-HISTORY of the 7-Zip
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-
-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.
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-4.60 beta 2008-08-19
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-- Some bugs were fixed.
-
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-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.
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-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.
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-4.57 2007-12-06
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-- The BUG in command line version was fixed: -up3 switch
- could work incorrectly.
-
-
-4.56 beta 2007-10-24
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-- Some bugs were fixed.
-
-
-4.55 beta 2007-09-05
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-- Some bugs were fixed.
-
-
-4.54 beta 2007-09-04
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-- Decompression speed was increased.
-
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-4.53 beta 2007-08-27
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-- "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.
-
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-4.52 beta 2007-08-03
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-- 7-Zip now can unpack Compound files (msi, doc, ...).
-- Some bugs were fixed.
-
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-4.51 beta 2007-07-25
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-- Bug was fixed: 7-Zip 4.50 beta could not open some .7z archives.
-
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-4.50 beta 2007-07-24
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-- New switch for command line version:
- -ssc[-] enables/disables case-sensitive mode for file names.
-- Speed optimizations for AES encryption.
-- Some bugs were fixed.
-
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-4.49 beta 2007-07-11
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-- 7-Zip now can unpack WIM archives.
-- 7-Zip now replaces incorrect characters in filenames during extracting.
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-4.48 beta 2007-06-26
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-- Encryption strength for .7z format was increased.
- Now it uses random initialization vectors.
-- Some bugs were fixed.
-
-
-4.47 beta 2007-05-27
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-- Bugs of 7-Zip 4.46 beta were fixed: BZip2 could work incorrectly.
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-4.46 beta 2007-05-25
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-- 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.
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-4.45 beta 2007-04-17
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-- 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.
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-4.44 beta 2007-01-20
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-- 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.
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-4.43 beta 2006-09-15
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-- 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
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-- 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
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-
-4.32 2005-12-09
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-- Bug was fixed: 7-Zip 4.31 didn't work in Windows 95
-
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-4.31 2005-12-04
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-- Small changes
-- New localization: Basque
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-4.30 beta 2005-11-18
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-- 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
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-- Bug was fixed: 7-Zip 4.28 beta worked incorrectly in Windows 95/98/Me
-
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-4.28 beta 2005-09-27
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-- Bug was fixed: 7-Zip 4.27 beta created incorrect multivolume archives.
-- "Duplicate filename" collision problem between names with ligatures was fixed.
-
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-4.27 beta 2005-09-21
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-- 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
-
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-4.26 beta 2005-08-05
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-- LZH format support (extracting only)
-- Some bugs were fixed
-- New localization: Ido
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-4.25 beta 2005-07-31
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-- 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
-
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-4.24 beta 2005-07-06
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-- 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
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-- 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
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-- No changes
-
-
-4.19 beta 2005-05-21
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-- 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
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-- Bug in v4.17 beta was fixed: 7-Zip File Manager could crash
- after some operations with archives
-
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-4.17 beta 2005-04-18
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-- 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
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-- 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
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-4.15 beta 2005-01-25
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-- 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
-
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-4.14 beta 2005-01-11
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-- 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
-
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-4.13 beta 2004-12-14
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-- Switch "--" stops switches parsing
-- Some bugs were fixed
-
-
-4.12 beta 2004-11-18
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-- Bug in v4.11 beta was fixed:
- 7-Zip created incorrect ZIP archives if file size was
- from 3.75 GB to 4 GB.
-
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-4.11 beta 2004-11-16
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-- 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
-
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-4.10 beta 2004-10-21
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-- 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
-
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-4.09 beta 2004-10-05
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-- 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)
-
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-4.08 beta 2004-10-04
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-- 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)
-
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-4.07 beta 2004-10-03
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-- 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
-
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-3.13 2003-12-11
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-- Some small bugs were fixed
-
-
-3.12 2003-12-10
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-- 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
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-- 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
-
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-3.10 2003-09-27
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-- 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
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-- Optional limitation for solid block size for increasing
- the speed of random file decompressing (-ms switch)
-
-
-3.09.01 beta 2003-09-06
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-- 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
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-- Favorites menu in 7-Zip File Manager
-- Some bugs were fixed
-
-
-3.08.03 beta 2003-08-21
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-- 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
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-- Some bugs were fixed
-
-
-3.08 beta 2003-08-19
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-- 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
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-- New features in compressing / decompressing window.
-- "Show password" option.
-- Some other small changes.
-- New localization: Valencian.
-
-
-2.30 Beta 31 2003-04-29
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-- Some bugs were fixed.
-
-
-2.30 Beta 30 2003-04-19
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-- 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.
-
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-2.30 Beta 29 2003-04-07
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-- 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
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-- 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
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-- 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
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-- Supporting Deflate64 method in Zip archives.
-- Supporting Rar 1.50 archives.
-- Some bugs were fixed.
-
-
-2.30 Beta 25 2003-01-02
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-- 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
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-- 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
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-- Encryption feature for zip format.
-- Percent indicating for some operations.
-- Some bugs were fixed.
-
-
-2.30 Beta 22 2002-08-31
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-- 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
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-- RAM requirements for LZMA (7z) compression were reduced.
-- Small bug in FAR plugin was fixed.
-
-
-2.30 Beta 20 2002-07-01
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-- RAM requirements for LZMA (7z) decompression were reduced.
-- New localization: Turkish.
-- Some bugs were fixed.
-
-
-2.30 Beta 19 2002-04-11
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-- Supporting RAR 3.0 archives.
-- New localizations: Danish, Ukrainian.
-
-
-2.30 Beta 18 2002-03-25
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-- Compressing speed in 7z format was slightly increased.
-- New localizations: Estonian, Finnish.
-- Some bugs were fixed.
-
-
-2.30 Beta 17 2002-03-03
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-- Supporting ARJ archives.
-- New localization: Chinese Simplified.
-
-
-2.30 Beta 16 2002-02-24
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-- 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
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-- Compression ratio in 7z was slightly improved.
-- New localization: Dutch.
-
-
-2.30 Beta 14 2002-02-10
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-- Speed optimization for multiprocessor computers (-mmt switch).
-- New localizations: Czech, Japanese, Polish.
-- Some bugs were fixed.
-
-
-2.30 Beta 13 2002-01-31
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-- 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
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-- Bug was fixed: memory leak in Beta 11.
-- New localization: Hungarian.
-
-
-2.30 Beta 11 2002-01-15
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-- 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
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-- 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
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-- 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
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-- 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
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-- 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
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-- Supporting 7z format in MultiArc plugin for FAR Manager.
-- Some bugs were fixed.
-
-
-2.30 Beta 5 2001-10-02
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-- 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
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-- 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
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-- 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
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-- 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
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-- 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
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-- Bugs in GZip and Cab decoders were fixed.
-
-
-2.23 2001-03-04
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-- 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
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-- 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
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-- 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
+HISTORY of the 7-Zip\r
+--------------------\r
+\r
+20.00 alpha 2020-02-06\r
+-------------------------\r
+- 7-Zip now supports new optional match finders for LZMA/LZMA2 compression: bt5 and hc5, \r
+ that can work faster than bt4 and hc4 match finders for the data with big redundancy.\r
+- The compression ratio was improved for Fast and Fastest compression levels with the \r
+ following default settings:\r
+ - Fastest level (-mx1) : hc5 match finder with 256 KB dictionary.\r
+ - Fast level (-mx3) : hc5 match finder with 4 MB dictionary.\r
+- Minor speed optimizations in multithreaded LZMA/LZMA2 compression for Normal/Maximum/Ultra \r
+ compression levels.\r
+- bzip2 decoding code was updated to support bzip2 archives, created by lbzip2 program.\r
+- Some bugs were fixed.\r
+- New localization: Turkmen.\r
+\r
+\r
+19.02 alpha 2019-09-05\r
+-------------------------\r
+- 7-Zip now can unpack files encoded with Base64 encoding (b64 filename extension).\r
+- 7-Zip now can use new x86/x64 hardware instructions for SHA-1 and SHA-256, supported\r
+ by AMD Ryzen and latest Intel CPUs: Ice Lake and Goldmont.\r
+ It increases\r
+ - the speed of SHA-1/SHA-256 hash value calculation, \r
+ - the speed of encryption/decryption in zip AES, \r
+ - the speed of key derivation for encryption/decryption in 7z/zip/rar archives.\r
+- The speed of zip AES encryption and 7z/zip/rar AES decryption was increased with \r
+ the following improvements:\r
+ - 7-Zip now can use new x86/x64 VAES (AVX Vector AES) instructions, supported by \r
+ Intel Ice Lake CPU. \r
+ - The existing code of x86/x64 AES-NI was improved also.\r
+- There is 2% speed optimization in 7-Zip benchmark's decompression.\r
+- Some bugs were fixed.\r
+\r
+ \r
+19.00 2019-02-21\r
+-------------------------\r
+- Encryption strength for 7z archives was increased:\r
+ the size of random initialization vector was increased from 64-bit to 128-bit,\r
+ and the pseudo-random number generator was improved.\r
+- Some bugs were fixed.\r
+\r
+\r
+18.06 2018-12-30\r
+-------------------------\r
+- The speed for LZMA/LZMA2 compressing was increased by 3-10%,\r
+ and there are minor changes in compression ratio.\r
+- Some bugs were fixed.\r
+- The bug in 7-Zip 18.02-18.05 was fixed: there was memory leak in xz decoder.\r
+- 7-Zip 18.02-18.05 used only one CPU thread for bz2 archive creation.\r
+ \r
+\r
+18.05 2018-04-30\r
+-------------------------\r
+- The speed for LZMA/LZMA2 compressing was increased \r
+ by 8% for fastest/fast compression levels and \r
+ by 3% for normal/maximum compression levels.\r
+- 7-Zip now shows Properties (Info) window and CRC/SHA results window\r
+ as "list view" window instead of "message box" window.\r
+- Some improvements in zip, hfs and dmg code.\r
+- Previous versions of 7-Zip could work incorrectly in "Large memory pages" mode in\r
+ Windows 10 because of some BUG with "Large Pages" in Windows 10. \r
+ Now 7-Zip doesn't use "Large Pages" on Windows 10 up to revision 1709 (16299).\r
+- The vulnerability in RAR unpacking code was fixed (CVE-2018-10115).\r
+- Some bugs were fixed.\r
+ \r
+\r
+18.03 beta 2018-03-04\r
+-------------------------\r
+- The speed for single-thread LZMA/LZMA2 decoding\r
+ was increased by 30% in x64 version and by 3% in x86 version.\r
+- 7-Zip now can use multi-threading for 7z/LZMA2 decoding,\r
+ if there are multiple independent data chunks in LZMA2 stream.\r
+- 7-Zip now can use multi-threading for xz decoding,\r
+ if there are multiple blocks in xz stream.\r
+- New localization: Kabyle.\r
+- Some bugs were fixed.\r
+\r
+\r
+18.01 2018-01-28\r
+-------------------------\r
+- 7-Zip now can unpack DMG archives that use LZFSE compression method.\r
+- 7-Zip now doesn't allow update operation for archives that have read-only attribute.\r
+- The BUG was fixed:\r
+ extracting from tar with -si switch didn't set timestamps for directories.\r
+- Some bugs were fixed.\r
+\r
+\r
+18.00 beta 2018-01-10\r
+-------------------------\r
+- 7-Zip now can unpack OBJ/COFF files.\r
+- new -sse switch to stop archive creating, if 7-Zip can't open some input file. \r
+- Some bugs were fixed.\r
+\r
+\r
+17.01 beta 2017-08-28\r
+-------------------------\r
+- Minor speed optimization for LZMA2 (xz and 7z) multi-threading compression.\r
+ 7-Zip now uses additional memory buffers for multi-block LZMA2 compression.\r
+ CPU utilization was slightly improved.\r
+- 7-zip now creates multi-block xz archives by default. Block size can be \r
+ specified with -ms[Size]{m|g} switch.\r
+- xz decoder now can unpack random block from multi-block xz archives.\r
+ 7-Zip File Manager now can open nested multi-block xz archives \r
+ (for example, image.iso.xz) without full unpacking of xz archive.\r
+- 7-Zip now can create zip archives from stdin to stdout.\r
+- 7-Zip command line: @listfile now doesn't work after -- switch.\r
+ Use -i@listfile before -- switch instead.\r
+- The BUGs were fixed:\r
+ 7-Zip could add unrequired alternate file streams to WIM archives, \r
+ for commands that contain filename wildcards and -sns switch.\r
+ 7-Zip 17.00 beta crashed for commands that write anti-item to 7z archive.\r
+ 7-Zip 17.00 beta ignored "Use large memory pages" option.\r
+\r
+\r
+17.00 beta 2017-04-29\r
+-------------------------\r
+- ZIP unpacking code was improved.\r
+- 7-Zip now reserves file space before writing to file (for extraction from archive).\r
+ It can reduce file fragmentation.\r
+- Some bugs were fixed. 7-Zip could crash in some cases.\r
+- Internal changes in code.\r
+\r
+\r
+16.04 2016-10-04\r
+-------------------------\r
+- The bug was fixed: 7-Zip 16.03 exe installer under Vista didn't create \r
+ links in Start / Programs menu.\r
+- Some bugs were fixed in RAR code.\r
+\r
+\r
+16.03 2016-09-28\r
+-------------------------\r
+- Installer and SFX modules now use some protection against DLL preloading attack.\r
+- Some bugs were fixed in 7z, NSIS, SquashFS, RAR5 and another code.\r
+\r
+\r
+16.02 2016-05-21\r
+-------------------------\r
+- 7-Zip now can extract multivolume ZIP archives (z01, z02, ... , zip).\r
+- Some bugs were fixed.\r
+\r
+\r
+15.14 2015-12-31\r
+-------------------------\r
+- 7-Zip File Manager:\r
+ - The code for "Open file from archive" operation was improved.\r
+ - The code for "Tools/Options" window was improved.\r
+ - The BUG was fixed: there was incorrect mouse cursor capture for \r
+ drag-and-drop operations from open archive to Explorer window.\r
+- Some bugs were fixed.\r
+- New localization: Yoruba.\r
+\r
+\r
+15.12 2015-11-19\r
+-------------------------\r
+- The release version.\r
+\r
+\r
+15.11 beta 2015-11-14\r
+-------------------------\r
+- Some bugs were fixed.\r
+\r
+\r
+15.10 beta 2015-11-01\r
+-------------------------\r
+- The BUG in 9.21 - 15.09 was fixed:\r
+ 7-Zip could ignore some parameters, specified for archive creation operation\r
+ for gzip and bzip2 formats in "Add to Archive" window and in command line \r
+ version (-m switch).\r
+- Some bugs were fixed.\r
+\r
+\r
+15.09 beta 2015-10-16\r
+-------------------------\r
+- 7-Zip now can extract ext2 and multivolume VMDK images.\r
+- Some bugs were fixed.\r
+\r
+\r
+15.08 beta 2015-10-01\r
+-------------------------\r
+- 7-Zip now can extract ext3 and ext4 (Linux file system) images.\r
+- Some bugs were fixed.\r
+\r
+\r
+15.07 beta 2015-09-17\r
+-------------------------\r
+- 7-Zip now can extract GPT images and single file QCOW2, VMDK, VDI images.\r
+- 7-Zip now can extract solid WIM archives with LZMS compression.\r
+- Some bugs were fixed.\r
+\r
+\r
+15.06 beta 2015-08-09\r
+-------------------------\r
+- 7-Zip now can extract RAR5 archives.\r
+- 7-Zip now doesn't sort files by type while adding to solid 7z archive.\r
+- new -mqs switch to sort files by type while adding to solid 7z archive.\r
+- The BUG in 7-Zip File Manager was fixed:\r
+ The "Move" operation to open 7z archive didn't delete empty files.\r
+- The BUG in 15.05 was fixed:\r
+ console version added some text to the end of stdout stream, is -so switch was used. \r
+- The BUG in 9.30 - 15.05 was fixed:\r
+ 7-Zip could not open multivolume sfx RAR archive.\r
+- Some bugs were fixed.\r
+\r
+\r
+15.05 beta 2015-06-14\r
+-------------------------\r
+- 7-Zip now uses new installer.\r
+- 7-Zip now can create 7z, xz and zip archives with 1536 MB dictionary for LZMA/LZMA2.\r
+- 7-Zip File Manager now can operate with alternate file streams at NTFS\r
+ volumes via "File / Alternate Streams" menu command.\r
+- 7-Zip now can extract .zipx (WinZip) archives that use xz compression.\r
+- new optional "section size" parameter for BCJ2 filter for compression ratio improving.\r
+ Example: -mf=BCJ2:d9M, if largest executable section in files is smaller than 9 MB. \r
+- Speed optimizations for BCJ2 filter and SHA-1 and SHA-256 calculation.\r
+- Console version now uses stderr stream for error messages.\r
+- Console version now shows names of processed files only in progress line by default.\r
+- new -bb[0-3] switch to set output log level. -bb1 shows names of processed files in log. \r
+- new -bs[o|e|p][0|1|2] switch to set stream for output messages;\r
+ o: output, e: error, p: progress line; 0: disable, 1: stdout, 2: stderr.\r
+- new -bt switch to show execution time statistics.\r
+- new -myx[0-9] switch to set level of file analysis.\r
+- new -mmtf- switch to set single thread mode for filters.\r
+- The BUG was fixed:\r
+ 7-Zip didn't restore NTFS permissions for folders during extracting from WIM archives.\r
+- The BUG was fixed:\r
+ The command line version: if the command "rn" (Rename) was called with more \r
+ than one pair of paths, 7-Zip used only first rename pair.\r
+- The BUG was fixed:\r
+ 7-Zip crashed for ZIP/LZMA/AES/AES-NI.\r
+- The BUG in 15.01-15.02 was fixed:\r
+ 7-Zip created incorrect ZIP archives, if ZipCrypto encryption was used.\r
+ 7-Zip 9.20 can extract such incorrect ZIP archives.\r
+- Some bugs were fixed.\r
+ \r
+\r
+9.38 beta 2015-01-03\r
+-------------------------\r
+- Some bugs were fixed.\r
+\r
+\r
+9.36 beta 2014-12-26\r
+-------------------------\r
+- The BUG in command line version was fixed:\r
+ 7-Zip created temporary archive in current folder during update archive\r
+ operation, if -w{Path} switch was not specified. \r
+ The fixed 7-Zip creates temporary archive in folder that contains updated archive.\r
+- The BUG in 9.33-9.35 was fixed:\r
+ 7-Zip silently ignored file reading errors during 7z or gz archive creation,\r
+ and the created archive contained only part of file that was read before error.\r
+ The fixed 7-Zip stops archive creation and it reports about error.\r
+- Some bugs were fixed.\r
+\r
+\r
+9.35 beta 2014-12-07\r
+-------------------------\r
+- The BUG was fixed:\r
+ 7-Zip crashed during ZIP archive creation, if the number of CPU threads was more than 64.\r
+- The BUG in 9.31-9.34 was fixed:\r
+ 7-Zip could not correctly extract ISO archives that are larger than 4 GiB.\r
+- The BUG in 9.33-9.34 was fixed:\r
+ The option "Compress shared files" and -ssw switch didn't work.\r
+- The BUG in 9.26-9.34 was fixed:\r
+ 7-Zip File Manager could crash for some archives open in "Flat View" mode.\r
+- Some bugs were fixed.\r
+\r
+\r
+9.34 alpha 2014-06-22\r
+-------------------------\r
+- The BUG in 9.33 was fixed:\r
+ Command line version of 7-Zip could work incorrectly, if there is relative \r
+ path in exclude filename optiton (-x) and absolute path as include filename.\r
+- The BUG in 9.26-9.33 was fixed:\r
+ 7-Zip could not open some unusual 7z archives that were created by another \r
+ software (not by 7-Zip).\r
+- The BUG in 9.31-9.33 was fixed:\r
+ 7-Zip could crash with switch -tcab.\r
+\r
+\r
+9.33 alpha 2014-06-15\r
+-------------------------\r
+- 7-Zip now can show icons for 7-Zip items in Explorer's context menu. \r
+- "Add to archive" dialog box: \r
+ - new options in "Path Mode"\r
+ - new option "Delete files after compression"\r
+ - new "NTFS" options for WIM and TAR formats:\r
+ - Store symbolic links\r
+ - Store hard links\r
+ - Store alternate data streams\r
+ - Store file security\r
+- "Extract" dialog box:\r
+ - new optional field to set output folder name\r
+ - new option "Eliminate duplication of root folder"\r
+ - new option "Absolute pathnames" in "Path Mode".\r
+ - new option "Restore file security" (that works for WIM archives only)\r
+- 7-Zip File Manager:\r
+ - new "File / Link" dialog box in to create symbolic links and hard links.\r
+- Command line version:\r
+ - new -spd switch to Disable wildcard matching for file names\r
+ - new -spe switch to Eliminate duplication of root folder for extract archive command\r
+ - new -snh switch to store hard links as links (WIM and TAR formats only)\r
+ - new -snl switch to store symbolic links as links (WIM and TAR formats only)\r
+- NSIS support was improved. \r
+- The problem was fixed: \r
+ The command "extract to \*" with multiple archives could use same \r
+ output folder, if archives are placed inside PE (EXE) file.\r
+- The BUG of 9.31-9.32 was fixed:\r
+ Command line version for test and extract commands returned the \r
+ value 0 as exit code, if it couldn't open archive.\r
+- The BUG was fixed:\r
+ 7-Zip could not create archives with anti-items for any archive type,\r
+ except of 7z type\r
+- Some bugs were fixed.\r
+- New localization: Mongolian (script).\r
+\r
+\r
+9.32 alpha 2013-12-01\r
+-------------------------\r
+- 7-Zip now can create multivolume SFX archives in 7z format.\r
+ Standalone sfx module now can unpack external 7z archive with name that is\r
+ matched to name of sfx module. For example, sfx module renamed to archive.exe \r
+ can unpack archive.7z or archive.7z.001 .\r
+- ZIP, NSIS, HFS, AR support was improved.\r
+- 7-Zip now supports files larger than 4 GiB in ISO archives.\r
+- Improved compression ratio in 7z format with maximum or ultra level for\r
+ executable files (EXE and DLL) that are larger than 16 MB (improved BCJ2 filter).\r
+- Improved support for file pathnames longer than 260 characters.\r
+- CRC and SHA checksum calculation for files can be called via Explorer's context menu.\r
+- 7-Zip File Manager now also takes into account the numbers in filenames for sorting order.\r
+- 7-Zip File Manager now can use RAM buffers instead of temp files to open \r
+ nested archives, if temp file is smaller than 1/4 of RAM size.\r
+- 7-Zip File Manager can open files in "Parser" mode via "Open Archive > #" context \r
+ menu command. It shows the list of archives inside file.\r
+- Command line version:\r
+ - new -t# switch to open file in "Parser" mode and show the list of archives inside file.\r
+ - new -stx{Type} switch to exclude archive type from using.\r
+ - -scs switch now supports UTF-16 encoding.\r
+ - now it shows time and memory usage statistics at the end of execution.\r
+- The BUGs were fixed:\r
+ - 7-Zip 9.30 and early versions created ZIP archives with minor errors\r
+ in extra field of headers for directory items, if AES (WinZip-AES) encryption was used.\r
+ - 7-Zip could work incorrectly in decompression of more than one \r
+ multi-volume archive in one command.\r
+ - 7-Zip 9.24 alpha - 9.30 alpha versions could not extract ZIP archives \r
+ encrypted with PKWARE-AES method.\r
+- Minimum supported system now is Windows 2000. 7-Zip doesn't work on Windows 95/98/ME.\r
+- New localization: Irish.\r
+\r
+\r
+9.30 alpha 2012-10-26\r
+-------------------------\r
+- LZMA2 now is default compression method for .7z format.\r
+- 7-Zip now can update WIM archives.\r
+- 7-Zip File Manager now can move files to archives.\r
+- The default encoding for TAR format now is UTF-8. You can use -mcp=1 switch for OEM encoding.\r
+- Command line version:\r
+ - new "rn" command to rename files in archive.\r
+ - new -sdel switch to delete files after including to archive.\r
+ - new -sns switch to store NTFS alternate streams (for WIM format only). \r
+ - new -sni switch to store NT security information for files (for WIM format only).\r
+ - new -stl switch to set archive timestamp from the most recently modified file.\r
+- Speed optimizations for opening big archives and big disk folders.\r
+- 7-Zip now writes special padding blocks to headers of 7z archives for \r
+ faster archive opening. Note that 7-Zip 4.50 - 4.58 contain BUG, \r
+ so these old versions can't correctly work with such new 7z archives.\r
+- DMG support was improved\r
+- Some bugs were fixed.\r
+- The BUG in 7-Zip 9.26 alpha - 9.29 alpha versions was fixed.\r
+ These alpha versions could not open non-solid 7z archive, if \r
+ some files were skipped during creation of that archive.\r
+ That problem is also related to 7z archives created in solid mode,\r
+ if each solid block contains no more than one file.\r
+ Note: 7-Zip skips files that were open for writing by another \r
+ application and shows warning in that case.\r
+- New localization: Aragonese.\r
+\r
+\r
+9.25 alpha 2011-09-16\r
+-------------------------\r
+- LZMA decompression speed was improved.\r
+- "compress and send to email" code was improved to support more email clients.\r
+- New command "h" to calculate hash values CRC-32, CRC-64, SHA-256 or SHA-1 for files on disk.\r
+- New -spf switch to store full file paths including drive letter to archive.\r
+ If you use that switch with extract command, please check that file names in archive are correct.\r
+- Some bugs were fixed.\r
+\r
+\r
+9.23 alpha 2011-06-07\r
+-------------------------\r
+- The format of language files was changed.\r
+- Some bugs were fixed.\r
+- New localization: Karakalpak.\r
+\r
+\r
+9.22 beta 2011-04-18\r
+-------------------------\r
+\r
+- 7-Zip now uses progress indicator displayed on a taskbar button under Windows 7.\r
+- The BUG in 7-Zip 9.21 beta was fixed: \r
+ 7-Zip could ignore some options when you created ZIP archives.\r
+ For example, it could use ZipCrypto cipher instead of AES-256.\r
+\r
+\r
+9.21 beta 2011-04-11\r
+-------------------------\r
+- 7-Zip now can unpack UEFI BIOS files.\r
+- 64-bit version of 7-Zip now includes additional 32-bit shell extension DLL.\r
+ So other 32-bit programs can call 64-bit 7-Zip via context menu.\r
+- Now it's possible to associate 7-Zip with file types without Administrator rights.\r
+- New -mf=FilterID switch to specify compression filter. Examples:\r
+ 7z a -mf=bcj2 a.7z a.tar \r
+ 7z a -mf=delta:4 a.7z a.wav \r
+ 7z a -mf=bcj a.tar.xz a.tar \r
+- 32-bit 7-Zip running under 64-bit Windows now can use up to 4 GB of RAM.\r
+- Some bugs were fixed.\r
+- New localizations: Corsican, Kyrgyz, Ligurian.\r
+\r
+\r
+9.20 2010-11-18\r
+-------------------------\r
+- Some bugs were fixed.\r
+\r
+\r
+9.19 beta 2010-11-11\r
+-------------------------\r
+- The console version now doesn't show entered password.\r
+- Some bugs were fixed.\r
+\r
+\r
+9.18 beta 2010-11-02\r
+-------------------------\r
+- 7-Zip now can unpack SquashFS and CramFS filesystem images.\r
+- 7-Zip now can unpack some TAR and ISO archives with incorrect headers.\r
+- New small SFX module for installers (in Extra package).\r
+- Some bugs were fixed.\r
+\r
+\r
+9.17 beta 2010-10-04\r
+-------------------------\r
+- Disk fragmentation problem for ZIP archives created by 7-Zip was fixed.\r
+\r
+\r
+9.16 beta 2010-09-08\r
+-------------------------\r
+- 7-Zip now supports files that are larger than 8 GB in TAR archives.\r
+- NSIS support was improved.\r
+- Some bugs were fixed.\r
+- New localizations: Hindi, Gujarati, Sanskrit.\r
+\r
+\r
+9.15 beta 2010-06-20\r
+-------------------------\r
+- Some bugs were fixed.\r
+- New localization: Tatar.\r
+\r
+\r
+9.14 beta 2010-06-04\r
+-------------------------\r
+- WIM support was improved.\r
+\r
+\r
+9.13 beta 2010-04-15\r
+-------------------------\r
+- 7-Zip now stores NTFS file timestamps to ZIP archives.\r
+- New additional "Open archive >" item in context menu allows to select \r
+ archive type for some files.\r
+- Some bugs were fixed.\r
+- New localization: Uyghur.\r
+\r
+\r
+9.12 beta 2010-03-24\r
+-------------------------\r
+- ZIP / PPMd compression ratio was improved in Maximum and Ultra modes.\r
+- The BUG in 7-Zip 9.* beta was fixed: LZMA2 codec didn't work,\r
+ if more than 10 threads were used (or more than 20 threads in some modes).\r
+\r
+\r
+9.11 beta 2010-03-15\r
+-------------------------\r
+- 7-Zip now supports PPMd compression in ZIP archives.\r
+- Speed optimizations in PPMd codec.\r
+- The support for archives in installers was improved.\r
+- Some bugs were fixed.\r
+- New localization: Kazakh.\r
+ \r
+\r
+9.10 beta 2009-12-22\r
+-------------------------\r
+- The BUG in 7-Zip 9.09 beta was fixed:\r
+ 7-Zip created incorrect ZIP archives, if ZipCrypto encryption was used.\r
+ \r
+\r
+9.09 beta 2009-12-12\r
+-------------------------\r
+- 7-Zip now can unpack Apple Partition Map (APM) disk images.\r
+- Speed optimizations in AES code for Intel's 32nm CPUs.\r
+- Speed optimizations in CRC calculation code for Intel's Atom CPUs.\r
+- Some bugs were fixed.\r
+\r
+\r
+9.07 beta 2009-08-27\r
+-------------------------\r
+- It's possible to specify Diff program in options (7-Zip File Manager).\r
+- Some bugs were fixed.\r
+\r
+\r
+9.06 beta 2009-08-17\r
+-------------------------\r
+- 7-Zip now can unpack MSLZ archives.\r
+- Partial parsing for EXE resources, SWF and FLV.\r
+- Some bugs were fixed.\r
+\r
+\r
+9.04 beta 2009-05-30\r
+-------------------------\r
+- 7-Zip now can update solid .7z archives.\r
+- 7-Zip now supports LZMA2 compression method.\r
+- 7-Zip now supports XZ archives.\r
+- 7-Zip now can unpack NTFS, FAT, VHD and MBR archives.\r
+- 7-Zip now can unpack GZip, BZip2, LZMA, XZ and TAR archives from stdin.\r
+- 7-Zip now can open/copy/compress disk images (like \\.\c:) from \\.\ folder.\r
+- 7-Zip File Manager now doesn't use temp files to open nested archives \r
+ stored without compression.\r
+- New -scrc switch to calculate total CRC-32 during extracting / testing.\r
+- New -scc{WIN|DOS|UTF-8} switch to specify charset for console input/output (default = DOS).\r
+- Some bugs were fixed.\r
+\r
+\r
+4.65 2009-02-03\r
+-------------------------\r
+- 7-Zip File Manager now can calculate SHA-256 checksum.\r
+- Some bugs were fixed.\r
+\r
+\r
+4.64 2009-01-03\r
+-------------------------\r
+- The bug in 7-Zip 4.63 was fixed: 7-Zip could not decrypt .ZIP archives \r
+ encrypted with WinZip-AES method.\r
+\r
+\r
+4.63 2008-12-31\r
+-------------------------\r
+- 7-Zip now can unpack ZIP archives encrypted with PKWARE-AES.\r
+- Some bugs were fixed.\r
+\r
+\r
+4.62 2008-12-02\r
+-------------------------\r
+- Some bugs were fixed.\r
+\r
+\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
+\r
+\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
+\r
+\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
+\r
+\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
+\r
+\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
+\r
+\r
+4.52 beta 2007-08-03\r
+-------------------------\r
+- 7-Zip now can unpack Compound files (msi, doc, ...).\r
+- Some bugs were fixed.\r
+\r
+\r
+4.51 beta 2007-07-25\r
+-------------------------\r
+- Bug was fixed: 7-Zip 4.50 beta could not open some .7z archives.\r
+\r
+\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
+\r
+\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
+\r
+\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
+\r
+\r
+4.47 beta 2007-05-27\r
+-------------------------\r
+- Bugs of 7-Zip 4.46 beta were fixed: BZip2 could work incorrectly.\r
+\r
+\r
+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
+\r
+\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
+\r
+\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
+\r
+\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
+\r
+\r
+\r
+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
+\r
+\r
+4.32 2005-12-09\r
+-------------------------\r
+- Bug was fixed: 7-Zip 4.31 didn't work in Windows 95\r
+\r
+\r
+4.31 2005-12-04\r
+-------------------------\r
+- Small changes\r
+- New localization: Basque\r
+\r
+\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
+\r
+4.29 beta 2005-09-28\r
+-------------------------\r
+- Bug was fixed: 7-Zip 4.28 beta worked incorrectly in Windows 95/98/Me\r
+\r
+\r
+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
+\r
+\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
+\r
+\r
+4.26 beta 2005-08-05\r
+-------------------------\r
+- LZH format support (extracting only)\r
+- Some bugs were fixed\r
+- New localization: Ido\r
+\r
+\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
+\r
+\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
+\r
+\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
+\r
+\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
+\r
+\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
+\r
+\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
+\r
+\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
+\r
+\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
+\r
+\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
+\r
+\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
+\r
+ \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
+\r
+\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
+\r
+\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
+\r
+\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
+\r
+\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
+\r
+ \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
+\r
+\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
+\r
+\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
+\r
+\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
+\r
+\r
+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
+\r
+\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
+\r
+\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
+\r
+\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
+\r
+\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
+\r
+ \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
+\r
+\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
+\r
+\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
+\r
+\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
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