14 DAY TRIAL // RAR, a powerful archive manager that can be used to reduce the size of files and to decompress RAR, ZIP, and other formats, has been updated to version 5.11 Beta 1.
Many users don't realize that RAR is a tool that's also available on the Linux platform, but the competition is fierce and most of the archiving tools already perform better in some respects.
According to the changelog, RAR can now unpack TAR archives containing folders with pax extended headers, the “Keep broken files” extraction option is now supported for 7-Zip archives, “hidden,” “read-only,” and “system” file attributes are now set when unpacking ZIP archives, RAR no longer fails to update self-extracting RAR archives containing nested ZIP archives stored without compression, and ZIP archive created with “Do not store paths” option no longer include unnecessary empty name records.
A complete list of changes, improvements, and fixes can be found in the official announcement. You can download 5.11 Beta 1 right now from Softpedia. This is a binary file and you don't need to install it. Just extract the archive and run RAR in a terminal.
Keep in mind that RAR and WinRAR are basically the same tools, but the Linux version lacks the GUI.
Remember that this is a development version and it should NOT be installed on production machines. It is intended for testing purposes only.