Download PeaZip 4.0

Version 4.0 of PeaZip has been released. This archiving program is made available under an open source license and downloads are available for Windows and Linux. The program aims to distinguish itself from the competition by specializing in safety. Encrypting data is therefore one of the main functions of the proprietary system pea format. PeaZip 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. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

File manager

• (Windows) File manager shows image thumbnails and information about graphic files, only while browsing/searching the filesystem
  • thumbnails does not get stored
  • thumbnails calculation generates a set of 4 dedicated threads, if folder or search filter is changed a new set of threads is created and old threads are stopped as soon as possible (file level and thread level granularity: each thread can be stopped separately, at the completion of each image)
  • Organize > Show picture thumbnails in main menu toggle the feature on/off
• No file is selected when an archive is opened (generally, anytime listing root level of the archive), so by default extract button performs “extract all”
• F2 remapped to rename file(s) as in Windows’ file explorer
  • Unchanged: Ctrl+F2 browse desktop, Shift+F2 browse computer root, Ctrl+Shift+F2 browse archive’s root

Extraction and archiving

• PeaLauncher improved as standalone application, at startup accepts drag and drop of a single archive to be extracted (or alternatively it can start file selection dialog)
• Elapsed time string shows minutes and seconds if the job takes more than one minute