Software Update: WinRAR 3.92 Beta 1

RAR Labs has released the first beta release of version 3.92 of its RAR and WinRAR archiving tools. The popular compression tool is available for various operating systems, including Windows, Mac OS X and, in the future, Linux. The program can handle 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 multi- volume cab files. Version 3.92 includes the name of the archive in the subject line when “Compress and email…” is selected, has improvements for people with a multi-monitor setup and contains some bug fixes. The full changelog of this first beta release is as follows:

Changes in version 3.92 beta 1:

• If you start WinRAR command from Explorer context menu in multiple monitor configuration, the command dialog will be displayed on the same monitor as context menu. In previous versions it was always displayed on primary monitor.
• WinRAR “Compress and email…” context menu command adds the archive name to email subject. Previous versions left the subject blank.
• In RAR 3.91 -x switch could also exclude folders from archiving even if mask contained wilcard characters and did not contain a path. For example, -x*. excluded all those folders, which do not have the extension in the name. Now -x switch uses RAR 3.80 approach for masks without path, excluding folders only if mask does not contain wildcards and matches the folder name exactly.

Bug fixed:

• WinRAR 3.91 reported the incorrect “Unexpected end of archive” error, when opening an empty ZIP archive created with “New WinRAR ZIP archive” context menu command;
• If “Delete archive” option was enabled when unpacking several ZIP archives and if one of archives was damaged, WinRAR did not delete archives after the damaged one, even if they were unpacked successfully;
• If file matched two different masks in RarFiles.lst, WinRAR could select the last match. Normally, if neither of masks is a subset of another, the first match must be chosen.

The following downloads are available:
WinRAR 3.92 beta 1 (32bit)
WinRAR 3.92 beta 1 (64bit)
RAR 3.92 beta 1 for MS DOS (info)
RAR 3.80 beta 1 for FreeBSD
RAR 3.92 beta 1 for Mac OS X
RAR 3.92 beta 1 for PocketPC
WinRAR interface themes