NanaZip
The 7-Zip derivative intended for the modern Windows experience (by M2Team)
p7zip
A new p7zip fork with additional codecs and improvements (forked from https://sourceforge.net/projects/sevenzip/ AND https://sourceforge.net/projects/p7zip/). (by p7zip-project)
| NanaZip | p7zip | |
|---|---|---|
| 76 | 13 | |
| 11,058 | 864 | |
| 2.6% | 2.3% | |
| 9.6 | 4.3 | |
| 12 days ago | about 2 months ago | |
| C++ | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
NanaZip
Posts with mentions or reviews of NanaZip.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-07-09.
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7-Zip for Windows can now use more than 64 CPU threads for compression
https://github.com/M2Team/NanaZip
It includes the above patches as well as few QoL features.
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7-Zip 25.00
There is also NanaZip which aims to be a more modern Windows application and I think also incorporates the additions of the 7zs fork https://github.com/M2Team/NanaZip
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Rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia
1: https://github.com/M2Team/NanaZip
- WinRAR musste shady werden.
- WinRAR sold 5,449 licenses in a day
- Am I crazy, or does every linux distro just have all these compression algs included?
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my rarbg magnet backup (268k)
If you have Windows 10 or above, you should instead use NanaZip instead of 7-Zip-zstd. It is a massively improved fork of 7-Zip.
- 28 years later, Windows finally supports RAR files
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of VLC - A Comprehensive Exploration of a Multimedia Powerhouse
The first part of modernizing is port everything to XAML, adding dark mode and others. It's expected to be during this year, new UI in 2024. It's in their roadmap in GitHub
- NanaZip: The 7-Zip derivative intended for the modern Windows experience
p7zip
Posts with mentions or reviews of p7zip.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-20.
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Ubuntu 23.04 (Lunar Lobster)
nearly every main distro I am aware of has both available. The reason you still see p7zip is because the CLI incompatibilities vs the newer 7z/7zip executables and the general licensing issues. Most users of "old p7zip" are actually using the actively maintained https://github.com/p7zip-project/p7zip which is updated, supporting unix permissions and zstd and so on.
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7-zip 22.00 – APFS, Posix TAR, high precision timestamps
Thank you for pointing this out! This is the source of much confusion. Although Arch for example uses https://github.com/jinfeihan57/p7zip which seems to be reasonably maintained?
- Ark and 7-zip
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Replace p7zip with upstream 7-Zip
Then you can compile p7zip from source: $ mkdir p7zip-git $ cd p7zip-git $ git clone https://github.com/jinfeihan57/p7zip .
- Don't Use RAR
- TIL there's a fork of the unmaintained p7zip port of 7-Zip
- I can't compress in 7zip with Ark and p7zip
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will arch replace p7zip with normal 7-zip?
April 4th was the latest release. Had some commits in May. I think it is active.
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Why is 7z so outdated?
I think the point is, the '7z' at 17.04 available in Arch Linux's repo is actually p7zip, the development of which is independent of 7-zip. So comparison of the version number is meaningless (if I am right). Also, p7zip 17.04 is released in April this year, not 2017, according to its release page
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7-Zip 21.0 alpha introduces native Linux support
this comment might clarify that.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing NanaZip and p7zip you can also consider the following projects:
7z - Because 7-zip source code was in a 7z archive [mirror]
7-Zip-zstd - 7-Zip with support for Brotli, Fast-LZMA2, Lizard, LZ4, LZ5 and Zstandard
PeaZip - Free Zip / Unzip software and Rar file extractor. Cross-platform file and archive manager. Features volume spanning, compression, authenticated encryption. Supports 7Z, 7-Zip sfx, ACE, ARJ, Brotli, BZ2, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB, GZ, ISO, JAR, LHA/LZH, NSIS, OOo, PAQ/LPAQ, PEA, QUAD, RAR, RPM, split, TAR, Z, ZIP, ZIPX, Zstandard.
7-Zip - 7-Zip source code repository
libarchive - Multi-format archive and compression library