Download WinRAR 5.20

RAR Labs has released the final release of version 5.20 of its archiving programs RAR and WinRAR. The popular compression tool is available for various operating systems, including Windows, Linux, OS X and now Android. The program can handle the most common formats, including rar, zip, cab, arj, lzh, tar, gz, ace, uue, bz2, jar, iso, 7z and z. Furthermore, it has a skinnable interface and support for Zip64 and multivolume cab files.

New in version 5.20 is, among other things, that if the uac does not allow extracting to a certain folder, the program will restart itself in admin mode. Also, the icon in the context menu now looks good on high-resolution screens. The complete changelog looks like this:

Changes in WinRAR version 5.20

• If the Windows User Account Control does not allow extracting or unpacking files to be created in folders protected by the system, WinRAR will try to launch itself a second time but with administrator privileges to finish the task. It is necessary to confirm the elevated privileges in response to User Account Control’s prompt to run this second WinRAR instance.
• You can drag and drop files in Explorer with the right mouse button and then drop them into another folder, then choose to pack files from WinRAR’s context menu. This allows you to create an archive with these files in the destination folder.
• It is possible to use the WinRAR.ini file instead of the Windows registry to store WinRAR settings. This may be preferable for you if you want to install WinRAR on a removable media, e.g. a USB stick, and then you can run it on different computers.
  See the “WinRAR.ini file” topic in the “Configuration Settings” chapter of the WinRAR Help for more information.
• Added support for extracting ZIP and ZIPX archives compressed with the XZ compression algorithm.
• If a ZIP or ZIPX archive contains a compression algorithm outside the usual “Save” or “Pack” algorithms, the names of the algorithms will be displayed in the “Version to extract” field in the archive information dialog.
• The “Open with WinRAR” command is available in context menus in Windows for archive formats supported by WinRAR. This can be disabled with the option “Open with WinRAR (for common archives)” in the WinRAR dialog “Settings”, tab “Integration”, option “Context menu items…”.
• The command-line version RAR can read the default set of switches from the rar.ini file stored in the RAR program folder.
  Previously it was only possible to specify the same set of switches for all RAR commands with the string “switches=”. Now rar.ini also supports the ability to specify single sets of switches for individual RAR commands using the following syntax: switches_=
  For example:
  switches_a=-m5 -s
  switches_x=-o+
• The “ch” command also supports -tl, -cu, and -cl switches for ZIP archives. Previously, “ch” only supported these RAR archive format switches.
• For archive formats that do not support file time data, such as .bz2, .xz, and .Z, the archive modification time is used for the extracted files. This does not apply to .tar.bz2, .tar.xz and tar.Z, where the file time is stored in tar headers.
• The “Keep damaged files” extraction option is supported for bzip2 archives.
• The WinRAR icon in Windows context menus is actually hidden in high-DPI screen modes such as 150% or 200% of normal text size.
• It is possible to disable the WinRAR command “Benchmark” with the variable “Benchmark” in the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareWinRARPolicy. In a multi-user environment, the “Benchmark” command can misuse shared processor resources. See the “Registry variables” topic in the “Configuration Settings” chapter of the WinRAR Help for more information.
• In addition to the “sfxcmd” variable containing the full command line, the SFX module sets a variable called “sfxpar” that contains only the command line parameters, without the preceding SFX module name. These variables are set before running a program specified by the “Setup” command.
• The request to overwrite files in the console RAR displays the size of modification time for existing and new files.
• When packing stdin with the “-si” switch, RAR sets the current system time as the modification time of a packed file. Earlier versions did not set any time.
• It is possible to use the “-si” and “-v” switches together.
  Previous versions did not allow volumes to be created when packaging stdin.
• A warning is given when starting to extract a file of 4 GB or larger from a RAR or ZIP archives to a FAT32 partition, allowing the user to cancel the job. FAT32 does not support files of this size.
  Also, this warning is given when starting to create a RAR archive with the method “Save” (“-m0”) if the estimated archive size is 4 GB or larger.
• The “Select All” button in the “Settings” dialog box, “Integration” tab, has been renamed and is now called “Invert All”.
  The button unselects archive formats if they were already chosen.
• The “Delete Archive” unzip option properly removes all .zip and .7z files. Previously, only the first volume in the series was removed for these archive formats.

The following downloads are available:
WinRAR 5.20 (32bit)
WinRAR 5.20 (64 bit)
RAR 5.20 for Linux (32bit)
RAR 5.20 for Linux (64 bit)
RAR 5.20 for FreeBSD
RAR 5.20 for OS X
RAR 5.20 for Android