Software Update: WinRAR 5.10 Beta 1

RAR Labs has released the first beta release of version 5.10 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 skinnable interface and support for Zip64 and multivolume cab files. Version 5.10 includes support for extracting bzip2, lzma, and ppmd archives and 7z archives that are split into several parts, as well as better performance in packing and extracting encrypted archives.

New in version 5.10 beta 1

• Added extraction support for ZIP and ZIPX archives using BZIP2, LZMA and PPMd compression.
• Added extraction support for 7z split archives (.7z.001, .7z.002, …).
• Added support for AES-NI CPU instructions allowing to improve RAR encryption and decryption performance.
• Default theme images are scaled up with better quality in high DPI display mode.
• Environment variables, such as %temp%, can be used in “Files to add” field of archiving dialog.
• Switch -ai can be used when creating RAR archive, so predefined values, typical for file and folder, are stored instead of actual attributes. Previously this switch could be used only when extracting.

The following downloads are available:
WinRAR 5.10 beta 1 (32bit)
WinRAR 5.10 beta 1 (64bit)
RAR 5.10 beta 1 for Linux (32bit)
RAR 5.10 beta 1 for Linux (64bit)
RAR 5.10 beta 1 for FreeBSD
RAR 5.10 beta 1 for OS X