RAR - What's new in the latest version

RAR - What's new in the latest version

Version 3.51

1. Bugs fixed:

a) fixed two vulnerabilities, which could be exploited with

specially crafted ACE and UUE/XXE archives;

b) previous version did not delete some of temporary files;

c) WinRAR could crash when processing very long (more than

1024 characters) archive name parameter in the command line.

Version 3.50

1. Now it is possible to change WinRAR's look by installing

interface themes. Theme files are available on

http://www.rarlab.com/themes.htm

Theme files are RAR archives, just open them in WinRAR to install.

You can manage installed themes using "Options/Themes" menu.

2. WinRAR supports decompression of ZIP archives created using

Zip64 format extension. Zip64 was introduced to remove

original ZIP format limitations on archived file size.

3. Added support of multivolume (multipart) CAB archives.

4. New options in "Advanced" part of extraction dialog:

a) "Delete archive" options allow to delete extracted archives;

b) "Check authenticity information" option controls processing

of authenticity information in RAR archives.

5. "Wait if other WinRAR copies are active" option

in "Advanced" parts of archiving and extraction dialogs.

If enabled, it waits while other WinRAR copies are creating,

modifying or unpacking an archive and starts the operation

only when other WinRAR tasks are complete. If you are going

to perform several archiving or decompressing tasks, such queued

execution can help to reduce the amount of disk seeks and improve

overall performance.

6. WinRAR is able to integrate to Windows context menus also

on Windows x64 systems.

7. SFX modules:

a) SFX modules are not compressed by UPX anymore, so they are

larger now. UPX compression caused numerous false alerts

by antivirus software. If you wish to use compressed modules,

you can get UPX from http://upx.sourceforge.net and compress

*.sfx files in WinRAR folder;

b) The default SFX logo can be replaced by a custom bitmap file.

You can do it either with "Load SFX logo from the file" option

in "Text and icon" part of "Advanced SFX options" dialog

or using -iimg<name> command line switch. Note that -iimg is not

supported by console RAR, only GUI WinRAR recognizes it.

This option is not supported in Windows 95, 98 and Me.

Also you cannot use it if you compressed SFX modules by UPX.

c) It is possible to specify user defined SFX icons larger than

32x32 and with any color depth. Like the previous item,

this improvement is valid only if SFX modules are not compressed

by UPX and your operating system is not Windows 9x/Me;

d) DOS.SFX module moved to RAR/DOS32 distributive. If you need

to create DOS SFX archives using WinRAR, just copy DOS.SFX

to WinRAR folder.

8. "Wizard" command allows to specify a password when creating

or updating

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