It allows to avoid the failures for cases with big number of volumes, bacause there is a limitation for number of open files allowed for a single program in Linux and macOS. 7-Zip for Linux and macOS now can reduce the number of simultaneously open files, when 7-Zip opens, extracts or creates multivolume archive.Previous versions kept all volumes in open state until the end of the archive creation. When new 7-Zip creates multivolume archive, 7-Zip keeps in open state only volumes that still can be changed.

Some changes and optimizations in WIM creation code.

It can increase compression ratio for executable files larger than 64 MiB.

Default section size for BCJ2 filter was changed from 64 MiB to 240 MiB.

Previous versions by default used x86 filter BCJ or BCJ2 for all exe/dll files.

ARM64 filter for ARM64 executable files.

BCJ or BCJ2 filter for x86 executable files,.

ARM64 filter can increase compression ratio for data containing executable files compiled for ARM64 (AArch64) architecture.Īlso 7-Zip now parses executable files (that have exe and dll filename extensions) before compressing, and it selects appropriate filter for each parsed file:

7-Zip now can use new ARM64 filter for compression to 7z and xz archives.

The page 'Language' in 7-Zip's menu Tools/Options now shows information about selected translation, including the number of translated lines.

I also use it to archive my website so that my site’s visitors can download the entire site and browse it when offline.īoth 32-bit and 64-bit versions are available from the official download page where you can get the installer without any nonsense with malware or PUPs.īugs can be reported on the 7-Zip Discussion forum. I have used this free and Open Source file archiver for years, and still use it daily to backup my files to DropBox and USB flash drives.

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