Download PeaZip 4.8.1

An update for version 4.8 has been released from PeaZip. 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:

File manager

• Added shared sync folders to predefined system paths for navigation, extraction and compression, automatically detected: Dropbox, Google Drive, SkyDrive, Ubuntu One
• Bar toggling buttons (tools, address, navigation) now displays context menu on click for faster switching and better discoverability of alternative bars
• Navigation menus were uniformed and was reduced duplication of navigation features
• Details view now by default without thumbnails for more speed and lower resource usage, quicker switching to icons and images mode in Status bar
• Improved bookmarking
  • Any file type can be bookmarked, bookmarked non-archive files are opened with associated applications
  • Bookmarks can be added by drag and drop from the system and from PeaZip
• Status bar
  • Two icons for faster and more intuitive switching details / icons and pictures styles
  • Password / Keyfile icon on the right side, alongside other icons
  • One click button to close advanced views (bookmarks, clipboard, etc) and return to status bar
  • Reduced amount of information displayed on right side about navigation and selection, for better focus on important information
• Address bar
  • Address filed / search filed separator can now be adjusted
  • Search context menu displayed clicking on search button
  • Refresh context menu displays refresh, history and recent archives
  • Improved switching from breadcrumb to classic address field
• Minor visual enhancements, tool bar buttons with text on the side by default for better use of vertical space
• Various minor fixes

EXTRACTION and archiving

• Set password control displayed as button and moved in output parameters area for better visibility
• Reorganized Extraction and Archiving status bar information
  • Context menu button in Archiving and Extraction status bar on the left of confirmation button
    • Favorite archive formats context menu in Archiving interface launches directly compression/conversion in the selected format
    • Extract here / to new folder context menu in Extraction interface launches direct extraction
  • Uniformed password information, with same color code representation of password strength as in Password dialog

Windows installer

• Fixed some issues or cascaded menu
  • limited maximum number of cascaded menu items as some systems does not handle correctly more than 16 elements
  • for filetypes not associated with PeaZip all the extraction actions are now featured on the bottom of the menu

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