Download WinRAR 5.00 Beta 5

RAR Labs has released the fifth beta release of version 5.00 of its RAR and WinRAR archiving tools. The popular compression tool is available for a variety of operating systems, including Windows, Linux, and 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 customizable interface, and support for Zip64 and multivolume cab files. The main change in version 5.00 is the introduction of a new compression format. This format, dubbed rar 5.0, generally produces smaller archives, but at the expense of speed. In beta 5, the following changes have been made:

Changes in version 5.00 beta 5

• Previous beta failed to decompress RAR archives contained both encrypted and unencrypted files. Archives containing only encrypted or only unencrypted files were unpacked correctly.
• By default, RAR 5.0 log files produced with -ilog switch use UTF-16 little endian encoding. Now it can be changed with -scg switch, such as -scag for ANSI encoding.

The following downloads are available:
WinRAR 5.00 beta 5 (32bit)
WinRAR 5.00 beta 5 (64bit)
RAR 5.00 beta 5 for Linux (32bit)
RAR 5.00 beta 5 for Linux (64bit)
RAR 5.00 beta 5 for FreeBSD
RAR 5.00 beta 5 for OS X