Download p7zip 4.42

The compression format 7z is increasingly used for compressing files. The program p7zip is specially written for various Unix, BSD and Linux platforms and offers full support for the 7z format. The developer has released a new version with 4.42 as the version number, which runs parallel to the 7-Zip program on the Windows platform. The list of customizations looks like this:

Version 4.42:

• the binaries provided by p7zip_4.XY_x86_linux_bin.tar.bz2 can now run on Fedora x86_64, and should now run on any 64bits Linux.
• patch #1473746 – gzip-like CLI wrapper (for 7z) see the directory “contrib/gzip-like_CLI_wrapper_for_7z”.
• patch #471478 – Support for OPTFLAGS This patch allows to use system specific opt flags.example : make OPTFLAGS=”-O2 -march=athlon-xp”
• the djgpp and cygwin makefile now build “7za” with case insensitive filenames (Windows filesystem is case insensitive).
• 7-Zip now can unpack some installers created by NSIS
• format LZH/LHA : fixed directory display during listing or extracting (a directory does not end with the path separator)
• patch #1470817 – Handle 7zr in install.sh
• code cleanup

Version 4.39:

• From Windows version of 7-zip 4.39:
  Bug in versions 4.33:4.38 was fixed: 7-Zip could not correctly compress files larger than 2 GB to 7z archive in fast/fastest modes (HC4 match finder).

Version 4.38:

• From Windows version of 7-zip 4.38 :
  Some bugs were fixed.
• new man page : 7zr.1
• update man pages : 7z.1 and 7za.1
• new switch : –help
• patch #1465026 – Patch for install.sh for packagers
• DosDateTimeToFileTime fixed (rar format)
• contrib/VirtualFileSystemForMidnightCommander/u7z updated (thanks sgh_punk)

Version 4.37:

• From Windows version of 7-zip 4.37 :
  Some bugs were fixed.
• fix build for Solaris sparc with CC instead of g++.
• fix build for Solaris 9 x86
• fix build for Solaris 10 x86
• fix build for OpenBSD
• p7zip can now be build with djgpp.
• p7zip can now be build on IBM AIX
• new target : 7zr (lite version of 7za)

Version 4.36:

• From Windows version of 7-zip 4.36 :
  7-zip now can unpack ISO archives
• GCC 4.X : add C++ visibility support to reduce the size of the *.so (see makefile.linux_x86_ppc_alpha__gcc_4.X)
• cygwin now supports ‘-o/tmp’

Version 4.35:

• From Windows version of 7-zip 4.35 :
  New switch : -slt (“l” (list) command with -slt shows technical information for archive).
  Some bugs were fixed.
• From Windows version of 7-zip 4.34 :
  BZip2 compressing / decompressing now can work in multi-threading mode
  Multi-threading mode now is default for multi-processor systems