Download PeaZip 9.1.0

Version 9.1.0 of PeaZip has been released. This archiver is made available under an open source license, and downloads are available for Windows, Linux, and macOS. The program wants to distinguish itself from the competition by specializing in safety. Encrypting data is therefore one of its main functions 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:

Backend

• Improved Backend binaries option group in Options > Settings, Advanced tab
  • Added option to adapt the syntax for a specific 7z version at runtime, syntax can now be set to 21.07 release (avoiding switches introduced later), in order to improve portability of the app to platform not having latest 7z build available, or when it is preferred to adhere to an older syntax to maintain compatibility with legacy systems
  • Option to use the system’s version of 7z backend, rather than the one provided by PeaZip package, is now supported on all non-Windows systems; a binary or a link named 7z in system’s paths is required for this feature
• Pea 1.12

Code

• Various fixes and code clean-up, improved support for BSD systems

File manager

• General usability improved with easier to spot open in a new tab, open in a new window controls, made easier to open console in current path, and made easier to access to clipboard content
  • Improved smart filename sorting
    • Improved search in archives, Simple search directive (can be toggled on / off from Organize menu) now applies globally for searches in archives as well as in the filesystem
    • Simplified finding duplicate files and calculating files hash/checksums in the file browser
    • In Options > Settings, File manager tab it is now possible to set the file deduplication mode, fast (default) or complete file content parsing
    • Updated layout for options in all screens (archiving, extraction, settings…)
  • New “Enlarge file browser icons” switch in main menu, Organize to use larger icons in all modes of the file browser
  • Updated themes and graphics
    • Themes screen layout simplified with less frequently used settings moved in Advanced group
    • Zooming option can now both reduce and increase size of graphic elements
    • Major restyle of themed and non-themed icons to better match the UI of modern systems
    • Updated all Theme packages

Extraction and archiving

• Adding files in subdirectories of existing archives now displays the internal (in-archive) destination path in confirmation dialog
• Can now export as CLI scripts the archive conversion tasks defined in the GUI
  • “Archive conversion scripts allow user’s interaction” (default on) in Options > Settings > Archive manager, Archive group, allows to interactively customize conversion tasks saved as scripts when launched, otherwise the task will run as batch requiring no interaction and applying current application’s settings
• Improved archiving and extraction screens
  • “Extract then move to destination” setting moved to main extraction screen for better visibility
    • Added link to working folder settings (in Settings, General) on the right of the control
  • Set default output path for archiving and extraction moved in archiving and extraction context menus for better visibility
• Improved responsiveness of Windows context menu, 15 – 40% faster than 9.0.0 release
• Improved auto extraction of compressed TAR archives
  • Added progress bar for the auto-untar step after de-compression
  • Auto-untar step is canceled if the task ends in error or is cancelled
  • Fixed auto-untar function when extracting multiple archives at once
• Improved support for Brotli and Zstandard
  • Can now set option to force overwriting existing files from extraction screen
  • Fixed extraction of Zstd files with long distance matching (windowLog > 27)
  • Maximize Zstandard compression option now sets –long=31 instead of –long=27
• New option to exclude empty directories form archiving and extraction operations (7z / p7zip) in Options > Settings > Archive manager

Installers

• New PeaZip Portable package for BSD systems (GTK2, x86_64)
• (Linux) Updated KDE 5 Dolphin service menus in (peazip)/res/share/batch/freedesktop_integration directory
• (Windows) New actions for Windows 11 mini context menu in (peazip)/res/share/batch/Windows 11 mini context menu directory