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First public release: a native macOS port of the 7-Zip File Manager on the 7-Zip 26.03 engine.

Added

  • The 7-Zip File Manager in AppKit: two panels, large icons / small icons / list / details views,
    sortable columns, flat view, folder history, favorites, Back / Forward, and the 7zFM keyboard map.
  • Archives browsed and edited like folders, including nested archives with write-back, for every
    format the engine supports.
  • Extract, Add to archive (all compression options, AES-256 encryption, multi-volume archives,
    Windows self-extracting archives), Test, checksums with every hash method, Benchmark, Split,
    Combine, Link, Properties and comments.
  • Options with the seven Windows pages plus a macOS page (theme: System / Light / Dark, grid lines).
  • The 93 official 7-Zip translations, switchable live; the 7-Zip help pages, bundled.
  • Finder integration: a Finder Sync extension with the 7-Zip submenu, two Quick Actions, five
    Services, document icons for 40 archive types, the sevenzip:// URL scheme and the 7zG
    command-line grammar.
  • Quarantine propagation on extraction (the macOS counterpart of Zone.Identifier), Dock-tile
    progress, drag and drop with Finder and between panels.
  • A universal app (Apple Silicon and Intel): the arm64 slice keeps upstream's ARM64 assembler
    LZMA decoder, the x86_64 slice uses 7-Zip's C code paths, as upstream's clang builds do.
  • Distribution as an ad-hoc signed disk image, 7-Zip-26.03-macOS-1.0.0.dmg, and a Homebrew cask
    (brew install --cask yrambler2001/tap/7zip-macos).
  • An update check against GitHub Releases: at File Manager startup at most once a day (off in
    Options ▸ macOS ▸ Check for updates at startup) and from Help ▸ Check for Updates…, with
    Download / Later / Skip This Version. Nothing is downloaded or installed automatically.
  • Versioning: one source of truth, Mac/VERSION; the build number is the commit count;
    Mac/scripts/bump-version.sh raises the version and opens a changelog section.
  • GitHub Actions: CI on every push and pull request (hygiene checks, universal build and disk image,
    unit tests on Apple silicon and under Rosetta), and a release workflow that turns
    a v<version> tag into a tested GitHub Release with the disk image and its SHA-256, ready to sign
    and notarize once a Developer ID exists, and updates the Homebrew cask
    (docs/releasing.md).

Changed in upstream sources

  • A small set of guarded patches to the engine sources so the file-manager layer builds and
    behaves correctly on macOS; Windows behaviour is unchanged. See
    Mac/docs/upstream-patches.md.

Install

Requires macOS 14 (Sonoma) or newer; one universal app for Apple silicon and Intel.

  • Disk image: download 7-Zip-26.03-macOS-1.0.0.dmg below, open it and drag 7-Zip onto Applications.
  • Homebrew: brew install --cask yrambler2001/tap/7zip-macos (or brew upgrade --cask 7zip-macos).

Gatekeeper: this build is ad-hoc signed, not notarized, so macOS blocks its first launch — after
every install and every update. Open 7-Zip once and dismiss the warning, then click Open Anyway
in System Settings ▸ Privacy & Security and confirm. Details:
First launch: Gatekeeper.

To get the Finder menu, switch the extension on once: Options ▸ 7-Zip ▸ Integrate 7-Zip to shell
context menu, or System Settings ▸ General ▸ Login Items & Extensions.

SHA-256

0d0589a1b05bd9c0c190077c8f933c2af94edb93c6d25b2d013a28ef9a0cce51  7-Zip-26.03-macOS-1.0.0.dmg
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