Download PeaZip 2.7 Beta

A beta release of PeaZip was released on Thursday with version number 2.7. This archiving program is available under an open source license and tries to differentiate itself from the competition by specializing in security. Encrypting data is therefore the spearhead of our own pea format. The program can create 7z, bz2, gz, paq/lpaq, pea, quad, tar, upx and zip files and extract various file formats including ace, arj, cab, deb, iso, lha , rar and rpm. In version 2.7 the following changes and improvements have been made:

GUI

• (PeaLauncher) added option to open output directory after operation
• File browser
  • it is now possible to force refresh inside archives
  • the password / keyfile can now be set once, for being used in file browser, archive creation (setting password triggers use of encryption) and archive extraction, like in WinRar; the locker icon reports if the password is set
  • the advanced inclusion and exclusion filters (7z backend) can now be set once (in a separate form) for archive browsing, extraction and creation
  • clipboard is now displayed in a panel at the bottom of file browser, like history and bookmarks
• Archive creation interface: new task oriented GUI for compression, adding / dropping files and folders to archive uses the archive creation interface (like in WinRar, where adding to archive raises the archive creation dialog)
  • can optionally archive each input item to separate archives
  • can chose output path with a powerful navigator (like in former “extract to” popup menu): system’s paths, bookmarked folders, recent folders
  • supports use of the advanced inclusion and exclusion filters (7z and FreeArc backend)
• Archive extraction interface: new task oriented GUI for extraction
  • the advanced inclusion and exclusion filters (7z and FreeArc backend) are supported also for multiple archives at once

BACKEND

• updated FreeArc to 0.51
  • can now create FreeArc’s self extracting archives (sfx creation not jet working on Linux packages)
• updated 7z to 9.06 (Windows)
  • open mslz, flv, swf, gnm
• added backend for ZPAQ (Windows), currently supports only extraction to original absolute path

NOTE

• 95 file extensions supported