May 10, 2011: p7zip{,-plugins}-9.20.1-1.{fc11,fc12,fc13,fc14,el5}.{i386,x86_64}.rpm - P7zip
is a quick port of 7z.exe and 7za.exe (command line version of 7zip, see www.7-zip.org) for Unix. 7-Zip is a file archiver with highest compression ratio.
Here are the changes:
7-Zip now supports LZMA2 compression method.
7-Zip now can update solid .7z archives.
7-Zip now supports XZ archives.
7-Zip now supports PPMd compression in ZIP archives.
7-Zip now can unpack NTFS, FAT, VHD, MBR, APM, SquashFS, CramFS, MSLZ archives.
7-Zip now can unpack GZip, BZip2, LZMA, XZ and TAR archives from stdin.
7-Zip now can unpack some TAR and ISO archives with incorrect headers.
7-Zip now supports files that are larger than 8 GB in TAR archives.
NSIS and WIM support was improved.
Partial parsing for EXE resources, SWF and FLV.
The support for archives in installers was improved.
7-Zip now can stores NTFS file timestamps to ZIP archives.
Speed optimizations in PPMd codec.
Speed optimizations in CRC calculation code for Intel's Atom CPUs.
New -scrc switch to calculate total CRC-32 during extracting / testing.
7-Zip File Manager now doesn't use temp files to open nested archives stored without compression.
Disk fragmentation problem for ZIP archives created by 7-Zip was fixed.
Some bugs were fixed.
New localizations: Hindi, Gujarati, Sanskrit, Tatar, Uyghur, Kazakh.
Not in p7zip : Speed optimizations in AES code for Intel's 32nm CPUs.