Download WinRAR 5.00 Beta 3
RAR Labs has released the third beta release of version 5.00 of its RAR and WinRAR archiving tools. The popular compression tool is available for a variety of operating systems, including Windows, Linux, and 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 customizable interface, and support for Zip64 and multivolume cab files. The main change in version 5.00 is the introduction of a new compression format. This format, dubbed rar 5.0, generally produces smaller archives, but at the expense of speed. In beta 3, the following adjustments have been made:
Changes in version 5.00 beta 3
- Fixed XZ archive support, which did not work in beta 2.
- “Convert” command did not allow to use compression dictionaries exceeding 4 MB.
- If both encryption password and archive comment were specified when creating RAR archive, archive comment was not added.
- “View as Unicode (UTF-8)” command in internal viewer did not work, so UTF-8 files were displayed correctly only if their encoding was detected by viewer automatically.
- Maximum compression dictionary size when running in Windows XP x86 is reduced to 128 MB. WinRAR cannot allocate enough memory to create archives with 256 MB dictionary in Windows XP x86.
- Corrections in relative path processing, such as “..\arcname.rar” name in archiving dialog or “WinRAR foldername” in the command line.
The following downloads are available:
WinRAR 5.00 beta 3 (32bit)
WinRAR 5.00 beta 3 (64bit)
RAR 5.00 beta 3 for Linux (32bit)
RAR 5.00 beta 3 for Linux (64bit)
RAR 5.00 beta 3 for FreeBSD
RAR 5.00 beta 3 for OS X
Version number | 5.00 beta 3 |
Release status | beta |
Operating systems | Windows 7, Linux, BSD, Windows XP, macOS, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012, Windows 8 |
Website | RAR Labs |
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File sizes |
485.00kB – 1.84MB |
License type | Shareware |