FreeArc is a designed like a modern general-purpose archiver. The main advantage of FreeArc is fast but efficient compression and rich set of features.

· Solid compression with smart updates (only changed solid blocks are recompressed)
· User-definable solid block size (-s…) and file sorting order (-ds…), including customized filename ordering (arc.groups)
· AES/Blowfish/Twofish/Serpent encryption with keyfiles support and ability to chain multiple ciphers (-p, -hp, --keyfile, --encryption=ALGORITHMS)
· FAR and Total Commander plugins allow to create/browse/extract archives using the file manager interface
· Ability to list/extract archives directly from Internet: arc x http://www.haskell.org/bz/arc.arc *.h
· Archive protection and recovery, including recovery over Internet driven by CRCs of archive sectors (r/rr/-rr/--original=URL)
· Ability to test archive before and after any operation (-tp/-t), including checking by recovery record and full archive test
· Moving to archive (m), joining archives (j), archive recompression (ch), locking (k) and commenting (-z/cw)
· Select files by size, time/age and name (-sl, -sm, -ta, -tb, -tn, -to, -n), select by/clear ARCHIVE file attribute (-ao/-ac)
· Base directory on disk / inside archive (-dp/-ap), automatic generation of archive filenames (-ag)
· Errors and warnings are reported to stderr and reflected in program exit code; --logfile option saves to the file all the information displayed
· Configurable via arc.ini file and FREEARC environment variable; alternative settings may be selected by means of -cfg/-env options

What's New in This Release:
· New FreeArc version made break-through in compression efficiency! It is 1.5-2x faster than previous speed king - FreeArc 0.60. And 2-5x faster than best other compression programs (7-zip, WinRAR, WinZIP) for the same comrpession ratio. New FreeArc is as fast as hell - it's why we chosen such version number ;)
· Now FreeArc is able to browse and extract archives of many kinds: zip, rar, 7-zip, cab, arj, lzh, gz, bz2... using brilliant 7-zip technology.
· Documents and program may be run directly from archive, FreeArc will extract supplementary files if necessary.
· All problems with Explorer integration has been solved.