The Archive Browser Changelog

What's new in The Archive Browser 1.11.2

Aug 30, 2017
  • Minor bugs fixed.

New in The Archive Browser 1.11.1 (May 20, 2016)

  • Fixed spurious error message when extracting multi-part RAR files.

New in The Archive Browser 1.11 (May 17, 2016)

  • Support for RAR version 5 archives.
  • Added date column to file list.
  • Handle opening archives with huge number of parts better.
  • Bug fixes for zip64, NSIS, and Squeeze.
  • Updated Sparkle.

New in The Archive Browser 1.10.1 (Sep 24, 2015)

  • Fixed crash on OS X 10.9 and below.

New in The Archive Browser 1.10 (Sep 23, 2015)

  • Removed file type selector.
  • Fixed crash on OS X 10.11.
  • Fixed a bug where the program would sometimes exit silently when trying to open files.
  • Fixed an issue that made unpacked application not work.
  • Better support for Zip, 7z, gzip and NSIS files.
  • Bugfixes for pax and ARJ.
  • Fixes for a few crashing bugs.

New in The Archive Browser 1.9.1 (Nov 4, 2013)

  • Fixed password and error screens on Mavericks.

New in The Archive Browser 1.9 (Oct 2, 2013)

  • Add support for PMA files.
  • Better support for broken Zip files.
  • Fixed bugs in handling of NSIS and MSI files.
  • Now deletes partially extracted files after cancelling extraction.

New in The Archive Browser 1.8.1 (Aug 10, 2013)

  • Fixed crashing on 10.9 in the non-App Store version.

New in The Archive Browser 1.8 (Jul 5, 2013)

  • Now also availble outside of the App Store, through paddle.com.
  • Paddle.com version is not sandboxed.
  • Fixed some more problems with opening TAR files.
  • Added support for XIP files.
  • Fixed some crashes and unsupported files for RAR.
  • Better support for RAR Mac OS X SFX files.
  • Fixed crashes for certain CAB and PDF files.
  • Added support for comments in Amiga LhA files.

New in The Archive Browser 1.7 (Apr 6, 2013)

  • Fix a bug that would make files with invalid filenames not work in Zip and Exe files.
  • Fix some small memory leaks.
  • Some small interface tweaks.
  • Read-only attributes for files in archives are now ignored. This caused some files not to extract correctly in older versions.
  • Fix a bug with parsing Tar files.

New in The Archive Browser 1.6.1 (Feb 12, 2013)

  • Fixed a bug introduced in the previous version that caused some archives to fail to open. Sorry for any inconvenience caused.

New in The Archive Browser 1.6 (Jan 7, 2013)

  • Added the ability to test archived files without unpacking them.
  • Added support for the Internet Archive WARC format.
  • Fixed bugs in XAR/.pkg, CAB, HQX and Compress.
  • Fixed a few more rare bugs and crashes.

New in The Archive Browser 1.5.1 (Nov 30, 2012)

  • Fixed a bug that made the app fail to launch on 10.6 and 10.7. Terribly sorry that this took so long to get fixed, but Apple took over a week and a half to approve this bugfix.
  • Fixed another sandbox bug that caused archives on remote volumes to fail to open.

New in The Archive Browser 1.5 (Nov 17, 2012)

  • Added support for password-protected 7z files.
  • Better support for very old StuffIt archives, including password-protected ones.
  • Fixed bugs that caused embedded archives to display poorly.
  • Fixes for Mountain Lion.
  • Fixed a bug where the app might stop launching at all under rare circumstances.
  • Various bug fixes for PDF, hqx, sitx

New in The Archive Browser 1.4 (Oct 11, 2012)

  • Added Retina display support.
  • Now properly opens PDFs inside archives in the user's preferred PDF viewer.
  • Bugfixes for Tar and PDF extraction.
  • Bugfix for the extraction progress bar for some 7z files.

New in The Archive Browser 1.3 (Sep 7, 2012)

  • Updated to support Apple's new stricter sandboxing rules. This means the program will need to nag the user more often, but should also mean that extraction should work better in non-standard locations. May also have introduced new bugs, so be careful and report any problems.
  • Support for extracting bitmap images from PDF files.
  • Support for AppleSingle files.
  • Better handling of file collisions when dragging files to the Finder.
  • Bug fixes

New in The Archive Browser 1.2 (Apr 28, 2012)

  • Added option for opening extracted files in the Finder.
  • Added Services for opening and extracting archives.
  • Added option for closing browser windows after extraction.
  • Added a workaround for a Mac OS X sandbox bug that was causing extracted apps to not launch properly.
  • Fixed extraction of partial RAR files.
  • Fixed spurious warnings about resource forks for some Zip files.

New in The Archive Browser 1.1 (Apr 3, 2012)

  • Fix possible crash on 10.6.