The developer of the open source archiving application 7-Zip, Igor Pavlov, has released the first minor version of the application of 2022.
The new version 7-Zip 22.01 is available on the official website. You can check the version of the application you are using from the Help - About 7-Zip path
The 7-Zip app update to version 22.01 is the first minor release of the latest major version 22.00. Important because the penultimate version 21.00 was released in February 2021. Since then, several alpha and beta versions have been released, but 21.05 is the first new stable version of the archiving application. Alpha versions for Linux and Mac OS X have been released.
The following is a list of major changes compared to the latest fixed version 22.00:
- Support for decompressing b64 files (Base64 encoding).
- 7-Zip supports SHA-1 and SHA-256 which support their new hardware 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 production key to encrypt and decrypt 7z, ZIP, TAR, and RAR files.
- 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 decompression speed of LZMA and LZMA2 files on ARM64, Mac OS and Linux versions has been improved by about 20-60%.
- 7-Zip can create one archive text file.sha256, which contains all filenames and SHA-256 checksums. The program can also check the file to verify the files.
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