Download 7-Zip 24.01 beta

Version 24.01 of 7-Zip has been released, a development version. This open source archive program can handle a large number 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 capable of opening ISO files and NSIS installation packages. The changelog for this release looks like this:

What's new after 7-Zip 24.00:

• 7-Zip now can unpack ZSTD archives (.zst filename extension).
• 7-Zip now can unpack ZIP, SquashFS and RPM archives that use ZSTD compression method.
• 7-Zip now supports fast hash algorithm XXH64 that is used in ZSTD.
• 7-Zip now can unpack RAR archives (that use larger than 4 GB dictionary) created by new WinRAR 7.00.
• 7-Zip now can unpack DMG archives that use XZ (ULMO/LZMA) compression method.
• 7-zip now can unpack NTFS images with cluster size larger than 64 KB.
• 7-zip now can unpack MBR and GDP images with 4 KB sectors.
• Speed ​​optimizations for archive unpacking: rar, cab, wim, zip, gz.
• Speed ​​optimizations for hash calculation: CRC-32, CRC-64, Blake2sp.
• The bug was fixed: 7-Zip for Linux could fail for multivolume creation in some cases.
• Some bugs were fixed.