Download WinRAR 5.21 Beta 1

RAR Labs has released the first beta release of version 5.21 of its RAR and WinRAR archiving tools. The popular compression tool is available for various operating systems, including Windows, Linux and OS X. The program can handle the most common formats, such as rar, zip, cab, arj, lzh, tar, gz, ace, uue, bz2, jar, iso , 7z and z. WinRAR has a skinnable interface and support for Zip64 and multivolume cab files. The relatively small jump in version number indicates that this version has only minor changes and improvements.

New

• “Drag and drop context menu” options in “Settings/Integration/Context menu items” dialog allow to disable WinRAR archiving and extraction commands in context menu displayed after dragging and dropping files with right mouse button.
• If winrar.ini file is present in the same folder as WinRAR installer, winrar.ini will be copied to WinRAR program folder after completing installation.
• While previous versions could produce RAR5 volumes of slightly smaller than requested size sometimes, such situation is less likely now. In most cases volume size equals to specified by user.

Bug fixed:

• WinRAR 5.20 issued unnecessary user account control (UAC) prompt, when running an executable from archive stored in UAC protected folder. Since nothing is extracted to folder containing an archive in such case, UAC prompt is not needed;
• WinRAR could overwrite files with read-only attribute only when unpacking RAR and ZIP archive formats. Now it is also implemented for other archive formats supported by WinRAR;
• “Elapsed time” and “Time left” were displayed incorrectly when applying “Convert” command to multiple archives and enabling “Add recovery record” option.

The following downloads are available:
WinRAR 5.21 beta 1 (32bit)
WinRAR 5.21 beta 1 (64bit)
RAR 5.21 beta 1 for Linux (32bit)
RAR 5.21 beta 1 for Linux (64bit)
RAR 5.21 beta 1 for FreeBSD
RAR 5.21 beta 1 for OS X