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 7-Zip 22.01 version is available in the official by clicking here. You can check the version of the application you are using from the path Help – About 7-Zip
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 decompression b64 files (Base64 encoding).
- 7-Zip supports SHA-1 and SHA-256 which supports the new AMD Ryzen and Intel hardware. This improves the performance of some functions, including AES ZIP encryption and decryption, hash value calculations, and par speedtreatmentkey 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.
- Default number of LZMA2 chunks per solid blocks increased in 7z files, which improves compression speed for large 7z files in Appliances 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 modes increased to 4 Gigabyte.
- 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 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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