Software update: 7-Zip 20.00 alpha

Version 20.00 of 7-Zip has been released, a development version. 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 19.02 alpha:

• 7-Zip now supports new optional match finders for LZMA/LZMA2 compression: bt5 and hc5, that can work faster than bt4 and hc4 match finders for the data with big redundancy.
• The compression ratio was improved for Fast and Fastest compression levels with the
  following default settings:
  • Fastest level (-mx1) : hc5 match finder with 256 KB dictionary.
  • Fast level (-mx3) : hc5 match finder with 4 MB dictionary.
• Minor speed optimizations in multithreaded LZMA/LZMA2 compression for Normal/Maximum/Ultra compression levels.
• bzip2 decoding code was updated to support bzip2 archives, created by lbzip2 program.
• Some bugs were fixed.
• New localization: Turkmen.