I'm excited to announce that we've released the NanaZip 6.0 Preview 1, now available for download.
You will see many UI changes, although some issues may need to be resolved in future previews before the stable release.
Huge thanks to dongle-the-gadget for several XAML-based UI changes.
Starting Community Era
Starting with NanaZip 6.0, the NanaZip project is governed by multiple Benevolent Dictators For Life who make final decisions by reaching an agreement offline. This structure is chosen to avoid the risks of a single point of control while maintaining efficiency over a large committee. Here are current active Benevolent Dictators For Life:
- dinhngtu (Tu Dinh), https://github.com/dinhngtu
- Kenji Mouri, https://github.com/MouriNaruto
Also, the following contributors are recognized as candidates for the Benevolent Dictator For Life role. In their current capacity, they serve as valued consultants to the active Benevolent Dictators For Life due to their significant and valuable contributions to the project:
- AndromedaMelody, https://github.com/AndromedaMelody
- Dongle, https://github.com/dongle-the-gadget
- Sakura Neko, https://github.com/SakuraNeko
Read https://github.com/M2Team/NanaZip/blob/main/Documents/People.md for more information.
We also update several documents for this transitioning:
- Read https://github.com/M2Team/NanaZip/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md for the contributing guide.
- Read https://github.com/M2Team/NanaZip/blob/main/Documents/Security.md for the security policy.
Also, M2-Team began to provide an official Discord-based community. Here is the invitation link: https://discord.gg/YhZYP4QMBx
System Requirements Changes
Here are the system requirements starting with NanaZip 6.0:
- Supported Operating Systems:
- Windows 10, version 2004 (Build 19041) or later
- Windows Server 2022 (Build 20348) or later
- Supported Platforms:
- x86 (64-bit)
- ARM (64-bit)
Note: Due to the Self Extracting Executables (SFX) will be migrated to x86 (64-bit) starting with NanaZip 6.0, it gives users chances to use Self Extracting Executables (SFX) archives under 64-bit Microsoft official Windows PE and Windows RE instances:
- For ARM (64-bit) Microsoft official Windows PE and Windows RE, you need to make sure you Windows PE and Windows RE images are built with Windows ADK Build 25398 or later and integrated the x64 emulation optional component.
- For ARM (64-bit) Windows 10, I suggest you to upgrade to Windows 11 because ARM (64-bit) Windows 11 provides x64 emulation support, and Windows 10 is nearly end of support from Microsoft.
Read https://github.com/M2Team/NanaZip/tree/main#system-requirements for more information.
Release Notes
- Start to transition to community driven development model.
- Introduce extract-on-open feature. (Contributed by dinhngtu.)
- To disable this temporarily, hold Shift while opening the file.
- To disable this permanently, go to Settings, Integration tab, and disable "Extract on open" at the bottom.
- Introduce formal version of contributing guide and security policies. (Cooperated with dinhngtu and dongle-the-gadget.)
- Update system requirement to Windows 10, version 2004 (Build 19041) or later, and remove the x86 (32-bit) for all components.
- Start to use Zstandard decoder instead of 7-Zip mainline's implementation for better reliability, especially it can reduce more potential vulnerabilities.
- Introduce the XAML-based address bar. (Contributed by dongle-the-gadget.)
- Introduce the XAML-based status bar. (Contributed by dongle-the-gadget.)
- Introduce the XAML-based properties and information dialog. (Contributed by dongle-the-gadget.)
- Introduce the XAML-based progress dialog. (Contributed by dongle-the-gadget.)
- Improve the Smart Extraction feature. (Contributed by R-YaTian.)
- Introduce extract all automatically policy when opening executable files in archives. (Contributed by MajThomas.)
- Introduce the environment variable parsing support for address bar. (Thanks to dongle-the-gadget's huge help.)
- Improve the NanaZip startup performance by initializing the StoreContext later. (Contributed by dongle-the-gadget.)
- Add support for CBR and CBZ file associations. (Contributed by dinhngtu.)
- Add support for ASAR file association. (Contributed by dongle-the-gadget.)
- Display file system version in archive property window for the UFS/UFS2 file system image readonly support.
- Display bundle version in archive property for the .NET Single File Application bundle readonly support.
- Display file system version in archive property for the littlefs file system image readonly support.
- Fix the parsing padding issue for Electron Archive (asar) readonly support. (Contributed by Vlad-Andrei Popescu).
- Improve the ZealFS file system image readonly support implementation to fix several issues. (Cooperated with Zeal 8-bit.)
- Try to bring dialog window to the foreground to resolve user experience issues when opened from context menu. (Contributed by dinhngtu.)
- Move open folder checkbox to extract dialog. (Contributed by dinhngtu.)
- Introduce registry settings for Mark of the Web (MoTW) enforcement policies. (Contributed by dinhngtu.)
- Improve the dynamic library block list for resolving compatibility issues. (Contributed by dinhngtu.)
- Introduce registry settings for disabling security mitigation policies, which should be helpful for debugging and resolving compatibility issues. (Contributed by dinhngtu.)
- Fix dead loop issue when compressing files with Brotli, Lizard, LZ4 and LZ5 mentioned in #639. (Thanks to gigano01, InfiniteLoopGameDev and iOrange.)
- Fix the unable to return the processed bytes count issue for NanaZipCodecsReadInputStream.
- Fix some string resources issues. (Contributed by dinhngtu.)
- Fix issues in compression levels combobox. (Contributed by dongle-the-gadget.)
- Update Albanian translation. (Contributed by F1219R.)
- Update Hungarian translation. (Contributed by John Fowler.)
- Update Greek translation. (Contributed by Lefteris T.)
- Update German translation. (Contributed by HackZy01.)
- Update Bengali translation. (Contributed by Sumon Kayal.)
- Synchronize 7-Zip mainline implementations to 25.01. (Thanks to Igor Pavlov. Noticed by FadeMind and Pinguin2001.)
- Synchronize the 7-Zip ZS implementations to https://github.com/mcmilk/7-Zip-zstd/tree/2a2dcb293b80180dc305544bf6a9e081750bccfe. (Thanks to Sergey G. Brester and Tino Reichardt.)
- Update Zstandard to v1.5.7. (Noticed by dcog989.)
- Update Lizard to v2.1.
- Synchronize the BLAKE3 implementation to 1.8.2. (Noticed by peashooter2.)
- Synchronize the RHash implementation to latest master a.k.a. rhash/RHash@cce6c62 which is after v1.4.6.
- Update Mile.Windows.Helpers to 1.0.952.
- Update Mile.Windows.Internal to 1.0.3259.
- Update Mile.Json to 1.0.1057.
- Add littlefs v2.10.2 to NanaZip.Codecs for future development of work in progress littlefs archive format readonly support.
- Create NanaZip.Modern project for the modern user experience development.
- Introduce Mile.Mobility dependence to NanaZip.Codecs project for making better portability between NanaZip and AptxZip (a.k.a. NanaZip for POSIX).
- Introduce NanaZip.ExtensionPackage project for future development of features which need to be distributed as legacy installer. (Contributed by dinhngtu.)
- Introduce Mile.Helpers.Portable.Base.Unstaged as the temporary infrastructure to standardize some portable things in NanaZip.Codecs.
- Introduce NanaZip.Codecs.Specification.Fat for adding definitions of FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32.
- Introduce NanaZip.Codecs.Specification.Zealfs for adding definitions of ZealFS series file system. (Cooperated with Zeal 8-bit.)
- Add littlefs v1 on-disk definitions to the littlefs file system image readonly support.
- Introduce Mile.Project.Wap.Unstaged.targets for solving the issue that unnecessary XAML files contained in the final MSIX package.
- Add XAML Styler indentation configuration. (Contributed by dongle-the-gadget.)
- Use x-generate to define language resources in AppX manifest to solve the Windows AppX language fallback issue. (Suggested by dongle-the-gadget.)
- Update build binary logs when failed to build in GitHub Actions. (Contributed by dongle-the-gadget.)
- Introduce legacy string migrator. (Contributed by dongle-the-gadget.)
- Add more targeted editorconfig rules. (Contributed by dongle-the-gadget.)
- Move NanaZip.Core's NanaZip.Core.Console project to NanaZip.Universal's NanaZip.Universal.Console project.
- Disable WinRT metadata generation for all WinRT component consumers.
- Move NanaZip.Modern as the first item to workaround the AppX toolchain manifest generation issues.
- Improve the GitHub Actions artifacts generation.
- Update to Windows 11 SDK Build 26100 for NanaZipPackage.
- Fix the source code file header comment format.
- Use C++ zero initialization to reduce potential issues.
- Introduce reproducible build support for the whole project.
Download
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MSIX Package: NanaZipPreview_6.0.1461.0.msixbundle
- SHA-256: 875B42F0B990FBA52FD8FDFC2EADEF4C2CAEC1442B866A91987512667A4E690D
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License XML: NanaZipPreview_6.0.1461.0.xml
- SHA-256: DA93833381E9FA88A8BF423FA0DE9D3579F44CAE47E395EDE80DDDF6BC044C49
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Debug Symbols: NanaZipPreview_6.0.1461.0_DebugSymbols.zip
- SHA-256: 380BDA3A2768B07382FD54E77C5AF21D708344765DBD76B87F9D8AC475E9D1DE
Kenji Mouri