Software Update: WinRAR 5.71 Beta 2

RAR Labs has released the second beta release of version 5.71 of its RAR and WinRAR archiving tools. This popular compression tool is available for a variety of operating systems, including Windows, Linux, and macOS. The program handles the most common formats – including rar, zip, cab, arj, lzh, tar, gz, 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:

New:

• Master password processing:
  • If password stored in compression profile is protected with master password and user entered a wrong master password after choosing a profile, “the specified password is incorrect” message is displayed before repeating request;
  • If -cp switch is used, profile stores a password protected with master password and user cancels the master password prompt, the entire archiving command is cancelled. Previous versions continued archiving without a password.
• When repairing archives in command line, it is allowed to specify a name of existing destination folder also without trailing path separator. Previously “r” command accepted only “destfolder\” format.
  Path separator is still required if destination folder does not exist.

Bug fixed:

• WinRAR could crash when attempting to display some types of archive comments in GUI shell, resulting in a denial of service;
• Current archive name was not updated in hint message associated with tray icon when repairing several archives in background.

The following downloads are available:
WinRAR 5.71 beta 2 (32bit)
WinRAR 5.71 beta 2 (64bit)
RAR 5.71 beta 2 for Linux (32bit)
RAR 5.71 beta 2 for Linux (64bit)
RAR 5.71 beta 2 for FreeBSD (32bit)
RAR 5.71 beta 2 for FreeBSD (64bit)
RAR 5.71 beta 2 for macOS (64bit)