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7-Zip Version 4.62 Released: New Features and Bug Fixes Overview

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The final Version 4.62 of the free 7-Zip archival utility has been released. The changes include a range of bug fixes and several new features and optimizations since the last final release.
 

A Version 4.63 of the free 7-Zip archival utility has been released.
 

A Version 4.64 of the free 7-Zip archival utility has been released. This version fixes a bug related to decrypting .zip archives.
 

For a FREE (sorry about that) program, this one has to rank as a gem. Lots of features, fast, and easy to use. And one of the best pieces of Freeware around. Can't ask for more than that, can we?
 

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7 Zip has been updated to Version 15.12 with this release seeing many changes.
Changelog

7-Zip is open source software. Most of the source code is under the GNU LGPL license. The unRAR code is under a mixed license: GNU LGPL + unRAR restrictions. Check license information here: 7-Zip license.

You can use 7-Zip on any computer, including a computer in a commercial organization. You don't need to register or pay for 7-Zip.

The main features of 7-Zip
  • High compression ratio in 7z format with LZMA and LZMA2 compression
  • Supported formats:
    • Packing / unpacking: 7z, XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP and WIM
    • Unpacking only: AR, ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DMG, EXT, FAT, GPT, HFS, IHEX, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MBR, MSI, NSIS, NTFS, QCOW2, RAR, RPM, SquashFS, UDF, UEFI, VDI, VHD, VMDK, WIM, XAR and Z.
  • For ZIP and GZIP formats, 7-Zip provides a compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than the ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip
  • Strong AES-256 encryption in 7z and ZIP formats
  • Self-extracting capability for 7z format
  • Integration with Windows Shell
  • Powerful File Manager
  • Powerful command line version
  • Plugin for FAR Manager
  • Localizations for 87 languages
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A new Version 15.14 of the free 7-Zip archival utility has been released.
15.14 2015-12-31
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- 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.
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A new Version 16.00 of the free 7-Zip archival utility has been released.
16.00 2016-05-10
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- 7-Zip now can extract multivolume ZIP archives (z01, z02, ... , zip).
- Some bugs were fixed.
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A new Version 16.01 of the free 7-Zip archival utility has been released.
16.01 2016-05-19
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- Some bugs were fixed.
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A new Version 16.02 of the free 7-Zip archival utility has been released.

16.02 2016-05-21
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- 7-Zip now can extract multivolume ZIP archives (z01, z02, ... , zip).
- Some bugs were fixed.
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A new Version 16.04 of the free 7-Zip archival utility has been released.
16.04 2016-10-04
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- 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.
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7-Zip has released an update: 7-Zip 17.00 Beta
Main features of 7-Zip 17.00 beta:

  • High compression ratio in new 7z format with LZMA compression
  • Compression ratio for ZIP and GZIP formats: 2-10 % better than the ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip
  • Strong AES-256 encryption in 7z and ZIP formats
  • Self-extracting capability for 7z format
  • Integration with Windows Shell
  • Powerful File Manager
  • Powerful command line version
  • Plugin for FAR Manager
  • Localizations for 74 languages
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17.00 beta 2017-04-29
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- 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
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A new Version 18.01 of the free 7-Zip archival utility has been released.
18.01 2018-01-28
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- 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.
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A new Version 18.05 of the free 7-Zip archival utility has been released.
18.05 2018-04-30
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- 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.
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A new Version 18.06 of the free 7-Zip archival utility has been released.
18.06 2018-12-30
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- 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.
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A new Version 19.00 of the free 7-Zip archival utility has been released.
19.00 2019-02-21
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- 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.
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7-Zip 21.05 was released.

Download​

7-Zip for 64-bit Windows x64:
Link Removed

7-Zip for 32-bit Windows x86:
Link Removed

7-Zip for 64-bit Windows ARM64:
Link Removed

Another packages and source code will be available later.

What's new after 7-Zip 21.04 beta:​

  • The window "Add to Archive" now allows to set a limit on memory usage (RAM) that will be used for compressing.
  • New switch -mmemuse={N}g / -mmemuse=p{N} to set a limit on memory usage (RAM) for compressing and decompressing.
  • Some bugs were fixed.
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7-Zip 21.07 was released.

Download​

7-Zip for 64-bit Windows x64:
https://7-zip.org/a/7z2107-x64.exe

7-Zip for 32-bit Windows x86:
https://7-zip.org/a/7z2107.exe

7-Zip for 64-bit Windows ARM64:
https://7-zip.org/a/7z2107-arm64.exe

What's new after 7-Zip 21.06:​

  • 7-Zip now can extract VHDX disk images (Microsoft Hyper-V Virtual Hard Disk v2 format).
  • New switches: -spm and -im!{file_path} to exclude directories from processing for specified paths that don't contain path separator character at the end of path.
  • In the "Add to Archive" window, now it is allowed to use -m prefix for "Parameters" field as in command line: -mparam.
  • The sorting order of files in archives was slightly changed to be more consistent for cases where the name of some directory is the same as the prefix part of the name of another directory or file.
  • TAR archives created by 7-Zip now are more consistent with archives created by GNU TAR program.
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Download 7-Zip 22.00 (2022-06-15):
HISTORY of the 7-Zip
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22.00 2022-06-15
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- 7-Zip now can extract APFS (Apple File System) images that can be used in DMG files.
- 7-Zip now can create TAR archives in POSIX (pax) tar format with the switches
-ttar -mm=pax or -ttar -mm=posix
- 7-Zip now can store additional file timestamps with high precision (1 ns in Linux)
in tar/pax archives with the following switches:
-ttar -mm=pax -mtp=3 -mtc -mta
- New switches for Linux version for TAR archives:
-snoi : store owner/group ids in archive or set owner/group ids from archive to extracted files.
-snon : store owner/group names in archive
- New -snz switch to propagate Zone.Identifier stream to extracted files (Windows).
- New option "Propagate Zone.Id stream" in Tools/Options/7-Zip menu.
- New "Options" window in "Add to archive" allows to select what metadata must be
included to archive. Also it allows to select new option
"Do not change source files last access time".
- Some bugs were fixed.
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7-Zip 22.01 was released.

Download​

7-Zip for 64-bit Windows x64:
https://7-zip.org/a/7z2201-x64.exe

7-Zip for 32-bit Windows x86:
https://7-zip.org/a/7z2201.exe

7-Zip for 64-bit Windows ARM64:
https://7-zip.org/a/7z2201-arm64.exe

What's new after 7-Zip 22.00:​

  • UDF support was improved to UDF version 2.60.
  • HFS and APFS support was improved.
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