Download p7zip 9.04

The compression format 7z is increasingly used for compressing files. The program p7zip is specially written for various Unix, BSD and Linux platforms and offers full support for the 7z format. The developer released a new version a few days ago with 9.04 as the version number, which is the same version number as the program 7-Zip for Windows platform. The list of changes since the previous entry in the Meuktracker looks like this:

Version 9.04

(Major bug fixes and Major enhancements)

• From Windows version of 7-zip 9.04:
  • 7-Zip now can update solid .7z archives.
  • 7-Zip now supports LZMA2 compression method.
  • 7-Zip now supports XZ archives.
  • 7-Zip now can unpack NTFS, FAT, VHD and MBR archives.
  • 7-Zip now can unpack GZip, BZip2, LZMA, XZ and TAR archives from stdin.
  • New -scrc switch to calculate total CRC-32 during extracting / testing.
  • Some bugs were fixed.
• #2799966 ” A newly created 7z archive (by p7zip 4.65) is broken and cannot be unpacked / listed / tested”. Fixed : now “7za a -mx=9 archive.7z directory” creates a good archive even if there are a lot of executable files.
• Fixed : the RAM size was reported incorrectly on MacOSX 64bits (with 2Gb+ RAM)
• #2798023 “segfault handling very large multivolume .7z file”. p7zip now displays the following error “Error: Too many open files” if you don’t have enough rights to open all the splitted files ( on Linux : ulimit -n)

Version 4.65

• From Windows version of 7-zip 4.62 to 4.65:
  • The bug in 7-Zip 4.63 was fixed: 7-Zip could not decrypt .ZIP archives encrypted with WinZip-AES method.
  • 7-Zip now can unpack ZIP archives encrypted with PKWARE-AES.
  • Some bugs were fixed.
• Fixed : the RAM size was reported incorrectly on MacOSX 64bits
• Fixed : makefile.linux_amd64_asm_icc
• DJGPP:
  makefile.djgpp becomes makefile.djgpp_old
  makefile.djgpp_watt added (thank to Rugxulo)
• you can now compile 7za with a cmake project (see README) the cmake project can build a codeblock project 😉 Remark : the kdevelop3 or Eclipse/CDT4 project don’t work 🙁