The final version of 7-Zip 22 is now available. It is the first stable version of 2022 of which the best is an open source file decompressor and of course completely free.

File decompressors are a type of software specialized in processing compressed files. The type of file that others group in it to make it easy to understand. Their main goal is to save space by using different degrees of compression, but they also allow them to improve their distribution on the Internet and their organization. Obviously, they are one of those essential applications for any computer.

In case you don’t know this, you should know that 7-Zip uses its own ‘7z’ archive format by default, although it supports others such as ZIP and RAR for both decompression and compression. As with most alternatives, it can extract RAR files but cannot create them. 7z uses various compression algorithms such as bzip2, LZMA and LZMA2, has self-extracting capabilities, drag-and-drop support and a powerful file manager.

The latest version has improved support for the TAR format and the -snz switch, supports extracting APFS images from the Apple file system, and includes a new options window in the “add to archive” settings dialog. It has versions for Windows, 64 bits, 32 bits and ARM from Windows XP upwards, for Linux and also for macOS.

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