PeaZip is a free file archiver utility. The application provides an unified, natively portable, cross-platform file manager and archive manager GUI for many Open Source technologies like 7-Zip, FreeArc, PAQ, UPX.
Create: 7Z, ARC, Brotli, BZip, GZip, PEA, TAR, WIM, XZ, ZPAQ, ZIP, Zstandard files and more
Open and extract 200+ file types: ACE, CAB, DEB, ISO, RAR, ZIPX and more
Features of PeaZip includes extract, create and convert multiple archives at once, edit existing archives, create self-extracting archives (sfx), split files, strong encryption with two factor authentication, encrypted password manager, secure deletion, find duplicate files, calculate hashes, export task definition as command line script.
Release 6.6.0 introduces many improvements, among them a new fast duplicate finding routine, and the ability to try to edit non explicitly supported archive types as MS Office COMPOUND files, JAR containers, and others. On Windows, 7z backend is updated to 18.05 version, which improves performances, fixes vulnerabilities, resolve and possible Windows 10 issues of previous versions.
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