What's new?
- New ASCII title!
- Automatic downloading of missing keygen
- Supports multiple download servers
- Other improvements and bug fixes
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User Interaction and Console Output
- An ASCII art title is now displayed in the console on startup.
- Console messages for
INFO,WARN, andERROR, color-coded for visibility. - Interactive user prompts have been implemented for all key decision points, such as selecting an installation path, confirming a re-installation, or approving a license overwrite. This replaces previous non-interactive behaviors.
Script Config & Parsing
- The system for parsing the script's filename for configuration has been completely refactored from a single function into a more modular and robust set of functions.
- Support has been added for a simplified custom license format where only a
licenseename is required; the script will use a default license type in this case. - Validation logic now handles requests for unsupported version/architecture combinations (e.g., 32-bit versions after support ended) by providing the user with interactive prompts and alternative options.
- The in-script documentation has been expanded with more detailed examples of supported naming conventions.
Download & Installation Process
- The script now utilizes multiple official download servers and includes an automatic retry mechanism to increase download reliability.
- A pre-download verification step has been added. It checks if the requested file exists on the server before initiating the full download, which prevents errors from invalid version requests.
- Local installer detection logic has been updated to recognize both modern (
winrar-x...) and legacy (wrar...) installer naming schemes. - A pre-installation check now verifies if the target WinRAR version is already installed and requests user confirmation before proceeding with a re-installation.
Licensing System
- Functionality has been added to automatically retrieve and download the keygen if it is not available locally when a custom license is requested.
- The script now prompts for user confirmation before overwriting an existing license, unless an overwrite mode is explicitly specified in the script name.
- When run in 'license-only' mode, if WinRAR is not found to be installed on the system, the script now offers the user the option to perform the installation first.
- Success notifications for custom licenses now display the licensee and license type that were used.
Environment Handling
- The script can now detect if both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of WinRAR are installed on the same system. If detected, it will prompt the user to select which installation to target for relevant operations (e.g., uninstalling, applying a license).
Internal Changes & Bug Fixes
- The script has undergone significant internal refactoring. Core processes have been modularized into dedicated functions, and numerous utility functions have been added to standardize operations.
- Fixed an issue where the downloaded installer file was not always deleted correctly after use when not explicitly set to be kept.
- Fixed a bug where internal variables for the license key file path were incorrectly defined, pointing only to the directory instead of the full file path.
- Internal documentation, including comment-based help blocks for functions, has been substantially expanded.
- Version constants and lists of known WinRAR versions have been added and updated to support validation logic.
Note
- All downloads in this release are linked below.
- Download the WinRAR 7.12 installer directly if your internet is unstable or you are unable to download through the script.
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CHANGELOG
- New: Add interactive user prompts for handling ambiguous situations like re-installing, choosing between 32/64-bit installations, or overwriting licenses.
- New: Add automatic downloading of the keygen executable if it is not found locally for custom license generation.
- New: Add pre-download verification to check if a requested installer exists on the server before starting the download.
- New: Add support for multiple download servers with an automatic retry mechanism to improve download reliability.
- New: The script now detects and allows management of systems with both 32-bit and 64-bit WinRAR installations.
- Fix: Corrected an issue where the downloaded installer file was not always deleted after use.
- Fix: Corrected a bug where the internal path to the license key file (
rarreg.key) was incorrect. - Improve: Substantially refactored the script name parsing logic for better robustness and flexibility.
- Improve: The user interface now includes an ASCII art title and color-coded console messages.
- Improve: Expanded in-script documentation and added many new usage examples.
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