A few important fixes have been implemented in this version

Aug 3, 2013 19:37 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 8.

Archives created with RAR 5.0 can only be opened with the new software. Older version, like 4.0, won't be able to decompress the archives.

Highlights of RAR 5.00 Beta 8:

• The application now treats files with .txz extension as .tar.xz archives; • If 7-Zip archive extraction is cancelled, WinRAR deletes the incompletely extracted file; • The solid archive updating has been aborted for archives contaning BLAKE2 checksums.

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

Download RAR 5.00 Beta 8 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.