RAR is a powerful tool which allows you to manage and control archive files.

The archive is usually a regular file, which name has a ".rar" suffix.

RAR has the following other editions available: RAR for Linux and RAR for FreeBSD.

Features:

• RAR introduces an original compression algorithm. It allows higher compression ratios than other PC archiving tools, especially on executable files, object libraries, large text files, etc.
• RAR offers an optional compression algorithm highly optimized for multimedia data.
• RAR provides functionality for creating a 'solid' archive, which can raise the compression ratio by 10% - 50% over more common methods, particularly when packing large numbers of small files.
• RAR offers the ability to create and change SFX archives using default and external SFX modules.
• RAR offers the ability to create a multi-volume archive as SFX.
• RAR offers a number of service functions, such as setting a password, adding archive and file comments. Even physically damaged archives may be repaired and an archive may be locked to prevent further changes. Authenticity information may be added for additional security and RAR will store information on the last update and name of the archive.

What's New:

• New switch -sc[objects] allowing to select character sets for archive comments and list files. It replaces -fcu switch introduced in RAR 3.60, which was removed from list of supported switches. Now you need to specify -scuc instead of -fcu to use Unicode comments. Unlike -fcu, -sc also supports OEM and ANSI charset.
• Operation progress is displayed when adding the recovery record.
• Console RAR displays "Calculating the control sum" message when calculating CRC32 control sum for newly created RAR volume. Previous versions also calculated the volume control sum, but did it silently.
• Stack overflow vulnerability has been corrected in password processing module of console RAR and UnRAR. GUI WinRAR is not affected. We are thankful to the iDEFENSE LABS for reporting this bug.