{"id":8714,"date":"2019-02-24T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-23T23:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/159.69.82.204\/win\/?p=8714"},"modified":"2019-02-23T12:06:06","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T11:06:06","slug":"7-zip-version-19-00-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2019\/02\/24\/7-zip-version-19-00-released\/","title":{"rendered":"7-Zip Version 19.00 released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/23\/7-zip-version-19-00-freigegeben\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">German<\/a>]Another brief information for users of the free packing program 7-Zip. The developer Igor Pavlov has updated the Windows version of the program available for various platforms to version 19.00 as of February 21, 2019.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to blog reader Ralf for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/31\/7-zip-version-18-6-freigegeben\/#comment-68728\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tip<\/a>. The Open Source program supports the most important archive formats. The program is offered on <a href=\"https:\/\/7-zip.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this website<\/a>. The details of version 19.00 can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.7-zip.org\/history.txt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>:&nbsp; <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>19.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2019-02-21<br \/>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br \/>&#8211; Encryption strength for 7z archives was increased: the size of random initialization vector was increased from 64-bit to 128-bit, and the pseudo-random number generator was improved.<br \/>&#8211; Some bugs were fixed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>After I already warned about the previous versions in the blog (see <a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2018\/02\/21\/security-risk-avoid-7-zip\/\">Security-Risk: Avoid 7-Zip<\/a>), the developer improved the security of his code (see also the German comments <a href=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/02\/7-zip-version-18-05-verffentlicht\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>). Regarding the problems with the .exe installer (keyword DLL hijacking) my tip: Use the .msi installer from the <a href=\"https:\/\/sourceforge.net\/p\/sevenzip\/discussion\/45797\/thread\/5e7d81bb39\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sourceforge page<\/a> instead of the .exe version (to avoid DLL hijacking).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Similar articles:<\/strong><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2018\/02\/21\/security-risk-avoid-7-zip\/\">Security-Risk: Avoid 7-Zip<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2018\/12\/31\/7-zip-version-18-6-released\/\">7-Zip version 18.6 released<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2019\/02\/21\/vulnerbility-in-unacev2-dll-puts-software-like-winrar-on-risk\/\">Vulnerababe UNACEV2.DLL puts software like WinRAR at risk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[German]Another brief information for users of the free packing program 7-Zip. The developer Igor Pavlov has updated the Windows version of the program available for various platforms to version 19.00 as of February 21, 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1547,22],"tags":[1247,195],"class_list":["post-8714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","category-update","tag-7-zip","tag-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}