14 DAY TRIAL // RAR, a powerful archive manager that can be used to reduce the size of files and to decompress RAR, ZIP, and other formats, has been updated to version 5.01.
“RAR 5.0 archives can include an optional quick open information controlled with -qo[-|+] switch or ‘Quick open information’ options group in archiving dialog. It allows to open the archive contents in WinRAR faster.”
“This version provides better update performance for archives containing both quick open information and service records, such as NTFS file security. Also default parameters of quick open information are optimized to achieve faster open time for such archives,” reads the official announcement.
Archives created with RAR 5.01 can only be opened with the new software. Older versions, like 4.0, won't be able to decompress them.
Highlights of RAR 5.01:
• The “Find” command no longer fails when searching text strings in .7z archives; • When opening RAR 5.0 archive with encrypted file names stored in another such archive, RAR could issue an erroneous message that password is incorrect. This issues has been fixed; • The option “Use for all archives” in the password dialog now suppress any additional password requests for RAR 5.0 archives with encrypted file names; • Storing NTFS file security and alternate data streams now works for file pathnames longer than 260 characters; • The “Test” command can no longer erroneously report damaged data in valid recovery record if only a part of files in RAR 5.0 archive has been tested; • The “Test” command no longer erroneously reports errors when verifying RAR 4.x Unix symbolic links; • The destination paths containing .\ or ..\ component now works when extracting non-RAR archives in WinRAR command line mode.
A complete list of changes, improvements, and fixes can be found in the official announcement. Download RAR 5.01 right now from Softpedia.
Keep in mind that RAR and Winrar are basically the same tools, but the Linux version lacks the GUI.