The latest version of this powerful archive manager can be downloaded from Softpedia

May 9, 2013 12:30 GMT  ·  By

RAR, a powerful archive manager that can be used to reduce the size of files and to decompress RAR, ZIP and other format, has been updated to version 5.00 Beta 3.

Every new version of RAR comes with a lot of new features and it brings a new format to the market.

Highlights of RAR 5.00 Beta 3:

• XZ archive support has been fixed; • "Convert" command now allows the use of compression dictionaries exceeding 4 MB; • If the encryption password and the archive comment are specified when creating RAR archive, the comment is added properly; • The relative path processing has been improved.

A complete list of changes, improvements, and fixes can be found in the official announcement.

Download RAR 5.00 Beta 3 right now from Softpedia. Remember that this is a beta version and it should NOT be installed on production machines. It is intended for testing purposes only.