Download WinRAR 4.01 Beta 1

RAR Labs has released the first beta release of version 4.01 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. Version 4.01 is able to display file sizes in tar archives and the changelog further shows several bug fixes.

New:

• Added support for file sizes stored in binary format in TAR archives. Some TAR archives use the binary size format instead of octal for files larger than 8 GB.

Bug fixed:

• “Repair” command failed to properly reconstruct structure of RAR archives, which contained at least one file with packed size exceeding 4 GB. This bug did not affect the recovery record based repair. It happened only if recovery record was not found and WinRAR performed reconstruction of archive structure;
• Even if “Do not extract paths” option in “Advanced” part of extraction dialog was set as the default, WinRAR still unpacked file paths if called from Explorer context menu;
• After entering a wrong password for encrypted ZIP archive, sometimes WinRAR ignored subsequent attempts to enter a valid password;
• “Wizard” command did not allow to create self-extracting and multivolume archives, when compressing a single folder or a file without extension;
• “Import settings from file” command did not restore multiline comments in WinRAR compression profiles;
• When converting RAR volumes having name1.name2.part#.rar name format, “Convert archives” command erroneously removed “.name2” name part. So resulting archive had name1.rar file name instead of expected name1.name2.rar;
• RAR could crash when creating a new archive with -agNNN switch if archive number in generated name was 110 or larger.

The following downloads are available:
WinRAR 4.01 beta 1 (32bit)
WinRAR 4.01 beta 1 (64bit)
RAR 4.01 beta 1 for Linux (32bit)
RAR 4.01 beta 1 for Linux (64bit)
RAR 4.01 beta 1 for FreeBSD
RAR 4.01 beta 1 for Mac OS X