7-Zip is open source software. Most of the source code is under the GNU LGPL license. The unRAR code is under a mixed license: GNU LGPL + unRAR restrictions. You can use 7-Zip on any computer, including a computer in a commercial organization. You don’t need to register or pay for 7-Zip. 7-Zip works in Windows 7 / Vista / XP / 2008 / 2003 / 2000 / NT / ME / 98. There is a port of the command line version to Linux/Unix.

Main features:
• High compression ratio in 7z format with LZMA and LZMA2 compression
• Supported formats:
* Packing / unpacking: 7z, XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP and WIM
* Unpacking only: ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DEB, DMG, FAT, HFS, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MBR, MSI, NSIS, NTFS, RAR, RPM, SquashFS, UDF, VHD, WIM, XAR and Z.
• For ZIP and GZIP formats, 7-Zip provides a compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than the ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip
• Strong AES-256 encryption in 7z and ZIP formats
• Self-extracting capability for 7z format
• Integration with Windows Shell
• Powerful File Manager
• Powerful command line version
• Plugin for FAR Manager
• Localizations for 79 languages

Changes in 9.33 alpha (2014-06-15)
- 7-Zip now can show icons for 7-Zip items in Explorer’s context menu.
- “Add to archive” dialog box:
- new options in “Path Mode”
- new option “Delete files after compression”
- new “NTFS” options for WIM and TAR formats:
- Store symbolic links
- Store hard links
- Store alternate data streams
- Store file security
- “Extract” dialog box:
- new optional field to set output folder name
- new option “Eliminate duplication of root folder”
- new option “Absolute pathnames” in “Path Mode”.
- new option “Restore file security” (that works for WIM archives only)
- 7-Zip File Manager:
- new “File / Link” dialog box in to create symbolic links and hard links.
- Command line version:
- new -spd switch to Disable wildcard matching for file names
- new -spe switch to Eliminate duplication of root folder for extract archive command
- new -snh switch to store hard links as links (WIM and TAR formats only)
- new -snl switch to store symbolic links as links (WIM and TAR formats only)
- NSIS support was improved.
- The problem was fixed:
The command “extract to \*” with multiple archives could use same
output folder, if archives are placed inside PE (EXE) file.
- The BUG of 9.31-9.32 was fixed:
Command line version for test and extract commands returned the
value 0 as exit code, if it couldn’t open archive.
- The BUG was fixed:
7-Zip could not create archives with anti-items for any archive type,
except of 7z type
- Some bugs were fixed.
- New localization: Mongolian (script).





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