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WinRAR 5.60 Beta 1
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WinRAR is a powerful archive manager. It can backup your data and reduce the size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files downloaded from Internet and create new archives in RAR and ZIP file format. 

Changes in Version 5.60 beta 1

  1. We updated WinRAR graphics.

     We are grateful to http://weirdsgn.com and http://icondesignlab.com
     designers participated in this endeavor and proud to announce that
     WinRAR uses the new icon set prepared by Aditya Nugraha Putra
     from http://weirdsgn.com.

     Previous WinRAR icons are available as interface theme here:
     https://rarlab.com/themes/WinRAR_Classic....theme.rar
 
  2. "Repair" command efficiency is improved for recovery record protected
     RAR5 archives. Now it can detect deletions and insertions of unlimited
     size also as shuffled data including data taken from several recovery
     record protected archives and merged into a single file in arbitrary
     order.
 
  3. "Turn PC off when done" archiving option is changed to "When done"
     drop down list, so you can turn off, hibernate or sleep your PC
     after completing archiving.

  4. Use -ioff or -ioff1 command line switch to turn PC off,
     -ioff2 to hibernate and -ioff3 to sleep your PC after completing
     an operation.

  5. If encoding of comment file specified in -z<file> switch is not
     defined with -sc switch, RAR attempts to detect UTF-8, UTF-16LE
     and UTF-16BE encodings based on the byte order mask and data
     validity tests.

  6. WinRAR attempts to detect ANSI, OEM and UTF-8 encodings of
     ZIP archive comments automatically.
 
  7. "Internal viewer/Use DOS encoding" option in "Settings/Viewer"
     is replaced with "Internal viewer/Autodetect encoding".
     If "Autodetect encoding" is enabled, the internal viewer attempts
     to detect ANSI (Windows), OEM (DOS), UTF-8 and UTF-16 encodings.

  8. Normally Windows Explorer context menu contains only extraction
     commands if single archive has been right clicked. You can override
     this by specifying one or more space separated masks in "Always display
     archiving items for" option in Settings/Integration/Context menu items",
     so archiving commands are always displayed for these file types
     even if file was recognized as archive. If you wish both archiving
     and extraction commands present for all archives, place "*" here.
 
  9. SFX module "SetupCode" command accepts an optional integer parameter
     allowing to control mapping of setup program and SFX own error codes.
     It is also accessible as "Exit code adjustment" option
     in "Advanced SFX options/Setup" dialog.
 
 10. New "Show more information" WinRAR command line -im switch.
     It can be used with "t" command to issue a message also in case of
     successful archive test result. Without this switch "t" command
     completes silently if no errors are found.

     This switch is applicable only to WinRAR.exe and ignored by console
     RAR.exe.

 11. If a wrong password is entered when unpacking an encrypted file
     in ZIP archive, WinRAR proposes to enter a valid password
     for same file again instead of aborting extraction.

 12. If a wrong password is entered when opening or unpacking RAR archive
     with encrypted file names, WinRAR proposes to enter a valid password
     again instead of aborting the operation. Previous versions already
     did so for RAR archives with encrypted file data, but aborted
     for archives with file name encryption.

 13. WinRAR recognizes GZIP files with arbitrary data preceding
     an actual GZIP archive, such as .scexe firmware files.

 14. @filelist parameter can be specified in "Files to add" field of
     archiving dialog. In this case WinRAR will attempt the list of archiving
     files from 'filelist' file, which should be the plain text, one file
     name per line.

 15. Info dialog:
     
     a) compression ratio graph is updated;

     b) "Names and data" is displayed in "Encryption" field for
        archives with encrypted file names.

 16. Full archive name is displayed if mouse pointer is placed over
     an archive name in the operation progress window. It can be useful
     if archive name is lengthy and does not fit to available window space.

 17. If -ts1 switch is used with -u or -f, file time comparison is performed
     with 1 second precision. Previosuly in such case we could wrongly treat
     an adding file as newer than archived just because we compared the high
     precision adding file time against the low precision archived file time.

 18. "Update" and "Fresh" commands ('u' and 'f' in the command line mode)
     quit immediately if no files are to be updated. Previously they created
     a temporary archive before quitting when updating archives with recovery
     record or quick open information.

 19. Prompt is issued after creating 500 volumes from WinRAR GUI shell,
     so user can continue or quit further archiving. It is done to prevent
     creating many thousands of volumes in case of wrongly entered
     volume size.

 20. WinRAR uses megabytes instead of bytes as default units for volume size
     field in the archiving dialog.

 21. "Repair" command issues "Recovery record is corrupt" message
     after repairing RAR5 archive containing a broken recovery record.
     Previously such message was issued only by "Test" command
     and "Repair" handled most of recovery record damages silently.

 22. Bugs fixed:

     a) fixed potential security issues when processing corrupt
        RAR archives;
     
     b) non-English characters in TAR files with PAX extended headers
        were not displayed correctly;

     c) "rar x arcname.rar .." command unpacked files to current folder
        instead of its parent;

     d) pasting files from Windows Explorer to archive opened in WinRAR
        blocked further copy and paste operations in Explorer until
        archiving was finished;

     e) SFX module issued "The specified password is incorrect" message
        infinitely not prompting for correct password once a wrong password
        was entered;

     f) folders time was always set when extracting ZIP archives even if
        "File time" options in the extraction dialog were turned off;

     g) if "Delete mode: Always" was selected when extracting
        and user pressed "Cancel" in the file overwrite or password prompt,
        an archive could be deleted even after cancelling extraction
        for .zip and .7z formats.


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Version 5.60 beta 2

1. "Extra large buttons" option in "Settings/General" selects
64x48 toolbar buttons.

2. "Restart" option is added to "Advanced/When done" list
in archiving dialog.

3. -ioff4 switch can be used to restart PC after completing archiving
or extraction.

4. Since it may take a lot of time to display contents of large
tar.bz2 and tar.gz files, WinRAR displays the percent complete
in the status bar while opening such archives.

5. Bugs fixed:

a) previous beta did not restore the toolbar layout changed by user.
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Version 5.60 beta 3

  1. "Put each file to separate archive" option always appends
     the archive format extension to archiving file extension.
     So filename.ext is archived to filename.ext.rar
     instead of filename.rar.

  2. Thicker borders of tree panel and comment window to make their
     resizing easier.
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Version 5.60 beta 4

1. WinRAR failed to unpack some ZIP archives compressed with
PPMd algorithm.

2. WinRAR entry in Windows Start menu uses Desktop as a start folder,
so Desktop contents is shown after opening WinRAR. Previously it had
the start folder blank, which resulted in displaying Windows system
files on start.

3. If wrong password was specified for ZIP archive, the previous beta
issued an error message with "OK" button for every encrypted file
even if password was specified with "Set default password" command
or -p<pwd> switch. Now users do not need to press "OK" repeatedly
for globally set wrong ZIP passwords.
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#5
Version 5.60 beta 5

  1. WinRAR failed to unpack ZIP archives created by RAR for Android
     and encrypted with non-English passwords. Fixed now.
     This fix should also work for archives created by other ZIP tools
     and utilizing UTF-8 for internal password encoding.
       
  2. Tree panel height was not adjusted after changing the toolbar button
     size until restarting WinRAR.

  3. If hard link is extracted without extracting the link target,
     WinRAR issues a warning and sets the error code after skipping
     the link extraction. Previously it was skipped silently.
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Quote:   Version 5.70 beta 1

  1. "Files to process" option on "Time" page of archiving dialog
     allows to choose files based on modification, creation or last access
     file time. Previously it was possible for modification time only.
 
  2. Command line -ta, -tb, -tn, -to switches accept 'm', 'c' and 'a'
     modifiers after the switch name. So file time conditions can include
     not only the file modification time as in previous versions,
     but also creation and last access time.

  3. WinRAR file list can display creation and last access file times
     if they are available.

     Creation and last access columns are disabled by default and can be
     enabled in "Select file list columns" dialog. This dialog is opened
     after right clicking on file list column headers or after pressing
     "File list/Files/Columns..." button in WinRAR settings.

  4. "Double extensions for archives" and "Archives in subfolders"
     options on "Files" page of archiving dialog modify behavior of
     "Put each file to separate archive" option.

     You can switch between archive names in filename.ext.rar
     and filename.rar style with "Double extensions for archives".

     You can create a separate archive for every file in selected subfolders
     or store the entire contents of every selected folder in separate
     archive depending on the state of "Archives in subfolders" option.

  5. New -ad1 switch can be used when unpacking multiple archives
     recursively, such as 'rar x -r -ad1 arc\*.rar'. It creates
     a separate folder for files unpacked from each archive,
     but unlike already existing -ad switch, it creates such folders
     in each archive folder.

  6. If context menu "Extract each archive to separate folder" is applied
     to archives from different folders in Windows Explorer "Search results",
     subfolders with unpacked files are created in each archive folder.
     Previous versions created them all in a folder of right clicked archive.
 
  7. New "File list/List style/Checkboxes" option in WinRAR settings
     allows to use checkboxes to select file list items.

  8. New "File list/Files/Exact sizes" option in WinRAR settings.

     If this option is on, file sizes are always displayed in bytes.
     If it is off, sizes are rounded up and use units such as KB or MB.
     Smaller files can be still displayed in bytes.

  9. If several console RAR are started with -ioff switch, PC is turned off
     by RAR copy finished last. Previously this switch was processed
     by first finished copy.

 10. Read and write buffer size is increased for .iso files.
     It can help to improve .iso extraction performance in some cases,
     such as for network drives.

 11. If "Delete archive" option in extraction dialog is applied to a set
     of RAR and REV volumes in volname.part# format, WinRAR will delete
     REV volumes as well. Previously only RAR volumes were deleted
     keeping REV files intact.

 12. If "Delete archive" option in extraction dialog is applied to set
     of ZIP volumes with .zip.001, .zip.002, .zip.003 extensions,
     WinRAR will delete all ZIP volumes. Previously only .zip.001 volume
     was deleted for such volume naming scheme.

 13. If we unpack arcname.rar using "Extract to arcname\" Explorer context
     menu command and "arcname" file already exists, WinRAR shell extension
     will propose "Extract to arcname~1\" instead. Previously this context
     menu command attempted to create a folder with same name as already
     existing file and failed.

 14. If we pack a shortcut file with .lnk extension from Explorer context
     menu, .lnk file itself is added to archive. Previous versions added
     .lnk file target instead of .lnk file.

 15. Windows does not allow executables exceeding 4 GB, so WinRAR issues
     an error immediately when attempting to create 4 GB or larger
     RAR SFX volumes. Previously WinRAR issued such error only after
     creating the first RAR volume.

 16. Total extraction progress is displayed for 7z multivolume archives.
     Accuracy of 7z total extraction progress is improved.

 17. Nadav Grossman from Check Point Software Technologies informed us
     about a security vulnerability in UNACEV2.DLL library.
     Aforementioned vulnerability makes possible to create files
     in arbitrary folders inside or outside of destination folder
     when unpacking ACE archives.

     WinRAR used this third party library to unpack ACE archives.
     UNACEV2.DLL had not been updated since 2005 and we do not have access
     to its source code. So we decided to drop ACE archive format support
     to protect security of WinRAR users.

     We are thankful to Check Point Software Technologies for reporting
     this issue.
 
 18. Bugs fixed:

     a) console RAR mixed up source and destination file sizes and times
        in the overwrite prompt when updating a file in RAR archive
        with -o switch;

     b) dragging files from 32-bit applications to 64-bit WinRAR window
        did not work;

     c) WinRAR Shift+Del command applied to a folder could fail to delete
        some its subfolders. This command is used to delete files and folders
        permanently instead of moving them to Recycle Bin;

     d) folder tree panel could not change folders if archived pathnames
        started from path separator, such as in archives created by tar tool
        with --absolute-names option;

     e) if relative "Path=.\somefolder" was specified in SFX comment
        and SFX archive needed to elevate privileges when extracting,
        it created 'somefolder\somefolder' instead of 'somefolder';

     f) commands modifying an existing RAR4 volume reset the volume number
        field to 1. While it did not affect extraction, WinRAR displayed
        a wrong volume number for such volumes;

     g) fixed a crash when reading a comment from a corrupt RAR file;

     h) toolbar in "Find" command "Search results" window was not adjusted
        to different toolbar icon sizes properly.
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