Download WinRAR 5.50 Beta 6

RAR Labs has released the sixth beta release of version 5.50 of its RAR and WinRAR archiving tools. This popular compression tool is available for a variety of operating systems, including Windows, Linux, and macOS. The program handles the 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. Since beta 4, the following changes and improvements have been made:

WinRAR 5.50 beta 6

New

• File association option for JAR files is off by default in WinRAR installer unless you enabled it earlier in previous WinRAR versions. You need to enable this option manually if you wish to associate WinRAR with *.jar.
• Unless “Allow absolute paths in symbolic links” extraction dialog option or -ola command line switch are specified, WinRAR does not allow to extract symbolic links with “..” in target if any of link path components is an existing symbolic link itself. It is done to prevent bypassing WinRAR security checks with chains from several symbolic links.

Bug fixed:

• If “Add” command was used from inside of archive opened in WinRAR interface, “file not found” error could be issued for files which pathnames included spaces;
• Fixed crashes when unpacking corrupt RAR archives;
• “rar a arc. filename” command created “arc.” archive with trailing dot instead of expected “arc” without any extension;
• “New folder” button in extraction dialog selected a parent of newly created folder instead of such folder itself;
• “Checksum error” could be mistakenly reported for some valid GZIP archives.

WinRAR 5.50 beta 5

New

• If it takes too much time to locate a destination path in extraction dialog folder tree, automatic search performed as user enters the path is cancelled. Lengthy search in large folders could interfere with user input in this dialog.
  You can still force WinRAR to select the entered destination path in extraction dialog with “Display” button.

Bug fixed:

• The keyboard focus was not returned to “Settings/File list” dialog page after selecting the file list font.

The following downloads are available:
WinRAR 5.50 beta 6 (32bit)
WinRAR 5.50 beta 6 (64bit)
RAR 5.50 beta 6 for Linux (32bit)
RAR 5.50 beta 6 for Linux (64bit)
RAR 5.50 beta 6 for FreeBSD
RAR 5.50 beta 6 for macOS