After five years of stop-start development, 7-Zip has just released a new stable version 15.12.It’s been a long wait, but if you’re still using the latest stable build — 9.20 — then there are plenty of reasons to upgrade.There’s support for unpacking many more containers: UEFI BIOS files, WIM files, RAR5 archives, ext2/ ext3/ ext4 images, GPT, VMDK, and single file QCOW2 and VDI images.The release also has wider support for existing formats, for example correctly handling files larger than 4GB in ISOs, and opening more “unusual” 7z files created by third-party apps.A host of performance improvements mean 7-Zip is … Continue reading 7-Zip gets a major update at last