Fixed a few ugly bugs from 1.7:
* a crashing crash reporter
* and a problem with password protected zip archives.

• Added keyboard shortcut for 1-click save: Command+Option+S.
• Added Spanish localization.
• Added CodingMammoth's crash reporter.
• Attributes of executable files that were created on FAT file systems (Windows) are now set automatically so that the file can be exectued.
• Added LZH file handling for more subformats.
• Fixed a number of bugs.

• Command+Option+F: Set focus to toolbar search field (like in Finder, iTunes, and Mail).
• Tweaked preferences window icons.
• The direct extraction progress window now remembers its position.
• Filenames containing characters that could be interpreted by the shell like (), <>, |, &, $, \, ', ` would not work.
• If opening failed while an empty window was open, BetterZip would fall into one infinite loop asking for a password.
• I you wanted to add an archive into another archive by clicking the toolbar button "Add", the archive would be opened instead.
• When checking or unchecking the Kind colum in the preferences nothing happened until you checked or unchecked something else.
• Direct extract with an open empty document didn't do anything.

• International character file names didn't work.
• Concurrent direct extractions would terminate after the first has finished.
• Allow viewing and previewing of RTFD files.
• Various smaller enhancements and bug fixes.

• Upon popular demand, BetterZip now has an option to make direct extraction the default. When this option is checked, BetterZip will immediately extract archives instead of opening them in a window. Find this new option in the preferences window on the General tab. It's off by default.
• An archive's file format is no longer determined by the file extension, but by analyzing the actual file data. This is more secure and flexible.
• Opening larger archives with thousands of files is a lot faster now.
• Fixed two possible hangs and a number of bugs.
• Enhanced Leopard compatibility.

• Setting BetterZip as default handler for archive file types should now work reliably on both systems (10.4 and 10.5).
• Fixed saving SIT archives in another format.

• Holding down the command key and opening an archive while BetterZip is already running now extracts the archive directly.

• Filebrowser does no longer go into the autofs folder /net which could hang the program.
• Various file types (e.g., ZIP) could not be associated with BetterZip due to a change in Leopard. The type system in Mac OS X is still not very predictable. For best results open the preferences, go to the tab «File Types», click the «Handle None» button and then either click the «Handle All» button or select which file types BetterZip should handle using the check boxes in the list.
• The archive mode icon in the status bar was clipped on Leopard.
• Fixed a possible hang when extracting an archive containing a circular symbolic link.

• RAR now stores symbolic links as such, which is now consistent with all other archive formats.
• Extracting when the preview drawer is open is much faster now.
• SIT: The wrong file size was displayed for files that only consisted of a resource fork.
• Direct extract (holding down the Command key while opening an archive from Finder) crashed for larger archives.
• An error occured when extracting folders with custom icons from tarballs.
• When previewing files in a password protected archive you were asked for the password for every file.
• Fixed the progress indicator for SIT extraction: It was much faster than the actual extraction.
• Folder properties like color labels and icon positions were not saved correctly.

Changes

• Added xpi (Firefox extensions) and nth (Nokia theme file) as file extensions for zip archives.
• Files with the extensions 002, 003, ... will be recognized as archives. If you open any file from a multi-volume archive, BetterZip will automatically try to open the first file from the series instead.
• Speed enhancement: The file browser is only populated when the drawer is open.

Bugs fixed

• When extracting single files from a tarball the resource fork was not always restored correctly. There was no problem, if you extracted all files.
• Extracting Mac OS 9 files from zip archives did sometimes work incorrectly.
• The sizes of files larger than 4GB were incorrectly displayed for RAR archives.
• Some SIT files were only partially extractable. This should be fixed now. If you encounter SIT files which BetterZip does not handle correctly, please let me know.

Fixed several bugs from the last version. Recommended update for all users.

• Added a preview drawer that can quickly display image, pdf, html, and text based files.
• Added support for SIT, HQX, DD, BIN archives.
• Added the option to automatically quit BetterZip after the last window has been closed.
• Added an option to automatically save archives next to the original files.

• Speed improvements, especially for rar archives.
• Opening a file that is not an archive through the File menu will now create a new, untitled archive and put the file into it.
• Removed compression setting for bzip2, because it was completely useless.
• Viewing files no longer uses AppleScript.

• Added support for uncompressed archives.
• Added a preference tab that lets you choose which file types BetterZip should handle.
• Updated the included unrar command-line tool to version 3.60 enhancing the compatibility with newer rar archives.

• BetterZip 1.4.1 fixes some issues with archives containing files with non-English character filenames.

• Furthermore a problem with file attributes in zip archives is fixed.

New Features:
* Clean arbitrary files and folders using regular expressions. Very handy for stripping source control folders (.svn or CVS).
* DEB, RPM archive formats are now supported.
* Increased speed when extracting single files from large zip archives.
* tar.gz is now opened in one step.
* Allow Extract All and 1-Click-Extract after trial period has ended.
* Added a Remember Settings function to the save panel.
* Added 1-Click-Save.
* The main list and the file browser let you jump to files by typing the first letters of the filename.
* Added support for using PathFinder instead of Finder.
* Use arbitrary application for viewing a file (e.g., TextMate or BBEdit).

Of course, this version contains bug fixes and a lot of smaller enhancements.

Fixes a few bugs that slipped into version 1.3.

New Features:
- Added LHA/LZH, ARJ, CAB, CHM, ISO decompression.
- Added support for Java zip files with the extensions par, sar, wsr.
- Rename files and folders inside archives.
- Create new folders inside archives.
- Filebrowser: A drawer with the contents of hard discs only showing folders and archives.
- Open, extract, and create AES-256 encrypted (WinZip compatible) zip files.
- Open, extract, and create zip files larger than 2GB.
- Zip-splitting, compression factor for zip archives.
- Open and extract archives (rar and 7-zip) with encrypted listings.
- Enhanced and completed Japanese and French localizations.
- After doing a 1-Click-Extract the extracted folder is displayed in Finder.
- BetterZip now suggests a filename in save panel when saving a new archive.

Of course, this version contains bug fixes and a lot of smaller enhancements.

- Japanese and French localizations have been added.
- Added a flat list view which will show you all the files and folders in a flat view without the folder hierarchy. This mode is useful, if you need to sort the files regardless of their position within the folder hierarchy (e.g., by modification date).
- Added a path column, especially needed when using the flat list view.