Igor Pavlov released the official console version 7-zip for Linux along with the 20.01 release for Windows due to the fact that the p7zip project haven’t seen an update in five years. The official 7-zip for Linux is similar to p7zip, but not a copy. The difference between the projects is not reported. The program is released in versions for x86, x86-64, ARM and ARM64. 7-Zip Code License for Linux – GNU LGPL.
In addition to Linux porting from 7-zip 20.01 enhancements noted performance improvements on hardware ARM64 by using specialized CPU instructions to accelerate AES, CRC-32, SHA-1 and SHA-256 computations.
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