WinRAR v.5.80 Compression and Archiving Management Software

win.rar GmbH and Rarlab.com announces the release of WinRAR 5.80.

Since WinRAR has all the features that compression and archiving management software needs, this update focused on particular enhancements for specific use-cases and improved usability and speed, especially for users of the command line and users working with huge amounts of files and archives.

In previous versions, more options for time settings and backup were added. Now, these have been further developed and refined to enhance the variety of time settings available to the user. By adding the Preserve source files last access time function, users who need to archive files for further analysis now have the possibility to do so without altering any parts of the files, including the last access timestamp. This feature can be important for backup reasons as well as for crime and forensic examiners, who need to save files with maximum details, such as the unicode path name, 3 timestamps, and NTFS alternate streams-all while keeping the original file timestamps intact.

The archiving speed for large NTFS alternate data streams on multi-core CPUs has been increased. These tasks are now completed faster to save time.

Additionally, the ‘Find’ command has been further improved. Previously, a set password was required each time when extracting encrypted files directly from the ‘Search results’, even if all files belonged to the same archive. Now, the password is only requested once per archive and the user can also search among UTF-8 files, which was not supported before. Also, the case-insensitive search is now performed faster for big archived data.

Other improvements for the command-line mode have been made to increase usability and speed. For example, when users are performing backups with rar.exe tool, the combination of modifiers will be more convenient and will save the user time. While carrying out backups and wanting to save the last modified and created timestamp, users can now combine several modifiers into a single switch.

These continuous improvements have been made to enhance the usability of the software and to provide a multi-functional, user-friendly program, with an interface featuring options for downsizing, extracting all common archive file types, securing, restoring, fixing, sharing, and managing data.

WinRAR 5.80 can be downloaded.

This software is available in over 40 languages and is compatible with Windows 10, 8.1, 8, 7 and Windows Vista. For all Android users, the RAR App is available on Google Play. The command-line version of WinRAR is also available for Linux, FreeBSD and MAC OS X.