WinRAR is a shareware file archiver and data compression utility developed by Eugene Roshal. It is one of the few applications that is able to create RAR archives natively, as the encoding method is held to be proprietary.

Developer

The current developer is Eugene Roshal, while his brother Alexander Roshal is engaged in business of the software.

Features

WinRAR supports the following features:

• Complete support for RAR and ZIP archives, and unpacking of ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR, ISO, 7z and Z archives. Future versions of WinRAR are planned to include 7z creation.
• The ability to create self-extracting and multi-volume (split) archives.
• Data redundancy is provided via recovery records and recovery volumes, even allowing reconstruction of damaged archives.
• Support for advanced NTFS file system options and Unicode in file names.
• Optional archive encryption using AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) with a 128-bit key.

Other Information

• Developed by Eugene Roshal / Alexander Roshal
• Latest release 3.80 / 30 September 2008; 50 days ago
• Written in C++
• OS Windows 95, 98, Me, 2000, XP, Vista, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Linux (Wine required for GUI), OS/2
• Available in Multilingual (46+ languages)
• Development status Current
• Type File archiver
• License Commercial proprietary, Shareware
• Website Primary: www.rarlab.com, Secondary: www.win-rar.com

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