Security News > 2021 > March > 7-Zip developer releases the first official Linux version
An official version of the popular 7-zip archiving program has been released for Linux for the first time.
Linux already had support for the 7-zip archive file format through a POSIX port called p7zip but it was maintained by a different developer.
As the p7zip developer has not maintained their project for 4-5 years, 7-Zip developer Igor Pavlov decided to create a new official Linux version based on the latest 7-Zip source code.
This first version of 7-Zip for Linux is released as a console application and has similar, but not identical, command-line arguments as p7zip.
"These new 7-Zip binaries for Linux were linked by GCC without -static switch. And compiled 32-bit executables didn't work on some arm64 and amd64 systems, probably because of missing of some required.so files."
While this is great news for Linux users who prefer to use 7-Zip, a recent tweet by Google software engineer Christian Blichmann raises mysterious concerns about 7-zip's source code.