Software Update: 7-Zip 18.06

Version 18.06 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. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

What’s new after 7-Zip 18.05:

• The speed for LZMA/LZMA2 compressing was increased by 3-10%,
  and there are minor changes in compression ratio.
• Some bugs were fixed.
• The bug in 7-Zip 18.02-18.05 was fixed: there was memory leak in xz decoder.
• 7-Zip 18.02-18.05 used only one CPU thread for bz2 archive creation.