Winrar 5.00 Beta 3 and 4 Details

[jamescv7]

Version 5.00 beta 3

1. Fixed XZ archive support, which did not work in beta 2.

2. "Convert" command did not allow to use compression dictionaries
exceeding 4 MB.

3. If both encryption password and archive comment were specified
when creating RAR archive, archive comment was not added.

4. "View as Unicode (UTF-8)" command in internal viewer did not work,
so UTF-8 files were displayed correctly only if their encoding
was detected by viewer automatically.

5. Maximum compression dictionary size when running in Windows XP x86
is reduced to 128 MB. WinRAR cannot allocate enough memory to
create archives with 256 MB dictionary in Windows XP x86.

6. Corrections in relative path processing, such as "..\arcname.rar" name
in archiving dialog or "WinRAR foldername" in the command line.

Version 5.00 beta 4

1. If archiving operation cannot allocate memory required for compression
dictionary, it automatically reduces the dictionary size.

2. Decompression algorithm can store the dictionary in several memory
blocks. It helps to unpack an archive on systems with high level
of memory heap fragmentation, when no single memory block
is large enough to fit the entire compression dictionary.

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[Paul.R]

WinRAR 5.00 Beta 5 / WinRAR 4.20

Version 5.00 beta 5

1. Previous beta failed to decompress RAR archives contained
both encrypted and unencrypted files. Archives containing only
encrypted or only unencrypted files were unpacked correctly.

2. By default, RAR 5.0 log files produced with -ilog switch use
UTF-16 little endian encoding. Now it can be changed with -sc<charset>g
switch, such as -scag for ANSI encoding.

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