HISTORY of the 7-Zip\r
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-9.30 alpha 2012-10-26\r
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-- 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
+9.33 alpha 2014-06-15\r
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+- 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
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+9.32 alpha 2013-12-01\r
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+- 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
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-9.29 alpha 2012-09-07\r
+9.30 alpha 2012-10-26\r
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- LZMA2 now is default compression method for .7z format.\r
- 7-Zip now can update WIM archives.\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
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