File Roller 3.8.2 / 3.9.3

File Roller is an open source archive manager for the GNOME desktop environment.

It allows users to:

-Create and modify archives.
-View the content of an archive.
-View a file contained in the archive.
-Extract files from the archive.

Among some of the supported files by File Roller we can mention:

-gzip (.tar.gz , .tgz)
-bzip (.tar.bz , .tbz)
-bzip2 (.tar.bz2 , .tbz2)
-compress (.tar.Z , .taz)
-lzop (.tar.lzo , .tzo)

-Zip archives (.zip)
-Jar archives (.jar , .ear , .war)
-Lha archives (.lzh)
-Rar archives (.rar)
-Single files compressed with gzip, bzip, bzip2, compress, lzop


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What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

New features and user visible changes:

· 'Add files' dialog: use a GtkPlacesSidebar for the sidebar.

Bugs fixed:

· Do not allow to create a second 'New Archive' dialog. (#701992)
· New dialog: use correct method to get the selected directory. (#701297) (Lionel Landwerlin)
· libarchive: sanitize filenames before extracting.

New or updated application translations:

· Chinese (simplified) (tuhaihe)
· Finnish (Jiri Grönroos)
· Japanese (Akira Tanaka)