Software Update: 7-Zip 18.05

Version 18.05 of 7-Zip has been released. This open source archiver can handle a wide range of compression formats, including zip, cab, rar, arj, lzh, chm, gzip, bzip2, z, tar, cpio, rpm, deb and of course the proprietary 7z. Furthermore, the software is able to open iso files and nsis installation packages. Since the previous stable release, the following changes and improvements have been made:

What’s new after 7-Zip 18.01:

• The speed for single-thread LZMA/LZMA2 decoding was increased by 30% in x64 version and by 3% in x86 version.
• 7-Zip now can use multi-threading for 7z/LZMA2 decoding, if there are multiple independent data chunks in LZMA2 stream.
• 7-Zip now can use multi-threading for xz decoding, if there are multiple blocks in xz stream.
• 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.
• New localization: Kabyle.