7-Zip 24.09

7-Zip is an open source file archiver with the high compression ratio for ZIP and GZIP formats, It’s a free alternative to the popular shareware archivers WinRAR and WinZip. It uses its own 7z archive format, but can read and write many other archive formats and offers a significantly higher compression ratio than its peers – up to 40% higher. It is developed by Igor Pavlov and was first released in 1999.

By default, 7-Zip creates 7z-format archives with a .7z file extension. Each archive can contain multiple directories and files. As a container format, security or size reduction are achieved using a stacked combination of filters. These can consist of pre-processors, compression algorithms, and encryption filters.

The core 7z compression uses a variety of algorithms, the most common of which are bzip2, PPMd, LZMA2, and LZMA. Developed by Pavlov, LZMA is a relatively new system, making its debut as part of the 7z format. LZMA uses an LZ-based sliding dictionary of up to 4 GB in size, backed by a range coder.

Supported formats:

• Packing / unpacking: 7z, XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP and WIM
• Unpacking only: AR, ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DMG, EXT, FAT, GPT, HFS, IHEX, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MBR, MSI, NSIS, NTFS, QCOW2, RAR, RPM, SquashFS, UDF, UEFI, VDI, VHD, VMDK, WIM, XAR and Z.

Key Features:

• High compression ratio
• Strong AES-256 encryption
• Self-extracting capability
• Command line support
• Multiple-core CPU threading
• Integration with Windows Shell
• Plugin for FAR Manager
• Powerful File Manager