Download WinRAR 5.30 Beta 2

RAR Labs has released the second beta release of version 5.30 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. It 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. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

Changes:

• SFX module sets sfxstime environment variable, which contains the module start time in “YYYY-MM-DD-HH-MM-SS-ms” format. You can specify it in Path command if you need to generate a time based unique installation path, such as “Path=myapp-%sfxstime%”.
• Fewer password requests in following cases in “Convert archives” command:
  • if “Convert archives” is applied to archive with encrypted file names, which contents is currently displayed in WinRAR;
  • if archive produced by “Convert archives” includes encrypted file names.

Bug fixed:

• RAR volumes renamed from standard .part1.rar, .part2.rar to .001, .002 are recognized and processed correctly now. Previous beta opened them as set of usual split files, not as RAR volumes;
• Reports produced with “Generate report” command contained invalid CRC32 checksums for non-archived files;
• “rar x arcname.rar d:” command unpacks files to d: current folder. Previous version unpacked them to d: root folder;
• Archive comment was not encrypted if added to archive with encrypted headers using “c” command without -hp switch. This beta encrypts an archive comment in such case.

The following downloads are available:
WinRAR 5.30 beta 2 (32bit)
WinRAR 5.30 beta 2 (64bit)
RAR 5.30 beta 2 for Linux (32bit)
RAR 5.30 beta 2 for Linux (64bit)
RAR 5.30 beta 2 for FreeBSD
RAR 5.30 beta 2 for OS X