Software update: 7-Zip 9.33 alpha

The developers behind 7-Zip have released version 9.33 alpha of their open source archiving program. 7-Zip can handle a variety 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 capable of opening iso files and NSIS installation packages. In version 9.33, the following changes and improvements have been made:

What’s new 7-Zip 9.33 alpha:

• 7-Zip now can show icons for 7-Zip items in Explorer’s context menu.
• “Add to archive” dialog box:
  • new options in “Path Mode”
  • new option “Delete files after compression”
  • new “NTFS” options for WIM and TAR formats:
  • Store symbolic links
  • Store hard left
  • Store alternate data streams
  • Store file security
• “Extract” dialog box:
  • new optional field to set output folder name
  • new option “Eliminate duplication of root folder”
  • new option “Absolute pathnames” in “Path Mode”.
  • new option “Restore file security” (that works for WIM archives only)
• 7-Zip File Manager:
  • new “File / Link” dialog box in to create symbolic links and hard links.
• Command line version:
  • new -spd switch to Disable wildcard matching for file names
  • new -spe switch to Eliminate duplication of root folder for extract archive command
  • new -snh switch to store hard links as links (WIM and TAR formats only)
  • new -snl switch to store symbolic links as links (WIM and TAR formats only)
• NSIS support was improved.
• The problem was fixed: The command “extract to *” with multiple archives could use same output folder, if archives are placed inside PE (EXE) file.
• The BUG of 9.31-9.32 was fixed: Command line version for test and extract commands returned the value 0 as exit code, if it couldn’t open archive.
• The BUG was fixed: 7-Zip could not create archives with anti-items for any archive type, except of 7z type
• Some bugs were fixed.
• New localization: Mongolian (script).