7-zip updated to version: 9.20

[Pave Low]

The compression utility 7-zip has been updated to version 9.20

http://www.7-zip.org/download.html

- 7-Zip now supports LZMA2 compression method.

- 7-Zip now can update solid .7z archives.

- 7-Zip now supports XZ archives.

- 7-Zip now supports PPMd compression in ZIP archives.

- 7-Zip now can unpack NTFS, FAT, VHD, MBR, APM, SquashFS, CramFS, MSLZ archives.

- 7-Zip now can unpack GZip, BZip2, LZMA, XZ and TAR archives from stdin.

- 7-Zip now can unpack some TAR and ISO archives with incorrect headers.

- 7-Zip now supports files that are larger than 8 GB in TAR archives.

- NSIS and WIM support was improved.

- Partial parsing for EXE resources, SWF and FLV.

- The support for archives in installers was improved.

- 7-Zip now stores NTFS file timestamps to ZIP archives.

- Speed optimizations in PPMd codec.

- Speed optimizations in AES code for Intel's 32nm CPUs.

- Speed optimizations in CRC calculation code for Intel's Atom CPUs.

- New -scc{WIN|DOS|UTF-8} switch to specify charset for console input/output (default = DOS).

- New -scrc switch to calculate total CRC-32 during extracting / testing.

- New additional "Open archive >" item in context menu allows to select archive type for some files.

- It's possible to specify Diff program in options (7-Zip File Manager).

- 7-Zip now can open/copy/compress disk images (like \\.\c:) from \\.\ folder.

- 7-Zip File Manager now doesn't use temp files to open nested archives stored without compression.

- The console version now doesn't show entered password.

- New small SFX module for installers (in Extra package).

- Disk fragmentation problem for ZIP archives created by 7-Zip was fixed.

- Some bugs were fixed.

- New localizations: Hindi, Gujarati, Sanskrit, Tatar, Uyghur, Kazakh.

[JohnTC02]

Thanks for the heads up Pave.

I always use 7-zip, great piece of software.

[Rocky]

That's totally freaky, are you stalking me?

I just went and grabbed it about 4 hours ago! My version was 4. something, so I ran a comparison hoping it was packing more into the zips, alas at ultra setting the files came out exactly the same size as the old 4.0 version.

[Pave Low]

I actually updated on Friday, when I was unzipping some old GR mods, but I only got around to posting about it today

Yes John, It's the one I mainly use too , with IZArc for .ace files and as an alternate