7-Zip 4.42 Final now available

[masu]

it has takes some time, but now it is out 

http://www.7-zip.org/download.html

[mouser]

sounds great.. wonder what has been changed...

read this for a laugh:
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1493693&forum_id=45797

[AbteriX]

But the little support for extracting setups, created with NSIS, is taken out.
The users from NSIS don't want this behaviour, the are afraid to loss there secrets.
(Hint: use nsis.dll from 7z v4.40)

7Zip Forum:
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1493811&forum_id=45797

Universal Extractor, Forum:
http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?s=b4fb47e4edc2beeb4dc5694fe1ee1d36&showtopic=62418&st=105

[masu]

here is a full history

Version 4.42 2006-05-14
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- Compressing speed and Memory requirements were increased.
Default dictionary size was increased: Fastest: 64 KB, Fast: 1 MB,
Normal: 4 MB, Max: 16 MB, Ultra: 64 MB.
- BZip2 compressing / decompressing now can work in multi-threading mode
- Multi-threading mode now is default for multi-processor systems
- 64-bit version now supports 1 GB dictionary
- 7z/LZMA now can use only these match finders: HC4, BT2, BT3, BT4
- Compression ratio in Zip/GZip/Deflate in Ultra mode was increased
- 7-Zip now can unpack ISO archives and some installers created by NSIS
- Optional "Flat View" mode in 7-Zip File Manager
- 7-Zip File Manager now can calculate CRC checksums for files
- -x switch with relative paths now affects files specified with absolute paths
- New switch for 7za.exe (console version): -slt.
"l" (list) command with -slt shows technical information for archive.
- New switch: -scs{WIN|DOS|UTF-8} specifies charset for list files.
Default charset for list files is UTF-8 now.
- Some bugs were fixed
- New localizations: Albanian, Kurdish

[Edvard]

Dig around the forums there and you'll find fistfuls of the same. Igor silently toils away cleaning up his code and fixing a bug or two when he can and folks keep slinging the mud at him like no other i've seen. You should have seen the bile spewed over drag-n-drop functionality.  eek! I agree it was a much-missed function, but people were questioning his basic competence as a programmer over it.

[zridling]

Good point, Edvard. And Igor Pavlov, the developer, is one THE nicest guys in all of tech. Many of the gripes I come across are with 7-Zip's interface more than anything else at this point.