Features:

• Highest compression ratio in new 7z format with LZMA compression
• 7-Zip is free software distributed under the GNU LGPL
• Supported formats: 7z, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, CPIO, RPM and DEB
• For ZIP and GZIP formats 7-Zip provides compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip
• Self-extracting capability for 7z format
• Integration with Windows Shell
• Powerful File Manager
• Powerful command line version
• Plugin for FAR Manager
• Localizations for 47 languages

What's New:

• 7-Zip now can use new RISCV filter for compression to 7z and xz archives.
• RISCV filter can increase compression ratio for data containing executable files compiled for RISC-V architecture.
• The speed for LZMA and LZMA2 decompression in ARM64 version for Windows was increased by 20%-60%.
• 7-Zip GUI and 7-Zip File Manager can ask user permission to unpack RAR archives that require big amount of memory, if the dictionary size in RAR archive is larger than 4 GB.
• new switch -smemx{size}g : to set allowed memory usage limit for RAR archive unpacking.
• RAR archives can use dictionary up 64 GB. Default allowed limit for RAR unpacking is 4 GB.
• 7zg.exe (7-Zip GUI): -y switch disables user requests and messages.
• 7-Zip shows hash methods XXH64 and BLAKE2sp in context menu.
• -slmu switch : to show timestamps as UTC instead of LOCAL TIME.
• -slsl switch : in console 7-Zip for Windows : to show file paths with
• linux path separator slash '/' instead of backslash separator '\'.
• 7-Zip supports .sha256 files that use backslash path separator '\'.
• Some bugs were fixed.
• The bug in 7-Zip 24.02 was fixed: it couldn't open ISO archives.