File Roller

An Archive Manager for the GNOME Desktop
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File Roller 3.10.0  [ download ]
Released on September 23, 2013
Changes since previous version:

New or updated application translations
  • Arabic (Khaled Hosny)
  • Aragonés (Daniel Martinez)
  • Portuguese (António Lima)
  • Punjabi/Panjabi (A S Alam)
  • Ukrainian (Daniel Korostil)
File Roller 3.9.92  [ download ]
Released on September 17, 2013
Changes since previous version:

Bugs fixed
  • libarchive: restore the folders modification time correctly. (#697756)
New or updated application translations
  • Assamese (Nilamdyuti Goswami)
  • Basque (Iñaki Larrañaga Murgoitio)
  • Belarusian (Ihar Hrachyshka)
  • Danish (Kenneth Nielsen)
  • Deutsch (Benjamin Steinwender)
  • Esperanto (Ryan Lortie)
  • Estonian (Mattias Põldaru)
  • Italian (Milo Casagrande)
  • Japanese (Jiro Matsuzawa)
  • Korea (Changwoo Ryu)
  • Latvian (Rūdolfs Mazurs)
  • Serbian (Miroslav Nikolić)
  • Serbian (Мирослав Николић)
  • suomi (Jiri Grönroos)
  • Thai (Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
  • Русский (Stas Solovey)
New or updated manual translations
  • Brazilian Portuguese (Enrico Nicoletto)
File Roller 3.9.91  [ download ]
Released on September 2, 2013
Changes since previous version:

Bugs fixed
  • zip: ask the password again when the user provides the wrong password (#707114)
New or updated application translations
  • Brazilian Portuguese (Rafael Ferreira)
  • Chinese (Hong Kong) (Chao-Hsiung Liao)
  • Chinese (traditional) (Chao-Hsiung Liao)
  • French (Alain Lojewski)
  • Galician (Fran Dieguez)
  • Hungarian (Balázs Úr)
  • Indonesian (Andika Triwidada)
  • Irish (Seán de Búrca)
  • Kazakh (Baurzhan Muftakhidinov)
  • Lietuvių (Aurimas Černius)
  • Norwegian bokmål (Kjartan Maraas)
  • Polish (Piotr Drąg)
  • Slovak (Dušan Kazik)
New or updated manual translations
  • Español (Daniel Mustieles)
  • French (Alain Lojewski)
  • Hungarian (Gabor Kelemen)
File Roller 3.9.90  [ download ]
Released on August 19, 2013
Changes since previous version:

Bugs fixed
  • Added possibility to view the password entry content (#604923)
  • Progress and message dialogs: fixed unnecessary word breaking (#702919)
  • libarchive: restore directory modification time when extrating (#697756)
  • Cannot add files to a subfolder with zip and 7zip archives (#703420)
  • 7zip: fixed file deletion from jar, war, ear archives (#701739)
  • Error creating 7zip archives for directories without write permission (#651494)
New or updated application translations
  • Catalan (Gil Forcada)
  • Czech (Marek Černocký)
  • Drouizig (Denis)
  • Español (Daniel Mustieles)
  • Hebrew (Yaron Shahrabani)
  • Italian (Milo Casagrande)
  • Slovenian (Matej Urbančič)
  • Tajik (Victor Ibragimov)
  • Vietnamese (Trần Ngọc Quân)
File Roller 3.9.4  [ download ]
Released on July 8, 2013
Changes since previous version:

Bugs fixed
  • Add Files: disable the Add action if no file is selected. (Srinivasa Ragavan) (#703187)
  • Require glib 2.36 (#703552)
New or updated application translations
  • Vietnamese (Trần Ngọc Quân)
New or updated manual translations
  • Brazilian Portuguese (Rafael Ferreira)
  • Deutsch (Christian Kirbach)
File Roller 3.9.3  [ download ]
Released on June 17, 2013
Changes since previous version:

New features and user visible changes
  • 'Add files' dialog: use a GtkPlacesSidebar for the sidebar.
Bugs fixed
  • Do not allow to create a second 'New Archive' dialog. (#701992)
  • New dialog: use correct method to get the selected directory. (#701297) (Lionel Landwerlin)
  • libarchive: sanitize filenames before extracting.
New or updated application translations
  • Chinese (simplified) (tuhaihe)
  • Finnish (Jiri Grönroos)
  • Japanese (Akira Tanaka)
File Roller 3.9.2  [ download ]
Released on May 27, 2013
Changes since previous version:

Bugs fixed
  • Do not allow to save as the original name (#700892)
  • Fixed the build (Matthias Clasen)
New or updated manual translations
  • Hungarian (Gabor Kelemen)
File Roller 3.9.1  [ download ]
Released on April 29, 2013
Changes since previous version:

New features and user visible changes
  • Adedd .tar.rz support
New or updated application translations
  • Low German (Nils-Christoph Fiedler)
File Roller 3.8.1  [ download ]
Released on April 15, 2013
Changes since previous version:

Bugs fixed
  • Use the correct property to set GtkMenuButton's menu (Cosimo Cecchi)
New or updated application translations
  • Finnish (Jiri Grönroos)
  • French (Daniel Korostil)
  • Slovak (Dušan Kazik)
  • Turkish (Muhammet Kara)
New or updated manual translations
  • Greek (Dimitris Spingos (Δημήτρης Σπίγγος))
  • Dansk (flemming christensen)
  • Español; Castellano (Daniel Mustieles)
  • French (Alain Lojewski)
  • Hungarian (Gabor Kelemen)
File Roller 3.8.0  [ download ]
Released on March 25, 2013
Changes since previous version:

New or updated application translations
  • Arabic (Khaled Hosny)
  • Hindi (raj)
  • Kannada (Shankar Prasad)
  • Marathi (Sandeep Shedmake)
  • Oriya (Manoj Kumar Giri)
  • Persian (Arash Mousavi)
  • Tadjik (Victor Ibragimov)
  • Telugu (Krishnababu Krothapalli)
New or updated manual translations
  • Dansk (flemming christensen)
  • Deutsch (Mario Blättermann)
  • Español (Daniel Mustieles)
  • French (Alexandre Franke)
  • Hungarian (Gabor Kelemen)
  • Slovenian (Matej Urbančič)
File Roller 3.7.92  [ download ]
Released on March 18, 2013
Changes since previous version:

Bugs fixed
  • Compressed files have a minmum size of 10240 bytes. (#695672)
New or updated application translations
  • Belarusian (Ihar Hrachyshka)
  • Brazilian Portuguese (Rafael Ferreira)
  • Catalan (Gil Forcada)
  • Danish (Kenneth Nielsen)
  • Finnish (Jiri Grönroos)
  • Indonesian (Andika Triwidada)
  • Korea (Changwoo Ryu)
  • Latvian (Rūdolfs Mazurs)
  • Portuguese (Duarte Loreto)
  • Thai (Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
New or updated manual translations
  • Greek (Dimitris Spingos (Δημήτρης Σπίγγος))
  • Dansk (flemming christensen)
  • Deutsch (Mario Blättermann)
File Roller 3.7.91  [ download ]
Released on March 4, 2013
Changes since previous version:

New or updated application translations
  • Deutsch (Mario Blättermann)
  • Gujarati (Sweta Kothari)
  • Punjabi/Panjabi (A S Alam)
File Roller 3.7.90  [ download ]
Released on February 18, 2013
Changes since previous version:

Bugs fixed
  • Use ; as the separator for the desktop file Keywords section (#693231)
New or updated application translations
  • Aragonés (Daniel Martinez)
  • Czech (Marek Černocký)
  • French (Alain Lojewski)
  • Norwegian bokmål (Kjartan Maraas)
  • Polish (Piotr Drąg)
  • Malayalam (Anish A)
  • Uyghur (Gheyret Kenji)
File Roller 3.7.3  [ download ]
Released on February 4, 2013
Changes since previous version:

New or updated application translations
  • Basque (Iñaki Larrañaga Murgoitio)
  • Chinese (Hong Kong) (Chao-Hsiung Liao)
  • Chinese (traditional) (Chao-Hsiung Liao)
  • Italian (Milo Casagrande)
  • Lietuvių (Aurimas Černius)
  • Serbian (Miroslav Nikolić)
  • Serbian (Мирослав Николић)
  • Slovak (Dušan Kazik)
  • Uyghur (Sahran)
File Roller 3.7.2  [ download ]
Released on January 14, 2013
Changes since previous version:

New features and user visible changes
  • Support notification filtering (#691048)
  • Don't show in KDE Menus (#691051)
New or updated application translations
  • Arabic (Khaled Hosny)
  • Brazilian Portuguese (Antonio Fernandes C. Neto)
  • Bulgarian (Damyan Ivanov)
  • Español (Daniel Mustieles)
  • Estonian (Mattias Põldaru)
  • Friulian (TmTFx)
  • Greek (Dimitris Spingos (Δημήτρης Σπίγγος))
  • Hungarian (Balázs Úr)
  • Kazakh (Baurzhan Muftakhidinov)
  • Norwegian bokmål (Kjartan Maraas)
  • Russian (Aleksej Kabanov)
New or updated manual translations
  • Brazilian Portuguese (Rafael Ferreira)
File Roller 3.7.1  [ download ]
Released on December 17, 2012
Changes since previous version:

New features and user visible changes
  • Changed the main window layout: removed the menubar; added a menu button on the toolbar that contains the secondary archive actions. (#684117)
  • Add Microsoft Cabinet to the supported mime types (#689205)
Bugs fixed
  • Fixed cut&paste for rar archives.
  • Fixed file deleting from encrypted rar archives
  • Crash when pasting a deleted file (#688627)
  • Fixed history buttons behaviour. (#688648, #578837)
  • File-Roller doesn't delete directories w/ files within. (#632339)
  • The properties panel shows an incorrect number of files. (#688634)
  • Fixed crash when using the --extract-to option (#686321)
New or updated application translations
  • Galician (Fran Dieguez)
  • American English (Dr.T.Vasudevan)
  • Assamese (Nilamdyuti Goswami)
  • Deutsch (Christian Kirbach)
  • Español Castellano (Daniel Mustieles)
  • Estonian (Mattias Põldaru)
  • Hebrew (Yaron Shahrabani)
  • Oriya (Manoj Kumar Giri)
  • Polish (Piotr Drąg)
  • Slovenian (Matej Urbančič)
  • Telugu (Krishnababu Krothapalli)
New or updated manual translations
  • Español (Daniel Mustieles)
File Roller 3.6.2  [ download ]
Released on November 12, 2012
Changes since previous version:

Bugs fixed
  • Fails when tryings create zip files if is in maximum compression level (#686655)
New or updated manual translations
  • Deutsch (Christian Kirbach)
File Roller 3.6.1.1  [ download ]
Released on October 17, 2012
Changes since previous version:

Bugs fixed
  • Fixed crash on startup. (#686230, #685108)
  • Register .ar files as supported. (Bastien Nocera)
  • Fixed Galician and French documentation's tags. (Bastien Nocera)
File Roller 3.6.1  [ download ]
Released on October 15, 2012
Changes since previous version:

Bugs fixed
  • Fixed creation of hard links when using libarchive. (#686061)
  • Fixed crash when opening multi-volumes rar archives. (#685314)
  • Fixed crash when the package installer is activated. (#684941)
  • Fixed creation of encrypted archives.
  • Fixed creation of multi-volume archives.
New or updated application translations
  • Aragonés (Daniel Martinez)
  • Italian (Milo Casagrande)
  • Slovak (Peter Mráz)
New or updated manual translations
  • Slovenian (Martin Srebotnjak)
  • Russian (Yuri Myasoedov)
File Roller 3.6.0  [ download ]
Released on September 24, 2012
Changes since previous version:

New or updated application translations
  • Bengali (India) (Runa Bhattacharjee)
  • Bulgarian (Damyan Ivanov)
  • Catalan (Gil Forcada)
  • Chinese (simplified) (YunQiang Su)
  • Estonian (Mattias Põldaru)
  • Japanese (Yasumichi Akahoshi)
  • Kannada (Shankar Prasad)
  • Latvian (Peteris Krisjanis)
  • Malayalam (Ani Peter)
  • Punjabi/Panjabi (A S Alam)
  • Thai (Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
New or updated manual translations
  • Galician (Fran Dieguez)
  • Japanese (Jiro Matsuzawa)
File Roller 3.5.92  [ download ]
Released on September 17, 2012
Changes since previous version:

Bugs fixed
  • Install the app menu only if there's the gnome-shell showing it (Christian Persch) (#683759)
New or updated application translations
  • Arabic (Khaled Hosny)
  • Brazilian Portuguese (Enrico Nicoletto)
  • British English (Bruce Cowan)
  • Chinese (simplified) (tuhaihe)
  • Czech (Marek Černocký)
  • Danish (Kenneth Nielsen)
  • Español (Daniel Mustieles)
  • Finnish (Jiri Grönroos)
  • French (Alain Lojewski)
  • Gujarati (Sweta Kothari)
  • Hindi (Rajesh Ranjan)
  • Hungarian (Gabor Kelemen)
  • Italian (Milo Casagrande)
  • Korea (Seong-ho Cho)
  • Persian (Arash Mousavi)
  • Slovenian (Matej Urbančič)
  • Telugu (Praveen Illa)
  • Türkçe (Muhammet Kara)
New or updated manual translations
  • Español (Daniel Mustieles)
  • French (Alexandre Franke)
  • Greek (Tom Tryfonidis)
  • Hungarian (Gabor Kelemen)
  • Japanese (Yasumichi Akahoshi)
File Roller 3.5.91  [ download ]
Released on September 3, 2012
Changes since previous version:

Bugs fixed
  • Nautilus extension Compress doesn't offer .gz anymore (#682807)
  • Fixed build wihtout libarchive support (#682774)
  • libarchive: restore the file attributes when extracting (#682513)
New or updated application translations
  • American English (Dr.T.Vasudevan)
  • Assamese (Nilamdyuti Goswami)
  • Greek (Tom Tryfonidis)
  • Indonesian (Dirgita)
  • Kazakh (Baurzhan Muftakhidinov)
  • Lietuvių (Aurimas Černius)
  • Norwegian bokmål (Kjartan Maraas)
  • Polish (Piotr Drąg)
  • Portuguese (Duarte Loreto)
  • Russian (Yuri Myasoedov)
  • Vietnamese (Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy)
New or updated manual translations
  • German (Mario Blättermann)
  • Greek (Tom Tryfonidis)
File Roller 3.5.90  [ download ]
Released on August 20, 2012
Changes since previous version:

New features and user visible changes
  • Use a single 'Add files' dialog that allows to add both files and folder instead of having two separated commands 'Add files' and 'Add folder'.
  • Make the New Archive dialog look like the Compress dialog (#681232)
  • Extract dialog: always ask whether to overwrite existing files (removed the overwrite option)
  • Properties dialog: allow to open the archive's folder.
  • 'Add files' dialog: added option to follow symbolic links.
  • Edit->Password applies the password to already existing files in the archive (#144391)
  • Password dialog: show an error message when the password is wrong.
  • File list sorting: always keep the directories first, even when sorting in reverse order.
Bugs fixed
  • Removed non existant keys from the .convert file. (#682022)
  • Fixed crash when opening compressed files. (#681766)
  • Fixed crash when extracting an archive from the nautilus context menu. (#681473)
  • Fixed crash when extracting from the Extract dialog.
New or updated application translations
  • Arabic (Khaled Hosny)
  • Assamese (Nilamdyuti Goswami)
  • Belarusian (Ihar Hrachyshka)
  • Chinese (Hong Kong) (Chao-Hsiung Liao)
  • Chinese (traditional) (Chao-Hsiung Liao)
  • Deutsch (Hedda Peters)
  • Español (Daniel Mustieles)
  • Galego (Leandro Regueiro)
  • Gujarati (Sweta Kothari)
  • Hebrew (Yaron Shahrabani)
  • Indonesian (Dirgita)
  • Marathi (Sandeep Shedmake)
  • Punjabi/Panjabi (A S Alam)
  • Serbian (Miroslav Nikolić)
  • Turkish (Muhammet Kara)
New or updated manual translations
  • Español (Daniel Mustieles)
  • Galician (Fran Diégeuz)
  • German (Mario Blättermann)
  • Russian (Yuri Myasoedov)
File Roller 3.5.4  [ download ]
Released on August 6, 2012
Changes since previous version:

New features and user visible changes
  • Optionally use libarchive to handle tar, cpio, lha archives and ISO images.
  • Notify the completion of a long operation with the system notification system (requires libnotify).
  • Removed the Stop action from the View menu.
  • Removed the Help buttons from the dialogs.
  • Updated the user help. (Ekaterina Gerasimova)
Bugs fixed
  • Can't open file inside a .rar archive (with unar) (#680676)
  • Change Re-create folders to Keep directory structure (#681235)
Internal code changes
  • Huge internal code refactoring to allow the use of libarchive. This can bring some regressions.
New or updated application translations
  • Chinese (simplified) (Wylmer Wang)
  • Gujarati (Sweta Kothari)
  • Japanese (Takayuki KUSANO)
  • Kazakh (Baurzhan Muftakhidinov)
  • Magyar (Gabor Kelemen)
  • Serbian (Miroslav Nikolić)
  • Telugu (Praveen Illa)
New or updated manual translations
  • Chinese (China) (Wylmer Wang)
File Roller 3.5.3  [ download ]
Released on July 16, 2012
Changes since previous version:

New features and user visible changes
  • Allow to extract rar archives with 'The Unarchiver'. requires json-glib (#646606)
Bugs fixed
  • Folder Content could not be displayed error when using --extract. convert the folder path to a uri (Paolo Bacchilega) (#678884)
New or updated application translations
  • as_IN (Nilamdyuti Goswami)
  • Belarusian (Ihar Hrachyshka)
  • Chinese (Hong Kong) (Chao-Hsiung Liao)
  • Chinese/Traditional (Chao-Hsiung Liao)
  • Hebrew (Yaron Shahrabani)
  • Lietuvių (Aurimas Černius)
  • Norwegian bokmål (Kjartan Maraas)
  • Punjabi/Panjabi (A S Alam)
  • Slovenian Translation (Matej Urbančič)
File Roller 3.5.2  [ download ]
Released on June 25, 2012
Changes since previous version:

New features and user visible changes
  • Allow the user to cancel addition and deletion of files to an exiting archive.
  • Progress dialog: show the number of remaining files to complete the operation; show the archive name in the main message.
  • Removed the stop button from the toolbar. The user can use the progress dialog cancel button to stop a long operation.
  • Enabled interactive search in the file list. The user can just start typing the name of a file and if present in the list it will get selected.
  • Removed the help buttons from the dialogs.
Internal code changes
  • Renamed the D-Bus interface as org.gnome.ArchiveManager1.
  • Use the file-roller extecutable as a D-Bus service as well, instead of using a separate executable.
  • Define the progress dialog and other dialogs in external files, saved as gresources.
  • Added a prefix to the utility functions for a better organization and readability of the code.
New or updated application translations
  • Greek (Tom Tryfonidis)
  • Arabic (Khaled Hosny)
  • Assamese (Nilamdyuti Goswami)
  • Español (Daniel Mustieles)
  • Galician (Fran Dieguez)
  • Lithuanian (Algimantas Margevičius)
  • Russian (Yuri Kozlov)
  • Slovenian (Matej Urbančič)
New or updated manual translations
  • French (Bruno Brouard)
File Roller 3.5.1  [ download ]
Released on June 4, 2012
Changes since previous version:

Internal code changes
  • Use GtkApplication
  • Added an application menu
  • Use GResource to store ui files
  • Removed markup in translatable messages
  • Ported to the new documentation infrastructure
New or updated application translations
  • Español (Daniel Mustieles)
  • Galician (Fran Dieguez)
  • Hebrew (Yaron Shahrabani)
  • Latvian (Rūdolfs Mazurs)
New or updated manual translations
  • Español (Daniel Mustieles)
File Roller 3.4.2  [ download ]
Released on May 14, 2012
Changes since previous version:

New or updated application translations
  • Greek (Tom Tryfonidis)
  • Japanese (Takayuki KUSANO)
File Roller 3.4.1  [ download ]
Released on April 16, 2012
Changes since previous version:

New or updated application translations
  • Aragonés (Daniel Martinez)
  • Catalan (Gil Forcada)
  • Español (Daniel Mustieles)
  • Greek (Michael Kotsarinis)
  • Indonesian (Andika Triwidada)
  • Kashubian (Mark Kwidzińsczi)
  • Slovak (Peter Mráz)
New or updated manual translations
  • Español (Daniel Mustieles)
  • Slovenian (Andrej Žnidaršič)
File Roller 3.4.0  [ download ]
Released on March 26, 2012
Changes since previous version:

New or updated application translations
  • Arabic (Khaled Hosny)
  • Brazilian Portuguese (Antonio Fernandes C. Neto)
  • Catalan (Gil Forcada)
  • Chinese (simplified) (EL8LatSPQ)
  • Esperanto (Kristjan SCHMIDT)
  • Hungarian (Gabor Kelemen)
  • Khmer (Seng Sutha)
  • Telugu (Praveen Illa)
New or updated manual translations
  • French (Bruno Brouard)
  • Japanese (Jiro Masuzawa)
  • Magyar (Gabor Kelemen)
File Roller 3.3.92  [ download ]
Released on March 20, 2012
Changes since previous version:

New or updated application translations
  • American English (Nilamdyuti Goswami)
  • British English (Bruce Cowan)
  • Czech (Marek Černocký)
  • Danish (Kenneth Nielsen)
  • Finnish (Jiri Grönroos)
  • French (Bruno Brouard)
  • Gujarati (Sweta Kothari)
  • Hindi (rajesh)
  • Korea (Seong-ho Cho)
  • Latviešu (Anita Reitere)
  • Persian (Arash Mousavi)
  • Polish (Piotr Drąg)
  • Portuguese (Duarte Loreto)
  • Telugu (Krishnababu Krothapalli)
  • Turkish (Muhammet Kara)
  • Vietnamese (Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy)
New or updated manual translations
  • Español (Daniel Mustieles)
  • German (Mario Blättermann)
File Roller 3.3.91  [ download ]
Released on March 5, 2012
Changes since previous version:

Bugs fixed
  • 'All files' entry is duplicated in available formats combobox (#671029)
New or updated application translations
  • American English (Dr.T.Vasudevan)
  • Arabeyes (Ibrahim Saed)
  • Basque (Iñaki Larrañaga Murgoitio)
  • Belarusian (Ihar Hrachyshka)
  • Bulgarian (Damyan Ivanov)
  • Chinese (Hong Kong) (Chao-Hsiung Liao)
  • Chinese/Traditional (Chao-Hsiung Liao)
  • Deutsch (Mario Blättermann)
  • Español (Daniel Mustieles)
  • Estonian (Mattias Põldaru)
  • Galician (Fran Dieguez)
  • Hebrew (Yaron Shahrabani)
  • Hungarian (Gabor Kelemen)
  • Italian (Milo Casagrande)
  • Japanese (Jiro Matsuzawa)
  • Kazakh (Baurzhan Muftakhidinov)
  • Lietuvių (Algimantas Margevičius)
  • Norwegian bokmål (Kjartan Maraas)
  • Punjabi/Panjabi (A S Alam)
  • Russian (Yuri Myasoedov)
  • Serbian (Мирослав Николић)
  • Serbian (Miroslav Nikolić)
  • Slovenian (Matej Urbančič)
  • Swedish (Daniel Nylander)
  • Ukranian (Korostil Daniel)
File Roller 3.3.90  [ download ]
Released on February 21, 2012
Changes since previous version:

New features and user visible changes
  • Ask overwrite confirmation when extracting files with drag&drop.
Bugs fixed
  • Can't open .war format since 3.2. (#664269)
New or updated application translations
  • Belarusian (Ihar Hrachyshka)
  • Chinese (simplified) (chiachen)
  • Czech (Marek Černocký)
  • Danish (Kenneth Nielsen)
  • Deutsch (Mario Blättermann)
  • Estonian (Mattias Põldaru)
  • French (Alain Lojewski)
  • Galician (Fran Dieguez)
  • Japanese (OKANO Takayoshi)
  • Kazakh (Baurzhan Muftakhidinov)
  • Russian (Yuri Myasoedov)
  • Serbian (Мирослав Николић)
  • Serbian (Miroslav Nikolić)
  • Telugu (Praveen Illa)
  • Turkish (Muhammet Kara)
New or updated manual translations
  • Czech (Jakub Mach)
  • French (Bruno Brouard)
  • Galician (Fran Dieguez)
  • German (Mario Blättermann)
File Roller 3.3.3  [ download ]
Released on February 6, 2012
Changes since previous version:

Bugs fixed
  • Allow to compress ISO images and tar archives from the nautilus menu. (#651930)
  • Fixed bug when pasting files in another path.
  • Fixed a typo in the description of a gsettings key (#644683)
New or updated application translations
  • Brazilian Portuguese (Fábio Nogueira)
  • Chinese (Hong Kong) (Chao-Hsiung Liao)
  • Chinese/Traditional (Chao-Hsiung Liao)
  • Czech (Marek Černocký)
  • Español (Daniel Mustieles)
  • Galician (Fran Dieguez)
  • Hebrew (Yaron Shahrabani)
  • Japanese (Hideki Yamane)
  • Norwegian bokmål (Kjartan Maraas)
  • Slovenian Translation (Matej Urbančič)
New or updated manual translations
  • German (Mario Blättermann)
  • Slovenian Translation (Andrej Žnidaršič)
File Roller 3.3.2  [ download ]
Released on January 16, 2012
Changes since previous version:

New features and user visibile changes
  • Removed the Last Output command. (Krzesimir Nowak)
  • Other improvements to the user's manual. (Marta Bogdanowicz)
New or updated application translations
  • Belarusian (Ihar Hrachyshka)
  • Deutsch (Christian Kirbach)
  • Español (Daniel Mustieles)
  • Finnish (Jiri Grönroos)
  • Galician (Fran Dieguez)
  • Hebrew (Yaron Shahrabani)
  • Lietuvių (Aurimas Černius)
  • Macedonian (Jovan Naumovski)
  • Norwegian Bokmål (Kjartan Maraas)
  • Russian (Yuri Myasoedov)
  • Telugu (Praveen Illa)
  • Turkish (Muhammet Kara)
New or updated manual translations
  • Español (Daniel Mustieles)
  • Japanese (Jiro Matsuzawa)
File Roller 3.3.1  [ download ]
Released on December 19, 2011
Changes since previous version:

New features and user visibile changes
  • Updated the user's manual (Marta Bogdanowicz)
  • Change strings to use ellipsis (Ekaterina Gerasimova) (#666447)
  • Improvement for string in password dialog (#666297) and archive properties dialog (#666295)
  • Fixed padding in the request and error dialogs (#666075)
  • Bad string in the error dialog 'Could not rename the file' (#666075)
  • Improve string in error dialog (Ekaterina Gerasimova) (#666070)
New or updated application translations
  • Belarusian (Ihar Hrachyshka)
  • Burmese (Vampire)
  • Español (Daniel Mustieles)
  • Esperanto (Kristjan SCHMIDT)
  • Kazakh (Baurzhan Muftakhidinov)
  • Norwegian Bokmål (Kjartan Maraas)
New or updated manual translations
  • Español (Daniel Mustieles)
  • German (Mario Blättermann)
  • Russian (Yuri Myasoedov)
  • Telugu (Praveen Illa)
File Roller 3.2.1  [ download ]
Released on October 17, 2011
Changes since previous version:

Bugs fixed
  • Do not crash if nautilus schema is not present (Vincent Untz)
  • Use $(DISABLE_DEPRECATED) in copy-n-paste/Makefile.am (Andreas Henriksson)
File Roller 3.2.0  [ download ]
Released on September 26, 2011
Changes since previous version:

Bugs fixed
  • Fixed duplicated folders in the file list. (#659906)
New or updated application translations
  • Aragonese (Daniel Martinez Cucalon)
  • Assamese (Nilamdyuti Goswami)
File Roller 3.1.92  [ download ]
Released on September 19, 2011
Changes since previous version:

Bugs fixed
  • Use natural order when sorting by filename (#658173)
New or updated application translations
  • Belarusian (Ihar Hrachyshka)
  • Japanese (Jiro Matsuzawa)
  • Thai (Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
New or updated manual translations
  • Español (Daniel Mustieles)
File Roller 3.1.91  [ download ]
Released on September 5, 2011
Changes since previous version:

Bugs fixed
  • Fixed loading of multi-volume rar archives with 7zip
  • Removed use of a deprecated function (Javier Jardón)
New or updated application translations
  • Belarusian (Ihar Hrachyshka)
File Roller 3.1.90  [ download ]
Released on August 29, 2011
Changes since previous version:

Bugs fixed
  • Fixed loading of zip archives with zip/unzip. (#653404)
File Roller 3.1.2  [ download ]
Released on August 15, 2011
Changes since previous version:

New features and user visibile changes
  • Added an icon in the progress dialog.
Bugs fixed
  • Ask to install unzip if only zip if installed when opening zip archives.
  • Fixed build with --enable-run-in-place
New or updated application translations
  • Zulu (Priscilla Mahlangu)
New or updated manual translations
  • Basque (Iñaki Larrañaga Murgoitio)
File Roller 3.1.1  [ download ]
Released on July 25, 2011
Changes since previous version:

New features and user visible changes
  • Drag&Drop: use the dragged row as drag icon
Bugs fixed
  • Pointer arithmetic fixes for end of string access (Iain Nicol) (#651416)
  • Remove G_CONST_RETURN from file-roller (Ryan Lortie) (#644611)
New or updated application translations
  • Aragonese (Daniel Martinez Cucalon)
  • Belarusian (Ihar Hrachyshka)
  • Catalan (Gil Forcada)
  • Chinese (simplified) (chiachen)
  • Esperanto (Kristjan SCHMIDT)
  • Estonian (Priit Laes)
  • Finnish (Tommi Vainikainen)
New or updated manual translations
  • Chinese (Hong Kong) (Pin-hsien Li)
  • Chinese (Taiwan) (Pin-hsien Li)
  • Danish (flemming christensen)
File Roller 3.0.2  [ download ]
Released on May 24, 2011
Changes since previous version:

Bugs fixed
  • Fix implementation and use of the alternative package name lookup, when installing the missing utilities. (Iain Nicol) (#603757)
  • Can't open rar files with password protected file data and headers. (#646562)
  • Fixed translation of the file list column headers. (Gabor Kelemen) (#649159)
  • Fixed crash when loading rpm files. (Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse)
New or updated application translations
  • Aragonese (Daniel Martinez Cucalon)
  • Lithuanian (Aurimas Černius)
  • Telugu (Praveen Illa)
File Roller 3.0.1  [ download ]
Released on April 26, 2011
Changes since previous version:

Bugs fixed
  • Crash on exit after using Open With. (Edward Sheldrake) (#648472)
New or updated application translations
  • Persian (Arash Mousavi)
  • Uyghur (Sahran)
File Roller 3.0.0  [ download ]
Released on April 4, 2011
Changes since previous version:

New or updated application translations
  • Assamese (Nilamdyuti Goswami)
  • Basque (Iñaki Larrañaga Murgoitio)
  • British English (Bruce Cowan)
  • Bulgarian (Krasimir Chonov)
  • Catalan (Gil Forcada)
  • Danish (Kenneth Nielsen)
  • Hebrew (Yaron Shahrabani)
  • Hindi (Rajesh Ranjan)
  • Indonesian (Dirgita)
  • Italian (Milo Casagrande)
  • Latvian (Rudolfs)
  • Lithuanian (Gintautas Miliauskas)
  • Punjabi/Panjabi (A S Alam)
  • Serbian (Мирослав Николић)
  • Serbian (Miroslav Nikolić)
  • Tamil (Dr.T.Vasudevan)
  • Turkish (Muhammet Kara)
  • Ukrainian (Korostil Daniel)
  • Uyghur Computer Science Association (Sahran)
  • Vietnamese (Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy)
New or updated manual translations
  • Catalan (Carles Ferrando Garcia)
File Roller 2.91.93  [ download ]
Released on March 25, 2011
Changes since previous version:

New or updated application translations
  • Brazilian Portuguese (Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira)
  • Chinese (Hong Kong) (Chao-Hsiung Liao)
  • Chinese/Traditional (Chao-Hsiung Liao)
  • Dutch (Wouter Bolsterlee)
  • Estonian (Ivar Smolin)
  • Kannada (Shankar Prasad)
  • Norwegian Bokmål (Kjartan Maraas)
File Roller 2.91.92  [ download ]
Released on March 21, 2011
Changes since previous version:

Bugs fixed
  • Non-fuzzy app icon ('highres') (Jakub Steiner) (#645156)
  • Fix translation of New.. and Open... (Claude Paroz) (#644951)
New or updated application translations
  • Arabic (Khaled Hosny)
  • Brazilian Portuguese (Isis Binder)
  • British English (Bruce Cowan)
  • Catalan (Gil Forcada)
  • Chinese (simplified) (chiachen)
  • Czech (Marek Černocký)
  • Deutsch (Mario Blättermann)
  • Español (Daniel Mustieles)
  • French (Bruno Brouard)
  • Galician (Fran Diéguez)
  • Hungarian (Gabor Kelemen)
  • Korea (Changwoo Ryu)
  • Polish (Piotr Drąg)
  • Portuguese (Duarte Loreto)
  • Romanian (Lucian Adrian Grijincu)
  • Russian (Yuri Myaseodov)
  • Slovak (Peter Mráz)
  • Slovenian (Matej Urbančič)
  • Swedish (Daniel Nylander)
File Roller 2.91.91  [ download ]
Released on March 7, 2011
Changes since previous version:

Bugs fixed
  • Fixed error when a filename contains the % sign. (#638868)
  • Fixed the style of the primary toolbar.
  • Reactivated the code to follow the Nautilus click policy.
New or updated application translations
  • Catalan (Gil Forcada)
  • Chinese (simplified) (liu zhen)
  • French (Laurent Coudeur)
  • Gujarati (Sweta Kothari)
  • Korea (Changwoo Ryu)
  • Latvian (Rudolfs)
File Roller 2.91.90  [ download ]
Released on February 21, 2011
Changes since previous version:

Bugs fixed
  • Fixed extraction of zip archives when unzip is used (#639664)
New or updated application translations
  • Arabic (Khaled Hosny)
  • Asturian (ivarela)
  • Bengali (India) (Runa Bhattacharjee)
  • Slovak (Peter Mráz)
New or updated manual translations
  • Español (Jorge González)
File Roller 2.91.6  [ download ]
Released on January 31, 2011
Changes since previous version:

Bugs fixed
  • Fixed error when creating zip archives with files starting with an hyphen (Dmitri Bachtin) (#639664)
  • Added focus stealing prevention code (#318108)
New or updated application translations
  • Basque (Iñaki Larrañaga Murgoitio)
  • Galician (Fran Diéguez)
  • Greek (Michael Kotsarinis)
  • Norwegian Bokmål (Torstein Adolf Winterseth)
  • Norwegian Nynorsk (Torstein Adolf Winterseth)
  • Russian (Yuri Myasoedov)
  • Slovenian (Matej Urbančič)
File Roller 2.91.5  [ download ]
Released on January 10, 2011
Changes since previous version:

New features and user visible changes
  • Use the new Gtk+ app chooser dialog for the Open With command.
New or updated application translations
  • Czech (Marek Černocký)
  • Deutsch (Christian Kirbach)
  • Estonian (Ivar Smolin)
  • Hebrew (Yaron Shahrabani)
  • Indonesian (Andika Triwidada)
  • Norwegian Bokmål (Torstein Adolf Winterseth)
  • Punjabi/Panjabi (A S Alam)
  • Slovenian Translation (Matej Urbančič)
  • Uyghur Computer Science Association (Sahran)
  • Vietnamese (Nguyen Vu Hung)
File Roller 2.91.4  [ download ]
Released on December 23, 2010
Changes since previous version:

Bugs fixed
  • Fixed compilation with GTK+ 2.91.7
File Roller 2.91.3  [ download ]
Released on December 20, 2010
Changes since previous version:

Bugs fixed
  • Fixed GetSupportedTypes method name (#636125)
  • Fixed distribution of the D-Bus service files.
New or updated application translations
  • Chinese (Hong Kong) (Chao-Hsiung Liao)
  • Chinese/Traditional (Chao-Hsiung Liao)
  • Estonian (Ivar Smolin)
  • Kazakh (Baurzhan Muftakhidinov)
  • Norwegian Bokmål (Kjartan Maraas)
  • Slovenian (Matej Urbančič)
File Roller 2.91.2  [ download ]
Released on November 29, 2010
Changes since previous version:

New features and user visible changes
  • Added a D-Bus service to create and extract archives. (#627732)
  • 7z: changed the compression level options. normal compression: from -mx=5 to -mx=7 maximum compression: from -mx=7 to -mx=9 -m0=lzma2 (#635083)
Bugs fixed
  • Fixed build without packagekit (#634356)
New or updated application translations
  • Chinese (simplified) (Eleanor Chen)
  • Español (Jorge González)
  • Estonian (Ivar Smolin)
  • Galician (Fran Diéguez)
  • Norwegian Bokmål (Kjartan Maraas)
  • Persian (Mahyar Moghimi)
  • Tamil (Dr.T.Vasudevan)
  • Uyghur (Sahran)
File Roller 2.91.1  [ download ]
Released on November 8, 2010
Changes since previous version:

New features and user visible changes
  • Added Windows Imaging Format (.wim, .swm) support.
  • Save the configuration files in the XDG config subdirectory instead of using $HOME/.gnome2, and provide an automatic migration mechanism. (#522812)
Bugs fixed
  • Fixed crash when clicking Cancel in Add Files (#631472)
Internal code changes
  • Replace gtk_statusbar_set_has_resize_grip. ...with gtk_window_set_has_resize_grip (#632696)
  • Handle combo box text api going away. it is being replaced by GtkComboBoxText in GTK3 (Matthias Clasen) (#632643)
  • Removed the use of gtk_widget_hide_all.
  • Fixed a compiler warning.
  • Use upstream gettext instead of the glib one.
  • Use the license-type property in the about dialog.
  • Some changes to the gschema file: allow to translate the summary and description fields; added a .convert file for automatic data convertion from GConf.
New or updated application translations
  • Brazilian Portuguese (Marcelo Odir)
  • Danish (Kenneth Nielsen)
  • Español (Jorge González)
  • Estonian (Ivar Smolin)
  • Hebrew (Yaron Shahrabani)
  • Uyghur (Sahran)
New or updated manual translations
  • French (Claude Paroz)
  • Slovenian (Matej Urbančič)
File Roller 2.91.0  [ download ]
Released on October 4, 2010
Changes since previous version:

New features and user visible changes
  • Ported to GSettings
  • Ported to Gtk+ 3.0
Bugs fixed
  • Package installer: don't display an error message if the user cancelled the operation.
New or updated application translations
  • Catalan (Gil Forcada)
  • Lithuanian (Žygimantas Beručka)
  • Slovak (Peter Mráz)
  • Tamil (I Felix)
File Roller 2.32.0  [ download ]
Released on September 27, 2010
Changes since previous version:

Bugs fixed
  • Fixed call to the package installer. (#629604)
New or updated application translations
  • Basque (Iñaki Larrañaga Murgoitio)
  • Dutch (Wouter Bolsterlee)
  • Italian (Davide Falanga)
  • Japanese (Yasumichi Akahoshi)
  • Kazakh (Baurzhan Muftakhidinov)
  • Korea (Changwoo Ryu)
  • Russian (Yuri Myasoedov)
  • Turkish (Baris Cicek)
New or updated manual translations
  • Japanese (Yasumichi Akahoshi)
File Roller 2.31.92  [ download ]
Released on September 13, 2010
Changes since previous version:

Bugs fixed
  • Truncated file names in iso images. (Munsch) (#550946)
  • Fixed update of files in .tar.xz archives (#628717)
  • Fixed some memleaks (Pablo Castellano)
New or updated application translations
  • Brazilian Portuguese (Antonio Fernandes C. Neto)
  • British English (Bruce Cowan)
  • Greek (Michael Kotsarinis)
  • Indonesian (Dirgita)
  • Polish (Piotr Drąg)
  • Portuguese (Duarte Loreto)
File Roller 2.31.91  [ download ]
Released on August 30, 2010
Changes since previous version:

Bugs fixed
  • 7zip: do not allow to specify a password if only 7zr is installed. The 7zr command does not support encryption. (#618908)
  • Fixed extraction of cpio archives with absolute paths (#558023)
  • Unexpected msgstr appears in update dialog, when Plural Forms definition in .po file is Plural-Forms: nplurals=1; plural=0;\n (e.g. ja.po). (Kiyotaka NISHIBORI) (#627387)
  • Use GConf instead of GSettings
New or updated application translations
  • Arabic (Khaled Hosny)
  • Bulgarian (Alexander Shopov)
  • Danish (Kenneth Nielsen)
  • Hungarian (Gabor Kelemen)
  • Japanese (Yasumichi Akahoshi)
  • Serbian (Милош Поповић)
  • Serbian (Miloš Popović)
New or updated manual translations
  • Japanese (Yasumichi Akahoshi)
File Roller 2.31.90  [ download ]
Released on August 16, 2010
Changes since previous version:

New features and user visible changes
  • Use GConf instead of GSettings
New or updated application translations
  • Chinese (simplified) (Aron Xu)
  • Czech (Adrian Guniš)
  • Indonesian (Andika Triwidada)
  • Punjabi/Panjabi (A S Alam)
  • Uyghur (Sahran)
New or updated manual translations
  • Chinese (China) (YunQiang Su)
File Roller 2.31.5  [ download ]
Released on August 2, 2010
Changes since previous version:

Bugs fixed
  • Make it possible to build against GTK+ 3. (#624564)
  • Make it compile again with GSEAL and DEPRECATED macros enabled
New or updated application translations
  • Bengali INDIA (Runa Bhattacharjee)
  • Chinese (Hong Kong) (Chao-Hsiung Liao)
  • Chinese (simplified) (Aron Xu)
  • Chinese/Traditional (Chao-Hsiung Liao)
  • Español (Jorge González)
  • French (Claude Paroz)
  • Frisian (Sense Hofstede)
  • Galician (Fran Diéguez)
  • German (Mario Blättermann)
  • Hebrew (Yaron Shahrabani)
  • Kazakh (Baurzhan Muftakhidinov)
  • Marathi (Sandeep Shedmake)
  • Norwegian Bokmål (Kjartan Maraas)
  • Slovenian Translation (Matej Urbančič)
  • Swedish (Daniel Nylander)
  • Tamil (Dr.T.Vasudevan)
New or updated manual translations
  • Chinese (China) (YunQiang Su)
File Roller 2.31.4  [ download ]
Released on July 12, 2010
Changes since previous version:

New features and user visible changes
  • Migrated from dbus-glib to glib's GDBus (#622900)
  • Ported to GSettings
New or updated application translations
  • Estonian (Priit Laes)
  • Kazakh (Baurzhan Muftakhidinov)
  • Norwegian Bokmål (Kjartan Maraas)
File Roller 2.31.3  [ download ]
Released on June 28, 2010
Changes since previous version:

Bugs fixed
  • Fixed segmentation fault when opening some rar archives.
  • Use dpkg-deb to view and extract .deb files. (Josselin Mouette) (#576436)
New or updated application translations
  • Esperanto (Kristjan SCHMIDT)
  • Galician (Fran Diéguez)
New or updated manual translations
  • catalan (Carles Ferrando Garcia)
File Roller 2.31.2  [ download ]
Released on June 8, 2010
Changes since previous version:

Bugs fixed
  • improved the encrypt header button usability. always keep the encrypt header button clickable even when the password field is void. (#620172)
New or updated application translations
  • Brenux (Alan Monfort)
  • Estonian (Ivar Smolin)
  • Hebrew (Yaron Shahrabani)
  • zh_CN (Fan Qijiang)
File Roller 2.31.1  [ download ]
Released on May 25, 2010
Changes since previous version:

New features and user visible changes
  • Added support for lrzip archives and lrzip compressed tar archives.
  • Bring back support for archives on remote GIO mounts when the fuse daemon is not available. (Tomas Bzatek) (#617769)
Bugs fixed
  • Fixed crashes when trying to create a tar.z7 archive. due to a missing sentinel in a varargs call. (Matthias Clasen) (#617840)
New or updated application translations
  • Español (Jorge González)
  • Galician (Fran Diéguez)
  • Norwegian Bokmål (Kjartan Maraas)
  • Shavian (Thomas Thurman)
  • Slovenian Translation (Matej Urbančič)
File Roller 2.30.1.1  [ download ]
Released on April 27, 2010
Changes since previous version:

Bugs fixed
  • Extract multi-byte filename from URI in case of DND. (Takao Fujiwara) (#613298)
File Roller 2.30.1
Changes since previous version:

Bugs fixed
  • Fixed build error when dbus is not available. (Josselin Mouette) (#615127)
New or updated application translations
  • Bengali INDIA (Runa Bhattacharjee)
  • Catalan (Gil Forcada)
  • Dutch (Wouter Bolsterlee)
  • Indonesian (Andika Triwidada)
  • Japanese (KUSANO Takayuki)
  • Latviešu (Peteris Krisjanis)
  • Occitan (Yannig Marchegay (Kokoyaya))
  • Thai (Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
File Roller 2.30.0  [ download ]
Released on March 29, 2010
Changes since previous version:

Bugs fixed
  • removed multipart/x-zip from .desktop file (#612677)
New or updated application translations
  • Bengali (Sadia Afroz)
  • Brazilian Portuguese (Vladimir Melo)
  • Catalan (Gil Forcada)
  • Danish (Kenneth Nielsen)
  • Finnish (Tommi Vainikainen)
  • Greek (Bakaoukas Nikolaos)
  • Italian (Davide Falanga)
  • Korea (Changwoo Ryu)
  • Lithuanian (Žygimantas Beručka)
  • Norwegian Nynorsk (Torstein Adolf Winterseth)
  • Punjabi/Panjabi (A S Alam)
  • Russian (Alexander Saprykin)
  • Serbian (sr) (Горан Ракић)
  • Serbian (sr) (Goran Rakić)
  • Ukrainian (Maxim Dziumanenko)
  • Vietnamese (Clytie Siddall)
New or updated manual translations
  • Greek (Marios Zindilis)
File Roller 2.29.92  [ download ]
Released on March 9, 2010
Changes since previous version:

Bugs fixed
  • Allow to start the PackageKit service if it's not available. Removed the call to NameHashOwner. (#610813)
  • Recheck commands presence after package installation.. Clear the program cache before updating the capabilities. (#610815)
New or updated application translations
  • Arabic (Khaled Hosny)
  • Basque (Iñaki Larrañaga Murgoitio)
  • British English (Bruce Cowan)
  • Bulgarian (Alexander Shopov)
  • Hungarian (Gabor Kelemen)
  • Portuguese (Duarte Loreto)
  • Russian (Alexander Saprykin)
  • Slovak (Peter Mráz)
File Roller 2.29.91  [ download ]
Released on February 22, 2010
Changes since previous version:

Bugs fixed
  • Ensure that strcmp gets non-NULL values (#609449)
New or updated application translations
  • Chinese (Hong Kong) (Chao-Hsiung Liao)
  • Chinese/Traditional (Chao-Hsiung Liao)
  • Czech (Adrian Guniš)
  • Gallician (Fran Diéguez)
  • German (Nathan-J. Hirschauer)
  • Norwegian Bokmål (Kjartan Maraas)
  • Polish (Piotr Drąg)
  • Romanian (Lucian Adrian Grijincu)
  • Slovenian (Matej Urbančič)
  • Swedish (Daniel Nylander)
  • Tamil (Dr,T,Vasudevan)
File Roller 2.29.90  [ download ]
Released on February 8, 2010
Changes since previous version:

Bugs fixed
  • Fixed some file renaming issues (#608556)
New or updated application translations
  • Bengali (Israt Jahan)
  • Brazilian Portuguese (Vladimir Melo)
  • Español (Jorge González)
  • Estonian (Ivar Smolin)
  • French (Claude Paroz)
  • Thai (Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
File Roller 2.29.5  [ download ]
Released on January 26, 2010
Changes since previous version:

New or updated application translations
  • Arabic (Khaled Hosny)
  • Bulgarian (Alexander Shopov)
  • German (Christian Kirbach)
  • Tamil (Dr,T,Vasudevan)
  • zh_CN (Tao Wei)
New or updated manual translations
  • Chinese (China) (Zhang Miao)
File Roller 2.29.4  [ download ]
Released on January 11, 2010
Changes since previous version:

Bugs fixed
  • [arj] Fixed the way to get the filename from the command output (#606074)
  • Do not show the password dialog if not needed. check only the files to extract to see if the password prompt is needed. (#605244)
New or updated application translations
  • Greek (Kostas Papadimas)
  • Swedish (Daniel Nylander)
  • Thai (Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
  • Ukrainian (Maxim Dziumanenko)
File Roller 2.29.3  [ download ]
Released on December 21, 2009
Changes since previous version:

New features and user visible changes
  • Allow to specify different package names using a configuration file (#603757)
  • Use the zip format to create cbz files
  • Use AES128 as encryption type when creating zip files with 7zip
  • Fixed wrong use of gdk_property_get (#604535)
    • New or updated application translations
    • Español (Jorge González)
    • Estonian (Ivar Smolin)
    • Hebrew (Yaron Shahrabani)
    • Norwegian Bokmål (Kjartan Maraas)
    • Romanian (Adi Roiban)
    • Slovenian Translation (Matej Urbančič)
    File Roller 2.29.2  [ download ]
    Released on November 30, 2009
    Changes since previous version:

    New features and user visible changes
    • Use the eggfileformatchooser widget to select the file format
    New or updated application translations
    • Español (Jorge González)
    • Estonian (Ivar Smolin)
    • Low German (Nils-Christoph Fiedler)
    • Slovenian (Matej Urbančič)
    • zh_CN (Tao Wei)
    File Roller 2.29.1  [ download ]
    Released on November 16, 2009
    Changes since previous version:

    New features and user visible changes
  • Install the missing packages if a command is not available (#482560)
    • Bugs fixed
    • #590606: drag and drop bug makes file-roller UI unusable as a whole
    • #600131: encrypt_header is left enabled when creating zip archives
    • #580624: Visual refresh issues while browsing into the directories included in the archive
    • #326017: 4th and 5th mouse buttons should control back / forward
    • #590027: file-roller will not update files
    New or updated application translations
    • Español (Jorge González)
    • Estonian (Ivar Smolin)
    • Lithuanian (Gintautas Miliauskas)
    • Slovenian Translation (Matej Urbančič)
    • Swedish (Daniel Nylander)
    • Tamil (Dr.T.Vasudevan)
    File Roller 2.28.1  [ download ]
    Released on October 19, 2009
    Changes since previous version:

    New or updated application translations
    • Russian (Leonid Kanter)
    File Roller 2.28.0  [ download ]
    Released on September 22, 2009
    Changes since previous version:

    New or updated application translations
    • Assamese
    • Breton (Denis)
    • British English (Philip Withnall)
    • Catalan (Gil Forcada)
    • Danish (Kenneth Nielsen)
    • Hindi (Rajesh Ranjan)
    • Italian (Milo Casagrande)
    • Lithuanian (Gintautas Miliauskas)
    • Marathi (Sandeep Shedmake)
    • Punjabi/Panjabi (A S Alam)
    • Romanian (Mișu Moldovan)
    • Slovenian (Matej Urbančič)
    • Telugu (Krishna Babu K)
    • Ukrainian (wanderlust)
    New or updated manual translations
    • French (Claude Paroz)
    File Roller 2.27.92  [ download ]
    Released on September 7, 2009
    Changes since previous version:

    New or updated application translations
    • Basque (Iñaki Larrañaga Murgoitio)
    • Bengali INDIA (Runa Bhattacharjee)
    • French (Claude Paroz)
    • Gujarati (Sweta Kothari)
    • Hungarian (Gabor Kelemen)
    • Kannada (Shankar Prasad)
    • Oriya (Manoj Kumar Giri)
    • Portuguese (Duarte Loreto)
    • Serbian (sr) (Горан Ракић)
    • Serbian (sr) (Goran Rakić)
    File Roller 2.27.91  [ download ]
    Released on August 24, 2009
    Changes since previous version:

    Bugs fixed
    • Fixed bug that prevented to add files with spaces. (#589920)
    • Fixed opening of cab files (William Jon McCann) (#591868)
    New or updated application translations
    • Arabic (Khaled Hosny)
    • Bulgarian (Alexander Shopov)
    • Deutsch (Mario Blättermann)
    • Galician (Antón Méixome)
    • Irish (Seán de Búrca)
    • Korea (Changwoo Ryu)
    • Polish (Piotr Drąg)
    • Romanian (Lucian Adrian Grijincu)
    • Thai (Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
    New or updated manual translations
    • German (Mario Blättermann)
    • Italian (Milo Casagrande)
    File Roller 2.27.90  [ download ]
    Released on August 10, 2009
    Changes since previous version:

    Bugs fixed
    • Allow to archive files with spaces and other special characters (#590468)
    • Support different types of RPM payloads (#590262, #574005)
    • Fixed building error (#591243)
    New or updated application translations
    • Brazilian Portuguese (Krix Apolinário)
    • Breton (Denis Arnaud)
    • Czech (Adrian Guniš)
    • Galician (Antón Méixome)
    • Norwegian Bokmål (Kjartan Maraas)
    • Swedish (Daniel Nylander)
    • Vietnamese (Clytie Siddall)
    File Roller 2.27.3  [ download ]
    Released on July 27, 2009
    Changes since previous version:

    Bugs fixed
    • Do not execute the extraction operation twice when the archive is encrypted. (#392994)
    • Fixed bug that prevented in some cases the correct extraction of encrypted files. (#588547)
    New or updated application translations
    • Chinese (Hong Kong) (Chao-Hsiung Liao)
    • Chinese/Traditional (Chao-Hsiung Liao)
    • Español (Jorge González)
    • Estonian (Ivar Smolin)
    • Finnish (Ilkka Tuohela)
    • Hebrew (Yaron Shahrabani)
    • Tamil (Dr.T.Vasudevan)
    New or updated manual translations
    • Czech (Marek Černocký)
    • German (Mario Blättermann)
    File Roller 2.27.2  [ download ]
    Released on July 13, 2009
    Changes since previous version:

    Bugs fixed
    • Renamed the Open Destination button as Show the Files (#587501)
    • Renamed the Create Archive command as Compress (#300655)
    • Added a Quit button to the extract dialog. (#586014)
    • Do not distribute built sources. (#587491)
    • Auto-resize the property dialog to view the content correctly (#586189)
    Internal changes
    • Do not copy remote files to a local folder, use gvfs directly.
    New or updated application translations
    • Czech (Adrian Guniš)
    • Español (Jorge González)
    • Estonian (Ivar Smolin)
    • Hebrew (Mark Krapivner)
    • Swedish (Daniel Nylander)
    • Ukrainian (wanderlust)
    New or updated manual translations
    • Español (Jorge González)
    File Roller 2.27.1  [ download ]
    Released on June 15, 2009
    Changes since previous version:

    New features and user visible changes
  • Added support for lzip compressed archives (#579467)
  • Added support for xz compressed archives (#582237)
    • Bugs fixed
    • #582712: Opening multipart encrypted .7z files does not work (file-roller-created .7z)
    • #584675: Untracked files on fresh clone
    • #580070: Garbage is displayed when adding a folder
    • #583863: Wrong explanation for the command 'extract-here'.
    • #584810: File-roller uses libsexy
    • #584718: File-roller crashes when opening certain archives with wierd characters in filename
    • #581102: build error in copy-n-paste/
    • #578467: Should not use deprecated gtk symbols
    New or updated application translations
    • Danish (Kenneth Nielsen)
    • Español (Jorge González)
    • Estonian (Ivar Smolin)
    • Greek (Thanos Lefteris)
    • Kazakh (Baurzhan M.)
    New or updated manual translations
    • Greek (Μάριος Ζηντίλης)
    File Roller 2.26.1  [ download ]
    Released on April 13, 2009
    Changes since previous version:

    Bugs fixed
    • #574657: support corrupted rar archives.
    • #576960: file-roller shows random filesize for zero bytes files.
    • #577389: File roller hangs and leaks memory when file is dragged / dropped from archive
    New or updated application translations
    • Estonian (Ivar Smolin)
    • Swedish (Daniel Nylander)
    • Serbian (Miloš Popović)
    • Greek (Thanos Lefteris)
    • Dutch (Wouter Bolsterlee)
    • Kannada (Shankar Prasad)
    • Arabic (خالد حسني)
    • Assamese (Amitakhya Phukan)
    New or updated manual translations
    • Español (Jorge González)
    • French (Claude Paroz)
    • German (Mario Blättermann)
    • Greek (Μάριος Ζηντίλης)
    File Roller 2.26.0  [ download ]
    Released on March 16, 2009
    Changes since previous version:

    New or updated application translations
    • Assamese (Amitakhya Phukan)
    • Bengali INDIA (Runa Bhattacharjee)
    • Español (Jorge González)
    • Estonian (Ivar Smolin)
    • Galego (Suso Baleato)
    • Greek (Jennie Petoumenou)
    • Gujarati (Ankit Patel)
    • Hebrew (Gil Osher)
    • Hindi (Rajesh Ranjan)
    • Lithuanian (Vytautas Rekus)
    • Maithili (Sangeeta Kumari)
    • marathi (Sandeep Shedmake)
    • Oriya (Manoj Kumar Giri)
    • Russian (Anton Shestakov)
    • Swathanthra Malayalam Computing|സ്വതന്ത്ര മലയാളം കമ്പ്യൂട്ടിങ് (Ani Peter)
    • Tamil (I. Felix)
    • Telugu (Krishna Babu K)
    New or updated manual translations
    • British English (Philip Withnall)
    File Roller 2.25.92  [ download ]
    Released on March 2, 2009
    Changes since previous version:

    New or updated application translations
    • English (British) (David Lodge)
    • Bulgarian (Alexander Shopov)
    • Czech (Adrian Guniš)
    • Hungarian (Gabor Kelemen)
    • Italian (Milo Casagrande)
    • Japanese (Takeshi AIHANA)
    • Swedish (Daniel Nylander)
    • Turkish (Baris Cicek)
    New or updated manual translations
    • Swedish (Daniel Nylander)
    File Roller 2.25.91  [ download ]
    Released on February 17, 2009
    Changes since previous version:

    Bugs fixed
    • #571273: crash in Archive Manager: Opening an archive (ISO) Patch by Tom Parker.
    • #560429: GNOME Goal: Remove deprecated GLib symbols
    • #570505: file-roller crashed with signal 5 in IA__g_malloc()
    New or updated application translations
    • Asturian (Astur)
    • Aviary.pl (Tomasz Dominikowski)
    • Basque (Iñaki Larrañaga Murgoitio)
    • Belarusian Latin (Ihar Hrachyshka)
    • Brazilian Portuguese (Fabrício Godoy)
    • Bulgarian (Alexander Shopov)
    • Chinese (Hong Kong) (Chao-Hsiung Liao)
    • Chinese/Traditional (Chao-Hsiung Liao)
    • Danish (Kenneth Nielsen)
    • Dutch (Wouter Bolsterlee)
    • Español (Jorge González)
    • French (Claude Paroz)
    • Kannada (Shankar Prasad)
    • Macedonian (Arangel Angov)
    • Portuguese (Duarte Loreto)
    • Romanian (Adi Roiban)
    • Serbian (sr) (Горан Ракић)
    • Serbian (sr) (Goran Rakić)
    • Thai (Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
    • Ukrainian (Maxim Dziumanenko)
    • Vietnamese (Clytie Siddall)
    • zh_CN (甘露(Gan Lu))
    File Roller 2.25.90  [ download ]
    Released on February 2, 2009
    Changes since previous version:

    New features and user visible changes
    • Use gtkbuilder instead of libglade.
    Bugs fixed
    • #568881: don't rely on gtk implementation details
    • #569825: file-roller should use TMPDIR or XDG_CACHE_HOME for temporary files.
    New or updated application translations
    • Brazilian Portuguese (Fabrício Godoy)
    • Catalan (Jordi Mallach)
    • Deutsch (Christian Kirbach)
    • Finnish (Ilkka Tuohela)
    • Hungarian (Gabor Kelemen)
    • Korea (Changwoo Ryu)
    • Swedish (Daniel Nylander)
    File Roller 2.25.2  [ download ]
    Released on January 20, 2009
    Changes since previous version:

    Bugs fixed
    • #567554: An error occurred while adding files to the archive after encrypt the zip archive.
    • #566591: File roller cannot create splitted archives with pieces smaller than 1 Mb
    • #560647: file-roller wakes up the CPU 2 times per second.
    • #563208: file-roller can't extract to an ftp mounted directory. Patch by Gerard Lommerse.
    • #564029: Unziping an archive from nautilus fails with certain characters.
    • #565879: isoinfo.sh has shebang but is installed -x Patch by Loïc Minier.
    • #567901: renaming directory in tarball creates duplicate files
    • #568260: file-roller installs static libraries by default (for nautilus extension)
    • #566683: remove redundant figures
    New or updated application translations
    • Español (Jorge González)
    • Norwegian Bokmål (Kjartan Maraas)
    • zh_CN (甘露(Gan Lu))
    File Roller 2.25.1  [ download ]
    Released on January 5, 2009
    Changes since previous version:

    Bugs fixed
    • #564805: Drop libgnome/ui dependency. Patch by Saleem Abdulrasool.
    • #561535: Unable to create archive with OpenOffice document using nautilus integration. Patch by Gerard Lommerse.
    • #559481: Can't open/view file directly from File Roller if there is a bracket in the directory/file name. Patch by Gerard Lommerse.
    New or updated manual translations
    • Catalan (Joan Duran)
    File Roller 2.24.2  [ download ]
    Released on November 24, 2008
    Changes since previous version:

    New or updated application translations
    • Estonian (Ivar Smolin)
    File Roller 2.24.1  [ download ]
    Released on October 20, 2008
    Changes since previous version:

    Bugs fixed
    • #556623: correct spacings in glade dialogues. Patch by Christian Persch.
    • #556619: format not a string literal and no format arguments. Patch by Christian Persch.
    • #556571: non secret password typing.
    • #555282: opening archive on remote directory fails with "Operation not supported".
    New or updated application translations
    • Arabic (Anas Afif Emad)
    • Brazilian Portuguese (Fábio Nogueira)
    • Czech (Adrian Guniš)
    New or updated manual translations
    • Finnish (Valto Wirkola)
    File Roller 2.24.0  [ download ]
    Released on September 22, 2008
    Changes since previous version:

    Bugs fixed
    • #546799: file-roller crashed with SIGSEGV in g_str_hash()
    • #552031: Add archiving and compression to desktop categories. Patch by Patryk Zawadzki.
    New or updated application translations
    • Afrikaans (F Wolff)
    • Arabic (Anas Afif Emad)
    • Catalan (Jordi Mallach)
    • Croatian
    • Danish (Ask Hjorth Larsen)
    • Dzongkha (Dawa pemo)
    • French (Claude Paroz)
    • Greek (Kostas Papadimas)
    • Gujarati (Sweta Kothari)
    • Hungarian (Gabor Kelemen)
    • Italian (Milo Casagrande)
    • Kannada (Shankar Prasad)
    • Lithuanian (Gintautas Miliauskas)
    • Malayalam (Santhosh Thottingal)
    • marathi (Sandeep Shedmake)
    • Romanian (Mișu Moldovan)
    • Russian (Yuriy Penkin)
    • Serbian (sr) (Горан Ракић)
    • Serbian (sr) (Goran Rakić)
    • Telugu (Krishna Babu K)
    • Turkish (Baris Cicek)
    New or updated manual translations
    • Español (Jorge González)
    • Finnish (Valto Wirkola)
    • French (Claude Paroz)
    • German (Mario Blättermann)
    • Italian (Milo Casagrande)
    File Roller 2.23.92  [ download ]
    Released on September 8, 2008
    Changes since previous version:

    Bugs fixed
    • #551153: [PATCH] rpm: display empty directories and support device files. Patch by Eric Piel.
    • #551146: [PATCH] cpio: escaped filenames and block devices support. Patch by Eric Piel.
    • #546541: File associations paragraph corrected. Patch by Claude Paroz.
    New or updated application translations
    • British English (David Lodge)
    • albanian (Laurent Dhima)
    • Bulgarian (Alexander Shopov)
    • Croatian (Robert Sedak)
    • Korean (Changwoo Ryu)
    • Vietnamese (Nguyễn Đình Trung)
    • zh_CN (甘露(Lu Gan))
    New or updated manual translations
    • Vietnamese (Nguyễn Đình Trung)
    File Roller 2.23.91  [ download ]
    Released on April 21, 2008
    Changes since previous version:

    Bugs fixed
    • #544766: file-roller doesn't remember open-with application.
    • Sort the archive type list to make it easier to find the desired type.
    New or updated application translations
    • Basque (Iñaki Larrañaga Murgoitio)
    • Chinese (Hong Kong) (Chao-Hsiung Liao)
    • Chinese/Traditional (Chao-Hsiung Liao)
    • Español (Jorge González)
    • French (Claude Paroz)
    • German (Hendrik Richter)
    • Oriya (Manoj Kumar Giri)
    • Polish (Tomasz Dominikowski)
    • Serbian (Goran Rakić)
    New or updated manual translations
    • German (Mario Blättermann)
    File Roller 2.23.6  [ download ]
    Released on August 19, 2008
    Changes since previous version:

    Bugs fixed
    • #350640: sending an empty folder doesn't work.
    • #548020: create archive directory selection not working correctly. Patch by Marcel Stimberg.
    • #546698: file-roller-2.23.1/2.23.5 removes r/x bit for anyone but root from /
    • #547733: 7-zip tells about invalid command line
    • #547297: Crash reading zip/7za files with 7z version 4.55.
    • #546978: wrong icon for folders. Patch by Matthias Clasen.
    • #547017: segfault in Open with. Patch by Matthias Clasen.
    • #546505: Debian packages not supported anymore.
    • #542424: Tar.bz2 archives create uncompressed archive files.
    • #546541: Typo and little errors in documentation. Suggested by Frederic Peters. Patch by Claude Paroz.
    • LP#26662: file-roller fails to open .Z files.
    New or updated application translations
    • Arabic (Djihed Afifi)
    • Belarusian Latin (Ihar Hrachyshka)
    • Bengali INDIA (Runa Bhattacharjee)
    • Brazilian Portuguese (Fábio Nogueira)
    • Español (Jorge González)
    • Estonian (Ivar Smolin)
    • Finnish (Ilkka Tuohela)
    • Hebrew (Gil Osher)
    • Japanese (Takeshi AIHANA)
    • Portuguese (Duarte Loreto)
    • Swedish (Daniel Nylander)
    • Thai (Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
    New or updated manual translations
    • Español (Jorge González)
    • German (Mario Blättermann)
    File Roller 2.23.5  [ download ]
    Released on August 4, 2008
    Changes since previous version:

    New features and user visible changes
    • Added a help button to the window used to create archives from the file manager menu.
    • Unified the new and save as dialogs. Allow to specify other options in these dialogs, such as whether to encrypt the header and whether to split the archive in volumes.
    • User's manual: now describes the current file-roller version.
    Bugfixes
    • #545188: Has incorrect start text for 7zip version 4.43
    • #545168: no longer possible to open a multi-volume rar from any part
    • #545161: file-roller crashed with SIGSEGV in strlen() when extracting tarball.
    • #544613: file-roller crashed with SIGSEGV in remove_directory()
    • #544296: desktop entry does not validate. Patch by Götz Waschk.
    • #544184: extra space in the mimetype lists. Patch by Sebastien Bacher.
    • #544182: configure.ac should use AC_PROG_CC. Patch by Sebastien Bacher.
    • Allow to create multi-volume archives from the main window.
    Updated application translations
    • Arabic (Djihed Afifi)
    • Dutch (Wouter Bolsterlee)
    • Norwegian Bokmål (Kjartan Maraas)
    • Macedonian (Arangel Angov)
    • Occitan (Yannig Marchegay (Kokoyaya))
    • Galego (Ignacio Casal Quinteiro)
    • Brazilian Portuguese (Fabrício Godoy)
    • Español (Jorge González)
    • Czech (Adrian Guniš)
    • Estonian (Ivar Smolin)
    Updated manual translations
    • Swedish (Daniel Nylander)
    File Roller 2.23.4
    Changes since previous version:

    New features and user visible changes
    • Added support for reading and extracting alz archives (#521324).
    • Added support for rzip compressed files (#503000).
    • Added support for creating self-extracting zip archives.
    • Added ability to create multi-volume archives.
    • Added support for header encryption. Implemented header encryption for 7zip and rar archives.
    • Use the 7z command to read/write zip, cbr, cbz archives, and to read cabinet, arj, rar and iso archives.
    • Try to get the mime type from magic numbers if all other methods fail.
    • Now the progress dialog is exact when adding, extracting or deleting files for tar, zip, rar and 7zip archives (#153281).
    • Do not add the backup files, that is files ending with ~, to the archive.
    • Operations are now more efficient for archives with a long file list.
    Bugfixes
    • Fixed bug #343201 – Use p7zip for RAR archives?
    • Fixed bug #529395 – file-roller will not open 256 AES zip files
    • Fixed bug #515194 – PK 4.5 Zip files
    • Fixed bug #519046 – add x-cbr and x-cbz support
    • Fixed bug #336790 – file-roller can't open winzip-10 encrypted files (AES)
    • Fixed bug #539629 – Create archive for Trash/Computer
    • Fixed bug #506698 – 7z Filename (header) Encryption request
    • Fixed bug #542541 – icon lookup code is broken
    • Fixed bug #504584 – Incorrect comportment when extracting multi part rar files.
    Internal code
    • Simplified the way to register commands.
    • Allow to compile with Gtk+ 2.12 as well.
    File Roller 2.23.3
    Changes since previous version:

  • Added partial support for tar archives compressed with 7zip.
  • Display the progress dialog if the operation lasts more than 5 seconds. Display the progress dialog without delay if extracting or converting an archive. After the extraction add to the progress dialog the button to open the destination folder and after the conversion add the button to open the newly created archive. Removed the 'view folder after extraction' option from the extraction dialog.
  • Removed the preview-file stock item, use gtk_stock_open instead.
  • Do not use the sh command to exec the process, use the utility command directly to allow to stop the process properly
  • Use g_io_channel to read the command output.
    • File Roller 2.23.2  [ download ]
    Released on June 2, 2008
    Changes since previous version:

  • Fixed bug #480190 – files added to archive are wrongly placed in root
  • Fixed bug #535967 – Meaningless message: Open Go to the next visited location selected folder
  • Fixed bug #536055 – Support for special characters in rpm archives
  • Fixed bug #527271 – Ctrl-Q should quit file-roller.
  • Fixed bug #532789 – file-roller crashes when modifying archive, data destroyed
  • Fixed bug #532255 – file-roller silently allows the user to exit in the middle of an operation.
    • File Roller 2.23.1  [ download ]
    Released on April 21, 2008
    Changes since previous version:

    New features and user visible changes
    • Show an alert dialog when the 'save as' operation is completed, and allow the user the open the newly created archive.
    • Load and save the 'add folder' dialog options. Allow to clear the options as well.
    • Allow to specify a password when converting an archive to another format.
    • Added keyboard shortcut to deselect all. Moved add files and add folders down in the edit menu. Moved stop and reaload at the bottom of the view menu. Removed the 'sort by' submenu.
    • Added an exclude folder filter to specify sub-folders to ignore when adding a folder recursively.
    • Added ability to extract folders from the folder pane using drag & drop.
    Bugfixes
    • Fixed bug #523158 – exclamation mark in RAR password
    • Fixed bug #516043 – status bar / progress bar artifact
    • Fixed bug #512474 – Visual glitches at startup Internal code has been modified in order to remove the usage of
    deprecated libraries and API
    • now the GIO library is used to access the filesystem instead of the deprecated gnome-vfs library.
    • gtk+ is used to get the applications and mime types icons.
    • replaced gnome_url_show with g_app_info_launch_default_for_uri.
    • use g_app_info_launch_default_for_uri to show the help dialog.
    • use the new tooltips API.
    • use g_key_file instead of gnome_config for loading/saving sessions.
    • use GRegex instead of the custom utf8_fnmatch function.
    File Roller 2.22.0  [ download ]
    Released on March 11, 2008
    Changes since previous version:

  • Fixed bug #518680 – Right click Extract Here action: Password dialogue doesn't have its title set.
  • Fixed bug #504155 – Crash when click on create before it selects the current directory
  • Updated translations.
    • File Roller 2.21.92  [ download ]
    Released on February 25, 2008
    Changes since previous version:

  • Updated translations.
    • File Roller 2.21.91  [ download ]
    Released on February 11, 2008
    Changes since previous version:

  • Updated translations.
    • File Roller 2.21.2  [ download ]
    Released on January 28, 2008
    Changes since previous version:

    New features
    • Added the ability to find the files of the archive with the specified filename.
    Bug fixes
    • Fixed bug #303213 – default to extract in home instead of tmp
    • Fixed bug #509933 – 2.21.1 does not compile
    File Roller 2.21.1  [ download ]
    Released on January 7, 2008
    Changes since previous version:

    New features
    • Implemented the ability to update the files in an archive when the files are modified with an external application (#109767).
    • Added support for lzma files, both normal files and tar-files compressed by lzma (#502999).
    Bugfixes
    • Fixed bug #487012: Check for the existence of 'filename.tar.{bz2,gz}' and only if it doesn't exist it makes file-roller call tar with the '-cf' switch.
    • Fixed bug #487079: Key F10 can not activate the main menu.
    • Fixed bug #499958: file size displayed incorrectly on .Z file
    • Fixed bug #499558: File-roller is unable to expand some zip files
    • Fixed bug #458399: fix duplicated hotkeys, assign new hotkeys, add some user-friendly features
    • Fixed bug #475166: Failed assertion when --extract-here is used without --extract-to
    • Fixed bug #505987: Nautilus extension directory changed to -2.0
    • Fixed bug #487012: file-roller causes gnu tar >= 1.19 to give warnings when creating tar-archives
    • Fixed bug #490891: skips files when opening an old ARJ archive
    • Fixed bug #504597: Direct compare on string
    File Roller 2.20.2  [ download ]
    Released on November 26, 2007
    Changes since previous version:

  • Updated translations: Occitan (oc), Galician (gl), Arabic (ar), Slovenian (sl), Hebrew (he), Hungarian (hu).
    • File Roller 2.20.1  [ download ]
    Released on October 15, 2007
    Changes since previous version:

  • Fixed crash after cancelling an archive creation from the Nautilus context menu. (bug #482203)
    • File Roller 2.20.0  [ download ]
    Released on September 17, 2007
    Changes since previous version:

  • Fixed bug #473158 - ask-password.glade is missing
  • Fixes bug #463968 - file-roller crashed with SIGSEGV in g_closure_invoke()
  • Removed old check that prevented extraction to remote locations via DnD.
    • File Roller 2.19.92  [ download ]
    Released on September 3, 2007
    Changes since previous version:

  • Display empty folders in 7zip archives.
    • File Roller 2.19.91  [ download ]
    Released on August 27, 2007
    Changes since previous version:

  • Fixed bug #467482 - [gutsy regression] extract here no longer puts extracted file here.
  • Fixed bug #468677 - file-roller doesn't open folders if you go up one level.
  • Fixed bug #469528 - file-roller crashed with SIGSEGV in strlen()
  • Fixed bug #469221 - extract a package on an NTFS partition doesn't work.
    • File Roller 2.19.90  [ download ]
    Released on August 13, 2007
    Changes since previous version:

  • Fixed copy & paste of folders with tar archives.
  • Fixed execution of the sidebar context menu commands.
  • Fixed renaming of files. Do not change the current location when reloading the archive after a rename.
  • Fixed bug #144216 - can't open compressed .EXE files
  • Fixed bug #463251 - remove #include <gnome.h> lines
  • Fixed bug #463235 - Can't add an empty directory with --add option.
  • Fixed bug #463753 - replace gnome_help_display.
  • Fixed bug #463887 - Progress bar height should be smaller.
    • File Roller 2.19.4  [ download ]
    Released on July 30, 2007
    Changes since previous version:

  • Get the mime type from the file content to find out the default application to use when viewing a file.
  • Added a sidebar context menu.
  • Unescape the archive filename in the tree view.
  • Fixed bug #450150 - Translate program description correctly.
  • Fixesd bug #461356 - Please add comment to this time string.
    • File Roller 2.19.3  [ download ]
    Released on June 19, 2007
    Changes since previous version:

  • Added support for Drag&Drop among file-roller windows.
  • Added a folders pane.
  • Fixed daylight saving time calculation.
  • Save and restore the filename column width.
  • Fixed bug #402756 - Can not open a file whose name is in non-ascii encoding.
    • File Roller 2.19.2  [ download ]
    Released on June 4, 2007
    Changes since previous version:

  • Added support for cut/copy and paste among different windows.
  • Fixed bug #171619 - uses GnomeIconTheme which is deprecated
  • Fixed bug #398824 - crash in Archive Manager: Opened a lha-archiv
  • Fixed bug #438340 - file-roller has problems with files starting with a dash (-)
  • Fixed bug #402760 - modified time column is displayed blank in zh_CN.GB18030 locale when creating a new archive
  • Fixes bug #440662 - extraction of files with special characters only when in directory.
  • Fixes bug #439154 - file-roller: fails to create archives from files starting with '#'
    • File Roller 2.19.1  [ download ]
    Released on May 14, 2007
    Changes since previous version:

  • Added ability to load and save remote archives, to add remote files to an archive and to extract to remote locations.
  • Make sure the extract_here destination is unique.
  • View the destination folder after performing an extract_here operation if the corrisponding gconf key is active.
  • The encrypted emblem is now shown on the right of the name column, this way the mime-type icon is alway visible.
  • The error dialog is now HIG compliant.
    • File Roller 2.18.0  [ download ]
    Released on March 12, 2007
    Changes since previous version:

  • Use standard password blank character instead of stars (#407461)
  • Removed Application from the .desktop categories.
  • Updated translations: zh_CN, lt, gu, mg, sl, ku, sr, bn_IN, ca, nl, hu, ru, ro.
    • File Roller 2.17.92  [ download ]
    Released on February 26, 2007
    Changes since previous version:

  • Fixed bug #409433 – Feisty Herd4: File-Roller shows directory name twice.
    • File Roller 2.17.91  [ download ]
    Released on February 12, 2007
    Changes since previous version:

  • The password dialog is HIG compliant (#396775)
  • Disable the ok button in the 'open with' dialog if no application has been selected (#395074).
    • File Roller 2.17.90  [ download ]
    Released on January 22, 2007
    Changes since previous version:

  • Updated translations: th, de, sv.
    • File Roller 2.17.5  [ download ]
    Released on January 8, 2007
    Changes since previous version:

  • Fixed bug #387602 – Cannot open self-extracting files (*.exe)
  • Fixed bug #384499 – File-roller does not handle filenames starting with a dash (-) correctly.
  • Fixed bug #384504 – File-roller does not handle filenames containing a backquote (`) correctly.
  • Fixed bug #374478 – crash in Archive Manager: using archive manager to...
    • File Roller 2.17.4  [ download ]
    Released on December 18, 2006
    Changes since previous version:

  • Use the XDS protocol to extract dragged files. Fixes bug #102501 – Drag-and-drop extract operation should run instantly in background.
  • New app icons from Jakub Steiner
  • Made action icons themable.
  • Fixed bug #324154 – file-roller can't display modified time on non-utf8 locale
    • File Roller 2.17.3  [ download ]
    Released on December 4, 2006
    Changes since previous version:

  • Fixed ISO images extraction.
  • Fixes bug #371582 – Dead code in window.c
  • Fixed bug #367385 – [WISHLIST] file-roller does not close after closing last open archive in violation of HIG
    • File Roller 2.17.2  [ download ]
    Released on November 7, 2006
    Changes since previous version:

  • Make stock icons themable. (#362922)
  • Do not add temp archives to the recent files list
  • View as Java Archive (jar) (#43975)
  • Do not display a 100% progress bar when the last file is processed.
  • Rename the extraction folder if a folder with the same name already exists.
  • Fixed bug #349824 – does not work with 7zr.
  • Fixed bug #350192 – [PATCH] Make the Ok button to be default in delete dialog.
  • Fixed bug #160991 – Crash while trying to extract from a .sit
  • Fixed bug #355307 – If uncompressed name not specified in compressed file, cannot view, bad extracted filename.
  • Fixed bug #348211 – Please distinguish View menus/buttons for translation.
  • Fixed bug #347019 – incorrect error message shown when trying to open incomplete archive
  • Fixed bug #338210 – Context menu option open files not available for folders.
  • Fixed bug #348524 – rar archives give ERROR: Unknown option: idp
  • Fixed bug #370754 – Manual menu item should be 'Contents' not 'Help'
    • File Roller 2.17.1  [ download ]
    Released on October 16, 2006
    Changes since previous version:

  • Added ace and cpio support.
  • Allow to store, view and extract empty folders (#162792).
  • Use the file-chooser dialog to extract files.
  • Fixed bug #303213 - default to extract in home instead of tmp
  • Fixed bug #304362 - crash extratcting .sit stuffit files
  • Fixed bug #359629 - rpm support on solaris failing
    • File Roller 2.16.1  [ download ]
    Released on October 3, 2006
    Changes since previous version:

  • Updated translations: ar, en_GB, et, ka, nn.
    • File Roller 2.16.0  [ download ]
    Released on September 4, 2006
    Changes since previous version:

  • Updated translations: ja, sv, or, zh_CN, ml, ca, mr, lv, de, mk, pt_BR, lt, pt, hu, mk, el, ta, bg, bn_IN, ro.
    • File Roller 2.15.93  [ download ]
    Released on August 21, 2006
    Changes since previous version:

  • Prompt for the password when an archive is encrypted instead of simply displaying a warning on how to spicify a password
  • Do not use the encrypted emblem for folders.
  • Added X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Version field to the .desktop file.
  • Fixed bug #349095: Filetypes seriously screwed up in .zip files
  • Fixes bug #153642: Temporary files are created on the current directory
    • File Roller 2.15.92  [ download ]
    Released on August 8, 2006
    Changes since previous version:

  • Fixed tar archives creation.
    • File Roller 2.15.91  [ download ]
    Released on August 7, 2006
    Changes since previous version:

  • Fixed bug #343739 – Seems to not escape file names correctly.
  • Fixes bug #340050 – tar permissions are not preserved.
  • Fixed bug #339913 – create archive option does not work on some filenames.
  • Fixed bug #347624 – fix build with gcc 2.95
  • Fixed bug #347416 – RecentFilesMenu - OpenRecentMenu converting
  • Update translations: eu, zh_HK, zh_TW, nb, et, fr.
    • File Roller 2.15.90  [ download ]
    Released on July 24, 2006
    Changes since previous version:

  • Update translations: cs, dz, fi, gu, ko, sk, sv.
  • Update manual translations: sv.
    • File Roller 2.15.1  [ download ]
    Released on July 11, 2006
    Changes since previous version:

  • Migrated from EggRecent to GtkRecent.
  • Fixed bug #345052 – file roller should remember the size of the window when it closes.
  • Fixed bug #345278 – File operations on the Edit menu should be moved to the Archive menu.
  • Fixed bug #342251 – backspace does not go up a directory (ala Nautilus)
  • Fixed bug #336078 - [PATCH] Convert from popt to GOption
  • Fixed bug #317782 - file-roller Cygwin build fixes
  • Fixed bug #152039 - Password Protected Files must be displayed differently.
    • File Roller 2.14.3  [ download ]
    Released on May 29, 2006
    Changes since previous version:

  • Fixed bug #338944 - Open Files..., can't delete programs
  • Updated translations: et.
  • Updated manual Spanish translation.
    • File Roller 2.14.2  [ download ]
    Released on April 18, 2006
    Changes since previous version:

  • Fixed filename escaping in tar archives.
    • File Roller 2.14.1  [ download ]
    Released on April 10, 2006
    Changes since previous version:

  • Ask for the password when trying to open a password protected rar or arj archive.
  • Updated the user's guide.
  • Added help button to all the dialogs.
  • Install theme-friendly icon.
  • Fixed bug #335035 - mistake in file-roller's License.
  • Fixed bug #336908 - backshalshes not supported in paths.
  • Fixed bug #336632 - Help for Extract Dialog pointing to incorrect location.
  • Fixed bug #336854 - crash on twice unpacking to the same location.
  • Fixed bug #335659 - File Roller should move not copy files.
  • Fixed bug #335368 - Crash when opening large 7z-archive.
  • Fixed buf #326193 - file-roller creates empty 7zip archives.
  • Fixed bug #337754 - Drag and Drop extraction only works when source already has focus.
  • Fixed bug #337331 - Cut/Paste same file results in loss of file.
    • File Roller 2.14.0  [ download ]
    Released on March 13, 2006
    Changes since previous version:

  • Added license button to the about dialog.
  • New translations: Georgian (ka) and Breton (br).
  • Updated translations: Ukrainian (uk), Welsh (cy), Hindi (hi), Swedish (sv), et, Czech (cs), Italian (it), Romanian (ro).
    • File Roller 2.13.92  [ download ]
    Released on February 27, 2006
    Changes since previous version:

  • Fixed bug #331601 – Nautilus doesn't display the Extract here menu option for files which have a .ps.gz
    • File Roller 2.13.91  [ download ]
    Released on February 13, 2006
    Changes since previous version:

  • Fixed bug #330315 - ps.gz files not associated
  • Fixed bug #328942 - Don't translate empty strings
    • File Roller 2.13.90  [ download ]
    Released on January 30, 2006
    Changes since previous version:

  • Fixed bug #328473 – should not distribute pre-gnome-2.8 mime files
  • Fixed bug #328331 - Crashes on extraction
  • Fixed bug #328036 - Add GTK category to the .desktop file
    • File Roller 2.13.4  [ download ]
    Released on January 16, 2006
    Changes since previous version:

  • Fixed bug #139912 - file roller is not a system tool.
  • Fixed bug #168388 - file roller shouldn't create an ARCHIVE_FILES folder if the archive only have one root folder
  • Fixed bug #326810 - file-roller escaping issue with '#' by example.
  • Removed obsolete .applications file.
    • File Roller 2.13.3  [ download ]
    Released on January 2, 2006
    Changes since previous version:

  • Updated translations: ca, zh_HK, zh_TW, vi, fi, ja, be, hy.
    • File Roller 2.13.2  [ download ]
    Released on December 12, 2005
    Changes since previous version:

  • Fixed bug #323713: Save as should default to current archive filename
  • Fixed bug #315069: file-roller: drag 'n drop doesn't work for more than 1 file.
  • Fixed bug #323534: Passwords improperly escaped for zip files
  • Do not open a progress dialog when dragging files, use a progressbar in the statusbar instead.
  • Fixed bug #316364: Nautilus dependency should be optional
  • Fixed bug #311821: ascending and descending indicators are opposite from expected.
  • Fixed bug #317423: Conflicting mnemonic in Extract dialog.
  • Fixed bug #323068: file-roller fails in chosing extract-to directory
  • Fixed bug #322197: Improve Naming Filename when create new Archive file
  • Fixed bug #316564: needs unzip AND zip.
  • Simplified the add dialog populating the file type combobox with the extensions instead of the descriptions.
  • Set progress dialog display delay to 1 second.
  • More HIG compliant progress dialog.
  • Use a single command execution to add many files and folders to an archive to speed up the operation.
  • Allow to stop creation of a new archive.
  • Correctly associate fr to 7zip files.
    • File Roller 2.13.1  [ download ]
    Released on October 24, 2005
    Changes since previous version:

  • Fixed bug #319600: compilation under AIX 5.1 aborts with ".atoll not found".
  • Fixed bug #319343: file-roller won't let me delete files from an archive which contain a dollar sign ($).
  • Removed the bonobo component.
    • File Roller 2.12.1  [ download ]
    Released on October 3, 2005
    Changes since previous version:

  • Updated translations: it, bn, sv, ku, vi, eu.
    • File Roller 2.12.0  [ download ]
    Released on September 5, 2005
    Changes since previous version:

  • New and updated translations.
    • File Roller 2.11.92  [ download ]
    Released on August 22, 2005
    Changes since previous version:

  • Do not allow Drag and Drop on the same window.
    • File Roller 2.11.91  [ download ]
    Released on August 8, 2005
    Changes since previous version:

  • Fixed bug #311437: [breezy] can't extract a filename from a directory with a space in it from ISO.
  • Ported the help documents to gnome-doc-utils.
  • Fixed bug #312243: wrong zoo and 7-zip extensions.
  • Fixed bug #312240: escape sequences in rar output.
  • Fixed bug #312246: FR does not read all pending output.
    • File Roller 2.11.90  [ download ]
    Released on July 25, 2005
    Changes since previous version:

  • Fixed bug #105521: single click: list view should have mouse-over.
  • Fixed bug #310015: crash when listing 7-zip archive with 7za 4.x
  • Updated translations: de bg zh_TW gl sr sr@Latn gu ja fi
    • File Roller 2.11.2
    Changes since previous version:

  • Removed copy/move/rename/delete archive commands.
  • The recent files items are in the Archive menu instead of a submenu.
  • Changes in the properties dialog: align labels to left, allow window resizing, ellipsize filename and path labels.
  • Fixed bug #142860: File-roller displays files larger than 2GB as 2GB.
    • File Roller 2.11.1  [ download ]
    Released on May 17, 2005
    Changes since previous version:

  • Do not create a _FILES folder anymore (#167261).
  • Allow to extract more archives at once. Added an --extract-here command line option.
  • Use g_filename_display_name and g_filename_display_basename when appropriate.
  • Prevent renaming of files to silently overwrite other existing files (#168287).
  • Header cleanup (#171618).
  • Allow stock labels to show through, be nice to translators (#172867).
    • File Roller 2.10.2  [ download ]
    Released on April 11, 2005
    Changes since previous version:

  • Fixed bug #300238: Unable to gunzip gzip'd ubuntu mail archives.
  • Plugged a little memory leak related tooltips.
    • File Roller 2.10.1  [ download ]
    Released on March 31, 2005
    Changes since previous version:

  • Fixed bug #171195: File-Roller will not tar up any subdirectories directly under /
  • Fixed bug #170842: Toolbar buttons too wide.
  • Fixed bug #170329: Aborting File Add can sometimes crash the application.
  • Fixed bug #170258: file-roller can't open for preview files with a white space in filename.
  • Fixed bug #169818: Archive menu item to be disabled if no files are selected.
  • Fixed bug #172219: Select All and Deselect all doesnt work properly.
  • Added ellipsize property to the list view.
  • Do not activate the first row after reordering the list in single click mode.
  • Fixed bug in recent files view.
    • File Roller 2.10.0  [ download ]
    Released on March 7, 2005
    Changes since previous version:

  • Updated translations: it, sr, sr@Latn, lt, hu.
    • File Roller 2.9.92  [ download ]
    Released on February 28, 2005
    Changes since previous version:

  • Fixed bug #157698: Default new archive name as the first-added object.
  • Fixed bug #168477: Create Archive should leave status window in the background while creating multiple folder archives.
  • Fixed bug #159952: file-roller compilation error.
  • Fixed bug #166658: Archives should only be processed if command-line utility is present.
  • Fixed bug #144953: ISO reading assumes Joliet and Rock Ridge extensions.
    • File Roller 2.9.91  [ download ]
    Released on February 7, 2005
    Changes since previous version:

  • Updated recent-files from libegg.
    • File Roller 2.9.4  [ download ]
    Released on January 24, 2005
    Changes since previous version:

  • Fixed bug #100927: should use GNOME mouse click settings.
    • File Roller 2.9.3  [ download ]
    Released on January 10, 2005
    Changes since previous version:

  • Fixed bug #132555: file-roller does not honor system-wide toolbar setting.
  • Fixed bug #162188: RAR archives' directories are not recognized properly.
  • Fixed bug #162324: Cannot drag files from gthumb to file-roller
    • File Roller 2.9.2
    Changes since previous version:

  • Fixed bug #152129: Unnecessary call to _window_update_sensitivity()
  • Fixed bug #154821: file-roller can't open archives with extension .lha
  • Fixed bug #154398: Remove some useless code.
  • Fixed bug #154233: load_icon_file optimization.
  • Fixed bug #161141: Time of modifcation incorrect
  • Fixed bug #161147: View->Toolbars inconsistent across multiple instance.
  • Fixed bug #160617: Create archive context menu item does not support single-file bz2 or gz
  • Fixed bug #160401: create archive doesn't work on read-only CD-ROM
  • Fixed bug #159906: the configure.in should update its gnome-vfs requirement.
  • Fixed bug #160221: No more extract here entry in Nautilus context menu.
  • Use 'extract to...' if the archive location is write only.
  • Fixed loading of rar archives with directories.
    • File Roller 2.9.1
    Changes since previous version:

  • Added a 'Open Recent' menu item on the toolbar.
  • Added password support and testing to RAR archives.
  • Fixed bug #145162] .omf.out and omf_timestamp files should not be in cvs.
  • Fixed bug #159172: tooltips leaked.
  • Fixed bug #159464: Should not use deprecate mime API
  • Make logo icon to use the theme icon.
    • File Roller 2.9.0  [ download ]
    Released on November 1, 2004
    Changes since previous version:

  • Added AR, Debian and 7-zip archives support.
  • Open the open with dialog if the file type does not have a registered application; get rid of the internal viewer.
  • Make the text invisible for the password entries.
  • Removed Select All/Deselect All from the context menu.
    • File Roller 2.8.0  [ download ]
    Released on September 13, 2004
    Changes since previous version:

  • Updated translations.
    • File Roller 2.7.5  [ download ]
    Released on August 30, 2004
    Changes since previous version:

  • Fixed bug #151427: Compilation error.
  • Fixed bug #150672: Back button is broken
  • Fixed bug #150329: File roller creates predictable /tmp directories
  • Fixed bug #150327: Adding a directory to archive hangs file roller
  • Fixed BUG #150328: avoid crashing while DND of 'Home' icon into file-roller.
  • Updated the recent-files sources from libegg.
    • File Roller 2.7.4  [ download ]
    Released on August 16, 2004
    Changes since previous version:

  • Updated the recent-files sources from libegg.
  • Added more mime types to the desktop file.
    • File Roller 2.7.3  [ download ]
    Released on August 2, 2004
    Changes since previous version:

  • Added the supported mime types to file-roller.desktop
    • File Roller 2.7.2  [ download ]
    Released on July 19, 2004
    Changes since previous version:

  • Fixed bug #144041: [Solaris] gtar will not be in path
  • Do not display the operation stopped dialog (bug #144171).
  • Fixed a leak and the display of the error message (bug #145440).
    • File Roller 2.7.1  [ download ]
    Released on July 5, 2004
    Changes since previous version:

  • Fixed bug #144455: Make file-roller session aware even when no archive is opened.
  • Fixed bug #144079 (iso is not listed as a archive in open dialog)
  • Hide the main window when in batch mode.
  • Allow to extract all the files, not only the selected files, from an ISO image.
    • File Roller 2.7.0
    Changes since previous version:

  • Added read/extract support for ISO files. (bug #142316)
  • Split the add dialog into two dialogs, one used to add files and the other one used to add folders.
  • Ask the distination folder after pasting a selection, this allows the user to create new folders in the archive.
  • Added content size and compression ratio in the properties dialog.
  • Extract selection without creating the whole path. (bug #140971)
    • File Roller 2.6.1
    Changes since previous version:

  • Fixes reading of filenames with spaces in tar archives.
  • Fixes bug #138154 (File-Roller Crash when dropping a file dragged from archive).
  • Remove a file from the recent file list if the file could not be loaded.
  • Add RPM and Stuffit to the recent file list mime types.
    • File Roller 2.6.0
    Changes since previous version:

  • Updated translations.
    • File Roller 2.5.7  [ download ]
    Released on March 15, 2004
    Changes since previous version:

  • Fixed bug #137183 (Crash when opening tar-file when using 24 hour time format).
  • Updated manual.
  • Added localized manuals for de, es, fr, it, ja, ko, sv, zh_TW, zh_HK, zh_CN.
    • File Roller 2.5.6  [ download ]
    Released on March 8, 2004
    Changes since previous version:

  • Use a better logic to parse the tar output.
  • Updated to work with the new filechooser api.
    • File Roller 2.5.5  [ download ]
    Released on February 24, 2004
    Changes since previous version:

  • Use gtar if present, otherwise use tar.
  • Fix the Zip Objects command.
  • Remove C++ style comments.
  • Fix bug #133998 (schemas file must not be removed during distclean).
  • Updated manual.
  • Fix the password protected detection code.
  • Handle the delete_event event for the progress dialog.
  • Add a filter for the save archive and new archive dialogs, simplify the filter for the open archive dialog.
    • File Roller 2.5.4  [ download ]
    Released on February 16, 2004
    Changes since previous version:

  • Fix bug #105739 (Can't open tar.gz files on Solaris).
  • Fix bug #133358 (Small HIG fix for column header).
  • Allow to extract more archives at once with the Extract Here command.
  • Use GType instead of guint. Fixes segfaults on 64-bit architectures.
  • Do not show the new window until we are sure that the archive has been opened with success.
    • File Roller 2.5.3  [ download ]
    Released on January 31, 2004
    Changes since previous version:

  • Simplify the Load Options and Save Options commands in the Add dialog.
  • Make the path column visible only if the list mode is set to flat.
  • Fix the Save as dialog.
  • Updated the recent-files stuff from libegg.
  • Changed Nautilus context menu item to Zip Objects and simplied the dialog.
  • Always use a close button in the error dialogs.
    • File Roller 2.5.2  [ download ]
    Released on January 14, 2004
    Changes since previous version:

  • Replace GtkFileSelection with GtkFileChooser everywhere.
  • Use gnome_url_show instead of calling nautilus explicitly.
  • Do not use mkdtemp which does not exist on Solaris9.
  • Do not destroy the file selector if the archive was not created successfully.
  • Do not add the password argument if the password is an empty string.
  • Use the stock system for the commands Add, Extract and View.
  • Updated the egg_recent stuff.
  • Changed name to Zip Creator and category to System Utility.
  • The preferences dialog has been removed.
  • The add dialog has been simplyfied.
  • The extract dialog is a GtkFileChooser in folder mode now.
    • File Roller 2.5.1  [ download ]
    Released on December 28, 2003
    Changes since previous version:

  • Fix crash upon LZH file opening (#129794).
    • File Roller 2.5.0  [ download ]
    Released on November 24, 2003
    Changes since previous version:

  • Added unstuff and RPM support.
  • Added ability to rename files and folders.
  • Added Cut/Copy/Paste operations.
  • Add files and folders to the current directory.
  • Added ability to go back and forward in location history.
  • Open the archive in a new window if the current window already has an archive opened.
  • Exit closes only the current window instead of closing all the windows.
  • Zip archives: ask to enter a password if the archive is password protected.
  • Remember extraction dialog options.
  • Substitute Extract To.. with Extract Here in the Nautilus context menu.
    • File Roller 2.4.2  [ download ]
    Released on November 10, 2003
    Changes since previous version:

  • Do not compile with the DISABLE_DEPRECATED macros defined.
  • Handle filenames with ambiguous chars (like []*) in zip archives.
  • Handle passwords with spaces in zip archives.
    • File Roller 2.4.1  [ download ]
    Released on October 13, 2003
    Changes since previous version:

  • Fixed bug that prevented the user to view the content of a compressed file.
    • File Roller 2.4.0  [ download ]
    Released on September 9, 2003
    Changes since previous version:

  • Updated recent files stuff from libegg.
    • File Roller 2.3.6  [ download ]
    Released on September 1, 2003
    Changes since previous version:

  • Use unrar if rar is not available.
    • File Roller 2.3.5  [ download ]
    Released on August 25, 2003
    Changes since previous version:

  • Minor bugfixes.
    • File Roller 2.3.4  [ download ]
    Released on August 11, 2003
    Changes since previous version:

  • Updated manual.
  • Minor bugfixes.
    • File Roller 2.3.3  [ download ]
    Released on June 29, 2003
    Changes since previous version:

  • Updated manual.
  • Make dialogs more HIG compliant.
  • Removed Extract Here and Extract in a Folder from the Nautilus context menu.
  • Minor bugfixes.
    • File Roller 2.3.2
    Changes since previous version:

  • Added ARJ archives support.
  • The delete operation move the archive to the trash instead of deleting it from the disk.
    • File Roller 2.3.1  [ download ]
    Released on April 7, 2003
    Changes since previous version:

  • Added ability to convert archives.
  • Popup a progress dialog when a long operation is underway, instead of using a progress bar in the status bar.
  • Give more detailed information about the current operation (only for tar archives at the moment).
  • When creating new archives, if the user does not specify the extension, use 'tgz' as default instead of giving an 'archive type not supported' error.
  • Associate File Roller to the zoo archive format.
  • Use a text entry instead of the option menu for the location.
  • Do not allow dangerous operations, that is operations that if stopped can cause the lost of the archive, such as adding and removing files, to be stopped.
  • Allow to stop folders reading.
  • Added ability to test zoo archives.
  • New toolbar icons.
  • Bugfixes.
    • File Roller 2.3.0  [ download ]
    Released on March 25, 2003
    Changes since previous version:

  • Added ZOO archives support.
  • Read folders asynchronously.
  • Display a better error message when the user forgets to specify the archive name in the add to archive dialog.
  • Handle tar archives with a ':' in the path.
    • File Roller 2.2.0  [ download ]
    Released on January 20, 2003
    Changes since previous version:

  • Updated the manual.
    • File Roller 2.1.5  [ download ]
    Released on January 6, 2003
    Changes since previous version:

  • Handle LHA archives created on Windows.
  • Bugfixes.
    • File Roller 2.1.4  [ download ]
    Released on December 10, 2002
    Changes since previous version:

  • Bugfixes.
    • File Roller 2.1.3  [ download ]
    Released on December 9, 2002
    Changes since previous version:

  • Multi Drag & Drop support.
  • Session management support.
  • HIG compliant dialogs.
  • Added archive operations in the nautilus context menu.
  • Scripts removed.
  • Bugfixes.
    • File Roller 2.1.2
    Changes since previous version:

  • Archive loading is 3 times faster.
  • Recognize zip archives regardless of the file extension.
    • File Roller 2.1.1  [ download ]
    Released on October 13, 2002
    Changes since previous version:

  • Use egg-recent for handling recent files.
  • Use gnome-icon-lookup to get icons.
    • File Roller 2.1.0  [ download ]
    Released on October 2, 2002
    Changes since previous version:

  • Do not read the archive in non-interative mode, this speeds up extraction with Nautilus scripts.
  • Fixed russian manual.
    • File Roller 2.0.2  [ download ]
    Released on September 1, 2002
    Changes since previous version:

  • Bugfixes.
    • File Roller 2.0.1  [ download ]
    Released on August 29, 2002
    Changes since previous version:

  • Added a compression level option.
  • Added ability to extract multiple archives from command line.
  • Removed the install Nautilus scripts option, now simply install scripts the first time you start File Roller.
  • Added ability to hide toolbar and statusbar.
  • Re-arranged menus.
  • Recent archives are shown in a submenu.
  • Uses gconf instead of gnome-config.
  • Builds on systems that do not have the FNM_CASEFOLD constant defined (e.g. Solaris).
    • File Roller 2.0.0
    Changes since previous version:

  • New option to install and remove the nautilus scripts automatically.
    • File Roller 1.109
    Changes since previous version:

  • Added option to view the destination folder after extraction.
  • Updated documentation.
  • bugfixes.
    • File Roller 1.108
    Changes since previous version:

  • re-arranged menus.
  • bugfixes.
    • File Roller 1.107
    Changes since previous version:

  • added support for encrypted zip archives.
  • added test operation for zip archives.
  • added mnemonics to all dialogs.
  • use Nautilus as document viewer.
  • user manual.
  • handle archives with a ';' in the name.
  • use g_spawn to create processes.
    • File Roller 1.106
    Changes since previous version:

  • the user can specify files to exclude when adding files with the wildcard.
  • the user can save and load add dialog options.
  • ask whether to overwrite the file when copying, moving or renaming an archive.
  • added ability to rename compressed files.
    • File Roller 1.105
    Changes since previous version:

  • The document viewer shows the components list in a submenu.
  • bugfixes.
    • File Roller 1.104
    Changes since previous version:

  • bugfixes.
    • File Roller 1.103
    Changes since previous version:

  • bugfixes.
    • File Roller 1.102
    Changes since previous version:

  • bugfixes.
    • File Roller 1.101
    Changes since previous version:

  • ported to GNOME 2.
    • File Roller 0.8
    Changes since previous version:

  • added support for single files compressed with gzip, bzip, bzip2, compress, lzop.
  • non-interactive mode to automatically add files to archives.
  • added two Nautilus scripts to extract archives and add files to archives.
  • use the MIME database to decide whether to use the viewer or the associated application when double-clicking on a file, or ask the user what to do if no entry is available in the database.
  • bugfixes.
    • File Roller 0.7
    Changes since previous version:

  • the user can choose the columns to show in the file list.
  • when extracting to a non existing directory ask the user whether to create it.
  • bugfixes.
    • File Roller 0.6
    Changes since previous version:

  • non-interactive mode to automatically extract archives.
  • can open multiple files at command line.
  • works faster when adding and removing a lot of files from compressed tar archives.
  • works better when files in archives have strange characters.
  • fixed a bug when adding files with wildcard.
  • fixed a bug when 'view all files' mode is used.
  • fixed a bug when using tbz and tbz2 extensions.
  • minor bugfixes.
    • File Roller 0.5
    Changes since previous version:

  • added support for ear, war, tbz and tbz2 archives (me, Claudio Bley).
  • better rar archives support (Claudio Bley).
  • new icon (Jakub Steiner).
  • the document viewer uses the locale language.
    • File Roller 0.4
    Changes since previous version:

  • added support for multiple windows.
  • fixed some bugs concerning old versions of tar.
    • File Roller 0.3
    Changes since previous version:

  • added rar and lha support.
  • the user can add, remove, extract files with wildcard.
  • fixed drag and drop of directories.
    • File Roller 0.2
    Changes since previous version:

  • added jar archives support.
  • works even with big archives.
  • full drag & drop support.
  • double clicking on an file views its content.
  • added a file context menu.
  • the user can specify the file type when creating a new archive.
  • the user can specify the max length of the history list.
  • the user can interrupt a long operation.
  • toolbar buttons show the insensitive state correctly.
    • File Roller 0.1
    Changes since previous version:

  • first public version.
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