Development Roadmap (Archived)

These will be migrated to the new roadmap issue in the future.

• Blue Moon (3.x) Series (Before 2024 Q3)
  • Continue to modernize the UI with XAML Islands with the Windows 11 control style, dark and light mode support.
  • Full Accessibility support in all UI components.
  • Migrate configurations from registry to json. (Suggested by AndromedaMelody.)
  • Continue to modernize the core implementation.
  • Try to Windows Runtime component for interoperability.
  • Provide NanaZip Installer for simplify the deployment.
  • Try to add option for save file names with UTF-8 in 7z archives.
  • Add batch task support. (Suggested by 刘泪.)
  • Try to design the new UI layout. (Suggested by wangwenx190.)
  • Try to add option for using Windows Imaging API (WIMGAPI) backend to make better creation and extraction support for wim archives, also add creation and extraction support for esd archives.
  • Try to add pri archive extracting support.
  • Try to add smart extraction.
  • Try to add language encoding switching support for file names in File Manager. (Suggested by 刘泪 and zjkmxy.)
  • Try to add deleting source after archiving support. (Suggested by OrionGrant.)
  • Try to add an option when extracting an archive to open the folder where you extracted the files, like WinRAR. (Suggested by maicol07.)
  • Try to add ISO creation support.
• Sherlock Holmes (5.x) Series (Before 2025 Q3)
  • Currently no new feature plans for this series.
• Unpredictable Future Series (T.B.D.)
  • Try to create a new archive file format optimized for software distribution and image backup and restore.
    • Keeping metadata provided by file system.
    • File referencing support.
    • Integrity verification support.
    • Differential support.
    • Recovery record support.
    • Provide lightweight SDK for authoring and consuming.
  • Try to contribute recovery record support for 7z archives to 7-Zip mainline. (Suggested by SakuraNeko.)
  • Try to port NanaZip to Linux.
    • Try to port MegaUI (an developing lightweight UI framework created by mingkuang, under internal developing at the current stage, will be open source if the work has done) framework to Linux.
    • Try to create MinLin (a.k.a. Minimum Linux, a distro intended for helping publish distroless binaries and provide some Windows API functions as static libraries for having a lightweight platform abstraction layer) project because I think NanaZip should support distroless environment for reducing time wasting for compiling for different distros.
  • After porting NanaZip to Linux, accept contributions from community folks for other POSIX platforms (e.g. FreeBSD) and macOS support.
  • Try to add extension for Windows File Explorer for give user immersive experience like builtin zip file support in Windows. (Suggested by SakuraNeko and shuax.)
  • Try to create isolated and portable plugin infrastructure based on 64-bit RISC-V Unprivileged ISA Specification. Runtime Project: https://github.com/ChaosAIOfficial/RaySoul