WinRAR 6 is not free but it comes with a 40-day free trial. After the trial, you will keep getting registration popups but you can keep using the program without any limitations.
Download WinRAR 6
To install or upgrade to WinRAR 6, simply download the installer from below and run the setup file.
Download WinRAR 6 WinRAR 6 changelog Conclusion
Download WinRAR 6 for Windows 64-bit Download WinRAR 6 for Windows 32-bit Download WinRAR 6 for MacOS For more download options, including languages and platforms, please check out WinRAR download page. The installation steps are exactly the same as earlier versions. Here are the installation screenshots: Please make sure that WinRAR is closed while installing or upgrading to version 6. Otherwise, you will get an error that some files could not be created. If you get this error, please close all instances of the program and run the installer again.
WinRAR 6 changelog
WinRAR version 6 introduces some new switches for performance and usability. The biggest addition is the addition of Ignore and Ignore All options to the read error prompt. If WinRAR is unable to read a certain file within the archive, you will get an option to ignore that file and keep on processing the rest of the archive. You can also use -y switch to ignore all errors by default. If you work with multiple archives simultaneously, you could use Extract archives to subfolders option to process all the archives together. Version 6 adds more options to this option. To automate this, you can use the -ad2 switch which places extracted files directly into the archive’s own folder. You can either read the complete changelog file here or read it directly below.
Conclusion
Other than some improvements to version 5, I don’t feel like WinRAR 6 comes with the performance improvements or feature enhancements that it deserves. I was hoping that a new compression format would be released with the new version but RARLAB is still sticking with the old RAR5 format. There are still some very good additions to command-line switches and compression parameters like the default 32 MB dictionary instead of the old 4 MB which may improve performance on modern systems. What do you think of WinRAR 6? It remains my favorite compression utility as no other tool can come near the feature set, performance and ease of use of WinRAR.
