Version History
Here you can find the changelog of RAR since it was posted on our website on 2014-11-12.
The latest version is 7.00 and it was updated on soft112.com on 26 March, 2024.
See below the changes in each version:
version 7.00.build122
posted on 2024-03-15
1. Added extraction of RAR 7.0 archives with larger than 4 GB dictionaries.
2. Faster CRC32 calculation improves extraction and archiving performance for archives utilizing this checksum.
3. Dictionary size data in archive information dialog is now available for .bz2, .lz, .tar.bz2, .tar.gz, .tar.lz, .tar.zst archive formats.
4. "RAR 4.x" archiving option is removed.
version 6.23.build119
posted on 2023-10-05
Fixed a crash when processing a zero length archive name in the archive metadata stored with Windows RAR -am switch.
version 6.23.build117
posted on 2023-08-02
1. Added extraction of 7z and xz archives utilizing ARM64 filter.
2. Out of bounds write is fixed in RAR4 recovery volumes processing code. We are thankful to goodbyeselene working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative for letting us know about this bug;
3. RAR file list could display a wrong timestamp for archived folders if folder record was resided in archive after files the folder contains.
version 6.22.build116
posted on 2023-08-02
Extracting individual files from solid archives created by RAR versions older than 2.0, could fail in RAR 6.20 and 6.21. It didn't affect extracting the entire archive, which was performed correctly. Fixed now.
version 6.10.build103
posted on 2022-02-09
1. "Names encoding" option in RAR settings is renamed to "Non-Unicode names encoding". Selected encoding is displayed below the option name. UTF-8 is added at the top of encodings list, which can be useful when processing a malformed ZIP archive with UTF-8 file names, but without UTF-8 flag in file headers.
2. Color of navigation bar at the bottom of screen is always black now. On some devices it could be white in Android 12 light display mode, mismatching the rest of RAR colors.
version 6.10.build101
posted on 2021-12-11
1. Android 12 compatibility modifications.
2. Archive information dialog includes the proper compression dictionary size for ZIP Deflate64 and Implode compression methods. Previously it always displayed 32 KB for them.
3. Additionally to .tar.ext archive extensions, RAR registers associations for their short versions, such as .tgz for .tar.gz.
version 6.10.build100
posted on 2021-11-08
1. Added extraction of .zst and .zipx archives utilizing Zstandard algortithm.
2. RAR could hang if one of 7z.### parts in a multipart 7z archive was missing. It is fixed now.
version 6.02.build98
posted on 2021-10-02
1. RAR requests "Use of All files access" permission in Android 11. This permission is needed for RAR file and archive management functions.
2. If screen was rotated after entering a password in archiving dialog, but before starting archiving, the password was cleared. This bug is fixed now.
version 6.00.build97
posted on 2021-05-19
1. When creating RAR4 archives, the recovery record size was less than specified by user. It is fixed now. This bug did not affect RAR5 archives.
2. Previously the rename command could fail if only the name case was changed. Now it shall work more reliably in such situation.
version 6.00.build96
posted on 2021-01-20
1.We removed ads and added a window proposing to support RAR development. It is not mandatory and you can skip this window.
2.RAR failed to update ZIP archives in Android 11.
3.Compression parameters in "Benchmark" command are changed to
32 MB dictionary and "Normal" method. They match RAR5 default mode and more suitable to estimate the typical performance of recent
RAR versions than former 4 MB "Best" intended for RAR4 format.
version 5.91.build95
posted on 2020-11-13
1. If external app sends a file on external card to RAR and if file name includes the full path, RAR will create an archive in the same folder as such file. Previous versions created it in the external card root folder.
2. Unnecessary empty space was below the status bar in previous version. It is fixed now.
version 5.91.build93
posted on 2020-09-29
Adjustments for Android 11.
version N/A
posted on 2020-06-27
RAR failed to properly unpack files from subfolders of archives created by RAR 1.40.
version N/A
posted on 2020-06-24
1. Additionally to progress bar, the current percent is displayed in Android notification area when working in background.
2. Progress bar is removed from notification when operation is done.
3. Natural sort order is used for numeric names. For example, file15.txt is positioned below file5.txt.
4. Bugs fixed:
a) empty file names were displayed inside of some Unix LZH archives;
b) deleting more than few thousands files at once could fail.
version N/A
posted on 2020-04-19
1. "Comment" page in archiving dialog allows to set an archive comment. Also you can use "Information" command from options menu to add or edit archive comment in existing RAR and ZIP archives. If you specify a file with archive comment, it shall have UTF-8 text format.
2. If user associated an app with some file type, RAR attempts to detect such app icon and use it in file list.
3. Thumbnails are displayed faster when browsing a folder with JPG files.
version N/A
posted on 2020-03-17
1. Progress bar is displayed when opening contents of TAR based archive formats, such as tar.gz and tar.bz2.
2. Added extraction support for GZIP archives with optional header checksum field.
3. Fixed a crash when opening RAR help on some Android 5 devices.
version N/A
posted on 2020-02-28
Bugs fixed:
a) extraction could hang infinitely when unpacking some corrupt
ARJ archives and corrupt ZIP archives with BZIP2 compression algorithm.
version N/A
posted on 2019-11-24
1. Progress bar is displayed when extracting tar.xz and tar.lz archives. Previous versions did not display it for these formats.
2. Previous version failed to unpack ZIP archives with mismatched order of local file records and central directory entries.
version N/A
posted on 2019-10-18
1. ZIP extraction and testing performance dropped in previous version. Returned to normal value now.
2. Added support for one more variation of TAR format archives.
3. "Delete files after archiving" could fail for ZIP archives if "Test archived files" and "Create separate archives" were also enabled. Fixed now.
version N/A
posted on 2019-09-20
1. Former "General" page in RAR settings is split to "Interface", "File list" and "Other" pages.
2. Interface page in settings includes following new options:
a) "Black" theme with black toolbar and status bar in themes list;
b) "Hide notification bar" to hide the system bar at the top of screen;
c) "Font size" to change the size of font in file list, status bar and some other parts of interface.
3. Fixed a bug that prevented RAR to use the external SD card in Android 10.
version 5.71.build72
posted on 2019-08-20
1. When entering an archiving password, the last state of "Encrypt file names" option is saved and then restored in next archiving password prompts.
2. RAR could wrongly report the delete error after successfully deleting a file on external SD card or USB drive. Fixed now.
version N/A
posted on 2018-02-06
1. "Repair" command efficiency is improved for recovery record protected RAR5 archives. Now it can detect deletions and insertions of unlimited size also as shuffled data including data taken from several recovery record protected archives and merged into a single file in arbitrary order.
2. RAR 5.50 build 46 failed to unpack split .001, .002 files. Fixed.
3. RAR 5.60 build 48 could fail to unpack some large ZIP files. Fixed.
version 5.50.build42
posted on 2016-09-21
1. Added support for PAX extended headers in TAR archives. Such headers are utilized by modern TAR tools to store high precision file times and lengthy file names.,2. If wrong password is entered when unpacking an encrypted file in RAR5 archive, RAR proposes to enter a valid password for same file again instead of aborting extraction.,3. "Information" command in previous versions did not display ZIP archive comment if comment length was less than 24 characters. Fixed now.
version 5.20.build25
posted on 2014-10-03
Several fixes and updates
