RARLAB is the company behind WinRAR and the well-known RAR compression type. WinRAR 5.90 Final version has just been released.
The new version of WinRAR shareware comes with many new features, enhancements and fixes. Its previous version was the 5.80 that was released in December 2019.
WinRAR 5.90 is already available for Windows, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Linux and Android. Existing users can download the latest version from the RARLAB website and install it on an existing pre-installed version. WinRAR does not support automatic updates.
Those who want to see in detail what the new version provides can go to release notes from here. In general, however, the new version brings the following:
- RAR compression speed has been improved in systems with processors with 16 or more cores.
- The maximum number of threads used by WinRAR has increased from 32 to 64. The -mt command line switch accepts values between 1 and 64 to reflect the change.
- Το νέο πεδίο εισαγωγής "νημάτων" (threads) στις ρυθμίσεις αντικαθιστά την παράμετρο πολλαπλών αναφορών. Αποδέχεται τιμές μεταξύ 1 και του αριθμού των πυρήνων της CPU.
- At tour in compressed files, compressed and uncompressed packet sizes are now displayed.
- RAR5 file repair performance improved.
- The progress bar and the button cancellation messages appear if reading the files takes too long.
- Compression and decompression progress windows can now be resized.
Αρκετά σφάλματα έχουν διορθωθεί στη νέα έκδοση, συμπεριλαμβανομένης μιας λανθασμένης ειδοποίησης για επισκευή, που εμφανίζει το "Recovery record is corrupt", όταν στην πραγματικότητα δεν είναι. Ενώ το μήνυμα δεν επηρέασε μια επιτυχημένη επισκευή, ήταν ενοχλητικό στους χρήστες.
Briefly
WinRAR is still a very popular file compression application, despite the fact that there are now many free alternatives such as PeaZip or Bandizip or 7-zip and others. This program paved the way for compression, introduced the .rar extension and therefore remains at the top.
