7-Zip 4.42 Final Version Ready for Download
The renonwned opensource compression utility for Windows, 7-Zip, reaches a new stable version - 4.42. Essentially a bug fix release, this version does not bring any notable additions since the last betas, but there are new features since the last stable version, 4.32. Check out below for full changelog information since 7-Zip 4.32 and download options.
There’s also a separate package that includes only the command line version of 7-Zip (see below for download links).
The LZMA SDK has been updated as well to version 4.42.
The Linux port of 7-Zip doesn’t seem to have been refreshed, the version available from the p7zip project is still 4.39.
*** WHAT’S NEW IN 7-ZIP 4.42 ***
- Compressing speed and Memory requirements were increased. Default dictionary size was increased: Fastest: 64 KB, Fast: 1 MB, Normal: 4 MB, Max: 16 MB, Ultra: 64 MB.
- 64-bit version now supports 1 GB dictionary
- 7z/LZMA now can use only these match finders: HC4, BT2, BT3, BT4
- Compression ratio in Zip/GZip/Deflate in Ultra mode was increased
- BZip2 compressing / decompressing now can work in multi-threading mode
- Multi-threading mode now is default for multi-processor systems
- New switch: -scs{WINDOSUTF-8} specifies charset for list files. Default charset for list files is UTF-8 now.
- New localization: Albanian
- New switch for 7z.exe (console version): -slt (”l” (list) command with -slt shows technical information for archive)
- 7-Zip now can unpack ISO archives
- 7-Zip File Manager now can calculate CRC checksums for files
- x switch with relative paths now affects files specified with absolute paths
- Optional Flat View mode in 7-Zip File Manager
- 7-Zip now can unpack some installers created by NSIS
- New localization: Kurdish
- Some bugs were fixed
*** RELEVANT LINKS ***
Full 7-Zip Review
Download 7-Zip 4.42 for Windows (.exe - 818KB)
Download 7-Zip 4.42 for Windows (MSI - 874KB)
Download 7-Zip 4.42 for Windows x64 (MSI - 1.23MB)
Download 7-Zip 4.42 for Windows ia64 (MSI - 1.86MB)
Download 7-Zip 4.42 for Windows Command Line Only (.zip - 302KB)
Download p7zip 4.39 for Linux x86 (2MB)