Download 7-Zip 21.01 alpha

Version 21.01 of 7-Zip has been released, a development version. This open source archiver can handle a wide range of compression formats, including zip, cab, rar, arj, lzh, chm, gzip, bzip2, z, tar, cpio, rpm, deb and of course the proprietary 7z. Furthermore, the software is able to open iso files and nsis installation packages. The most notable change in this release is the addition of a command line version in the Linux version. The complete changelog looks like this:

What’s new after 7-Zip 21.00 alpha:

• The command line version of 7-Zip for Linux was released.
• The improvements for speed of ARM64 version using hardware CPU instructions
  for AES, CRC-32, SHA-1 and SHA-256.
• The bug in versions 18.02 – 21.00 was fixed:
  7-Zip could not correctly extract some ZIP archives created with xz compression method.
• Some bugs were fixed.