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WinRAR 

It is a shareware file archiver and compressor utility for Windows. It can create archives in RAR or ZIP file formats, and unpack numerous archive file formats. There is an Android app called "RAR for Android",^[3] and command-line versions called "RAR" and "UNRAR" (widely released since autumn of 1993), available for Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, Windows console mode, and MS-DOS.

Features

·         Pack (create) or validate (test) RAR or ZIP archive files. Choice of RAR4 or RAR5 file format.

·         Unpack ACE, ARJ, BZ2, CAB, EXE, GZ, ISO, JAR, LHA, RAR, TAR, UUE, XZ, Z, ZIP, ZIPX, 7z archive files.

·         Multiple-core CPU threading compression and decompression.

When creating RAR archive files:

·         Support for maximum file size of 16 EB (2⁶⁴ bytes) minus 1.

·         Choice of compression directory size from 1 MB to 1 GB (256 MB limit on 32-bit Windows). Default size is 32 MB.

·         Optional 256-bit BLAKE 2 file hash in addition to default 32-bit CRC32 file checksum.

·         Optional encryption using AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) with a 256-bit key.

·         Optional data redundancy is provided in the form of Reed-Solomon recovery records and recovery volumes, allowing reconstruction of damaged archives.

·         Optional "Quick Open Record" to open RAR files faster.

·         Ability to create multi-volume (split) archives 

·         Ability to create self-extracting files.

·         Support for advanced NTFS file system options, such as NTFS hard and symbolic links.

·         Support for maximum path length for files up to 2048 characters (stored in UTF-8 format).

·         Optional archive comment (stored in UTF-8 format).

License

The software is distributed as a shareware and anyone may use it during a test period of 40 days at no charge.

Although archiving with the RAR format is proprietary, Rarlabs supply as copyrighted freeware the source code of the UnRAR unpacker, with a license allowing it to be used in any software, thus enabling others to produce software capable of unpacking, but not creating, RAR archives.

Languages

As of February 2015, WinRAR is available in 44 languages: Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese Brazilian, Romanian, Russian, Serbian Cyrillic, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese.

History

Versions

  Command line RAR and UNRAR were first released in autumn 1993.

·         Early development version WinRAR 1.54b was released in 1995 as 16-bit Windows 3.x application.

·         Version 2.00 was released on September 6, 1996.

·         Since version 3.00 (May 2002), the new RAR3 archive format is implemented. The new compressed archives cannot be managed by old versions of WinRAR.

·         Since version 3.41 (December 2004), WinRAR adds support for Linux .Z archives like GZIP and BZIP2. New options include storing entire file paths and restoring compressed NTFS files.

·         Since version 3.50 (August 2005), WinRAR adds support for interface skins and themes and support Windows XP x64.

·         Since version 3.60 (August 2006), WinRAR includes a multithreaded version of the compression algorithm, which improves compression speed on systems with multiple, dual-core, or Hyper-threading-enabled CPUs.

·         Since version 3.70 (circa January 2007), WinRAR features support for Windows Vista.

·         Since version 3.80 (September 2008), support for ZIP archives, which contain Unicode file names in UTF-8.

·         Since version 3.90 (May 2009), WinRAR adds support Windows x64 natively and support Windows 7. Also it enhanced support for multithreading

·         Version 3.91 is the last version that supports Valencian.

·         Version 3.92 is the last version that supports Serbian Cyrillic and Serbian Latin.

·         Version 4.00 (March 2011) speeds up decompression by up to 30%. Windows 98, Windows Me, and Windows NT are no longer supported; the minimum Windows version required is Windows 2000.

·         Since version 4.10 (January 2012) WinRAR removes all ZIP limitations now allowing unlimited number of files and archive size. WinRAR now also allows to create multivolume ZIP files. ZIP archives now include Unicode file names.

·         Since version 4.20 (June 2012) Compression speed in SMP mode has been increased significantly, but this improvement was made at the expense of increased memory usage. ZIP compression now uses SMP as well. The default SMP mode cannot handle text; text compression is significantly worse unless additional switches are used. Also, Windows 2000 compatibility was removed.

·         Since version 5.00 (September 2013) the new RAR5 archive format is implemented. The new compressed archives cannot be managed by old versions of WinRAR. This new format features a maximum 1 GB dictionary (only in 64-bit version), better multicore support, it removes multimedia, text and Itanium binaries special compression algorithms