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What's new in the latest WinRAR and RAR version
WinRAR Version 4.20
All users of the Microsoft Windows' 64-bit version are strongly recommended to install the 64-bit-version of WinRAR as integration and performance have been highly improved compared to the 32-bit-version of WinRAR.
Version 4.20 (June 2012)
1. Changes in RAR compression:
a) The RAR general compression algorithm is now optimized for better
utilization with multiple processor cores. While some speed gain
is possible in single processor mode, best results will be
achieved in a multi-core environment.
Speed gain depends on data type and average file size.
When compressing large files, several cores are now utilized more
efficiently.
b) to acheive higher compression rates we have had to increase memory
requirements. The RAR compression algorithm now allocates
about 120 MB compared to 40 MB in WinRAR 4.11;
c) the RAR text compression algorithm cannot utilize several CPU cores
efficiently, so its performance in multiprocessor environments
is much lower than for the general algorithm. Also its decompression
speed is much lower than the general algorithm regardless of the
number of CPU's. So we decided to disable the text algorithm by default.
If you need the maximum possible compression ratio for plain text data
regardless of speed, you can enable the maximum text compression in
the "Advanced compression parameter" dialog. Click the "Compression..."
button on the "Advanced" page of the archiving dialog to access it.
You can also change this option permanently in the default compression
profile;
In the command line mode text compression can be enabled with the
-mct switch;
d) "Fastest" (-m1) compression mode now also supports several processor
cores. In 4.11 it could only use a single processor core.
2. RAR's general decompression algorithm speed is slightly improved,
though not to same extent as RAR compression. RAR decompression
is not able to use several processor cores, so its performance does
not depend on the number of cores.
3. Changes in ZIP compression:
a) ZIP compression now supports several processor cores resulting
in noticeably higher performance in a multi-core environment.
Single CPU ZIP compression is also faster than in 4.11;
b) memory use for ZIP compression is increased to about 15 MB.
4. Recovery volume creating and processing can now use several CPU cores
resulting in higher speed. Though, typically hard drive seek speed is a
limiting factor for recovery volumes, so this gain is most noticeable
when working with a solid state drive.
5. Now the allowed value for -mt switch is 1 - 32, not 0 - 16 as before.
6. "Find files" command can now search data in 7-Zip archives.
Previously "Find files" did not support the .7z archive format.
7. Windows 2000 is not supported by WinRAR and WinRAR self-extracting
modules anymore.
8. "Save current settings" button in the "Advanced SFX options" dialog
is now available only when converting an existing archive to SFX.
Options saved with this button are applied only to convert to SFX
operation.
If you create or update an SFX archive, only the SFX options stored in
the default compression profile are used. Options saved in the
"Advanced SFX options" dialog are ignored for these operations.
Version 4.11
1. Bugs fixed:
a) WinRAR 4.10 did not store the NTFS "Compressed" attribute, when creating RAR archives;
b) WinRAR crashed in command line mode if the @filelist parameter was present and
'filelist' did not exist. This bug affected only WinRAR.exe, not RAR.exe;
c) if -x*\somefolder\* exclusion mask was specified when archiving and if the name of the
current folder contained 'somefolder', WinRAR excluded all files and stopped creating an
archive;
archive;
d) GUI self-extracting archives did not work in Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows
PE).
PE).
Version 4.10
1. WinRAR can create ZIP archives of practically any size:
The 2 GB archive size and 65535 files maximum ZIP limitations of previous
WinRAR versions are no longer valid.
2. WinRAR can create multivolume ZIP archives, which are also known as
split ZIP files.
ZIP volumes have names like 'volname.zip', 'volname.z01', 'volname.z02'.
Use a volume with ".zip" file extension in all archive processing
operations like starting extraction or opening an archive.
Unlike RAR volumes, ZIP volumes cannot be self-extracting.
WinRAR needs to have access to all ZIP volumes of the multivolume file set
at the same time, when creating or unpacking them. So it is impossible
to create or unpack ZIP volumes on removable disks with one volume
per disk. You need to place them all in the same folder.
3. Added the high precision file time support in ZIP archives.
WinRAR can store and extract modification, creation and last access
file time in ZIP archives with 100 nanosecond precision.
You need to set "High precision modification time" option in the "Time"
part of the archiving dialog to store all 3 times in an archive.
Set appropriate the "File time" options in the "Advanced" part of the extraction
dialog to choose times to extract.
4. Added support for Unicode names stored in ZIP extra field data.
Different ZIP tools store Unicode names either in the file header
or in the ZIP extra field and now WinRAR can correctly process both types
of Unicode names.
5. "Synchronize archive contents" option and -as command line switch are
supported in ZIP format.
6. Modifications of switch -ag behavior:
a) -ag can be used with all RAR and WinRAR commands, not just
with archiving only;
b) 'N' format character behavior differs in archiving and non-archiving
operations. When archiving, it is incremented until the first unused
name is found. In non-archiving operations like extracting it selects
the existing archive preceding the first unused name;
c) 'I' format character allows you to specify minutes regardless of presence
and position of 'H' (hours) in the format string. It can be used
instead of 'M' (minutes), when you wish to place minutes before hours,
or do not need hours at all.
7. By default, WinRAR proposes to update an archive if you modified
an open file or created any new files. New "Ignore modifications for"
option in "Settings/Viewer" dialog allows for disabling such behavior.
You can enter one or several file masks separated by spaces here
and WinRAR will not prompt to update an archive if the file created
or modified by viewer matches one of these masks.
8. Changes in the volume size input field. Now you can select size units
in the drop down list to the right of volume size. The previous way
to define size modifiers, by entering 'k', 'm', etc. characters
after the numeric size value, is also supported.
9. Changes in "Predefined sizes" in "Define volume sizes" dialog.
Floppies and ZIP disks are replaced by 5 MB and 100 MB volumes,
added new entries for maximum FAT32 file size and for Blu-ray disks.
10. New "Wipe files if password is set" option in "Options" page of
archiving dialog. If you prefer to always delete encrypted files
securely, you can enable "Wipe files if password is set"
in the default compression profile.
11. New "Wipe temporary files/Encrypted only" option in "Settings/Security".
This is a slower and more secure delete for temporary files
extracted from archives identified by WinRAR as encrypted.
Quick delete is used for all other temporary files.
12. Changes in "Convert archives" command:
a) now it is possible to convert encrypted archives. Previously
"Convert archives" command skipped them.
Though, if you still prefer to skip them, you can do it by enabling
the "Skip encrypted archives" option in the "Convert archives"
dialog. This might be useful if you wish to run the conversion
command in unattended mode, avoiding password prompts;
b) special "rar2" archive type, which was specific for RAR 1.x
and 2.x archives, has been removed. Now "rar" archive type controls
conversion of all versions of RAR archives.
Since the convert command does not need to detec thet RAR archive
version any more, the initial search for archives is performed
faster, resulting in a shorter delay before displaying the
"Convert archives" dialog.
13. New -log[fmt][=name] switch allows you to write archive and file names
to the log file in the archiving command for RAR and ZIP formats and also
in extracting, deleting and listing commands for RAR format.
This switch is especially useful, when you need to further process
an archive created with -ag or -v switches, because -log provides
the archive name generated by WinRAR.
14. New -@[+] switch allows processing of all parameters starting from
'@' character either as file names (-@) or as file lists (-@+).
15. "Setup program" SFX options are moved from "General" to the "Setup" page
of the "Advanced SFX options" dialog. Both "Run after extraction"
and "Run before extraction" are now multiline, so it is possible
to specify several setup programs for the same SFX archive.
16. "SetupCode" SFX script command instructs the SFX archive to wait
for termination of the setup program and to return the exit code of that
setup program, increased by 1000 as the exit code of SFX executable.
GUI equivalent of this command is the "Wait and return exit code" option
on the "Setup" page of the "Advanced SFX options" dialog.
17. SFX does not support "S" (create in the top level of Start Menu)
"Shortcut" command mode any more. Recent Windows versions do not allow
programs to add items to the top of the Start Menu.
18. Volume size in archiving and wizard dialogs can be specified as
a decimal fraction. The decimal mark is defined by your Windows regional
settings.
-v command line switch also allows decimal fractions.
In command line mode the dot (.) is always used as the decimal mark.
For example, -v1.5g switch means 1.5 gigabytes.
Version 4.01
1. Added support for file sizes stored in binary format in TAR archives.
Some TAR archives use the binary size format instead of octal
for files larger than 8 GB.
2. Bugs fixed:
a) "Repair" command failed to properly reconstruct the structure
of RAR archives which contained at least one file with a packed
size exceeding 4 GB.
This bug did not affect the recovery record based repair.
It happened only if the recovery record was not found and WinRAR
performed reconstruction of the archive structure;
b) even if "Do not extract paths" option in "Advanced" part of
extraction dialog was set as the default, WinRAR still unpacked
file paths if called from Explorer context menu;
c) after entering a wrong password for encrypted ZIP archive,
sometimes WinRAR ignored subsequent attempts to enter a valid
password;
d) "Wizard" command did not allow creation of self-extracting
and multivolume archives, when compressing a single folder
or a file without an extension;
e) "Import settings from file" command did not restore multiline
comments in WinRAR compression profiles;
f) when converting RAR volumes having name1.name2.part#.rar name format,
the "Convert archives" command erroneously removed the ".name2" name part.
So the resulting archive had only a name1.rar filename instead of the expected
name1.name2.rar;
g) RAR could crash when creating a new archive with -agNNN switch
if the archive number in a generated name was 110 or larger;
h) WinRAR failed to display non-English file names in 7-Zip archives
properly if they used a non-default code page. It was a display
only problem, such names were unpacked correctly.
Version 4.00
1. RAR decompression speed is improved. Depending on data type,
decompression can be up to 30% faster than in previous versions.
Both the general RAR algorithm and most of the special RAR multimedia
methods benefit from this improvement. The only module of the RAR
algorithm, which is not affected, is "Text compression" method.
2. Changes in ISO support:
a) UDF support is upgraded to UDF 2.50 revision. This makes it possible
to unpack most Blu-ray ISO files;
b) when browsing a UDF ISO file, the UDF revision number is displayed
after the "UDF" format name in the WinRAR address bar and in the
archive information dialog;
c) WinRAR sets the folder modification date when unpacking folders
stored in UDF and ISO9660 files.
3. Changes in password dialog:
a) WinRAR uses the same format of password dialog both when archiving
and extracting, so now the "Show password" option is also available
when extracting;
b) "Organize passwords..." button in the password dialog provides
access to the password organizer interface, where you can specify
your frequently used passwords. You will be able to access these
saved passwords using the drop down list or autocomplete feature
in the password dialog.
It is important to know that saved passwords are not encrypted
and anybody having access to your computer can view them.
Use the "Organize passwords" feature only if your computer is
protected from unauthorized access;
c) "Use for all archives" option is available in the password dialog
when unpacking several archives at once. You can utilize it
to apply an entered password to all archives.
If you use this option with an empty password, WinRAR will skip
all encrypted archives;
d) Unlike previous versions, the password from the default compression
profile is not used for extraction.
If you wish to use the same password for all extracting archives, press
the "Organize passwords..." button in the password dialog
and define a new password entry, specifying "*" file mask
in "Select for archives" field.
4. In Windows 7 WinRAR will also display the total operation progress on the
WinRAR icon on the Windows taskbar. You can disable it using the
"Taskbar progress bar" option on the WinRAR settings "General" page .
5. Numerous Unicode support improvements allow for processing non-English
file names more smoothly. These improvements include:
a) better Unicode handling in WinRAR; "Rename", "Convert", "Find"
and in other commands in the folder tree panel, in the password
request dialog and in many other parts of the WinRAR interface;
b) correctly displayed Unicode names in WinRAR items in Explorer
context menus;
c) Unicode support in .lng files, making WinRAR localization
possible for Unicode only languages.
6. Changes in -x switch syntax. Now you can specify a wildcard
exclusion mask for folders. Such a mask must have the trailing '\'
character, like -x*tmp*\ or -x*\temp\
7. New "Extract relative paths" option in the "Advanced" part of the extraction
dialog. If you browse an archive subfolder in a WinRAR shell and enable
the "Extract relative paths" option, the path part up to and including
the current subfolder will be removed from the extracted file paths.
For example, if you are inside your "Backup\MyData" archive folder
and extract the "Images" folder, it will be extracted as "Images",
not as "Backup\MyData\Images".
This option is the new default extraction mode, but you can change
the default back to WinRAR 3.x style. Just select "Extract full paths"
and then click "Save settings" in the "General" part of extraction dialog.
8. Windows 98, Windows Me and Windows NT are no longer not supported by WinRAR
and WinRAR self-extracting modules. The minimum Windows version
required for WinRAR 4.0 is Windows 2000.
If you need to run WinRAR on older Windows, you can download the
previous WinRAR versions from ftp://ftp.rarlab.com/rar
9. If a TAR, TAR.GZ or TAR.BZ2 archive contains symbolic or hard links
and if the destination file system is NTFS, WinRAR will create these
links when unpacking that archive. WinRAR will create symbolic links
as symbolic and hard links as hard in Windows Vista and newer
and it will create all links as hard in older Windows.
If a destination file system is FAT32 or any other not supporting
file links, WinRAR will skip links when unpacking TAR, TAR.GZ
and TAR.BZ2 archives.
10. Recovery volume processing involves less disk seek operations
resulting in higher performance.
11. You can select the Windows 7 library in it's tree panel extraction dialog
and WinRAR will use its default save location as the destination path.
12. "Report" command allows selection of HTML, Unicode text and usual text
as the output format for report files. Unlike previous WinRAR versions,
WinRAR now preserves Unicode characters in reports when using HTML
or Unicode text format. So non-English characters in file names
will be displayed properly in such reports.
13. Message list in GUI SFX archives displays only operation status
and error messages. It no longer contains the names of all extracted files.
This change improves the speed and reduces the memory requirements
for SFX archives containing a large number of files. This also makes it
easier to locate error messages, because they are not hidden among
extracted file names.
14. GUI SFX archives displays the "Extract" button instead of "Install"
if no "Setup" or "Presetup" commands are present in the archive
comment. If you prefer the "Install" button, but do not need to
execute any setup programs, you can add the "Setup=<>" command.
15. WinRAR displays the current percent above the operation progress bar
when repairing an archive containing the recovery record and when
processing recovery volumes.
16. WinRAR limits the maximum possible volume size to 4 GB minus 1 byte
when creating RAR volumes on a disk using the FAT or FAT32 file system
in volume size autodetecting mode. These file systems do not support
4 GB and larger files.
17. If the "Wait if other WinRAR copies are active" option is enabled
and WinRAR waits for another copy, you can press the "Continue" button
in the command progress window to force WinRAR to stop waiting.
The "Continue" button now allows you to override the state of the
"Wait if other WinRAR copies are active" option for the current operation.
18. WinRAR displays one password request instead of two, when saving
an encrypted file back to RAR or ZIP archive after modifying it
in an external editor. Previous WinRAR versions usually requested
the password twice, both when extracting the original file and when
archiving its modified copy. Only RAR archives with encrypted
file names were processed with the single password prompt.
19. New error code 10 ("no files") is added to the list of error codes
returned in command line mode by RAR and WinRAR. This new code
can be returned by the archive, extract, delete and repair commands.
It means that RAR did not find any files that matched the specified
file or archive mask.
20. File name area in file overwrite dialog now occupies several lines
makeing it possible to display much longer names.
21. Switch -ep3 now converts not only disk letters, but also UNC paths.
So \\server\share will be converted to __server\share when archiving and
it will be restored to the original \\server\share when extracting with -ep3.
22. New "Background extraction" option in the "Advanced" part of the extraction
dialog, puts WinRAR into the background when extracting files.
You can save its default state with "Save settings" the button in the "General"
part of the extraction dialog, just like other extraction options.
"Background archiving" option from the default compression profile
does not affect the extraction behavior anymore.
23. "Mode..." button in the operation progress window is also enabled
when extracting or testing archives. It provides access to the
"Command parameters" dialog, where you can set the "Turn PC off when done"
option for extraction and test operations.
Previously this dialog was accessible only when archiving.
24. Bugs fixed:
a) renaming a file in an archive could also rename all other files
with the same name in other folders of the same archive;
b) previous versions displayed the wrong total packed size
in "Info" command for multivolume CAB archives;
c) in ZIP archives 'U' (update) and 'F' (fresh) commands could
erroneously update even files not specified in the command line.
It happened only for files in the current folder withs names matching
files in the ZIP archive. This bug was not present in the 'A' (add)
archiving mode.
Version 3.93
1. Bugs fixed:
a) in WinRAR 3.92 -xd:\path\folder switch could also exclude folders,
which path does not match the path specified in the switch
and only the folder name is the same as specified;
b) switches -y -or did not work correctly together. Switch -or was
ignored in presence of -y.
Version 3.92
1. If you start WinRAR command from Explorer context menu in multiple
monitor configuration, the command dialog will be displayed
on the same monitor as context menu. In previous versions it was
always displayed on primary monitor.
2. WinRAR "Compress and email..." context menu command adds the archive
name to email subject. Previous versions left the subject blank.
3. In RAR 3.91 -x switch could also exclude folders from archiving
even if mask contained wilcard characters and did not contain a path.
For example, -x*. excluded all those folders, which do not have
the extension in the name. Now -x switch uses RAR 3.80 approach
for masks without path, excluding folders only if mask does not
contain wildcards and matches the folder name exactly.
4. Bugs fixed:
a) WinRAR 3.91 reported the incorrect "Unexpected end of archive"
error, when opening an empty ZIP archive created with
"New WinRAR ZIP archive" context menu command;
b) if "Delete archive" option was enabled when unpacking several
ZIP archives and if one of archives was damaged, WinRAR did not
delete archives after the damaged one, even if they were unpacked
successfully;
c) if file matched two different masks in RarFiles.lst, WinRAR
could select the last match. Normally, if neither of masks
is a subset of another, the first match must be chosen.
Version 3.91
1. This version can decompress 7-Zip archives created with
LZMA2 algorithm.
2. Now a password is requested only once when unpacking 7z archives
with encrypted file names from context menu. WinRAR 3.90 asked it
twice.
3. This version can unpack tar.bz2 archives consisting of several
smaller bz2 streams merged together. Previous versions unpacked
only the first nested bz2 stream in such composite archive.
4. WinRAR displays CRC32 of files inside of usual .gz (not .tar.gz)
archives. Previous versions left this field blank for GZIP files.
5. Bugs fixed:
a) WinRAR 3.90 displayed "Save" button instead of "Open" or "OK"
in "Find archive" dialog ("Open archive" command in "File" menu
and "Browse..." command in archiving dialog);
b) WinRAR could display incorrect file names when browsing malformed
ZIP archives;
c) WinRAR 3.90 failed to decompress LZH archives created with
"-lh7-" algorithm;
d) WinRAR 3.90 could fail to delete a part of files after archiving
if delete to Recycle Bin was enabled. This bug was present
when working in Windows XP, but not in Windows Vista and Windows 7;
e) when unpacking ISO file using WinRAR "Extract files..." command
in Explorer context menu, WinRAR could unpack same archived files
twice during the same operation. It displayed the overwrite prompt
when unpacking files for the second time;
f) hexadecimal search in WinRAR 3.90 "Find" command and console RAR
"ih" command failed to find matches if first byte in search string
was greater than 127.
Version 3.90
1. WinRAR version for Windows x64 is available. If you use
Windows x64, it is strongly recommended to install 64 bit
WinRAR version. It provides a higher performance and better
shell integration than 32 bit version.
2. RAR compression speed is improved for multi-core
and multi-CPU systems. This improvement is most noticeable
in Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems.
3. "Remove duplicate folders from extraction path" option
in "Settings/Compression" dialog is replaced by more universal
"Remove redundant folders from extraction path" option.
This option will eliminate redundant archive name based folders
from extraction path if you unpack an archive with
"Extract to DestName\" context menu command and if archive
root folder contains only one folder and no files.
4. Changes in "Extraction path and options" dialog:
a) "New folder" button creates a new subfolder in currently
selected folder;
b) F2 key renames a selected folder in the folders tree;
c) F5 key updated the tree pane contents;
d) Del key removes a selected folder in the folders tree.
5. You can enable "Show seconds" option in "Settings/File list"
dialog if you wish to see seconds in file dates in file list
in WinRAR shell.
6. "Where to check for SFX archives" options group
in "Settings/Integration/Context menus items" dialog lets
you to control processing of SFX archives in context menus.
For example, if you frequently right click ".exe" files
on slow network disks, you can turn off "Network disks" options
to minimize the delay before displaying the context menu.
7. If you sort files by name in the file list in WinRAR shell,
WinRAR will use the new logical file name sorting,
same as in Windows Explorer, considering digits in file names
by their numerical value. So files will be sorted as
1.txt, 2.txt, 10.txt instead of previous 1.txt, 10.txt, 2.txt.
This new sort behavior is available in Windows XP Service Pack 2
and newer.
8. Ctrl+W key combination can be used to close the main WinRAR window
also as WinRAR viewer windows. "View as Windows text" shortcut
in WinRAR viewer changed from Ctrl+W to Ctrl+I.
9. New command line switch -r- disables recursion completely.
So 'rar a -r- arc dirname' command will add only the empty
dirname folder and ignore its contents. By default, if dirname
does not include wildcards, RAR adds its contents even if
-r switch is not specified.
10. If used when extracting, the new command line switch -ai forces
RAR to ignore file attributes. When using this switch,
extracted files will always have attributes assigned by
operating system to a newly created file by default.
11. If output file name is not specified in "cw" command, console RAR
will send comment data to stdout.
12. When compressing stdin data with -si[name] switch, RAR sets
modification time of archived entry to current system time.
Previous RAR versions did not fill this field, resulting in
meaningless modification time for stdin.
13. Message displayed when you place the mouse cursor on WinRAR
tray icon includes the archive name now. Previously only
time left and total percent were displayed for archiving operations.
14. New 'Shutdown' variable in 'Software\WinRAR\Policy' registry key
allows to disable "Turn PC off when done" option for security reasons.
Read "Configuration settings/Registry variables" for more details.
15. Better shell extension performance. Now WinRAR context menu will be
more responsive when working with thousands of selected files.
16. Improved compatibility with high DPI Windows display mode.
17. Bugs fixed:
a) WinRAR could fail to open tar or tar.gz archive if such archive
contained a file larger than 8 GB;
b) WinRAR context menu did not work properly in Windows 7 beta
if icons in context menus were enabled and user clicked
a file inside of Windows 7 Library folder;
c) previous WinRAR versions failed to rename files having 5 or more
continuous spaces in the name. WinRAR shell does not display
such spaces for safety reasons, because they can hide an actual
file extension. But this security measure prevented the rename
command to work properly.
Version 3.80
1. Added support for ZIP archives containing Unicode file names
in UTF-8 format. When creating ZIP archive, WinRAR stores
names in Unicode only if they cannot be stored correctly using
the current single byte character set.
2. Added decompression support for WinZip AES encrypted ZIP archives.
3. Improved Unicode support for RAR and ZIP archive names.
4. "Ask before overwrite" and "Skip existing files" update modes
are now available in archiving dialog. They allow to specify
WinRAR behavior when updating already existing files in archive.
Unlike already available "Fresh existing files only" and
"Add and update files", these new modes ignore file date
and compare only file names.
Command line equivalents of these modes are:
a) switch -o enables "Ask before overwrite" archiving mode;
b) switch -o- enables "Skip existing files" archiving mode;
c) switch -o+ enables "Overwrite all" mode (default for archiving).
5. New "Add to context menu" option in "Profile parameters" dialog.
If this option is on, the profile name will be displayed in Explorer
context menus allowing to activate a profile from context menu.
6. New -cp switch allows to select a compression profile
in command line mode. It is supported only by GUI WinRAR.exe,
not by rar.exe.
7. New "Options" page of archiving dialog contains the group of
settings modifying the behavior of "Delete files after archiving"
option from "General" page:
a) Delete files. Delete files normally like in previous WinRAR
versions.
b) Move files to Recycle Bin. Deleted files are placed to
Recycle Bin.
Command line equivalent of this option is -dr switch.
c) Wipe files. Before deleting file data are overwritten by
zero bytes to prevent recovery of deleted files.
Command line equivalent of this option is -dw switch.
All these options have an effect only if "Delete files
after archiving" is on. You can enable any of these options
in the default compression profile to change the default
behavior of "Delete files after archiving".
8. WinRAR "Extraction path and options" dialog is now resizable.
You can use the mouse to drag its border to the desired size
and provide more space for folder tree pane. WinRAR will store
new dimensions of this dialog.
9. New "Update" SFX script command and "Update mode" group
of options in "Update" page of "Advanced SFX options" dialog.
These command and options allow to check time and implement
file time based updating;
10. SFX script "Shortcut" command and "Add shortcut..." command
in "Advanced SFX options" dialog now allow to specify
an icon file containing an icon associated with shortcut.
11. New "Wipe temporary files" option in "Settings/Security" dialog
provides more secure, though slower, way to delete temporary
WinRAR files.
12. WinRAR and RAR display the total progress bar when unpacking
a multivolume RAR archive if all volumes are present
in the same folder.
13. WinRAR and RAR automatically expand names of environment
variables in list files. For example, a list file can contain
lines like:
%windir%\*.exe
%USERPROFILE%\Desktop
This feature is available only in Windows RAR version.
14. Added support of TAR archives with non-zero "extra field" data.
15. Added support of TAR archives, which does not contain
the end of archive entry consisting of 512 zero bytes.
16. Improved Unicode support when dragging files from WinRAR window.
17. Shift+Tab key combination can be used in main WinRAR window to
switch the input focus between interface elements (files, comment,
tree, address) in reverse order. In previous versions Shift+Tab
used the same order as Tab.
18. Corrected a possible WinRAR crash when opening truncated
UDF ISO files.
