Changelog - LinkUnzip

1.0.0 5 October 2026

The first public release.

The File List: folders with breadcrumbs, checkboxes, a Filter box that searches every name, select all or none, live totals. Files you leave out are not downloaded. Pattern... keeps the filter for power users (*.dll, docs/*), with a button that clears it.
Browse... opens the Windows folder picker.
Resume: a stopped or failed job can run again into the same folder and skips the files that are already finished and verified; the progress bar carries on from where it stopped.
Friendly errors with a Copy details button: a link that opens a web page instead of the file, a login that is needed, an expired link, a file that is gone, not a zip, a server error, a full disk, a folder that can't be written, a server that can't be reached.
"All N files verified" on the done screen.
An update offer when the helper is too old, while the extension keeps working with it.
Light and dark themes, following Windows or your choice; visible keyboard focus, keyboard use of the File List, screen reader labels.
A Cancel button on the ready screen.
The Cost Analysis follows the files ticked in the File List.
Before asking the browser for a site, the login card says where the cookies go: only to the helper on this PC, and from there only to that site.
Open-source repository under the GPL-3.0-or-later licence, with a privacy policy and a security policy.

New look: the LinkUnzip logo everywhere, Cost Analysis and File List in one panel, the main buttons always in view, a status bar and the zinc colours.
No "read and change all your data on all websites" warning at install: public links need no site permission, and LinkUnzip asks for a site only when a download needs your login there.
"Downloaded" now includes the zip's index, also shown on its own.

Renamed from the pre-release name "zipstream" to LinkUnzip: program linkunzip.exe, installer linkunzip-setup.exe, menu entry Extract with LinkUnzip.

The command line (inspect and extract), reading only the zip's index and the selected entries over HTTP Range requests, with parallel connections and --include filters.
ZIP64, constant memory, every file checked (CRC-32 and size) and renamed from .part only when correct.
Safety checks for paths, duplicate entries, Windows names, zip bombs and free space.
--stream for servers without Range support.
The browser extension, the native-messaging helper and the per-user Windows installer.

The full history is in CHANGELOG.md on GitHub.