Software update: 7-Zip 19.00

Version 19.00 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 18.06:

• Encryption strength for 7z archives was increased:
  the size of random initialization vector was increased from 64-bit to 128-bit, and the pseudo-random number generator was improved.
• Some bugs were fixed.