John the Ripper 1.7.8-jumbo-7 released. Support for encrypted pkzip archives has been added, testing millions of candidate passwords per second. More character encodings are now supported. Optional OpenMP parallelization added for salted SHA-1 hashes used by Mac OS X 10.4 to 10.6.7 Lion. The DIGEST-MD5 authentication cracker has been revised to be usable without requiring source code customizations. Unicode DumbForce-like external mode samples have been added.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2011/09/john-ripper-178-jumbo-7-released.html