# NanaZip

NanaZip is an open source file archiver intended for the modern Windows
experience, forked from the source code of well-known open source file archiver
7-Zip.

All kinds of contributions will be appreciated. All suggestions, pull
requests and issues are welcome.

Maybe everyone needs to know I am not a full-time or paid developer for NanaZip.
I have my work to do. I need to work for Tencent-related company during the day.
I develop individual open-source projects at night.

I also need to port the project (I am a leader of a live-streaming project for
Windows) which I maintained for the company to Linux in recent days. So, I am
really busy. I sleep in midnight every day because I need to do both company
project and individual projects. I hope I can have more sponsors and
contributors for encouraging me not to give up. (I am afraid I would give up
without the @AndromedaMelody's huge contributions for Mile.Xaml and NanaZip.)

If you want to sponsor me, please read
this document.

I hope I can release at least one preview version of NanaZip 3.x in 2023. So,
I am trying my best to implement the related infrastructures like
Mile.Xaml.

Kenji Mouri

Features

• Inherit all features from 7-Zip 23.01.
• Packaging with MSIX for modern deployment experience.
• Support the context menu in Windows 10/11 File Explorer.
• Enable NSIS script decompiling support for the NSIS archives. (Merged from
  7-Zip NSIS branch.)
• Provide 7-Zip execution alias for helping users to migrate to NanaZip.
• Support the Brotli, Fast-LZMA2, Lizard, LZ4, LZ5 and Zstandard codecs. (Merged
  from 7-Zip ZS branch.)
• Support the Per-Monitor DPI-Aware for all GUI components.
• Support the i18n for GUI edition of Self Extracting Executable.
• Integrate the following HASH algorithms to NanaZip from RHash (AICH, BLAKE2b,
  BTIH, ED2K, EDON-R 224, EDON-R 256, EDON-R 384, EDON-R 512, GOST R 34.11-94,
  GOST R 34.11-94 CryptoPro, GOST R 34.11-2012 256, GOST R 34.11-2012 512,
  HAS-160, RIPEMD-160, SHA-224, SHA3-224, SHA3-256, SHA3-384, SHA3-512,
  Snefru-128, Snefru-256, Tiger, Tiger2, TTH, Whirlpool), xxHash (XXH3_64bits,
  XXH3_128bits) and GmSSL (SM3).
• Enable Control Flow Guard (CFG) to all target binaries for mitigating ROP
  attacks.
• Mark all x86 and x64 target binaries as compatible with Control-flow
  Enforcement Technology (CET) Shadow Stack.
• Strict handle checks at runtime to block the use of invalid handles.
• Disable dynamic code generation in Release builds prevents generating
  malicious code at runtime.
• Block loading unexpected libraries from remote sources at runtime.
• Enable Package Integrity Check.
• Enable EH Continuation Metadata.
• Enable Signed Returns.

System Requirements

• NanaZip (Graphical User Interface, Command Line Interface and MSIX package)
• Supported OS: Windows 10 Version 2004 (Build 19041) or later

• Supported Platforms: x86 (32-bit and 64-bit) and ARM (64-bit)

• NanaZip.Core (Core Library and the Self Extracting Executables)

• Supported OS: Windows Vista RTM (Build 6000.16386) or later.
• Supported Platforms: x86 (32-bit and 64-bit) and ARM (64-bit)

Download and Installation

Here are some available installation methods for NanaZip.

Microsoft Store

This is the recommended way to install NanaZip.

Search and install NanaZip in Windows Store for stable release, and NanaZip Preview for preview release.

Also, you can also click the Microsoft Store link you needed.

• NanaZip
• NanaZip Preview

MSIX Package

You also can download the MSIX Package in
GitHub Releases.

After you have downloaded the MSIX Package, you can double click to install it,
or you can execute the following command in the PowerShell which is run as
administrator.

PowerShell -NoLogo -NoProfile -NonInteractive -InputFormat None -ExecutionPolicy Bypass Add-AppxPackage -DeferRegistrationWhenPackagesAreInUse -ForceUpdateFromAnyVersion -Path The path of the MSIX package

P.S. All needed dependencies are included in the MSIX Package of NanaZip
because we known that it's very difficult for users who do not have access to
the store to get our dependency packages, and we want to be robust and
deployable everywhere.

If you want to install NanaZip for all users, you can execute the following
command in the PowerShell which is run as administrator.

PowerShell -NoLogo -NoProfile -NonInteractive -InputFormat None -ExecutionPolicy Bypass Add-AppxProvisionedPackage -Online -PackagePath The path of the MSIX package -SkipLicense

You also can execute the following command in the Command Prompt which is run
as administrator instead.

DISM.exe /Online /Add-ProvisionedAppxPackage /PackagePath:The path of the MSIX package /SkipLicense

For more information, please read documents for PowerShell and
DISM

P.S. Due to the policy from Microsoft Store, you need to run NanaZip with the
internet connection at the first time for getting the license if you install
NanaZip without the internet connection, otherwise Windows won't launch NanaZip
properly.

If you want to uninstall NanaZip you installed for all users, you can execute
the following command in the PowerShell which is run as administrator.

Get-AppxPackage -Name 40174MouriNaruto.NanaZip -AllUsers | Remove-AppxPackage -AllUsers -Confirm

Known issues

• If you can't find NanaZip in the context menu, please restart all File
  Explorer processes via Task Manager.
• Due to the design of MSIX, drives' context menu in Explorer only show in
  Windows 11(22H2)+.
• Due to the issues in Desktop Bridge file system virtualization, you are
  unable to use NanaZip in the Safe Mode of Windows.
• Due to the policy from Microsoft Store, NanaZip is unable to disable Desktop
  Bridge file system virtualization, so the file operations in
  %UserProfile%/AppData will be redirected in Windows 10, and file operations
  in directories other than Local, LocalLow and Roaming in
  %UserProfile%/AppData will still be redirected in Windows 11.
• Due to the Microsoft Store limitations, NanaZip 1.2 and later won't support
  languages not mentioned in
  https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/publish/supported-languages.
• If you turn off the Windows Firewall, you may fail to install NanaZip.
  (https://github.com/M2Team/NanaZip/issues/204)
  (https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/12269)
• Due to the System Settings APP limitations, only starting with Windows 11+
  (Build 22000.1817+ & 22621.1555+), you can launch directly to the settings
  page of file association for NanaZip.
  (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/launch-resume/launch-default-apps-settings)

Development Roadmap

• 1.0 (December 8, 2021)
• [x] Modernize the build toolchain with MSBuild for using MSIX packaging and
  parallel compilation support.
• [x] Use VC-LTL 5.x toolchain to
  make the binary size even smaller than the official 7-Zip because we
  can use ucrtbase.dll directly and the optimizations from modern compile
  toolchain.
• Add the context menu support in Windows 10/11 File Explorer.
• New icons and minor UI tweaks.
• [x] Merge NSIS script decompiling support from
  7-Zip NSIS branch.
  (Suggested by alanfox2000.)
• [x] Provide 7-Zip execution alias for helping users to migrate to NanaZip.
  (Suggested by AndromedaMelody.)
• [x] Add support for Brotli, Fast-LZMA2, Lizard, LZ4, LZ5 and Zstandard
  from 7-Zip ZS branch. (Suggested
  by fcharlie.)
• 1.1 (March 17, 2022)
• Add assembly implementations from 7-Zip back for improving performance.
• Reimplement the about dialog with Task Dialog.
• Modernize the message boxes with Task Dialog.
• 1.2 (May 11, 2022)
• Add Per-Monitor DPI-Aware support for all UI components.
• [x] Modernize the i18n implementation and migrate language files from
  .txt to .resw. (Suggested by Maicol Battistini.)
• Add i18n support for Self Extracting Executables.
• 2.0 (October 4, 2022)
• Provide the new icons.
• Start modernizing the core implementation.
• Add the UI stack based on XAML Islands which is used in NanaZip.
• [x] Start modernizing the UI with XAML Islands with the Windows 11 control
  style, dark and light mode support.
• Blue Moon (3.x) Series (Before 2024 Q3)
• [ ] Continue to modernize the UI with XAML Islands with the Windows 11
  control style, dark and light mode support.
• Full Accessibility support in all UI components.
• [ ] Migrate configurations from registry to json. (Suggested by
  AndromedaMelody.)
• Continue to modernize the core implementation.
• Try to Windows Runtime component for interoperability.
• Provide NanaZip Installer for simplify the deployment.
• Try to add option for save file names with UTF-8 in 7z archives.
• Add batch task support. (Suggested by 刘泪.)
• Try to design the new UI layout. (Suggested by wangwenx190.)
• [ ] Try to add option for using Windows Imaging API (WIMGAPI) backend to
  make better creation and extraction support for wim archives, also add
  creation and extraction support for esd archives.
• Try to add pri archive extracting support.
• Try to add smart extraction.
• [ ] Try to add language encoding switching support for file names in File
  Manager. (Suggested by 刘泪 and zjkmxy.)
• [ ] Try to add deleting source after archiving support. (Suggested by
  OrionGrant.)
• [ ] Try to add an option when extracting an archive to open the folder
  where you extracted the files, like WinRAR. (Suggested by maicol07.)
• Try to add ISO creation support.
• Sherlock Holmes (5.x) Series (Before 2025 Q3)
• Currently no new feature plans for this series.
• Unpredictable Future Series (T.B.D.)
• [ ] Try to create a new archive file format optimized for software
  distribution and image backup and restore.
  • Keeping metadata provided by file system.
  • File referencing support.
  • Integrity verification support.
  • Differential support.
  • Recovery record support.
  • Provide lightweight SDK for authoring and consuming.
• [ ] Try to contribute recovery record support for 7z archives to 7-Zip
  mainline. (Suggested by SakuraNeko.)
• [ ] Try to port NanaZip to Linux.
  • [ ] Try to port MegaUI (an developing lightweight UI framework created by
    mingkuang, under internal developing at the current stage, will be
    open source if the work has done) framework to Linux.
  • [ ] Try to create MinLin (a.k.a. Minimum Linux, a distro intended for
    helping publish distroless binaries and provide some Windows API
    functions as static libraries for having a lightweight platform
    abstraction layer) project because I think NanaZip should support
    distroless environment for reducing time wasting for compiling for
    different distros.
• [ ] After porting NanaZip to Linux, accept contributions from community
  folks for other POSIX platforms (e.g. FreeBSD) and macOS support.
• [ ] Try to add extension for Windows File Explorer for give user immersive
  experience like builtin zip file support in Windows. (Suggested by
  SakuraNeko and shuax.)
• [ ] Try to create isolated and portable plugin infrastructure based on
  64-bit RISC-V Unprivileged ISA Specification.
  Runtime Project: https://github.com/ChaosAIOfficial/RaySoul

Documents

• License
• Relevant People
• Privacy Policy
• Code of Conduct
• Contributing Guide
• NanaZip Release Notes
• NanaZip Preview Release Notes
• Versioning
• My Digital Life Forums