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This the latest beta version of the popular WinRAR.

Alternatively you can download the latest stable version of this software.

1. "Fastest" (-m1) RAR compression method has been modified to provide much higher compression speed and lower ratio. It may be useful for tasks requiring the high speed like regular backups. You may increase "Fastest" speed even more selecting 64KB compression dictionary instead of default 4MB.

2. WinRAR is able to decompress archives created by Unix 'compress' tool (.Z files). Like GZIP and BZIP2 archives, WinRAR opens tar.Z and .taz files in one step, so users do not need to unpack .tar manually.

3. WinRAR is able to decompress archives created by 7-Zip
(.7z files). "Find" command is not supported for this
archive type.

4. New "Security" dialog in WinRAR settings:

a) "File types to exclude from extracting" option to prevent extracting of potentially dangerous files like .exe, .scr and .pif;

b) "Propose to select virus scanner" option modifies behavior of "Scan archive for viruses" command. You may turn it off if you wish to skip the virus scanner selection dialog.

Read more here:
http://www.rarlab.com/rarnew.htm

What's New:

* Console RAR displays the percent of repacked data when updating files in solid archive. Previously the repacking progress indicator was available only in GUI WinRAR
* Switch -ieml.[arcname] did not delete an archive after emailing it even if dot character was specified in the switch