WinRAR - Newsletter 04/2009
Issue: April 30, 2009
Welcome to the 69th edition of the WinRAR Newsletter!
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This newsletter contains the following topics:
1. WinRAR 3.90 beta 1 Released!
2. What is a beta version?
3. How to upgrade your old version?
1. WinRAR 3.90 beta 1 Released!
win.rar GmbH and rarlab.com are proud to announce the first beta version of the new WinRAR Version 3.90 is yet another step ahead for the most complete
archiving software on the market.
** Highlights of the 3.90 (beta 1) release:
1. WinRAR version for Windows x64 is available. If you use Windows x64, it is strongly recommended to use 64 bit WinRAR version. It provides the higher performance and better shell integration than 32 bit version.
2. RAR compression speed is improved for multi-core and multi-CPU systems. This improvement is most noticeable in Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems.
3. The usability of the graphic interface has been improved and new commands for the command line mode have been added. For example, the new command line switch -ai forces RAR to ignore file attributes stored in archive when extracting, so that the extracted files will have attributes assigned by the operating system to a newly created file by default. Also a new command line switch -r- disables the recursion completely, so ‘rar a -r- arc dirname’ command will add only the empty dirname folder and ignore its contents.
4. Remove duplicate folders from extraction path" option in "Settings/Compression" dialog is replaced by more universal "Remove redundant folders from extraction path" option. This option will eliminate redundant archive name based folders from extraction path if you unpack an archive with "Extract to DestName\" context menu command and if archive root folder contains only one folder and no files.
5. Where to check for SFX archives" options group in "Settings/Integration/Context menus items" dialog lets you to control processing of SFX archives in context menus. For example, if you frequently right click ".exe" files on slow network disks, you can turn off "Network disks" options to minimize the delay before displaying the context menu
More information on all the improved items can be found here
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2. What is a beta version?
A beta version, as opposed to a final version, is software that is undergoing its final stages in testing. We release beta versions to our customers so that the final set of bugs can be found and eliminated from WinRAR.
More detailed infos can be found here: www.win-rar.com/betainfo.html
3. How to upgrade your old WinRAR version?
Upgrading is quick and easy. Users only need to download WinRAR 3.90 beta 1 at www.win-rar.com/download.html and install the newest version of WinRAR to continue using the best compression tool around! Please close all open WinRAR archives and exit WinRAR before installing. No complicated
uninstalling of the previous version is necessary.
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