
WinRAR: Version 5.90 released for Windows, Linux, Mac and Android: WinRAR 5.90 Final has been released with many improvements and bug fixes for Windows, Mac, Linux and Android operating systems.
For those who don't know, WinRar is a file compression and decompression software from RARLAB, which supports ARJ, BZIP2, CAB, GZ, ISO, JAR, LHA, RAR, TAR, UUE, XZ, Z, ZIP, ZIPX, 7z, and 001 distributions.
There is also a free trial of the program, meaning you can use WinRAR for a certain period of time before purchasing it.
As we already mentioned, WinRAR 5.90 comes with several performance improvements, such as better support and a higher number of threads. Below you will see in detail the most important changes that are present in the new version.
- Faster speed for processors with 16 and more cores.
- Higher compression ratio for RAR5 format.
- The maximum number of threads is increased from 32 to 64. The -mt command can now take values from 1 to 64.
- The “Multithreading” parameter has been replaced by “Threads.” Here you can set the number of threads with values from 1 to the number of threads processor .
- WinRAR now shows the size of compressed files.
- Added a "Total folders" field to the parameters displayed by the "Info" command.
- There is now a window that shows the progress and has a cancel button for formats that take longer. For example: tar.gz and tar.bz2.
- It is possible to change the size of the windows.
- Great improvement of RAR5 format recovery file.
- The recovery command for RAR5 files can now be used without entering a password.
- If the folder for the “Convert archives” command does not exist, the program tries to create it. This did not work in older versions of WinRAR.
- Added export support for GZIP files.

Fixed errors:
- The “repair” command which indicated that the file was invalid, when in fact it was.
- The bug where WinRAR ignored the “quick open information” option (if it was “Do not add”) when searching for contents.
- The Ctrl+C shortcut now works in the file comments window.
- The bug where WinRAR ignored the destination path in the file header if the option to create separate documents for each file was active.
