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7-Zip
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7-Zip is a free and open-source file archiver, a utility used to place groups of files within compressed containers known as "archives". It is developed by Igor Pavlov and was first released in 1999.[2] 7-Zip has its own archive format called 7z, but can read and write several others.
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Developer(s) | Igor Pavlov[1] |
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Initial release | 19 July 1999; 25 years ago (1999-07-19)[2] |
Stable release | 24.07[3] ![]() |
Preview release | 24.04 Beta (5 April 2024; 4 months ago (2024-04-05)) [±][4] |
Repository | |
Written in | Assembly, C and C++[5] |
Operating system | Windows/ReactOS,[6] BSD, macOS, Linux,[7] |
Size | 1.1–1.7 MB[8] |
Available in | 89 languages[9] |
List of languages Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Aragonese, Armenian, Asturian, Azerbaijani, Bangla, Bashkir, Basque, Belarusian, Breton, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Extremaduran, Farsi, Finnish, French, Frisian, Friulian, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Indian, Hebrew, Hindi, Indian, Hungarian, Icelandic, Ido, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Kabyle, Karakalpak - Latin, Kazakh, Korean, Kurdish - Sorani, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Latvian, Ligurian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Marathi, Mongolian (MenkCode), Mongolian (Unicode), Mongolian, Nepali, Norwegian Bokmal, Norwegian Nynorsk, Pashto, Polish, Portuguese Brazilian, Portuguese Portugal, Punjabi, Indian, Romanian, Russian, Sanskrit, Indian, Serbian - Cyrillic, Serbian - Latin, Sinhala, Vietnam, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Tatar, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uyghur, Uzbek, Valencian, Vietnamese, Welsh, Yoruba These translations are partial and for the user interface only. Help and documentations are in English. | |
Type | File archiver |
License | LGPL-2.1-or-later with unRAR restriction[10] / LZMA SDK in the public domain[11] |
Website | www![]() |
The program can be used from a Windows graphical user interface that also features shell integration, from a Windows command-line interface as the command 7za
or 7za.exe
, and from POSIX systems as p7zip
.[12] Most of the 7-Zip source code is under the LGPL-2.1-or-later license; the unRAR code, however, is under the LGPL-2.1-or-later license with an "unRAR restriction", which states that developers are not permitted to use the code to reverse-engineer the RAR compression algorithm.[13][14]
Since version 21.01 alpha, preliminary Linux support has been added to the upstream instead of the p7zip project.[7]