Software Update: 7-Zip 9.35 Beta

After a long string of alpha releases, the developers behind 7-Zip have now released a beta 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. Version 9.35 fixes the following three issues:

What’s new after 7-Zip 9.34 alpha:

• The BUG was fixed: 7-Zip crashed during ZIP archive creation, if the number of CPU threads was more than 64.
• The BUG in 9.31-9.34 was fixed: 7-Zip could not correctly extract ISO archives that are larger than 4 GiB.
• The BUG in 9.33-9.34 was fixed: The option “Compress shared files” and -ssw switch didn’t work.
• The BUG in 9.26-9.34 was fixed: 7-Zip File Manager could crash for some archives open in “Flat View” mode.
• Some bugs were fixed.