CHANGELOG
What's New in version 7.15:
- Added the feature decompressing 7Z archives compressed with LZ4, LZ5, Lizard, and Deflate64 algorithms
- Fixed a bug that the program crashes when compressing files under certain conditions
- Improved the feature decompressing a UDF archive
- Fixed a bug that decompression cannot be done if a filename inside the archive contains some special characters
- Improved the program's stability
- Other modifications
What's New in version 7.14:
- Fixed a bug that occurs when decompressing an archive whose name ends with a blank space
- Improved the handling of a program crash
- Added a feature storing symbolic links in a TAR archive
- Fixed the web browser control to make it run at a low integrity level
- Added a feature decompressing ZIPX archives compressed with ZSTD algorithm
- Improved the processing speed when decompressing a UDF archive
- Fixed a bug that the program crashes when opening an archive under certain conditions
- Fixed a bug that the program cannot decompress a ZIP archive whose local file header does not include the filename
- Added a feature storing an archive comment in the advanced ZIP compression settings
- Added a feature turning on and off filename encryption in the advanced 7Z compression settings
- Improved the preview of thumbnail images
- Added a feature storing hard links in a TAR archive
- Fixed a bug related to -ex: switch
- Added a feature applying ICC profiles to the internal image viewer
- Fixed a DLL hijacking vulnerability (CNVD-C-2021-22156)
- Added a feature processing junctions in a RAR5 archive
- Improved the error message displayed with AMSI initialization failure
- Fixed a bug that some TAR files cannot be processed
- Fixed a bug that files without extensions cannot be processed on CLI
- Other modifications
What's New in version 7.13:
- Added the feature decompressing hard-linked and symbolic-linked (Unix) files in a RAR5 archive
- Added the feature decompressing 7Z archives compressed with ZSTD and Brotli algorithms
- Improved the processing of hard-linked and symbolic-linked files in a TAR archive
- Fixed a bug that some UDF files (.iso) of large sizes cannot be decompressed
- Fixed a bug that some NSIS files (.exe) cannot be decompressed
- Improved the processing of command-line commands
- Improved the feature repairing a ZIP archive
- Improved the processing of 7Z compression
- Improved the processing of an app crash
- Improved the Password Recovery
- Other modifications
What's New in version 7.12:
- Stability improvements and bugfixes
What's New in version 7.11:
- Fixed a bug that some split-archived RAR5 files cannot be opened
- Fixed a bug that setting a password is unavailable when creating an SFX file
- Fixed a bug that some TAR files are incorrectly processed
- Fixed a bug that the processing speed is low when compressing files of small sizes in 7Z format
- Improved the processing speed when decompressing a 7Z archive
- Added the feature 'Select toolbar buttons'
- Fixed a bug that translation using a code page does not work properly when decompression needs administrative privileges
- Improved the feature 'Image Preview in Archive' for a solid-compressed 7Z archive
- Added -cp:NN switch specifying the code page for opening or extracting files
- Added the feature setting the font for a file list from an archive
- Fixed a bug that the program crashes when opening some RAR5 files
- Fixed a bug that the program crashes when opening some UDF files
- Fixed a bug that the program crashes if the system clock is before the year 1970
- Fixed a bug that the program crashes under certain conditions
- Other improvements in the program's stability
What's New in version 7.10:
- Fixed a buffer overrun vulnerability (KVE-2020-0652)
- Fixed a bug that the context menus on the File Explorer are displayed only in English when signing in with another Windows account in which the program has never been run
- Added -t:NN switch specifying the number of CPU threads to be used for compression
- Fixed a bug that a folder created by the 'New folder' context menu on the File Explorer is not displayed properly sometimes
- Fixed a bug that -r switch does not work when decompressing an archive
- Fixed a bug that HiDPI support does not work on older versions of Windows 10
- Fixed a bug that -cmtfile: switch is ignored when creating an SFX file
- Improved the feature 'Image Preview in Archive'
- Other modifications
What's New in version 7.09:
- Fixed a bug that the Password Recovery does not work on the Standard Edition
- Added /D: switch to the installer, which enables the user to select the installation folder
- Fixed a bug that (de)compression on CLI cannot be done if the full path exceeds 260 characters
- Fixed a bug that the program crashes when decompressing some CAB files
- Fixed a bug that decompression is not done properly if the size of the original file is exactly 4294967295 bytes
- Other modifications
What's New in version 7.08:
- Added 'Skip this version' on the update notification
- Fixed a bug that the program sometimes crashes when using 'Compress to each File/FolderName.zip'
- Fixed a bug that the program sometimes crashes on a high DPI system
- Other modifications
What's New in version 7.07:
- Fixed a bug that font size in a dialog box becomes too large when displaying languages of the Latin alphabets
- New feature that a user can resize thumbnails of 'View large icons' by using [Ctrl + Scrolling the mousewheel] or [Ctrl and +/-]
- Fixed a bug that occurs when processing an extended header of TAR format
- Other modifications
What's New in version 7.06:
- Support for Per-Monitor V2 DPI Awareness
- ( The new feature of Windows 10 allowing apps to be scaled automatically whenever the resolution changes )
- Fixed a bug that a ZIP archive comment cannot be deleted
- Fixed a bug that 'Test Archive' does not work when adding a file to an archive
- Fixed a bug that an encrypted 7Z archive cannot be opened even with the valid password if the password is entered incorrectly once
- Fixed a bug that the image preview in an archive shows a wrong image under certain conditions
- Fixed a bug associated with a self-extracting archive (SFX)
- Fixed a bug that a file in a TGZ archive's subfolder cannot be decompressed when using Ctrl+F and drag & drop
- New feature that a user can specify the number of CPU threads to be used for 7Z compression in the advanced compression settings
- Other modifications
What's New in version 7.04:
- Fixed a bug that the File Explorer crashes when right-clicking on a TGZ file
- Fixed a bug that 'Test Archive' does not work sometimes when creating an archive
- Improved the installer
- Other modifications
What's New in version 7.03:
- Fixed a bug that extended headers of TAR format are incorrectly processed
- Fixed a bug that folder timestamps are incorrectly processed when decompressing an archive
- Fixed a bug that processing speed is low when previewing images on a folder which has a large number of images
- Other modifications
What's New in version 7.02:
- Fixed an error which occurs when decompressing multiple archives of small sizes individually on the File Explorer
- Improved the registration of paid editions
- Updated the multi-language files
- Fixed bugs in the installer
- Other modifications
What's New in version 7.01:
- Fixed a bug that some types of hard-linked files in TAR format cannot be processed
- Fixed bugs in the internal image viewer
- Fixed bugs in the password manager
- Fixed bugs in the UI
- Fixed bugs in the command line processing
- Other modifications
What's New in version 7.0:
New license system:
- Bandizip 7.0 is released in 3 types of editions: Standard (Free) / Professional (Paid) / Enterprise (Paid)
Modifications:
- Bandizip 7.0 uses an online installer.
- Advertisements appear on Bandizip Standard Edition.
Miscellaneous:
- SFX (EXE) files created by Bandizip no longer work with Windows XP.
- Changed name of command line compression tool for console (bc.exe ? bz.exe)
New features and improvements:
- Advanced compression settings
- New feature displaying images with thumbnails on View > File list > Icons
- New feature 'Single-click to open an item'
- New feature using Alt + Left/Right arrow to go back/forward one folder
- New feature displaying images with thumbnails on View > File list > Icons
- New feature displaying files with large icons
- (Displaying images with larger thumbnails)
- New feature processing hard-linked files in TAR format
- New feature pre-allocating disk space for an output file
- (Minimizing disk fragmentation and improving speed in decompression)
- New command 'rn' for command line interface
- Wildcards are available in filenames for command line interface, enabling decompression of multiple archives.
- Installer detects CPU automatically (x86/x64/ARM64) and downloads compatible files, enabling traffic management and faster update.
- Decompressing NSIS format on its own without relying on external libraries
- Decompressing UDF format on its own without relying on external libraries (support for UDF 2.60)
- Decompressing PMA (LHA) format in PM1 method
- Decompressing Google Brotli (.br) format
- Decompressing Facebook Zstandard (.zstd) format
- Improved speed in compression and decompression
- Improved speed in decompression of RAR5 file
- Improved speed in decompression of some types of 7Z file
- Improved support for multi-monitor environment
- Improved support for DOS SFX format
- Improved support for ZIP file compressed in MBCS on Unix
- Improved processing method for code page in TAR format
- Improved command processing for command line interface
- Improved feature 'Open file location'
- Improved update settings
Resolved issues:
- Fixed bug that UI appears blurry on HiDPI display
- Fixed bug that right-to-left languages are displayed incorrectly (e.g. Arabic)
- Fixed issue that processing speed is low when (de)compressing multiple files of small sizes individually
What's New in version 7.0 Beta 41:
- Fixed bug that UI appears blurry on HiDPI display
- Fixed bug that right-to-left languages are displayed incorrectly (e.g. Arabic)
- New feature using Alt + Left/Right arrow to go back/forward one folder
- Improved support for multi-monitor environment
- Installer detects CPU automatically (x86/x64/ARM64) and downloads compatible files, enabling traffic management and faster update.
- New feature displaying images with thumbnails on View > File list > Icons
- New feature displaying files with large icons (displaying images with larger thumbnails)
- SFX(EXE) files created by Bandizip no longer work with Windows XP.
- Improved command processing for command line interface
- Improved feature 'Open file location'
- Wildcards are available in filenames for command line interface, enabling decompression of multiple archives.
- Improved update setting
What's New in version 6.26:
- Fixed: Crash issue when opening a certain type of CAB file
- New code signing certificate has been installed.
- Other modifications
What's New in version 6.25:
- Fixed: Security issue when using 'Open file location' feature
- Improved: Installer
- Other modifications
What's New in version 6.23:
- Added support for GARBLE algorithm of ARJ format
- Added support for obfuscated-deflate algorithm of ALZ format
- Added support for HTTP Proxy when you update manually
- Fixed a bug where some damaged ISO files cannot be opened
- Fixed a bug where file time information of specific ISO is not handled correctly
- Fixed a bug where Bandizip cannot open SFX(RAR, LZH, ARJ) files that are compressed in DOS
- Some minor bug fixes
What's New in version 6.21:
- Stop supporting ACE format due to vulnerability (CVE-2018-20250)
- Fixed: Crash problem while extracting specific NSIS
- Fixed: Shell extension does not work for the specific case
- Some minor bug fixes
What's New in version 6.20:
- Fixed: Toolbar image related issue
What's New in version 6.19:
- New: EGG/AZO algorithm extraction support
- Fixed: Recognize some zip files that are compressed with Mac Finder as corrupted files
- Improved: Enhanced stability during multicore compression
- Stability improvements and bugfixes
What's New in version 6.18:
New:
- 'Windows 10 on ARM' support
Improved:
- Installer improvements
- Precise file time processing for RAR4 format
Fixed:
- File time is changed while processing Zone.Identifier
- Internal image viewer cannot process password correctly under the specific condition
- Stability improvements and Bugfixes
What's New in version 6.17:
- Update Type: Minor update
- Fixed: Vulnerability of the internal image viewer(CNVD-C-2018-107947)
- Stability improvements
What's New in version 6.16:
- Fixed: Filename case sensitive related problem when editing ZIP file
- Fixed: Recognize empty ZIP file as a corrupted file
- Fixed: Internal image viewer resizing related problem
- Improved the stability of the program and several bugs fixed
What's New in version 6.15:
- New: System security enhancement by copying Zone.Identifier information
- Improved: File association process
- Improved: Does not use GDI+ anymore
- Fixed: Cannot read some settings text when using High Contrast
- Fixed: The date of the file is not correctly displayed if it is before January 1, 1970
- Improved the stability of the program and several bugs fixed
What's New in version 6.14:
- Fixed: Cannot extract specific RAR5 format file
- Fixed: Cannot extract specific RAR format file
- Fixed: Ace format related bugs
- ZLIB update(1.2.8->1.2.11)
- Improved the stability of the program
- Code refactoring
What's New in version 6.13:
- Update Type: Major update
- New: Show/Hide Status Bar
- Improved: Updater
- Improved: Installer
- Fixed: 7z handling problem of the internal image viewer
- Fixed: Symbolic link related bugs
- Fixed: Does not process RAR5 format's file attributes
- Fixed: Rare crash during Wavpack extraction
- Fixed: Codesign related problem with SFX file
- Several bugs fixed
What's New in version 5.11:
- Improved support for high resolution DPI.
- The 'Handle long path names exceeding 260 characters' option is checked by default.
Bugs fixed:
- The Sparse format of TAR was recognized as a corrupted file.
- An error occurred if ISO files had MBCS in the pathname under certain situations.
- Failed to extract some GZIP files which had annotations.
- Other minor bugs fixed.
What's New in version 5.10:
- Added the Armenian language file by Aram Vardanyan.
- Improved security of Bandizip Updater.
- Bugfix: Some .7z files were extracted slowly in a certain situation.
- Bugfix: Other minor bugs fixed.
What's new in version 5.09:
- Bandizip is now able to extract i00, i01, i02 files (ISO split archives).
- Bugfix: DPI AWARE didn't work properly in the Select Folder dialog box.
- Bugfix: Bandizip stopped working while extracting some 7Z files if the user entered the wrong password.
What's New in version 5.07.12631:
- Improved compatibility with Windows 10.
- Added unicode support for the Info-ZIP header of Zip format.
- Bugs fix: Failed to extract some XZ files.
- Other minor bugs fixed.
What's New in version 5.06.12596:
- Added the Japanese language file.
What's New in version 5.06.12571:
- Fix: Failed to extract some 4 GB or bigger split ZIP files.
- Fix: Extracted files' time wasn't set correctly when Bandizip extracted the RAR files (Year 2038 bug).
- Other minor bugs fixed.
What's New in version 5.05:
- Bug fixed - Some archived files were not displayed when they had been compressed by right clicking in Windows Explorer.
- Added the Belarusian language file.
What's New in version 5.04:
- A drop-down menu will be shown when right clicking on the Open and Extract buttons.
- The preset size of Gmail has changed from 26,214,400 bytes to 25,600,000 bytes.
- Improved the UI of message boxes.
- Added the Finnish and Sinhala language files
Bugs fixed:
- The progress status bar was not displayed properly when modifying Zip files in a certain situation.
- The code page of file names was not saved as UTF-8 when modifying Zip files even if the user checked the 'Use unicode file names in Zip files (UTF-8)' option.
- Failed to extract RAR5 archives which were compressed with passwords and the Store method.
- Failed to open certain files with an external editor if the file name in the archive has a blank space.
- Failed to extract CAB archives which were split and compressed with the MSZIP algorithm.
- Failed to handle the SWAP2 and SWAP4 filters of the 7z format.
- Other minor bugs fixed.
What's new in version 5.0:
- Bandizip is now installed in the Program Files folder instead of the 'LOCALAPPDATA' folder. (Administrator's privileges are required.)
- Added support for high-resolution monitors (DPI-Aware)
- Added support for Windows 8 file associations.
- ISZ/BIN file formats can be extracted.
- GIF, PSD, BMP formats can be viewed with the internal image viewer.
- Archived images can be viewed with Honeyview.
- Fixed many bugs.
What's new in version 3.10:
- Improved security of Bandizip.
- Bugs fixed - Failed to extract splitted .ace files
- Others
What's New in version 3.09:
- Bandizip now supports the new RAR 5.0 archive format
- Added Uyghur language file
What's New in version 3.08:
- Bugfix: Failed to open a certain ZIP64 file format
- Bugfix: Mouse pointer moved to the upper left corner when the 'Snap-To' function of mouse pointer was enabled.
What's New in version 3.07:
- Some .7z files were corrupted in a certain situation.
- Bandizip now uses LZMA2 instead of LZMA when packing .7z files.
What's New in version 3.06:
- Added Hebrew language file by Ronen Nisanov.
- Bandizip now uses LZMA instead of LZMA2 when packing .7z files.
What's New in version 3.05:
- Improved security of Bandizip.
- Bug fix: Filename was not displayed automatically when Bandizip archived the root directory of a hard drive.
What's New in version 3.03:
- Added Thai language file.
- Bugs fixed
- Some password-protected .7z files were corrupted in a certain situation.
- Others