Version history for WinRAR

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Changes from v3.80 Beta 2 to v3.80 Beta 3

• 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 iteven if dot character was specified in the switch.

Changes from v3.71 to v3.80 Beta 1

• Added support for ZIP archives containing Unicode file names in UTF-8 format
• Added decompression support for WinZip AES encrypted ZIP archives
• Improved Unicode support for RAR and ZIP archive names
• "Ask before overwrite" and "Skip existing files" update modes are now available in archiving dialog
• New "Add to context menu" option in "Profile parameters" dialog
• 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
• New "Options" page of archiving dialog contains the group of settings modifying the behavior of "Delete files after archiving" option from "General" page
• WinRAR "Extraction path and options" dialog is now resizable
• New "Update" SFX script command and "Update mode" group of options in "Update" page of "Advanced SFX options" dialog
• 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
• New "Wipe temporary files" option in "Settings/Security" dialog provides more secure, though slower, way to delete temporary WinRAR files
• WinRAR and RAR display the total progress bar when unpacking a multivolume RAR archive if all volumes are present in the same folder
• WinRAR and RAR automatically expand names of environment variables in list files
• Added support of TAR archives with non-zero "extra field" data
• Added support of TAR archives, which does not contain the end of archive entry consisting of 512 zero bytes

Changes from v3.70 to v3.71

• Archive names in rar.log error log file always include the full path.
• WinRAR tray icon is compatible with high DPI display modes.
• If you modified a file in archive with encrypted names using an external editor, WinRAR will not ask for archive password again when prompting to update a file. It will use a password which you entered when opening an archive,
• switch -tl and "Set archive time to latest file time" option could fail in previous version. Sometimes they set archive time to current system time instead of latest file time;
• if -ag switch mask contained archive number, month and minute characters, WinRAR placed 'I' character instead of minute value into generated archive name for archive numbers exceeding 1;
• high ASCII names in ISO files using ISO 9660 format without Joliet format extension were displayed incorrectly;
• WinRAR could crash when decompressing some of corrupt RAR archives;
• if "Turn PC off when done" option was set in "Convert archives" command, WinRAR turned PC off after converting the first archive in selected group instead of after converting the entire group;
• if user specified a non-existent destination path in SFX archive in Vista, SFX could enter into infinite "create new SFX window" loop;
• WinRAR could fail to unpack an individual file from subfolder of ACE archive using the drag and drop.

Changes from v3.70 to v3.71 Beta 1

• Archive names in rar.log error log file always include the full path
• WinRAR tray icon is compatible with high DPI display modes
• If you modified a file in archive with encrypted names using an external editor, WinRAR will not ask for archive password again when prompting to update a file. It will use a password which you entered when opening an archive
• Bugs fixed: switch -tl and "Set archive time to latest file time" option could fail in previous version. Sometimes they set archive time to current system time instead of latest file time
• Bugs fixed: if -ag switch mask contained archive number, month and minute characters, WinRAR placed 'I' character instead of minute value into generated archive name for archive numbers exceeding 1
• Bugs fixed: high ASCII names in ISO files using ISO 9660 format without Joliet format extension were displayed incorrectly
• Bugs fixed: WinRAR could crash when decompressing some of corrupt RAR archives
• Bugs fixed: if "Turn PC off when done" option was set in "Convert archives" command, WinRAR turned PC off after converting the first archive in selected group instead of after converting the entire group
• Bugs fixed: if user specified a non-existent destination path in SFX archive in Vista, SFX could enter into infinite "create new SFX window" loop
• Bugs fixed: WinRAR could fail to unpack an individual file from subfolder of ACE archive using the drag and drop

Changes from v3.62 to v3.70

• Numerous Windows Vista compatibility changes
• Added support for ISO 13346 (UDF) file format. This format is frequently used in ISO images of DVD disks
• Added Unicode support for ISO 9660 files, so WinRAR should handle non-English file names in .iso files better
• Design changes in window displaying archiving and extraction progress
• GUI self-extracting modules support following command line switches
• GUI self-extracting modules do not pass the entire command line to setup program like they did in previous versions
• New switch -sc[objects] allowing to select character sets for archive comments and list files
• New "Save archive copy as..." command in "File" menu
• "Word wrap" command added to "View" menu of WinRAR internal viewer, so you can change the wrapping mode of already opened viewer window
• Buttons "Up" and "Down" added to "Organize profiles" dialog
• Operation progress is displayed when adding the recovery record
• If WinRAR is minimized to tray and mouse is over its icon, WinRAR diplays a message about the current operation progress
• Console RAR displays "Calculating the control sum" message when calculating CRC32 control sum for newly created RAR volume
• Archives history list in "File" menu allows Unicode names, providing more reliable support for non-English archive names
• Stack overflow vulnerability has been corrected in password processing module of console RAR and UnRAR. GUI WinRAR is not affected

Changes from v3.70 Beta 7 to v3.70 Beta 8

• WinRAR shell extension did not work in Windows NT 4.0;
• when unpacking ZIP archives in command line mode WinRAR returned "write error" (numeric 5) code in situations when it should return "create error" (numeric 9).

Changes from v3.70 Beta 6 to v3.70 Beta 7

• -ioff switch did not work in unrar.exe;
• WinRAR 3.70 beta failed to process volumes with malformed file name extensions like .rar, .002, .r03. It continued to ask for next volume even after specifying its exact name;
• WinRAR shell extension did not work in Windows 95.

Changes from v3.70 Beta 5 to v3.70 Beta 6

• Fixed: WinRAR shell did not allow to create recovery volumes for locked RAR volumes. Now the recovery volumes option is accessible for both locked and not locked RAR volumes
• Fixed: WinRAR displayed incorrect sizes for files inside of UDF ISO archives if file size exceeded 4 GB. Such files were unpacked correctly, but their sizes in file list window were displayed wrong

Changes from v3.70 Beta 4 to v3.70 Beta 5

• when unpacking TAR archives, WinRAR 3.70 beta versions truncated unpacked names by one character if length of unpacked file name was 100 characters or more;
• WinRAR 3.70 beta versions could fail to properly unpack RAR volumes if number of volumes exceeded 100 and volumes used the old style naming scheme.

Changes from v3.70 Beta 3 to v3.70 Beta 4

• New "Request administrative access" option in "Advanced" page of "Advanced SFX options" allows to create SFX archive, which will request the administrative access when started in Windows Vista. Command line equivalent of this option is -iadm switch.
• Correction in DBCS encoding (Japanese, Chinese, etc.) support in WinRAR shell extension for Windows 9x/Me.
• Corrected a bug in extracting files from UDF ISO images exceeding 4 GB.

Changes from v3.70 Beta 2 to v3.70 Beta 3

• 1. It is possible to set the string value "AppData" in Registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\WinRAR\Paths to override the default %appdata%\WinRAR path for WinRAR settings. For example, if you wish to store theme files in WinRAR folder, set this value to "c:\Program Files\WinRAR".
• 2. Total progress bar is displayed when unpacking UDF ISO files.
• 3. In previous versions archive icons were not changed when selecting a new WinRAR theme in Windows Vista.
• 4. WinRAR displays a warning if resulting archive is self-extracting and archive size exceeds 4 GB. Windows cannot run executables of such size.
• 5. Corrections in ISO processing code.

Changes from v3.70 Beta 1 to v3.70 Beta 2

• 1. Positions of "Mode" and "Cancel" buttons in archiving dialog have been exchanged.
• 2. Bugs corrected:
• a) beta 1 could truncate names of files decompressed from ISO 9660 archives by one character;
• b) progress bars in archive conversion window did not work correctly with "Windows progress bars" option turned on;
• c) "Load WinRAR settings from" dialog did not displayed if settings.reg was not present in %appdata%\WinRAR folder.

Changes from v3.61 to v3.62

• stack overflow vulnerability has been corrected in WinRAR module processing 7-Zip archives
• WinRAR GZip module could set a wrong file date when unpacking GZip archives.

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