Software Update: WinRAR 3.90 Beta 3

RAR Labs has released the third beta release of version 3.90 of its archiving tools RAR and WinRAR. The popular compression tool is available for a variety of operating systems, including Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. The program handles most common formats, including rar, zip, cab, arj, lzh, tar, gz, ace, uue, bz2, jar , iso, 7z and z, has a skinnable interface and support for Zip64 and multivolume cab files. The main changes in version 3.90 are the separate versions for 64bit operating systems and the support for multicore processors. The following changes have also been made in this third beta release:

Changes in version 3.90 beta 3:

• WinRAR displays only one password prompt when unpacking 7z archive with encrypted file names.
• Further improvements in shell extension performance. Now WinRAR context menu must be more responsive when working with thousands of selected files.

Bug fixed:

• WinRAR could display random characters as archive comment when browsing some ZIP SFX archives, which do not contain any archive comment;
• switch -ed did not prevent extraction of empty folders;
• WinRAR could fail to compress some of subfolders specified in the command line if -n switch was present;
• WinRAR could crash when decompressing some of corrupt RAR archives.

The following downloads are available:
WinRAR 3.90 beta 3 (32bit)
WinRAR 3.90 beta 3 (64bit)
RAR 3.90 beta 3 for MS DOS (info)
RAR 3.90 beta 3 for Linux (32bit)
RAR 3.90 beta 3 for Linux (64bit)
RAR 3.80 beta 3 for FreeBSD
RAR 3.90 beta 3 for Mac OS X
RAR 3.90 beta 3 for PocketPC
WinRAR interface themes