1. WinRAR version for Windows
x64 is available. If you use Windows x64, it is strongly recommended to
install 64 bit WinRAR version. It provides a higher performance and
better
shell integration than 32 bit version.
2. RAR
compression speed is improved for multi-core and multi-CPU systems. This
improvement is most noticeable in Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating
systems.
3. "Remove duplicate folders from extraction path"
option in "Settings/Compression" dialog is replaced by more universal
"Remove redundant folders from extraction path" option.
This option
will eliminate redundant archive name based folders from extraction
path if you unpack an archive with "Extract to DestName\" context menu
command and if archive root folder contains only one folder and no
files.
Changes in "Extraction path and options" dialog:
a) "New folder" button creates a new subfolder in currently
selected folder;
b) F2 key renames a selected folder in the
folders tree;
c) F5 key updated the tree pane contents;
d) Del key removes a selected folder in the folders tree.
5. You
can enable "Show seconds" option in "Settings/File list" dialog if you
wish to see seconds in file dates in file list in WinRAR shell.
6. "Where to check for SFX archives" options group in
"Settings/Integration/Context menus items" dialog lets you to control
processing of SFX archives in context menus. For example, if you
frequently right click ".exe" files on slow network disks, you can turn
off "Network disks" options to minimize the delay before displaying the
context menu.
7. If you sort files by name in the file list in
WinRAR shell, WinRAR will use the new logical file name sorting, same as
in Windows Explorer, considering digits in file names by their
numerical value. So files will be sorted as 1.txt, 2.txt, 10.txt instead
of previous 1.txt, 10.txt, 2.txt. This new sort behavior is available
in Windows XP Service Pack 2 and newer.
8. Ctrl+W key
combination can be used to close the main WinRAR window also as WinRAR
viewer windows. "View as Windows text" shortcut in WinRAR viewer changed
from Ctrl+W to Ctrl+I.
9. New command line switch -r- disables
recursion completely. So 'rar a -r- arc dirname' command will add only
the empty dirname folder and ignore its contents. By default, if dirname
does not include wildcards, RAR adds its contents even if -r switch is
not specified.
10. If used when extracting, the new command line
switch -ai forces RAR to ignore file attributes. When using this
switch, extracted files will always have attributes assigned by
operating system to a newly created file by default.
11. If
output file name is not specified in "cw" command, console RAR will send
comment data to stdout.
12. When compressing stdin data with
-si[name] switch, RAR sets modification time of archived entry to
current system time. Previous RAR versions did not fill this field,
resulting in meaningless modification time for stdin.
13.
Message displayed when you place the mouse cursor on WinRAR tray icon
includes the archive name now. Previously only time left and total
percent were displayed for rchiving operations.
14. Bugs fixed:
a) WinRAR could fail to open tar or tar.gz archive if such archive
contained a file larger than 8 GB;
b) WinRAR context menu did
not work properly in Windows 7 beta if icons in context menus were
enabled and user clicked a file inside of Windows 7 Library folder;
c) previous WinRAR versions failed to rename files having 5 or more
continuous spaces in the name. WinRAR shell does not display such spaces
for safety reasons, because they can hide an actual file extension. But
this security measure prevented the rename command to work properly.
