< WinRAR 5.11 Beta 1 released
01.09.2014 15:57 Age: 10 yrs

WinRAR 5.11 final released!

Release date: 01.09.2014


 

Berlin, 1st of September 2014 — win.rar GmbH and RARLAB.COM are proud to present the latest update for the world's leading compression and archive management software: WinRAR 5.11.

"By providing regular updates, we are taking care of achieving high compatibility, up-to-dateness, stability and liability of our software. With the latest version we have further improved the usability of alternative archiving formats to fulfill some of our customers' wishes and have fixed several bugs", says Öncül Kaya, Managing Director of win.rar GmbH.

Completely new is the option to unpack TAR archives containing folders with pax extended headers, which previous versions have not been able to decompress. To satisfy user demand and to maintain compatibility with various other formats, WinRAR is supporting the "Keep broken files" extraction option now also for 7-zip archives.

WinRAR is well known since ages for high compression rates, stability and all the advantages associated with the RAR-format, such as solid archiving, split archiving, recovery records, which allow reconstructing damaged files, various converting functionalities and many security options. With RAR5 the RAR algorithm has been upgraded to include 256-bit AES encryption - further ensuring that the user’s data is fully protected. With RAR encryption, data is safe and sound.

In addition to the RAR-format, WinRAR also supports many other archiving formats, giving the user the utmost flexibility to work with archives and data compression and offers the best compatibility in its class.

All information on the improvements and bugs fixed of WinRAR 5.11 can be found here:
https://www.win-rar.com/whatsnew.html.

An useful tip for all Windows-64-bit users, it is highly recommended to install the WinRAR 64-bit version. It is faster and offers the best available integration. WinRAR’s compression speed in Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 and on any multi-core-system has been increased considerably.

WinRAR is available in more than 40 different languages and is compatible with Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 and 8.1. For all Android users the RAR for Android App is available on Google Play. The command line version of WinRAR is also available for Linux, FreeBSD and MAC OS X.

About WinRAR:
WinRAR is the 32-bit and 64-bit Windows version of the RAR Archiver, the powerful archiver and archive manager. RAR files can, in most cases, compress content up to 30 percent more effectively than ZIP files. The most notable functions of WinRAR include very powerful document and multimedia file compression, file encryption, processing of other archive formats, programmable self-extracting (SFX) archives, damaged archive repair and Unicode support.

About win.rar GmbH:
win.rar GmbH has been the official distributor of WinRAR and RARLAB products since February 2002 and handles all support, marketing and sales related to WinRAR & RARLAB.COM. win.rar GmbH is registered in Germany and is represented worldwide by local partners in more than 70 countries on six continents. win.rar's declared objective is to provide first-class quality support and to optimize its software to meet customer's requirements in accordance with their valued feedback. For more information about WinRAR and win.rar GmbH please visit our website: https://www.win-rar.com

 


The beta download links are being expired after the final release!