Release of WinRAR 3.2
20. May 2003
win.rar Gmbh and rarlab.com are proud to announce the final version of the new WinRAR 3.2.
At the time being the 3.2 release is available in 24 different languages, all the others are being translated soon.
As always the upgrade to 3.0 is absolutely free to all registered users. Upgrading is quick and easy. Users only need to download and install the newest version of WinRAR to continue using the best compression tool around! No complicated uninstalling of the previous version is necessary.
Highlights of the 3.2 release:
WinRAR now works with high precision time functions!
RAR format now preserves modification, creation and last access time with the precision up to 0.0000001 second. Previous WinRAR and RAR versions stored only the file modification time and only in DOS FAT format with 2 seconds precision. Modern file systems provide a higher precision – and WinRAR, unlike other software products, already makes full use of this new feature.
More commands available from Explorer context menu.
Now you can easily test and convert your archives directly from Explorer context menu which appears when you click the right mouse button on a file icon in Explorer or Desktop. You may enable these commands in WinRAR setting options.
More innovative features added!
The extraction dialog has been split to "General" and "Advanced" parts, because of the new file time options to select the time fields to restore. Also the restoring of NTFS file security information can be controlled in “Set file security”.
It is now possible to rename files inside of RAR archives. Creating of Recovery volumes was also improved.
You can find even more information on all 14 improved items in “RAR - What's new in Version 3.20”.
