X-Git-Url: http://git.osdn.jp/view?p=sevenzip%2F7-Zip.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=www.7-zip.org%2Fhistory.txt;h=37a46d7ae1db0a532c07e9a37d0b19b8089b0f62;hp=003f89db7649bffbcc9a2f0a833221641f81d1a0;hb=HEAD;hpb=1c044449548ddb10ceedbc99bfa2073fb68ac374 diff --git a/www.7-zip.org/history.txt b/www.7-zip.org/history.txt index 003f89d..37a46d7 100644 --- a/www.7-zip.org/history.txt +++ b/www.7-zip.org/history.txt @@ -1,894 +1,1439 @@ -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 - - 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 +HISTORY of the 7-Zip +-------------------- + +20.00 alpha 2020-02-06 +------------------------- +- 7-Zip now supports new optional match finders for LZMA/LZMA2 compression: bt5 and hc5, + that can work faster than bt4 and hc4 match finders for the data with big redundancy. +- The compression ratio was improved for Fast and Fastest compression levels with the + following default settings: + - Fastest level (-mx1) : hc5 match finder with 256 KB dictionary. + - Fast level (-mx3) : hc5 match finder with 4 MB dictionary. +- Minor speed optimizations in multithreaded LZMA/LZMA2 compression for Normal/Maximum/Ultra + compression levels. +- bzip2 decoding code was updated to support bzip2 archives, created by lbzip2 program. +- Some bugs were fixed. +- New localization: Turkmen. + + +19.02 alpha 2019-09-05 +------------------------- +- 7-Zip now can unpack files encoded with Base64 encoding (b64 filename extension). +- 7-Zip now can use new x86/x64 hardware instructions for SHA-1 and SHA-256, supported + by AMD Ryzen and latest Intel CPUs: Ice Lake and Goldmont. + It increases + - the speed of SHA-1/SHA-256 hash value calculation, + - the speed of encryption/decryption in zip AES, + - the speed of key derivation for encryption/decryption in 7z/zip/rar archives. +- The speed of zip AES encryption and 7z/zip/rar AES decryption was increased with + the following improvements: + - 7-Zip now can use new x86/x64 VAES (AVX Vector AES) instructions, supported by + Intel Ice Lake CPU. + - The existing code of x86/x64 AES-NI was improved also. +- There is 2% speed optimization in 7-Zip benchmark's decompression. +- Some bugs were fixed. + + +19.00 2019-02-21 +------------------------- +- Encryption strength for 7z archives was increased: + the size of random initialization vector was increased from 64-bit to 128-bit, + and the pseudo-random number generator was improved. +- Some bugs were fixed. + + +18.06 2018-12-30 +------------------------- +- The speed for LZMA/LZMA2 compressing was increased by 3-10%, + and there are minor changes in compression ratio. +- Some bugs were fixed. +- The bug in 7-Zip 18.02-18.05 was fixed: there was memory leak in xz decoder. +- 7-Zip 18.02-18.05 used only one CPU thread for bz2 archive creation. + + +18.05 2018-04-30 +------------------------- +- The speed for LZMA/LZMA2 compressing was increased + by 8% for fastest/fast compression levels and + by 3% for normal/maximum compression levels. +- 7-Zip now shows Properties (Info) window and CRC/SHA results window + as "list view" window instead of "message box" window. +- Some improvements in zip, hfs and dmg code. +- Previous versions of 7-Zip could work incorrectly in "Large memory pages" mode in + Windows 10 because of some BUG with "Large Pages" in Windows 10. + Now 7-Zip doesn't use "Large Pages" on Windows 10 up to revision 1709 (16299). +- The vulnerability in RAR unpacking code was fixed (CVE-2018-10115). +- Some bugs were fixed. + + +18.03 beta 2018-03-04 +------------------------- +- The speed for single-thread LZMA/LZMA2 decoding + was increased by 30% in x64 version and by 3% in x86 version. +- 7-Zip now can use multi-threading for 7z/LZMA2 decoding, + if there are multiple independent data chunks in LZMA2 stream. +- 7-Zip now can use multi-threading for xz decoding, + if there are multiple blocks in xz stream. +- New localization: Kabyle. +- Some bugs were fixed. + + +18.01 2018-01-28 +------------------------- +- 7-Zip now can unpack DMG archives that use LZFSE compression method. +- 7-Zip now doesn't allow update operation for archives that have read-only attribute. +- The BUG was fixed: + extracting from tar with -si switch didn't set timestamps for directories. +- Some bugs were fixed. + + +18.00 beta 2018-01-10 +------------------------- +- 7-Zip now can unpack OBJ/COFF files. +- new -sse switch to stop archive creating, if 7-Zip can't open some input file. +- Some bugs were fixed. + + +17.01 beta 2017-08-28 +------------------------- +- Minor speed optimization for LZMA2 (xz and 7z) multi-threading compression. + 7-Zip now uses additional memory buffers for multi-block LZMA2 compression. + CPU utilization was slightly improved. +- 7-zip now creates multi-block xz archives by default. Block size can be + specified with -ms[Size]{m|g} switch. +- xz decoder now can unpack random block from multi-block xz archives. + 7-Zip File Manager now can open nested multi-block xz archives + (for example, image.iso.xz) without full unpacking of xz archive. +- 7-Zip now can create zip archives from stdin to stdout. +- 7-Zip command line: @listfile now doesn't work after -- switch. + Use -i@listfile before -- switch instead. +- The BUGs were fixed: + 7-Zip could add unrequired alternate file streams to WIM archives, + for commands that contain filename wildcards and -sns switch. + 7-Zip 17.00 beta crashed for commands that write anti-item to 7z archive. + 7-Zip 17.00 beta ignored "Use large memory pages" option. + + +17.00 beta 2017-04-29 +------------------------- +- ZIP unpacking code was improved. +- 7-Zip now reserves file space before writing to file (for extraction from archive). + It can reduce file fragmentation. +- Some bugs were fixed. 7-Zip could crash in some cases. +- Internal changes in code. + + +16.04 2016-10-04 +------------------------- +- The bug was fixed: 7-Zip 16.03 exe installer under Vista didn't create + links in Start / Programs menu. +- Some bugs were fixed in RAR code. + + +16.03 2016-09-28 +------------------------- +- Installer and SFX modules now use some protection against DLL preloading attack. +- Some bugs were fixed in 7z, NSIS, SquashFS, RAR5 and another code. + + +16.02 2016-05-21 +------------------------- +- 7-Zip now can extract multivolume ZIP archives (z01, z02, ... , zip). +- Some bugs were fixed. + + +15.14 2015-12-31 +------------------------- +- 7-Zip File Manager: + - The code for "Open file from archive" operation was improved. + - The code for "Tools/Options" window was improved. + - The BUG was fixed: there was incorrect mouse cursor capture for + drag-and-drop operations from open archive to Explorer window. +- Some bugs were fixed. +- New localization: Yoruba. + + +15.12 2015-11-19 +------------------------- +- The release version. + + +15.11 beta 2015-11-14 +------------------------- +- Some bugs were fixed. + + +15.10 beta 2015-11-01 +------------------------- +- The BUG in 9.21 - 15.09 was fixed: + 7-Zip could ignore some parameters, specified for archive creation operation + for gzip and bzip2 formats in "Add to Archive" window and in command line + version (-m switch). +- Some bugs were fixed. + + +15.09 beta 2015-10-16 +------------------------- +- 7-Zip now can extract ext2 and multivolume VMDK images. +- Some bugs were fixed. + + +15.08 beta 2015-10-01 +------------------------- +- 7-Zip now can extract ext3 and ext4 (Linux file system) images. +- Some bugs were fixed. + + +15.07 beta 2015-09-17 +------------------------- +- 7-Zip now can extract GPT images and single file QCOW2, VMDK, VDI images. +- 7-Zip now can extract solid WIM archives with LZMS compression. +- Some bugs were fixed. + + +15.06 beta 2015-08-09 +------------------------- +- 7-Zip now can extract RAR5 archives. +- 7-Zip now doesn't sort files by type while adding to solid 7z archive. +- new -mqs switch to sort files by type while adding to solid 7z archive. +- The BUG in 7-Zip File Manager was fixed: + The "Move" operation to open 7z archive didn't delete empty files. +- The BUG in 15.05 was fixed: + console version added some text to the end of stdout stream, is -so switch was used. +- The BUG in 9.30 - 15.05 was fixed: + 7-Zip could not open multivolume sfx RAR archive. +- Some bugs were fixed. + + +15.05 beta 2015-06-14 +------------------------- +- 7-Zip now uses new installer. +- 7-Zip now can create 7z, xz and zip archives with 1536 MB dictionary for LZMA/LZMA2. +- 7-Zip File Manager now can operate with alternate file streams at NTFS + volumes via "File / Alternate Streams" menu command. +- 7-Zip now can extract .zipx (WinZip) archives that use xz compression. +- new optional "section size" parameter for BCJ2 filter for compression ratio improving. + Example: -mf=BCJ2:d9M, if largest executable section in files is smaller than 9 MB. +- Speed optimizations for BCJ2 filter and SHA-1 and SHA-256 calculation. +- Console version now uses stderr stream for error messages. +- Console version now shows names of processed files only in progress line by default. +- new -bb[0-3] switch to set output log level. -bb1 shows names of processed files in log. +- new -bs[o|e|p][0|1|2] switch to set stream for output messages; + o: output, e: error, p: progress line; 0: disable, 1: stdout, 2: stderr. +- new -bt switch to show execution time statistics. +- new -myx[0-9] switch to set level of file analysis. +- new -mmtf- switch to set single thread mode for filters. +- The BUG was fixed: + 7-Zip didn't restore NTFS permissions for folders during extracting from WIM archives. +- The BUG was fixed: + The command line version: if the command "rn" (Rename) was called with more + than one pair of paths, 7-Zip used only first rename pair. +- The BUG was fixed: + 7-Zip crashed for ZIP/LZMA/AES/AES-NI. +- The BUG in 15.01-15.02 was fixed: + 7-Zip created incorrect ZIP archives, if ZipCrypto encryption was used. + 7-Zip 9.20 can extract such incorrect ZIP archives. +- Some bugs were fixed. + + +9.38 beta 2015-01-03 +------------------------- +- Some bugs were fixed. + + +9.36 beta 2014-12-26 +------------------------- +- The BUG in command line version was fixed: + 7-Zip created temporary archive in current folder during update archive + operation, if -w{Path} switch was not specified. + The fixed 7-Zip creates temporary archive in folder that contains updated archive. +- The BUG in 9.33-9.35 was fixed: + 7-Zip silently ignored file reading errors during 7z or gz archive creation, + and the created archive contained only part of file that was read before error. + The fixed 7-Zip stops archive creation and it reports about error. +- Some bugs were fixed. + + +9.35 beta 2014-12-07 +------------------------- +- The BUG was fixed: + 7-Zip crashed during ZIP archive creation, if the number of CPU threads was more than 64. +- The BUG in 9.31-9.34 was fixed: + 7-Zip could not correctly extract ISO archives that are larger than 4 GiB. +- The BUG in 9.33-9.34 was fixed: + The option "Compress shared files" and -ssw switch didn't work. +- The BUG in 9.26-9.34 was fixed: + 7-Zip File Manager could crash for some archives open in "Flat View" mode. +- Some bugs were fixed. + + +9.34 alpha 2014-06-22 +------------------------- +- The BUG in 9.33 was fixed: + Command line version of 7-Zip could work incorrectly, if there is relative + path in exclude filename optiton (-x) and absolute path as include filename. +- The BUG in 9.26-9.33 was fixed: + 7-Zip could not open some unusual 7z archives that were created by another + software (not by 7-Zip). +- The BUG in 9.31-9.33 was fixed: + 7-Zip could crash with switch -tcab. + + +9.33 alpha 2014-06-15 +------------------------- +- 7-Zip now can show icons for 7-Zip items in Explorer's context menu. +- "Add to archive" dialog box: + - new options in "Path Mode" + - new option "Delete files after compression" + - new "NTFS" options for WIM and TAR formats: + - Store symbolic links + - Store hard links + - Store alternate data streams + - Store file security +- "Extract" dialog box: + - new optional field to set output folder name + - new option "Eliminate duplication of root folder" + - new option "Absolute pathnames" in "Path Mode". + - new option "Restore file security" (that works for WIM archives only) +- 7-Zip File Manager: + - new "File / Link" dialog box in to create symbolic links and hard links. +- Command line version: + - new -spd switch to Disable wildcard matching for file names + - new -spe switch to Eliminate duplication of root folder for extract archive command + - new -snh switch to store hard links as links (WIM and TAR formats only) + - new -snl switch to store symbolic links as links (WIM and TAR formats only) +- NSIS support was improved. +- The problem was fixed: + The command "extract to \*" with multiple archives could use same + output folder, if archives are placed inside PE (EXE) file. +- The BUG of 9.31-9.32 was fixed: + Command line version for test and extract commands returned the + value 0 as exit code, if it couldn't open archive. +- The BUG was fixed: + 7-Zip could not create archives with anti-items for any archive type, + except of 7z type +- Some bugs were fixed. +- New localization: Mongolian (script). + + +9.32 alpha 2013-12-01 +------------------------- +- 7-Zip now can create multivolume SFX archives in 7z format. + Standalone sfx module now can unpack external 7z archive with name that is + matched to name of sfx module. For example, sfx module renamed to archive.exe + can unpack archive.7z or archive.7z.001 . +- ZIP, NSIS, HFS, AR support was improved. +- 7-Zip now supports files larger than 4 GiB in ISO archives. +- Improved compression ratio in 7z format with maximum or ultra level for + executable files (EXE and DLL) that are larger than 16 MB (improved BCJ2 filter). +- Improved support for file pathnames longer than 260 characters. +- CRC and SHA checksum calculation for files can be called via Explorer's context menu. +- 7-Zip File Manager now also takes into account the numbers in filenames for sorting order. +- 7-Zip File Manager now can use RAM buffers instead of temp files to open + nested archives, if temp file is smaller than 1/4 of RAM size. +- 7-Zip File Manager can open files in "Parser" mode via "Open Archive > #" context + menu command. It shows the list of archives inside file. +- Command line version: + - new -t# switch to open file in "Parser" mode and show the list of archives inside file. + - new -stx{Type} switch to exclude archive type from using. + - -scs switch now supports UTF-16 encoding. + - now it shows time and memory usage statistics at the end of execution. +- The BUGs were fixed: + - 7-Zip 9.30 and early versions created ZIP archives with minor errors + in extra field of headers for directory items, if AES (WinZip-AES) encryption was used. + - 7-Zip could work incorrectly in decompression of more than one + multi-volume archive in one command. + - 7-Zip 9.24 alpha - 9.30 alpha versions could not extract ZIP archives + encrypted with PKWARE-AES method. +- Minimum supported system now is Windows 2000. 7-Zip doesn't work on Windows 95/98/ME. +- New localization: Irish. + + +9.30 alpha 2012-10-26 +------------------------- +- LZMA2 now is default compression method for .7z format. +- 7-Zip now can update WIM archives. +- 7-Zip File Manager now can move files to archives. +- The default encoding for TAR format now is UTF-8. You can use -mcp=1 switch for OEM encoding. +- Command line version: + - new "rn" command to rename files in archive. + - new -sdel switch to delete files after including to archive. + - new -sns switch to store NTFS alternate streams (for WIM format only). + - new -sni switch to store NT security information for files (for WIM format only). + - new -stl switch to set archive timestamp from the most recently modified file. +- Speed optimizations for opening big archives and big disk folders. +- 7-Zip now writes special padding blocks to headers of 7z archives for + faster archive opening. Note that 7-Zip 4.50 - 4.58 contain BUG, + so these old versions can't correctly work with such new 7z archives. +- DMG support was improved +- Some bugs were fixed. +- The BUG in 7-Zip 9.26 alpha - 9.29 alpha versions was fixed. + These alpha versions could not open non-solid 7z archive, if + some files were skipped during creation of that archive. + That problem is also related to 7z archives created in solid mode, + if each solid block contains no more than one file. + Note: 7-Zip skips files that were open for writing by another + application and shows warning in that case. +- New localization: Aragonese. + + +9.25 alpha 2011-09-16 +------------------------- +- LZMA decompression speed was improved. +- "compress and send to email" code was improved to support more email clients. +- New command "h" to calculate hash values CRC-32, CRC-64, SHA-256 or SHA-1 for files on disk. +- New -spf switch to store full file paths including drive letter to archive. + If you use that switch with extract command, please check that file names in archive are correct. +- Some bugs were fixed. + + +9.23 alpha 2011-06-07 +------------------------- +- The format of language files was changed. +- Some bugs were fixed. +- New localization: Karakalpak. + + +9.22 beta 2011-04-18 +------------------------- + +- 7-Zip now uses progress indicator displayed on a taskbar button under Windows 7. +- The BUG in 7-Zip 9.21 beta was fixed: + 7-Zip could ignore some options when you created ZIP archives. + For example, it could use ZipCrypto cipher instead of AES-256. + + +9.21 beta 2011-04-11 +------------------------- +- 7-Zip now can unpack UEFI BIOS files. +- 64-bit version of 7-Zip now includes additional 32-bit shell extension DLL. + So other 32-bit programs can call 64-bit 7-Zip via context menu. +- Now it's possible to associate 7-Zip with file types without Administrator rights. +- New -mf=FilterID switch to specify compression filter. Examples: + 7z a -mf=bcj2 a.7z a.tar + 7z a -mf=delta:4 a.7z a.wav + 7z a -mf=bcj a.tar.xz a.tar +- 32-bit 7-Zip running under 64-bit Windows now can use up to 4 GB of RAM. +- Some bugs were fixed. +- New localizations: Corsican, Kyrgyz, Ligurian. + + +9.20 2010-11-18 +------------------------- +- Some bugs were fixed. + + +9.19 beta 2010-11-11 +------------------------- +- The console version now doesn't show entered password. +- Some bugs were fixed. + + +9.18 beta 2010-11-02 +------------------------- +- 7-Zip now can unpack SquashFS and CramFS filesystem images. +- 7-Zip now can unpack some TAR and ISO archives with incorrect headers. +- New small SFX module for installers (in Extra package). +- Some bugs were fixed. + + +9.17 beta 2010-10-04 +------------------------- +- Disk fragmentation problem for ZIP archives created by 7-Zip was fixed. + + +9.16 beta 2010-09-08 +------------------------- +- 7-Zip now supports files that are larger than 8 GB in TAR archives. +- NSIS support was improved. +- Some bugs were fixed. +- New localizations: Hindi, Gujarati, Sanskrit. + + +9.15 beta 2010-06-20 +------------------------- +- Some bugs were fixed. +- New localization: Tatar. + + +9.14 beta 2010-06-04 +------------------------- +- WIM support was improved. + + +9.13 beta 2010-04-15 +------------------------- +- 7-Zip now stores NTFS file timestamps to ZIP archives. +- New additional "Open archive >" item in context menu allows to select + archive type for some files. +- Some bugs were fixed. +- New localization: Uyghur. + + +9.12 beta 2010-03-24 +------------------------- +- ZIP / PPMd compression ratio was improved in Maximum and Ultra modes. +- The BUG in 7-Zip 9.* beta was fixed: LZMA2 codec didn't work, + if more than 10 threads were used (or more than 20 threads in some modes). + + +9.11 beta 2010-03-15 +------------------------- +- 7-Zip now supports PPMd compression in ZIP archives. +- Speed optimizations in PPMd codec. +- The support for archives in installers was improved. +- Some bugs were fixed. +- New localization: Kazakh. + + +9.10 beta 2009-12-22 +------------------------- +- The BUG in 7-Zip 9.09 beta was fixed: + 7-Zip created incorrect ZIP archives, if ZipCrypto encryption was used. + + +9.09 beta 2009-12-12 +------------------------- +- 7-Zip now can unpack Apple Partition Map (APM) disk images. +- Speed optimizations in AES code for Intel's 32nm CPUs. +- Speed optimizations in CRC calculation code for Intel's Atom CPUs. +- Some bugs were fixed. + + +9.07 beta 2009-08-27 +------------------------- +- It's possible to specify Diff program in options (7-Zip File Manager). +- Some bugs were fixed. + + +9.06 beta 2009-08-17 +------------------------- +- 7-Zip now can unpack MSLZ archives. +- Partial parsing for EXE resources, SWF and FLV. +- Some bugs were fixed. + + +9.04 beta 2009-05-30 +------------------------- +- 7-Zip now can update solid .7z archives. +- 7-Zip now supports LZMA2 compression method. +- 7-Zip now supports XZ archives. +- 7-Zip now can unpack NTFS, FAT, VHD and MBR archives. +- 7-Zip now can unpack GZip, BZip2, LZMA, XZ and TAR archives from stdin. +- 7-Zip now can open/copy/compress disk images (like \\.\c:) from \\.\ folder. +- 7-Zip File Manager now doesn't use temp files to open nested archives + stored without compression. +- New -scrc switch to calculate total CRC-32 during extracting / testing. +- New -scc{WIN|DOS|UTF-8} switch to specify charset for console input/output (default = DOS). +- Some bugs were fixed. + + +4.65 2009-02-03 +------------------------- +- 7-Zip File Manager now can calculate SHA-256 checksum. +- Some bugs were fixed. + + +4.64 2009-01-03 +------------------------- +- The bug in 7-Zip 4.63 was fixed: 7-Zip could not decrypt .ZIP archives + encrypted with WinZip-AES method. + + +4.63 2008-12-31 +------------------------- +- 7-Zip now can unpack ZIP archives encrypted with PKWARE-AES. +- Some bugs were fixed. + + +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 + - 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