
7-Zip exploring its own .exe file resources
The latest release in the 7-Zip 9 beta branch is 9.15.
Beside various bug fixes (some for the seemingly left-out 4.x branch – not updated since early 2009), the beta branch adds a lot of new UI localizations and features:
- better compression in Maximum and Ultra modes, when using the PPMd algo for ZIP archives (also recently added by the beta branch)
- faster PPMd operation
- LZMA2 codec
- support (open) for APM (Apple Partition Map), MSLZ, VHD, XZ
- diff support via an external tool (configurable)
- resource parsing (and extraction) for EXE, SWF and FLV
- support for modifying solid 7Z archives
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WHAT’S NEW IN 7-ZIP 9 BETA
9.15 beta
- Some bugs were fixed.
- New localization: Tatar
9.14 beta
- WIM support was improved.
9.13 beta
- 7-Zip now stores NTFS file timestamps to ZIP archives.
- New additional “Open archive >” item in context menu allows to select archive type for some files.
- Some bugs were fixed.
- New localization: Uyghur.
9.12 beta
- ZIP / PPMd compression ratio was improved in Maximum and Ultra modes.
- The BUG in 7-Zip 9.* beta was fixed: LZMA2 codec didn’t work, if more than 10 threads were used (or more than 20 threads in some modes).
9.11 beta
- 7-Zip now supports PPMd compression in ZIP archives.
- Speed optimizations in PPMd codec.
- The support for archives in installers was improved.
- Some bugs were fixed.
- New localization: Kazakh.
9.10 beta
- The BUG in 7-Zip 9.09 beta was fixed: 7-Zip created incorrect ZIP archives, if ZipCrypto encryption was used.
9.09 beta
- 7-Zip now can unpack Apple Partition Map (APM) disk images.
- Speed optimizations in AES code for Intel’s 32nm CPUs.
- Speed optimizations in CRC calculation code for Intel’s Atom CPUs.
- Some bugs were fixed.
9.07 beta
- It’s possible to specify Diff program in options (7-Zip File Manager).
- Some bugs were fixed.
9.06 beta
- 7-Zip now can unpack MSLZ archives.
- Partial parsing for EXE resources, SWF and FLV.
- Some bugs were fixed.
9.04 beta
- 7-Zip now can update solid .7z archives.
- 7-Zip now supports LZMA2 compression method.
- 7-Zip now supports XZ archives.
- 7-Zip now can unpack NTFS, FAT, VHD and MBR archives.
- 7-Zip now can unpack GZip, BZip2, LZMA, XZ and TAR archives from stdin.
- 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.
- New -scrc switch to calculate total CRC-32 during extracting / testing.
- New -scc{WIN|DOS|UTF-8} switch to specify charset for console input/output (default = DOS).
- Some bugs were fixed.