Software-update: p7zip 4.61

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 4.61 als het versienummer, die met het programma 7-Zip op het Windows-platform gelijk loopt. De lijst met aanpassingen sinds de vorige vermelding in de Meuktracker ziet er als volgt uit:

Version 4.61:

• 7-Zip now supports LZMA compression for .ZIP archives.
• Ask for password twice when creating encrypted archive
• 7zG added (read GUI/readme.txt)
• p7zip didn't use the BCJ /BCJ2 filters for executables (:
• makefile.linux_amd64_asm_icc added (tested with Intel Compiler 11 on Ubuntu 8.04 x64)
• 7-Zip now can unpack UDF, XAR and DMG/HFS archives.
• It's allowed to use -t switch for "list" and "extract" commands.
• Bug : wrong timestamp for files extracted from .zip or .rar archives

Version 4.58:

• From Windows version of 7-zip 4.58:
  • Some speed optimizations.
  • 7-Zip now can unpack .lzma archives.
  • Unicode (UTF-8) support for filenames in .ZIP archives. Now there are 3 modes
    1. Default mode: 7-Zip uses UTF-8, if the local code page doesn't contain required symbols.
    2. -mcu switch: 7-Zip uses UTF-8, if there are non-ASCII symbols.
    3. -mcl switch: 7-Zip uses local code page.
  • Now it's possible to store file creation time in 7z and ZIP archives (-mtc switch).
  • 7-Zip now can unpack multivolume RAR archives created with "old style volume names" scheme and names *.001, *.002, ...
  • Now it's possible to use -mSW- and -mSW+ switches instead of -mSW=off and -mSW=on
  • Some bugs were fixed.
• Bug #1898410 : Timestamp error in archive listing now "7za l .." and "ls -l just_extracted_file" give the same date and time.
• Bug #1860938 : unix file rights only 600 instead of 644
• Bug #1941574 : gzip files always marked as OS FAT, Now p7zip uses "Unix".
• Bug #1947700 : file containing excluded files not read When using the -xr flag to list files not to be included in the archive the file is not read if it is a symbolic link.
• Feature Requests #1868080 : add support to compile for NetWare (makefile.netware_asm_gcc_3.X)
• Patch #1883893 : Incorrect path ref to docs in man pages (When using the last ($DEST_DIR) argument with install.sh)
• now "install.sh" supports filenames with spaces.
• some code cleanup (Synchronization)
• some minor fix in the BZip2 codec.
• fix with the define "__TEXT" for s390

Version 4.57:

• From Windows version of 7-zip 4.57:
  • The BUG in command line version was fixed: -up3 switch could work incorrectly.
  • Minor improvement in ZIP compression.

Version 4.56:

• From Windows version of 7-zip 4.56:
  • Some bugs were fixed
• On HPUX : fixed "Can't load '../bin/7z.dll'" (Unsatisfied data symbol '_ZTVN10__cxxabiv121__vmi_class_type_infoE' in load module '../bin/7z.so'.)
• bug : p7zip used to build a zip file with an "FAT" header instead of "Unix" header If LANG was set, "unzip" tried to translate the filenames from "FAT" to locale ...
• On AIX : fixed "HugeFiles=off" (thank kuriath)
• bug #1800180 : LZMAlone compilation error in COutFile
• Patch #1796569 : Fix FreeBSD FTBFS
• Patch #1796575 : fix man1/7za.1 man1/7zr.1 man1/7z.1

Version 4.55:

• From Windows version of 7-zip 4.55:
  • Some bugs were fixed
• fixed #1789154 : 7z use default or -m0=LZMA runtime error under HP-UX IA11.23
• support added for HPUX on Itanium. (makefile.hpux-acc and makefile.hpux-acc_64)

Version 4.54:

• From Windows version of 7-zip 4.54:
  • Decompression speed was increased