Download WinRar 3.00 Beta

Rarsoft has released a beta version of the new WinRar 3.00, this download link is only suitable for the Windows platforms, but on the site are the links for the other platforms.

silentsnow was kind enough to submit a link to this

The changelog of this version is large that you can read for yourself what it contains. Below are some important changes:

• Compression algorithm improved.
• Encryption algorithm is changed to AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) with 128 bit key length.
• Default volume naming scheme is changed from volname.rar, volname.r00, …, to volname.part001.rar, volname.part002.rar, etc. Switch -vn and “Old style volumes names” option in the archiving dialog allow to use the old extension based scheme.
• Added support of so called recovery volumes (.rev files), which can be used to reconstruct missing files in a volume set. One .rev file allows to reconstruct one missing RAR volume, for example, 5 .rev files are able to reconstruct any 5 volumes.
• “Pause” button added to the operation progress window. Archiving progress window is now displaying time left instead of total estimated time.

So this is a small selection of the adjustments, you can here read the rest in detail.