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 5.10 Beta 4.
Every new version of RAR comes with a lot of new features, but this is a development build that only implements a few fixes. Still, people tend to forget that RAR is an application that can be found on all platforms, not just Windows.
According to the changelog, the previous Beta version of the application failed to decompress multivolume encrypted RAR archives, but it should work just fine now. Also, the "Update" command ("u" in command line mode) can no longer update files with same modification time, and the x86 version, working in multithreaded mode on a SSE2 enabled CPU, no longer erroneously issue a checksum error message.
Keep in mind that only the Windows version comes with a GUI. If you are using this software on Linux you will only get to work with it in a terminal.
A complete list of changes, improvements, and fixes can be found in the official announcement. You can download RAR 5.10 Beta 4 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.