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1. Shard Calculation

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Calculated Shard: 152 (from laksa021)

2. Crawled Status Check

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curl -X POST \
  'http://laksa152.int.ahrefs:8124/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
  -H 'X-ClickHouse-Database: crawler3' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YXBpOg==' \
  -d 'SELECT getAhrefsURLFromUnparsed(src_unparsed) AS found_url, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(download_stamp), 0) AS crawl_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(props_url_first_seen), 0) AS first_indexed_time, download_http_code AS http_code, src_unparsed AS src_unparsed, src_root_hash AS src_root_hash, history_drop_reason AS history_drop_reason, meta_title AS meta_title, meta_descriptions AS meta_descriptions, attrs_boilerpipe_text AS attrs_boilerpipe_text, attrs_markdown AS attrs_markdown, attrs_readable_markdown AS attrs_readable_markdown, meta_canonical AS meta_canonical FROM crawler3.page_info_local FINAL PREWHERE (src_root_hash, src_unparsed) IN ((getAhrefsRootHashFromUnparsed(getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR\')), getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR\'))) FORMAT JSONEachRow'

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{"found_url":"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR","crawl_time":1776448231,"first_indexed_time":1376323033,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"org,wikipedia!en,\/wiki\/WinRAR s443","src_root_hash":"17790707453426894952","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"WinRAR - Wikipedia","meta_descriptions":[],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia\nWinRAR\nScreenshot of the trial version of WinRAR\nDevelopers\nEugene Roshal\n(developer),\nAlexander Roshal (distributor)\n[\n1\n]\n[\n2\n]\nInitial release\nApril 22, 1995\n; 30 years ago\nStable release\n7.20\n   \/ February 3, 2026\n; 2 months ago\nWritten in\nC++\nOperating system\nWindows 7\nor later\nPlatform\nIA-32\n(up to v7.01),\nx64\nSize\n3.4\nMB\nAvailable in\n50+ languages\n[\n3\n]\nList of languages\nArabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Catalan, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Mongolian, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian Cyrillic, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Colombian Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese\nType\nFile archiver\nLicense\nTrialware\n[\n4\n]\nWebsite\nwww\n.win-rar\n.com\n \nWinRAR\nis a\ntrialware\nfile archiver\nand\ncompression\nutility for\nMicrosoft Windows\n, developed by\nEugene Roshal\nof win.rar GmbH (RARLAB) since 1995. It can create and view archives in\nRAR\n(a format created by Roshal) or\nZIP\nfile formats,\n[\n5\n]\nand unpack numerous archive\nfile\nformats. To enable the user to test the integrity of archives, WinRAR embeds\nCRC-32\nor\nBLAKE2\nchecksums\nfor each file in each archive. WinRAR supports creating\nencrypted\n, multi-part and\nself-extracting archives\n.\nRARLAB also offers a mobile version as\nfreeware\nfor\nAndroid\nunder the name RAR for Android.\n[\n6\n]\nRelated programs include\ncommand-line\nutilities\nRAR\nand\nUNRAR\n[\n7\n]\nwhich are also released for\nmacOS\n,\n[\n3\n]\nLinux\n,\nFreeBSD\n, and in the past for\nWindows CE\n,\nMS-DOS\nand\nOS\/2\n.\n[\n8\n]\nRAR\/\nDOS\nstarted as a mix of\nx86\nassembler\nand\nC\n, with the amount of assembly code decreasing over time and moving to pure C\/\nC++\nlater on. The first versions of WinRAR were written in C; modern versions predominantly use\nC++\n. RAR for Android is written as a mixture of Java and C++.\n[\n9\n]\nWinRAR and the RAR file format have evolved over time. Support for the archive format RAR5, using the same RAR\nfile extension\nas earlier versions, was added in version 5.0;\n[\n10\n]\nthe older RAR file format has since been referred to as RAR4. WinRAR versions before 5.0 do not support RAR5 archives;\n[\n11\n]\nonly older versions of WinRAR run on older operating systems, and cannot open RAR5 archives.\nThe RAR5 file format – from version 7 on, referred to as \"RAR\" – increased the maximum dictionary size up to 64 GB, depending on the amount of available memory, with the default in version 5 increased from 4 MB to 32 MB, typically improving compression ratio. For dictionaries larger than 4 GB, the size can be specified if it is unequal to a power of 2. Thus, there are no restrictions to the range 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, allowing 5 GB or 22 GB to be chosen at will. Archives with dictionaries larger than 4 GB can only be extracted by WinRAR 7.0 or newer.\nAES encryption\n, when used, is in\nCBC mode\nand was increased in strength from 128- to 256-bit. Maximum path length for files in RAR and ZIP archives is increased from 2047 to 65535 characters.\n[\n11\n]\nOptions added in v5.0 include 256-bit\nBLAKE2\nfile-hashing algorithm instead of default 32-bit\nCRC\n-32, duplicate file detection,\nNTFS hard and symbolic links\n, and Quick Open record to allow large archives to be opened faster.\n[\n11\n]\nThe RAR5 file format removed comments for each file (though archive comment still remains), authenticity verification, and specialized compression algorithms for text and multimedia files. RAR5 also changed the file name for split volumes from\narchivename.r\nNN\nto\narchivename.part\nNN\n.rar\n.\n[\n11\n]\nThe RAR7 file format added support for 64GB compression dictionary and improved compression ratio by adding two extra algorithms. RAR7 archives with dictionary sizes up to 4 GB can be unpacked by previous versions of WinRAR (5.0 and above) given there's enough\nRAM\n.\nOn the 31st of May 2024, WinRAR announced that they would no longer offer the physical\nCD-ROM\ndelivery option due to the factory that produces them shutting, citing a lack of demand and support for\noptical media\n.\n[\n12\n]\nCreation of packed\nRAR\nor\nZIP\narchives.\nUnpacking of:\n[\n11\n]\n[\n13\n]\nRAR\n,\ntar\n,\nARJ\n,\nLHA\n,\nZIP\n(and its subsed\nJAR\n) and\nWinZip ZIPX\narchives\nWindows Cabinet files\n(\n.CAB\n)\nISO 9660\noptical\ndisk images\nUnix compress (.Z)\n,\ngzip\n,\nbzip2\n,\nlzip\n,\nxz\n,\n7z\nand\nzstandard\ncompressed files\nuuencoded\nfiles, as well as split files\nSome of\nself-extracting archive\nformats stored as\n.exe\nfiles\nChecksum\n(integrity) verification for ARJ, bzip2, Cabinet file, gzip, lzip, RAR, xz, ZIP and 7z archives\nMultithreaded CPU\ncompression and decompression\nWhen creating RAR 7.0 archives:\nSupport for maximum file size of 16 \nEiB\n, about 1.8 × 10\n19\nbytes or 18 million TB\nCompression dictionary from 1 MiB to 64 GiB (it is limited to 256 MiB on 32-bit editions, although 32-bit editions still can decompress archives with 1 GiB dictionary; default size is 32 MiB)\n[\n11\n]\nOptional 256-bit\nBLAKE2\nfile hashing that can replace the default 32-bit\nCRC\n-32 file checksum\n[\n11\n]\nOptional encryption using\nAES\nwith a 256-bit key\n[\n14\n]\nin\nCBC mode\n, using\nkey derivation function\nbased on\nPBKDF2\nusing\nHMAC\n-SHA256\n[\n11\n]\nOptional data\nredundancy\nis provided in the form of\nReed–Solomon\nrecovery records\nand\nrecovery volumes\n, allowing reconstruction of damaged archives (including reconstruction of entirely missed volumes)\nOptional \"quick open record\" to open RAR files faster\n[\n11\n]\nAbility to create multi-volume (split) archives\n[\n15\n]\nAbility to create\nself-extracting\nfiles (multi-volume self-extracting archives are supported;\n[\n15\n]\nthe self-extractor can execute commands, such as running a specified program before or after self-extraction\n[\n16\n]\n)\nSupport for\nNTFS\npermissions, hard and symbolic links\n[\n11\n]\nSupport for maximum path length up to 65 535 characters (stored in the\nUTF-8\nformat)\n[\n11\n]\nOptional archive comment (stored in the UTF-8 format)\n[\n11\n]\nOptional file timestamps preservation: modification, creation, last access times with high precision\n[\n17\n]\nOptional\nfile deduplication\nAdvanced backup options, time-stamped files and previous file version retention.\nThe software is distributed as \"try before you buy\"; it may be used without charge for 40 days.\n[\n2\n]\nWhen the period expires, the non-enterprise functionalities remain available, a move intended to discourage piracy.\n[\n4\n]\nIn\nChina\n, a free-to-use personal edition has been provided officially since 2015.\n[\n18\n]\nAlthough archiving with the RAR format is proprietary, RARLAB supplies as copyrighted\nfreeware\nthe\nC++\nsource code of the current UnRAR unpacker, with a license allowing it to be used in any software, thus enabling others to produce software capable of unpacking, but not creating, RAR archives.\n[\n19\n]\nRAR for Android\nis free of charge. It displays advertisements; for a payment they can be disabled.\n[\n20\n]\nA license for WinRAR does not provide ad-suppression for\nRAR for Android\n.\nIn February 2019, a major security vulnerability in the unacev2.dll library which is used by WinRAR to decompress\nACE\narchives was discovered.\n[\n21\n]\n[\n22\n]\nConsequently, WinRAR dropped the support for the ACE format from version 5.70.\nSelf-extracting archives created with versions before 5.31 (including the executable installer of WinRAR itself) are vulnerable to\nDLL hijacking\n: they may load and use DLLs named\nUXTheme.dll\n,\nRichEd32.dll\nand\nRichEd20.dll\nif they are in the same folder as the executable file.\n[\n11\n]\n[\n23\n]\nIt was widely reported that WinRAR v5.21 and earlier had a\nremote code execution\n(RCE) vulnerability which could allow a remote attacker to insert malicious code into a\nself-extracting executable (SFX) file\nbeing created by a user, \"putting over 500 million users of the software at risk\".\n[\n24\n]\nHowever, examination of the claim revealed that, while the vulnerability existed, the result was merely an SFX which delivered its payload when executed; published responses dismissed the threat, one saying \"If you can find suckers who will trust a\n.exe\nlabelled as self-extracting archive\n[…]\nthen you can trick them into running your smuggled JavaScript\".\n[\n25\n]\n[\n26\n]\nWinRAR 6.23 fixes a critical security vulnerability which allowed the hacker to automatically execute malware distributed in archives under some circumstances.\n[\n27\n]\nVersions 7.12 and 7.13 for Windows contain important security fixes.\n[\n28\n]\nCommand line RAR and UNRAR were first released in autumn 1993.\n[\n7\n]\nEarly development version WinRAR 1.54b was released in 1995.\n2.00 (1996-04): the new\nRAR2\narchive format\nis implemented.\n3.00 (2002-05): the new\nRAR3\narchive format\nis implemented. The new archives cannot be managed by older versions of WinRAR. Solid compression and WAV audio lossless compression features are added.\n[\n29\n]\n3.41 (2004-12): adds support for Linux .Z archives like GZIP and BZIP2. New options include storing entire file paths and restoring compressed NTFS files.\n[\n30\n]\n3.50 (2005-08): adds support for interface\nskins\n.\n[\n30\n]\n3.60 (2006-08): adds multithreaded version of the compression algorithm, which improves compression speed on systems with multiple\ndual-core\nor\nhyper-threading\n-enabled\nCPUs\n.\n3.80 (2008-09): adds support for ZIP archives, which contain\nUnicode\nfile names in\nUTF-8\n.\n[\n31\n]\n3.90 (2009-05): adds support for the\nx86-64\narchitecture. Multithreaded support is enhanced.\n[\n11\n]\n3.91 is the last release that supports\nValencian\n.\n3.92 is the last release that supports\nSerbian Cyrillic\nand\nSerbian Latin\n.\n4.00 (2011-03): decompression is sped up by up to 30%.\n[\n11\n]\n4.10 (2012-01): removes all ZIP limitations now allowing unlimited number of files and archive size. WinRAR now also allows creation of multivolume ZIP files. ZIP archives now include\nUnicode\nfile names.\n[\n11\n]\n4.20 (2012-06): compression speed in\nSMP\nmode is increased significantly, but this improvement was made at the expense of increased memory usage. ZIP compression now uses SMP as well. The default SMP mode cannot handle text; text compression is significantly worse unless additional switches are used.\n[\n11\n]\n5.00 (2013-09): the new RAR5 archive format is implemented. RAR5 compressed archives cannot be managed by old versions of WinRAR. The RAR 5 format improves\nmulti-core processor\nutilization, and adds a larger dictionary size of up to 1 GiB with 64-bit WinRAR. Special optional compression algorithms optimized for RGB bitmaps, raw audio files,\nItanium\nexecutables, and\nplain text\n, which were supported by earlier versions, are supported only in the older RAR format, not RAR5.\n[\n11\n]\nOptional optimized compression of x86 executables and\ndelta compression\n(for structured table data) are supported in both file formats.\n5.50 (2017-08): adds support for a master password which can be used to encrypt passwords stored in WinRAR. The default RAR format is changed to version 5. Adds support for decompressing\nLzip\narchives; adds support for high precision file dates, longer file names and larger file sizes for\nTAR\narchives.\n[\n11\n]\n5.60 (2018-06): repairing of protected RAR5 archives was improved. Automatic detection of the encoding of ZIP archive comments. Recognition of GZIP files with arbitrary preceding data as an actual GZIP archive.\n[\n11\n]\n5.70 (2019-02): removes support for\nACE\narchive decompression due to major security vulnerabilities\n[\n32\n]\nin the unacev2.dll library.\n[\n11\n]\n6.00 (2020-12): \"Ignore\" and \"Ignore All\" options are added to read error prompt. \"Ignore\" allows to continue processing with already read file part only and \"Ignore All\" does it for all future read errors.\n6.10 (2022-01): Added support for unpacking\nZST\narchives. Maximum recovery record is increased to 1000% of protected data size.\n6.11 (2022-03): Support of Gzip archives with large archive comments has been added; In command line mode, the switch -mes can also be used to suppress the password prompt and abort when adding new files to an encrypted solid archive.\n6.12 (2022-05):\nCVE\n-\n2022-30333\nsecurity vulnerability is fixed in Unix RAR versions. WinRAR and Android RAR are not affected.\n6.23 (2023-08):\nCVE\n-\n2023-40477\nand\nCVE\n-\n2023-38831\ncritical security vulnerabilities are fixed in WinRAR. Unix and Android versions are not affected.\n6.24 (2023-10): Fixes an issue with null pointers.\n7.00 (2024-02): drops support for creating RAR 4.x format archives. Maximum path length limit increased to 65535 characters. Maximum RAR dictionary size up to 64 GB for the\n64\n-bit version (limited by available RAM). Command line RAR filters out control character 27 from screen output for security reasons.\n7.10 (2025-02): drops support for 32bit Windows editions. Adds support for\nLarge Memory Pages\nwhich increases compression and decompression speed, especially when using a large compression dictionary. Adds\ndark mode\n.\nOperating systems support\n[\nedit\n]\nMore recent versions do not support many older operating systems. Versions supporting older operating systems may still be available, but not maintained:\nRAR 2.50 is the last version to support MS-DOS and OS\/2 on 16-bit\nx86\nCPUs (\n8086\n-compatible).\n[\n33\n]\nRAR 3.93 is the last version to support\nMS-DOS\nand\nOS\/2\non\nIA-32\nCPUs (\n80386\nequivalents and later). RAR for Pocket PC 3.93 is the last version for\nWindows Mobile\n.\n[\n34\n]\nIt supports\nfile names longer than the MS-DOS standard\nof 8.3 characters, in a MS-DOS box (except under NT-based operating systems), and uses the\nRSX\nDPMI\nextender.\nRAR 7.01 is the last version to support\nLinux\nand\nFreeBSD\non\n32-bit\nx86\nCPUs. The unrar application is available as source code and still supports 32bit environments (with a 2GB maximum dictionary size limitation).\nWinRAR 2.06 is the last version to support\nWindows 3.1\n,\nWindows NT 3.1\n,\nWindows NT 3.5\n,\nWindows NT 3.51\nand\nWin32s\n.\nWinRAR 3.93 is the last version to support\nWindows 95\n,\nWindows NT 4.0\n,\nWindows 98\nand\nWindows Me\n.\n[\n11\n]\n[\n35\n]\nWinRAR 4.11 is the last version to support\nWindows 2000\n.\n[\n11\n]\nWinRAR 6.02 is the last version to support\nWindows XP\n(except the console version Rar.exe).\n[\n11\n]\nWinRAR 7.01 is the last version to support\nWindows Vista\n(and\n32-bit\nWindows editions).\n[\n11\n]\nComparison of file archivers\nComparison of archive formats\nList of archive formats\n7-Zip\n^\n(\nRussia\n,\nChelyabinsk\n)\nWinRAR 3.40 release notes by Eugene Roshal\n(in Russian)\n^\na\nb\n\"RAR and WinRAR End User License Agreement (EULA)\"\n,\nrarlab.com\n, RARLAB,\narchived\nfrom the original on 2014-01-04\n, retrieved\n2019-03-11\n^\na\nb\n\"RAR download page\"\n.\nrarlab.com\n. RARLAB.\nArchived\nfrom the original on 2020-06-09\n. Retrieved\n2020-06-10\n.\n^\na\nb\nCHM Tech (9 March 2017).\n\"WinRAR And The Infinite 40-Day Trial\"\n.\nYouTube\n.\nArchived\nfrom the original on 2021-12-22.\n^\nManuel Masiero (18 March 2013)\n\"Compression Performance: 7-Zip, MagicRAR, WinRAR, WinZip\"\nTom's Hardware\n. Retrieved 27 November 2013.\n^\nWinRAR and RAR archiver downloads\n[1]\n^\na\nb\nVoloshin, Kirill (2011-03-10).\nИнтервью по переписке\n[Interview by correspondence] (in Russian).\nArchived\nfrom the original on 2015-08-16\n. Retrieved\n2014-10-27\n.\n^\nhttps:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20100713223858\/http:\/\/www.zetnet.co.uk\/RAR.T-Mail\/index.html\n^\nhttps:\/\/forum.ru-board.com\/topic.cgi?forum=5&topic=51203&start=1840#6\n^\nMartin Brinkmann\n(29 April 2013)\n\"WinRAR 5.0 introduces the new RAR 5 format. What you need to know\"\nArchived\n2018-09-01 at the\nWayback Machine\nGhacks\n. Retrieved 27 November 2013.\n^\na\nb\nc\nd\ne\nf\ng\nh\ni\nj\nk\nl\nm\nn\no\np\nq\nr\ns\nt\nu\nv\nw\nx\ny\n\"Latest changes in WinRAR (cumulative release notes for all versions)\"\n.\nrarlab.com\n. RARLAB.\nArchived\nfrom the original on 2010-08-06\n. Retrieved\n2018-09-01\n.\nUpdated with each new beta test or released version. Current page has versions 6.00 and higher; archived page linked here has versions 3.70–3.93; older archived versions go back to 3.00\n^\n\"After 22 years, WinRAR officially discontinued the CD installation package\"\n.\nscienceinfo.net\n. 2024-10-01\n. Retrieved\n2025-04-19\n.\n^\n\"Best Archive Tool\"\n. DonationCoder.com. 2005-09-05.\nArchived\nfrom the original on 2009-06-02\n. Retrieved\n2009-07-01\n.\n^\n\"WinRAR 5 Final Released\"\nArchived\n2013-12-02 at the\nWayback Machine\nTechno360.in\n. Retrieved 27 November 2013.\n^\na\nb\nMartin Brinkmann\n(7 September 2011).\n\"How To Split Large Files Into Multiple Smaller Ones\"\n.\ngHacks Tech News\n.\nArchived\nfrom the original on 2017-04-16\n. Retrieved\n15 April\n2017\n.\n^\nWinRAR Help – GUI SFX modules: setup commands\n^\nstevewhims (2021-01-07).\n\"File Times - Win32 apps\"\n.\nlearn.microsoft.com\n. Retrieved\n2024-04-07\n.\n^\n\"软众信息-WinRAR独家总代理商 最新官方简体中文版下载 支持64位非破解版压缩软件：软件介绍-致用户的一封信\"\n. www.winrar.com.cn.\nArchived\nfrom the original on 2016-10-15\n. Retrieved\n2016-10-18\n.\n^\n\"WinRAR and RAR archiver addons (downloads, UnRAR for various platforms, and source code)\"\n.\nrarlab.com\n. RARLAB. Archived from\nthe original\non 2018-09-01\n. Retrieved\n2020-06-10\n.\nLicense says \"The source code of UnRAR utility is freeware\"\n^\n\"RAR for Android; RARsoft\"\n.\nArchived\nfrom the original on 2014-12-22\n. Retrieved\n2014-11-04\n.\n^\n\"Extracting a 19 Year Old Code Execution from WinRAR\"\n.\nCheck Point Research\n. 2019-02-20\n. Retrieved\n2019-03-13\n.\n^\n\"WinRAR Multiple Security Vulnerabilities\"\n.\nwww.securityfocus.com\n. Archived from\nthe original\non 2020-12-21\n. Retrieved\n2019-03-13\n.\n^\nKanthak, Stefan (7 February 2016).\n\"Executable installers are vulnerable^WEVIL (case 25): WinRAR's installer and self-extractors allow arbitrary (remote) code execution and escalation of privilege\"\n.\nSecLists.org\n.\nArchived\nfrom the original on 2016-02-18\n. Retrieved\n2016-02-20\n.\n^\nShaikh Rafia (September 2015).\n\"WinRAR Exploit Could Put 500 Million Users at Risk\"\n.\nWccftech.com\n.\nArchived\nfrom the original on 2016-10-01\n. Retrieved\n29 September\n2016\n.\n^\nDarren Pauli (30 September 2015).\n\"Smuggle mischievous JavaScript into WinRAR archives? Sure, why not\"\n.\nThe Register\n.\nArchived\nfrom the original on 2016-09-27\n. Retrieved\n29 September\n2016\n.\n^\n\"WinRAR Vulnerability Is Complete Bullshit\"\n.\nDarknet\n. 1 October 2015.\nArchived\nfrom the original on 2016-10-02\n. Retrieved\n29 September\n2016\n.\n^\nGoodin, Dan (2023-08-23).\n\"WinRAR 0-day that uses poisoned JPG and TXT files under exploit since April\"\n.\nArs Technica\n. Retrieved\n2023-08-23\n.\n^\n\"WinRAR archiver, a powerful tool to process RAR and ZIP files\"\n.\nwww.rarlab.com\n.\nArchived\nfrom the original on 2025-07-27\n. Retrieved\n2025-08-08\n.\n^\n\"RAR - What's new in the latest version (v3.00 to v3.11)\"\n.\nrarlab.com\n. Archived from\nthe original\non January 17, 2003.\n^\na\nb\n\"RAR - What's new in the latest version (v3.40 to v3.50)\"\n.\nrarlab.com\n. Archived from\nthe original\non September 7, 2005.\n^\n\"WinRAR archiver, a powerful tool to process RAR and ZIP files\"\n.\nrarlab.com\n. RARLAB.\nArchived\nfrom the original on 2009-06-28\n. Retrieved\n2009-07-01\n.\n^\nNichols, Shaun (2019-02-20).\n\"Behold… a WinRAR security bug that's older than your child's favorite YouTuber. And yes, you should patch this hole\"\n.\nwww.theregister.co.uk\n. Retrieved\n2019-02-26\n.\n^\n\"RAR 2.50 – Stats, Downloads and Screenshots\"\n.\nWinWorld\n.\nArchived\nfrom the original on 2017-08-15\n. Retrieved\n14 August\n2017\n.\n^\n\"Downloads for: WinRAR, RAR for Mac OS X, RAR for Linux, RAR for DOS & OS\/2, RAR for FreeBSD, with 40 days free trial\"\n.\nWinrar.co.nz\n.\nArchived\nfrom the original on 2017-08-15\n. Retrieved\n15 August\n2017\n.\n^\n\"Obsolete RAR versions\"\n.\nwww.rarlab.com\n. Archived from\nthe original\non 2010-11-17\n. Retrieved\n2025-07-19\n.\nSalomon, David (20 March 2007).\nData Compression: The Complete Reference\n(4th ed.). London: Springer Science & Business Media.\ndoi\n:\n10.1007\/978-1-84628-603-2\n.\nISBN\n \n978-1-84628-602-5\n. Retrieved\n4 September\n2018\n.\nFellows, Geoffrey (1 October 2010).\n\"WinRAR temporary folder artefacts\"\n.\nDigital Investigation\n.\n7\n(\n1–\n2):\n9–\n13.\ndoi\n:\n10.1016\/j.diin.2009.12.001\n.\nISSN\n \n1742-2876\n. Retrieved\n4 September\n2018\n.\nYeo, Gary S.-W.; Phan, Raphael C.-W. (8 March 2006). \"On the security of the WinRAR encryption feature\".\nInternational Journal of Information Security\n. Special issue on ISC'05.\n5\n(2):\n115–\n123.\ndoi\n:\n10.1007\/s10207-006-0086-3\n.\nISSN\n \n1615-5262\n.\nS2CID\n \n22398865\n.\nMetz, Cade (2004-11-16). \"File Compression Beyond ZIP\".\nPC Magazine\n.\n23\n(20): 52.\nISSN\n \n0888-8507\n.\nQin, Jian-cheng; Bai, Zhong-ying (1 February 2011).\n\"Design of new format for mass data compression\"\n.\nThe Journal of China Universities of Posts and Telecommunications\n.\n18\n(1):\n121–\n128.\ndoi\n:\n10.1016\/S1005-8885(10)60037-4\n.\nISSN\n \n1005-8885\n. Retrieved\n4 September\n2018\n.\nSpanbauer, Scott (December 2000). \"Forget Napster – Usenet Is Where the Files Are\".\nPC World\n.\n18\n(12): 254.\nISSN\n \n0737-8939\n.\nAllen, Danny (February 2007). \"Compression Apps Do More Than Shrink Files\".\nPC World\n.\n25\n(2): 64.\nISSN\n \n0737-8939\n.\nSanjuàs-Cuxart, J.; Barlet-Ros, P.; Solé-Pareta, J. (2011). \"Measurement Based Analysis of One-Click File Hosting Services\".\nJournal of Network and Systems Management\n.\n20\n(2): 276.\ndoi\n:\n10.1007\/s10922-011-9202-4\n.\nISSN\n \n1064-7570\n.\nS2CID\n \n2784124\n.\nJovanova, B.; Preda, M.; Preteux, F. O. (2009). \"MPEG-4 Part 25: A graphics compression framework for XML-based scene graph formats\".\nSignal Processing: Image Communication\n.\n24\n(\n1–\n2): 101.\ndoi\n:\n10.1016\/j.image.2008.10.011\n.\nISSN\n \n0923-5965\n.\nBarr, K. C.; Asanović, K. 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\"Structured data on this page hosted by Wikidata [g]\")\n\nAppearance\n\nmove to sidebar\n\nhide\n\nFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia\n\nFile archiver\n\n| WinRAR |   |\n|---|---|\n| [![](https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/7\/74\/WinRAR_Logo_and_Wordmark.png\/250px-WinRAR_Logo_and_Wordmark.png)](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:WinRAR_Logo_and_Wordmark.png) |   |\n| [![](https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/4\/43\/WinRAR_7.10_screenshot.png\/250px-WinRAR_7.10_screenshot.png)](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:WinRAR_7.10_screenshot.png)Screenshot of the trial version of WinRAR |   |\n| [Developers](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Programmer \"Programmer\") | [Eugene Roshal](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eugene_Roshal \"Eugene Roshal\") (developer), Alexander Roshal (distributor)[\\[1\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-1)[\\[2\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-license-2) |\n| Initial release | April 22, 1995; 30 years ago (1995-04-22) |\n| [Stable release](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Software_release_life_cycle \"Software release life cycle\") | 7\\.20 \/ February 3, 2026; 2 months ago (2026-02-03) |\n| Written in | [C++](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/C%2B%2B \"C++\") |\n| [Operating system](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Operating_system \"Operating system\") | [Windows 7](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Windows_7 \"Windows 7\") or later |\n| [Platform](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Computing_platform \"Computing platform\") | [IA-32](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/IA-32 \"IA-32\") (up to v7.01), [x64](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/X64 \"X64\") |\n| [Size](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File_size \"File size\") | 3\\.4 [MB](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Megabyte \"Megabyte\") |\n| Available in | 50+ languages[\\[3\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-dl-3) |\n| List of languages Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Catalan, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Mongolian, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian Cyrillic, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Colombian Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese |   |\n| [Type](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Software_categories#Categorization_approaches \"Software categories\") | [File archiver](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File_archiver \"File archiver\") |\n| [License](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Software_license \"Software license\") | [Trialware](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trialware \"Trialware\")[\\[4\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-inf40-4) |\n| Website | [www.win-rar.com](https:\/\/www.win-rar.com\/) [![Edit this on Wikidata](https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/8\/8a\/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg\/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png)](https:\/\/www.wikidata.org\/wiki\/Q242747?uselang=en#P856 \"Edit this on Wikidata\") |\n\n**WinRAR** is a [trialware](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trialware \"Trialware\") [file archiver](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File_archiver \"File archiver\") and [compression](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Data_compression \"Data compression\") utility for [Microsoft Windows](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Microsoft_Windows \"Microsoft Windows\"), developed by [Eugene Roshal](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eugene_Roshal \"Eugene Roshal\") of win.rar GmbH (RARLAB) since 1995. It can create and view archives in [RAR](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/RAR_\\(file_format\\) \"RAR (file format)\") (a format created by Roshal) or [ZIP](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zip_\\(file_format\\) \"Zip (file format)\") file formats,[\\[5\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-5) and unpack numerous archive [file](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Computer_file \"Computer file\") formats. To enable the user to test the integrity of archives, WinRAR embeds [CRC-32](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CRC-32 \"CRC-32\") or [BLAKE2](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BLAKE2 \"BLAKE2\") [checksums](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Checksum \"Checksum\") for each file in each archive. WinRAR supports creating [encrypted](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Encryption \"Encryption\"), multi-part and [self-extracting archives](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Self-extracting_archive \"Self-extracting archive\").\n\nRARLAB also offers a mobile version as [freeware](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Freeware \"Freeware\") for [Android](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Android_\\(operating_system\\) \"Android (operating system)\") under the name RAR for Android.[\\[6\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-download-6) Related programs include [command-line](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Command-line \"Command-line\") utilities `RAR` and `UNRAR`[\\[7\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-Interview_by_correspondence-7) which are also released for [macOS](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MacOS \"MacOS\"),[\\[3\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-dl-3) [Linux](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Linux \"Linux\"), [FreeBSD](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/FreeBSD \"FreeBSD\"), and in the past for [Windows CE](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Windows_CE \"Windows CE\"), [MS-DOS](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MS-DOS \"MS-DOS\") and [OS\/2](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/OS\/2 \"OS\/2\").[\\[8\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-8)\n\n## Evolution\n\\[[edit](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=WinRAR&action=edit&section=1 \"Edit section: Evolution\")\\]\n\nSee also: [RAR (file format)](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/RAR_\\(file_format\\) \"RAR (file format)\")\n\nRAR\/[DOS](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/DOS \"DOS\") started as a mix of [x86](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/X86 \"X86\") [assembler](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Assembly_language \"Assembly language\") and [C](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/C_\\(programming_language\\) \"C (programming language)\"), with the amount of assembly code decreasing over time and moving to pure C\/[C++](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/C%2B%2B \"C++\") later on. The first versions of WinRAR were written in C; modern versions predominantly use [C++](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/C%2B%2B \"C++\"). RAR for Android is written as a mixture of Java and C++.[\\[9\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-9)\n\nWinRAR and the RAR file format have evolved over time. Support for the archive format RAR5, using the same RAR [file extension](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File_extension \"File extension\") as earlier versions, was added in version 5.0;[\\[10\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-10) the older RAR file format has since been referred to as RAR4. WinRAR versions before 5.0 do not support RAR5 archives;[\\[11\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11) only older versions of WinRAR run on older operating systems, and cannot open RAR5 archives.\n\nThe RAR5 file format – from version 7 on, referred to as \"RAR\" – increased the maximum dictionary size up to 64 GB, depending on the amount of available memory, with the default in version 5 increased from 4 MB to 32 MB, typically improving compression ratio. For dictionaries larger than 4 GB, the size can be specified if it is unequal to a power of 2. Thus, there are no restrictions to the range 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, allowing 5 GB or 22 GB to be chosen at will. Archives with dictionaries larger than 4 GB can only be extracted by WinRAR 7.0 or newer. [AES encryption](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/AES_encryption \"AES encryption\"), when used, is in [CBC mode](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CBC_mode \"CBC mode\") and was increased in strength from 128- to 256-bit. Maximum path length for files in RAR and ZIP archives is increased from 2047 to 65535 characters.[\\[11\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11)\n\nOptions added in v5.0 include 256-bit [BLAKE2](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BLAKE_\\(hash_function\\) \"BLAKE (hash function)\") file-hashing algorithm instead of default 32-bit [CRC](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cyclic_redundancy_check \"Cyclic redundancy check\")\\-32, duplicate file detection, [NTFS hard and symbolic links](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NTFS_links \"NTFS links\"), and Quick Open record to allow large archives to be opened faster.[\\[11\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11)\n\nThe RAR5 file format removed comments for each file (though archive comment still remains), authenticity verification, and specialized compression algorithms for text and multimedia files. RAR5 also changed the file name for split volumes from `archivename.rNN` to `archivename.partNN.rar`.[\\[11\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11)\n\nThe RAR7 file format added support for 64GB compression dictionary and improved compression ratio by adding two extra algorithms. RAR7 archives with dictionary sizes up to 4 GB can be unpacked by previous versions of WinRAR (5.0 and above) given there's enough [RAM](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Random-access_memory \"Random-access memory\").\n\nOn the 31st of May 2024, WinRAR announced that they would no longer offer the physical [CD-ROM](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CD-ROM \"CD-ROM\") delivery option due to the factory that produces them shutting, citing a lack of demand and support for [optical media](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Optical_media \"Optical media\").[\\[12\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-12)\n\n## Features\n\\[[edit](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=WinRAR&action=edit&section=2 \"Edit section: Features\")\\]\n\n- Creation of packed [RAR](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/RAR_\\(file_format\\) \"RAR (file format)\") or [ZIP](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zip_\\(file_format\\) \"Zip (file format)\") archives.\n- Unpacking of:[\\[11\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11)[\\[13\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-13)\n  - [RAR](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/RAR_\\(file_format\\) \"RAR (file format)\"), [tar](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tar_\\(computing\\) \"Tar (computing)\"), [ARJ](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ARJ \"ARJ\"), [LHA](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/LHA_\\(file_format\\) \"LHA (file format)\"), [ZIP](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ZIP_\\(file_format\\) \"ZIP (file format)\") (and its subsed [JAR](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/JAR_\\(file_format\\) \"JAR (file format)\")) and [WinZip ZIPX](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinZip \"WinZip\") archives\n  - [Windows Cabinet files](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cabinet_\\(file_format\\) \"Cabinet (file format)\") (`.CAB`)\n  - [ISO 9660](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ISO_9660 \"ISO 9660\") optical [disk images](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Disk_image \"Disk image\")\n  - [Unix compress (.Z)](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Compress_\\(software\\) \"Compress (software)\"), [gzip](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gzip \"Gzip\"), [bzip2](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bzip2 \"Bzip2\"), [lzip](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lzip \"Lzip\"), [xz](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/XZ_Utils \"XZ Utils\"), [7z](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/7z \"7z\") and [zstandard](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zstandard \"Zstandard\") compressed files\n  - [uuencoded](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Uuencoding \"Uuencoding\") files, as well as split files\n  - Some of [self-extracting archive](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Self-extracting_archive \"Self-extracting archive\") formats stored as [.exe](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/.exe \".exe\") files\n- [Checksum](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Checksum \"Checksum\") (integrity) verification for ARJ, bzip2, Cabinet file, gzip, lzip, RAR, xz, ZIP and 7z archives\n- [Multithreaded CPU](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Multithreaded_CPU \"Multithreaded CPU\") compression and decompression\n\nWhen creating RAR 7.0 archives:\n\n- Support for maximum file size of 16 [EiB](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Exbibyte \"Exbibyte\"), about 1.8 × 1019 bytes or 18 million TB\n- Compression dictionary from 1 MiB to 64 GiB (it is limited to 256 MiB on 32-bit editions, although 32-bit editions still can decompress archives with 1 GiB dictionary; default size is 32 MiB)[\\[11\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11)\n- Optional 256-bit [BLAKE2](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BLAKE2 \"BLAKE2\") file hashing that can replace the default 32-bit [CRC](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cyclic_redundancy_check \"Cyclic redundancy check\")\\-32 file checksum[\\[11\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11)\n- Optional encryption using [AES](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/AES_encryption \"AES encryption\") with a 256-bit key[\\[14\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-14) in [CBC mode](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CBC_mode \"CBC mode\"), using [key derivation function](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Key_derivation_function \"Key derivation function\") based on [PBKDF2](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/PBKDF2 \"PBKDF2\") using [HMAC](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/HMAC \"HMAC\")\\-SHA256[\\[11\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11)\n- Optional data [redundancy](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Redundancy_\\(information_theory\\) \"Redundancy (information theory)\") is provided in the form of [Reed–Solomon](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reed%E2%80%93Solomon \"Reed–Solomon\") *recovery records* and *recovery volumes*, allowing reconstruction of damaged archives (including reconstruction of entirely missed volumes)\n- Optional \"quick open record\" to open RAR files faster[\\[11\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11)\n- Ability to create multi-volume (split) archives[\\[15\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-split-15)\n- Ability to create [self-extracting](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Self-extracting_archive \"Self-extracting archive\") files (multi-volume self-extracting archives are supported;[\\[15\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-split-15) the self-extractor can execute commands, such as running a specified program before or after self-extraction[\\[16\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-16))\n- Support for [NTFS](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NTFS \"NTFS\") permissions, hard and symbolic links[\\[11\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11)\n- Support for maximum path length up to 65 535 characters (stored in the [UTF-8](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UTF-8 \"UTF-8\") format)[\\[11\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11)\n- Optional archive comment (stored in the UTF-8 format)[\\[11\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11)\n- Optional file timestamps preservation: modification, creation, last access times with high precision[\\[17\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-17)\n- Optional [file deduplication](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Data_deduplication \"Data deduplication\")\n- Advanced backup options, time-stamped files and previous file version retention.\n\n## License\n\\[[edit](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=WinRAR&action=edit&section=3 \"Edit section: License\")\\]\n\nThe software is distributed as \"try before you buy\"; it may be used without charge for 40 days.[\\[2\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-license-2) When the period expires, the non-enterprise functionalities remain available, a move intended to discourage piracy.[\\[4\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-inf40-4) In [China](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/China \"China\"), a free-to-use personal edition has been provided officially since 2015.[\\[18\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-18)\n\nAlthough archiving with the RAR format is proprietary, RARLAB supplies as copyrighted [freeware](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Freeware \"Freeware\") the [C++](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/C%2B%2B \"C++\") source code of the current UnRAR unpacker, with a license allowing it to be used in any software, thus enabling others to produce software capable of unpacking, but not creating, RAR archives.[\\[19\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-19)\n\n*RAR for Android* is free of charge. It displays advertisements; for a payment they can be disabled.[\\[20\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-android-20) A license for WinRAR does not provide ad-suppression for *RAR for Android*.\n\n## Security\n\\[[edit](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=WinRAR&action=edit&section=4 \"Edit section: Security\")\\]\n\nIn February 2019, a major security vulnerability in the unacev2.dll library which is used by WinRAR to decompress [ACE](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ACE_\\(compressed_file_format\\) \"ACE (compressed file format)\") archives was discovered.[\\[21\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-21)[\\[22\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-22) Consequently, WinRAR dropped the support for the ACE format from version 5.70.\n\nSelf-extracting archives created with versions before 5.31 (including the executable installer of WinRAR itself) are vulnerable to [DLL hijacking](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/DLL_hijacking \"DLL hijacking\"): they may load and use DLLs named `UXTheme.dll`, `RichEd32.dll` and `RichEd20.dll` if they are in the same folder as the executable file.[\\[11\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11)[\\[23\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-23)\n\nIt was widely reported that WinRAR v5.21 and earlier had a [remote code execution](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Remote_code_execution \"Remote code execution\") (RCE) vulnerability which could allow a remote attacker to insert malicious code into a [self-extracting executable (SFX) file](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Self-extracting_archive \"Self-extracting archive\") being created by a user, \"putting over 500 million users of the software at risk\".[\\[24\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-24) However, examination of the claim revealed that, while the vulnerability existed, the result was merely an SFX which delivered its payload when executed; published responses dismissed the threat, one saying \"If you can find suckers who will trust a [.exe](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/.exe \".exe\") labelled as self-extracting archive *\\[…\\]* then you can trick them into running your smuggled JavaScript\".[\\[25\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-25)[\\[26\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-26)\n\nWinRAR 6.23 fixes a critical security vulnerability which allowed the hacker to automatically execute malware distributed in archives under some circumstances.[\\[27\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-27)\n\nVersions 7.12 and 7.13 for Windows contain important security fixes.[\\[28\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-28)\n\n## History\n\\[[edit](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=WinRAR&action=edit&section=5 \"Edit section: History\")\\]\n\n### Versions\n\\[[edit](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=WinRAR&action=edit&section=6 \"Edit section: Versions\")\\]\n\n- Command line RAR and UNRAR were first released in autumn 1993.[\\[7\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-Interview_by_correspondence-7)\n- Early development version WinRAR 1.54b was released in 1995.\n- 2\\.00 (1996-04): the new [RAR2](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/RAR_\\(file_format\\)#Versions \"RAR (file format)\") [archive format](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Archive_format \"Archive format\") is implemented.\n- 3\\.00 (2002-05): the new [RAR3](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/RAR_\\(file_format\\)#Versions \"RAR (file format)\") [archive format](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Archive_format \"Archive format\") is implemented. The new archives cannot be managed by older versions of WinRAR. Solid compression and WAV audio lossless compression features are added.[\\[29\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-History-3.00-3.11-29)\n- 3\\.41 (2004-12): adds support for Linux .Z archives like GZIP and BZIP2. New options include storing entire file paths and restoring compressed NTFS files.[\\[30\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-History-3.40-3.50-30)\n- 3\\.50 (2005-08): adds support for interface [skins](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Skin_\\(computing\\) \"Skin (computing)\").[\\[30\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-History-3.40-3.50-30)\n- 3\\.60 (2006-08): adds multithreaded version of the compression algorithm, which improves compression speed on systems with multiple [dual-core](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dual-core \"Dual-core\") or [hyper-threading](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hyper-threading \"Hyper-threading\")\\-enabled [CPUs](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Central_processing_unit \"Central processing unit\").\n- 3\\.80 (2008-09): adds support for ZIP archives, which contain [Unicode](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Unicode \"Unicode\") file names in [UTF-8](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UTF-8 \"UTF-8\").[\\[31\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-31)\n- 3\\.90 (2009-05): adds support for the [x86-64](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/X86-64 \"X86-64\") architecture. Multithreaded support is enhanced.[\\[11\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11)\n- 3\\.91 is the last release that supports [Valencian](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Valencian_language \"Valencian language\").\n- 3\\.92 is the last release that supports [Serbian Cyrillic](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Serbian_Cyrillic \"Serbian Cyrillic\") and [Serbian Latin](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Serbian_Latin \"Serbian Latin\").\n- 4\\.00 (2011-03): decompression is sped up by up to 30%.[\\[11\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11)\n- 4\\.10 (2012-01): removes all ZIP limitations now allowing unlimited number of files and archive size. WinRAR now also allows creation of multivolume ZIP files. ZIP archives now include [Unicode](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Unicode \"Unicode\") file names.[\\[11\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11)\n- 4\\.20 (2012-06): compression speed in [SMP](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Symmetric_multiprocessing \"Symmetric multiprocessing\") mode is increased significantly, but this improvement was made at the expense of increased memory usage. ZIP compression now uses SMP as well. The default SMP mode cannot handle text; text compression is significantly worse unless additional switches are used.[\\[11\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11)\n- 5\\.00 (2013-09): the new RAR5 archive format is implemented. RAR5 compressed archives cannot be managed by old versions of WinRAR. The RAR 5 format improves [multi-core processor](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Multi-core_processor \"Multi-core processor\") utilization, and adds a larger dictionary size of up to 1 GiB with 64-bit WinRAR. Special optional compression algorithms optimized for RGB bitmaps, raw audio files, [Itanium](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Itanium \"Itanium\") executables, and [plain text](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Plain_text \"Plain text\"), which were supported by earlier versions, are supported only in the older RAR format, not RAR5.[\\[11\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11) Optional optimized compression of x86 executables and [delta compression](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Delta_compression \"Delta compression\") (for structured table data) are supported in both file formats.\n- 5\\.50 (2017-08): adds support for a master password which can be used to encrypt passwords stored in WinRAR. The default RAR format is changed to version 5. Adds support for decompressing [Lzip](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lzip \"Lzip\") archives; adds support for high precision file dates, longer file names and larger file sizes for [TAR](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tar_\\(computing\\) \"Tar (computing)\") archives.[\\[11\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11)\n- 5\\.60 (2018-06): repairing of protected RAR5 archives was improved. Automatic detection of the encoding of ZIP archive comments. Recognition of GZIP files with arbitrary preceding data as an actual GZIP archive.[\\[11\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11)\n- 5\\.70 (2019-02): removes support for [ACE](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ACE_\\(compressed_file_format\\) \"ACE (compressed file format)\") archive decompression due to major security vulnerabilities[\\[32\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-32) in the unacev2.dll library.[\\[11\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11)\n- 6\\.00 (2020-12): \"Ignore\" and \"Ignore All\" options are added to read error prompt. \"Ignore\" allows to continue processing with already read file part only and \"Ignore All\" does it for all future read errors.\n- 6\\.10 (2022-01): Added support for unpacking [ZST](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zstandard \"Zstandard\") archives. Maximum recovery record is increased to 1000% of protected data size.\n- 6\\.11 (2022-03): Support of Gzip archives with large archive comments has been added; In command line mode, the switch -mes can also be used to suppress the password prompt and abort when adding new files to an encrypted solid archive.\n- 6\\.12 (2022-05): [CVE](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CVE_\\(identifier\\) \"CVE (identifier)\")\\-[2022-30333](https:\/\/nvd.nist.gov\/vuln\/detail\/CVE-2022-30333) security vulnerability is fixed in Unix RAR versions. WinRAR and Android RAR are not affected.\n- 6\\.23 (2023-08): [CVE](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CVE_\\(identifier\\) \"CVE (identifier)\")\\-\n  [2023-40477](https:\/\/nvd.nist.gov\/vuln\/detail\/CVE-2023-40477) and [CVE](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CVE_\\(identifier\\) \"CVE (identifier)\")\\-\n  [2023-38831](https:\/\/nvd.nist.gov\/vuln\/detail\/CVE-2023-38831) critical security vulnerabilities are fixed in WinRAR. Unix and Android versions are not affected.\n- 6\\.24 (2023-10): Fixes an issue with null pointers.\n- 7\\.00 (2024-02): drops support for creating RAR 4.x format archives. Maximum path length limit increased to 65535 characters. Maximum RAR dictionary size up to 64 GB for the [64](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/64-bit_computing \"64-bit computing\")\\-bit version (limited by available RAM). Command line RAR filters out control character 27 from screen output for security reasons.\n- 7\\.10 (2025-02): drops support for 32bit Windows editions. Adds support for [Large Memory Pages](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Page_\\(computer_memory\\)#Multiple_page_sizes \"Page (computer memory)\") which increases compression and decompression speed, especially when using a large compression dictionary. Adds [dark mode](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dark_theme \"Dark theme\").\n\n### Operating systems support\n\\[[edit](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=WinRAR&action=edit&section=7 \"Edit section: Operating systems support\")\\]\n\nMore recent versions do not support many older operating systems. Versions supporting older operating systems may still be available, but not maintained:\n\n- RAR 2.50 is the last version to support MS-DOS and OS\/2 on 16-bit [x86](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/X86 \"X86\") CPUs ([8086](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Intel_8086 \"Intel 8086\")\\-compatible).[\\[33\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-33)\n- RAR 3.93 is the last version to support [MS-DOS](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MS-DOS \"MS-DOS\") and [OS\/2](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/OS\/2 \"OS\/2\") on [IA-32](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/IA-32 \"IA-32\") CPUs ([80386](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Intel_80386 \"Intel 80386\") equivalents and later). RAR for Pocket PC 3.93 is the last version for [Windows Mobile](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Windows_Mobile \"Windows Mobile\").[\\[34\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-rar393-34) It supports [file names longer than the MS-DOS standard](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Long_filename \"Long filename\") of 8.3 characters, in a MS-DOS box (except under NT-based operating systems), and uses the [RSX](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/EMX_\\(programming_environment\\) \"EMX (programming environment)\") [DPMI](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/DOS_Protected_Mode_Interface \"DOS Protected Mode Interface\") extender.\n- RAR 7.01 is the last version to support [Linux](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Linux \"Linux\") and [FreeBSD](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/FreeBSD \"FreeBSD\") on [32-bit](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/32-bit_computing \"32-bit computing\") [x86](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/X86 \"X86\") CPUs. The unrar application is available as source code and still supports 32bit environments (with a 2GB maximum dictionary size limitation).\n- WinRAR 2.06 is the last version to support [Windows 3.1](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Windows_3.1 \"Windows 3.1\"), [Windows NT 3.1](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Windows_NT_3.1 \"Windows NT 3.1\"), [Windows NT 3.5](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Windows_NT_3.5 \"Windows NT 3.5\"), [Windows NT 3.51](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Windows_NT_3.51 \"Windows NT 3.51\") and [Win32s](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Win32s \"Win32s\").\n- WinRAR 3.93 is the last version to support [Windows 95](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Windows_95 \"Windows 95\"), [Windows NT 4.0](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Windows_NT_4.0 \"Windows NT 4.0\"), [Windows 98](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Windows_98 \"Windows 98\") and [Windows Me](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Windows_Me \"Windows Me\").[\\[11\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11)[\\[35\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-35)\n- WinRAR 4.11 is the last version to support [Windows 2000](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Windows_2000 \"Windows 2000\").[\\[11\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11)\n- WinRAR 6.02 is the last version to support [Windows XP](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Windows_XP \"Windows XP\") (except the console version Rar.exe).[\\[11\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11)\n- WinRAR 7.01 is the last version to support [Windows Vista](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Windows_Vista \"Windows Vista\") (and [32-bit](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/32-bit_computing \"32-bit computing\") Windows editions).[\\[11\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11)\n\n## See also\n\\[[edit](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=WinRAR&action=edit&section=8 \"Edit section: See also\")\\]\n\n- [Comparison of file archivers](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Comparison_of_file_archivers \"Comparison of file archivers\")\n- [Comparison of archive formats](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Comparison_of_archive_formats \"Comparison of archive formats\")\n- [List of archive formats](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_archive_formats \"List of archive formats\")\n- [7-Zip](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/7-Zip \"7-Zip\")\n\n## References\n\\[[edit](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=WinRAR&action=edit&section=9 \"Edit section: References\")\\]\n\n1. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-1)** ([Russia](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Russia \"Russia\"), [Chelyabinsk](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chelyabinsk \"Chelyabinsk\")) [WinRAR 3.40 release notes by Eugene Roshal](https:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/fido7.rar.support\/msg\/8205725b02a2be76?pli=1) (in Russian)\n2. ^ [***a***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-license_2-0) [***b***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-license_2-1)\n   [\"RAR and WinRAR End User License Agreement (EULA)\"](https:\/\/rarlab.com\/license.htm), *rarlab.com*, RARLAB, [archived](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20140104212948\/http:\/\/www.rarlab.com\/license.htm) from the original on 2014-01-04, retrieved 2019-03-11\n3. ^ [***a***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-dl_3-0) [***b***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-dl_3-1)\n   [\"RAR download page\"](https:\/\/rarlab.com\/download.htm). *rarlab.com*. RARLAB. [Archived](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200609195332\/https:\/\/www.rarlab.com\/download.htm) from the original on 2020-06-09. Retrieved 2020-06-10.\n4. ^ [***a***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-inf40_4-0) [***b***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-inf40_4-1)\n   CHM Tech (9 March 2017). [\"WinRAR And The Infinite 40-Day Trial\"](https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fTgZRVVr3_Y). *YouTube*. [Archived](https:\/\/ghostarchive.org\/varchive\/youtube\/20211222\/fTgZRVVr3_Y) from the original on 2021-12-22.\n5. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-5)** Manuel Masiero (18 March 2013)[\"Compression Performance: 7-Zip, MagicRAR, WinRAR, WinZip\"](https:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/reviews\/winrar-winzip-7-zip-magicrar,3436.html) *Tom's Hardware*. Retrieved 27 November 2013.\n6. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-download_6-0)** WinRAR and RAR archiver downloads [\\[1\\]](https:\/\/www.rarlab.com\/download.htm)\n7. ^ [***a***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-Interview_by_correspondence_7-0) [***b***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-Interview_by_correspondence_7-1)\n   Voloshin, Kirill (2011-03-10).\n   \n   [Интервью по переписке](http:\/\/www.compression.ru\/arctest\/descript\/roshal.htm)\n   \n   \\[Interview by correspondence\\] (in Russian). [Archived](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20150816011005\/http:\/\/www.compression.ru\/arctest\/descript\/roshal.htm) from the original on 2015-08-16. Retrieved 2014-10-27.\n8. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-8)** <https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20100713223858\/http:\/\/www.zetnet.co.uk\/RAR.T-Mail\/index.html>\n9. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-9)** <https:\/\/forum.ru-board.com\/topic.cgi?forum=5&topic=51203&start=1840#6>\n10. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-10)** [Martin Brinkmann](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Martin_Brinkmann \"Martin Brinkmann\") (29 April 2013)[\"WinRAR 5.0 introduces the new RAR 5 format. What you need to know\"](https:\/\/www.ghacks.net\/2013\/04\/29\/winrar-5-0-introduces-the-new-rar-5-format-what-you-need-to-know\/) [Archived](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180901182623\/https:\/\/www.ghacks.net\/2013\/04\/29\/winrar-5-0-introduces-the-new-rar-5-format-what-you-need-to-know\/) 2018-09-01 at the [Wayback Machine](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wayback_Machine \"Wayback Machine\") *Ghacks*. Retrieved 27 November 2013.\n11. ^ [***a***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-releases_11-0) [***b***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-releases_11-1) [***c***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-releases_11-2) [***d***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-releases_11-3) [***e***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-releases_11-4) [***f***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-releases_11-5) [***g***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-releases_11-6) [***h***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-releases_11-7) [***i***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-releases_11-8) [***j***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-releases_11-9) [***k***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-releases_11-10) [***l***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-releases_11-11) [***m***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-releases_11-12) [***n***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-releases_11-13) [***o***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-releases_11-14) [***p***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-releases_11-15) [***q***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-releases_11-16) [***r***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-releases_11-17) [***s***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-releases_11-18) [***t***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-releases_11-19) [***u***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-releases_11-20) [***v***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-releases_11-21) [***w***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-releases_11-22) [***x***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-releases_11-23) [***y***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-releases_11-24)\n    [\"Latest changes in WinRAR (cumulative release notes for all versions)\"](https:\/\/rarlab.com\/rarnew.htm). *rarlab.com*. RARLAB. [Archived](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20100806100343\/http:\/\/www.rarlab.com\/rarnew.htm) from the original on 2010-08-06. Retrieved 2018-09-01.\n    \n    Updated with each new beta test or released version. Current page has versions 6.00 and higher; archived page linked here has versions 3.70–3.93; older archived versions go back to 3.00\n12. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-12)**\n    [\"After 22 years, WinRAR officially discontinued the CD installation package\"](https:\/\/scienceinfo.net\/after-22-years-winrar-officially-discontinued-the-cd-installation-package.html). *scienceinfo.net*. 2024-10-01. Retrieved 2025-04-19.\n13. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-13)**\n    [\"Best Archive Tool\"](http:\/\/www.donationcoder.com\/Reviews\/Archive\/ArchiveTools\/index.html). DonationCoder.com. 2005-09-05. [Archived](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20090602021709\/http:\/\/www.donationcoder.com\/Reviews\/Archive\/ArchiveTools\/index.html) from the original on 2009-06-02. Retrieved 2009-07-01.\n14. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-14)** [\"WinRAR 5 Final Released\"](http:\/\/www.techno360.in\/winrar-5\/) [Archived](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20131202233837\/http:\/\/www.techno360.in\/winrar-5\/) 2013-12-02 at the [Wayback Machine](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wayback_Machine \"Wayback Machine\") *Techno360.in*. Retrieved 27 November 2013.\n15. ^ [***a***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-split_15-0) [***b***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-split_15-1)\n    [Martin Brinkmann](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Martin_Brinkmann \"Martin Brinkmann\") (7 September 2011). [\"How To Split Large Files Into Multiple Smaller Ones\"](https:\/\/www.ghacks.net\/2011\/09\/07\/how-to-split-large-files-into-multiple-smaller-ones\/). *gHacks Tech News*. [Archived](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170416045138\/http:\/\/www.ghacks.net\/2011\/09\/07\/how-to-split-large-files-into-multiple-smaller-ones\/) from the original on 2017-04-16. Retrieved 15 April 2017.\n16. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-16)** WinRAR Help – GUI SFX modules: setup commands\n17. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-17)**\n    stevewhims (2021-01-07). [\"File Times - Win32 apps\"](https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/win32\/sysinfo\/file-times). *learn.microsoft.com*. Retrieved 2024-04-07.\n18. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-18)**\n    [\"软众信息-WinRAR独家总代理商 最新官方简体中文版下载 支持64位非破解版压缩软件：软件介绍-致用户的一封信\"](http:\/\/www.winrar.com.cn\/about.htm). www.winrar.com.cn. [Archived](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20161015190836\/http:\/\/www.winrar.com.cn\/about.htm) from the original on 2016-10-15. Retrieved 2016-10-18.\n19. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-19)**\n    [\"WinRAR and RAR archiver addons (downloads, UnRAR for various platforms, and source code)\"](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180901215639\/https:\/\/rarlab.com\/rar_add.htm). *rarlab.com*. RARLAB. Archived from [the original](https:\/\/rarlab.com\/rar_add.htm) on 2018-09-01. Retrieved 2020-06-10.\n    \n    License says \"The source code of UnRAR utility is freeware\"\n20. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-android_20-0)**\n    [\"RAR for Android; RARsoft\"](https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.rarlab.rar). [Archived](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141222101935\/https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.rarlab.rar) from the original on 2014-12-22. Retrieved 2014-11-04.\n21. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-21)**\n    [\"Extracting a 19 Year Old Code Execution from WinRAR\"](https:\/\/research.checkpoint.com\/extracting-code-execution-from-winrar\/). *Check Point Research*. 2019-02-20. Retrieved 2019-03-13.\n22. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-22)**\n    [\"WinRAR Multiple Security Vulnerabilities\"](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20201221110600\/https:\/\/www.securityfocus.com\/bid\/106948). *www.securityfocus.com*. Archived from [the original](https:\/\/www.securityfocus.com\/bid\/106948) on 2020-12-21. Retrieved 2019-03-13.\n23. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-23)**\n    Kanthak, Stefan (7 February 2016). [\"Executable installers are vulnerable^WEVIL (case 25): WinRAR's installer and self-extractors allow arbitrary (remote) code execution and escalation of privilege\"](http:\/\/seclists.org\/fulldisclosure\/2016\/Feb\/58). *SecLists.org*. [Archived](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160218030636\/http:\/\/seclists.org\/fulldisclosure\/2016\/Feb\/58) from the original on 2016-02-18. Retrieved 2016-02-20.\n24. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-24)**\n    Shaikh Rafia (September 2015). [\"WinRAR Exploit Could Put 500 Million Users at Risk\"](https:\/\/wccftech.com\/winrar-exploit-could-put-500-million-users-at-risk\/). *Wccftech.com*. [Archived](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20161001192221\/http:\/\/wccftech.com\/winrar-exploit-could-put-500-million-users-at-risk\/) from the original on 2016-10-01. Retrieved 29 September 2016.\n25. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-25)**\n    Darren Pauli (30 September 2015). [\"Smuggle mischievous JavaScript into WinRAR archives? Sure, why not\"](https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2015\/09\/30\/500m_winrar_users_open_to_remote_code_execution_zero_day\/). *The Register*. [Archived](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160927083336\/http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2015\/09\/30\/500m_winrar_users_open_to_remote_code_execution_zero_day\/) from the original on 2016-09-27. Retrieved 29 September 2016.\n26. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-26)**\n    [\"WinRAR Vulnerability Is Complete Bullshit\"](http:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/2015\/10\/winrar-vulnerability-is-complete-bullshit\/). *Darknet*. 1 October 2015. [Archived](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20161002151612\/http:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/2015\/10\/winrar-vulnerability-is-complete-bullshit\/) from the original on 2016-10-02. Retrieved 29 September 2016.\n27. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-27)**\n    Goodin, Dan (2023-08-23). [\"WinRAR 0-day that uses poisoned JPG and TXT files under exploit since April\"](https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/security\/2023\/08\/winrar-0-day-that-uses-poisoned-jpg-and-txt-files-under-exploit-since-april\/). *Ars Technica*. Retrieved 2023-08-23.\n28. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-28)**\n    [\"WinRAR archiver, a powerful tool to process RAR and ZIP files\"](https:\/\/www.rarlab.com\/rarnew.htm). *www.rarlab.com*. [Archived](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20250727172602\/https:\/\/www.rarlab.com\/rarnew.htm) from the original on 2025-07-27. Retrieved 2025-08-08.\n29. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-History-3.00-3.11_29-0)**\n    [\"RAR - What's new in the latest version (v3.00 to v3.11)\"](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20030117103514\/http:\/\/www.rarlab.com\/rarnew.htm). *rarlab.com*. Archived from [the original](https:\/\/www.rarlab.com\/rarnew.htm) on January 17, 2003.\n30. ^ [***a***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-History-3.40-3.50_30-0) [***b***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-History-3.40-3.50_30-1)\n    [\"RAR - What's new in the latest version (v3.40 to v3.50)\"](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20050907103300\/http:\/\/www.rarlab.com\/rarnew.htm). *rarlab.com*. Archived from [the original](https:\/\/www.rarlab.com\/rarnew.htm) on September 7, 2005.\n31. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-31)**\n    [\"WinRAR archiver, a powerful tool to process RAR and ZIP files\"](https:\/\/rarlab.com\/). *rarlab.com*. RARLAB. [Archived](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20090628105748\/http:\/\/www.rarlab.com\/) from the original on 2009-06-28. Retrieved 2009-07-01.\n32. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-32)**\n    Nichols, Shaun (2019-02-20). [\"Behold… a WinRAR security bug that's older than your child's favorite YouTuber. And yes, you should patch this hole\"](https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2019\/02\/20\/winrar_security_bug\/). *www.theregister.co.uk*. Retrieved 2019-02-26.\n33. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-33)**\n    [\"RAR 2.50 – Stats, Downloads and Screenshots\"](https:\/\/winworldpc.com\/product\/rar). *WinWorld*. [Archived](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170815101512\/https:\/\/winworldpc.com\/product\/rar) from the original on 2017-08-15. Retrieved 14 August 2017.\n34. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-rar393_34-0)**\n    [\"Downloads for: WinRAR, RAR for Mac OS X, RAR for Linux, RAR for DOS & OS\/2, RAR for FreeBSD, with 40 days free trial\"](http:\/\/www.winrar.co.nz\/download-winrar). *Winrar.co.nz*. [Archived](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170815101538\/http:\/\/www.winrar.co.nz\/download-winrar) from the original on 2017-08-15. Retrieved 15 August 2017.\n35. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-35)**\n    [\"Obsolete RAR versions\"](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20101117004428\/http:\/\/www.rarlab.com\/rarold.htm). *www.rarlab.com*. Archived from [the original](https:\/\/www.rarlab.com\/rarold.htm) on 2010-11-17. Retrieved 2025-07-19.\n\n## Further reading\n\\[[edit](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=WinRAR&action=edit&section=10 \"Edit section: Further reading\")\\]\n\n- Salomon, David (20 March 2007). [*Data Compression: The Complete Reference*](https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=ujnQogzx_2EC) (4th ed.). London: Springer Science & Business Media. [doi](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Doi_\\(identifier\\) \"Doi (identifier)\"):[10\\.1007\/978-1-84628-603-2](https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007%2F978-1-84628-603-2). [ISBN](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ISBN_\\(identifier\\) \"ISBN (identifier)\")\n  \n  [978-1-84628-602-5](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:BookSources\/978-1-84628-602-5 \"Special:BookSources\/978-1-84628-602-5\")\n  \n  . Retrieved 4 September 2018.\n- Fellows, Geoffrey (1 October 2010). [\"WinRAR temporary folder artefacts\"](https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/citation.cfm?id=2296236). *Digital Investigation*. **7** (1–2\\): 9–13\\. [doi](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Doi_\\(identifier\\) \"Doi (identifier)\"):[10\\.1016\/j.diin.2009.12.001](https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016%2Fj.diin.2009.12.001). [ISSN](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ISSN_\\(identifier\\) \"ISSN (identifier)\") [1742-2876](https:\/\/search.worldcat.org\/issn\/1742-2876). Retrieved 4 September 2018.\n- Yeo, Gary S.-W.; Phan, Raphael C.-W. (8 March 2006). \"On the security of the WinRAR encryption feature\". *International Journal of Information Security*. Special issue on ISC'05. **5** (2): 115–123\\. [doi](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Doi_\\(identifier\\) \"Doi (identifier)\"):[10\\.1007\/s10207-006-0086-3](https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007%2Fs10207-006-0086-3). [ISSN](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ISSN_\\(identifier\\) \"ISSN (identifier)\") [1615-5262](https:\/\/search.worldcat.org\/issn\/1615-5262). [S2CID](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/S2CID_\\(identifier\\) \"S2CID (identifier)\") [22398865](https:\/\/api.semanticscholar.org\/CorpusID:22398865).\n- Metz, Cade (2004-11-16). \"File Compression Beyond ZIP\". *PC Magazine*. **23** (20): 52. [ISSN](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ISSN_\\(identifier\\) \"ISSN (identifier)\") [0888-8507](https:\/\/search.worldcat.org\/issn\/0888-8507).\n- Qin, Jian-cheng; Bai, Zhong-ying (1 February 2011). [\"Design of new format for mass data compression\"](http:\/\/jcupt.bupt.edu.cn\/EN\/abstract\/abstract548.shtml). *The Journal of China Universities of Posts and Telecommunications*. **18** (1): 121–128\\. 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[S2CID](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/S2CID_\\(identifier\\) \"S2CID (identifier)\") [5431719](https:\/\/api.semanticscholar.org\/CorpusID:5431719).\n\n## External links\n\\[[edit](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=WinRAR&action=edit&section=11 \"Edit section: External links\")\\]\n\n- [rarlab.com](https:\/\/www.rarlab.com\/) (Developer's Website)\n- [RAR 5.0 archive file format](https:\/\/www.rarlab.com\/technote.htm)\n- [Critical vulnerability in all WinRAR's versions prior to 5.7](https:\/\/research.checkpoint.com\/extracting-code-execution-from-winrar\/)\n\n| [v](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Template:Compression_software \"Template:Compression software\") [t](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Template_talk:Compression_software \"Template talk:Compression software\") [e](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:EditPage\/Template:Compression_software \"Special:EditPage\/Template:Compression software\")[Data compression](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Data_compression \"Data compression\") software |   |\n|---|---|\n| [Archivers](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Comparison_of_file_archivers \"Comparison of file archivers\") with  compression ([comparison](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Comparison_of_file_archivers \"Comparison of file archivers\")) |   |\n|   |   |\n| [Free and open-source](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Free_and_open-source_software \"Free and open-source software\") | [7-Zip](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/7-Zip \"7-Zip\") [Ark](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ark_\\(software\\) \"Ark (software)\") [Expander](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Haiku_Applications#Expander \"Haiku Applications\") [File Roller](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File_Roller \"File Roller\") [FreeArc](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/FreeArc \"FreeArc\") [Info-ZIP](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Info-ZIP \"Info-ZIP\") [KGB Archiver](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/KGB_Archiver \"KGB Archiver\") [PAQ](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/PAQ \"PAQ\") [pax](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pax_\\(command\\) \"Pax (command)\") [PeaZip](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/PeaZip \"PeaZip\") [XAD](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/XAD_\\(software\\) \"XAD (software)\") (decompression only) [Xarchiver](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Xarchiver \"Xarchiver\") [Zipeg](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zipeg \"Zipeg\") [ZPAQ](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ZPAQ \"ZPAQ\") |\n| [Freeware](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Freeware \"Freeware\") | [Filzip](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Filzip \"Filzip\") [LHA](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/LHA_\\(file_format\\) \"LHA (file format)\") [StuffIt Expander](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/StuffIt_Expander \"StuffIt Expander\") (decompression only) [The Unarchiver](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Unarchiver \"The Unarchiver\") (decompression only) [TUGZip](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/TUGZip \"TUGZip\") [ZipGenius](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ZipGenius \"ZipGenius\") |\n| [Commercial](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Commercial_software \"Commercial software\") | [ARC](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ARC_\\(file_format\\) \"ARC (file format)\") [ALZip](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ALZip \"ALZip\") [Archive Utility](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Archive_Utility \"Archive Utility\") [ARJ](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ARJ \"ARJ\") [BetterZip](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BetterZip \"BetterZip\") [MacBinary](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MacBinary \"MacBinary\") [PKZIP\/SecureZIP](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/PKZIP \"PKZIP\") [PowerArchiver](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/PowerArchiver \"PowerArchiver\") [StuffIt](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/StuffIt \"StuffIt\") [WinAce](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinAce \"WinAce\") [WinRAR]() [WinZip](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinZip \"WinZip\") |\n| Non-archiving compressors |   |\n|   |   |\n| Generic | [bzip2](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bzip2 \"Bzip2\") [compress](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Compress_\\(software\\) \"Compress (software)\") [gzip](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gzip \"Gzip\") [lzip](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lzip \"Lzip\") [lzop](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lzop \"Lzop\") [pack](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pack_\\(software\\) \"Pack (software)\") [rzip](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rzip \"Rzip\") [Snappy](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Snappy_\\(compression\\) \"Snappy (compression)\") [XZ Utils](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/XZ_Utils \"XZ Utils\") [zstd](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zstd \"Zstd\") |\n| [For code](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Executable_compression \"Executable compression\") | [UPX](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UPX \"UPX\") |\n| [Audio  compression](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Data_compression#Audio \"Data compression\") ([comparison](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Comparison_of_audio_coding_formats \"Comparison of audio coding formats\")) |   |\n|   |   |\n| [Lossy](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lossy_compression \"Lossy compression\") | [AAC](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Advanced_Audio_Coding \"Advanced Audio Coding\") [Fraunhofer FDK AAC](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fraunhofer_FDK_AAC \"Fraunhofer FDK AAC\") [Nero AAC Codec](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nero_AAC_Codec \"Nero AAC Codec\") [FAAC](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/FAAC \"FAAC\") [Helix DNA Producer](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Helix_\\(multimedia_project\\) \"Helix (multimedia project)\") [MP3](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MP3 \"MP3\") [l3enc](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/L3enc \"L3enc\") [LAME](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/LAME \"LAME\") [TooLAME](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/TooLAME \"TooLAME\") [libavcodec](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Libavcodec \"Libavcodec\") [libcelt](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CELT \"CELT\") [libopus](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Opus_\\(audio_format\\) \"Opus (audio format)\") [libspeex](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Speex \"Speex\") [Musepack](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Musepack \"Musepack\") [libvorbis](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vorbis \"Vorbis\") [Windows Media Encoder](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Windows_Media_Encoder \"Windows Media Encoder\") |\n| [Lossless](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lossless_compression \"Lossless compression\") | [ALAC](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Apple_Lossless_Audio_Codec \"Apple Lossless Audio Codec\") [FLAC](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/FLAC \"FLAC\") [libavcodec](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Libavcodec \"Libavcodec\") [Monkey's Audio](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monkey%27s_Audio \"Monkey's Audio\") [mp4als](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Audio_Lossless_Coding \"Audio Lossless Coding\") [OptimFROG](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/OptimFROG \"OptimFROG\") [Shorten](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shorten_\\(codec\\) \"Shorten (codec)\") [WavPack](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WavPack \"WavPack\") |\n| [Video  compression](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Data_compression#Video \"Data compression\") ([comparison](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Comparison_of_video_codecs \"Comparison of video codecs\")) |   |\n|   |   |\n| [Lossy](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lossy_compression \"Lossy compression\") |   |\n|   |   |\n| [MPEG-4 ASP](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MPEG-4_Part_2 \"MPEG-4 Part 2\") | [3ivx](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/3ivx \"3ivx\") [DivX](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/DivX \"DivX\") [Nero Digital](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nero_Digital \"Nero Digital\") [FFmpeg](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/FFmpeg \"FFmpeg\") [HDX4](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/HDX4 \"HDX4\") [Xvid](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Xvid \"Xvid\") |\n| [H.264](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Advanced_Video_Coding \"Advanced Video Coding\") | [CoreAVC](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CoreAVC \"CoreAVC\") Blu-code [DivX](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/DivX \"DivX\") [FFmpeg](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/FFmpeg \"FFmpeg\") [Nero Digital](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nero_Digital \"Nero Digital\") [OpenH264](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/OpenH264 \"OpenH264\") [QuickTime](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/QuickTime \"QuickTime\") [x264](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/X264 \"X264\") |\n| [HEVC](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/High_Efficiency_Video_Coding \"High Efficiency Video Coding\") | [DivX](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/DivX \"DivX\") [x265](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/X265 \"X265\") |\n| Others | [CineForm](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CineForm \"CineForm\") [Cinepak](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cinepak \"Cinepak\") [Daala](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Daala \"Daala\") [DNxHD](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Avid_DNxHD \"Avid DNxHD\") [Helix DNA Producer](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Helix_\\(multimedia_project\\) \"Helix (multimedia project)\") [Indeo](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indeo \"Indeo\") [libavcodec](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Libavcodec \"Libavcodec\") [Schrödinger (Dirac)](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dirac_\\(video_compression_format\\) \"Dirac (video compression format)\") [SBC](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Smart_Bitrate_Control \"Smart Bitrate Control\") [Sorenson](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sorenson_codec \"Sorenson codec\") [VP7](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/VP7 \"VP7\") [libtheora](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Theora \"Theora\") [libvpx](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Libvpx \"Libvpx\") [Windows Media Encoder](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Windows_Media_Encoder \"Windows Media Encoder\") |\n| [Lossless](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lossless_compression \"Lossless compression\") | [FFV1](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/FFV1 \"FFV1\") [Huffyuv](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Huffyuv \"Huffyuv\") [Lagarith](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lagarith \"Lagarith\") [MSU Lossless](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MSU_Lossless_Video_Codec \"MSU Lossless Video Codec\") [YULS](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/YULS \"YULS\") |\n| See also: [compression methods](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Template:Compression_methods \"Template:Compression methods\") and [compression formats](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Template:Compression_formats \"Template:Compression formats\") |   |\n\n![](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:CentralAutoLogin\/start?useformat=desktop&type=1x1&usesul3=1)\n\nRetrieved from \"<https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=WinRAR&oldid=1344927267>\"\n\n[Categories](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Help:Category \"Help:Category\"):\n\n- [File archivers](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Category:File_archivers 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30 years ago |\n| [Stable release](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Software_release_life_cycle \"Software release life cycle\") | 7\\.20 \/ February 3, 2026; 2 months ago |\n| Written in | [C++](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/C%2B%2B \"C++\") |\n| [Operating system](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Operating_system \"Operating system\") | [Windows 7](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Windows_7 \"Windows 7\") or later |\n| [Platform](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Computing_platform \"Computing platform\") | [IA-32](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/IA-32 \"IA-32\") (up to v7.01), [x64](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/X64 \"X64\") |\n| [Size](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File_size \"File size\") | 3\\.4 [MB](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Megabyte \"Megabyte\") |\n| Available in | 50+ languages[\\[3\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-dl-3) |\n| List of languages Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Catalan, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Mongolian, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian Cyrillic, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Colombian Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese |   |\n| [Type](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Software_categories#Categorization_approaches \"Software categories\") | [File archiver](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File_archiver \"File archiver\") |\n| [License](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Software_license \"Software license\") | [Trialware](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trialware \"Trialware\")[\\[4\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-inf40-4) |\n| Website | [www.win-rar.com](https:\/\/www.win-rar.com\/) [![Edit this on Wikidata](https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/8\/8a\/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg\/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png)](https:\/\/www.wikidata.org\/wiki\/Q242747?uselang=en#P856 \"Edit this on Wikidata\") |\n\n**WinRAR** is a [trialware](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trialware \"Trialware\") [file archiver](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File_archiver \"File archiver\") and [compression](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Data_compression \"Data compression\") utility for [Microsoft Windows](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Microsoft_Windows \"Microsoft Windows\"), developed by [Eugene Roshal](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eugene_Roshal \"Eugene Roshal\") of win.rar GmbH (RARLAB) since 1995. It can create and view archives in [RAR](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/RAR_\\(file_format\\) \"RAR (file format)\") (a format created by Roshal) or [ZIP](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zip_\\(file_format\\) \"Zip (file format)\") file formats,[\\[5\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-5) and unpack numerous archive [file](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Computer_file \"Computer file\") formats. To enable the user to test the integrity of archives, WinRAR embeds [CRC-32](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CRC-32 \"CRC-32\") or [BLAKE2](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BLAKE2 \"BLAKE2\") [checksums](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Checksum \"Checksum\") for each file in each archive. WinRAR supports creating [encrypted](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Encryption \"Encryption\"), multi-part and [self-extracting archives](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Self-extracting_archive \"Self-extracting archive\").\n\nRARLAB also offers a mobile version as [freeware](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Freeware \"Freeware\") for [Android](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Android_\\(operating_system\\) \"Android (operating system)\") under the name RAR for Android.[\\[6\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-download-6) Related programs include [command-line](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Command-line \"Command-line\") utilities `RAR` and `UNRAR`[\\[7\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-Interview_by_correspondence-7) which are also released for [macOS](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MacOS \"MacOS\"),[\\[3\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-dl-3) [Linux](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Linux \"Linux\"), [FreeBSD](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/FreeBSD \"FreeBSD\"), and in the past for [Windows CE](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Windows_CE \"Windows CE\"), [MS-DOS](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MS-DOS \"MS-DOS\") and [OS\/2](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/OS\/2 \"OS\/2\").[\\[8\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-8)\n\nRAR\/[DOS](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/DOS \"DOS\") started as a mix of [x86](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/X86 \"X86\") [assembler](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Assembly_language \"Assembly language\") and [C](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/C_\\(programming_language\\) \"C (programming language)\"), with the amount of assembly code decreasing over time and moving to pure C\/[C++](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/C%2B%2B \"C++\") later on. The first versions of WinRAR were written in C; modern versions predominantly use [C++](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/C%2B%2B \"C++\"). RAR for Android is written as a mixture of Java and C++.[\\[9\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-9)\n\nWinRAR and the RAR file format have evolved over time. Support for the archive format RAR5, using the same RAR [file extension](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File_extension \"File extension\") as earlier versions, was added in version 5.0;[\\[10\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-10) the older RAR file format has since been referred to as RAR4. WinRAR versions before 5.0 do not support RAR5 archives;[\\[11\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11) only older versions of WinRAR run on older operating systems, and cannot open RAR5 archives.\n\nThe RAR5 file format – from version 7 on, referred to as \"RAR\" – increased the maximum dictionary size up to 64 GB, depending on the amount of available memory, with the default in version 5 increased from 4 MB to 32 MB, typically improving compression ratio. For dictionaries larger than 4 GB, the size can be specified if it is unequal to a power of 2. Thus, there are no restrictions to the range 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, allowing 5 GB or 22 GB to be chosen at will. Archives with dictionaries larger than 4 GB can only be extracted by WinRAR 7.0 or newer. [AES encryption](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/AES_encryption \"AES encryption\"), when used, is in [CBC mode](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CBC_mode \"CBC mode\") and was increased in strength from 128- to 256-bit. Maximum path length for files in RAR and ZIP archives is increased from 2047 to 65535 characters.[\\[11\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11)\n\nOptions added in v5.0 include 256-bit [BLAKE2](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BLAKE_\\(hash_function\\) \"BLAKE (hash function)\") file-hashing algorithm instead of default 32-bit [CRC](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cyclic_redundancy_check \"Cyclic redundancy check\")\\-32, duplicate file detection, [NTFS hard and symbolic links](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NTFS_links \"NTFS links\"), and Quick Open record to allow large archives to be opened faster.[\\[11\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11)\n\nThe RAR5 file format removed comments for each file (though archive comment still remains), authenticity verification, and specialized compression algorithms for text and multimedia files. RAR5 also changed the file name for split volumes from `archivename.rNN` to `archivename.partNN.rar`.[\\[11\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11)\n\nThe RAR7 file format added support for 64GB compression dictionary and improved compression ratio by adding two extra algorithms. RAR7 archives with dictionary sizes up to 4 GB can be unpacked by previous versions of WinRAR (5.0 and above) given there's enough [RAM](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Random-access_memory \"Random-access memory\").\n\nOn the 31st of May 2024, WinRAR announced that they would no longer offer the physical [CD-ROM](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CD-ROM \"CD-ROM\") delivery option due to the factory that produces them shutting, citing a lack of demand and support for [optical media](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Optical_media \"Optical media\").[\\[12\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-12)\n\n- Creation of packed [RAR](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/RAR_\\(file_format\\) \"RAR (file format)\") or [ZIP](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zip_\\(file_format\\) \"Zip (file format)\") archives.\n- Unpacking of:[\\[11\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11)[\\[13\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-13)\n  - [RAR](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/RAR_\\(file_format\\) \"RAR (file format)\"), [tar](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tar_\\(computing\\) \"Tar (computing)\"), [ARJ](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ARJ \"ARJ\"), [LHA](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/LHA_\\(file_format\\) \"LHA (file format)\"), [ZIP](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ZIP_\\(file_format\\) \"ZIP (file format)\") (and its subsed [JAR](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/JAR_\\(file_format\\) \"JAR (file format)\")) and [WinZip ZIPX](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinZip \"WinZip\") archives\n  - [Windows Cabinet files](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cabinet_\\(file_format\\) \"Cabinet (file format)\") (`.CAB`)\n  - [ISO 9660](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ISO_9660 \"ISO 9660\") optical [disk images](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Disk_image \"Disk image\")\n  - [Unix compress (.Z)](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Compress_\\(software\\) \"Compress (software)\"), [gzip](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gzip \"Gzip\"), [bzip2](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bzip2 \"Bzip2\"), [lzip](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lzip \"Lzip\"), [xz](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/XZ_Utils \"XZ Utils\"), [7z](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/7z \"7z\") and [zstandard](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zstandard \"Zstandard\") compressed files\n  - [uuencoded](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Uuencoding \"Uuencoding\") files, as well as split files\n  - Some of [self-extracting archive](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Self-extracting_archive \"Self-extracting archive\") formats stored as [.exe](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/.exe \".exe\") files\n- [Checksum](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Checksum \"Checksum\") (integrity) verification for ARJ, bzip2, Cabinet file, gzip, lzip, RAR, xz, ZIP and 7z archives\n- [Multithreaded CPU](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Multithreaded_CPU \"Multithreaded CPU\") compression and decompression\n\nWhen creating RAR 7.0 archives:\n\n- Support for maximum file size of 16 [EiB](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Exbibyte \"Exbibyte\"), about 1.8 × 1019 bytes or 18 million TB\n- Compression dictionary from 1 MiB to 64 GiB (it is limited to 256 MiB on 32-bit editions, although 32-bit editions still can decompress archives with 1 GiB dictionary; default size is 32 MiB)[\\[11\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11)\n- Optional 256-bit [BLAKE2](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BLAKE2 \"BLAKE2\") file hashing that can replace the default 32-bit [CRC](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cyclic_redundancy_check \"Cyclic redundancy check\")\\-32 file checksum[\\[11\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11)\n- Optional encryption using [AES](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/AES_encryption \"AES encryption\") with a 256-bit key[\\[14\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-14) in [CBC mode](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CBC_mode \"CBC mode\"), using [key derivation function](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Key_derivation_function \"Key derivation function\") based on [PBKDF2](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/PBKDF2 \"PBKDF2\") using [HMAC](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/HMAC \"HMAC\")\\-SHA256[\\[11\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11)\n- Optional data [redundancy](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Redundancy_\\(information_theory\\) \"Redundancy (information theory)\") is provided in the form of [Reed–Solomon](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reed%E2%80%93Solomon \"Reed–Solomon\") *recovery records* and *recovery volumes*, allowing reconstruction of damaged archives (including reconstruction of entirely missed volumes)\n- Optional \"quick open record\" to open RAR files faster[\\[11\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11)\n- Ability to create multi-volume (split) archives[\\[15\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-split-15)\n- Ability to create [self-extracting](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Self-extracting_archive \"Self-extracting archive\") files (multi-volume self-extracting archives are supported;[\\[15\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-split-15) the self-extractor can execute commands, such as running a specified program before or after self-extraction[\\[16\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-16))\n- Support for [NTFS](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NTFS \"NTFS\") permissions, hard and symbolic links[\\[11\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11)\n- Support for maximum path length up to 65 535 characters (stored in the [UTF-8](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UTF-8 \"UTF-8\") format)[\\[11\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11)\n- Optional archive comment (stored in the UTF-8 format)[\\[11\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11)\n- Optional file timestamps preservation: modification, creation, last access times with high precision[\\[17\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-17)\n- Optional [file deduplication](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Data_deduplication \"Data deduplication\")\n- Advanced backup options, time-stamped files and previous file version retention.\n\nThe software is distributed as \"try before you buy\"; it may be used without charge for 40 days.[\\[2\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-license-2) When the period expires, the non-enterprise functionalities remain available, a move intended to discourage piracy.[\\[4\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-inf40-4) In [China](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/China \"China\"), a free-to-use personal edition has been provided officially since 2015.[\\[18\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-18)\n\nAlthough archiving with the RAR format is proprietary, RARLAB supplies as copyrighted [freeware](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Freeware \"Freeware\") the [C++](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/C%2B%2B \"C++\") source code of the current UnRAR unpacker, with a license allowing it to be used in any software, thus enabling others to produce software capable of unpacking, but not creating, RAR archives.[\\[19\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-19)\n\n*RAR for Android* is free of charge. It displays advertisements; for a payment they can be disabled.[\\[20\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-android-20) A license for WinRAR does not provide ad-suppression for *RAR for Android*.\n\nIn February 2019, a major security vulnerability in the unacev2.dll library which is used by WinRAR to decompress [ACE](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ACE_\\(compressed_file_format\\) \"ACE (compressed file format)\") archives was discovered.[\\[21\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-21)[\\[22\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-22) Consequently, WinRAR dropped the support for the ACE format from version 5.70.\n\nSelf-extracting archives created with versions before 5.31 (including the executable installer of WinRAR itself) are vulnerable to [DLL hijacking](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/DLL_hijacking \"DLL hijacking\"): they may load and use DLLs named `UXTheme.dll`, `RichEd32.dll` and `RichEd20.dll` if they are in the same folder as the executable file.[\\[11\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11)[\\[23\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-23)\n\nIt was widely reported that WinRAR v5.21 and earlier had a [remote code execution](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Remote_code_execution \"Remote code execution\") (RCE) vulnerability which could allow a remote attacker to insert malicious code into a [self-extracting executable (SFX) file](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Self-extracting_archive \"Self-extracting archive\") being created by a user, \"putting over 500 million users of the software at risk\".[\\[24\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-24) However, examination of the claim revealed that, while the vulnerability existed, the result was merely an SFX which delivered its payload when executed; published responses dismissed the threat, one saying \"If you can find suckers who will trust a [.exe](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/.exe \".exe\") labelled as self-extracting archive *\\[…\\]* then you can trick them into running your smuggled JavaScript\".[\\[25\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-25)[\\[26\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-26)\n\nWinRAR 6.23 fixes a critical security vulnerability which allowed the hacker to automatically execute malware distributed in archives under some circumstances.[\\[27\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-27)\n\nVersions 7.12 and 7.13 for Windows contain important security fixes.[\\[28\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-28)\n\n- Command line RAR and UNRAR were first released in autumn 1993.[\\[7\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-Interview_by_correspondence-7)\n- Early development version WinRAR 1.54b was released in 1995.\n- 2\\.00 (1996-04): the new [RAR2](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/RAR_\\(file_format\\)#Versions \"RAR (file format)\") [archive format](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Archive_format \"Archive format\") is implemented.\n- 3\\.00 (2002-05): the new [RAR3](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/RAR_\\(file_format\\)#Versions \"RAR (file format)\") [archive format](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Archive_format \"Archive format\") is implemented. The new archives cannot be managed by older versions of WinRAR. Solid compression and WAV audio lossless compression features are added.[\\[29\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-History-3.00-3.11-29)\n- 3\\.41 (2004-12): adds support for Linux .Z archives like GZIP and BZIP2. New options include storing entire file paths and restoring compressed NTFS files.[\\[30\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-History-3.40-3.50-30)\n- 3\\.50 (2005-08): adds support for interface [skins](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Skin_\\(computing\\) \"Skin (computing)\").[\\[30\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-History-3.40-3.50-30)\n- 3\\.60 (2006-08): adds multithreaded version of the compression algorithm, which improves compression speed on systems with multiple [dual-core](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dual-core \"Dual-core\") or [hyper-threading](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hyper-threading \"Hyper-threading\")\\-enabled [CPUs](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Central_processing_unit \"Central processing unit\").\n- 3\\.80 (2008-09): adds support for ZIP archives, which contain [Unicode](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Unicode \"Unicode\") file names in [UTF-8](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UTF-8 \"UTF-8\").[\\[31\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-31)\n- 3\\.90 (2009-05): adds support for the [x86-64](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/X86-64 \"X86-64\") architecture. Multithreaded support is enhanced.[\\[11\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11)\n- 3\\.91 is the last release that supports [Valencian](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Valencian_language \"Valencian language\").\n- 3\\.92 is the last release that supports [Serbian Cyrillic](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Serbian_Cyrillic \"Serbian Cyrillic\") and [Serbian Latin](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Serbian_Latin \"Serbian Latin\").\n- 4\\.00 (2011-03): decompression is sped up by up to 30%.[\\[11\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11)\n- 4\\.10 (2012-01): removes all ZIP limitations now allowing unlimited number of files and archive size. WinRAR now also allows creation of multivolume ZIP files. ZIP archives now include [Unicode](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Unicode \"Unicode\") file names.[\\[11\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11)\n- 4\\.20 (2012-06): compression speed in [SMP](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Symmetric_multiprocessing \"Symmetric multiprocessing\") mode is increased significantly, but this improvement was made at the expense of increased memory usage. ZIP compression now uses SMP as well. The default SMP mode cannot handle text; text compression is significantly worse unless additional switches are used.[\\[11\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11)\n- 5\\.00 (2013-09): the new RAR5 archive format is implemented. RAR5 compressed archives cannot be managed by old versions of WinRAR. The RAR 5 format improves [multi-core processor](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Multi-core_processor \"Multi-core processor\") utilization, and adds a larger dictionary size of up to 1 GiB with 64-bit WinRAR. Special optional compression algorithms optimized for RGB bitmaps, raw audio files, [Itanium](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Itanium \"Itanium\") executables, and [plain text](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Plain_text \"Plain text\"), which were supported by earlier versions, are supported only in the older RAR format, not RAR5.[\\[11\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11) Optional optimized compression of x86 executables and [delta compression](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Delta_compression \"Delta compression\") (for structured table data) are supported in both file formats.\n- 5\\.50 (2017-08): adds support for a master password which can be used to encrypt passwords stored in WinRAR. The default RAR format is changed to version 5. Adds support for decompressing [Lzip](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lzip \"Lzip\") archives; adds support for high precision file dates, longer file names and larger file sizes for [TAR](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tar_\\(computing\\) \"Tar (computing)\") archives.[\\[11\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11)\n- 5\\.60 (2018-06): repairing of protected RAR5 archives was improved. Automatic detection of the encoding of ZIP archive comments. Recognition of GZIP files with arbitrary preceding data as an actual GZIP archive.[\\[11\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11)\n- 5\\.70 (2019-02): removes support for [ACE](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ACE_\\(compressed_file_format\\) \"ACE (compressed file format)\") archive decompression due to major security vulnerabilities[\\[32\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-32) in the unacev2.dll library.[\\[11\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11)\n- 6\\.00 (2020-12): \"Ignore\" and \"Ignore All\" options are added to read error prompt. \"Ignore\" allows to continue processing with already read file part only and \"Ignore All\" does it for all future read errors.\n- 6\\.10 (2022-01): Added support for unpacking [ZST](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zstandard \"Zstandard\") archives. Maximum recovery record is increased to 1000% of protected data size.\n- 6\\.11 (2022-03): Support of Gzip archives with large archive comments has been added; In command line mode, the switch -mes can also be used to suppress the password prompt and abort when adding new files to an encrypted solid archive.\n- 6\\.12 (2022-05): [CVE](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CVE_\\(identifier\\) \"CVE (identifier)\")\\-[2022-30333](https:\/\/nvd.nist.gov\/vuln\/detail\/CVE-2022-30333) security vulnerability is fixed in Unix RAR versions. WinRAR and Android RAR are not affected.\n- 6\\.23 (2023-08): [CVE](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CVE_\\(identifier\\) \"CVE (identifier)\")\\-[2023-40477](https:\/\/nvd.nist.gov\/vuln\/detail\/CVE-2023-40477) and [CVE](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CVE_\\(identifier\\) \"CVE (identifier)\")\\-[2023-38831](https:\/\/nvd.nist.gov\/vuln\/detail\/CVE-2023-38831) critical security vulnerabilities are fixed in WinRAR. Unix and Android versions are not affected.\n- 6\\.24 (2023-10): Fixes an issue with null pointers.\n- 7\\.00 (2024-02): drops support for creating RAR 4.x format archives. Maximum path length limit increased to 65535 characters. Maximum RAR dictionary size up to 64 GB for the [64](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/64-bit_computing \"64-bit computing\")\\-bit version (limited by available RAM). Command line RAR filters out control character 27 from screen output for security reasons.\n- 7\\.10 (2025-02): drops support for 32bit Windows editions. Adds support for [Large Memory Pages](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Page_\\(computer_memory\\)#Multiple_page_sizes \"Page (computer memory)\") which increases compression and decompression speed, especially when using a large compression dictionary. Adds [dark mode](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dark_theme \"Dark theme\").\n\n### Operating systems support\n\\[[edit](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=WinRAR&action=edit&section=7 \"Edit section: Operating systems support\")\\]\n\nMore recent versions do not support many older operating systems. Versions supporting older operating systems may still be available, but not maintained:\n\n- RAR 2.50 is the last version to support MS-DOS and OS\/2 on 16-bit [x86](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/X86 \"X86\") CPUs ([8086](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Intel_8086 \"Intel 8086\")\\-compatible).[\\[33\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-33)\n- RAR 3.93 is the last version to support [MS-DOS](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MS-DOS \"MS-DOS\") and [OS\/2](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/OS\/2 \"OS\/2\") on [IA-32](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/IA-32 \"IA-32\") CPUs ([80386](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Intel_80386 \"Intel 80386\") equivalents and later). RAR for Pocket PC 3.93 is the last version for [Windows Mobile](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Windows_Mobile \"Windows Mobile\").[\\[34\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-rar393-34) It supports [file names longer than the MS-DOS standard](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Long_filename \"Long filename\") of 8.3 characters, in a MS-DOS box (except under NT-based operating systems), and uses the [RSX](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/EMX_\\(programming_environment\\) \"EMX (programming environment)\") [DPMI](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/DOS_Protected_Mode_Interface \"DOS Protected Mode Interface\") extender.\n- RAR 7.01 is the last version to support [Linux](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Linux \"Linux\") and [FreeBSD](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/FreeBSD \"FreeBSD\") on [32-bit](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/32-bit_computing \"32-bit computing\") [x86](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/X86 \"X86\") CPUs. The unrar application is available as source code and still supports 32bit environments (with a 2GB maximum dictionary size limitation).\n- WinRAR 2.06 is the last version to support [Windows 3.1](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Windows_3.1 \"Windows 3.1\"), [Windows NT 3.1](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Windows_NT_3.1 \"Windows NT 3.1\"), [Windows NT 3.5](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Windows_NT_3.5 \"Windows NT 3.5\"), [Windows NT 3.51](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Windows_NT_3.51 \"Windows NT 3.51\") and [Win32s](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Win32s \"Win32s\").\n- WinRAR 3.93 is the last version to support [Windows 95](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Windows_95 \"Windows 95\"), [Windows NT 4.0](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Windows_NT_4.0 \"Windows NT 4.0\"), [Windows 98](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Windows_98 \"Windows 98\") and [Windows Me](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Windows_Me \"Windows Me\").[\\[11\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11)[\\[35\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-35)\n- WinRAR 4.11 is the last version to support [Windows 2000](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Windows_2000 \"Windows 2000\").[\\[11\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11)\n- WinRAR 6.02 is the last version to support [Windows XP](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Windows_XP \"Windows XP\") (except the console version Rar.exe).[\\[11\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11)\n- WinRAR 7.01 is the last version to support [Windows Vista](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Windows_Vista \"Windows Vista\") (and [32-bit](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/32-bit_computing \"32-bit computing\") Windows editions).[\\[11\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11)\n\n- [Comparison of file archivers](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Comparison_of_file_archivers \"Comparison of file archivers\")\n- [Comparison of archive formats](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Comparison_of_archive_formats \"Comparison of archive formats\")\n- [List of archive formats](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_archive_formats \"List of archive formats\")\n- [7-Zip](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/7-Zip \"7-Zip\")\n\n1. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-1)** ([Russia](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Russia \"Russia\"), [Chelyabinsk](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chelyabinsk \"Chelyabinsk\")) [WinRAR 3.40 release notes by Eugene Roshal](https:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/fido7.rar.support\/msg\/8205725b02a2be76?pli=1) (in Russian)\n2. ^ [***a***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-license_2-0) [***b***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-license_2-1)\n   [\"RAR and WinRAR End User License Agreement (EULA)\"](https:\/\/rarlab.com\/license.htm), *rarlab.com*, RARLAB, [archived](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20140104212948\/http:\/\/www.rarlab.com\/license.htm) from the original on 2014-01-04, retrieved 2019-03-11\n3. ^ [***a***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-dl_3-0) [***b***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-dl_3-1)\n   [\"RAR download page\"](https:\/\/rarlab.com\/download.htm). *rarlab.com*. RARLAB. [Archived](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200609195332\/https:\/\/www.rarlab.com\/download.htm) from the original on 2020-06-09. Retrieved 2020-06-10.\n4. ^ [***a***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-inf40_4-0) [***b***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-inf40_4-1)\n   CHM Tech (9 March 2017). [\"WinRAR And The Infinite 40-Day Trial\"](https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fTgZRVVr3_Y). *YouTube*. [Archived](https:\/\/ghostarchive.org\/varchive\/youtube\/20211222\/fTgZRVVr3_Y) from the original on 2021-12-22.\n5. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WinRAR#cite_ref-5)** Manuel Masiero (18 March 2013)[\"Compression Performance: 7-Zip, MagicRAR, WinRAR, WinZip\"](https:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/reviews\/winrar-winzip-7-zip-magicrar,3436.html) *Tom's Hardware*. 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Boilerpipe Text	From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia WinRAR Screenshot of the trial version of WinRAR Developers Eugene Roshal (developer), Alexander Roshal (distributor) [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Initial release April 22, 1995 ; 30 years ago Stable release 7.20 / February 3, 2026 ; 2 months ago Written in C++ Operating system Windows 7 or later Platform IA-32 (up to v7.01), x64 Size 3.4 MB Available in 50+ languages [ 3 ] List of languages Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Catalan, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Mongolian, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian Cyrillic, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Colombian Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese Type File archiver License Trialware [ 4 ] Website www .win-rar .com WinRAR is a trialware file archiver and compression utility for Microsoft Windows , developed by Eugene Roshal of win.rar GmbH (RARLAB) since 1995. It can create and view archives in RAR (a format created by Roshal) or ZIP file formats, [ 5 ] and unpack numerous archive file formats. To enable the user to test the integrity of archives, WinRAR embeds CRC-32 or BLAKE2 checksums for each file in each archive. WinRAR supports creating encrypted , multi-part and self-extracting archives . RARLAB also offers a mobile version as freeware for Android under the name RAR for Android. [ 6 ] Related programs include command-line utilities RAR and UNRAR [ 7 ] which are also released for macOS , [ 3 ] Linux , FreeBSD , and in the past for Windows CE , MS-DOS and OS/2 . [ 8 ] RAR/ DOS started as a mix of x86 assembler and C , with the amount of assembly code decreasing over time and moving to pure C/ C++ later on. The first versions of WinRAR were written in C; modern versions predominantly use C++ . RAR for Android is written as a mixture of Java and C++. [ 9 ] WinRAR and the RAR file format have evolved over time. Support for the archive format RAR5, using the same RAR file extension as earlier versions, was added in version 5.0; [ 10 ] the older RAR file format has since been referred to as RAR4. WinRAR versions before 5.0 do not support RAR5 archives; [ 11 ] only older versions of WinRAR run on older operating systems, and cannot open RAR5 archives. The RAR5 file format – from version 7 on, referred to as "RAR" – increased the maximum dictionary size up to 64 GB, depending on the amount of available memory, with the default in version 5 increased from 4 MB to 32 MB, typically improving compression ratio. For dictionaries larger than 4 GB, the size can be specified if it is unequal to a power of 2. Thus, there are no restrictions to the range 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, allowing 5 GB or 22 GB to be chosen at will. Archives with dictionaries larger than 4 GB can only be extracted by WinRAR 7.0 or newer. AES encryption , when used, is in CBC mode and was increased in strength from 128- to 256-bit. Maximum path length for files in RAR and ZIP archives is increased from 2047 to 65535 characters. [ 11 ] Options added in v5.0 include 256-bit BLAKE2 file-hashing algorithm instead of default 32-bit CRC -32, duplicate file detection, NTFS hard and symbolic links , and Quick Open record to allow large archives to be opened faster. [ 11 ] The RAR5 file format removed comments for each file (though archive comment still remains), authenticity verification, and specialized compression algorithms for text and multimedia files. RAR5 also changed the file name for split volumes from archivename.r NN to archivename.part NN .rar . [ 11 ] The RAR7 file format added support for 64GB compression dictionary and improved compression ratio by adding two extra algorithms. RAR7 archives with dictionary sizes up to 4 GB can be unpacked by previous versions of WinRAR (5.0 and above) given there's enough RAM . On the 31st of May 2024, WinRAR announced that they would no longer offer the physical CD-ROM delivery option due to the factory that produces them shutting, citing a lack of demand and support for optical media . [ 12 ] Creation of packed RAR or ZIP archives. Unpacking of: [ 11 ] [ 13 ] RAR , tar , ARJ , LHA , ZIP (and its subsed JAR ) and WinZip ZIPX archives Windows Cabinet files ( .CAB ) ISO 9660 optical disk images Unix compress (.Z) , gzip , bzip2 , lzip , xz , 7z and zstandard compressed files uuencoded files, as well as split files Some of self-extracting archive formats stored as .exe files Checksum (integrity) verification for ARJ, bzip2, Cabinet file, gzip, lzip, RAR, xz, ZIP and 7z archives Multithreaded CPU compression and decompression When creating RAR 7.0 archives: Support for maximum file size of 16 EiB , about 1.8 × 10 19 bytes or 18 million TB Compression dictionary from 1 MiB to 64 GiB (it is limited to 256 MiB on 32-bit editions, although 32-bit editions still can decompress archives with 1 GiB dictionary; default size is 32 MiB) [ 11 ] Optional 256-bit BLAKE2 file hashing that can replace the default 32-bit CRC -32 file checksum [ 11 ] Optional encryption using AES with a 256-bit key [ 14 ] in CBC mode , using key derivation function based on PBKDF2 using HMAC -SHA256 [ 11 ] Optional data redundancy is provided in the form of Reed–Solomon recovery records and recovery volumes , allowing reconstruction of damaged archives (including reconstruction of entirely missed volumes) Optional "quick open record" to open RAR files faster [ 11 ] Ability to create multi-volume (split) archives [ 15 ] Ability to create self-extracting files (multi-volume self-extracting archives are supported; [ 15 ] the self-extractor can execute commands, such as running a specified program before or after self-extraction [ 16 ] ) Support for NTFS permissions, hard and symbolic links [ 11 ] Support for maximum path length up to 65 535 characters (stored in the UTF-8 format) [ 11 ] Optional archive comment (stored in the UTF-8 format) [ 11 ] Optional file timestamps preservation: modification, creation, last access times with high precision [ 17 ] Optional file deduplication Advanced backup options, time-stamped files and previous file version retention. The software is distributed as "try before you buy"; it may be used without charge for 40 days. [ 2 ] When the period expires, the non-enterprise functionalities remain available, a move intended to discourage piracy. [ 4 ] In China , a free-to-use personal edition has been provided officially since 2015. [ 18 ] Although archiving with the RAR format is proprietary, RARLAB supplies as copyrighted freeware the C++ source code of the current UnRAR unpacker, with a license allowing it to be used in any software, thus enabling others to produce software capable of unpacking, but not creating, RAR archives. [ 19 ] RAR for Android is free of charge. It displays advertisements; for a payment they can be disabled. [ 20 ] A license for WinRAR does not provide ad-suppression for RAR for Android . In February 2019, a major security vulnerability in the unacev2.dll library which is used by WinRAR to decompress ACE archives was discovered. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] Consequently, WinRAR dropped the support for the ACE format from version 5.70. Self-extracting archives created with versions before 5.31 (including the executable installer of WinRAR itself) are vulnerable to DLL hijacking : they may load and use DLLs named UXTheme.dll , RichEd32.dll and RichEd20.dll if they are in the same folder as the executable file. [ 11 ] [ 23 ] It was widely reported that WinRAR v5.21 and earlier had a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability which could allow a remote attacker to insert malicious code into a self-extracting executable (SFX) file being created by a user, "putting over 500 million users of the software at risk". [ 24 ] However, examination of the claim revealed that, while the vulnerability existed, the result was merely an SFX which delivered its payload when executed; published responses dismissed the threat, one saying "If you can find suckers who will trust a .exe labelled as self-extracting archive […] then you can trick them into running your smuggled JavaScript". [ 25 ] [ 26 ] WinRAR 6.23 fixes a critical security vulnerability which allowed the hacker to automatically execute malware distributed in archives under some circumstances. [ 27 ] Versions 7.12 and 7.13 for Windows contain important security fixes. [ 28 ] Command line RAR and UNRAR were first released in autumn 1993. [ 7 ] Early development version WinRAR 1.54b was released in 1995. 2.00 (1996-04): the new RAR2 archive format is implemented. 3.00 (2002-05): the new RAR3 archive format is implemented. The new archives cannot be managed by older versions of WinRAR. Solid compression and WAV audio lossless compression features are added. [ 29 ] 3.41 (2004-12): adds support for Linux .Z archives like GZIP and BZIP2. New options include storing entire file paths and restoring compressed NTFS files. [ 30 ] 3.50 (2005-08): adds support for interface skins . [ 30 ] 3.60 (2006-08): adds multithreaded version of the compression algorithm, which improves compression speed on systems with multiple dual-core or hyper-threading -enabled CPUs . 3.80 (2008-09): adds support for ZIP archives, which contain Unicode file names in UTF-8 . [ 31 ] 3.90 (2009-05): adds support for the x86-64 architecture. Multithreaded support is enhanced. [ 11 ] 3.91 is the last release that supports Valencian . 3.92 is the last release that supports Serbian Cyrillic and Serbian Latin . 4.00 (2011-03): decompression is sped up by up to 30%. [ 11 ] 4.10 (2012-01): removes all ZIP limitations now allowing unlimited number of files and archive size. WinRAR now also allows creation of multivolume ZIP files. ZIP archives now include Unicode file names. [ 11 ] 4.20 (2012-06): compression speed in SMP mode is increased significantly, but this improvement was made at the expense of increased memory usage. ZIP compression now uses SMP as well. The default SMP mode cannot handle text; text compression is significantly worse unless additional switches are used. [ 11 ] 5.00 (2013-09): the new RAR5 archive format is implemented. RAR5 compressed archives cannot be managed by old versions of WinRAR. The RAR 5 format improves multi-core processor utilization, and adds a larger dictionary size of up to 1 GiB with 64-bit WinRAR. Special optional compression algorithms optimized for RGB bitmaps, raw audio files, Itanium executables, and plain text , which were supported by earlier versions, are supported only in the older RAR format, not RAR5. [ 11 ] Optional optimized compression of x86 executables and delta compression (for structured table data) are supported in both file formats. 5.50 (2017-08): adds support for a master password which can be used to encrypt passwords stored in WinRAR. The default RAR format is changed to version 5. Adds support for decompressing Lzip archives; adds support for high precision file dates, longer file names and larger file sizes for TAR archives. [ 11 ] 5.60 (2018-06): repairing of protected RAR5 archives was improved. Automatic detection of the encoding of ZIP archive comments. Recognition of GZIP files with arbitrary preceding data as an actual GZIP archive. [ 11 ] 5.70 (2019-02): removes support for ACE archive decompression due to major security vulnerabilities [ 32 ] in the unacev2.dll library. [ 11 ] 6.00 (2020-12): "Ignore" and "Ignore All" options are added to read error prompt. "Ignore" allows to continue processing with already read file part only and "Ignore All" does it for all future read errors. 6.10 (2022-01): Added support for unpacking ZST archives. Maximum recovery record is increased to 1000% of protected data size. 6.11 (2022-03): Support of Gzip archives with large archive comments has been added; In command line mode, the switch -mes can also be used to suppress the password prompt and abort when adding new files to an encrypted solid archive. 6.12 (2022-05): CVE - 2022-30333 security vulnerability is fixed in Unix RAR versions. WinRAR and Android RAR are not affected. 6.23 (2023-08): CVE - 2023-40477 and CVE - 2023-38831 critical security vulnerabilities are fixed in WinRAR. Unix and Android versions are not affected. 6.24 (2023-10): Fixes an issue with null pointers. 7.00 (2024-02): drops support for creating RAR 4.x format archives. Maximum path length limit increased to 65535 characters. Maximum RAR dictionary size up to 64 GB for the 64 -bit version (limited by available RAM). Command line RAR filters out control character 27 from screen output for security reasons. 7.10 (2025-02): drops support for 32bit Windows editions. Adds support for Large Memory Pages which increases compression and decompression speed, especially when using a large compression dictionary. Adds dark mode . Operating systems support [ edit ] More recent versions do not support many older operating systems. Versions supporting older operating systems may still be available, but not maintained: RAR 2.50 is the last version to support MS-DOS and OS/2 on 16-bit x86 CPUs ( 8086 -compatible). [ 33 ] RAR 3.93 is the last version to support MS-DOS and OS/2 on IA-32 CPUs ( 80386 equivalents and later). RAR for Pocket PC 3.93 is the last version for Windows Mobile . [ 34 ] It supports file names longer than the MS-DOS standard of 8.3 characters, in a MS-DOS box (except under NT-based operating systems), and uses the RSX DPMI extender. RAR 7.01 is the last version to support Linux and FreeBSD on 32-bit x86 CPUs. The unrar application is available as source code and still supports 32bit environments (with a 2GB maximum dictionary size limitation). WinRAR 2.06 is the last version to support Windows 3.1 , Windows NT 3.1 , Windows NT 3.5 , Windows NT 3.51 and Win32s . WinRAR 3.93 is the last version to support Windows 95 , Windows NT 4.0 , Windows 98 and Windows Me . [ 11 ] [ 35 ] WinRAR 4.11 is the last version to support Windows 2000 . [ 11 ] WinRAR 6.02 is the last version to support Windows XP (except the console version Rar.exe). [ 11 ] WinRAR 7.01 is the last version to support Windows Vista (and 32-bit Windows editions). 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It can create and view archives in [RAR](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAR_\(file_format\) "RAR (file format)") (a format created by Roshal) or [ZIP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_\(file_format\) "Zip (file format)") file formats,[\[5\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-5) and unpack numerous archive [file](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_file "Computer file") formats. To enable the user to test the integrity of archives, WinRAR embeds [CRC-32](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRC-32 "CRC-32") or [BLAKE2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLAKE2 "BLAKE2") [checksums](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checksum "Checksum") for each file in each archive. WinRAR supports creating [encrypted](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encryption "Encryption"), multi-part and [self-extracting archives](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-extracting_archive "Self-extracting archive"). RARLAB also offers a mobile version as [freeware](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeware "Freeware") for [Android](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_\(operating_system\) "Android (operating system)") under the name RAR for Android.[\[6\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-download-6) Related programs include [command-line](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command-line "Command-line") utilities `RAR` and `UNRAR`[\[7\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-Interview_by_correspondence-7) which are also released for [macOS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS "MacOS"),[\[3\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-dl-3) [Linux](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux "Linux"), [FreeBSD](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD "FreeBSD"), and in the past for [Windows CE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_CE "Windows CE"), [MS-DOS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS "MS-DOS") and [OS/2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/2 "OS/2").[\[8\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-8) ## Evolution \[[edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WinRAR&action=edit&section=1 "Edit section: Evolution")\] See also: [RAR (file format)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAR_\(file_format\) "RAR (file format)") RAR/[DOS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS "DOS") started as a mix of [x86](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86 "X86") [assembler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_language "Assembly language") and [C](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_\(programming_language\) "C (programming language)"), with the amount of assembly code decreasing over time and moving to pure C/[C++](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B "C++") later on. The first versions of WinRAR were written in C; modern versions predominantly use [C++](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B "C++"). RAR for Android is written as a mixture of Java and C++.[\[9\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-9) WinRAR and the RAR file format have evolved over time. Support for the archive format RAR5, using the same RAR [file extension](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_extension "File extension") as earlier versions, was added in version 5.0;[\[10\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-10) the older RAR file format has since been referred to as RAR4. WinRAR versions before 5.0 do not support RAR5 archives;[\[11\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11) only older versions of WinRAR run on older operating systems, and cannot open RAR5 archives. The RAR5 file format – from version 7 on, referred to as "RAR" – increased the maximum dictionary size up to 64 GB, depending on the amount of available memory, with the default in version 5 increased from 4 MB to 32 MB, typically improving compression ratio. For dictionaries larger than 4 GB, the size can be specified if it is unequal to a power of 2. Thus, there are no restrictions to the range 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, allowing 5 GB or 22 GB to be chosen at will. Archives with dictionaries larger than 4 GB can only be extracted by WinRAR 7.0 or newer. [AES encryption](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES_encryption "AES encryption"), when used, is in [CBC mode](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBC_mode "CBC mode") and was increased in strength from 128- to 256-bit. Maximum path length for files in RAR and ZIP archives is increased from 2047 to 65535 characters.[\[11\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11) Options added in v5.0 include 256-bit [BLAKE2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLAKE_\(hash_function\) "BLAKE (hash function)") file-hashing algorithm instead of default 32-bit [CRC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclic_redundancy_check "Cyclic redundancy check")\-32, duplicate file detection, [NTFS hard and symbolic links](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_links "NTFS links"), and Quick Open record to allow large archives to be opened faster.[\[11\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11) The RAR5 file format removed comments for each file (though archive comment still remains), authenticity verification, and specialized compression algorithms for text and multimedia files. RAR5 also changed the file name for split volumes from `archivename.rNN` to `archivename.partNN.rar`.[\[11\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11) The RAR7 file format added support for 64GB compression dictionary and improved compression ratio by adding two extra algorithms. RAR7 archives with dictionary sizes up to 4 GB can be unpacked by previous versions of WinRAR (5.0 and above) given there's enough [RAM](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random-access_memory "Random-access memory"). On the 31st of May 2024, WinRAR announced that they would no longer offer the physical [CD-ROM](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-ROM "CD-ROM") delivery option due to the factory that produces them shutting, citing a lack of demand and support for [optical media](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_media "Optical media").[\[12\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-12) ## Features \[[edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WinRAR&action=edit&section=2 "Edit section: Features")\] - Creation of packed [RAR](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAR_\(file_format\) "RAR (file format)") or [ZIP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_\(file_format\) "Zip (file format)") archives. - Unpacking of:[\[11\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11)[\[13\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-13) - [RAR](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAR_\(file_format\) "RAR (file format)"), [tar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_\(computing\) "Tar (computing)"), [ARJ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARJ "ARJ"), [LHA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LHA_\(file_format\) "LHA (file format)"), [ZIP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIP_\(file_format\) "ZIP (file format)") (and its subsed [JAR](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAR_\(file_format\) "JAR (file format)")) and [WinZip ZIPX](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinZip "WinZip") archives - [Windows Cabinet files](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_\(file_format\) "Cabinet (file format)") (`.CAB`) - [ISO 9660](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_9660 "ISO 9660") optical [disk images](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_image "Disk image") - [Unix compress (.Z)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compress_\(software\) "Compress (software)"), [gzip](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gzip "Gzip"), [bzip2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bzip2 "Bzip2"), [lzip](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lzip "Lzip"), [xz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils "XZ Utils"), [7z](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7z "7z") and [zstandard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zstandard "Zstandard") compressed files - [uuencoded](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uuencoding "Uuencoding") files, as well as split files - Some of [self-extracting archive](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-extracting_archive "Self-extracting archive") formats stored as [.exe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.exe ".exe") files - [Checksum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checksum "Checksum") (integrity) verification for ARJ, bzip2, Cabinet file, gzip, lzip, RAR, xz, ZIP and 7z archives - [Multithreaded CPU](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multithreaded_CPU "Multithreaded CPU") compression and decompression When creating RAR 7.0 archives: - Support for maximum file size of 16 [EiB](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exbibyte "Exbibyte"), about 1.8 × 1019 bytes or 18 million TB - Compression dictionary from 1 MiB to 64 GiB (it is limited to 256 MiB on 32-bit editions, although 32-bit editions still can decompress archives with 1 GiB dictionary; default size is 32 MiB)[\[11\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11) - Optional 256-bit [BLAKE2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLAKE2 "BLAKE2") file hashing that can replace the default 32-bit [CRC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclic_redundancy_check "Cyclic redundancy check")\-32 file checksum[\[11\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11) - Optional encryption using [AES](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES_encryption "AES encryption") with a 256-bit key[\[14\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-14) in [CBC mode](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBC_mode "CBC mode"), using [key derivation function](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_derivation_function "Key derivation function") based on [PBKDF2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBKDF2 "PBKDF2") using [HMAC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMAC "HMAC")\-SHA256[\[11\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11) - Optional data [redundancy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redundancy_\(information_theory\) "Redundancy (information theory)") is provided in the form of [Reed–Solomon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed%E2%80%93Solomon "Reed–Solomon") recovery records and recovery volumes, allowing reconstruction of damaged archives (including reconstruction of entirely missed volumes) - Optional "quick open record" to open RAR files faster[\[11\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11) - Ability to create multi-volume (split) archives[\[15\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-split-15) - Ability to create [self-extracting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-extracting_archive "Self-extracting archive") files (multi-volume self-extracting archives are supported;[\[15\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-split-15) the self-extractor can execute commands, such as running a specified program before or after self-extraction[\[16\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-16)) - Support for [NTFS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS "NTFS") permissions, hard and symbolic links[\[11\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11) - Support for maximum path length up to 65 535 characters (stored in the [UTF-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8 "UTF-8") format)[\[11\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11) - Optional archive comment (stored in the UTF-8 format)[\[11\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11) - Optional file timestamps preservation: modification, creation, last access times with high precision[\[17\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-17) - Optional [file deduplication](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_deduplication "Data deduplication") - Advanced backup options, time-stamped files and previous file version retention. ## License \[[edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WinRAR&action=edit&section=3 "Edit section: License")\] The software is distributed as "try before you buy"; it may be used without charge for 40 days.[\[2\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-license-2) When the period expires, the non-enterprise functionalities remain available, a move intended to discourage piracy.[\[4\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-inf40-4) In [China](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China "China"), a free-to-use personal edition has been provided officially since 2015.[\[18\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-18) Although archiving with the RAR format is proprietary, RARLAB supplies as copyrighted [freeware](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeware "Freeware") the [C++](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B "C++") source code of the current UnRAR unpacker, with a license allowing it to be used in any software, thus enabling others to produce software capable of unpacking, but not creating, RAR archives.[\[19\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-19) RAR for Android is free of charge. It displays advertisements; for a payment they can be disabled.[\[20\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-android-20) A license for WinRAR does not provide ad-suppression for RAR for Android. ## Security \[[edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WinRAR&action=edit&section=4 "Edit section: Security")\] In February 2019, a major security vulnerability in the unacev2.dll library which is used by WinRAR to decompress [ACE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACE_\(compressed_file_format\) "ACE (compressed file format)") archives was discovered.[\[21\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-21)[\[22\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-22) Consequently, WinRAR dropped the support for the ACE format from version 5.70. Self-extracting archives created with versions before 5.31 (including the executable installer of WinRAR itself) are vulnerable to [DLL hijacking](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DLL_hijacking "DLL hijacking"): they may load and use DLLs named `UXTheme.dll`, `RichEd32.dll` and `RichEd20.dll` if they are in the same folder as the executable file.[\[11\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11)[\[23\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-23) It was widely reported that WinRAR v5.21 and earlier had a [remote code execution](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_code_execution "Remote code execution") (RCE) vulnerability which could allow a remote attacker to insert malicious code into a [self-extracting executable (SFX) file](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-extracting_archive "Self-extracting archive") being created by a user, "putting over 500 million users of the software at risk".[\[24\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-24) However, examination of the claim revealed that, while the vulnerability existed, the result was merely an SFX which delivered its payload when executed; published responses dismissed the threat, one saying "If you can find suckers who will trust a [.exe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.exe ".exe") labelled as self-extracting archive \[…\] then you can trick them into running your smuggled JavaScript".[\[25\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-25)[\[26\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-26) WinRAR 6.23 fixes a critical security vulnerability which allowed the hacker to automatically execute malware distributed in archives under some circumstances.[\[27\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-27) Versions 7.12 and 7.13 for Windows contain important security fixes.[\[28\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-28) ## History \[[edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WinRAR&action=edit&section=5 "Edit section: History")\] ### Versions \[[edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WinRAR&action=edit&section=6 "Edit section: Versions")\] - Command line RAR and UNRAR were first released in autumn 1993.[\[7\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-Interview_by_correspondence-7) - Early development version WinRAR 1.54b was released in 1995. - 2\.00 (1996-04): the new [RAR2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAR_\(file_format\)#Versions "RAR (file format)") [archive format](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive_format "Archive format") is implemented. - 3\.00 (2002-05): the new [RAR3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAR_\(file_format\)#Versions "RAR (file format)") [archive format](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive_format "Archive format") is implemented. The new archives cannot be managed by older versions of WinRAR. Solid compression and WAV audio lossless compression features are added.[\[29\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-History-3.00-3.11-29) - 3\.41 (2004-12): adds support for Linux .Z archives like GZIP and BZIP2. New options include storing entire file paths and restoring compressed NTFS files.[\[30\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-History-3.40-3.50-30) - 3\.50 (2005-08): adds support for interface [skins](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_\(computing\) "Skin (computing)").[\[30\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-History-3.40-3.50-30) - 3\.60 (2006-08): adds multithreaded version of the compression algorithm, which improves compression speed on systems with multiple [dual-core](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual-core "Dual-core") or [hyper-threading](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-threading "Hyper-threading")\-enabled [CPUs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_processing_unit "Central processing unit"). - 3\.80 (2008-09): adds support for ZIP archives, which contain [Unicode](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode "Unicode") file names in [UTF-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8 "UTF-8").[\[31\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-31) - 3\.90 (2009-05): adds support for the [x86-64](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64 "X86-64") architecture. Multithreaded support is enhanced.[\[11\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11) - 3\.91 is the last release that supports [Valencian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valencian_language "Valencian language"). - 3\.92 is the last release that supports [Serbian Cyrillic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbian_Cyrillic "Serbian Cyrillic") and [Serbian Latin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbian_Latin "Serbian Latin"). - 4\.00 (2011-03): decompression is sped up by up to 30%.[\[11\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11) - 4\.10 (2012-01): removes all ZIP limitations now allowing unlimited number of files and archive size. WinRAR now also allows creation of multivolume ZIP files. ZIP archives now include [Unicode](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode "Unicode") file names.[\[11\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11) - 4\.20 (2012-06): compression speed in [SMP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetric_multiprocessing "Symmetric multiprocessing") mode is increased significantly, but this improvement was made at the expense of increased memory usage. ZIP compression now uses SMP as well. The default SMP mode cannot handle text; text compression is significantly worse unless additional switches are used.[\[11\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11) - 5\.00 (2013-09): the new RAR5 archive format is implemented. RAR5 compressed archives cannot be managed by old versions of WinRAR. The RAR 5 format improves [multi-core processor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-core_processor "Multi-core processor") utilization, and adds a larger dictionary size of up to 1 GiB with 64-bit WinRAR. Special optional compression algorithms optimized for RGB bitmaps, raw audio files, [Itanium](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itanium "Itanium") executables, and [plain text](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_text "Plain text"), which were supported by earlier versions, are supported only in the older RAR format, not RAR5.[\[11\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11) Optional optimized compression of x86 executables and [delta compression](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_compression "Delta compression") (for structured table data) are supported in both file formats. - 5\.50 (2017-08): adds support for a master password which can be used to encrypt passwords stored in WinRAR. The default RAR format is changed to version 5. Adds support for decompressing [Lzip](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lzip "Lzip") archives; adds support for high precision file dates, longer file names and larger file sizes for [TAR](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_\(computing\) "Tar (computing)") archives.[\[11\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11) - 5\.60 (2018-06): repairing of protected RAR5 archives was improved. Automatic detection of the encoding of ZIP archive comments. Recognition of GZIP files with arbitrary preceding data as an actual GZIP archive.[\[11\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11) - 5\.70 (2019-02): removes support for [ACE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACE_\(compressed_file_format\) "ACE (compressed file format)") archive decompression due to major security vulnerabilities[\[32\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-32) in the unacev2.dll library.[\[11\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11) - 6\.00 (2020-12): "Ignore" and "Ignore All" options are added to read error prompt. "Ignore" allows to continue processing with already read file part only and "Ignore All" does it for all future read errors. - 6\.10 (2022-01): Added support for unpacking [ZST](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zstandard "Zstandard") archives. Maximum recovery record is increased to 1000% of protected data size. - 6\.11 (2022-03): Support of Gzip archives with large archive comments has been added; In command line mode, the switch -mes can also be used to suppress the password prompt and abort when adding new files to an encrypted solid archive. - 6\.12 (2022-05): [CVE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CVE_\(identifier\) "CVE (identifier)")\-[2022-30333](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-30333) security vulnerability is fixed in Unix RAR versions. WinRAR and Android RAR are not affected. - 6\.23 (2023-08): [CVE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CVE_\(identifier\) "CVE (identifier)")\- [2023-40477](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-40477) and [CVE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CVE_\(identifier\) "CVE (identifier)")\- [2023-38831](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-38831) critical security vulnerabilities are fixed in WinRAR. Unix and Android versions are not affected. - 6\.24 (2023-10): Fixes an issue with null pointers. - 7\.00 (2024-02): drops support for creating RAR 4.x format archives. Maximum path length limit increased to 65535 characters. Maximum RAR dictionary size up to 64 GB for the [64](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64-bit_computing "64-bit computing")\-bit version (limited by available RAM). Command line RAR filters out control character 27 from screen output for security reasons. - 7\.10 (2025-02): drops support for 32bit Windows editions. Adds support for [Large Memory Pages](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_\(computer_memory\)#Multiple_page_sizes "Page (computer memory)") which increases compression and decompression speed, especially when using a large compression dictionary. Adds [dark mode](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_theme "Dark theme"). ### Operating systems support \[[edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WinRAR&action=edit&section=7 "Edit section: Operating systems support")\] More recent versions do not support many older operating systems. Versions supporting older operating systems may still be available, but not maintained: - RAR 2.50 is the last version to support MS-DOS and OS/2 on 16-bit [x86](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86 "X86") CPUs ([8086](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_8086 "Intel 8086")\-compatible).[\[33\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-33) - RAR 3.93 is the last version to support [MS-DOS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS "MS-DOS") and [OS/2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/2 "OS/2") on [IA-32](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IA-32 "IA-32") CPUs ([80386](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80386 "Intel 80386") equivalents and later). RAR for Pocket PC 3.93 is the last version for [Windows Mobile](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Mobile "Windows Mobile").[\[34\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-rar393-34) It supports [file names longer than the MS-DOS standard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_filename "Long filename") of 8.3 characters, in a MS-DOS box (except under NT-based operating systems), and uses the [RSX](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMX_\(programming_environment\) "EMX (programming environment)") [DPMI](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS_Protected_Mode_Interface "DOS Protected Mode Interface") extender. - RAR 7.01 is the last version to support [Linux](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux "Linux") and [FreeBSD](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD "FreeBSD") on [32-bit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/32-bit_computing "32-bit computing") [x86](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86 "X86") CPUs. The unrar application is available as source code and still supports 32bit environments (with a 2GB maximum dictionary size limitation). - WinRAR 2.06 is the last version to support [Windows 3.1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_3.1 "Windows 3.1"), [Windows NT 3.1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT_3.1 "Windows NT 3.1"), [Windows NT 3.5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT_3.5 "Windows NT 3.5"), [Windows NT 3.51](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT_3.51 "Windows NT 3.51") and [Win32s](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Win32s "Win32s"). - WinRAR 3.93 is the last version to support [Windows 95](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_95 "Windows 95"), [Windows NT 4.0](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT_4.0 "Windows NT 4.0"), [Windows 98](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_98 "Windows 98") and [Windows Me](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Me "Windows Me").[\[11\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11)[\[35\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-35) - WinRAR 4.11 is the last version to support [Windows 2000](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_2000 "Windows 2000").[\[11\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11) - WinRAR 6.02 is the last version to support [Windows XP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP "Windows XP") (except the console version Rar.exe).[\[11\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11) - WinRAR 7.01 is the last version to support [Windows Vista](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista "Windows Vista") (and [32-bit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/32-bit_computing "32-bit computing") Windows editions).[\[11\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11) ## See also \[[edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WinRAR&action=edit&section=8 "Edit section: See also")\] - [Comparison of file archivers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_archivers "Comparison of file archivers") - [Comparison of archive formats](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_archive_formats "Comparison of archive formats") - [List of archive formats](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_archive_formats "List of archive formats") - [7-Zip](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7-Zip "7-Zip") ## References \[[edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WinRAR&action=edit&section=9 "Edit section: References")\] 1. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_ref-1) ([Russia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia "Russia"), [Chelyabinsk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelyabinsk "Chelyabinsk")) [WinRAR 3.40 release notes by Eugene Roshal](https://groups.google.com/group/fido7.rar.support/msg/8205725b02a2be76?pli=1) (in Russian) 2. ^ [*a](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_ref-license_2-0) [b](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_ref-license_2-1) ["RAR and WinRAR End User License Agreement (EULA)"](https://rarlab.com/license.htm), rarlab.com, RARLAB, [archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20140104212948/http://www.rarlab.com/license.htm) from the original on 2014-01-04, retrieved 2019-03-11 3. ^ [a](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_ref-dl_3-0) [b](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_ref-dl_3-1) ["RAR download page"](https://rarlab.com/download.htm). rarlab.com. RARLAB. 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["WinRAR 0-day that uses poisoned JPG and TXT files under exploit since April"](https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/08/winrar-0-day-that-uses-poisoned-jpg-and-txt-files-under-exploit-since-april/). Ars Technica. Retrieved 2023-08-23. 28. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_ref-28) ["WinRAR archiver, a powerful tool to process RAR and ZIP files"](https://www.rarlab.com/rarnew.htm). www.rarlab.com. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20250727172602/https://www.rarlab.com/rarnew.htm) from the original on 2025-07-27. Retrieved 2025-08-08. 29. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_ref-History-3.00-3.11_29-0) ["RAR - What's new in the latest version (v3.00 to v3.11)"](https://web.archive.org/web/20030117103514/http://www.rarlab.com/rarnew.htm). rarlab.com. 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And yes, you should patch this hole"](https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/02/20/winrar_security_bug/). www.theregister.co.uk. Retrieved 2019-02-26. 33. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_ref-33) ["RAR 2.50 – Stats, Downloads and Screenshots"](https://winworldpc.com/product/rar). WinWorld. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20170815101512/https://winworldpc.com/product/rar) from the original on 2017-08-15. Retrieved 14 August 2017. 34. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_ref-rar393_34-0) ["Downloads for: WinRAR, RAR for Mac OS X, RAR for Linux, RAR for DOS & OS/2, RAR for FreeBSD, with 40 days free trial"](http://www.winrar.co.nz/download-winrar). Winrar.co.nz. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20170815101538/http://www.winrar.co.nz/download-winrar) from the original on 2017-08-15. Retrieved 15 August 2017. 35. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_ref-35) ["Obsolete RAR versions"](https://web.archive.org/web/20101117004428/http://www.rarlab.com/rarold.htm). www.rarlab.com. Archived from [the original](https://www.rarlab.com/rarold.htm) on 2010-11-17. Retrieved 2025-07-19. ## Further reading \[[edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WinRAR&action=edit&section=10 "Edit section: Further reading")\] - Salomon, David (20 March 2007). [Data Compression: The Complete Reference](https://books.google.com/books?id=ujnQogzx_2EC) (4th ed.). London: Springer Science & Business Media. [doi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doi_\(identifier\) "Doi (identifier)"):[10\.1007/978-1-84628-603-2](https://doi.org/10.1007%2F978-1-84628-603-2). [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_\(identifier\) "ISBN (identifier)") [978-1-84628-602-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-84628-602-5 "Special:BookSources/978-1-84628-602-5") . Retrieved 4 September 2018. - Fellows, Geoffrey (1 October 2010). ["WinRAR temporary folder artefacts"](https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2296236). Digital Investigation. 7 (1–2\): 9–13\. [doi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doi_\(identifier\) "Doi (identifier)"):[10\.1016/j.diin.2009.12.001](https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.diin.2009.12.001). [ISSN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISSN_\(identifier\) "ISSN (identifier)") [1742-2876](https://search.worldcat.org/issn/1742-2876). Retrieved 4 September 2018. - Yeo, Gary S.-W.; Phan, Raphael C.-W. (8 March 2006). "On the security of the WinRAR encryption feature". International Journal of Information Security. Special issue on ISC'05. 5 (2): 115–123\. [doi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doi_\(identifier\) "Doi (identifier)"):[10\.1007/s10207-006-0086-3](https://doi.org/10.1007%2Fs10207-006-0086-3). [ISSN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISSN_\(identifier\) "ISSN (identifier)") [1615-5262](https://search.worldcat.org/issn/1615-5262). [S2CID](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S2CID_\(identifier\) "S2CID (identifier)") [22398865](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:22398865). - Metz, Cade (2004-11-16). "File Compression Beyond ZIP". PC Magazine. 23 (20): 52. [ISSN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISSN_\(identifier\) "ISSN (identifier)") [0888-8507](https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0888-8507). - Qin, Jian-cheng; Bai, Zhong-ying (1 February 2011). ["Design of new format for mass data compression"](http://jcupt.bupt.edu.cn/EN/abstract/abstract548.shtml). The Journal of China Universities of Posts and Telecommunications. 18 (1): 121–128\. [doi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doi_\(identifier\) "Doi (identifier)"):[10\.1016/S1005-8885(10)60037-4](https://doi.org/10.1016%2FS1005-8885%2810%2960037-4). [ISSN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISSN_\(identifier\) "ISSN (identifier)") [1005-8885](https://search.worldcat.org/issn/1005-8885). Retrieved 4 September 2018. - Spanbauer, Scott (December 2000). "Forget Napster – Usenet Is Where the Files Are". PC World. 18 (12): 254. [ISSN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISSN_\(identifier\) "ISSN (identifier)") [0737-8939](https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0737-8939). - Allen, Danny (February 2007). "Compression Apps Do More Than Shrink Files". PC World. 25 (2): 64. [ISSN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISSN_\(identifier\) "ISSN (identifier)") [0737-8939](https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0737-8939). - Sanjuàs-Cuxart, J.; Barlet-Ros, P.; Solé-Pareta, J. (2011). "Measurement Based Analysis of One-Click File Hosting Services". Journal of Network and Systems Management. 20 (2): 276. [doi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doi_\(identifier\) "Doi (identifier)"):[10\.1007/s10922-011-9202-4](https://doi.org/10.1007%2Fs10922-011-9202-4). [ISSN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISSN_\(identifier\) "ISSN (identifier)") [1064-7570](https://search.worldcat.org/issn/1064-7570). [S2CID](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S2CID_\(identifier\) "S2CID (identifier)") [2784124](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:2784124). - Jovanova, B.; Preda, M.; Preteux, F. O. (2009). "MPEG-4 Part 25: A graphics compression framework for XML-based scene graph formats". Signal Processing: Image Communication. 24 (1–2\): 101. [doi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doi_\(identifier\) "Doi (identifier)"):[10\.1016/j.image.2008.10.011](https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.image.2008.10.011). [ISSN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISSN_\(identifier\) "ISSN (identifier)") [0923-5965](https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0923-5965). - Barr, K. C.; Asanović, K. (2006). "Energy-aware lossless data compression". ACM Transactions on Computer Systems. 24 (3): 250. [CiteSeerX](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CiteSeerX_\(identifier\) "CiteSeerX (identifier)") [10\.1.1.85.5912](https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.85.5912). [doi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doi_\(identifier\) "Doi (identifier)"):[10\.1145/1151690.1151692](https://doi.org/10.1145%2F1151690.1151692). [hdl](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hdl_\(identifier\) "Hdl (identifier)"):[1721\.1/87316](https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1%2F87316). [ISSN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISSN_\(identifier\) "ISSN (identifier)") [0734-2071](https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0734-2071). [S2CID](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S2CID_\(identifier\) "S2CID (identifier)") [5431719](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:5431719). ## External links \[[edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WinRAR&action=edit&section=11 "Edit section: External links")\] - [rarlab.com](https://www.rarlab.com/) (Developer's Website) - [RAR 5.0 archive file format](https://www.rarlab.com/technote.htm) - [Critical vulnerability in all WinRAR's versions prior to 5.7](https://research.checkpoint.com/extracting-code-execution-from-winrar/) \| [v](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Compression_software "Template:Compression software") [t](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Compression_software "Template talk:Compression software") [e](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Compression_software "Special:EditPage/Template:Compression software")[Data compression](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_compression "Data compression") software \| \| \|---\|---\| \| [Archivers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_archivers "Comparison of file archivers") with compression ([comparison](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_archivers "Comparison of file archivers")) \| \| \| \| \| \| [Free and open-source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software "Free and open-source software") \| [7-Zip](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7-Zip "7-Zip") [Ark](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ark_\(software\) "Ark (software)") [Expander](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku_Applications#Expander "Haiku Applications") [File Roller](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Roller "File Roller") [FreeArc](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeArc "FreeArc") [Info-ZIP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Info-ZIP "Info-ZIP") [KGB Archiver](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KGB_Archiver "KGB Archiver") [PAQ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAQ "PAQ") [pax](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_\(command\) "Pax (command)") [PeaZip](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PeaZip "PeaZip") [XAD](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XAD_\(software\) "XAD (software)") (decompression only) [Xarchiver](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xarchiver "Xarchiver") [Zipeg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipeg "Zipeg") [ZPAQ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZPAQ "ZPAQ") \| \| [Freeware](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeware "Freeware") \| [Filzip](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filzip "Filzip") [LHA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LHA_\(file_format\) "LHA (file format)") [StuffIt Expander](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StuffIt_Expander "StuffIt Expander") (decompression only) [The Unarchiver](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unarchiver "The Unarchiver") (decompression only) [TUGZip](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TUGZip "TUGZip") [ZipGenius](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZipGenius "ZipGenius") \| \| [Commercial](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_software "Commercial software") \| [ARC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARC_\(file_format\) "ARC (file format)") [ALZip](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALZip "ALZip") [Archive Utility](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive_Utility "Archive Utility") [ARJ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARJ "ARJ") [BetterZip](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BetterZip "BetterZip") [MacBinary](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBinary "MacBinary") [PKZIP/SecureZIP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PKZIP "PKZIP") [PowerArchiver](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerArchiver "PowerArchiver") [StuffIt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StuffIt "StuffIt") [WinAce](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinAce "WinAce") [WinRAR]() [WinZip](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinZip "WinZip") \| \| Non-archiving compressors \| \| \| \| \| \| Generic \| [bzip2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bzip2 "Bzip2") [compress](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compress_\(software\) "Compress (software)") [gzip](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gzip "Gzip") [lzip](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lzip "Lzip") [lzop](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lzop "Lzop") [pack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pack_\(software\) "Pack (software)") [rzip](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rzip "Rzip") [Snappy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snappy_\(compression\) "Snappy (compression)") [XZ Utils](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils "XZ Utils") [zstd](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zstd "Zstd") \| \| [For code](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executable_compression "Executable compression") \| [UPX](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPX "UPX") \| \| [Audio compression](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_compression#Audio "Data compression") ([comparison](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_audio_coding_formats "Comparison of audio coding formats")) \| \| \| \| \| \| [Lossy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lossy_compression "Lossy compression") \| [AAC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Audio_Coding "Advanced Audio Coding") [Fraunhofer FDK AAC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraunhofer_FDK_AAC "Fraunhofer FDK AAC") [Nero AAC Codec](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nero_AAC_Codec "Nero AAC Codec") [FAAC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAAC "FAAC") [Helix DNA Producer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helix_\(multimedia_project\) "Helix (multimedia project)") [MP3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3 "MP3") [l3enc](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L3enc "L3enc") [LAME](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAME "LAME") [TooLAME](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TooLAME "TooLAME") [libavcodec](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libavcodec "Libavcodec") [libcelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CELT "CELT") [libopus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_\(audio_format\) "Opus (audio format)") [libspeex](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speex "Speex") [Musepack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musepack "Musepack") [libvorbis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorbis "Vorbis") [Windows Media Encoder](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Media_Encoder "Windows Media Encoder") \| \| [Lossless](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lossless_compression "Lossless compression") \| [ALAC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Lossless_Audio_Codec "Apple Lossless Audio Codec") [FLAC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLAC "FLAC") [libavcodec](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libavcodec "Libavcodec") [Monkey's Audio](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey%27s_Audio "Monkey's Audio") [mp4als](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_Lossless_Coding "Audio Lossless Coding") [OptimFROG](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OptimFROG "OptimFROG") [Shorten](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shorten_\(codec\) "Shorten (codec)") [WavPack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WavPack "WavPack") \| \| [Video compression](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_compression#Video "Data compression") ([comparison](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_video_codecs "Comparison of video codecs")) \| \| \| \| \| \| [Lossy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lossy_compression "Lossy compression") \| \| \| \| \| \| [MPEG-4 ASP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-4_Part_2 "MPEG-4 Part 2") \| [3ivx](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3ivx "3ivx") [DivX](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DivX "DivX") [Nero Digital](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nero_Digital "Nero Digital") [FFmpeg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFmpeg "FFmpeg") [HDX4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDX4 "HDX4") [Xvid](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xvid "Xvid") \| \| [H.264](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Video_Coding "Advanced Video Coding") \| [CoreAVC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoreAVC "CoreAVC") Blu-code [DivX](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DivX "DivX") [FFmpeg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFmpeg "FFmpeg") [Nero Digital](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nero_Digital "Nero Digital") [OpenH264](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenH264 "OpenH264") [QuickTime](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickTime "QuickTime") [x264](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X264 "X264") \| \| [HEVC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Video_Coding "High Efficiency Video Coding") \| [DivX](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DivX 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Readable Markdown	From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia \| WinRAR \| \| \|---\|---\| \| [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/74/WinRAR_Logo_and_Wordmark.png/250px-WinRAR_Logo_and_Wordmark.png)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WinRAR_Logo_and_Wordmark.png) \| \| \| [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/43/WinRAR_7.10_screenshot.png/250px-WinRAR_7.10_screenshot.png)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WinRAR_7.10_screenshot.png)Screenshot of the trial version of WinRAR \| \| \| [Developers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmer "Programmer") \| [Eugene Roshal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Roshal "Eugene Roshal") (developer), Alexander Roshal (distributor)[\[1\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-1)[\[2\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-license-2) \| \| Initial release \| April 22, 1995; 30 years ago \| \| [Stable release](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_release_life_cycle "Software release life cycle") \| 7\.20 / February 3, 2026; 2 months ago \| \| Written in \| [C++](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B "C++") \| \| [Operating system](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system "Operating system") \| [Windows 7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7 "Windows 7") or later \| \| [Platform](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computing_platform "Computing platform") \| [IA-32](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IA-32 "IA-32") (up to v7.01), [x64](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X64 "X64") \| \| [Size](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_size "File size") \| 3\.4 [MB](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megabyte "Megabyte") \| \| Available in \| 50+ languages[\[3\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-dl-3) \| \| List of languages Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Catalan, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Mongolian, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian Cyrillic, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Colombian Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese \| \| \| [Type](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_categories#Categorization_approaches "Software categories") \| [File archiver](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_archiver "File archiver") \| \| [License](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_license "Software license") \| [Trialware](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trialware "Trialware")[\[4\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-inf40-4) \| \| Website \| [www.win-rar.com](https://www.win-rar.com/) [![Edit this on Wikidata](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png)](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q242747?uselang=en#P856 "Edit this on Wikidata") \| WinRAR is a [trialware](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trialware "Trialware") [file archiver](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_archiver "File archiver") and [compression](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_compression "Data compression") utility for [Microsoft Windows](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows "Microsoft Windows"), developed by [Eugene Roshal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Roshal "Eugene Roshal") of win.rar GmbH (RARLAB) since 1995. It can create and view archives in [RAR](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAR_\(file_format\) "RAR (file format)") (a format created by Roshal) or [ZIP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_\(file_format\) "Zip (file format)") file formats,[\[5\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-5) and unpack numerous archive [file](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_file "Computer file") formats. To enable the user to test the integrity of archives, WinRAR embeds [CRC-32](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRC-32 "CRC-32") or [BLAKE2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLAKE2 "BLAKE2") [checksums](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checksum "Checksum") for each file in each archive. WinRAR supports creating [encrypted](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encryption "Encryption"), multi-part and [self-extracting archives](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-extracting_archive "Self-extracting archive"). RARLAB also offers a mobile version as [freeware](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeware "Freeware") for [Android](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_\(operating_system\) "Android (operating system)") under the name RAR for Android.[\[6\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-download-6) Related programs include [command-line](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command-line "Command-line") utilities `RAR` and `UNRAR`[\[7\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-Interview_by_correspondence-7) which are also released for [macOS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS "MacOS"),[\[3\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-dl-3) [Linux](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux "Linux"), [FreeBSD](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD "FreeBSD"), and in the past for [Windows CE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_CE "Windows CE"), [MS-DOS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS "MS-DOS") and [OS/2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/2 "OS/2").[\[8\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-8) RAR/[DOS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS "DOS") started as a mix of [x86](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86 "X86") [assembler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_language "Assembly language") and [C](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_\(programming_language\) "C (programming language)"), with the amount of assembly code decreasing over time and moving to pure C/[C++](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B "C++") later on. The first versions of WinRAR were written in C; modern versions predominantly use [C++](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B "C++"). RAR for Android is written as a mixture of Java and C++.[\[9\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-9) WinRAR and the RAR file format have evolved over time. Support for the archive format RAR5, using the same RAR [file extension](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_extension "File extension") as earlier versions, was added in version 5.0;[\[10\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-10) the older RAR file format has since been referred to as RAR4. WinRAR versions before 5.0 do not support RAR5 archives;[\[11\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11) only older versions of WinRAR run on older operating systems, and cannot open RAR5 archives. The RAR5 file format – from version 7 on, referred to as "RAR" – increased the maximum dictionary size up to 64 GB, depending on the amount of available memory, with the default in version 5 increased from 4 MB to 32 MB, typically improving compression ratio. For dictionaries larger than 4 GB, the size can be specified if it is unequal to a power of 2. Thus, there are no restrictions to the range 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, allowing 5 GB or 22 GB to be chosen at will. Archives with dictionaries larger than 4 GB can only be extracted by WinRAR 7.0 or newer. [AES encryption](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES_encryption "AES encryption"), when used, is in [CBC mode](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBC_mode "CBC mode") and was increased in strength from 128- to 256-bit. Maximum path length for files in RAR and ZIP archives is increased from 2047 to 65535 characters.[\[11\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11) Options added in v5.0 include 256-bit [BLAKE2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLAKE_\(hash_function\) "BLAKE (hash function)") file-hashing algorithm instead of default 32-bit [CRC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclic_redundancy_check "Cyclic redundancy check")\-32, duplicate file detection, [NTFS hard and symbolic links](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_links "NTFS links"), and Quick Open record to allow large archives to be opened faster.[\[11\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11) The RAR5 file format removed comments for each file (though archive comment still remains), authenticity verification, and specialized compression algorithms for text and multimedia files. RAR5 also changed the file name for split volumes from `archivename.rNN` to `archivename.partNN.rar`.[\[11\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11) The RAR7 file format added support for 64GB compression dictionary and improved compression ratio by adding two extra algorithms. RAR7 archives with dictionary sizes up to 4 GB can be unpacked by previous versions of WinRAR (5.0 and above) given there's enough [RAM](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random-access_memory "Random-access memory"). On the 31st of May 2024, WinRAR announced that they would no longer offer the physical [CD-ROM](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-ROM "CD-ROM") delivery option due to the factory that produces them shutting, citing a lack of demand and support for [optical media](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_media "Optical media").[\[12\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-12) - Creation of packed [RAR](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAR_\(file_format\) "RAR (file format)") or [ZIP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_\(file_format\) "Zip (file format)") archives. - Unpacking of:[\[11\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11)[\[13\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-13) - [RAR](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAR_\(file_format\) "RAR (file format)"), [tar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_\(computing\) "Tar (computing)"), [ARJ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARJ "ARJ"), [LHA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LHA_\(file_format\) "LHA (file format)"), [ZIP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIP_\(file_format\) "ZIP (file format)") (and its subsed [JAR](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAR_\(file_format\) "JAR (file format)")) and [WinZip ZIPX](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinZip "WinZip") archives - [Windows Cabinet files](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_\(file_format\) "Cabinet (file format)") (`.CAB`) - [ISO 9660](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_9660 "ISO 9660") optical [disk images](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_image "Disk image") - [Unix compress (.Z)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compress_\(software\) "Compress (software)"), [gzip](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gzip "Gzip"), [bzip2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bzip2 "Bzip2"), [lzip](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lzip "Lzip"), [xz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils "XZ Utils"), [7z](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7z "7z") and [zstandard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zstandard "Zstandard") compressed files - [uuencoded](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uuencoding "Uuencoding") files, as well as split files - Some of [self-extracting archive](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-extracting_archive "Self-extracting archive") formats stored as [.exe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.exe ".exe") files - [Checksum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checksum "Checksum") (integrity) verification for ARJ, bzip2, Cabinet file, gzip, lzip, RAR, xz, ZIP and 7z archives - [Multithreaded CPU](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multithreaded_CPU "Multithreaded CPU") compression and decompression When creating RAR 7.0 archives: - Support for maximum file size of 16 [EiB](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exbibyte "Exbibyte"), about 1.8 × 1019 bytes or 18 million TB - Compression dictionary from 1 MiB to 64 GiB (it is limited to 256 MiB on 32-bit editions, although 32-bit editions still can decompress archives with 1 GiB dictionary; default size is 32 MiB)[\[11\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11) - Optional 256-bit [BLAKE2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLAKE2 "BLAKE2") file hashing that can replace the default 32-bit [CRC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclic_redundancy_check "Cyclic redundancy check")\-32 file checksum[\[11\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11) - Optional encryption using [AES](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES_encryption "AES encryption") with a 256-bit key[\[14\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-14) in [CBC mode](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBC_mode "CBC mode"), using [key derivation function](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_derivation_function "Key derivation function") based on [PBKDF2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBKDF2 "PBKDF2") using [HMAC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMAC "HMAC")\-SHA256[\[11\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11) - Optional data [redundancy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redundancy_\(information_theory\) "Redundancy (information theory)") is provided in the form of [Reed–Solomon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed%E2%80%93Solomon "Reed–Solomon") recovery records and recovery volumes, allowing reconstruction of damaged archives (including reconstruction of entirely missed volumes) - Optional "quick open record" to open RAR files faster[\[11\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11) - Ability to create multi-volume (split) archives[\[15\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-split-15) - Ability to create [self-extracting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-extracting_archive "Self-extracting archive") files (multi-volume self-extracting archives are supported;[\[15\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-split-15) the self-extractor can execute commands, such as running a specified program before or after self-extraction[\[16\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-16)) - Support for [NTFS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS "NTFS") permissions, hard and symbolic links[\[11\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11) - Support for maximum path length up to 65 535 characters (stored in the [UTF-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8 "UTF-8") format)[\[11\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11) - Optional archive comment (stored in the UTF-8 format)[\[11\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11) - Optional file timestamps preservation: modification, creation, last access times with high precision[\[17\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-17) - Optional [file deduplication](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_deduplication "Data deduplication") - Advanced backup options, time-stamped files and previous file version retention. The software is distributed as "try before you buy"; it may be used without charge for 40 days.[\[2\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-license-2) When the period expires, the non-enterprise functionalities remain available, a move intended to discourage piracy.[\[4\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-inf40-4) In [China](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China "China"), a free-to-use personal edition has been provided officially since 2015.[\[18\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-18) Although archiving with the RAR format is proprietary, RARLAB supplies as copyrighted [freeware](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeware "Freeware") the [C++](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B "C++") source code of the current UnRAR unpacker, with a license allowing it to be used in any software, thus enabling others to produce software capable of unpacking, but not creating, RAR archives.[\[19\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-19) RAR for Android is free of charge. It displays advertisements; for a payment they can be disabled.[\[20\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-android-20) A license for WinRAR does not provide ad-suppression for RAR for Android. In February 2019, a major security vulnerability in the unacev2.dll library which is used by WinRAR to decompress [ACE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACE_\(compressed_file_format\) "ACE (compressed file format)") archives was discovered.[\[21\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-21)[\[22\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-22) Consequently, WinRAR dropped the support for the ACE format from version 5.70. Self-extracting archives created with versions before 5.31 (including the executable installer of WinRAR itself) are vulnerable to [DLL hijacking](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DLL_hijacking "DLL hijacking"): they may load and use DLLs named `UXTheme.dll`, `RichEd32.dll` and `RichEd20.dll` if they are in the same folder as the executable file.[\[11\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11)[\[23\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-23) It was widely reported that WinRAR v5.21 and earlier had a [remote code execution](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_code_execution "Remote code execution") (RCE) vulnerability which could allow a remote attacker to insert malicious code into a [self-extracting executable (SFX) file](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-extracting_archive "Self-extracting archive") being created by a user, "putting over 500 million users of the software at risk".[\[24\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-24) However, examination of the claim revealed that, while the vulnerability existed, the result was merely an SFX which delivered its payload when executed; published responses dismissed the threat, one saying "If you can find suckers who will trust a [.exe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.exe ".exe") labelled as self-extracting archive \[…\] then you can trick them into running your smuggled JavaScript".[\[25\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-25)[\[26\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-26) WinRAR 6.23 fixes a critical security vulnerability which allowed the hacker to automatically execute malware distributed in archives under some circumstances.[\[27\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-27) Versions 7.12 and 7.13 for Windows contain important security fixes.[\[28\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-28) - Command line RAR and UNRAR were first released in autumn 1993.[\[7\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-Interview_by_correspondence-7) - Early development version WinRAR 1.54b was released in 1995. - 2\.00 (1996-04): the new [RAR2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAR_\(file_format\)#Versions "RAR (file format)") [archive format](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive_format "Archive format") is implemented. - 3\.00 (2002-05): the new [RAR3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAR_\(file_format\)#Versions "RAR (file format)") [archive format](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive_format "Archive format") is implemented. The new archives cannot be managed by older versions of WinRAR. Solid compression and WAV audio lossless compression features are added.[\[29\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-History-3.00-3.11-29) - 3\.41 (2004-12): adds support for Linux .Z archives like GZIP and BZIP2. New options include storing entire file paths and restoring compressed NTFS files.[\[30\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-History-3.40-3.50-30) - 3\.50 (2005-08): adds support for interface [skins](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_\(computing\) "Skin (computing)").[\[30\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-History-3.40-3.50-30) - 3\.60 (2006-08): adds multithreaded version of the compression algorithm, which improves compression speed on systems with multiple [dual-core](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual-core "Dual-core") or [hyper-threading](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-threading "Hyper-threading")\-enabled [CPUs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_processing_unit "Central processing unit"). - 3\.80 (2008-09): adds support for ZIP archives, which contain [Unicode](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode "Unicode") file names in [UTF-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8 "UTF-8").[\[31\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-31) - 3\.90 (2009-05): adds support for the [x86-64](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64 "X86-64") architecture. Multithreaded support is enhanced.[\[11\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11) - 3\.91 is the last release that supports [Valencian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valencian_language "Valencian language"). - 3\.92 is the last release that supports [Serbian Cyrillic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbian_Cyrillic "Serbian Cyrillic") and [Serbian Latin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbian_Latin "Serbian Latin"). - 4\.00 (2011-03): decompression is sped up by up to 30%.[\[11\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11) - 4\.10 (2012-01): removes all ZIP limitations now allowing unlimited number of files and archive size. WinRAR now also allows creation of multivolume ZIP files. ZIP archives now include [Unicode](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode "Unicode") file names.[\[11\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11) - 4\.20 (2012-06): compression speed in [SMP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetric_multiprocessing "Symmetric multiprocessing") mode is increased significantly, but this improvement was made at the expense of increased memory usage. ZIP compression now uses SMP as well. The default SMP mode cannot handle text; text compression is significantly worse unless additional switches are used.[\[11\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11) - 5\.00 (2013-09): the new RAR5 archive format is implemented. RAR5 compressed archives cannot be managed by old versions of WinRAR. The RAR 5 format improves [multi-core processor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-core_processor "Multi-core processor") utilization, and adds a larger dictionary size of up to 1 GiB with 64-bit WinRAR. Special optional compression algorithms optimized for RGB bitmaps, raw audio files, [Itanium](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itanium "Itanium") executables, and [plain text](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_text "Plain text"), which were supported by earlier versions, are supported only in the older RAR format, not RAR5.[\[11\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11) Optional optimized compression of x86 executables and [delta compression](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_compression "Delta compression") (for structured table data) are supported in both file formats. - 5\.50 (2017-08): adds support for a master password which can be used to encrypt passwords stored in WinRAR. The default RAR format is changed to version 5. Adds support for decompressing [Lzip](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lzip "Lzip") archives; adds support for high precision file dates, longer file names and larger file sizes for [TAR](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_\(computing\) "Tar (computing)") archives.[\[11\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11) - 5\.60 (2018-06): repairing of protected RAR5 archives was improved. Automatic detection of the encoding of ZIP archive comments. Recognition of GZIP files with arbitrary preceding data as an actual GZIP archive.[\[11\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11) - 5\.70 (2019-02): removes support for [ACE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACE_\(compressed_file_format\) "ACE (compressed file format)") archive decompression due to major security vulnerabilities[\[32\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-32) in the unacev2.dll library.[\[11\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11) - 6\.00 (2020-12): "Ignore" and "Ignore All" options are added to read error prompt. "Ignore" allows to continue processing with already read file part only and "Ignore All" does it for all future read errors. - 6\.10 (2022-01): Added support for unpacking [ZST](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zstandard "Zstandard") archives. Maximum recovery record is increased to 1000% of protected data size. - 6\.11 (2022-03): Support of Gzip archives with large archive comments has been added; In command line mode, the switch -mes can also be used to suppress the password prompt and abort when adding new files to an encrypted solid archive. - 6\.12 (2022-05): [CVE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CVE_\(identifier\) "CVE (identifier)")\-[2022-30333](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-30333) security vulnerability is fixed in Unix RAR versions. WinRAR and Android RAR are not affected. - 6\.23 (2023-08): [CVE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CVE_\(identifier\) "CVE (identifier)")\-[2023-40477](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-40477) and [CVE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CVE_\(identifier\) "CVE (identifier)")\-[2023-38831](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-38831) critical security vulnerabilities are fixed in WinRAR. Unix and Android versions are not affected. - 6\.24 (2023-10): Fixes an issue with null pointers. - 7\.00 (2024-02): drops support for creating RAR 4.x format archives. Maximum path length limit increased to 65535 characters. Maximum RAR dictionary size up to 64 GB for the [64](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64-bit_computing "64-bit computing")\-bit version (limited by available RAM). Command line RAR filters out control character 27 from screen output for security reasons. - 7\.10 (2025-02): drops support for 32bit Windows editions. Adds support for [Large Memory Pages](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_\(computer_memory\)#Multiple_page_sizes "Page (computer memory)") which increases compression and decompression speed, especially when using a large compression dictionary. Adds [dark mode](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_theme "Dark theme"). ### Operating systems support \[[edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WinRAR&action=edit&section=7 "Edit section: Operating systems support")\] More recent versions do not support many older operating systems. Versions supporting older operating systems may still be available, but not maintained: - RAR 2.50 is the last version to support MS-DOS and OS/2 on 16-bit [x86](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86 "X86") CPUs ([8086](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_8086 "Intel 8086")\-compatible).[\[33\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-33) - RAR 3.93 is the last version to support [MS-DOS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS "MS-DOS") and [OS/2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/2 "OS/2") on [IA-32](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IA-32 "IA-32") CPUs ([80386](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80386 "Intel 80386") equivalents and later). RAR for Pocket PC 3.93 is the last version for [Windows Mobile](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Mobile "Windows Mobile").[\[34\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-rar393-34) It supports [file names longer than the MS-DOS standard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_filename "Long filename") of 8.3 characters, in a MS-DOS box (except under NT-based operating systems), and uses the [RSX](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMX_\(programming_environment\) "EMX (programming environment)") [DPMI](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS_Protected_Mode_Interface "DOS Protected Mode Interface") extender. - RAR 7.01 is the last version to support [Linux](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux "Linux") and [FreeBSD](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD "FreeBSD") on [32-bit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/32-bit_computing "32-bit computing") [x86](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86 "X86") CPUs. The unrar application is available as source code and still supports 32bit environments (with a 2GB maximum dictionary size limitation). - WinRAR 2.06 is the last version to support [Windows 3.1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_3.1 "Windows 3.1"), [Windows NT 3.1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT_3.1 "Windows NT 3.1"), [Windows NT 3.5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT_3.5 "Windows NT 3.5"), [Windows NT 3.51](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT_3.51 "Windows NT 3.51") and [Win32s](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Win32s "Win32s"). - WinRAR 3.93 is the last version to support [Windows 95](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_95 "Windows 95"), [Windows NT 4.0](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT_4.0 "Windows NT 4.0"), [Windows 98](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_98 "Windows 98") and [Windows Me](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Me "Windows Me").[\[11\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11)[\[35\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-35) - WinRAR 4.11 is the last version to support [Windows 2000](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_2000 "Windows 2000").[\[11\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11) - WinRAR 6.02 is the last version to support [Windows XP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP "Windows XP") (except the console version Rar.exe).[\[11\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11) - WinRAR 7.01 is the last version to support [Windows Vista](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista "Windows Vista") (and [32-bit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/32-bit_computing "32-bit computing") Windows editions).[\[11\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_note-releases-11) - [Comparison of file archivers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_archivers "Comparison of file archivers") - [Comparison of archive formats](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_archive_formats "Comparison of archive formats") - [List of archive formats](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_archive_formats "List of archive formats") - [7-Zip](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7-Zip "7-Zip") 1. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_ref-1) ([Russia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia "Russia"), [Chelyabinsk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelyabinsk "Chelyabinsk")) [WinRAR 3.40 release notes by Eugene Roshal](https://groups.google.com/group/fido7.rar.support/msg/8205725b02a2be76?pli=1) (in Russian) 2. ^ [*a](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_ref-license_2-0) [b](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_ref-license_2-1) ["RAR and WinRAR End User License Agreement (EULA)"](https://rarlab.com/license.htm), rarlab.com, RARLAB, [archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20140104212948/http://www.rarlab.com/license.htm) from the original on 2014-01-04, retrieved 2019-03-11 3. ^ [a](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_ref-dl_3-0) [b](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_ref-dl_3-1) ["RAR download page"](https://rarlab.com/download.htm). rarlab.com. RARLAB. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20200609195332/https://www.rarlab.com/download.htm) from the original on 2020-06-09. Retrieved 2020-06-10. 4. ^ [a](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_ref-inf40_4-0) [b](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_ref-inf40_4-1) CHM Tech (9 March 2017). ["WinRAR And The Infinite 40-Day Trial"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTgZRVVr3_Y). YouTube. [Archived](https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211222/fTgZRVVr3_Y) from the original on 2021-12-22. 5. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRAR#cite_ref-5)* Manuel Masiero (18 March 2013)["Compression Performance: 7-Zip, MagicRAR, WinRAR, WinZip"](https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/winrar-winzip-7-zip-magicrar,3436.html) Tom's Hardware. Retrieved 27 November 2013. 6. 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