- Encryption strength for 7z archives was increased the size of random
initialization vector was increased from 64-bit to 128-bit, and the
pseudo-random number generator was improved.
- Some bugs were fixed.
- add the "fast compression levels" of zstd via "fast" option (fast=1..64)
- change the 7-Zip property sizes of LZ4, LZ5 and Zstandard to 3
- 3 and 5 byte header are valid now (default is 3)
- update the Methods-Extern.md file, to reflect the property changes
- Minor speed optimization for LZMA2 (xz and 7z) multi-threading compression.
7-Zip now uses additional memory buffers for multi-block LZMA2 compression.
CPU utilization was slightly improved.
- 7-zip now creates multi-block xz archives by default. Block size can be
specified with -ms[Size]{m|g} switch.
- xz decoder now can unpack random block from multi-block xz archives. 7-Zip
File Manager now can open nested multi-block xz archives (for example,
image.iso.xz) without full unpacking of xz archive.
- 7-Zip now can create zip archives from stdin to stdout.
- 7-Zip command line: @listfile now doesn't work after -- switch. Use
-i@listfile before -- switch instead.
fixed bugs:
- 7-Zip could add unrequired alternate file streams to WIM archives, for
commands that contain filename wildcards and -sns switch.
- 7-Zip 17.00 beta crashed for commands that write anti-item to 7z archive.
- 7-Zip 17.00 beta ignored "Use large memory pages" option.
- update of zstd-mt library
- add brotli v0.6.0
- add lizard v2.0
- xxhash is from zstd for lz4, lz5 and lizard now
- update also the documentation, where needed
- update to 0.7.3
- GUI improvements:
- ZStandard Version and Level is shown in FileManager
- method and level selection is better
- this 7-Zip Version defaults to ZSandard now
