Download WinRAR 4.20 Beta 3

RAR Labs has released the third beta release of version 4.20 of its RAR and WinRAR archiving tools. The popular compression tool is available for a variety of operating systems, including Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. The program handles most common formats – including rar, zip, cab, arj, lzh, tar, gz, ace, uue, bz2, jar , iso, 7z and z – has a skinnable interface and support for Zip64 and multivolume cab files. In version 4.20, changes have been made to the compression algorithm, among other things. This makes it generally faster, but the memory usage has increased considerably. In addition, it is now also possible to search in 7-zip archive files, but support for Windows 2000 has been dropped. The changelog for this release can be found below.

Changes in version 4.20 beta 3

• “Estimate” function in WinRAR “Info” command is adjusted to faster WinRAR 4.20 compression when calculating the expected compression time.
• GUI SFX module -sp switch passes parameters to setup application only if no other parameters were specified in “Setup” command in SFX script. So “Setup” command has a higher priority than -sp.
  Regardless of -sp presence, setup application can read the full SFX command line from sfxcmd environment variable.
• “Save current settings” button in “Advanced SFX options” dialog is now available only when converting an existing archive to SFX. Options saved with this button are applied only to convert to SFX operation.
  If you create or update SFX archive, only SFX options stored in default compression profile are used. Options saved in “Advanced SFX options” dialog are ignored for these operations.

The following downloads are available:
WinRAR 4.20 beta 3 (32bit)
WinRAR 4.20 beta 3 (64bit)
RAR 4.20 beta 3 for Linux (32bit)
RAR 4.20 beta 3 for Linux (64bit)
RAR 4.20 beta 3 for FreeBSD
RAR 4.20 beta 3 for Mac OS X