p7zip

File Release Notes and Changelog

Release Name: 9.04

Notes:


Changes:
Version 9.04 (Major bugfixes and Major enhancements) 
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  - From Windows version of 7-zip 9.04 :
    - 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.
    - New -scrc switch to calculate total CRC-32 during extracting / testing.
    - Some bugs were fixed.

  - #2799966 " A newly created 7z archive (by p7zip 4.65) is broken and cannot be unpacked / listed / tested"
    Fixed : now "7za a -mx=9 archive.7z directory" creates a good archive even
    if there are a lot of executable files.

  - Fixed : the RAM size was reported incorrectly on MacOSX 64bits (with 2Gb+ RAM)
  
  - #2798023 "segfault handling very large multivolume .7z file"
    p7zip now displays the following error "Error: Too many open files"
    if you don't have enough rights to open all the splitted files
    ( on Linux : ulimit -n)