Still in active development

What shipped, and what we are building

Karuzip started as a small archive tool that stayed out of the way. Every release since has been an attempt to remove one more thing that made people stop and think. This page is the honest version of that list: what already works, and what is being built now.

Direct installer2.2.1 Next pillarunder consideration

What we are building

The further down you read, the less is settled. The line thins out for that reason.

Next pillar Under consideration

Handling file types beyond extract and compress.

This one has no shape yet. Writing an undecided thing as though it were decided is exactly what this page is trying to avoid, so it stays at one line. When it firms up, it gets written here.

Everything above is the plan as it stands today. Order changes while things get built, and some of it gets dropped. We do not attach dates because we would rather not make a promise we cannot keep. Whatever becomes ready shows up in the GitHub release notes.

What shipped

A little over a year since the first release. Only the changes that mattered.

2.2.1September 5, 2026Fixed Automation watching and quarantine.Archives arriving in a watched folder now start processing correctly, and corrupted archives can be moved to quarantine. The fixes cover local Windows paths and UNC network-share paths.
2.2.0September 3, 2026Archives that arrive in a folder now get handled automatically. The new automated processing feature ships three templates — inspect and extract incoming archives, batch health-check a folder of archives, and compress with a final verify — and runs only while Karuzip is open. This release also adds a pre-extraction check (encryption, item count, unpacked size), a searchable processing log, and a manual-only diagnostic export.
2.0.0September 1, 2026Rebuilt the right-click menu and extraction safety. Extract here, Extract to folder, and View contents now sit right in the menu, and extracting into an existing folder no longer silently half-overwrites it on failure. The official installer now bundles the karuzip-cli command-line tool.
1.4.5August 11, 2026The app in English. The interface, the right-click menu, and the file type names all follow the app language setting. Failure messages started distinguishing between low disk space, denied access, and a damaged archive.
1.4.0August 1, 2026A small window just for right-click jobs. Extract, integrity check, and compress show their progress without opening the main window. Compressing straight to ZIP or 7z from the right-click menu was added at the same time.
1.3.0July 28, 2026320 registered extraction extensions. Of those, 230 have sample or automated verification and 12 also have evidence from a real Windows machine. This release also added split archives (extract and create), a manual filename encoding switch for older ZIP files, an archive integrity check, and search and sort inside an archive.
1.1.0July 19, 2026The Microsoft Store edition. Rebuilt to follow the Windows 11 right-click menu conventions rather than bolting onto the legacy menu.
1.0.3July 2, 2026Fixed the missing right-click menu. On some machines the Karuzip entries never appeared at all.
1.0.2July 1, 2026Automatic updates. New versions are announced at startup and can be installed from there.
1.0.0July 1, 2026The first release. Drag and drop, extract and compress from the right-click menu, password-protected archives - and the original promise: no ads, no bundled software, no data collection.

The full change-by-change record lives in the GitHub release notes.

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If there is something you want Karuzip to do, tell us on GitHub or X. It feeds directly into what gets built next.