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  1.                 WinRAR - What's new in the latest version
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  4.    Version 3.80 beta 1
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  6.    1. Added support for ZIP archives containing Unicode file names
  7.       in UTF-8 format. When creating ZIP archive, WinRAR stores
  8.       names in Unicode only if they cannot be stored correctly using
  9.       the current single byte character set.
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  11.    2. Added decompression support for WinZip AES encrypted ZIP archives.
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  13.    3. Improved Unicode support for RAR and ZIP archive names.
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  15.    4. "Ask before overwrite" and "Skip existing files" update modes
  16.       are now available in archiving dialog. They allow to specify
  17.       WinRAR behavior when updating already existing files in archive.
  18.       Unlike already available "Fresh existing files only" and
  19.       "Add and update files", these new modes ignore file date
  20.       and compare only file names.
  21.  
  22.       Command line equivalents of these modes are:
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  24.       a) switch -o enables "Ask before overwrite" archiving mode;
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  26.       b) switch -o- enables "Skip existing files" archiving mode;
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  28.       c) switch -o+ enables "Overwrite all" mode (default for archiving).
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  30.    5. New "Add to context menu" option in "Profile parameters" dialog.
  31.       If this option is on, the profile name will be displayed in Explorer
  32.       context menus allowing to activate a profile from context menu.
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  34.    6. New -cp switch allows to select a compression profile
  35.       in command line mode. It is supported only by GUI WinRAR.exe,
  36.       not by rar.exe.
  37.  
  38.    7. New "Options" page of archiving dialog contains the group of
  39.       settings modifying the behavior of "Delete files after archiving"
  40.       option from "General" page:
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  42.       a) Delete files. Delete files normally like in previous WinRAR
  43.          versions.
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  45.       b) Move files to Recycle Bin. Deleted files are placed to
  46.          Recycle Bin.
  47.  
  48.          Command line equivalent of this option is -dr switch.
  49.  
  50.       c) Wipe files. Before deleting file data are overwritten by
  51.          zero bytes to prevent recovery of deleted files.
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  53.          Command line equivalent of this option is -dw switch.
  54.  
  55.       All these options have an effect only if "Delete files
  56.       after archiving" is on. You can enable any of these options
  57.       in the default compression profile to change the default
  58.       behavior of "Delete files after archiving".
  59.  
  60.    8. WinRAR "Extraction path and options" dialog is now resizable.
  61.       You can use the mouse to drag its border to the desired size
  62.       and provide more space for folder tree pane. WinRAR will store
  63.       new dimensions of this dialog.
  64.  
  65.    9. New "Update" SFX script command and "Update mode" group
  66.       of options in "Update" page of "Advanced SFX options" dialog.
  67.       These command and options allow to check time and implement
  68.       file time based updating;
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  70.   10. SFX script "Shortcut" command and "Add shortcut..." command
  71.       in "Advanced SFX options" dialog now allow to specify
  72.       an icon file containing an icon associated with shortcut.
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  74.   11. New "Wipe temporary files" option in "Settings/Security" dialog
  75.       provides more secure, though slower, way to delete temporary
  76.       WinRAR files.
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  78.   12. WinRAR and RAR display the total progress bar when unpacking
  79.       a multivolume RAR archive if all volumes are present
  80.       in the same folder.
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  82.   13. WinRAR and RAR automatically expand names of environment
  83.       variables in list files. For example, a list file can contain
  84.       lines like:
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  86.         %windir%\*.exe
  87.         %USERPROFILE%\Desktop
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  89.       This feature is available only in Windows RAR version.
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  91.   14. Added support of TAR archives with non-zero "extra field" data.
  92.      
  93.   15. Added support of TAR archives, which does not contain
  94.       the end of archive entry consisting of 512 zero bytes.
  95.  
  96.   16. Improved Unicode support when dragging files from WinRAR window.
  97.  
  98.   17. Shift+Tab key combination can be used in main WinRAR window to
  99.       switch the input focus between interface elements (files, comment,
  100.       tree, address) in reverse order. In previous versions Shift+Tab
  101.       used the same order as Tab.
  102.  
  103.   18. Corrected a possible WinRAR crash when opening truncated
  104.       UDF ISO files.