diff --git a/CHANGES.rst b/CHANGES.rst
index 7a82dbb..1b82bcf 100644
--- a/CHANGES.rst
+++ b/CHANGES.rst
@@ -5,6 +5,12 @@ Changelog
 
 In Development
 ==============
+* Preserving file permissions when using zip files.
+* Update tox.ini to not use a specific pypi index server. Removed support
+  for Python 2.6.
+* Allow for stripping/removing comments (needed by certain tools which
+  bundle python-archive)
+* Use relative import to allow module relocation.
 * Moved tests outside of the archive package directory.
 
 
diff --git a/archive/__init__.py b/archive/__init__.py
index e7dc1b8..f1aec8c 100644
--- a/archive/__init__.py
+++ b/archive/__init__.py
@@ -3,15 +3,17 @@
 import tarfile
 import zipfile
 
-from archive.compat import IS_PY2, is_string
+from .compat import IS_PY2, is_string
 
 
 class ArchiveException(Exception):
     """Base exception class for all archive errors."""
+    pass
 
 
 class UnrecognizedArchiveFormat(ArchiveException):
     """Error raised when passed file is not a recognized archive format."""
+    pass
 
 
 class UnsafeArchive(ArchiveException):
@@ -19,6 +21,7 @@ class UnsafeArchive(ArchiveException):
     Error raised when passed file contains paths that would be extracted
     outside of the target directory.
     """
+    pass
 
 
 def extract(path, to_path='', ext='', **kwargs):
@@ -157,6 +160,28 @@ def list(self, *args, **kwargs):
     def filenames(self):
         return self._archive.namelist()
 
+    def _extract_file(self, info, to_path):
+        out_path = self._archive.extract(info.filename, path=to_path)
+
+        permissions = info.external_attr >> 16
+
+        # If no specific file permissions are specified we use the
+        # default used by Python when creating the files.
+        if permissions:
+            os.chmod(out_path, permissions)
+
+    def _extract(self, to_path):
+        """
+        Overrides the BaseArchive _extract method. For zip files we need
+        to take special care to perserve file permissions:
+
+        burgundywall.com/post/preserving-file-perms-with-python-zipfile-module
+
+        """
+        for info in self._archive.infolist():
+            self._extract_file(info=info, to_path=to_path)
+
+
 extension_map = {
     '.docx': ZipArchive,
     '.egg': ZipArchive,
diff --git a/tests/files/endian-4.0.0.zip b/tests/files/endian-4.0.0.zip
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9a1bca4
Binary files /dev/null and b/tests/files/endian-4.0.0.zip differ
diff --git a/tests/test_archive.py b/tests/test_archive.py
index 1b84dcd..8e0dc1d 100644
--- a/tests/test_archive.py
+++ b/tests/test_archive.py
@@ -190,3 +190,21 @@ class TestOutsideRelative(UnsafeArchiveTester, unittest.TestCase):
 class TestOutsideAbsolute(UnsafeArchiveTester, unittest.TestCase):
     """An archive that goes outside the destination using absolute paths."""
     archive = pathjoin('bad', 'absolute.tar.gz')
+
+class PerserveFilePermissionsTests(TempDirMixin, unittest.TestCase):
+    """
+    The zipfile module in Pyhton does not perserve file permissions. See
+    burgundywall.com/post/preserving-file-perms-with-python-zipfile-module
+    """
+    def setUp(self):
+        super(PerserveFilePermissionsTests, self).setUp()
+
+    def test_extract_function(self):
+
+        endianzip = pathjoin(TEST_DIR, 'files', 'endian-4.0.0.zip')
+
+        extract(endianzip, self.tmpdir)
+        filepath = pathjoin(self.tmpdir, 'endian-4.0.0', 'waf')
+
+        self.assertTrue(isfile(filepath))
+        self.assertTrue(os.access(filepath, os.X_OK))
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 3778393..efe102d 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -1,12 +1,10 @@
 [tox]
-envlist = py26, py27, py32
-indexserver =
-    pypi = http://pypi.python.org/simple
+envlist = py27, py35
 
 [testenv]
 deps=
-    :pypi:pytest
-    :pypi:pep8
+    pytest
+    pep8
 
 commands =
     py.test -v tests