7-Zip 9.11 beta Released
Together with 7-Zip 9.11 beta, LZMA SDK 9.11 beta were released on 15 March 2010.
7-Zip program is an open source file compression software for Microsoft Windows. 7-Zip operates with the 7z archive format, and can read and write to several other archive formats, such as ZIP, gzip, bzip2, tar and, in betas for version 9, xz. Its 7z compressed archive file format supports several different data compression, encryption and pre-processing filters.
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In 7-Zip 9.11 beta
- 7-Zip now supports PPMd (Prediction by Partial Matching) compression in .ZIP archives.
- Speed optimizations in PPMd codec.
- The support for archives in installers was improved.
- Some bugs were fixed.
- New localization: Kazakh.
LZMA (The Lempel-Ziv-Markov chain algorithm) is an algorithm used to perform data compression. The LZMA SDK (Software Development Kit) provides the documentation, samples, header files, libraries, and tools you need to develop applications that use LZMA compression.
Current stable version is 7-Zip 4.65. After version 4.65, 7-Zip switched to a "Year.Revision" version numbering scheme, similar to the one used by Ubuntu and some other projects. The first release under the new scheme was 9.07 beta.
7-Zip is publicly available for free under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License. The program can be used on any computer, including a computer in a commercial organization, and no registration is required.
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