WinRAR 7.0 boosts compression ratios with support for larger dictionary sizes

German developer win.rar GmbH has released WinRAR 7.0, a major new update to its powerful archiving tool for Windows. Capable of opening a wide range of archive file types, from ZIP to CAB, GZip and ISO, WinRAR 7.0 focuses on introducing several improvements to its primary RAR format. The big improvement in WinRAR 7.0 comes with newly added support for compression dictionary sizes larger than 1GB in size. Increasing this size can boost compression ratios on archives containing large files with repeated blocks of data, such as virtual machine disk images. Version 7.0 supports compression dictionary sizes all the way… [Continue Reading]