Be careful about unzipping downloaded SFX(Self Extracting) stuff.I’m not so concerned about individual, manual use, but the incorporation of 7-Zip binaries into other packages. An anonymous poster here on AskWoody came up with a long list of other packages that rely on 7-Zip, including WinRAR, Flash, and some .NET applications.
Make sure you trust the sender/poster.
Logitech uses the same outdated library in Setpoint and has not updated it since 2015.There are not that many alternatives, about 95% use 7-zip as a baseline, even security products use it and they do not even bother updating it, so you might be using 7-zip 16.00 or older and you might not even know about it.
New Beta:
18.04 beta 2018-04-25
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- The speed for LZMA/LZMA2 compressing was increased
by 8% for fastest/fast compression levels and
by 3% for normal/maximum compression levels.
- 7-Zip now shows Properties (Info) window and CRC/SHA results window
as "list view" window instead of "message box" window.
- Some improvements in zip, hfs and dmg code.
- Previous versions of 7-Zip could work incorrectly in "Large memory pages" mode in
Windows 10 because of some BUG with "Large Pages" in Windows 10.
Now 7-Zip doesn't use "Large Pages" on Windows 10 up to revision 1709 (16299).
- Some bugs were fixed.
Hi there
great tool
If you like working on something like a pet project then it's never finished !!!!! as you always can think of improvements / features etc etc/ It's not like developing something say for SHELL, IBM or MICROSOFT etc.
However I'm still using a version donkeys years old --does what I want every time.
I'll update to the new one finally I think though .
One suggestion I'd have for "The great Man" though is it seems a losing battle getting Ms to fix File explorer etc to handle long file names (directories + file names > approx 255 chars)-- if he could modify 7-zip to handle these then I'd ditch file explorer at a shot !!!.
Cheers
jimbo
New update(finale not beta):
18.05 2018-04-30
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- The speed for LZMA/LZMA2 compressing was increased
by 8% for fastest/fast compression levels and
by 3% for normal/maximum compression levels.
- 7-Zip now shows Properties (Info) window and CRC/SHA results window
as "list view" window instead of "message box" window.
- Some improvements in zip, hfs and dmg code.
- Previous versions of 7-Zip could work incorrectly in "Large memory pages" mode in
Windows 10 because of some BUG with "Large Pages" in Windows 10.
Now 7-Zip doesn't use "Large Pages" on Windows 10 up to revision 1709 (16299).
- The vulnerability in RAR unpacking code was fixed (CVE-2018-10115).
- Some bugs were fixed.
Just updated my production PC. Will get around to updating the others later today or tonight.
Thanks!
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