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Note: WinRAR for macOS is a command-line only application. If you desire an intuitive GUI customer for your compression / decompression needs we suggest you try The Unarchiver or Keka.

WinRAR puts you lot alee of the crowd when it comes to compression. Past consistently creating smaller athenaeum, WinRAR is ofttimes faster than the competition. This will save you disc space, transmission costs AND valuable working fourth dimension too.

Features:

  • WinRAR supports all pop pinch formats (RAR, Null, CAB, ARJ, LZH, ACE, TAR, GZip, UUE, ISO, BZIP2, Z and 7-Cipher).
  • WinRAR is platonic for multimedia files. WinRAR automatically recognizes and selects the best pinch method. The special compression algorithm compresses multimedia files, executables and object libraries particularly well.
  • WinRAR allows you to dissever archives into separate volumes easily, making it possible to salvage them on several disks for example.
  • WinRAR is also platonic, if you are sending data through the web. Its 128 bit password encryption and its authenticated signature technology volition requite y'all the peace of mind yous accept been looking for.
  • WinRAR is shareware, pregnant yous take the chance to thoroughly test it. The program can be used absolutely complimentary of charge for 40 days!
  • WinRAR licenses are valid for all available language and platform versions. If you have purchased several licenses, you tin even mix versions to meet your own personal needs.
  • WinRAR gives you lot all future UPDATES for FREE!

What's New:

  • WinRAR tin can unpack contents of .zst and .zipx archives utilizing Zstandard algorithm.
  • Added support of Windows xi Explorer context menus.
    • Beginning from Windows 11, an application can add together merely a single superlative level command or submenu to Explorer context menu.
    • If "Cascaded context menus" in "Integration settings" dialog is on, this single item is a submenu storing all necessary WinRAR commands. If this option is off, only 1 extraction command for archives and one archiving control for usual files are available.
    • You tin select these commands with "Context menu items..." push button in "Integration settings" dialog.
  • "Legacy context menus" option in "Settings/Integration" dialog can be used in Windows eleven if WinRAR commands are missing in "Evidence more than options" Windows legacy context menu or in context menus of third party file managers. If WinRAR commands are already present here, keep "Legacy context menus" choice turned off to foreclose duplicating them. This selection is not available in Windows 10 and older.
  • Windows XP is non supported anymore. Minimum required operating organization version is Windows Vista.
  • "Close" item is added to "When done" list on "Avant-garde" page of archiving dialog. Information technology closes WinRAR window, when archiving is done.
  • "When done" list is added to "Options" page of extraction dialog. It allows to select an activeness like turning a computer off or closing WinRAR after completing extraction.
  • Switch -si tin can be used when extracting or testing to read archive data from stdin, such as:
    • type docs.rar | rar x -si -o+ -pmypwd dummy docs\
    • Even though the archive name is ignored with this switch, an arbitrary dummy archive name has to specified in the control line. Operations requiring backward seeks are unavailable in this way. It includes displaying annal comments, testing the recovery record, utilizing the quick open up information, processing multivolume archives. Prompts requiring user interaction are not allowed. Use -o[+|-|r], -p or -mes switches to suppress such prompts.
  • New -ep4 switch excludes the path prefix when archiving or extracting if this path is institute in the beginning of archived proper name. Path is compared with names already prepared to shop in archive, without drive letters and leading path separators. For example:
    • rar a -ep4texts\books archive c:\texts\books\technical
    • removes "text\books" from archived names, so they beginning from 'technical'.
  • New -mes switch skips encrypted files when extracting or testing. Information technology replaces the one-time -p- switch.
  • New -op switch sets the destination binder for 'ten' and 'east' extraction commands. Unlike path_to_extract command line parameter, this switch also accepts paths without trailing path separator character.
  • If 'p' command is used to print a file to stdout, informational letters are suppressed automatically to prevent them mixing with file data.
  • "Generate annal proper noun by mask" option and switch -ag treat just first ii 'K' characters after 'H' equally minutes. Previously whatever amount of such characters was considered every bit minutes. It makes possible to place the time field before the date, like -agHHMM-DDMMYY. Previous versions considered all 'M' in this cord as minutes.
  • Maximum allowed size of RAR5 recovery record is increased to m% of protected information size. Maximum number of RAR5 recovery volumes can be 10 times larger than protected RAR volumes. Previous WinRAR versions are not able to use the recovery record to repair cleaved athenaeum if recovery record size exceeds 99%. Similarly, previous versions cannot use recovery volumes if their number is equal or larger than number of RAR volumes.
  • Alert is issued if entered password exceeds the allowed limit of 127 characters and is truncated. Previously such passwords had been truncated silently.
  • If archive includes reserved device names, the underscore graphic symbol is inserted in the outset of such names when extracting. For example, aux.txt is converted to _aux.txt. Information technology is done to prevent compatibility problems with software unable to process such names. You can use "Allow potentially incompatible names" option in "Avant-garde" part of extraction dialog or command line -oni switch to avoid this conversion.
  • WinRAR attempts to reset the file cache before testing an annal. It helps to verify actual information written to deejay instead of reading a cached copy.
  • Multiple -v switches specifying different sizes for different volumes are at present immune besides for Nada athenaeum:
    • WinRAR a -v100k -v200k -v300k arcname.null
    • Previously multiple -v switches were supported but for RAR archives.
  • Switches -sl and -sm tin be used in WinRAR.exe command line mode when extracting archives in any supported formats, provided that such archive includes unpacked file sizes. Previously these switches could filter files past size only in RAR and ZIP archives.
  • Newer folder choice dialog is invoked when pressing "Browse" button in WinRAR "Settings/Paths" page, "Repair" and "Convert" commands, also as in few other similar places. Previously a simpler XP manner folder choice dialog was opened.
  • When restoring from tray later on completing an operation, WinRAR window is positioned under other opened windows, to not interfere with current user activities.
  • "650 MB CD" is removed and "2 GB volumes" is added to the listing of predefined volume sizes in "Define volume sizes" dialog invoked from WinRAR "Settings/Compression".
  • "Rename" command selects the file proper noun function upward to the final dot. Previously it selected the entire name.
  • If SFX annal size exceeds 4 GB, an error message is issued during pinch, immediately afterwards exceeding this threshold. Previously this error was reported but later on completing compression. Executables of such size cannot exist started past Windows.
  • Command line -en switch is not supported anymore. It created RAR4 archives without the finish of archive record. End of archive record permits to gracefully skip external information like digital signatures.

Bugs fixed:

  • when editing a file inside of .rar or .zilch annal, WinRAR created a new SFX archive instead of updating an existing archive if "Create SFX archive" option was set in the default compression profile;
  • the total progress could be displayed incorrectly when using -oi, -f, -u switches or appropriate GUI options;
  • "Notice files" command with "Apply all tables" option and control line "it" commands failed to find strings in UTF-16 encoding.