7-Zip 17.01 Beta (64-bit)

- 7-Zip now can extract ext2 and multivolume VMDK images.
- Some bugs were fixed.

* 7-Zip now can extract ext3 and ext4 (Linux file system) images.
* Some bugs were fixed.

- 7-Zip now can extract GPT images and single file QCOW2, VMDK, VDI images.
- 7-Zip now can extract solid WIM archives with LZMS compression.
- Some bugs were fixed.

* 7-Zip now can extract RAR5 archives.
* 7-Zip now doesn't sort files by type while adding to solid 7z archive.
* new -mqs switch to sort files by type while adding to solid 7z archive.
* The BUG in 7-Zip File Manager was fixed:
* The "Move" operation to open 7z archive didn't delete empty files.
* The BUG in 15.05 was fixed:
* console version added some text to the end of stdout stream, is -so switch was used.
* The BUG in 9.30 - 15.05 was fixed:
* 7-Zip could not open multivolume sfx RAR archive.
* Some bugs were fixed.

- 7-Zip now uses new installer.
- 7-Zip now can create 7z, xz and zip archives with 1536 MB dictionary for LZMA/LZMA2.
- 7-Zip File Manager now can operate with alternate file streams at NTFS volumes via "File / Alternate Streams" menu command.
- 7-Zip now can extract .zipx (WinZip) archives that use xz compression.
- new optional "section size" parameter for BCJ2 filter for compression ratio improving. Example: -mf=BCJ2:d9M, if largest executable section in files is smaller than 9 MB.
- Speed optimizations for BCJ2 filter and SHA-1 and SHA-256 calculation.
- Console version now uses stderr stream for error messages.
- Console version now shows names of processed files only in progress line by default.
- new -bb[0-3] switch to set output log level. -bb1 shows names of processed files in log.
- new -bs[o|e|p][0|1|2] switch to set stream for output messages;
> o: output, e: error, p: progress line; 0: disable, 1: stdout, 2: stderr.
- new -bt switch to show execution time statistics.
- new -myx[0-9] switch to set level of file analysis.
- new -mmtf- switch to set single thread mode for filters.
- The BUG was fixed:
> 7-Zip didn't restore NTFS permissions for folders during extracting from WIM archives.
- The BUG was fixed:
> The command line version: if the command "rn" (Rename) was called with more than one pair of paths, 7-Zip used only first rename pair.
- The BUG was fixed:
> 7-Zip crashed for ZIP/LZMA/AES/AES-NI.
- The BUG in 15.01-15.02 was fixed:
> 7-Zip created incorrect ZIP archives, if ZipCrypto encryption was used.
> 7-Zip 9.20 can extract such incorrect ZIP archives.
- Some bugs were fixed.

- Some bugs were fixed.

# The BUG in command line version was fixed:
* 7-Zip created temporary archive in current folder during update archive operation, if -w{Path} switch was not specified.
* The fixed 7-Zip creates temporary archive in folder that contains updated archive.
# The BUG in 9.33-9.35 was fixed:
* 7-Zip silently ignored file reading errors during 7z or gz archive creation, and the created archive contained only part of file that was read before error.
* The fixed 7-Zip stops archive creation and it reports about error.
# Some bugs were fixed.

# BUG fixed:
* 7-Zip crashed during ZIP archive creation, if the number of CPU threads was more than 64.
* 7-Zip could not correctly extract ISO archives that are larger than 4 GiB.
* The option "Compress shared files" and -ssw switch didn't work.
* 7-Zip File Manager could crash for some archives open in "Flat View" mode.
* Some bugs were fixed.

# Fixed:
* 7-Zip could ignore some options when you created ZIP archives. For example, it could use ZipCrypto cipher instead of AES-256.

* 7-Zip now uses progress indicator displayed on a taskbar button under Windows 7.

- 7-Zip now can unpack UEFI BIOS files.
- 64-bit version of 7-Zip now includes additional 32-bit shell extension DLL. So other 32-bit programs can call 64-bit 7-Zip via context menu.
- Now it's possible to associate 7-Zip with file types without Administrator rights.
- New -mf=FilterID switch to specify compression filter. Examples:
7z a -mf=bcj2 a.7z a.tar
7z a -mf=delta:4 a.7z a.wav
7z a -mf=bcj a.tar.xz a.tar
- 32-bit 7-Zip running under 64-bit Windows x64 now can use up to 4 GB of RAM.
- Some bugs were fixed.
- New localizations: Corsican, Kyrgyz, Ligurian.

- Some bugs were fixed.

- The console version now doesn't show entered password.
- Some bugs were fixed.

- 7-Zip now can unpack SquashFS and CramFS filesystem images.
- 7-Zip now can unpack some TAR and ISO archives with incorrect headers.
- New small SFX module for installers (in Extra package).
- Some bugs were fixed.