                RAR - What's new in the latest version


   Version 2.60

   1. Information for registered users:

      WinRAR and Rar for Linux versions 2.60 and above are registered
      with a new, very secure, AV registration seal. The main advantage
      of this new authenticity verification code is a significant
      increase in the strength of the registration code and thus it's
      use as a means of identification of the origin of a sealed archive.

      Unfortunately this also means that the old registration keyfiles
      will not operate with the latest versions of Rar-Linux and WinRAR
      and thus all keyfiles must be changed. This is a cost-free process
      to the registered user.

      Please read rereg.txt file for detailed instructions on updating
      your keys.

   2. Both compression and speed have been improved. My thanks to
      Alexander Khoroshev and Bulat Ziganshin for hints, which
      allowed me to achieve this.

   3. Increased speed of scanning for large numbers of files before
      archiving operations. Memory management also is optimized,
      so now it is possible to handle hundreds of thousands,
      or even millions of files.

   4. RAR shows the total percentage of processed data when archiving
      instead of the current file percentage as before.

   5. New switch -df - "Delete files after archiving". Command
      "rar a -df" is equal to "rar m".

   6. New switch -ag - "Generate archive name using the current date".
      Appends string "DDMMYYHHMMSS" to an archive name when creating an
      archive. Useful for daily backups.

   7. New switch -as - "Synchronize archive contents". If this switch
      is used when archiving, those archived files which are not
      present in the list of the currently added files, will be deleted
      from the archive. It is convenient to use this switch in
      combination with -u (update) to synchronize the contents of an
      archive and an archiving directory. For example, after the
      command:

      rar a -u -as backup sources\*.cpp

      the archive 'backup' will contain only *.cpp files from sources
      folder. It looks similar to creating a new archive, but with the
      one important exception - if no files are modified since a last
      backup, this operation is performed much faster than creation of
      new archive.

   8. Unrar sources are removed from the distributive. You can download
      them separately from www.rarsoft.com.  This is to reduce size of
      the RAR package.

   9. Command "S" now can be applied to an existing SFX archives
      to replace one SFX module with another.


   Version 2.50

   1. Now RAR/Linux accepts same registration codes as RAR/DOS
      and WinRAR, so a single registration is enough for the all
      three platforms. Already registered RAR/Linux users should
      write to ron@knowledgebase.fi to obtain new keys for free.

   2. Both packing speed and compression ratio have been improved.

   3. CRC of packed data is now stored for file parts split between 
      volumes. It allows localization of a damaged volume, if volumes 
      set contains one large compressed file. 

   4. New command line switches:

      a) -sv - create independent solid volumes. This switch has
         the same meaning as the option "Independent solid volumes"
         described above;

      b) -ap<path> - set path inside archive. It allows to add files
         to a specified archive folder when archiving or to remove
         the specified part of path from file names when extracting;

      c) -- switch stops further switches scanning. It can be useful,
         if you need to use in the command line a file or archive name
         beginning with '-' character.

   5. RAR home page is moved to www.rarsoft.com

