p7zip Changelog
What's new in p7zip 9.04
Jun 7, 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)
New in p7zip 4.61 (Dec 1, 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