7-Zip 24.07 – Free File Archiver

7-Zip is an open source file archiver with the high compression ratio predominantly for the Microsoft Windows operating system.

It operates either as a command line program or with a graphical user interface. It also features integration with the Windows shell environment.

Compression ratio results are very dependent upon the data used for the tests. Usually, 7-Zip compresses to 7z format 30-70% better than to zip format. And it compresses to zip format 2-10% better than most of other zip compatible programs.

7-Zip is free software, developed by Igor Pavlov and distributed under the GNU LGPL license. This file archiver works on all Windows operating systems, from Windows NT to 10 (32-bit and 64-bit).

The main features of 7-Zip:

• High compression ratio in new 7z format with LZMA compression and LZMA2 compression
• For ZIP and GZIP formats, the provided compression ratio is 2-10 % better than the ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip
• Strong AES-256 encryption in 7z and ZIP formats
• Self-extracting capability for 7z format
• Integration with Windows Shell
• Powerful File Manager
• Powerful command line version
• Plugin for FAR Manager
• Localizations for 87 languages
• Supported formats:
  • Packing / unpacking: 7z, XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP and WIM
  • Unpacking only: AR, ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DMG, EXT, FAT, GPT, HFS, IHEX, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MBR, MSI, NSIS, NTFS, QCOW2, RAR, RPM, SquashFS, UDF, UEFI, VDI, VHD, VMDK, WIM, XAR and Z.

Changes in 7-Zip 24.07 (2024-06-19):

• The bug was fixed: The app could not unpack some ZSTD archives.

Changes in 7-Zip 24.05 (2024-05-15):

• New switch -myv={MMNN} to set decoder compatibility version for 7z archive creating.
  {MMNN} is 4-digit number that represents the version of the app without a dot.
  If -myv={MMNN} switch is specified, the appwill only use compression methods that can be decoded by the specified version {MMNN} of the app and newer versions.
  If -myv={MMNN} switch is not specified, -myv=2300 is used, and the app will only use compression methods that can be decoded by the app 23.00 and newer versions.
• New switch -myfa={FilterID} to allow the app to use the specified filter method for 7z archive creating.
• New switch -myfd={FilterID} to disallow the app to use the specified filter method for 7z archive creating.
• Some bugs were fixed.

Changes in 7-Zip 24.04 Beta (2024-04-05):

• New menu item in 7-Zip File Manager: “Tools / Delete Temporary Files…“. This menu item opens a window showing temporary folders and files created by 7-Zip in the user’s “Temp” folder on a Windows system. In this window, the user can delete temporary files.

Changes in 7-Zip 24.03 Beta (2024-03-22):

• The app 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%.
• The GUI and 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 (the app GUI): -y switch disables user requests and messages.
• The app shows hash methods XXH64 and BLAKE2sp in context menu.
• -slmu switch : to show timestamps as UTC instead of LOCAL TIME.
• -slsl switch : in console the app for Windows : to show file paths with
  linux path separator slash ‘/’ instead of backslash separator ‘\’.
• The app supports .sha256 files that use backslash path separator ‘\’.
• Some bugs were fixed.
• the bug in the app 24.02 was fixed: it couldn’t open ISO archives.

Homepage – https://www.7-zip.org

Supported Operating Systems:

• Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10, 11 (32-bit, 64-bit).
• Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2019.

Size: 1.27 MB

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