Portable 7-Zip Changelog

What's new in Portable 7-Zip 22.01

Jul 17, 2022
  • UDF support was improved to UDF version 2.60.
  • HFS and APFS support was improved.

New in Portable 7-Zip 22.00 (Jun 20, 2022)

  • Zip now can extract APFS (Apple File System) images that can be used in DMG files.
  • Zip now can create TAR archives in POSIX (pax) tar format with the switches
  • ttar -mm=pax or -ttar -mm=posix
  • Zip now can store additional file timestamps with high precision (1 ns in Linux)
  • in tar/pax archives with the following switches:
  • ttar -mm=pax -mtp=3 -mtc -mta
  • New switches for Linux version for TAR archives:
  • snoi : store owner/group ids in archive or set owner/group ids from archive to extracted files.
  • snon : store owner/group names in archive
  • New -snz switch to propagate Zone.Identifier stream to extracted files (Windows).
  • New option "Propagate Zone.Id stream" in Tools/Options/7-Zip menu.
  • New "Options" window in "Add to archive" allows to select what metadata must be
  • included to archive. Also it allows to select new option
  • "Do not change source files last access time".
  • Some bugs were fixed.

New in Portable 7-Zip 21.07 (Dec 27, 2021)

  • 7-Zip now can extract VHDX disk images (Microsoft Hyper-V Virtual Hard Disk v2 format).
  • New switches: -spm and -im!{file_path} to exclude directories from processing
  • For specified paths that don't contain path separator character at the end of path.
  • In the "Add to Archive" window, now it is allowed to use -m prefix for "Parameters" field as in command line: -mparam.
  • Sorting order of files in archives was slightly changed to be more consistent
  • For cases where the name of some directory is the same as the prefix part of the name of another directory or file.
  • TAR archives created by 7-Zip now are more consistent with archives created by GNU TAR program.

New in Portable 7-Zip 19.00 (Feb 25, 2019)

  • 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.

New in Portable 7-Zip 4.64 (Jan 6, 2009)

  • The bug in 7-Zip 4.63 was fixed: 7-Zip could not decrypt .ZIP archives encrypted with WinZip-AES method.

New in Portable 7-Zip 4.62 (Dec 19, 2008)

  • Some bugs were fixed.