

“Repair” performance for RAR5 archives with recovery record and without data shifts is improved. tar.gz and tar.bz2.Īrchiving and extraction progress windows, also as progress windows for some other commands, can be resized. It can be useful for archive formats with slower access to contents, such as large TAR based archives like. Window including a progress bar and “Cancel” button is displayed if reading archive contents takes noticeable time. Same field is added to “Archive” page in archive properties in Windows Explorer. “Total folders” field is added to list of archive parameters displayed by WinRAR “Info” command. WinRAR displays packed and unpacked folder sizes when browsing archive contents. It can take values from 1 to maximum number of available logical CPU units. “Multithreading” parameter on “General” page of WinRAR settings is replaced with “Threads” input field, where you can specify the desired number of CPU threads. Command line -mt switch accepts values from 1 to 64. Maximum number of utilized threads is increased from 32 to 64.

“Fastest” method (-m1 command line equivalent) typically achieves a higher compression ratio for highly compressible data types when creating RAR5 archives. RAR compression speed is improved for CPUs with 16 and more cores.

Its RAR format may only take second place for its level of compression – but it is consistently the fastest when it comes to both packing and unpacking files. WinRAR is a powerful archive manager providing complete support for RAR and ZIP archives and is able to unpack CAB, ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR, ISO, 7Z, Z archives.
