WinRAR 3.61 has been posted today on the Rarlab download site. Only the Windows GUI and command line versions have been updated. The DOS, Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD ports are still at 3.60.

This is basically a bugfix release – it addresses a flaw in the multithreaded text compression module. Singlethreaded mode and other platforms than Windows were not affected.

Another issue that was fixed prevented WinRAR 3.60 from running on Windows 95. (It’s nice to see that, even mother Microsoft has banished its sibling – Win95 -, software developers strive to continue supporting their software on this platform.)

See below for the full changelog information.

*** WHAT’S NEW IN WINRAR 3.61 ***

- Corrected a bug in multithreaded text compression module, which under some circumstances might result in corrupt archived data.
This bug was present only in multithreaded mode and only in WinRAR 3.60. RAR versions for other platforms are not affected.

- Resolved a compatibility issue preventing WinRAR 3.60 to run in Windows 95.

*** RELEVANT LINKS ***

WinRAR Review

Download WinRAR 3.61 for Windows (.exe – 1MB, md5=75059AB2727FCB7244B57690625FC582)

Download RAR 3.60 for Linux (.tar.gz package, 735KB, md5 = 50C530F0896CFF4F922BB480CCB1AA18)

Download RAR 3.60 for FreeBSD (.tar.gz package, 700KB, md5 = 25B783A1D98E1311002244E40380D91B)

Download RAR 3.60 for MacOS X (.tar.gz package, 357KB, md5 = 41E6B7F4A9ABC797B612DAD55D3DCC3D)

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