v8.9 [Oct 10, 2022]
CODE.
- Password Manager is now re-set only from Options > Settings > Privacy, Reset Password Manager link.
Various fixes and improvements.
- (Linux) correctly displays folder size inside ZIP archives if applicable.
(macOS) tool bar toggling is not needed and it is now disabled.
Cleanup of legacy code.
Improved performances and memory management for browsing archives.
Improved opening folders after task completition.
- Improved detecting root extraction directory.
- Archive conversion procedure now opens target directory only once, after final compression step.
- Task window can now show temporary extraction work path (if applicable) from context menu right-clicking on input and output links.
FILE MANAGER.
- Added progress bar while opening archive files supported through 7z backend; progress indicator is not visible when archive pre-browsing is disabled in Options > Settings > General, Performance group.
Improved Clipboard panel, can now display size and modification date of items.
Improved quick navigation menu (on the left of the Address bar).
- Can now set password/keyfile, and display if a password is set.
Can now display info on current archive / selection / clipboard content duplicating function of staus bar (so hiding status bar is now a more viable option); the new Info entry is also featured in main menu, Navigation group.
Can now toggle bookmarks, history, and clipboard views in the Status bar.
- Improved Style button.
- Right-clicking Style shows main menu as context menu.
Settings is now reachable from Style button in Tool / Address bar.
- Updated theming engine.
- Address bar color can now be changed separately from Address field color.
Tab bar color has now more options.
Improved existing Themes to take advantage of the new options.
Updated Tuxedo theme.
New Droid theme.
.
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING.
- (Linux, macOS) Changed default working directory to output path, as more consistent with behavior of similar applications on non-Windows systems.
Added context menu entry for "Add to separate archives" action, shown when applicable in file browser screen.
Improved archiving and extraction context menu, to make easier to add files and folders (or open search) from bookmarks abd history items.
Improved test after archiving.
- Empty archives are reported as warnings.
It is now possible to set the sequence of tasks to stop for auto-test results (otherwise it will stop only in case of error) from Options > Settings > Advanced.
- More information is available clicking status bar string in archive creation and extraction screens: task type details, temp work path (if applicable), input zise, output path with total size and free space.
INSTALLERS.
- (Windows) MSI installer is no longer featured.
v8.2 [Sep 12, 2021]
- PeaZip 8.2.0 improves command line usage with updated archiving and extraction switches, and introduces (peazip)/res/batch folder which contains sample scripts and system integration files (SendTo and freedesktop_integration folders are moved here).
- The archive manager is now capable of optionally displaying compression/encryption method, and modified, created, accessed timestamps for each item in archive, and to display number of items contained in each folder.
- It is now possible to chose to keep extracted files even in case errors occurred during the extraction, and working with spanned files was improved.
- Smart extraction is now available as default action to take at program's startup, alongside Open, Open as archive, Extract (full), Extract here.
- This release focuses on improving user experience on Linux systems, updating installers, improving the automatic configuration of applications for "open with" actions, and displaying more system's paths in the file manager.
- Backend were updated to Brotli 1.0.9 (Linux).
- A total of 225 file extensions can now be managed by PeaZip, with addition of .apkm, .apks, and .aab Android package formats, and of Lzip .lz (on Linux versions only).
- Translations are available in over than 30 languages, any help is welcome to translate PeaZip to new languages and to maintain current localizations up to date, so please consider taking the time to give a look to translations directory for newer language files and for any resource useful for translators.
v8.1 [Jul 25, 2021]
BACKEND
- Pea 1.02. Improved speed of hex preview function, updated secure delete function.
- Zstd 1.50.
- (Windows) Tino Reichardt codecs for 7z v1.5.0r1.
- updates codecs to Brotli 1.0.9, FLZMA2 1.0.1, Lizard 1.0, LZ4 1.9.3, LZ5 1.5, Zstandard 1.5.0.
- (Linux) szcnick p7zip 17.04: introduces support for Brotli, Lizard, LZ5
updates LZ4 1.9.3 and zstd 1.4.9 on Linux systems Brotli and Zstandard presets now points to single step compression in 7z using Brotli or Zstd compression (tar.br and tar.zst presets are still available as alternative).
- (Windows) added support for system's Extrac32 as alternative CAB extraction engine. Extrac32 backend be enabled in Options > Settings, Advanced tab
CAB will be still listed/tested using 7z backend, Extrac32 (if enabled) will be used for for extraction operations.
CODE
- Various fixes.
- Improved performances working with archives containing large number of items (files, folders).
- on 64K items archive 50% speed increase, -25% RAM usage.
- on 128K items archive 2x speed increase, -25% RAM usage.
- on 256K items archive 4x speed increase, -35% RAM usage.
- improved speed for listing archives, also minor speed improvements for test, archive and extract operations involving a large number of files.
FILE MANAGER
- Added new user-provided themes: KDE Breeze, Oxygen.
- Improved browsing archives: clicking on root in breadcrumb bar now simply lists root content, while pressing refresh (F5) re-opens the archive, fully re-parsing the content.
- In case of spanned archive, the number of volumes actually found in current path (as required by PeaZip for extraction) is shown in application's title bar and status bar.
- Improved Settings:
- More flexible Browser optimization in General tab, Performances group.
- Reorganized various settings for better readability.
- Updated translations.
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING
- Added support (as container files) to .whl Python archives and .gem Ruby gem archives.
- Added option to extract all, selected or displayed items to extraction dropdown menu, replicating Extract button context menu.
- Added actions to Test all, selected or displayed items in Test button context menu.
- Improved archive conversion procedure:
- Extraction stage is now shown as a single sequence of tasks, and main screen is hidden to reduce visual clutter.
- If errors are encountered in extraction stage it is reported to user, so conversion can be stopped (to correct errors) or continued if desired.
- Improved extraction command line creation: when all items are selected switch to a more compact command line using filters rather than item's list.
WINDOWS & LINUX INSTALLERS
- Windows installer now supports command line parameter to set language during installation.
- language can be declared as last parameter, with or without "/" prefix.
- to identify the language please check the name of the language file in PeaZip\res\lang\ directory.
v8.0 [Jun 10, 2021]
BACKEND:
- PEA 1.01.
- Added exit codes to functions for easier integration with third party software and scripts
- Running PEA in batch_report and hidden_report mode automatically saves task log without further user interaction
- Fixed: hidden and hidden_report modes do not flash the GUI before hiding it.
- Updated online documentation at https://peazip.github.io/pea_help.pdf.
- CAB (Windows).
- Selecting custom format (and deselecting RAR checkbx, if selected) in Advanced tab it is now available "CAB" preset in custom executable dropdown menu, to use Windows' makecab.exe utility (which accepts single files as input).
CODE:
- Various fixes and improvements.
FILE MANAGER:
- Added support for .xappx, and various Open Packaging Conventions filetypes (.3mf, .vsdx, .mmzx, .aasx, .slx, .scdoc) files, 218 file extensions supported.
- by default support is read only, to enable write support check "Edit non-canonical archive types" in main menu, Options > Settings > Archive manager.
- Added text completion for search field.
- Checksum/hash files can now be set to perform a single algorithm (faster), by default SHA256.
- Performing all algorithms at once, or all common algorithms at once, is available as option in Option > Settings > File manager.
- Dragging a single archive file on file manager screen, the archive is now opened without requiring further interaction
- Improved preview and open with functions.
- If nothing is selected, preview takes current directory as input
- To avoid confusion with "Preview" actions submenu, "Extract and open with" sumbenu can now be enabled / disabled from Options > Setings > Archive manager.
- Improved random password generator in main menu, Tools > Create random password / keyfile.
- Default length is now 12 characters
- Quote characters ' and " are avoided to keep the password console-friendly regardless the character escaping abilities of the scripting environment that will be employed by the user.
- Improved smart sorting of file names
- Improved status bar.
- Browser modes "Details" and "Icons and images" can now be selected with a single click from icons on status bar.
- Style dropdown menu button on the left of browser modes icons, on status bar, allows to set most common UI settings fro a single, easily visible place:.
- set tool bar to archive manager, file manager, images manager
- toggle tab bar on/off.
- toggle row select on/off.
- set browser preset modes.
- set themes.
- set side bar to navigation panel, treeview, or hidden.
- Style menu entries are replicated also in context menu, Navigation submenu.
- Improved support for non-canonical archive types (containers, disk images, installers...) with new options in main menu, Options > Settings > Archive manager.
- "Browse non-canonical archive types" (default on) set those file types to be opened for browsing on doubleclcik in PeaZip file manager; unchecking this option those file types will be opened with associated application but can still be browsed on demand (as any arbitrary file type) using "Open file as archive" menu entry
- "Convert non-canonical archive types" (default off) will treat those file types as archives in Conversion process (extract and recompress them), otherwise those files will be left unchanged and simply compressed in the desired format.
- Improved theming: can now optionally display grids with alternate color for better readability
- Replicated link to Text encoding settings in main menu, Options; extended hint for custom codepage.
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING:
- Added "Force typing passwords interactively" option in password screen that forces to always type password in the native backend interface.
- This option allows to create scripts that will require operator to enter the password interactively rather than running unattended
- Zpaq backend does not support this option
- Backends not supporting encryption are not affected by this option
- Please note this option forces console mode for backend utilities (except PEA, which is a graphic application)
- With this option enabled PeaZip cannot browse archives with encrypted name of files (encrypted toc), but it is anyway possible to list/test/extract them.
- Can now edit existing 7Z-compressed sfx archives
- Improved "TAR before" option, which saves multiple input to TAR archive before compression step.
- Option to delete original files now works whith "TAR before" option enabled
- Tasks with "TAR before" option enabled can now be saved as command line.
- It is now possible to customize the default action to perform when a file type associated with PeaZip is double-clicked on the system (or any time a single file is sent as input to PeaZip).
- In main menu, Options > Settings > Archive manager "Default action on start-up" can be set to.
- Open, default
- Open as archive, force trying to open any arbitrary file type as archive
v7.9 [Apr 20, 2021]
BACKEND:
Pea 1.00:
- Added 512 bit hash functions to PeaUtils menu, also available from Windows context menu (CRC, hash entry): Blake2b, SHA512, SHA3_512, Whirlpool.
CODE:
- Various fixes.
FILE MANAGER:
- Improved theming: new customizable parameters - beyond standard scaling which follows system's metric - can be set at runtime, and saved into themes, to improve usability for visually impaired users, small / far screens, or touch devices.
- Spacing [small, medium, large] to increase spacing in file manager and row height in tables.
- Zooming [100% to 150%] to enlarge icons and graphic elements.
- (Windows) Quick delete function can now delete files requiring UAC elevation.
- Working directory is now set to by default to: user tmp for preview operations, output for other operations.
- "Extract everything for" preview for special file types now uses working directory (as standard preview mode).
- "Interactive extraction" now uses working directory; disallowing temporary work files results in disabling interactive extraction, falling back to standard extraction mode.
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING:
- (Windows XP, ReactOS) Fixed handling non supported additional 7Z codecs.
- (Windows) "TAR before" action now correctly asks for UAC elevation if needed.
- Improved support for ZPAQ format.
- Fixed test of ZPAQ format from context menu.
- ZPAQ format extraction, without checking "Absoulte paths", removes extra nesting levels from the output.
- In case multiple revisions are featured, the nesting (which starts from the root of the archive) is preserved.
- Main window is now hidden during list, test, and ctrl c/ctrl v extraction operations, in order to reduce visual clutter accordingly with behavior during archive, and extract operations.
v7.8 [Mar 21, 2021]
BACKEND
- UPX was removed from Windows packages due the amount of false positives triggered in (low quality) security software; it is possible to add UPX support installing Additional Formats Plugin, or downloading and copying the most up to date UPX executable in res\upx subfolder in PeaZip's directory.
CODE
- Command line -ext2simple and -ext2simplefolder can now accept also empthy output path (extract to archive's path).
-ext2simplefolder as -ext2folder (switch -*folder) apply smart folder policy, while -ext2simple and -ext2here ignores it.
- Updated web search (Ctrl+Alt+F3).
- Updated Windows installers to work with recent versions of InnoSetup (.exe) and MSIWrapper (.msi).
- Various fixes:
- CPUAARCH64 now disable Intel ASM to allow build on ARM64 architectures
fixed adding multiple .enc suffix.
- fixed various issues with non-English localizations.
- fixed issue with preview for special file types (bat, exe, html) resulting in extraction instead of preview.
- improved handling special characters in password for arc, rar, and pea formats.
- (Linux) improved handling of special characters in filenames.
- (Linux) fixed issues with smart folder option.
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING
- PEA compression and decompression can now be cancelled from the GUI.
v7.7 [Jan 8, 2021]
BACKEND
- UPX was removed from Windows packages due the amount of false positives triggered in (low quality) security software; it is possible to add UPX support installing Additional Formats Plugin, or downloading and copying the most up to date UPX executable in res\upx subfolder in PeaZip's directory.
CODE
- Command line -ext2simple and -ext2simplefolder can now accept also empthy output path (extract to archive's path).
-ext2simplefolder as -ext2folder (switch -*folder) apply smart folder policy, while -ext2simple and -ext2here ignores it.
- Updated web search (Ctrl+Alt+F3).
- Updated Windows installers to work with recent versions of InnoSetup (.exe) and MSIWrapper (.msi).
- Various fixes:
- CPUAARCH64 now disable Intel ASM to allow build on ARM64 architectures
fixed adding multiple .enc suffix.
- fixed various issues with non-English localizations.
- fixed issue with preview for special file types (bat, exe, html) resulting in extraction instead of preview.
- improved handling special characters in password for arc, rar, and pea formats.
- (Linux) improved handling of special characters in filenames.
- (Linux) fixed issues with smart folder option.
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING
- PEA compression and decompression can now be cancelled from the GUI.
v7.3 [May 18, 2020]
CODE:
- Various fixes.
FILE MANAGER:
- Added support to more file extensions:
- .cramfs compressed ROM/RAM file system images.
- .ext, .ext2, .ext3, and .ext4 filesystem images.
- .hfsx filesystem images.
- .qcow, and .qcow2c QEMU disk images.
- .scap, and .uefif firmware files.
- .mub, .pkg, and .ppmd compressed files.
- Archive browser now will automatically ask for password to open files with unreadable TOC, for all formats supporting TOC encryption, e.g. archives encrypted with "Encrypt also file names" option.
- Fixed browsing of encrypted ARC files.
- Fixed: can now delete files within WIM archives.
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING:
- [Prototype] Support for RAR compression if WinRar 64 or 32 bit is installed in the system (Windows).
- Setting Custom compression type optionally aut-configures PeaZip to use RarLab's Rar.exe as compressor; if libre_directive option is set to 2 (most restrictive, not allowing closed archive formats), rar creation will be not allowed in any case.
- Rar.exe will be set to use PeaZip's work dir as other backend binaries.
- For RAR archives it is possible to set.
- compression level, from store to maximum.
- action: new archive, add, update, freshen, sync with disk.
- spanning in multiple volumes.
- password, optionally with two factor authentication (password keyfile).
- create RAR5 or legacy RAR4 archive.
- (RAR5) set dictionary size 1..1024 MB.
- (RAR5) use BLAKE2 hash instead of CRC checksum.
- Create self extracting RAR.
- Solid archive.
- Recovery records.
- Save files open for writing.
- Save NT security information.
- Save NTFS streams.
- Set archive time to last modified object.
- Improved support for more RAR options is planned in future, to allow efficient RAR creation from PeaZip GUI, providing RarLab's WinRar is installed in the system and Rar.exe is available.
v7.1 [Feb 3, 2020]
BACKEND:
- Added Brotli 1.0.7 backend
- Added Zstd 1.4.4 backend
- Pea 0.68.
CODE:
- Various fixes and improvements.
FILE MANAGER:
- Added "Type here to search in current path" hint to address bar to make this feature more esaily discoverable
- Added compression method information when browsing archives supported through 7z/p7zip backend
- Improved file rename.
- Added option to rename only files
- Improved hints about rename functions in confirmation dialogs.
- Improved management of compressed TAR files.
- Brotli, LPAQ, QUAD/BALZ/BCM, and Zstandard backed now supports previewing compressed TAR files.
- Same formats now supports option to auto open compressed TAR archive (previously applied only to formats supported through 7z/p7zip backend).
- Same formats now supports smart extraction feature.
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING:
- Added read / write / test support for Brotli (.br) and Zstandard (.zst) files.
- Added more dictionary size options for LZMA / LZMA2.
- Added compression preset ("Add" button's dropdown menu) for ZIP, Bzip2 method, fast compression.
- Improved direct extraction from PeaZip's file browser.
- Context menu and Extract dropdown menu now features: extract all here, extract all here smart, extract all here to new folder.
- Reduced duplication of destinations in Extract dropdown menu.
- Extract all to moved to More group in context menu.
- Keyboard shortcuts:
- Extract all here Ctrl Alt Shift E.
- Extract all here smart Ctrl Alt Shift S.
- Extract all here to new folder Ctrl Alt Shift N.
- Instantaneous compression ratio % is shown while running 7z/p7zip compression tasks.
v6.6 [May 7, 2018]
BACKEND
- Updated to 7z 18.05.
Patches CVE-2018-10115 vulnerability.
Patches bug on some Windows 10 versions working incorrectly with Large memory pages.
Improves performances.
FILE MANAGER
- Added new fast function for hinting possible duplicates.
Possible duplicates shows exactly same size, and same CRC32 calculated on sample(s) of file's data.
For files up to 64 KB data it is sampled a 32 KB region at the beginning of the file.
For files larger than 64 KB a second 32KB region is sampled after the half of the file.
- Added option to reset search history in search menu.
- Various fixes and improvements.
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING
-New option "Try to edit non explicitly supported file types" in Options > Settings > Archive manager.
Off by default in order to protect from modification files outside known supported extensions.
If on, allows to try to add/update and remove files form files not usually employed as archives, but structurally based on archive types such as Java jar, MS Office and OOo files, etc.
v6.5 [Oct 23, 2017]
Release 6.5 improves archive manager, archive conversion procedure, and introduces ability to move and rename objects inside existing archives.
Backend are updated to 7z 17.01 beta, zpaq 7.15 and UPX 3.94.
A total of 188 file extensions can now be managed by PeaZip.
Translations are available in over 30 languages.
v6.4 [Mar 27, 2017]
- Added experimental privacy_mode directive (at current state can be changed only from configuration file, or hardcoded at compile time) meant to help users not forgetting to provide a password when working on sensitive data.
- Rightclicking on file manager's column header shows context menu for
customizing columns; applying on the fly checksum/hash, search for duplicates, and set algorithm for those two functions; and save GUI content as tab-separated TXT file.
- Clicking the style icon on the right of the status bar shows menu of presets for file manager.
- Style icon now changes reflecting the style applied to the file manager.
- New "Navigation bar" entry in status bar menu show/hide side navigation bar.
- Drag and drop information floyout changes alpha blending level when a valid drop target is detected.
- Some keyboard shortcuts were updated.
- Various improvements in archive browsing.
- Various improvements of UI usability with custom system colors.
- During archive update only relevant options are shown, allowing to set password and to change action (add, update, freshen, sync).
- Improved Windows installer and re-configuration wizard.
- Added system's context menu hotkeys for most used entries.
v6.3 [Jan 2, 2017]
- multiple fixes, updated translations, and visual updates.
v6.2 [Nov 7, 2016]
Release 6.2.0 comes with a visual refresh of file / archive browser, with improved tool bar and new keyboard shortcuts, and of extraction / archiving screens, now showing a cumulative progress bar when multiple tasks are submitted. Visual refresh also apply to Pea and PeaLauncher components. 7z backed is updated to 16.04 version.
A total of 188 file extensions can now be managed by PeaZip.
v5.8 [Oct 5, 2015]
Release 5.8.1 can now handle (browse, extract, create) archives with UTF-8 filenames, single and multiple file renaming was improved, and 7z backend was updated to 15.09 (on Windows), adding support to virtual machines' disk image formats VMWare's VMDK (single and multi-volume), Oracle VirtualBox's VDI, QUEMU's QCOW2, and for ext2, ext3, ext4 formatted IMG disk images.
"Free Software compliance" directive can now be set in configuration (Options > Advanced) or hardcoded at compile time, in order to ease the enforcement of policies regarding Free Software usage for system administrators and software distributors.
A total of 188 file extensions can now be managed by PeaZip.
BACKEND
(Windows) Updated to 7z 15.09
FILE MANAGER
Improved file rename
- added option to mass-rename adding timestamp
- easy rename clicking already selected item
- rename dialog shows quick editing options: lowercase, uppercase, add timestamp
Various aspect improvements
- more elements follows the system color scheme
- improved aspect of Address and Search bar
- added reset search button in Search Bar
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING
Improved UTF-8 support in Windows
- can now correctly browse 7z-backend supported archives with UTF-8 characters in path/file name
- can now drag and drop (from filesystem and from archives) to target with UTF-8 characters in path name
- can now perform all delete operations (send to recycle bin, fast delete, zeroing, secure delete) on files/folders with UTF-8 characters in path/file name
- can now copy and move files with UTF-8 characters in path/file name
- cannot yet copy directories, or copy file over itself if UTF-8 characters are involved in the command
188 file extensions supported
Added support for EXT2, EXT3 and EXT4 filesystem image files (usually IMG extension), and multi-volume VMDK disk images.
v5.6 [Apr 26, 2015]
This release adds support for RARv5 standard, updated translations and various fixes. Due RarLab's unrar implementation license restriction, making it non OSI compliant, RARv5 support is available through separate plugin available from PeaZip Add-ons page.
v5.4 [Jul 6, 2014]
2014 08 13
5.4.1
FILE MANAGER
- New design update
- New Tabs area for easier use of options screens
- Improved Layout context menu in Crete/Extract screens
- Path submenu in context menu for exploring bookmarked/recent paths so files/folders can be dragged to the application
- Advanced submenu grouping layout/task management entries
- Scan actions and Hexadecimal preview are now featured also in Test button dropdown menu
- Various improvements and fixes
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING
- Improved information during multiple extraction and archiving tasks
- Quicker access to last used directory in Output path menu
v5.3 [Apr 13, 2014]
2014 05 04 (5.3.1):
- Various fixes.
- Improved handling of double file extension when creating archives.
- Updated translations and Windows' context menu localization scripts.
v5.2 [Nov 25, 2013]
2013 11 25
5.2.0
BACKEND
UPX 3.91
FILE MANAGER
(Windows Vista and newer) Improved UAC integration for archiving and extraction functions
- Improved file deletion modes
- Added very_fast mode (single pass random data) to Secure delete
- Fast mode (two pass random data) is now default mode for secure delete
- Added Zero delete, deletion mode overwriting existing file with all 0
(Windows) Introduced free space deletion modes
- Added Secure delete free space, overwriting with random data multiple times (same as secure file delete)
- Added Zero delete free space, overwriting with all 0 to improve compressibility of filesystem (i.e. disk image backup, virtual machine optimization)
Re-introduced local help file for offline support
Various fixes and improvements
- (Linux) fixed using output path as working directory
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING
- "Extract all to" starts from input folder (or default extraction path, if set)
- Implemented extract/archive to original input folder: multiple input files from different paths can be extracted/archived each in its own path in a single pass
177 file extensions supported
- Added support for .msu (Microsoft update) and .mpp (Microsoft Project file)
v5.1 [Sep 2, 2013]
1. CODE
- Package naming convention changed to fixed mayor.minor.revision format in order to always have 5 byte size for version string
2. FILE MANAGER
- Added Schedule tab integrated with system Task Scheduler for ease of creating scheduled archiving/extraction (i.e. backup/restore) scripts from a single place
- Improved bookmarks: when all bookmarks are deleted from application, bookmark list stays empty; when bookmarks are deleted by application reset or deleting bookmarks file, default bookmarks are listed
- Various fixes
3. EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING
- Added support for .ipsw iOS devices firmware packages, 175 file extensions are now supported
4. WINDOWS INSTALLER
- Added "Check for updates link" in installer and system integration wizard
v5.0 [Jun 23, 2013]
- Backend: PEA 0.44, UPX 3.09
- Code cleanup
- Bookmarks branch in navigation tree moved on first position, starts by default maximized and containing common useful locations
- Improved breadcrumb context menu, unified with refresh menu (features history menu, features entries to open in specified path the system's file explorer, command prompt, new instance of PeaZip, properties, and web search, features quick access to relevant filesystem paths (same as "Filesystem" menu top level)))
- Improved tasks wrapper (gwrap) for readability and clarity, explore input and output paths is now featured
- Improved Settings: reorganized and simplified
- Improved speed of adding items to archiving operations: by default directories' content is enumerated only on request (in layout's context menu)
- Improved tool bars, added New folder button in file manager bar and Rename in image manager
- Improved web search function for quick access to most relevant web resources
- New history menu containing recently visited pats and archives, session history and breadcrumb of current path (also in archive/extraction interface)
- System tools deduplicated and moved to context menu, always accessible, more tools available (Windows Vista and more recent) Added "Open PowerShell here" function)
- (Windows) Added quick links to user's music, pictures, and videos folders in browsing, and archiving/extraction interfaces
- (Windows) Free disk space and % displayed in standard status bar and in archiveing/axtraction interfaces
- (Windows) Improved adding multiple items from context menu functions
- Added support for displaying thumbnails of xpm, and pgm images
- Improved accessibility to various functions like bookmarks, web search, show thumbnails, open new instance, explore path
- Uniformed various menus and submenus so same groups of functions are easier to find at first sight
- Fixed: extract to new folder now ignored in drag and drop operations consistently to how most file archivers work
- Sizes of single input itmes in readable form
- 174 file extensions supported - added support to .crx Google Chrome extension, .maff Mozilla archive format, .mdf Alcohol 120 image files, and OPC files .cddx and .appv (Microsoft Application Virtualization).
v4.8 [Nov 23, 2012]
FILE MANAGER
Image manager, handles BMP, JPEG, PNG and TIFF images
rotate, flip, mirror, crop, transform: resize/fit to, and convert in a single passage
Functions side bar: quick acess to alphabetically sorted most commonly used functions of the program.
Presets in Organize menu collects most common browser's settings, featured also in Organize group in context menu and in status bar
Browser's presets can be toggled with Alt 6, Sorting is now toggled with Alt 5
Updated themes and PeaLauncher icon
Various minor fixes and enhancements
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING
Improved mail integration
Send by mail option featured in main archive creation/conversion tab
Send by mail by default now does not keep a copy of the sent archive on the filesystem
Added Keep archive switch to optionally save on the filesystem archives sent by mail
Added -add2multi7zmail and -add2multizipmail switches (for context menu entries) to copress and mail
Added "Zip and mail" context menu entry, enabled by default, in context menu install screen
Added WIM to quick format selection menus
Fixed Convert quick format selection popup menu when browsing archives, only formats suitable for conversion procedure are presented
Fixed opening with custom application inside ARC format
PeaLauncher minimized status is inherited by following instances, in order to not steal focus when multiple instances are operating in background
Previewing archived files with PeaZip sets the temporary copy read only, so the user is presented "save as" dialog if files are changed
WINDOWS INSTALLER
New installation option "No system integration", avoids menu entries and file associations
Default, Custom and No system integration options are now available in the Options > System integration wizard
v4.4 [Jan 30, 2012]
PeaZip 4.4 improves extraction and archiving interfaces, with a new, simpler to read and use layout, clearly divided in input and output area, removing all redundant information and graphic, and featuring all most significant options in the first tab.
Alongside various other fixes and improvements, it is now possible to use only keyfiles, only passwords, or both, to encrypt files.
A total of 136 file extensions are supported (added support for opening OXT files as archives).
v4.3 [Dec 26, 2011]
- Added support to open as archive EPUB ebook file format, a total of 135 file extensions are supported - formats usually not handled as archives can be opened from PeaZip's context menu "Open as archive" rather being associated with the application directly, which would be inconvenient for most users.
- Address field can now be set to be viewed as breadcrumb (default) or string, with "Show address as breadcrumb" flag in address bar navigation dropdown menu
- Improved password management
- Improved search
- Fixed: create ARC with relative paths fails if path contains space
- Open as archive moved to root level of file browser context menu for better visibility
v4.2
FILE MANAGER
Immersive mode for file browser (full screen, no window border), toggle with Ctrl F11 (option is volatile, not saved in configuration, it is just meant for enhancing browsing space on request)
Improved custom applications menus
allows 8 more applications, links or scripts
automatically detects recent AVG versions, Microsoft Security Essentials, Google Chrome
Improved thumbnail viewer
does not rebuild thumbnails when sorting
free memory changing small/large icon size
Fixed: (Windows) browsing computer's root may fail at application startup
Fixed: (Windows) loading list of objects from system context menu may not work under some conditions, only the first time application runs in a session
Fixed: descending sorting is now remembered
Fixed: correct size is now reported in status bar for selected items over 2GB
Various minor fixes and improvements
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING
ARC format, now archiving relative paths by default, optionally absolute paths can be stored (advanced options tab in archive creation interface)
More information dispayed in report tab during operation: completed strings are displayed
WINDOWS INSTALLER
Reduce packages size
some superseeded formats (lpaq1/5, paq8f/jd/l) moved to external plugin
uses uncompressed Winodws icons (package compression is more efficient)
v3.9 [Aug 1, 2011]
PeaZip 3.9.1 updates application's look and feel, with new Windows icons and 48 px application's icons for "Icon" mode.
The new release adds support for ZIPX archives, and features contextual menus for toolbar buttons, i.e. to directly archive (or convert) selected items in the specified format, and for address bar (history, latest searches).
Packages were optimized in order to feature less files and 20% smaller installer, and now uses non compressed main executables to reduce memory usage of the application.
v1.8 [Jun 20, 2007]
Updated frontend to use 7z 4.47 beta, adding support for archiving open for writing files, fast Deflate and Deflate64, read/write AES encrypted ZIP files (WinZip AE standard);
Added read support for ACE archives;
Added read support for SLP (Stampede Linux package);
Added suggest password function
