\r
-- Compression ratio in 7z was slightly improved.\r
-- New localization: Dutch.\r
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-\r
-2.30 Beta 14 2002-02-10\r
--------------------------\r
-- Speed optimization for multiprocessor computers (-mmt switch).\r
-- New localizations: Czech, Japanese, Polish.\r
-- Some bugs were fixed.\r
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-\r
-2.30 Beta 13 2002-01-31\r
--------------------------\r
-- New SFX module for installers.\r
-- New match finder for LZMA: bt3.\r
-- New localizations: Portuguese, Portuguese Brazil, Serbo-Croatian.\r
-- Some bugs were fixed.\r
-\r
-\r
-2.30 Beta 12 2002-01-16\r
--------------------------\r
-- Bug was fixed: memory leak in Beta 11.\r
-- New localization: Hungarian.\r
-\r
-\r
-2.30 Beta 11 2002-01-15\r
--------------------------\r
-- Archive testing feature for GUI version.\r
-- Now 7-Zip can use more than 256 MB of RAM in all Windows versions.\r
-- New localizations: Bulgarian, Chinese Traditional, Latvian, Slovak.\r
-- Some bugs were fixed.\r
-\r
-\r
-2.30 Beta 10 2002-01-11\r
--------------------------\r
-- Bugs were fixed:\r
- - Updating 7z archives in Beta 8 and 9 didn't work.\r
- - Unicode version in Beta 9 didn't work in Windows NT4.\r
- - Some other bugs were fixed.\r
-- New localizations: Arabic, French, Italian, Slovenian, Spanish.\r
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-\r
-2.30 Beta 9 2002-01-08\r
--------------------------\r
-- Program localization: English, German, Russian.\r
-- Additional optimized versions of programs \r
- for Windows NT4/2000/XP.\r
-- Two new match finders for LZMA: pat3h and pat4h.\r
-- Some bugs were fixed.\r
-\r
-\r
-2.30 Beta 8 2001-12-21\r
--------------------------\r
-- 7-Zip now supports some zip archives that were not \r
- supported by previous versions.\r
-- 7-Zip now supports new state (-uw switch) for cases\r
- when 7-Zip can not detect whether file is newer or the same.\r
-- Supporting anti-items in 7z format for incremental \r
- update (-u with action #3).\r
-- Some bugs were fixed.\r
-\r
-\r
-2.30 Beta 7 2001-11-04\r
--------------------------\r
-- BCJ2: new converter for x86 code.\r
-- Supporting tar archives with very long file names\r
- (GNU extension to 'tar' format).\r
-- Supporting multistream coders in 7z (-mb switch).\r
-- More compressing parameters for zip and gzip \r
- in console version (-m switch).\r
-- Solid compressing option in Windows version.\r
-- Compressing parameters option in Windows version.\r
-- Auto renaming existing files feature for \r
- extracting files.\r
-- Overwrite mode switch for extracting (-ao).\r
-- Some bugs were fixed.\r
-\r
-\r
-2.30 Beta 6 2001-10-13\r
--------------------------\r
-- Supporting 7z format in MultiArc plugin for FAR Manager.\r
-- Some bugs were fixed.\r
-\r
-\r
-2.30 Beta 5 2001-10-02\r
--------------------------\r
-- Creating SFX archives from explorer.\r
-- 7zWin.sfx: Windows version of SFX module.\r
-- Auto adding .exe extension to SFX archive name.\r
-- 7za.exe now supports 7z, bzip2, gzip, tar, zip.\r
-- Some bugs were fixed.\r
-\r
-\r
-2.30 Beta 4 2001-09-15\r
--------------------------\r
-- Self extract capability for 7z format.\r
-- 7z archive format is default for 7z.exe and 7za.exe.\r
-- 7z in default mode now uses bt234 match finder\r
- and solid compression.\r
-- 7z in maximum mode (-mx) now uses 4MB dictionary.\r
-\r
-\r
-2.30 Beta 3 2001-09-10\r
--------------------------\r
-- Bug was fixed: decompressing .7z solid archives \r
- containing empty files.\r
-- new 7za.exe: standalone command line version \r
- (only for 7z format).\r
-- Speed of compressing to Deflate format (zip, gzip) \r
- was slightly increased.\r
-\r
-\r
-2.30 Beta 2 2001-08-30\r
--------------------------\r
-- Supporting the new 7z format with high compression ratio.\r
-- -bd (Disable percentage indicator) switch in \r
- console version.\r
-- Bug in console version was fixed: \r
- previous versions incorrectly execute compression \r
- commands with non-recursive wildcards in combination \r
- with subfolders.\r
-- Some other bugs were fixed.\r
-\r
-\r
-2.30 Beta 1 2001-05-07\r
--------------------------\r
-- Speed of reading of archive contents was increased.\r
-- Bug was fixed: incorrect showing file names with \r
- national charsets in some zip archives.\r
-- Now it is possible to compress files larger than 4GB \r
- to GZip archives.\r
-\r
-\r
-2.24 2001-03-21\r
--------------------------\r
-- Bugs in GZip and Cab decoders were fixed.\r
-\r
-\r
-2.23 2001-03-04\r
--------------------------\r
-- Opening archive items in Explorer.\r
-- Context menu for archive items in Explorer.\r
-- Automatic adding extension to archive name in console version.\r
-- Some bugs were fixed.\r
-\r
-\r
-2.22 2001-01-21\r
--------------------------\r
-- Supporting Zip archives containing more than 65535 files.\r
-- Speed of Plugin for Explorer was increased.\r
-- Searching start position of archive now is limited by \r
- first 1MB part of file.\r
-- Some bugs were fixed.\r
-- Packet now doesn't contain 7zip.exe, far7zip.reg and \r
- far7zip2.reg files. There is new far7z.reg file.\r
-\r
-\r
-2.21 2000-12-21\r
--------------------------\r
-- FAR Plugin was improved:\r
-\r
- - Showing process box during opening archives.\r
- - Viewing properties of file by Ctrl-A.\r
- - Alt-F6 in archive now immediately extracts selected files \r
- to current directory.\r
- \r
-- Some bugs were fixed:\r
- \r
- - Entering to archive's subfolders in Explorer by clicking \r
- items in main window didn't work under Windows ME/2000.\r
- - Decompressing solid Rar archives sometimes gave error.\r
- - Console version 7z.exe during list operation incorrectly \r
- showed file names with national (non-english) charsets.\r
- - FAR Plugin didn't execute some operations.\r
- - Showing percents during extracting ZIP archives sometimes \r
- was incorrect.\r
-\r
-\r
-2.20 2000-11-20\r
--------------------------\r
-- Supporting BZip2 and Cab.\r
-- New program architecture with external\r
- compression and cryptographic modules.\r
-- Decryption support (Rar and Zip). \r
-- New console client. \r
-- Some bugs were fixed.\r
-\r
-\r
-2.11 2000-06-15\r
--------------------------\r
-- Bugs were fixed:\r
-\r
- - FAR Plugin incorrectly processed\r
- names of subdirectories that use national\r
- (non-english) charsets.\r
- - gzip plugin could not compress empty files.\r
-\r
-\r
-2.10 2000-05-16\r
--------------------------\r
-- First level 7-Zip Plugin for FAR Manager.\r
-- GUI version with integration to Windows Shell.\r
-- Compression and decompressing GZip and TAR formats.\r
-- Decompression RAR.\r
-- Install & Uninstall support.\r
-- Some bugs were fixed.\r
-\r
-\r
-2.01 1999-09-19\r
--------------------------\r
-- Small bug was fixed.\r
-- Compression ratio was improved for some files.\r
-\r
-\r
-2.00 1999-07-18\r
--------------------------\r
-- Release.\r
-- Big bug was fixed: previous versions incorrectly worked\r
- during compressing with files that were referred by\r
- direct(without wildcards) paths, containing subdirs parts.\r
-- Compression and decompression speed were improved.\r
-- -mx switch (maXimize compression) was added.\r
-- Small bugs were fixed.\r
-\r
-\r
-2.00 Beta 1 1999-01-02\r
--------------------------\r
-- Original beta version.\r
-\r
-\r
-End of document\r
+HISTORY of the 7-Zip
+--------------------
+
+4.62 2008-12-02
+-------------------------
+- Some bugs were fixed.
+
+
+4.61 beta 2008-11-23
+-------------------------
+- 7-Zip now supports LZMA compression for .ZIP archives.
+- Some bugs were fixed.
+- New localization: Sinhala.
+
+
+4.60 beta 2008-08-19
+-------------------------
+- Some bugs were fixed.
+
+
+4.59 beta 2008-08-13
+-------------------------
+- 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
+-------------------------
+- 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.
+
+
+4.57 2007-12-06
+-------------------------
+- The BUG in command line version was fixed: -up3 switch
+ could work incorrectly.
+
+
+4.56 beta 2007-10-24
+-------------------------
+- Some bugs were fixed.
+
+
+4.55 beta 2007-09-05
+-------------------------
+- Some bugs were fixed.
+
+
+4.54 beta 2007-09-04
+-------------------------
+- Decompression speed was increased.
+
+
+4.53 beta 2007-08-27
+-------------------------
+- "Test" and "Info" buttons now work for open archives.
+- The bug in 7-Zip 4.48 - 4.52 beta was fixed:
+ 7-Zip could create .ZIP archives with broken files.
+- Some bugs were fixed.
+
+
+4.52 beta 2007-08-03
+-------------------------
+- 7-Zip now can unpack Compound files (msi, doc, ...).
+- Some bugs were fixed.
+
+
+4.51 beta 2007-07-25
+-------------------------
+- Bug was fixed: 7-Zip 4.50 beta could not open some .7z archives.
+
+
+4.50 beta 2007-07-24
+-------------------------
+- New switch for command line version:
+ -ssc[-] enables/disables case-sensitive mode for file names.
+- Speed optimizations for AES encryption.
+- Some bugs were fixed.
+
+
+4.49 beta 2007-07-11
+-------------------------
+- 7-Zip now can unpack WIM archives.
+- 7-Zip now replaces incorrect characters in filenames during extracting.
+
+
+4.48 beta 2007-06-26
+-------------------------
+- Encryption strength for .7z format was increased.
+ Now it uses random initialization vectors.
+- Some bugs were fixed.
+
+
+4.47 beta 2007-05-27
+-------------------------
+- Bugs of 7-Zip 4.46 beta were fixed: BZip2 could work incorrectly.
+
+
+4.46 beta 2007-05-25
+-------------------------
+- New fast compression mode for Deflate method in Zip and GZip.
+- New "Compress shared files" option in GUI and -ssw switch.
+- Some bugs were fixed.
+- New localization: Norwegian Nynorsk.
+
+
+4.45 beta 2007-04-17
+-------------------------
+- Now it's possible to specify the size of solid block and the number
+ of CPU threads in "Add to archive" dialog box.
+- Default dictionary size was increased: Normal: 16 MB, Max: 32 MB.
+- Speed optimizations.
+- Benchmark was improved (new "b" command in command line version).
+- The number of DLL files was reduced.
+- Now it's possible to associate 7-zip with combined types like .tbz2
+- switch -mhcf=off is not supported now.
+- If -t{Type} switch is not specified, 7-Zip now uses extension of archive to
+ detect the type of archive.
+- Some bugs were fixed.
+- New localization: Welsh.
+
+
+4.44 beta 2007-01-20
+-------------------------
+- Speed optimizations for LZMA, Deflate, BZip2 and unRAR.
+- 7-Zip now supports file pathnames longer than 260 characters.
+- Some bugs were fixed.
+- New localizations: Bangla, Bashkir, Nepali.
+
+
+4.43 beta 2006-09-15
+-------------------------
+- 7-Zip now can use multi-threading mode for compressing to .ZIP archives.
+- ZIP format supporting was improved.
+- 7-Zip now supports WinZip-compatible AES-256 encryption for .ZIP archives.
+- New context menu items for .ZIP archives creating.
+- 7-Zip now uses order list (list of extensions) for files sorting for compressing
+ to .7z archives. It can slightly increase compression ratio in some cases.
+- 7-Zip now restores modification time of folders during .7z archives extracting.
+- Some bugs were fixed.
+- New localizations: Armenian, Marathi.
+
+
+
+4.42 2006-05-14
+-------------------------
+- Compressing speed and Memory requirements were increased.
+ Default dictionary size was increased: Fastest: 64 KB, Fast: 1 MB,
+ Normal: 4 MB, Max: 16 MB, Ultra: 64 MB.
+- BZip2 compressing / decompressing now can work in multi-threading mode
+- Multi-threading mode now is default for multi-processor systems
+- 64-bit version now supports 1 GB dictionary
+- 7z/LZMA now can use only these match finders: HC4, BT2, BT3, BT4
+- Compression ratio in Zip/GZip/Deflate in Ultra mode was increased
+- 7-Zip now can unpack ISO archives and some installers created by NSIS
+- Optional "Flat View" mode in 7-Zip File Manager
+- 7-Zip File Manager now can calculate CRC checksums for files
+- -x switch with relative paths now affects files specified with absolute paths
+- New switch for 7za.exe (console version): -slt.
+ "l" (list) command with -slt shows technical information for archive.
+- New switch: -scs{WIN|DOS|UTF-8} specifies charset for list files.
+ Default charset for list files is UTF-8 now.
+- Some bugs were fixed
+- New localizations: Albanian, Kurdish
+
+
+4.32 2005-12-09
+-------------------------
+- Bug was fixed: 7-Zip 4.31 didn't work in Windows 95
+
+
+4.31 2005-12-04
+-------------------------
+- Small changes
+- New localization: Basque
+
+
+4.30 beta 2005-11-18
+-------------------------
+- Files 7zFMn.exe, 7zGn.exe, 7-zipn, 7za.exe, 7zC.sfx were removed from 7-zip package
+- 7-Zip now uses uncompressed SFX: 7z.sfx
+- Sfx modules 7z.sfx and 7zCon.sfx now use msvcrt.dll
+- Speed optimizations in LZMA maximum/ultra compressing.
+- LZMA now supports word size up to 273
+- 7-Zip now reduces dictionary size for LZMA, if you compress files
+ smaller than specified dictionary size.
+- 7-Zip now can use large memory pages:
+ GUI: 7-Zip File Manager / Options / Settings / Use large memory pages.
+ Command line version: -slp switch.
+ This feature allows to increase speed of compressing.
+ But 7-Zip can make some pause at starting of compressing for allocating large pages.
+ Also Task Manager doesn't show real memory usage of program, if 7-Zip uses large pages.
+ This feature works only on Windows 2003 / XP x64 / Vista.
+ Also you must have administrator's rights for your system.
+ Recommended size of RAM: 1 GB or more.
+ To install this feature you must run 7-Zip File Manager at least once,
+ close it and reboot system.
+- Some bugs were fixed
+
+
+4.29 beta 2005-09-28
+-------------------------
+- Bug was fixed: 7-Zip 4.28 beta worked incorrectly in Windows 95/98/Me
+
+
+4.28 beta 2005-09-27
+-------------------------
+- Bug was fixed: 7-Zip 4.27 beta created incorrect multivolume archives.
+- "Duplicate filename" collision problem between names with ligatures was fixed.
+
+
+4.27 beta 2005-09-21
+-------------------------
+- 7-Zip can unpack CHM/HXS (MS HTML HELP) archives
+- 7-Zip can unpack multivolume CAB archives
+- Now 7-Zip deletes files to the Recycle Bin by default.
+ Shift+Delete deletes files permanently.
+- Some bugs were fixed
+- New localization: Tatarish
+
+
+4.26 beta 2005-08-05
+-------------------------
+- LZH format support (extracting only)
+- Some bugs were fixed
+- New localization: Ido
+
+
+4.25 beta 2005-07-31
+-------------------------
+- 7-Zip now doesn't interrupt the compressing when it can not
+ find specified file as in version 4.24 beta. It just shows warning.
+- 7-Zip now supports standard selection mode in the file list
+- Some bugs were fixed
+
+
+4.24 beta 2005-07-06
+-------------------------
+- 7-Zip now supports right-click Drag and Drop in Explorer
+- Command line version now supports short file names (like FILENA~1.TXT)
+- If there are no wildcard names and there is no -r switch in command line,
+ 7-Zip now checks that specified files exist on disk before compressing.
+- Some bugs were fixed
+
+
+4.23 2005-06-29
+-------------------------
+- Drag and Drop support
+- 7-Zip File Manager now can copy files from one archive to another
+- Some bugs were fixed
+- New localizations: Extremaduran, Malay
+
+
+4.20 2005-05-30
+-------------------------
+- No changes
+
+
+4.19 beta 2005-05-21
+-------------------------
+- BZip2 code was rewritten. Now it supports 3 modes: Normal, Maximum and
+ Ultra. In Normal mode it compresses almost as original BZip2 compressor.
+ Compression ratio in Maximum and Ultra modes is 1-3% better for some files,
+ but Maximum Mode is about 3 times slower and Ultra Mode is about 8 times
+ slower than Normal mode.
+- Console version now prints all messages to stdout by default,
+ and if -so switch is specified, 7-Zip prints messages to stderr.
+- Some bugs were fixed
+- New localizations: Azeri, Georgian
+
+
+4.18 beta 2005-04-19
+-------------------------
+- Bug in v4.17 beta was fixed: 7-Zip File Manager could crash
+ after some operations with archives
+
+
+4.17 beta 2005-04-18
+-------------------------
+- To increase protection from viruses, 7-Zip now does not open
+ files with more than 4 continuous spaces in the name.
+ And 7-Zip changes such long spaces in name to " ... " in the file list.
+- Code size optimization
+- Some files were moved from main package to extra package:
+ - Plugin for FAR Manager
+ - SFX modules for installers (7zS.sfx and 7zSD.sfx)
+- New localizations: Asturian, Indonesian
+
+
+4.16 beta 2005-03-29
+-------------------------
+- Speed optimization (5%) for 7z / LZMA
+- 7za.exe now supports .Z archives
+- -r- switch in command line now is default for all commands
+- Some bugs were fixed
+- New localization: Uzbek
+
+
+4.15 beta 2005-01-25
+-------------------------
+- Z format supporting (extracting only)
+- 7-Zip now can extract ZIP archives compressed with "Shrink" method
+- 7-Zip now doesn't interrupt the compressing when it can not open file.
+ 7-Zip just skips that file and shows warning.
+- Some bugs were fixed
+- New localization: Frisian
+
+
+4.14 beta 2005-01-11
+-------------------------
+- 7-Zip installer was created with NSIS.
+ Now it installs 7-Zip for all users (under Windows 2000/XP).
+- Now 7-Zip can create multivolume archives
+ (switch -v for command line)
+- Some bugs were fixed
+- New localizations: Breton, Farsi
+
+
+4.13 beta 2004-12-14
+-------------------------
+- Switch "--" stops switches parsing
+- Some bugs were fixed
+
+
+4.12 beta 2004-11-18
+-------------------------
+- Bug in v4.11 beta was fixed:
+ 7-Zip created incorrect ZIP archives if file size was
+ from 3.75 GB to 4 GB.
+
+
+4.11 beta 2004-11-16
+-------------------------
+- 7-Zip now shows file names during compressing/decompressing
+- 7-Zip now supports Zip64 extension of ZIP format. So now it's
+ possible to compress files bigger than 4 GB to ZIP archives.
+- Some bugs were fixed
+- New localization: Galician
+
+
+4.10 beta 2004-10-21
+-------------------------
+- Bugs in v4.0* were fixed:
+ - Some commands in command line with "-r" switch worked incorrectly,
+ so 7-zip could skip some files during compressing
+ - Some other bugs were fixed
+- Small internal changes
+
+
+4.09 beta 2004-10-05
+-------------------------
+- Bugs in v4.0* were fixed:
+ - Renaming inside archives didn't work or worked incorrectly
+ - GUI SFX didn't show extracting dialog at start
+- Small fixes in 7-Zip GUI (7zG.exe)
+
+
+4.08 beta 2004-10-04
+-------------------------
+- Bug in installer for v4.07 was fixed: when rebooting
+ is required, it rebooted without asking user
+- Small fixes in 7-Zip GUI (7zG.exe)
+
+
+4.07 beta 2004-10-03
+-------------------------
+- Big amount of code was changed in this beta version.
+ So don't use it for important data compressing.
+ And test archive after compressing.
+
+- Unified command line interface to GUI and console versions
+- 7-Zip now can extract or test several archives in one command
+- 7-Zip now doesn't interrupt the compressing when file is locked by
+ other application. 7-Zip just skips that file and shows warning.
+ Note: previous versions of 7-Zip had bug, so they can not unpack
+ non-solid and some solid 7z archives with such skipped files.
+- Command line interface was changed:
+ - now it's possible to use absolute pathnames
+ - syntax simplification:
+ was: 7z a a Folder1\* Folder2\* -r
+ now: 7z a a Folder1 Folder2
+ - now it's possible to use complex wildcard commands, like *\*111*\*
+- More smart detection of archive type for files with unusual
+ file name extensions
+- Supporting for RAR archives with encrypted headers
+- CPIO format supporting was improved
+- For GZip and BZip2 formats you can:
+ - Compress from stdin (-si switch)
+ - Compress to stdout (-so switch)
+ - Extract to stdout (-so switch)
+- 7-Zip File Manager:
+ - Split and Combine commands
+ - new list view options: Full row select, Show grid lines
+- Internal reconstruction
+- Some bugs were fixed
+- New localizations: Friulian, Macedonian, Mongolian, Tamil, Thai
+
+
+3.13 2003-12-11
+-------------------------
+- Some small bugs were fixed
+
+
+3.12 2003-12-10
+-------------------------
+- Now you can select compression method, dictionary size
+ and word size in "Add to archive" dialog box. Also it
+ shows memory usage.
+- 7-Zip File Manager now contains toolbars.
+- New "Benchmark" command in 7-Zip File Manager.
+ It measures compressing and decompressing speeds and
+ shows rating values.
+- Some bugs were fixed.
+
+
+3.11 2003-10-06
+-------------------------
+- 7-zip now use limitations for solid block size
+ for increasing the speed of random file decompressing:
+ - in Store mode: 0 B
+ - in Fast mode: 16 MB
+ - in Normal mode: 256 MB
+ - in Maximum mode: 1 GB
+ - in Ultra mode: 4 GB
+- 7z.exe, 7za.exe and SFX modules now support Unicode
+ file names under Windows NT/2000/XP/2003.
+ 7zn.exe and 7zan.exe were removed from package.
+- Some bugs were fixed
+- New localization: Afrikaans
+
+
+3.10 2003-09-27
+-------------------------
+- Drag-and-Drop from external application
+- GUI version (7zG.exe) can compress files with absolute paths
+- Compression dialog doesn't suggest bzip2 and gzip2 types when
+ there are more than one selected file
+- Optional auto renaming for existing files during extraction
+ in command line version (-aot switch).
+- Some bugs were fixed
+
+
+3.09.02 2003-09-20
+-------------------------
+- Optional limitation for solid block size for increasing
+ the speed of random file decompressing (-ms switch)
+
+
+3.09.01 beta 2003-09-06
+-------------------------
+- Automatic compression filter for executable files:
+ dll, exe, ocx, sfx, sys, (-mf switch)
+- Compression levels in 7z now are:
+ - Fast: 32 KB dictionary, BCJ filter
+ - Normal: 2 MB dictionary, BCJ filter
+ - Maximum: 8 MB dictionary, BCJ filter, max settings
+ - Ultra: 32 MB dictionary, BCJ2 filter, max settings
+- Updating solid 7z archives now is supported, if it doesn't
+ require repacking solid blocks
+- -mhcf switch for 7z format now is default
+- Some bugs were fixed
+
+
+3.08.04 beta 2003-08-24
+-------------------------
+- Favorites menu in 7-Zip File Manager
+- Some bugs were fixed
+
+
+3.08.03 beta 2003-08-21
+-------------------------
+- Automatic adding of extension to archive name in Compress Dialog
+- Some bugs in previous 3.08.* versions were fixed:
+ - Storing columns width inside archives in File Manager
+ - Opening archive inside archive
+ - Quotes in list files in console version
+
+
+3.08.02 beta 2003-08-20
+-------------------------
+- Some bugs were fixed
+
+
+3.08 beta 2003-08-19
+-------------------------
+- Compress dialog:
+ - Supporting fast compressing mode (-mx=1 switch)
+ - Multi-threading option for Multi-Processor systems
+ or Pentium 4 with Hyper-Threading
+ - Encrypt file names option
+- New context menu items:
+ - Extract here
+ - Extract to <Folder>
+ - Compress and email
+- Internal reconstruction, registry using was reduced
+- New localization: Esperanto
+
+
+2.30 Beta 32 2003-05-15
+-------------------------
+- New features in compressing / decompressing window.
+- "Show password" option.
+- Some other small changes.
+- New localization: Valencian.
+
+
+2.30 Beta 31 2003-04-29
+-------------------------
+- Some bugs were fixed.
+
+
+2.30 Beta 30 2003-04-19
+-------------------------
+- 7-Zip File Manager:
+ - Showing .. item.
+ - 1/2 Panels mode switching (F9).
+- Supporting Bzip2 compression in ZIP archives.
+- Some bugs were fixed.
+- Some optimization recompiling for reducing code size.
+
+
+2.30 Beta 29 2003-04-07
+-------------------------
+- 7-Zip File Manager:
+ - "7-Zip" and "System" submenus in "Files" menu.
+ - Path history and "Browse" button in "Copy" dialog.
+- RAR supporting was improved.
+- Some bugs were fixed.
+- Small changes in LZMA code.
+- New localizations: Hebrew, Vietnamese.
+
+
+2.30 Beta 28 2003-02-16
+-------------------------
+- Some bugs were fixed:
+ - Updating 7z archives that are larger than 4 GB.
+ - Using anti-items in 7z format.
+ - Compressing empty files with password to zip format.
+- In max mode 7z now uses 8 MB dictionary instead of 4 MB.
+- 7-Zip File Manager:
+ - Supporting file comments: Ctrl-Z.
+ - New key alias for folder bookmarks: [Shift]+Alt+Number.
+
+
+2.30 Beta 27 2003-01-24
+-------------------------
+- Two BUGs in two previous beta versions (Beta 25 and Beta 26)
+ were fixed:
+ 1. Incorrect compressing to non-solid 7z archive
+ when files have some very big sizes:
+ 4 GB, 8 GB, 12 GB, 16 GB, ...
+ 2. Incorrect percent showing in 7z compressing
+ when files are bigger than 4 GB.
+- Supporting multivolume RAR and SPLIT archives.
+- Supporting DEB archives.
+- Supporting old version of CPIO format.
+- Some bugs were fixed.
+- New localizations: Korean, Swedish.
+
+
+2.30 Beta 26 2003-01-12
+-------------------------
+- Supporting Deflate64 method in Zip archives.
+- Supporting Rar 1.50 archives.
+- Some bugs were fixed.
+
+
+2.30 Beta 25 2003-01-02
+-------------------------
+- Encryption feature for 7z format (AES-256).
+- New optional archive header compressing mode (-mhcf).
+- Archive headers now always are compressed with LZMA method.
+- Updating non-solid 7z archives without -ms=off now is allowed.
+- Folder creating and item renaming inside archive now is supported.
+- Supporting encrypted Rar3 archives.
+- Supporting Unicode names in Rar3 archives.
+- Some bugs were fixed.
+- New localizations: Lithuanian, Voro.
+
+
+2.30 Beta 24 2002-11-01
+-------------------------
+- Some internal reconstructions.
+- -m switch syntax was slightly changed.
+- Some bugs were fixed.
+- New localizations: Catalan, Norwegian, Romanian.
+
+
+2.30 Beta 23 2002-09-07
+-------------------------
+- Encryption feature for zip format.
+- Percent indicating for some operations.
+- Some bugs were fixed.
+
+
+2.30 Beta 22 2002-08-31
+-------------------------
+- New program: 7-Zip File Manager.
+- Command line version now doesn't allow absolute paths
+ for compressing files.
+- New localizations: Belarusian, Greek.
+- Bug in FAR plugin was fixed:
+ Incorrect updating when archive has no explicit
+ directory items for file items.
+- Some bugs were fixed.
+
+
+2.30 Beta 21 2002-07-08
+-------------------------
+- RAM requirements for LZMA (7z) compression were reduced.
+- Small bug in FAR plugin was fixed.
+
+
+2.30 Beta 20 2002-07-01
+-------------------------
+- RAM requirements for LZMA (7z) decompression were reduced.
+- New localization: Turkish.
+- Some bugs were fixed.
+
+
+2.30 Beta 19 2002-04-11
+-------------------------
+- Supporting RAR 3.0 archives.
+- New localizations: Danish, Ukrainian.
+
+
+2.30 Beta 18 2002-03-25
+-------------------------
+- Compressing speed in 7z format was slightly increased.
+- New localizations: Estonian, Finnish.
+- Some bugs were fixed.
+
+
+2.30 Beta 17 2002-03-03
+-------------------------
+- Supporting ARJ archives.
+- New localization: Chinese Simplified.
+
+
+2.30 Beta 16 2002-02-24
+-------------------------
+- Supporting RPM and CPIO archives.
+- New fast compression mode for LZMA: -m0a=0.
+- New match finders for LZMA: bt4b, hc3, hc4.
+- Some bugs were fixed.
+
+
+2.30 Beta 15 2002-02-17
+-------------------------
+- Compression ratio in 7z was slightly improved.
+- New localization: Dutch.
+
+
+2.30 Beta 14 2002-02-10
+-------------------------
+- Speed optimization for multiprocessor computers (-mmt switch).
+- New localizations: Czech, Japanese, Polish.
+- Some bugs were fixed.
+
+
+2.30 Beta 13 2002-01-31
+-------------------------
+- New SFX module for installers.
+- New match finder for LZMA: bt3.
+- New localizations: Portuguese, Portuguese Brazil, Serbo-Croatian.
+- Some bugs were fixed.
+
+
+2.30 Beta 12 2002-01-16
+-------------------------
+- Bug was fixed: memory leak in Beta 11.
+- New localization: Hungarian.
+
+
+2.30 Beta 11 2002-01-15
+-------------------------
+- Archive testing feature for GUI version.
+- Now 7-Zip can use more than 256 MB of RAM in all Windows versions.
+- New localizations: Bulgarian, Chinese Traditional, Latvian, Slovak.
+- Some bugs were fixed.
+
+
+2.30 Beta 10 2002-01-11
+-------------------------
+- Bugs were fixed:
+ - Updating 7z archives in Beta 8 and 9 didn't work.
+ - Unicode version in Beta 9 didn't work in Windows NT4.
+ - Some other bugs were fixed.
+- New localizations: Arabic, French, Italian, Slovenian, Spanish.
+
+
+2.30 Beta 9 2002-01-08
+-------------------------
+- Program localization: English, German, Russian.
+- Additional optimized versions of programs
+ for Windows NT4/2000/XP.
+- Two new match finders for LZMA: pat3h and pat4h.
+- Some bugs were fixed.
+
+
+2.30 Beta 8 2001-12-21
+-------------------------
+- 7-Zip now supports some zip archives that were not
+ supported by previous versions.
+- 7-Zip now supports new state (-uw switch) for cases
+ when 7-Zip can not detect whether file is newer or the same.
+- Supporting anti-items in 7z format for incremental
+ update (-u with action #3).
+- Some bugs were fixed.
+
+
+2.30 Beta 7 2001-11-04
+-------------------------
+- BCJ2: new converter for x86 code.
+- Supporting tar archives with very long file names
+ (GNU extension to 'tar' format).
+- Supporting multistream coders in 7z (-mb switch).
+- More compressing parameters for zip and gzip
+ in console version (-m switch).
+- Solid compressing option in Windows version.
+- Compressing parameters option in Windows version.
+- Auto renaming existing files feature for
+ extracting files.
+- Overwrite mode switch for extracting (-ao).
+- Some bugs were fixed.
+
+
+2.30 Beta 6 2001-10-13
+-------------------------
+- Supporting 7z format in MultiArc plugin for FAR Manager.
+- Some bugs were fixed.
+
+
+2.30 Beta 5 2001-10-02
+-------------------------
+- Creating SFX archives from explorer.
+- 7zWin.sfx: Windows version of SFX module.
+- Auto adding .exe extension to SFX archive name.
+- 7za.exe now supports 7z, bzip2, gzip, tar, zip.
+- Some bugs were fixed.
+
+
+2.30 Beta 4 2001-09-15
+-------------------------
+- Self extract capability for 7z format.
+- 7z archive format is default for 7z.exe and 7za.exe.
+- 7z in default mode now uses bt234 match finder
+ and solid compression.
+- 7z in maximum mode (-mx) now uses 4MB dictionary.
+
+
+2.30 Beta 3 2001-09-10
+-------------------------
+- Bug was fixed: decompressing .7z solid archives
+ containing empty files.
+- new 7za.exe: standalone command line version
+ (only for 7z format).
+- Speed of compressing to Deflate format (zip, gzip)
+ was slightly increased.
+
+
+2.30 Beta 2 2001-08-30
+-------------------------
+- Supporting the new 7z format with high compression ratio.
+- -bd (Disable percentage indicator) switch in
+ console version.
+- Bug in console version was fixed:
+ previous versions incorrectly execute compression
+ commands with non-recursive wildcards in combination
+ with subfolders.
+- Some other bugs were fixed.
+
+
+2.30 Beta 1 2001-05-07
+-------------------------
+- Speed of reading of archive contents was increased.
+- Bug was fixed: incorrect showing file names with
+ national charsets in some zip archives.
+- Now it is possible to compress files larger than 4GB
+ to GZip archives.
+
+
+2.24 2001-03-21
+-------------------------
+- Bugs in GZip and Cab decoders were fixed.
+
+
+2.23 2001-03-04
+-------------------------
+- Opening archive items in Explorer.
+- Context menu for archive items in Explorer.
+- Automatic adding extension to archive name in console version.
+- Some bugs were fixed.
+
+
+2.22 2001-01-21
+-------------------------
+- Supporting Zip archives containing more than 65535 files.
+- Speed of Plugin for Explorer was increased.
+- Searching start position of archive now is limited by
+ first 1MB part of file.
+- Some bugs were fixed.
+- Packet now doesn't contain 7zip.exe, far7zip.reg and
+ far7zip2.reg files. There is new far7z.reg file.
+
+
+2.21 2000-12-21
+-------------------------
+- FAR Plugin was improved:
+
+ - Showing process box during opening archives.
+ - Viewing properties of file by Ctrl-A.
+ - Alt-F6 in archive now immediately extracts selected files
+ to current directory.
+
+- Some bugs were fixed:
+
+ - Entering to archive's subfolders in Explorer by clicking
+ items in main window didn't work under Windows ME/2000.
+ - Decompressing solid Rar archives sometimes gave error.
+ - Console version 7z.exe during list operation incorrectly
+ showed file names with national (non-english) charsets.
+ - FAR Plugin didn't execute some operations.
+ - Showing percents during extracting ZIP archives sometimes
+ was incorrect.
+
+
+2.20 2000-11-20
+-------------------------
+- Supporting BZip2 and Cab.
+- New program architecture with external
+ compression and cryptographic modules.
+- Decryption support (Rar and Zip).
+- New console client.
+- Some bugs were fixed.
+
+
+2.11 2000-06-15
+-------------------------
+- Bugs were fixed:
+
+ - FAR Plugin incorrectly processed
+ names of subdirectories that use national
+ (non-english) charsets.
+ - gzip plugin could not compress empty files.
+
+
+2.10 2000-05-16
+-------------------------
+- First level 7-Zip Plugin for FAR Manager.
+- GUI version with integration to Windows Shell.
+- Compression and decompressing GZip and TAR formats.
+- Decompression RAR.
+- Install & Uninstall support.
+- Some bugs were fixed.
+
+
+2.01 1999-09-19
+-------------------------
+- Small bug was fixed.
+- Compression ratio was improved for some files.
+
+
+2.00 1999-07-18
+-------------------------
+- Release.
+- Big bug was fixed: previous versions incorrectly worked
+ during compressing with files that were referred by
+ direct(without wildcards) paths, containing subdirs parts.
+- Compression and decompression speed were improved.
+- -mx switch (maXimize compression) was added.
+- Small bugs were fixed.
+
+
+2.00 Beta 1 1999-01-02
+-------------------------
+- Original beta version.
+
+
+End of document
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