7-Zip version history
Free open-source Windows file archiver with high-ratio 7z compression and broad archive support.
Current verified version
26.02Verified 2026-08-23 from Official 7-Zip GitHub releases.
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Newest first14 stable release records
- 26.027-Zip 26.02Official release ↗
Some bugs and vulnerabilities were fixed.
- 26.017-Zip 26.01Official release ↗
linux version of 7-Zip can use huge pages (2 MB pages). It can increase compression speed for 10% for 7z/xz/LZMA/LZMA2 compression.
- 26.0026.00Official release ↗
improved code for ZIP, CPIO, RAR, UFD, QCOW, Compound.
- 25.0125.01Official release ↗
The code for handling symbolic links has been changed to provide greater security when extracting files from archives.
- 25.0025.00Official release ↗
7-Zip for Windows can now use more than 64 CPU threads for compression to zip/7z/xz archives and for the 7-Zip benchmark. If there are more than one processor group in Windows (…
- 24.0924.09Official release ↗
The default dictionary size values for LZMA/LZMA2 compression methods were increased:
- 24.0824.08Official release ↗
The bug in 7-Zip 24.00-24.07 was fixed:
- 24.0724.07Official release ↗
The bug was fixed: 7-Zip could crash for some incorrect ZSTD archives.
- 24.0624.06Official release ↗
The bug was fixed: 7-Zip could not unpack some ZSTD archives.
- 24.0524.05Official release ↗
7-Zip now can unpack ZSTD archives (.zst filename extension).
- 23.0123.01Official release ↗
7-Zip now can use new ARM64 filter for compression to 7z and xz archives.
- 22.0122.01Official release ↗
UDF support was improved to UDF version 2.60.
- 22.0022.00Official release ↗
7-Zip now can extract APFS (Apple File System) images that can be used in DMG files.
- 21.0721.07Official release ↗
7-Zip now can extract VHDX disk images (Microsoft Hyper-V Virtual Hard Disk v2 format).
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