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WinRAR - What's new in the latest version


   Version 5.71
   
   1. "Convert archives" command:

      a) improved performance when processing a lot of small archives
         in Windows 10;

      b) fixed memory leaks which could lead to excessive memory use
         when converting to ZIP format.

   2. Corrupt ZIP archive processing:

      a) "Repair" command replaces packed and unpacked file sizes stored
         in local file header with sizes from central directory
         if local header sizes look invalid;

      b) file extraction is stopped at unpacked size stored in ZIP headers
         even if available packed data allows further extraction.
         It is done to prevent unexpected hard drive space usage.

   3. Ctrl+C allows to abort RAR "l" command quickly. In previous versions
      it could take several seconds until list command stopped.

   4. Bugs fixed:

      a) WinRAR could crash when attempting to display some types of archive
         comments in GUI shell, resulting in a denial of service;

      b) if "Save archive name" and "Add to context menu" options were
         set in compression profile parameters and profile was invoked
         from Explorer context menu, WinRAR proposed an automatically
         generated archive name instead of name saved in profile.

      c) WinRAR displayed an unneeded pair of round brackets in "Archive"
         column of "Diagnostic messages" window for system error messages;

      d) "Extract to folder\" Windows Explorer context menu command could
         fail to unpack ZIP archives if their names included a numeric 
         part followed by .zip extension, arbitrary data was present
         before the first file record and "Remove redundant folders from
         extraction path" WinRAR option was switched on;

      e) in "RAR x -x<mask> arcname" command, parent folders of files
         matching the specified mask also were excluded from extracting;

      f) "Find" command returned the current folder own name additionally
         to its contents for "Current folder" search area if folder name
         matched "File names to find" mask;

      g) if "Find in files" and "Find in archives" are both enabled,
         "Find" command did not match an archive name itself against
         "File names to find" mask after searching inside of archive.
         So it did not display archive names for masks like *.rar 
         and applied this mask only to files inside of archives;

      h) when running an executable directly from archive, WinRAR 5.70
         did not set a temporary folder with unpacked files as current.
         So executables attempting to access other archived files
         in current folder could fail to work;

      i) WinRAR could be inaccessible for few seconds after closing
         an archived file opened in internal viewer in Windows 10;

      j) dragging a file to subfolder of ZIP archive with "Store full paths"
         option enabled produced invalid pathnames consisting of repeated
         subfolder name. Same invalid pathnames were produced if adding files
         to ZIP archive with -ap<folder> -ep2 switches.