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.
PeaZip 9.0.0 completes the GUI evolution of 8.x line, both with look&feel updates and with under the hood improvements, making the application easier to customize and adapt to different needs and environments. Plugin are now simpler to install, support for PAQ and ZPAQ formats support is improved, more options are available for 7z/p7zip backend, and the application can now extract compressed TAR archives in a single step.
BACKEND
Pea 1.11
CODE
Fixes, clean up of legacy code
Improved progress bar
Improved speed and memory usage
about 10% faster using 10% less memory opening 250K items archive
about 3x faster adding files to archiving / extraction layout from some method which were previously poorly performing (e.g. drag and dropping files to archive) removed performance bottleneck on selection of large group of items in the browser
FILE MANAGER
GUI better adapts to size and preference changes:
Address breadcrumb adapts the number of displayed items on the width of the application window to improve usability
If the Tool Bar is hidden, main functions (add, extract, test/list submenu) are shown on the right side of the Address Bar alongside Style menu
From main menu > Organize it is now possible to set "Sort dirs before files" (as common on Windows file managers) or not (as common on macOS and Gnome)
Selecting one of the available tool bars (archive manager, file manager, image manager) restores its visibility if the Tool bar is hidden
Style menu "..." on the right of the tool / address bar now can alternatively display the main menu in form of popup menu
Navigation menu can now toggle side bar (navigation, treeview, hide), and display Headers context menu
Add and Extract actions are now featured at the top level of "Open" group in side menu and of "Open" submenu in navigation bar
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING
Added new options for 7z/p7zip backend:
Added option to do not modify last access time of input files
Added options to do not follow symbolic links / hard links (save as links in archives) for WIM and TAR archives
Added option to limit maximum memory usage during compression
Re-organized 7z/p7zip advanced options in archive creation screen - the new options are still not available on macOS, as an older 7z version is available on that platform, not fully supporting all the new features
Improved support for TAR format, and for formats used in combination with TAR "TAR before" action now applies full advanced options
Improved generation of scripts with "TAR before" option enabled
Compressed TAR archives can now be optionally extracted in a single step (atomic tar extraction). The new option is available in main menu, Options > Settings, Archive manager tab; this behavior can be set separately for extraction and for archive conversion, which comprehends a preliminary extraction step
Improved support for ZPAQ and *PAQ formats: zpaq archives are tested for encryption, to ask for password if necessary when opened, extracted or converted zpaq-specific options are now shown in extraction screen (no longer needing to go to Advanced tab) whenever a .zpaq archive is opened, or listed for extraction it is now possible to extract zpaq archives to absolute, full or relative paths it is now possible to preview content of zpaq archives if a single file is in the archive and extraction option is set to relative paths; it is now possible to preview content of paq8 archives if a single file is in the archive
Updated compression preset scripts
Updated plugin for PeaZip: Plugin are now provided as tar archives, to install a plugin extract the content to (peazip)/res/bin/ directory
From Settings, About tab (also available from main menu Help > About) it is possible to directly open (peazip)/res/bin/ directory and to verify installed plugin From the About screen it is now also possible to check hash of binaries used by the application against known hash values, as in main menu > Tools submenu
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