WinRAR 5.70 Review

[jasonX]

WinRAR version 5.70 stable (February 28, 2019)

What's New:

Note: Below are excerpts lifted from full list of changes

1. "Files to process" option on "Time" page of archiving dialog allows to choose files based on modification, creation or last access file time. Previously it was possible for modification time only.
   

3. WinRAR file list can display creation and last access file times if they are available. Creation and last access columns are disabled by default and can be enabled in "Select file list columns" dialog. This dialog is opened after right clicking on file list column headers or after pressing "File list/Files/Columns..." button in WinRAR settings.

4. "Double extensions for archives" and "Archives in subfolders" options on "Files" page of archiving dialog modify behavior of  "Put each file to separate archive" option. You can switch between archive names in filename.ext.rar and filename.rar style with "Double extensions for archives".

You can create a separate archive for every file in selected subfolders or store the entire contents of every selected folder in separate archive depending on the state of "Archives in subfolders" option.

7. New "File list/List style/Checkboxes" option in WinRAR settings allows to use checkboxes to select file list items.

 

8. New "File list/Files/Exact sizes" option in WinRAR settings. If this option is on, file sizes are always displayed in bytes. If it is off, sizes are rounded up and use units such as KB or MB. Smaller files can be still displayed in bytes.

 

17. "Find" command "Disks and folders" drop down list has been renamed to "Search area". Additionally to already existing choices, it includes a new "Selected items" option restricting search to files and folders selected in WinRAR file list.

 

18. "Find" command displays the number of found items in status bar.

21. Nadav Grossman from Check Point Software Technologies informed us about a security vulnerability in UNACEV2.DLL library. Aforementioned vulnerability makes possible to create files in arbitrary folders inside or outside of destination folder when unpacking "ACE archives". WinRAR used this third party library to unpack "ACE archives". UNACEV2.DLL had not been updated since 2005 and we do not have access to its source code. So we decided to drop "ACE archive" format support to protect security of WinRAR users.

   

WinRAR 5.70 - FULL (COMPLETE) LIST OF CHANGES HERE