RARLAB, the developer of WinRAR, has released WinRAR 6.00 to the public. The new major version of the file archive software includes several usability improvements and bug fixes.
The new version of WinRAR is listed on the developer site as a 32-bit and 64-bit setup file. Existing installations of WinRAR are updated automatically when the installer is run and setup completes.
WinRAR users can select Help > About WinRAR to check the installed version prior to running the installer and afterwards to verify the version.
WinRAR 6.00 focuses on usability improvements and bug fixes. The new version does not introduce major new features or changes, unlike WinRAR 5.00 which introduced the RAR 5 archive format.
The new version introduces several improvements in the processing of archives. Users get new "ignore" and "ignore all" options when read errors are thrown. Ignore continues processing by ignoring the read error while ignore all does so automatically for future read errors as well. WinRAR's previous options to "retry" and "quit" are also still available.
Error code 12 is returned when running WinRAR in command line mode if read errors are detected during program operations; this is done to better distinguish read errors from the more general "fatal error code 2" that was used previously for read errors.
New options are provided if you select the "extract to" option in WinRAR when multiple archives are selected. A switch to "options" in the extraction path and options window displays the following four options:
The new options replace the "extract archives to subfolders" option of previous versions of WinRAR. The options page of the archiving and extraction dialogs include a new optional "additional switches" field to add command line switches, especially those not available in the graphical user interface.
WinRAR 6.00 includes several new command line switches:
WinRAR's handling of file changes has improved as well in this release. The file archiver displays a warning if the user closes WinRAR while one or multiple archived files have been modified using external apps but failed to save back to the archive because the file is still locked by an external app. Previous versions did include a warning when editing files but no such warning when closing WinRAR.
The second file handling change displays a new "Inaccessible" warning in the window title if a file was deleted or moved by another program while using WinRAR.
Other changes in WinRAR 6.00
Now You: which file archive tool do you use, and why?
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Wish that winrar starts to support ZSTD, Lizard4 (lz4)
Why? It is a borderline useless format and does not what you think it does. ZSTD is barely better than deflate and optimized for speed than compression. It is what you use on servers and storage media for fast access. It is not good for long term archival. LZMA2 and RAR5 are superior for that.
Also LZ4 is not called “lizard”, it means Lempel & Ziv, the original creators of the Method.
Far better context menu integration and options like timestamp than 7zip.
I still prefer 7-zip, because of its more powerful update mode with anti-items, which doesn’t exist in Winrar. It’s very useful for differential backups.
Who needs that old turd when there’s libre 7zip?
I use both WinRAR and 7-zip, and both are awesome software for some purposes. Thanks @Martin! :]
I have been using WinRAR ever since my Fidonet boss introduced it, around 1996. Besides, I enjoy it.
Just last week I found Archiver 3 (by Incredible Bee) that can create RAR archives on my Macs.
I have noticed than in Winrar version 6.0, in settings > viewer > unpack everything for > it shows “*.exe *.msi *.htm *.html *.part*.rar”, while in version 5.91 it seems to show “*.exe *.msi *.htm *.html *.part *.rar”; I meant that there was a little space between *.part and *.rar file types. Perhaps there is some kind of typo or my memory is not good, but I am quite sure I remember such space. :[
BTW, anyone here who had paid for a WinRAR license?
I have paid for it 14 years ago and still getting updates. Great software! Lightweight, simple UI, and no modern nonsense.
Yes, me. Bought and paid for a licence back in August 2001. Like a doofas, lost the key some 15 years later, emailed support and they gave me a new key. Outstanding customer support. WinRAR for life!
Right on. Sure. Damn straight. Yeeep yepp. You got it, Bruce.
If you still use this garbage software, I would suggest you read this and wake up:
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/04/15/flood-of-exploits-targetting-ancient-winrar-flaw-continues/
P.S. It was reported (I believe) over a decade ago that WINRAR has a master password coded into it for the “security services”. I have no links to this claim, though.
Stop spreading lies and unfounded FUD.
Also that vulnerability was fixed almost 2 years ago – shortly after the issue was found. Winrar dropped support for ACE – the 19 year old archiving format that noone uses anymore anyway.
That was patched back in 5.71, it was simply an outdated file for supporting the ancient ACE format, so it’s not an issue now. The master password is one that YOU set, it’s not a built in backdoor and the issue was part of the same flaw so again your garbage post is no longer relevant.
Winrar has been my goto archive program for many years.
Lately I’ve been testing out FreeArc because it was reccomended by a well known repacker.
The UI isn’t as intutive as winrar but the compression ratios are better and it’s open source.
Peazip has a nice GUI (for Linux too) and it’s 100% free open source software! 7z is used by other programs in Linux AFAIK and doesn’t have it’s own GUI like the Windows version of 7zip has.
So it’s Peazip for me!
Haven’t used WinRAR since 1999. Never missed it. You should move on people…
Why doh
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Well Ivan has spoken. You heard him people…
Move on to what exactly? This is a great tool and I use it for a specific reason. I never had any issues with it.
Is there any proper app that supports the file association using the xml? https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/ask-the-performance-team/how-to-configure-file-associations-for-it-pros/ba-p/1313151
I use file-roller. It came preinstalled in my linux distro, and I think it’s nice and simple.