Software update: WinRAR 6.24 beta 1

RAR Labs has released the first beta release of version 6.24 of its archivers RAR and WinRAR. This popular compression tool is available for various 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 two issues have been resolved in this release:

Bugs fixed:

• WinRAR and UnRAR.dll extraction command dereferenced a null pointer and crashed when processing a zero length archive name in the archive metadata stored with -am switch.
• WinRAR and UnRAR.dll extraction command overwrote extracted file data with contents of ::$DATA NTFS alternate data stream, if such stream was present in the archive. In this case unpacked data size and checksum could mismatch file size and checksum displayed in WinRAR file list. It didn’t affect file name and type, which were displayed properly.

The following downloads are available:
WinRAR 6.24 beta 1 (32bit)
WinRAR 6.24 beta 1 (64bit)
RAR 6.24 beta 1 for Linux (32bit)
RAR 6.24 beta 1 for Linux (64bit)
RAR 6.24 beta 1 for FreeBSD (32bit)
RAR 6.24 beta 1 for FreeBSD (64bit)
RAR 6.24 beta 1 for macOS (64bit)
RAR 6.24 beta 1 for macOS (Arm)