7-Zip 18.05 – Final

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2018-05-01

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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.

7-Zip is free software, developed by Igor Pavlov and distributed under the GNU LGPL license.

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.

This file archiver works on all Windows operating systems, from Windows NT to Windows 10 (32-bit and 64-bit).

The main features:

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 18.05 (2018-05-01):

The speed for single-thread LZMA/LZMA2 decoding was increased by 30% in x64 version and by 3% in x86 version.
7-Zip now can use multi-threading for 7z/LZMA2 decoding, if there are multiple independent data chunks in LZMA2 stream.
7-Zip now can use multi-threading for xz decoding, if there are multiple blocks in xz stream.
The speed for LZMA/LZMA2 compressing was increased by 8% for fastest/fast compression levels and by 3% for normal/maximum compression levels.
7-Zip now shows Properties (Info) window and CRC/SHA results window as “list view” window instead of “message box” window.
Some improvements in zip, hfs and dmg code.
Previous versions of 7-Zip could work incorrectly in “Large memory pages” mode in Windows 10 because of some BUG with “Large Pages” in Windows 10. Now 7-Zip doesn’t use “Large Pages” on Windows 10 up to revision 1709 (16299).
The vulnerability in RAR unpacking code was fixed.
Some bugs were fixed.
New localization: Kabyle.

Homepage – https://www.7-zip.org

Size: 1.13 MB

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7 Comments on "7-Zip 18.05 – Final"

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Thanks for the update

soundping

7Zip does have a self extracting function. Use Add to Archive and in Options box you'll see 'Create SFX archive' check box.

try 7zip sfx maker (freeware) Thanks for the update.

Wow, 9.31 Alpha just locked up explorer testing a file.. Win7 64bit.

Still having ISO issues and no RAR5 support.

From the developer Igor Pavlov: "Some modules from "Extra" package were moved to LZMA SDK. 7-Zip 9.35 beta for 99.99% is same code as 9.34 alpha. Only some bugs were fixed. My latest changes in code for 7-Zip are under development still, so they are not included to 7-Zip 9.35 beta. So now I have two branches of code: 9.35 and "next_version" code. It's more difficult to support two branches. But at least now I can fix simple bugs faster and release fixed versions."Looks like faster beta roll outs are coming.