ALZip Changelog

What's new in ALZip 8.51

Nov 26, 2011
  • Added: Support for deflate64 and PPMD algorithm
  • Added: Support for 7zip LZMA2 algorithm
  • Added: "Open folder after extraction" option added in Extraction window
  • Added: Drag & Drop function on left explorer
  • Changed: "Open folder after extraction" and "Create filename folder under selected folder" options to be set as default
  • Changed: CD Image formats (iso, lcd, bin, nrg, img) not to be associated when ALZip is installed
  • Changed: Span Archive size and species
  • Changed: File not to be opened when adding by dragging open XML type files (docx and xlsx)
  • Changed: Default path in Extract window has changed to "My Documents" when extracting file on temporary path
  • Fixed: "Open Folder" option in Compression Complete window after adding files by dragging to an existing archive
  • Fixed: "Task to Run After Extraction" option in ALZip Self-Extractor
  • Fixed: Security issues in certain compressed archives
  • Fixed: File not opening when "part" is used as a split RAR archive name
  • Fixed: File not extracting to the path entered in Extract window
  • Fixed: "Delete Extracted Files after Running" option in Create ALZip Self-Extractor window not activating
  • Fixed: "Task to Run After Extraction" option in Create ALZip Self-Extractor window not working
  • Fixed: Error when Set ALZip as Default Program window is moved
  • Fixed: Error when opening split .ALZ SFX file
  • Improved: Open up speed for file archive
  • Updated: bzip2 library (1.0.6)
  • EGG Format: Fixed errors and improved performance of EGG format

New in ALZip 8.12 (Oct 13, 2010)

  • Improved: ALZip program opens faster
  • Fixed: Security issue relevant to .DLL files (2269637)

New in ALZip 8.0 Beta 1 (May 6, 2010)

  • Added: New compression format EGG
  • Added: Support for Unicode
  • Added: Language encoding to archive
  • Added: Peek in what files are inside by right-clicking an archive
  • Added: Compress each of the selected folder function in context menu
  • Added: Compress using administrator's privilege
  • Added: Task Result window after compressing or extracting
  • Added: (Only EGG format) Priority on Compress Ratio method using LZMA algorithm
  • Added: (Only EGG format) LZMA algorithm in Optimized Compression
  • Added: Unicode (MAC) and Unicode (Linux) in Language Encoding option when compressing into ZIP format
  • Added: Windows 7 Taskbar Progress
  • Added: Auto Select, Unicode and Unicode(MAC) added in Language Encoding option
  • Added: View List and Error Test added in command line function
  • Changed: Bird Folder to New Folder, which creates folders' name started with the pronounciation of "New"
  • Changed: Extract to My Default Folder option applied to Extract window
  • Changed: Each file spanned into no more than 4 GB when creating spanned SFX files
  • Improved: Extract ZIP files which is compressed using LZMA algorithm
  • Improved: Support UDF type for ISO files
  • Fixed: Recognizing location as filename when location is set to the archive name
  • Fixed: Converted EXE file not extracting when extracting location doesn't exist

New in ALZip 7.52.0.1 (Dec 22, 2009)

  • Added : Full Windows 7 support for all editions and x64 editions

New in ALZip 7.4 (Apr 9, 2009)

  • Added: Commands added
  • "-ls": Show log on command line interface
  • "-oa": Overwrite an existing file which has the same name when extracting
  • "-os": Skip an existing file which has the same name when extracting
  • "-on": Overwrite if an existing file which has the same name is newer when extracting
  • "-oo": Overwrite if an existing file which has the same name is older when extracting
  • Added: Message added when extracting massive compression file (over 4GB)
  • Added: LHA added to Default Archive Format
  • Changed: Folder created when setting a destination folder and extracting in the command line
  • Changed: Unnecessary maximize Button discarded
  • Fixed: System stopped when creating more than a certain number of new folders
  • Fixed: No room left in first file when creating split archive
  • Fixed: When compressing a ZIP file, an empty folder is compressed with a different character
  • Fixed: Problem showing context menu when ALZip is installed in a different folder other than Program Files
  • Fixed: Extract to a wrong path in Windows Explorer tree view on some occasions
  • Fixed: Task selection window pops up twice when adding file to ALZip main window by drag & drop
  • Fixed: Illegally exits when recently used file is located in a folder, which the user can’t access
  • Fixed: File name left empty in a compression file
  • Fixed: Split files are left when creating a split archive is canceled
  • Fixed: Virus scanning doesn’t work when virus program uses space included parameter
  • Fixed: Illegally exits when special characters are used as virus scanner parameter
  • Fixed: Does not show file list of ALZ self-extract file
  • Fixed: Incorrect message when run self-extract file
  • Fixed: Unable to extract some self-extract file if folder name includes special character code
  • Fixed: Self-extract file exits illegally when command is in upper case
  • Fixed: Self-extracting file stops when disallowed character is used in command
  • Fixed: When you extract a SFX file with no path, an unnamed folder is created and cannot be deleted
  • Fixed: Error when renaming some LHA
  • Fixed: Unable to extract some LHA files
  • Fixed: Error when original file size is 0 in 7z file format
  • Fixed: Illegally exits in Windows 98 when 7z files include special characters
  • Fixed: Problem extracting some RAR files
  • Fixed: Unable to rename files in TAR
  • Fixed: ACE file names are not shown when being extracted for converting compression file formats

New in ALZip 7.0 Beta 1 (Aug 1, 2007)

  • Added: Full Windows Vista support for all editions and x64 editions
  • Added: When overwriting duplicate files, you can now select between always overwriting, overwrite with newer (update), or overwrite with older files (restore)
  • Added: Option to automatically extract archives or display a concise context menu when double-clicking archives in Windows Explorer
  • Fixed: Better integration with Microsoft Office 2007 file formats
  • Fixed: When extracting password protected 7z archives with the wrong password, a 'garbage' file of the same size was created
  • Fixed: Decompressing specific archives caused ALZip to exit illegally
  • Fixed: Under certain specific conditions, selecting files to create a new archive caused ALZip to close
  • Fixed: Problems associating the correct icons when setting ALZip as the default program - old icons were used
  • Fixed: Saving an archive with "Save as" automatically overwrote any existing file with the same name without prompting
  • Fixed: Focus in password input dialog corrected
  • Fixed: For some specific ALZ files, adding files, changing file names, or deleting files (various operations) caused ALZip to close
  • Fixed: Entering an invalid spanned archive size caused ALZip to incorrectly default to 1kb
  • Fixed: Problems with properly extracting files with complete paths in ZIP files
  • Fixed: Problems with properly extracting files with complete paths in RAR files

New in ALZip 6.7 (Jan 25, 2007)

  • Added: Windows Vista support
  • Fixed: Errors in specific situation when using the ALZip Windows Explorer context menu item "Extract to current folder" caused extraction to the wrong folder
  • Fixed: When context menu items were disabled for some items in the file explorer, they did not reset themselves properly for other items. Bug introduced in v6.34.
  • Added: Option to mask or not mask passwords in password window
  • Added: Robust support for file and file path options to archives from the command line. i.e. "C:...", ".....", "....", "..."
  • Fixed: Problem with all files being archived to the root folder when creating TAR files. Bug introduced in 6.34
  • Fixed: Clicking file list headers in archives did not always sort them properly. Bug introduced in v6.34
  • Fixed: Extracting CD images didn't handle overwriting or skipping files properly
  • Fixed: Problem with password retrieval not displaying properly
  • Upgraded: Replaced ALZip icons for Vista
  • Fixed: Temporary folders from ALZip Preferences were not set properly
  • Fixed: Handling non-existant files (from the MRU or command line) caused ALZip to exit unexpectedly
  • Fixed: Compressing files from inside of Windows Explorer Search resulted in damaged files in archives

New in ALZip 6.13-Lang23 (Apr 27, 2006)

  • New Look and Feel, Command line functionality, new formats added, bug fixes, minor updates, multiligual, added Slovak