Download WinRAR 5.40 Beta 2

RAR Labs has released the second beta release of version 5.40 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. It 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 following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

Changes in WinRAR 5.40 beta 2

• Switch -scul can be used to process big endian UTF-16 list files, provided that they have the correct byte order mark. Previously it supported only little endian file lists.
• 5.40 beta 1 did not work on CPU without SSE2 instruction set.
• It could take excessively long time to cancel WinRAR “Repair” command on some corrupt archives.
• If “Generate archive name by mask” option was used and archive was created in a system protected folder requiring privileges elevation, mask was added to archive name twice.

The following downloads are available:
WinRAR 5.40 beta 2 (32bit)
WinRAR 5.40 beta 2 (64bit)
RAR 5.40 beta 2 for Linux (32bit)
RAR 5.40 beta 2 for Linux (64bit)
RAR 5.40 Beta 2 for FreeBSD
RAR 5.40 beta 2 for OS X