Het compressieformaat 7z wordt steeds meer gebruikt voor het comprimeren van bestanden. Het programma p7zip is speciaal geschreven voor verschillende Unix-, BSD- en Linux-platformen en biedt volledige ondersteuning voor het 7z-formaat. De ontwikkelaar heeft een nieuwe versie uitgebracht met 4.44 als het versienummer, deze loopt gelijk met het programma 7-Zip op het Windows-platform. De lijst met aanpassingen ziet er als volgt uit:
Version 4.44:Version 4.43:
- From Windows version of 7-zip 4.44:
- 7za : Cab support
- Speed optimizations for LZMA, Deflate, BZip2 and unRAR.
- fix : now, updating a crypted header archive keeps the crypted header
- fixes in the help displayed by 7za/7z/7zr.
- code cleanup
- remove of mySetModuleFileNameA (and its memory leak), GetModuleFileName ...
- fixed : p7zip for DJGPP can now update an archive (thanks stranix)
- fixed : in the plugins of 7z, the "Utf16" state was always off.
- fixed : support for directory names that are not encoded with the current locale. (ex : directory name is in "iso 8859-15" whereas the locale is "utf8")
- patch #1581907 : fix for FreeBSD in contrib/gzip-like_CLI_wrapper_for_7z/p7zip
- fixed : p7zip can now restore a symbolic link from a Zip archive (archive.zip made with "zip -y") remark/todo : p7zip stores, in a zip archive, the linked file instead of the symbolic link
- fixed #1630452 : small fix in the output of the script install.sh
- fixed #632912 : Extracting large directories takes quadratic time
- preliminary support of HP-UX : remove of RTLD_GROUP for dlopen in DLL.cpp makefile.hpux-acc should be able to build 7za for HP-UX (thanks to furiol)
- Client7z added.
- From Windows version of 7-zip 4.43:
- 7-Zip now can use multi-threading mode for compressing to .ZIP archives.
- ZIP format supporting was improved.
- 7-Zip now supports WinZip-compatible AES-256 encryption for .ZIP archives.
- 7-Zip now uses order list (list of extensions) for files sorting for compressing to .7z archives. It can slightly increase compression ratio in some cases.
- 7-Zip now restores modification time of folders during .7z archives extracting.
- Some bugs were fixed.
- fixed : the user can now see the percentage indicator.
- support added for Tru64 / OSF 5.1 (makefile.tru64)
- small fix "Bugs item #1533765" in install.sh (7zr install)
- fix "Bugs item #1507913" : "make all" now build 7za and 7zCon.sfx following the README.
- manpage updated "bugs item #1509098" : exit codes added
- manpage updated :-mhe=on (Header encryption) added
- install.sh now can install the file README, ChangeLog and the directory DOCS