Download PeaZip 4.6

Version 4.6 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 changelog of this release shows the following changes and improvements:

backend

• Pea backend updated to 0.40
• UPX backed updated to 3.08

Code

• Updated used Wolfgang Ehrhardt’s crypto libraries with packages crc_hash_2012-03-27, ppch_2012-03-27, and util_2012-03-27

File manager

• Added “Recent archives” group in Navigation bar
• Added quick link to “Users” folder in Filesystem group (in Navigation bar and navigation menus)
• Improved quick jump context menu (Navigation bar, breadcrumb), now displaying first 4 bookmarks and first 4 recent archives for quick access
• Improved address bar dropdown menu bar
• Improved application toolbar
  • Added secure delete and properties buttons to archive manager toolbar, improved additional functions drop down menu
  • New file manager toolbar containing buttons of most common file management features
  • “+” icon on the right of the toolbar area toggles archive manager and file manager toolbars, consistently with navigation and status bar
• Improved handling of Pea file format and of utilities provided through Pea backend
  • PEA/UNPEA operations now takes password/keyfile from PeaZip consistently with other formats
  • Pea format volume check algorithm is now set in context sensitive way with PeaZip GUI, if password is set AES EAX256 encryption is used, else SHA hash is used
  • Pea executable auto closes if no error is encountered, improving its use for chained operations: PEA/UNPEA, file split/join, secure delete
• Improved saving resource usage when displaying several thousands of items, update intervals are better scaled
• Updated themes
• Fixed: dynamically loading SHMultiFileProperties to allow running the application on Windows 2000 and previous systems
• Various minor fixes and improvements
  • Added switches -add2archive-add add to existing archive (if found) and -add2archive-update as previous switch, but updates only if files in archive are older
  • Improved browsing UNC paths
  • Improved displaying file types and icons inside some types of archive
  • Reorganized System tools submenu

Note:

• 157 extensions supported: added support for IMA, IMG and IMZ disk images, and AIR Adobe installer files

The following downloads are available:
PeaZip for Windows (32bit)
PeaZip for Windows (64 bit)
PeaZip portable
PeaZip for Linux
PeaZip add-ons