packwing 0.2.0

packwing 0.2.0 opens archives from Finder, draws scroll bars on its long lists and texts, and installs with Homebrew.

• Open With on macOS: Finder offers Packwing in Open With for the archives it opens, split archives' first parts too. An archive opened there, or dropped on Packwing's icon in the Dock, opens in packwing's window, the one already open if it runs. A double click still opens what it opened before: packwing takes it only for an archive nothing else opens.
• Scroll bars: an archive's list, a folder's, a storage's, Recent, the list of storages and the viewer's list of files show a scroll bar along their panel's edge when they are longer than it, and so do the texts in the preview and the viewer. Drag it, or press beside its thumb to go there.
• Homebrew: brew install hivepaas/tap/pkw installs the command line on macOS and Linux, and brew install --cask hivepaas/tap/packwing the app on macOS. brew upgrade keeps pkw up to date; the app updates itself, as it does from the disk image.

Downloads

System	File
macOS (Apple silicon)	packwing_0.2.0_macos_aarch64.dmg
macOS (Intel)	packwing_0.2.0_macos_x86_64.dmg
Windows	packwing_0.2.0_windows_x86_64-setup.exe, or the .zip to run from a folder
Debian, Ubuntu	packwing_0.2.0_amd64.deb, packwing_0.2.0_arm64.deb
Fedora, openSUSE	packwing_0.2.0_x86_64.rpm, packwing_0.2.0_aarch64.rpm
pkw alone	pkw_0.2.0_linux_<x86_64|aarch64>.tar.gz, pkw_0.2.0_macos_<aarch64|x86_64>.tar.gz, pkw_0.2.0_windows_x86_64.zip

SHA256SUMS holds every file's SHA-256. The macOS app is signed with a Developer ID and notarized. The Windows installer is not signed yet: SmartScreen asks the first time (More info › Run anyway).

packwing 0.1.0

The first release of packwing, a file archiver for macOS, Windows and Linux that puts every core to work and opens archives safely.

• Safe by default: nothing is written outside the destination folder or through links, archive bombs stop at a size limit, and an existing file is never written over unless you say so. A link that leads outside the folder is asked about first.
• Every core at work: ZIP, 7z, .tar.gz, .tar.xz, .tar.zst and .tar.bz2 are compressed on all of the computer's cores, and what was written in pieces is read on all of them too. The threads never take more memory than is free, and the archive is the same, byte for byte, however many cores made it.
• Opens what you come across: ZIP (split archives too), RAR 1.4 to 7 (volumes too), 7z, tar, cpio, ISO 9660 and UDF images, RPM, Debian and macOS packages, snaps and other SquashFS images, and AppImages, inside gzip, zstd, xz, bzip2 and more. Packages, snaps and AppImages are only read.
• Writes archives: ZIP, 7z, .tar.gz, .tar.xz, .tar.zst and .tar.bz2, with AES-256 on ZIP and 7z, parts as 7-Zip cuts them, and patterns to leave files out or take only some. .age files too.
• Changes ZIP and 7z archives: add, delete and rename files in place.
• Looks before extracting: search, preview, and a viewer over the whole window that steps through a folder's pictures and texts, with a list of its files beside it and Find in a text.
• Browses folders, S3 buckets, WebDAV folders and SFTP servers, and reads a ZIP, 7z, snap or AppImage on them without fetching the rest.
• Signs files and checks checksums, works in the background with a Jobs page, and keeps an audit log of what it does when you or your organization ask.
• In your file manager: Compress and Extract in the right-click menu of Finder (its own menu), Windows Explorer and Nautilus, Dolphin, Nemo and Thunar.
• pkw, the command line, in every package, and on its own for servers and scripts.
• Updates you can trust, in a signed list, and policies for organizations.

packwing is free software (GPL-3.0-or-later). Free has every feature but signing files and an audit log of your own, with one storage across a network. Pro, $15 once, has everything, and every version released in the year after you buy it stays Pro. Enterprise, $4 per person a month, is Pro for an organization with its policies. See packwing.app/pricing.

Downloads

System	File
macOS (Apple silicon)	packwing_0.1.0_macos_aarch64.dmg
macOS (Intel)	packwing_0.1.0_macos_x86_64.dmg
Windows	packwing_0.1.0_windows_x86_64-setup.exe, or the .zip to run from a folder
Debian, Ubuntu	packwing_0.1.0_amd64.deb, packwing_0.1.0_arm64.deb
Fedora, openSUSE	packwing_0.1.0_x86_64.rpm, packwing_0.1.0_aarch64.rpm
pkw alone	pkw_0.1.0_linux_<x86_64|aarch64>.tar.gz, pkw_0.1.0_macos_<aarch64|x86_64>.tar.gz, pkw_0.1.0_windows_x86_64.zip

SHA256SUMS holds every file's SHA-256. The macOS app is signed with a Developer ID and notarized. The Windows installer is not signed yet: SmartScreen asks the first time (More info › Run anyway).