Software Update: 7-Zip 9.38 Beta

Version 9.38 beta of 7-Zip released shortly after 9.37 beta due to bug withdrawn. 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 capable of opening iso files and NSIS installation packages. The changelog for version 9.38 looks like this:

Changes in 7-Zip 9.38 beta:

• There are some changes in source code for better compatibility with GCC compiler.
• The BUG in 9.26-9.36 was fixed: Some code in CPP\7zip\Archive\7z\ worked correctly only under Windows.
• The BUG in 9.31-9.36 was fixed: 7-Zip didn’t use new code that allows to read file pathnames from 7z archive faster.
• The bugs were fixed in tar and nsis code.
• Minor change in LZMA decoding source code.