Download PeaZip 4.5

Version 4.5 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

• Added keyboard shortcuts
  • Ctrl+Alt+F3 (web search form) and Shift+Alt+F3 (web search on peazip.org)
  • Ctrl+F5 (open path) Shift+F5 (open archive)
  • (Windows) New quick window docking menu: send PeaZip to the four sides and angles of the desktop with Ctrl+Alt+arrow
• (Windows) Added “Properties” dialog in context menu
• added switches
  • -add2multiseparate: start a single instance, add multiple input to archive, each to separate archive
  • -add2multisplit (replaces add2split): start a single instance, add multiple input to file split (consolidate in tar if it is not a single file)
  • -ext2browseasarchive: force opening the file as archive
• (Windows) Added “Check for updates” feature in help group
• Fixed display the application in foreground when started
• (Windows) Improved startup times in slow network environment
  • By default, does not get mapped network drives information
  • If set to get information, in case of failure the switch is ignored for the session, and then tried again in next sessions
• Improved “Save job definition”
  • Featured as context menu in archiving and extraction interfaces
  • (Windows) by default saves as .bat file with default system’s character encoding, so the script can be directly executed
  • It is now possible to save job definition for extracting multiple files at once
  • It is now possible to save job definition for archiving each input item to separate archives
  • Job definition scripts are saved by default in PeaZip’s applications data path (user specific for installable version)
    • Improved file split/join features
  • (Windows) Split file featured by default in system context menu
  • Split is by default a favorite format (Add button’s context menu, Archive interface)
  • Re-introduced file split/join entries in File tools submenu
  • Selecting Split format automatically switches volume size to Custom
  • Fixed a graphic glitch in displaying file split buttons
  • No checksum by default, consistently with default behavior of other file split utilities
• Improved file/archive manager
  • Improved context menu, now divided into 3 functional areas
    • Archive management (top) add, extract, test, password…
    • Navigation (middle) navigation and organization features (browser mode, sorting, select)
    • File management (bottom) open with, rename, delete, properties…
  • Improved status area
    • Status area displays a quick switch button between views (same as Alt+8)
    • Status bar and Details bar displays basic controls to customize browser type and size
    • Improved Details view
  • Improved toolbar area, buttons are auto sized for optimal placement
  • Improved navigation bar
    • More prominence given to Open path, Open archive, and Search and drag here, moved in a top level branch expanded by default
    • Application menu opens selected objects with chosen application, launches the application if nothing is selected
    • Added quick jump context menu to navigation bar (same popup menu as for the root of breadcrumb in the address bar)
  • Improved Web search adding search in Google+ and SourceForge

Windows installer

• (Windows 7+) Added option to use non-cascaded menu as alternative to default cascaded menus (flag Custom during installation, or run System integration wizard)
• Added -ext2browseasarchive “Open as archive” action for any file type
• Added “Extract archives” to any file type when the menu is cascaded, as quick shortcut to open extraction interface (accepts dropping files) or fallback if an archive type is not associated with PeaZip for any reason
• Removed emergency Start menu link “Reset PeaZip”, moved as .bat in PeaZip’s /res folder
• SendTo menu by default features Add, Extract, Open as archive, and Browse path with PeaZip entries

The following downloads are available:
PeaZip for Windows
PeaZip portable
PeaZip for Linux
PeaZip add-ons