RAR - What's new in the latest version Version 3.30 1.

New "Scan archive for viruses" command unpacks an archive to temporary folder and checks its contents with antivirus software installed on a user's computer. 2. New "Generate report" command creates a report containing the list of usual or archived files. You may optionally include a file size, date and CRC to report, choose the sort order, save report to file, send it to printer or copy to clipboard. 3. New "Benchmark and hardware test" command allows to compare performance of RAR compression algorithm on different computers and detect possible errors caused by hardware failures. 4. New "Print file" command is able to print both archived and usual files. 5. New "Tools" menu contains "Wizard", "Show information", "Convert archives", "Find files", "Repair", "Convert to SFX" commands previously available in "Commands" menu and new "Scan archive for viruses", "Generate report", "Benchmark and hardware test" commands. 6. WinRAR supports decompression of ZIP archives created using "Enhanced deflate" method. 7. WinRAR pre-allocates disk space for files unpacked from ZIP archives. It helps to reduce disk fragmentation, especially on NTFS disks. Previous versions did it only for RAR archives. 8. Now it is possible to decompress TAR, GZIP and ISO9660 archives of any size. Previous versions could not handle files of these formats, if they exceeded 2 GB. 9. Status bar displays the current operation progress, when reading contents of large tar.gz and tar.bz2 archives. 10. "Next volume" dialog allows to modify not only a name, but also a size of next volume, so you may create volumes of different size. This dialog is displayed if you create volumes on removable disks or set "Pause after each volume" option in "Advanced" part of archiving dialog. 11. Several -v<size> switches can be specified in the command line mode to set different sizes for different volumes. For example, 'rar a -v100k -v200k -v300k arcname' command sets 100 KB size for first volume, 200KB for second and 300KB for all following volumes. 12. More WinRAR commands support Unicode in archive names. If your Windows is NT based (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, 2003), you may modify archives with non-English names regardless of Regional Settings.

13. Small and some of large icons have been updated by Francesco Indrio. 14. "Diagnostic message" window can be resized. It preserves new dimensions and restores them when activated the next time. 15. "Mode..." button in the archiving progress window allows to change the compression method and "Turn PC off when done" option on the fly. 16. WinRAR supports -cfg- switch in the command line mode. It forces WinRAR to ignore options saved in the default compression profile and RAR environment variable. 17. WinRAR opens .qpr and .qpk files (QNX packages) in one step, like it already does for .tar.gz archives. 18. Extraction command proposes to browse for missing CAB file in multivolume CAB sequence instead of "Cannot open" error. 19. "Rename" command displays a window with information about processing files. 20. "Convert" command checks the lowest allowed ratio before starting the archive test, so if resulting archive is too large, WinRAR does not waste time to test it. 21. "Files to exclude" field in the archiving dialog has "Append" button now, so you may browse for excluded files instead of entering their names manually. 22. WinRAR understands quotes inside of parameters in the command line mode. For example, "-pmy password" and -p"my password" will set the same password. Eariler WinRAR understood only the first syntax ("-pmy password") and only the console RAR handled both. 23. Data analyzing module is tuned to detect executable and audio data more accurately. Erroneous selecting of executable and audio algorithms could reduce the compression ratio in some situations. 24. WinRAR understands the command line switch -hp without a parameter and requests to enter a password when processing it. 25. WinRAR preserves NTFS streams of updated archives, if archive and temporary files are resided on NTFS partition. For example, if you entered some comments in "Summary" section of archive properties, they will not be lost when updating an archive using WinRAR. Do not confuse NTFS streams of archive itself and streams of archived files, latter can be preserved by previous versions as well. 26. It is possible to prohibit change of archiving password with "WinRAR\Policy\Password" Registry value. This feature may help to avoid encrypting of important data in multi-user environment. Read "Configuration settings/Registry variables" help topic for details.

27. "Select toolbar buttons" dialog allows to specify separators after any toolbar button. 28. New console RAR -si[name] switch to compress data from stdin (standard input). 29. Console RAR 'vt' and 'lt' commands display symlink target names, when listing RAR/Unix archives contained symbolic links. These commands also display NTFS stream names, when listing WinRAR archives contained streams. Version 3.20 1. Previous WinRAR and RAR versions stored only the file modification time and only in DOS FAT format with 2 seconds precision. While it was enough for FAT, modern file systems provide a higher precision. Now RAR format can preserve modification, creation and last access time with the precision up to 0.0000001 second. The following changes had been done to support this facility: a) new "Time" part of archiving dialog includes "File time to store" options controlling file time processing. Other time related options also had been moved from "Backup" to "Time" section; b) new "Advanced" part of extraction dialog contains "File time" options allowing to select time fields to restore; c) command line -ts<m,c,a> switch chooses time fields to process and precision of these fields; Time precision provided by ZIP format is not changed and equal to 2 seconds. 2. Changes in the extraction dialog: a) extraction dialog has been split to "General" and "Advanced" parts; b) "Display files in Explorer" option in "General" part instructs WinRAR to open Explorer window and display contents of destination folder when extraction is done; c) "Save settings" button saves the current state of both parts ("General" and "Advanced"). Saved state will be used as the default when activating the dialog next time. WinRAR saves all options except the destination path; d) "Advanced" part includes "File time" options allowing to select time fields to restore; e) new "Set file security" option in "Advanced" part controls restoring of NTFS file security information. Previous versions always extracted this information. 3. It is possible It can be done menu or in the In the command purpose. to rename files inside of RAR archives. either with "Rename file" command in "Commands" context menu displaying on the right mouse click. line mode you may use 'rn' command for this

4. "Next volume" dialog allows to choose the disk or folder for a new volume. WinRAR displays this dialog when creating volumes on removable disks or if "Pause after each volume" option is switched on. Previous versions did not allow to modify the volume name here. 5. "Test" and "Convert" commands can be applied to archives directly from Explorer context menu. By default these menu items are disabled, but you may enable them in WinRAR "Settings/Integration/Context menu items..." dialog. 6. "Pause" item added to context menu displayed on the right mouse button click on WinRAR tray icon. So you may pause WinRAR minimized to tray and continue it without restoring WinRAR to normal window. 7. If one of SFX volumes is missing, SFX archive displays "Next volume" dialog proposing to browse for required volume. 8. WinRAR allows to resize the window containing results of "Find" command. It saves modified window dimensions and restores them when using "Find" next time. 9. Toolbar: a) "Toolbars..." button in "Settings/General" activates the dialog allowing to turn on or off the main WinRAR toolbar, the additional small toolbar containing "Up one level" button and the address bar with path or archive information; b) buttons may have a variable width. So few large button titles in localized versions will not increase the total toolbar size too much like it happened before; c) if the width of buttons exceeds the width of toolbar, you may click on the small arrow at the right side of toolbar and choose hidden buttons from the menu. 10. Console RAR 'lb' and 'vb' commands list contents of archive in the bare mode - file names without any additional information. 11. WinRAR recognizes one more tar long file name extension designed to overcome 100 characters file name limit in tar archives. 12. Gzip archives contained zero in the file time field are processed correctly. Previous versions could display random date values for such archives. 13. Recovery volumes: a) when creating recovery volumes, the required disk space is preallocated in the beginning of operation. It helps to minimize the disk fragmentation; b) console RAR displays the operation percentage when creating recovery volumes or reconstructing missing or corrupt volumes. 14. If "Save file security" option is enabled, folders will be archived after files which they contain. It is necessary to avoid the situation when security attributes of just unpacked folder

do not allow to extract files to it. 15. Optional description can be entered in "Add to favorite" dialog. If such description is available, WinRAR will display it in "Favorites" menu instead of folder or archive name.