Software Update: WinRAR 5.80 Beta 2

RAR Labs has released the second beta release of version 5.80 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:

Changes in version 5.80 beta 2

• “Find files” and command line mode “i” commands:
  • if “Use all tables” option or “t” modifer of “i” command are used, additionally to already supported ANSI, OEM and UTF-16 encodings WinRAR will search the specified string in UTF-8 files as well;
  • better support for Unicode text strings;
  • better performance, especially for case insensitive search;
  • hexadecimal search output includes both text and hexadecimal representation of found matches.
• File and total progress bar is displayed when unpacking tar.bz2, tar.gz, tar.lz, tar.xz, tar.z archives.
  Previously only the total progress was displayed properly for tar.bz2, tar.gz and tar.z. Neither file nor total progress was displayed for tar.lz and tar.xz.
• “File list/Files/Exact sizes” option also changes the file size format in WinRAR status bar.
• Added support for one more variation of TAR format archives.
• Bug fixed: WinRAR extraction commands in Windows Explorer context menu failed if -ag switch was added to rar.ini file.

The following downloads are available:
WinRAR 5.80 beta 2 (32bit)
WinRAR 5.80 beta 2 (64bit)
RAR 5.80 beta 2 for Linux (32bit)
RAR 5.80 beta 2 for Linux (64bit)
RAR 5.80 beta 2 for FreeBSD (32bit)
RAR 5.80 beta 2 for FreeBSD (64bit)
RAR 5.80 beta 2 for macOS (64bit)