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by da_chicken 3070 days ago
> Between 9.20 and 15.12, 7-Zip produced nothing but beta versions for 5 years.

That's not all that surprising. The software was 10 years old when v9 came out and the major version number is just the year of release. There aren't 5 major releases that never got out of beta. The major version numbers in 7-Zip are misleading this way because the author doesn't really conform to standard conventions. Of course, that is pretty obvious once you use the software for awhile. It still doesn't properly support UAC.