7-Zip is a GNU / LPGL distributed under the free software, it can be said is the most promising as a zip, rar mainstream after a compressed format of the file compression format .7 Zip compression rate is his greatest competitive advantage , the choice of the general compression ratio has been the circumstances under which we can easily beat the WinRAR compression ratio of the maximum. 7zip but not perfect, the main software interface is still not excellent, the format itself for the support of sub-volume compression is not good, but it without prejudice has the potential to become one of the most 7zip compression format.

Download :7-Zip 9.04 Beta (858 KB)

Download :7-Zip 9.04 Beta x64 (1.22 MB)

What’s new after 7-zip 4.65:

- 7-Zip now can update solid .7 z archives.

- 7-Zip now supports LZMA2 compression method.

- 7-Zip now supports XZ archives.

- 7-Zip now can unpack NTFS, FAT, VHD and MBR archives.

- 7-Zip now can unpack GZip, BZip2, LZMA, XZ and TAR archives from stdin.

- 7-Zip now can open / copy / compress disk images (like. C:) from. Folder.

- 7-Zip File Manager now doesn’t use temp files to open nested archives

stored without compression.

- New-scrc switch to calculate total CRC-32 during extracting / testing.

- Some bugs were fixed.

 

Don’t use this alpha version for important data. Call “Test” command after each compressing operation.