WinRAR 5.90 final released

The final version of WinRAR 5.90 is ready to download!

Berlin, March 30th, 2019: win.rar GmbH and RARLAB.COM are proud to present the final release of WinRAR 5.90. With this release, WinRAR’s continual improvement provides users with a multi-functional, user-friendly compression and archiving software, with an intuitive interface featuring state-of-the-art options for downsizing, extracting, securing, restoring, repairing, sharing and managing files. WinRAR now takes advantage of the latest developments in the hardware market, such as processors with over 16 cores. It has been trimmed to use these additional cores for processing WinRAR compression tasks even faster than before. Also, there are performance enhancements in repairing damaged archives and improvements of the displayed file information within the WinRAR Graphical User Interface, which increases the overall usability and user-friendliness.

RAR Compression Speed Enhancements

More and more multi-core CPUs with 16 or more cores are released and installed on users’ PCs, and with the new WinRAR 5.90 version, these CPU improvements can dramatically increase the RAR compression speed in such environments. This optimization of the RAR5 compression speed, with the normal and fastest method, will provide a higher ratio on all CPUs and work even faster on high-core-count CPUs with 16 or more cores. In addition, it increases the maximum number of used threads from 32 to 64. For command-line users, the -mt<threads> switch now accepts values of 1 to 64.

Wide Format Support

WinRAR is the best choice for handling compressed formats such as RAR, ZIP, CAB, ARJ, TAR, 7-zip and many more. To continue to support a wide range of compression formats, we have also added extraction support for GZIP archives with an optional header checksum field.

Usability Enhancements

WinRAR now displays packed and unpacked folder sizes when browsing in the archive contents. Also, the user can now resize archiving and extraction progress windows and some other progress windows.

The repair feature of RAR5 archives with recovery records and without data shifts has been improved compared to previous versions. It is now possible to repair RAR5 archives with encrypted file names without providing a password, but the user still requires the password to open the repaired archive!

As usual, bugs which occurred during the usage of previous WinRAR versions have been fixed to provide all WinRAR users with a stable and bug-free version.

Users can find a complete list of all improvements and all bug-fixes here:
https://www.win-rar.com/whatsnew.html.

WinRAR 5.90 64-bit can be downloaded at https://www.win-rar.com/fileadmin/winrar-versions/winrar/winrar-x64-590.exe

WinRAR 5.90 32-bit can be downloaded at https://www.win-rar.com/fileadmin/winrar-versions/winrar/wrar590.exe

WinRAR is available in over 40 languages and is compatible with Windows 10, 8.1, 8, 7 and Windows Vista. For all Android users, the RAR App is available on Google Play. The command line version of WinRAR is also available for Linux, FreeBSD and MAC OS X.

About WinRAR:
WinRAR is the 64-bit and 32-bit Windows version of RAR Archiver, the powerful archiver and archive manager. RAR files can, in most cases, compress content up to 30 percent more effectively than ZIP files. The most notable functions of WinRAR include a very powerful document and multimedia file compression, file encryption, processing of other archive formats, programmable self-extracting (SFX) archives, damaged archive repair, and Unicode support.

About win.rar GmbH:
win.rar GmbH has been the official distributor of WinRAR and RARLAB products since February 2002 and handles all support, marketing and sales functions related to WinRAR & RARLAB.COM. win.rar GmbH is registered in Germany and is represented worldwide by local partners in over 70 countries on six continents. win.rar's declared aim is to provide first-class quality support, and to optimize its software to meet customers' requirements following their valued feedback. For more information about WinRAR and win.rar GmbH, please visit our website at https://www.win-rar.com