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1 HISTORY of the 7-Zip\r
2 --------------------\r
3 \r
4 9.22 beta 2011-04-18\r
5 -------------------------\r
6 \r
7 - 7-Zip now uses progress indicator displayed on a taskbar button under Windows 7.\r
8 - The BUG in 7-Zip 9.21 beta was fixed: \r
9 7-Zip could ignore some options when you created ZIP archives.\r
10 For example, it could use ZipCrypto cipher instead of AES-256.\r
11 \r
12 \r
13 9.21 beta 2011-04-11\r
14 -------------------------\r
15 - 7-Zip now can unpack UEFI BIOS files.\r
16 - 64-bit version of 7-Zip now includes additional 32-bit shell extension DLL.\r
17 So other 32-bit programs can call 64-bit 7-Zip via context menu.\r
18 - Now it's possible to associate 7-Zip with file types without Administrator rights.\r
19 - New -mf=FilterID switch to specify compression filter. Examples:\r
20 7z a -mf=bcj2 a.7z a.tar \r
21 7z a -mf=delta:4 a.7z a.wav \r
22 7z a -mf=bcj a.tar.xz a.tar \r
23 - 32-bit 7-Zip running under 64-bit Windows now can use up to 4 GB of RAM.\r
24 - Some bugs were fixed.\r
25 - New localizations: Corsican, Kyrgyz, Ligurian.\r
26 \r
27 \r
28 9.20 2010-11-18\r
29 -------------------------\r
30 - Some bugs were fixed.\r
31 \r
32 \r
33 9.19 beta 2010-11-11\r
34 -------------------------\r
35 - The console version now doesn't show entered password.\r
36 - Some bugs were fixed.\r
37 \r
38 \r
39 9.18 beta 2010-11-02\r
40 -------------------------\r
41 - 7-Zip now can unpack SquashFS and CramFS filesystem images.\r
42 - 7-Zip now can unpack some TAR and ISO archives with incorrect headers.\r
43 - New small SFX module for installers (in Extra package).\r
44 - Some bugs were fixed.\r
45 \r
46 \r
47 9.17 beta 2010-10-04\r
48 -------------------------\r
49 - Disk fragmentation problem for ZIP archives created by 7-Zip was fixed.\r
50 \r
51 \r
52 9.16 beta 2010-09-08\r
53 -------------------------\r
54 - 7-Zip now supports files that are larger than 8 GB in TAR archives.\r
55 - NSIS support was improved.\r
56 - Some bugs were fixed.\r
57 - New localizations: Hindi, Gujarati, Sanskrit.\r
58 \r
59 \r
60 9.15 beta 2010-06-20\r
61 -------------------------\r
62 - Some bugs were fixed.\r
63 - New localization: Tatar.\r
64 \r
65 \r
66 9.14 beta 2010-06-04\r
67 -------------------------\r
68 - WIM support was improved.\r
69 \r
70 \r
71 9.13 beta 2010-04-15\r
72 -------------------------\r
73 - 7-Zip now stores NTFS file timestamps to ZIP archives.\r
74 - New additional "Open archive >" item in context menu allows to select \r
75 archive type for some files.\r
76 - Some bugs were fixed.\r
77 - New localization: Uyghur.\r
78 \r
79 \r
80 9.12 beta 2010-03-24\r
81 -------------------------\r
82 - ZIP / PPMd compression ratio was improved in Maximum and Ultra modes.\r
83 - The BUG in 7-Zip 9.* beta was fixed: LZMA2 codec didn't work,\r
84 if more than 10 threads were used (or more than 20 threads in some modes).\r
85 \r
86 \r
87 9.11 beta 2010-03-15\r
88 -------------------------\r
89 - 7-Zip now supports PPMd compression in ZIP archives.\r
90 - Speed optimizations in PPMd codec.\r
91 - The support for archives in installers was improved.\r
92 - Some bugs were fixed.\r
93 - New localization: Kazakh.\r
94 \r
95 \r
96 9.10 beta 2009-12-22\r
97 -------------------------\r
98 - The BUG in 7-Zip 9.09 beta was fixed:\r
99 7-Zip created incorrect ZIP archives, if ZipCrypto encryption was used.\r
100 \r
101 \r
102 9.09 beta 2009-12-12\r
103 -------------------------\r
104 - 7-Zip now can unpack Apple Partition Map (APM) disk images.\r
105 - Speed optimizations in AES code for Intel's 32nm CPUs.\r
106 - Speed optimizations in CRC calculation code for Intel's Atom CPUs.\r
107 - Some bugs were fixed.\r
108 \r
109 \r
110 9.07 beta 2009-08-27\r
111 -------------------------\r
112 - It's possible to specify Diff program in options (7-Zip File Manager).\r
113 - Some bugs were fixed.\r
114 \r
115 \r
116 9.06 beta 2009-08-17\r
117 -------------------------\r
118 - 7-Zip now can unpack MSLZ archives.\r
119 - Partial parsing for EXE resources, SWF and FLV.\r
120 - Some bugs were fixed.\r
121 \r
122 \r
123 9.04 beta 2009-05-30\r
124 -------------------------\r
125 - 7-Zip now can update solid .7z archives.\r
126 - 7-Zip now supports LZMA2 compression method.\r
127 - 7-Zip now supports XZ archives.\r
128 - 7-Zip now can unpack NTFS, FAT, VHD and MBR archives.\r
129 - 7-Zip now can unpack GZip, BZip2, LZMA, XZ and TAR archives from stdin.\r
130 - 7-Zip now can open/copy/compress disk images (like \\.\c:) from \\.\ folder.\r
131 - 7-Zip File Manager now doesn't use temp files to open nested archives \r
132 stored without compression.\r
133 - New -scrc switch to calculate total CRC-32 during extracting / testing.\r
134 - New -scc{WIN|DOS|UTF-8} switch to specify charset for console input/output (default = DOS).\r
135 - Some bugs were fixed.\r
136 \r
137 \r
138 4.65 2009-02-03\r
139 -------------------------\r
140 - 7-Zip File Manager now can calculate SHA-256 checksum.\r
141 - Some bugs were fixed.\r
142 \r
143 \r
144 4.64 2009-01-03\r
145 -------------------------\r
146 - The bug in 7-Zip 4.63 was fixed: 7-Zip could not decrypt .ZIP archives \r
147 encrypted with WinZip-AES method.\r
148 \r
149 \r
150 4.63 2008-12-31\r
151 -------------------------\r
152 - 7-Zip now can unpack ZIP archives encrypted with PKWARE-AES.\r
153 - Some bugs were fixed.\r
154 \r
155 \r
156 4.62 2008-12-02\r
157 -------------------------\r
158 - Some bugs were fixed.\r
159 \r
160 \r
161 4.61 beta 2008-11-23\r
162 -------------------------\r
163 - 7-Zip now supports LZMA compression for .ZIP archives.\r
164 - Some bugs were fixed.\r
165 - New localization: Sinhala.\r
166 \r
167 \r
168 4.60 beta 2008-08-19\r
169 -------------------------\r
170 - Some bugs were fixed.\r
171 \r
172 \r
173 4.59 beta 2008-08-13\r
174 -------------------------\r
175 - 7-Zip now can unpack UDF, XAR and DMG/HFS archives.\r
176 - 7-Zip File Manager now keeps encryption when you edit encrypted file inside archive.\r
177 - 7-Zip File Manager now allows to change current folder from the address bar drop-down list.\r
178 - It's allowed to use -t switch for "list" and "extract" commands.\r
179 - Some bugs were fixed.\r
180 - New localizations: Icelandic, Kurdish Sorani.\r
181 \r
182 \r
183 4.58 beta 2008-05-05\r
184 -------------------------\r
185 - Some speed optimizations.\r
186 - 7-Zip now can unpack .lzma archives.\r
187 - Unicode (UTF-8) support for filenames in .ZIP archives. Now there are 3 modes:\r
188 1) Default mode: 7-Zip uses UTF-8, if the local code page doesn't contain required symbols.\r
189 2) -mcu switch: 7-Zip uses UTF-8, if there are non-ASCII symbols.\r
190 3) -mcl switch: 7-Zip uses local code page.\r
191 - Now it's possible to store file creation time in 7z and ZIP archives (-mtc switch).\r
192 - 7-Zip now can unpack multivolume RAR archives created with \r
193 "old style volume names" scheme and names *.001, *.002, ...\r
194 - Now it's possible to use -mSW- and -mSW+ switches instead of -mSW=off and -mSW=on \r
195 - Some bugs were fixed.\r
196 - New localizations: Punjabi (Indian), Pashto.\r
197 \r
198 \r
199 4.57 2007-12-06\r
200 -------------------------\r
201 - The BUG in command line version was fixed: -up3 switch \r
202 could work incorrectly.\r
203 \r
204 \r
205 4.56 beta 2007-10-24\r
206 -------------------------\r
207 - Some bugs were fixed.\r
208 \r
209 \r
210 4.55 beta 2007-09-05\r
211 -------------------------\r
212 - Some bugs were fixed.\r
213 \r
214 \r
215 4.54 beta 2007-09-04\r
216 -------------------------\r
217 - Decompression speed was increased.\r
218 \r
219 \r
220 4.53 beta 2007-08-27\r
221 -------------------------\r
222 - "Test" and "Info" buttons now work for open archives.\r
223 - The bug in 7-Zip 4.48 - 4.52 beta was fixed:\r
224 7-Zip could create .ZIP archives with broken files.\r
225 - Some bugs were fixed.\r
226 \r
227 \r
228 4.52 beta 2007-08-03\r
229 -------------------------\r
230 - 7-Zip now can unpack Compound files (msi, doc, ...).\r
231 - Some bugs were fixed.\r
232 \r
233 \r
234 4.51 beta 2007-07-25\r
235 -------------------------\r
236 - Bug was fixed: 7-Zip 4.50 beta could not open some .7z archives.\r
237 \r
238 \r
239 4.50 beta 2007-07-24\r
240 -------------------------\r
241 - New switch for command line version:\r
242 -ssc[-] enables/disables case-sensitive mode for file names.\r
243 - Speed optimizations for AES encryption.\r
244 - Some bugs were fixed.\r
245 \r
246 \r
247 4.49 beta 2007-07-11\r
248 -------------------------\r
249 - 7-Zip now can unpack WIM archives.\r
250 - 7-Zip now replaces incorrect characters in filenames during extracting.\r
251 \r
252 \r
253 4.48 beta 2007-06-26\r
254 -------------------------\r
255 - Encryption strength for .7z format was increased. \r
256 Now it uses random initialization vectors.\r
257 - Some bugs were fixed.\r
258 \r
259 \r
260 4.47 beta 2007-05-27\r
261 -------------------------\r
262 - Bugs of 7-Zip 4.46 beta were fixed: BZip2 could work incorrectly.\r
263 \r
264 \r
265 4.46 beta 2007-05-25\r
266 -------------------------\r
267 - New fast compression mode for Deflate method in Zip and GZip.\r
268 - New "Compress shared files" option in GUI and -ssw switch.\r
269 - Some bugs were fixed.\r
270 - New localization: Norwegian Nynorsk.\r
271 \r
272 \r
273 4.45 beta 2007-04-17\r
274 -------------------------\r
275 - Now it's possible to specify the size of solid block and the number \r
276 of CPU threads in "Add to archive" dialog box. \r
277 - Default dictionary size was increased: Normal: 16 MB, Max: 32 MB.\r
278 - Speed optimizations.\r
279 - Benchmark was improved (new "b" command in command line version).\r
280 - The number of DLL files was reduced.\r
281 - Now it's possible to associate 7-zip with combined types like .tbz2\r
282 - switch -mhcf=off is not supported now.\r
283 - If -t{Type} switch is not specified, 7-Zip now uses extension of archive to \r
284 detect the type of archive.\r
285 - Some bugs were fixed.\r
286 - New localization: Welsh.\r
287 \r
288 \r
289 4.44 beta 2007-01-20\r
290 -------------------------\r
291 - Speed optimizations for LZMA, Deflate, BZip2 and unRAR.\r
292 - 7-Zip now supports file pathnames longer than 260 characters.\r
293 - Some bugs were fixed.\r
294 - New localizations: Bangla, Bashkir, Nepali.\r
295 \r
296 \r
297 4.43 beta 2006-09-15\r
298 -------------------------\r
299 - 7-Zip now can use multi-threading mode for compressing to .ZIP archives.\r
300 - ZIP format supporting was improved.\r
301 - 7-Zip now supports WinZip-compatible AES-256 encryption for .ZIP archives.\r
302 - New context menu items for .ZIP archives creating.\r
303 - 7-Zip now uses order list (list of extensions) for files sorting for compressing \r
304 to .7z archives. It can slightly increase compression ratio in some cases.\r
305 - 7-Zip now restores modification time of folders during .7z archives extracting.\r
306 - Some bugs were fixed.\r
307 - New localizations: Armenian, Marathi.\r
308 \r
309 \r
310 \r
311 4.42 2006-05-14\r
312 -------------------------\r
313 - Compressing speed and Memory requirements were increased.\r
314 Default dictionary size was increased: Fastest: 64 KB, Fast: 1 MB, \r
315 Normal: 4 MB, Max: 16 MB, Ultra: 64 MB.\r
316 - BZip2 compressing / decompressing now can work in multi-threading mode\r
317 - Multi-threading mode now is default for multi-processor systems\r
318 - 64-bit version now supports 1 GB dictionary\r
319 - 7z/LZMA now can use only these match finders: HC4, BT2, BT3, BT4\r
320 - Compression ratio in Zip/GZip/Deflate in Ultra mode was increased\r
321 - 7-Zip now can unpack ISO archives and some installers created by NSIS\r
322 - Optional "Flat View" mode in 7-Zip File Manager\r
323 - 7-Zip File Manager now can calculate CRC checksums for files\r
324 - -x switch with relative paths now affects files specified with absolute paths\r
325 - New switch for 7za.exe (console version): -slt.\r
326 "l" (list) command with -slt shows technical information for archive.\r
327 - New switch: -scs{WIN|DOS|UTF-8} specifies charset for list files.\r
328 Default charset for list files is UTF-8 now.\r
329 - Some bugs were fixed\r
330 - New localizations: Albanian, Kurdish\r
331 \r
332 \r
333 4.32 2005-12-09\r
334 -------------------------\r
335 - Bug was fixed: 7-Zip 4.31 didn't work in Windows 95\r
336 \r
337 \r
338 4.31 2005-12-04\r
339 -------------------------\r
340 - Small changes\r
341 - New localization: Basque\r
342 \r
343 \r
344 4.30 beta 2005-11-18\r
345 -------------------------\r
346 - Files 7zFMn.exe, 7zGn.exe, 7-zipn, 7za.exe, 7zC.sfx were removed from 7-zip package\r
347 - 7-Zip now uses uncompressed SFX: 7z.sfx\r
348 - Sfx modules 7z.sfx and 7zCon.sfx now use msvcrt.dll\r
349 - Speed optimizations in LZMA maximum/ultra compressing.\r
350 - LZMA now supports word size up to 273\r
351 - 7-Zip now reduces dictionary size for LZMA, if you compress files \r
352 smaller than specified dictionary size.\r
353 - 7-Zip now can use large memory pages:\r
354 GUI: 7-Zip File Manager / Options / Settings / Use large memory pages.\r
355 Command line version: -slp switch.\r
356 This feature allows to increase speed of compressing.\r
357 But 7-Zip can make some pause at starting of compressing for allocating large pages.\r
358 Also Task Manager doesn't show real memory usage of program, if 7-Zip uses large pages.\r
359 This feature works only on Windows 2003 / XP x64 / Vista. \r
360 Also you must have administrator's rights for your system.\r
361 Recommended size of RAM: 1 GB or more.\r
362 To install this feature you must run 7-Zip File Manager at least once, \r
363 close it and reboot system.\r
364 - Some bugs were fixed\r
365 \r
366 \r
367 4.29 beta 2005-09-28\r
368 -------------------------\r
369 - Bug was fixed: 7-Zip 4.28 beta worked incorrectly in Windows 95/98/Me\r
370 \r
371 \r
372 4.28 beta 2005-09-27\r
373 -------------------------\r
374 - Bug was fixed: 7-Zip 4.27 beta created incorrect multivolume archives.\r
375 - "Duplicate filename" collision problem between names with ligatures was fixed.\r
376 \r
377 \r
378 4.27 beta 2005-09-21\r
379 -------------------------\r
380 - 7-Zip can unpack CHM/HXS (MS HTML HELP) archives\r
381 - 7-Zip can unpack multivolume CAB archives\r
382 - Now 7-Zip deletes files to the Recycle Bin by default.\r
383 Shift+Delete deletes files permanently.\r
384 - Some bugs were fixed\r
385 - New localization: Tatarish\r
386 \r
387 \r
388 4.26 beta 2005-08-05\r
389 -------------------------\r
390 - LZH format support (extracting only)\r
391 - Some bugs were fixed\r
392 - New localization: Ido\r
393 \r
394 \r
395 4.25 beta 2005-07-31\r
396 -------------------------\r
397 - 7-Zip now doesn't interrupt the compressing when it can not \r
398 find specified file as in version 4.24 beta. It just shows warning.\r
399 - 7-Zip now supports standard selection mode in the file list\r
400 - Some bugs were fixed\r
401 \r
402 \r
403 4.24 beta 2005-07-06\r
404 -------------------------\r
405 - 7-Zip now supports right-click Drag and Drop in Explorer\r
406 - Command line version now supports short file names (like FILENA~1.TXT)\r
407 - If there are no wildcard names and there is no -r switch in command line, \r
408 7-Zip now checks that specified files exist on disk before compressing.\r
409 - Some bugs were fixed\r
410 \r
411 \r
412 4.23 2005-06-29\r
413 -------------------------\r
414 - Drag and Drop support\r
415 - 7-Zip File Manager now can copy files from one archive to another\r
416 - Some bugs were fixed\r
417 - New localizations: Extremaduran, Malay\r
418 \r
419 \r
420 4.20 2005-05-30\r
421 -------------------------\r
422 - No changes \r
423 \r
424 \r
425 4.19 beta 2005-05-21\r
426 -------------------------\r
427 - BZip2 code was rewritten. Now it supports 3 modes: Normal, Maximum and \r
428 Ultra. In Normal mode it compresses almost as original BZip2 compressor. \r
429 Compression ratio in Maximum and Ultra modes is 1-3% better for some files, \r
430 but Maximum Mode is about 3 times slower and Ultra Mode is about 8 times \r
431 slower than Normal mode.\r
432 - Console version now prints all messages to stdout by default,\r
433 and if -so switch is specified, 7-Zip prints messages to stderr.\r
434 - Some bugs were fixed\r
435 - New localizations: Azeri, Georgian\r
436 \r
437 \r
438 4.18 beta 2005-04-19\r
439 -------------------------\r
440 - Bug in v4.17 beta was fixed: 7-Zip File Manager could crash \r
441 after some operations with archives\r
442 \r
443 \r
444 4.17 beta 2005-04-18\r
445 -------------------------\r
446 - To increase protection from viruses, 7-Zip now does not open \r
447 files with more than 4 continuous spaces in the name. \r
448 And 7-Zip changes such long spaces in name to " ... " in the file list.\r
449 - Code size optimization\r
450 - Some files were moved from main package to extra package:\r
451 - Plugin for FAR Manager\r
452 - SFX modules for installers (7zS.sfx and 7zSD.sfx)\r
453 - New localizations: Asturian, Indonesian\r
454 \r
455 \r
456 4.16 beta 2005-03-29\r
457 -------------------------\r
458 - Speed optimization (5%) for 7z / LZMA \r
459 - 7za.exe now supports .Z archives\r
460 - -r- switch in command line now is default for all commands \r
461 - Some bugs were fixed\r
462 - New localization: Uzbek\r
463 \r
464 \r
465 4.15 beta 2005-01-25\r
466 -------------------------\r
467 - Z format supporting (extracting only)\r
468 - 7-Zip now can extract ZIP archives compressed with "Shrink" method\r
469 - 7-Zip now doesn't interrupt the compressing when it can not open file.\r
470 7-Zip just skips that file and shows warning.\r
471 - Some bugs were fixed\r
472 - New localization: Frisian\r
473 \r
474 \r
475 4.14 beta 2005-01-11\r
476 -------------------------\r
477 - 7-Zip installer was created with NSIS.\r
478 Now it installs 7-Zip for all users (under Windows 2000/XP).\r
479 - Now 7-Zip can create multivolume archives\r
480 (switch -v for command line)\r
481 - Some bugs were fixed\r
482 - New localizations: Breton, Farsi\r
483 \r
484 \r
485 4.13 beta 2004-12-14\r
486 -------------------------\r
487 - Switch "--" stops switches parsing\r
488 - Some bugs were fixed\r
489 \r
490 \r
491 4.12 beta 2004-11-18\r
492 -------------------------\r
493 - Bug in v4.11 beta was fixed:\r
494 7-Zip created incorrect ZIP archives if file size was \r
495 from 3.75 GB to 4 GB.\r
496 \r
497 \r
498 4.11 beta 2004-11-16\r
499 -------------------------\r
500 - 7-Zip now shows file names during compressing/decompressing\r
501 - 7-Zip now supports Zip64 extension of ZIP format. So now it's \r
502 possible to compress files bigger than 4 GB to ZIP archives.\r
503 - Some bugs were fixed\r
504 - New localization: Galician\r
505 \r
506 \r
507 4.10 beta 2004-10-21\r
508 -------------------------\r
509 - Bugs in v4.0* were fixed:\r
510 - Some commands in command line with "-r" switch worked incorrectly,\r
511 so 7-zip could skip some files during compressing\r
512 - Some other bugs were fixed\r
513 - Small internal changes\r
514 \r
515 \r
516 4.09 beta 2004-10-05\r
517 -------------------------\r
518 - Bugs in v4.0* were fixed:\r
519 - Renaming inside archives didn't work or worked incorrectly\r
520 - GUI SFX didn't show extracting dialog at start\r
521 - Small fixes in 7-Zip GUI (7zG.exe)\r
522 \r
523 \r
524 4.08 beta 2004-10-04\r
525 -------------------------\r
526 - Bug in installer for v4.07 was fixed: when rebooting \r
527 is required, it rebooted without asking user\r
528 - Small fixes in 7-Zip GUI (7zG.exe)\r
529 \r
530 \r
531 4.07 beta 2004-10-03\r
532 -------------------------\r
533 - Big amount of code was changed in this beta version.\r
534 So don't use it for important data compressing. \r
535 And test archive after compressing.\r
536 \r
537 - Unified command line interface to GUI and console versions\r
538 - 7-Zip now can extract or test several archives in one command \r
539 - 7-Zip now doesn't interrupt the compressing when file is locked by \r
540 other application. 7-Zip just skips that file and shows warning.\r
541 Note: previous versions of 7-Zip had bug, so they can not unpack \r
542 non-solid and some solid 7z archives with such skipped files.\r
543 - Command line interface was changed:\r
544 - now it's possible to use absolute pathnames\r
545 - syntax simplification:\r
546 was: 7z a a Folder1\* Folder2\* -r\r
547 now: 7z a a Folder1 Folder2\r
548 - now it's possible to use complex wildcard commands, like *\*111*\*\r
549 - More smart detection of archive type for files with unusual\r
550 file name extensions\r
551 - Supporting for RAR archives with encrypted headers\r
552 - CPIO format supporting was improved\r
553 - For GZip and BZip2 formats you can:\r
554 - Compress from stdin (-si switch)\r
555 - Compress to stdout (-so switch)\r
556 - Extract to stdout (-so switch)\r
557 - 7-Zip File Manager:\r
558 - Split and Combine commands\r
559 - new list view options: Full row select, Show grid lines\r
560 - Internal reconstruction\r
561 - Some bugs were fixed\r
562 - New localizations: Friulian, Macedonian, Mongolian, Tamil, Thai\r
563 \r
564 \r
565 3.13 2003-12-11\r
566 -------------------------\r
567 - Some small bugs were fixed\r
568 \r
569 \r
570 3.12 2003-12-10\r
571 -------------------------\r
572 - Now you can select compression method, dictionary size\r
573 and word size in "Add to archive" dialog box. Also it \r
574 shows memory usage.\r
575 - 7-Zip File Manager now contains toolbars.\r
576 - New "Benchmark" command in 7-Zip File Manager.\r
577 It measures compressing and decompressing speeds and \r
578 shows rating values.\r
579 - Some bugs were fixed.\r
580 \r
581 \r
582 3.11 2003-10-06\r
583 -------------------------\r
584 - 7-zip now use limitations for solid block size\r
585 for increasing the speed of random file decompressing:\r
586 - in Store mode: 0 B\r
587 - in Fast mode: 16 MB\r
588 - in Normal mode: 256 MB\r
589 - in Maximum mode: 1 GB \r
590 - in Ultra mode: 4 GB \r
591 - 7z.exe, 7za.exe and SFX modules now support Unicode \r
592 file names under Windows NT/2000/XP/2003.\r
593 7zn.exe and 7zan.exe were removed from package. \r
594 - Some bugs were fixed\r
595 - New localization: Afrikaans\r
596 \r
597 \r
598 3.10 2003-09-27\r
599 -------------------------\r
600 - Drag-and-Drop from external application\r
601 - GUI version (7zG.exe) can compress files with absolute paths\r
602 - Compression dialog doesn't suggest bzip2 and gzip2 types when \r
603 there are more than one selected file\r
604 - Optional auto renaming for existing files during extraction \r
605 in command line version (-aot switch).\r
606 - Some bugs were fixed\r
607 \r
608 \r
609 3.09.02 2003-09-20\r
610 -------------------------\r
611 - Optional limitation for solid block size for increasing \r
612 the speed of random file decompressing (-ms switch)\r
613 \r
614 \r
615 3.09.01 beta 2003-09-06\r
616 -------------------------\r
617 - Automatic compression filter for executable files:\r
618 dll, exe, ocx, sfx, sys, (-mf switch)\r
619 - Compression levels in 7z now are:\r
620 - Fast: 32 KB dictionary, BCJ filter\r
621 - Normal: 2 MB dictionary, BCJ filter\r
622 - Maximum: 8 MB dictionary, BCJ filter, max settings\r
623 - Ultra: 32 MB dictionary, BCJ2 filter, max settings\r
624 - Updating solid 7z archives now is supported, if it doesn't \r
625 require repacking solid blocks\r
626 - -mhcf switch for 7z format now is default\r
627 - Some bugs were fixed\r
628 \r
629 \r
630 3.08.04 beta 2003-08-24\r
631 -------------------------\r
632 - Favorites menu in 7-Zip File Manager\r
633 - Some bugs were fixed\r
634 \r
635 \r
636 3.08.03 beta 2003-08-21\r
637 -------------------------\r
638 - Automatic adding of extension to archive name in Compress Dialog\r
639 - Some bugs in previous 3.08.* versions were fixed:\r
640 - Storing columns width inside archives in File Manager\r
641 - Opening archive inside archive\r
642 - Quotes in list files in console version\r
643 \r
644 \r
645 3.08.02 beta 2003-08-20\r
646 -------------------------\r
647 - Some bugs were fixed\r
648 \r
649 \r
650 3.08 beta 2003-08-19\r
651 -------------------------\r
652 - Compress dialog:\r
653 - Supporting fast compressing mode (-mx=1 switch)\r
654 - Multi-threading option for Multi-Processor systems \r
655 or Pentium 4 with Hyper-Threading\r
656 - Encrypt file names option\r
657 - New context menu items:\r
658 - Extract here\r
659 - Extract to <Folder>\r
660 - Compress and email\r
661 - Internal reconstruction, registry using was reduced\r
662 - New localization: Esperanto\r
663 \r
664 \r
665 2.30 Beta 32 2003-05-15\r
666 -------------------------\r
667 - New features in compressing / decompressing window.\r
668 - "Show password" option.\r
669 - Some other small changes.\r
670 - New localization: Valencian.\r
671 \r
672 \r
673 2.30 Beta 31 2003-04-29\r
674 -------------------------\r
675 - Some bugs were fixed.\r
676 \r
677 \r
678 2.30 Beta 30 2003-04-19\r
679 -------------------------\r
680 - 7-Zip File Manager:\r
681 - Showing .. item.\r
682 - 1/2 Panels mode switching (F9).\r
683 - Supporting Bzip2 compression in ZIP archives.\r
684 - Some bugs were fixed.\r
685 - Some optimization recompiling for reducing code size.\r
686 \r
687 \r
688 2.30 Beta 29 2003-04-07\r
689 -------------------------\r
690 - 7-Zip File Manager:\r
691 - "7-Zip" and "System" submenus in "Files" menu.\r
692 - Path history and "Browse" button in "Copy" dialog.\r
693 - RAR supporting was improved.\r
694 - Some bugs were fixed.\r
695 - Small changes in LZMA code.\r
696 - New localizations: Hebrew, Vietnamese.\r
697 \r
698 \r
699 2.30 Beta 28 2003-02-16\r
700 -------------------------\r
701 - Some bugs were fixed:\r
702 - Updating 7z archives that are larger than 4 GB.\r
703 - Using anti-items in 7z format.\r
704 - Compressing empty files with password to zip format.\r
705 - In max mode 7z now uses 8 MB dictionary instead of 4 MB.\r
706 - 7-Zip File Manager:\r
707 - Supporting file comments: Ctrl-Z.\r
708 - New key alias for folder bookmarks: [Shift]+Alt+Number.\r
709 \r
710 \r
711 2.30 Beta 27 2003-01-24\r
712 -------------------------\r
713 - Two BUGs in two previous beta versions (Beta 25 and Beta 26) \r
714 were fixed:\r
715 1. Incorrect compressing to non-solid 7z archive\r
716 when files have some very big sizes:\r
717 4 GB, 8 GB, 12 GB, 16 GB, ... \r
718 2. Incorrect percent showing in 7z compressing\r
719 when files are bigger than 4 GB.\r
720 - Supporting multivolume RAR and SPLIT archives. \r
721 - Supporting DEB archives.\r
722 - Supporting old version of CPIO format.\r
723 - Some bugs were fixed.\r
724 - New localizations: Korean, Swedish.\r
725 \r
726 \r
727 2.30 Beta 26 2003-01-12\r
728 -------------------------\r
729 - Supporting Deflate64 method in Zip archives.\r
730 - Supporting Rar 1.50 archives.\r
731 - Some bugs were fixed.\r
732 \r
733 \r
734 2.30 Beta 25 2003-01-02\r
735 -------------------------\r
736 - Encryption feature for 7z format (AES-256).\r
737 - New optional archive header compressing mode (-mhcf).\r
738 - Archive headers now always are compressed with LZMA method.\r
739 - Updating non-solid 7z archives without -ms=off now is allowed.\r
740 - Folder creating and item renaming inside archive now is supported.\r
741 - Supporting encrypted Rar3 archives.\r
742 - Supporting Unicode names in Rar3 archives.\r
743 - Some bugs were fixed.\r
744 - New localizations: Lithuanian, Voro.\r
745 \r
746 \r
747 2.30 Beta 24 2002-11-01\r
748 -------------------------\r
749 - Some internal reconstructions.\r
750 - -m switch syntax was slightly changed.\r
751 - Some bugs were fixed.\r
752 - New localizations: Catalan, Norwegian, Romanian.\r
753 \r
754 \r
755 2.30 Beta 23 2002-09-07\r
756 -------------------------\r
757 - Encryption feature for zip format.\r
758 - Percent indicating for some operations.\r
759 - Some bugs were fixed.\r
760 \r
761 \r
762 2.30 Beta 22 2002-08-31\r
763 -------------------------\r
764 - New program: 7-Zip File Manager.\r
765 - Command line version now doesn't allow absolute paths\r
766 for compressing files.\r
767 - New localizations: Belarusian, Greek.\r
768 - Bug in FAR plugin was fixed:\r
769 Incorrect updating when archive has no explicit \r
770 directory items for file items.\r
771 - Some bugs were fixed.\r
772 \r
773 \r
774 2.30 Beta 21 2002-07-08\r
775 -------------------------\r
776 - RAM requirements for LZMA (7z) compression were reduced.\r
777 - Small bug in FAR plugin was fixed.\r
778 \r
779 \r
780 2.30 Beta 20 2002-07-01\r
781 -------------------------\r
782 - RAM requirements for LZMA (7z) decompression were reduced.\r
783 - New localization: Turkish.\r
784 - Some bugs were fixed.\r
785 \r
786 \r
787 2.30 Beta 19 2002-04-11\r
788 -------------------------\r
789 - Supporting RAR 3.0 archives.\r
790 - New localizations: Danish, Ukrainian.\r
791 \r
792 \r
793 2.30 Beta 18 2002-03-25\r
794 -------------------------\r
795 - Compressing speed in 7z format was slightly increased.\r
796 - New localizations: Estonian, Finnish.\r
797 - Some bugs were fixed.\r
798 \r
799 \r
800 2.30 Beta 17 2002-03-03\r
801 -------------------------\r
802 - Supporting ARJ archives.\r
803 - New localization: Chinese Simplified.\r
804 \r
805 \r
806 2.30 Beta 16 2002-02-24\r
807 -------------------------\r
808 - Supporting RPM and CPIO archives.\r
809 - New fast compression mode for LZMA: -m0a=0.\r
810 - New match finders for LZMA: bt4b, hc3, hc4.\r
811 - Some bugs were fixed.\r
812 \r
813 \r
814 2.30 Beta 15 2002-02-17\r
815 -------------------------\r
816 - Compression ratio in 7z was slightly improved.\r
817 - New localization: Dutch.\r
818 \r
819 \r
820 2.30 Beta 14 2002-02-10\r
821 -------------------------\r
822 - Speed optimization for multiprocessor computers (-mmt switch).\r
823 - New localizations: Czech, Japanese, Polish.\r
824 - Some bugs were fixed.\r
825 \r
826 \r
827 2.30 Beta 13 2002-01-31\r
828 -------------------------\r
829 - New SFX module for installers.\r
830 - New match finder for LZMA: bt3.\r
831 - New localizations: Portuguese, Portuguese Brazil, Serbo-Croatian.\r
832 - Some bugs were fixed.\r
833 \r
834 \r
835 2.30 Beta 12 2002-01-16\r
836 -------------------------\r
837 - Bug was fixed: memory leak in Beta 11.\r
838 - New localization: Hungarian.\r
839 \r
840 \r
841 2.30 Beta 11 2002-01-15\r
842 -------------------------\r
843 - Archive testing feature for GUI version.\r
844 - Now 7-Zip can use more than 256 MB of RAM in all Windows versions.\r
845 - New localizations: Bulgarian, Chinese Traditional, Latvian, Slovak.\r
846 - Some bugs were fixed.\r
847 \r
848 \r
849 2.30 Beta 10 2002-01-11\r
850 -------------------------\r
851 - Bugs were fixed:\r
852 - Updating 7z archives in Beta 8 and 9 didn't work.\r
853 - Unicode version in Beta 9 didn't work in Windows NT4.\r
854 - Some other bugs were fixed.\r
855 - New localizations: Arabic, French, Italian, Slovenian, Spanish.\r
856 \r
857 \r
858 2.30 Beta 9 2002-01-08\r
859 -------------------------\r
860 - Program localization: English, German, Russian.\r
861 - Additional optimized versions of programs \r
862 for Windows NT4/2000/XP.\r
863 - Two new match finders for LZMA: pat3h and pat4h.\r
864 - Some bugs were fixed.\r
865 \r
866 \r
867 2.30 Beta 8 2001-12-21\r
868 -------------------------\r
869 - 7-Zip now supports some zip archives that were not \r
870 supported by previous versions.\r
871 - 7-Zip now supports new state (-uw switch) for cases\r
872 when 7-Zip can not detect whether file is newer or the same.\r
873 - Supporting anti-items in 7z format for incremental \r
874 update (-u with action #3).\r
875 - Some bugs were fixed.\r
876 \r
877 \r
878 2.30 Beta 7 2001-11-04\r
879 -------------------------\r
880 - BCJ2: new converter for x86 code.\r
881 - Supporting tar archives with very long file names\r
882 (GNU extension to 'tar' format).\r
883 - Supporting multistream coders in 7z (-mb switch).\r
884 - More compressing parameters for zip and gzip \r
885 in console version (-m switch).\r
886 - Solid compressing option in Windows version.\r
887 - Compressing parameters option in Windows version.\r
888 - Auto renaming existing files feature for \r
889 extracting files.\r
890 - Overwrite mode switch for extracting (-ao).\r
891 - Some bugs were fixed.\r
892 \r
893 \r
894 2.30 Beta 6 2001-10-13\r
895 -------------------------\r
896 - Supporting 7z format in MultiArc plugin for FAR Manager.\r
897 - Some bugs were fixed.\r
898 \r
899 \r
900 2.30 Beta 5 2001-10-02\r
901 -------------------------\r
902 - Creating SFX archives from explorer.\r
903 - 7zWin.sfx: Windows version of SFX module.\r
904 - Auto adding .exe extension to SFX archive name.\r
905 - 7za.exe now supports 7z, bzip2, gzip, tar, zip.\r
906 - Some bugs were fixed.\r
907 \r
908 \r
909 2.30 Beta 4 2001-09-15\r
910 -------------------------\r
911 - Self extract capability for 7z format.\r
912 - 7z archive format is default for 7z.exe and 7za.exe.\r
913 - 7z in default mode now uses bt234 match finder\r
914 and solid compression.\r
915 - 7z in maximum mode (-mx) now uses 4MB dictionary.\r
916 \r
917 \r
918 2.30 Beta 3 2001-09-10\r
919 -------------------------\r
920 - Bug was fixed: decompressing .7z solid archives \r
921 containing empty files.\r
922 - new 7za.exe: standalone command line version \r
923 (only for 7z format).\r
924 - Speed of compressing to Deflate format (zip, gzip) \r
925 was slightly increased.\r
926 \r
927 \r
928 2.30 Beta 2 2001-08-30\r
929 -------------------------\r
930 - Supporting the new 7z format with high compression ratio.\r
931 - -bd (Disable percentage indicator) switch in \r
932 console version.\r
933 - Bug in console version was fixed: \r
934 previous versions incorrectly execute compression \r
935 commands with non-recursive wildcards in combination \r
936 with subfolders.\r
937 - Some other bugs were fixed.\r
938 \r
939 \r
940 2.30 Beta 1 2001-05-07\r
941 -------------------------\r
942 - Speed of reading of archive contents was increased.\r
943 - Bug was fixed: incorrect showing file names with \r
944 national charsets in some zip archives.\r
945 - Now it is possible to compress files larger than 4GB \r
946 to GZip archives.\r
947 \r
948 \r
949 2.24 2001-03-21\r
950 -------------------------\r
951 - Bugs in GZip and Cab decoders were fixed.\r
952 \r
953 \r
954 2.23 2001-03-04\r
955 -------------------------\r
956 - Opening archive items in Explorer.\r
957 - Context menu for archive items in Explorer.\r
958 - Automatic adding extension to archive name in console version.\r
959 - Some bugs were fixed.\r
960 \r
961 \r
962 2.22 2001-01-21\r
963 -------------------------\r
964 - Supporting Zip archives containing more than 65535 files.\r
965 - Speed of Plugin for Explorer was increased.\r
966 - Searching start position of archive now is limited by \r
967 first 1MB part of file.\r
968 - Some bugs were fixed.\r
969 - Packet now doesn't contain 7zip.exe, far7zip.reg and \r
970 far7zip2.reg files. There is new far7z.reg file.\r
971 \r
972 \r
973 2.21 2000-12-21\r
974 -------------------------\r
975 - FAR Plugin was improved:\r
976 \r
977 - Showing process box during opening archives.\r
978 - Viewing properties of file by Ctrl-A.\r
979 - Alt-F6 in archive now immediately extracts selected files \r
980 to current directory.\r
981 \r
982 - Some bugs were fixed:\r
983 \r
984 - Entering to archive's subfolders in Explorer by clicking \r
985 items in main window didn't work under Windows ME/2000.\r
986 - Decompressing solid Rar archives sometimes gave error.\r
987 - Console version 7z.exe during list operation incorrectly \r
988 showed file names with national (non-english) charsets.\r
989 - FAR Plugin didn't execute some operations.\r
990 - Showing percents during extracting ZIP archives sometimes \r
991 was incorrect.\r
992 \r
993 \r
994 2.20 2000-11-20\r
995 -------------------------\r
996 - Supporting BZip2 and Cab.\r
997 - New program architecture with external\r
998 compression and cryptographic modules.\r
999 - Decryption support (Rar and Zip). \r
1000 - New console client. \r
1001 - Some bugs were fixed.\r
1002 \r
1003 \r
1004 2.11 2000-06-15\r
1005 -------------------------\r
1006 - Bugs were fixed:\r
1007 \r
1008 - FAR Plugin incorrectly processed\r
1009 names of subdirectories that use national\r
1010 (non-english) charsets.\r
1011 - gzip plugin could not compress empty files.\r
1012 \r
1013 \r
1014 2.10 2000-05-16\r
1015 -------------------------\r
1016 - First level 7-Zip Plugin for FAR Manager.\r
1017 - GUI version with integration to Windows Shell.\r
1018 - Compression and decompressing GZip and TAR formats.\r
1019 - Decompression RAR.\r
1020 - Install & Uninstall support.\r
1021 - Some bugs were fixed.\r
1022 \r
1023 \r
1024 2.01 1999-09-19\r
1025 -------------------------\r
1026 - Small bug was fixed.\r
1027 - Compression ratio was improved for some files.\r
1028 \r
1029 \r
1030 2.00 1999-07-18\r
1031 -------------------------\r
1032 - Release.\r
1033 - Big bug was fixed: previous versions incorrectly worked\r
1034 during compressing with files that were referred by\r
1035 direct(without wildcards) paths, containing subdirs parts.\r
1036 - Compression and decompression speed were improved.\r
1037 - -mx switch (maXimize compression) was added.\r
1038 - Small bugs were fixed.\r
1039 \r
1040 \r
1041 2.00 Beta 1 1999-01-02\r
1042 -------------------------\r
1043 - Original beta version.\r
1044 \r
1045 \r
1046 End of document\r