The latest version of RAR can be downloaded from Softpedia

Sep 1, 2014 12:17 GMT  ·  By

RAR, a powerful archive manager that can be used to reduce the size of files and to decompress RAR, ZIP, and other formats, is now at version 5.11.

People forget that RAR is not a tool only available for the Windows platform. There are two major differences between these platforms. The name of the Windows version is WinRAR and the Linux version is command line only. The software is pretty much identical in all other aspects.

According to the changelog, RAR can now unpack TAR archives containing folders with pax extended headers, the "Keep broken files" extraction option is now supported for 7-Zip archives, the application now sees "hidden," "read-only" and "system" file attributes when unpacking ZIP archives, WinRAR no longer fails to update self-extracting RAR archives containing nested ZIP archives stored without compression, and a few other fixes have been implemented.

A complete list of changes, improvements, and fixes can be found in the official announcement. You can download RAR 5.11 right now from Softpedia. This is a binary file and you don't need to install it. Just extract the archive and run RAR in a terminal.

Keep in mind that RAR and Winrar are basically the same tools, but the Linux version lacks the GUI.