For those who missed this update on Nov 18:
7-Zip 9.20 was released.
7-Zip for 32-bit Windows:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sevenzip/7z920.exe
Mirror: http://www.filehippo.com/download_7zip_32/
7-Zip for 64-bit Windows x64:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sevenzip/7z920-x64.msi
Mirror: http://www.filehippo.com/download_7-zip_64/
What’s new after 7-Zip 4.65 (2009-02-03):
- 7-Zip now supports LZMA2 compression method.
- 7-Zip now can update solid .7z archives.
- 7-Zip now supports XZ archives.
- 7-Zip now supports PPMd compression in ZIP archives.
- 7-Zip now can unpack NTFS, FAT, VHD, MBR, APM, SquashFS, CramFS, MSLZ archives.
- 7-Zip now can unpack GZip, BZip2, LZMA, XZ and TAR archives from stdin.
- 7-Zip now can unpack some TAR and ISO archives with incorrect headers.
- 7-Zip now supports files that are larger than 8 GB in TAR archives.
- NSIS and WIM support was improved.
- Partial parsing for EXE resources, SWF and FLV.
- The support for archives in installers was improved.
- 7-Zip now stores NTFS file timestamps to ZIP archives.
- Speed optimizations in PPMd codec.
- Speed optimizations in AES code for Intel’s 32nm CPUs.
- Speed optimizations in CRC calculation code for Intel’s Atom CPUs.
- New -scc{WIN|DOS|UTF-8} switch to specify charset for console input/output (default = DOS).
- New -scrc switch to calculate total CRC-32 during extracting / testing.
- New additional “Open archive >” item in context menu allows to select archive type for some files.
- It’s possible to specify Diff program in options (7-Zip File Manager).
- 7-Zip now can open/copy/compress disk images (like \.\c:) from \.\ folder.
- 7-Zip File Manager now doesn’t use temp files to open nested archives stored without compression.
- The console version now doesn’t show entered password.
- New small SFX module for installers (in Extra package).
- Disk fragmentation problem for ZIP archives created by 7-Zip was fixed.
- Some bugs were fixed.
- New localizations: Hindi, Gujarati, Sanskrit, Tatar, Uyghur, Kazakh.