p7zip 9.04 - Changelog

What's new in p7zip 9.04:

June 7th, 2009

From Windows version of 7-zip 9.04 :
· 7-Zip now can update solid .7z archives.
· 7-Zip now supports LZMA2 compression method.
· 7-Zip now supports XZ archives.
· 7-Zip now can unpack NTFS, FAT, VHD and MBR archives.
· 7-Zip now can unpack GZip, BZip2, LZMA, XZ and TAR archives from stdin.
· New -scrc switch to calculate total CRC-32 during extracting / testing.
· Some bugs were fixed.
· #2799966 " A newly created 7z archive (by p7zip 4.65) is broken and cannot be unpacked / listed / tested"
· Fixed : now "7za a -mx=9 archive.7z directory" creates a good archive even
· if there are a lot of executable files.
· Fixed : the RAM size was reported incorrectly on MacOSX 64bits (with 2Gb+ RAM)
· #2798023 "segfault handling very large multivolume .7z file"
· p7zip now displays the following error "Error: Too many open files"
· if you don't have enough rights to open all the splitted files
· ( on Linux : ulimit -n)

What's new in p7zip 4.61:

December 1st, 2008

· 7-Zip now supports LZMA compression for .ZIP archives.
· Ask for password twice when creating encrypted archive
· 7zG added (read GUI/readme.txt)
p7zip didn't use the BCJ /BCJ2 filters for executables (:
· makefile.linux_amd64_asm_icc added (tested with Intel Compiler 11 on Ubuntu 8.04 x64)
· 7-Zip now can unpack UDF, XAR and DMG/HFS archives.
· It's allowed to use -t switch for "list" and "extract" commands.
· Bug : wrong timestamp for files extracted from .zip or .rar archives