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7-Zip 4.58 beta released (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 09.05.2008, 15:04

> - 7-Zip now can unpack .lzma archives.

This may be because some GNU projects are using it (e.g. GNUzilla) in distribution archives instead of Bzip2 (see here for example).

> > 4.42? Who cares?
>
> Me.

During testing of the 4.58 alphas, it was mainly compared against the more recent / "stable" 4.57, and it still wins. However, this is probably due more to using a more recent MSVC compiler on select modules during compilation (although I'm sure Igor manually tweaked the src a bit himself).

> One issue: Larger archives than with 4.57. Tested by now in large and
> small jobs, on mixed file types. Very small percentage difference,
> possibly a trade-off for better speed.

Some are bigger, and some are smaller. It seems to vary widely. The only quick example I could find of bigger (vs. 4.57) was trying to compress 3 .PDF files (and the difference was only 10 bytes, so no big loss).

Complete thread:

• 7-Zip 4.58 beta released - Steve, 07.05.2008, 11:47 (Announce)
  • 7-Zip 4.58 beta released - Rugxulo, 08.05.2008, 01:52
    • 7-Zip 4.58 beta released - Steve, 08.05.2008, 02:10
  • 7-Zip 4.58 beta released - DOS386, 09.05.2008, 07:44
    • 7-Zip 4.58 beta released - Steve, 09.05.2008, 08:04
      • 7-Zip 4.58 beta released - DOS386, 09.05.2008, 08:07
        • 7-Zip 4.58 beta released - Rugxulo, 09.05.2008, 15:04
          • 7-Zip 4.58 beta released - Steve, 09.05.2008, 16:44
            • 7-Zip 4.58 beta released - Rugxulo, 10.05.2008, 03:43