The developer of the open source archiving application 7-Zip, Igor Pavlov, has released the first stable version of the 2021 application.
The new version 7-Zip 21.05 is available on the official website. You can check the version of the app that useste from the path Help – About 7-Zip
The update of the 7-Zip application to version 21.05 is the first major stable release for quite some time now, since the last version 19.00, was released in February 2019. Since then several alpha and beta versions have been released, but 21.05 is the first new stable version of the archiving application. Alpha releases for Linux and Mac OS X.
The following is a list of major changes compared to the latest fixed version 19.00:
- Support for disconnectionpressure b64 files (Base64 encoding).
- 7-Zip supports SHA-1 and SHA-256 which support the new ones hardware των AMD Ryzen και Intel. Αυτό βελτιώνει την απόδοση ορισμένων λειτουργιών, συμπεριλαμβανομένης της κρυπτογράφησης και της αποκρυπτογράφησης ZIP AES, των υπολογισμών των hash values και της ταχύτητας παραγωγής κλειδιού για την κρυπτογράφηση και την αποκρυπτογράφηση σε αρχεία 7z, ZIP και RAR.
- Improved ZIP AES encryption and 7z, RAR and ZIP AES decryption.
- Compression time has been improved.
- The default number of LZMA2 chunks per solid blocks has been increased to 7z files, which improves the compression speed for large 7z files on devices with a large number of CPU cores.
- Speed improvements to ARM64 for AES, CRC-32, SHA-1 and SHA-256.
- Maximum dictionary size for LZMA / LZMA2 compression functions increased to 4 Gigabytes.
- The speed decompressionof LZMA and LZMA2 files on ARM64, Mac OS and Linux versions improved by about 20-60%.
- 7-Zip can create a file.sha256 text file, which contains all the filenames and checksum SHA-256. The program can also check the file to verify the files.
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