# AZip version 2.7

**URL:** https://forum.ada-lang.io/t/azip-version-2-7/1124
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**Created:** [August 28, 2024, 1:51am UTC](https://forum.ada-lang.io/t/azip-version-2-7/1124 "2024-08-28T01:51:10Z")
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### Author: ![zertovitch](https://forum.ada-lang.io/user_avatar/forum.ada-lang.io/zertovitch/32/90_2.png) [@zertovitch](https://forum.ada-lang.io/u/zertovitch)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2024, 1:51am UTC](https://forum.ada-lang.io/t/azip-version-2-7/1124/1 "2024-08-28T01:51:10Z")

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AZip is a Zip archive manager.

Home page: [http://azip.sf.net/](http://azip.sf.net/)  
Project page: [AZip download | SourceForge.net](http://sourceforge.net/projects/azip)  
Mirror: [GitHub - zertovitch/azip: AZip: a free, portable Zip Archive Manager](https://github.com/zertovitch/azip)  
Alire crate: [Alire - Azip](https://alire.ada.dev/crates/azip)

Some features:

- Aimed at simplicity, minimal option set
- Usual archive management: Add / Remove / Extract files
- Original, useful built-in tools:
  - Text & name search function through an archive (no file is written during search)
  - Archive updater
  - Archive recompression, using an algorithm-picking approach for improving a Zip archive’s compression.

- Flat view / Tree view toggle
- Multi-document
- Encryption
- Zip compression formats supported: Reduce, Shrink, Implode, Deflate, Deflate64, BZip2, LZMA
- Portable (no installation needed, no DLL); can operate with a config file instead of the registry (stealth mode)
- Installable if desired (application is its own installer)
- Free, open-source

Summary of latest changes from 2.6 to 2.7:

- _Tabs_: each archive subwindow has an own tab on a tab bar (new). This makes the handling of AZip easier to understand.
- _Temporary directory_: you can optionally set a specific temporary directory - typically, in a RAM disk - for AZip’s operations such as archive recompression. Your HD or SSD will thank you.
- _Single instance_: when Zip archives are opened and AZip is already running, those archives are opened in that running instance - thanks to Nicolas Pinault (@DrPi) for that feature!
- Fix: sorting column and direction are preserved on operations that modify a Zip archive (delete, add, update, recompress, etc.).

Previous changes: see [AZip / News](https://sourceforge.net/p/azip/news/)

“Under the hood” features:

- _AZip_ is from _A_ to _Z_ in Ada 🙂
- Uses the highly portable Zip-Ada library - all in Ada.
- (regarding Windows “skin”) Uses the GWindows library - all in Ada.

Enjoy!

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