Download PeaZip 9.2.0

Version 9.2.0 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

• (Windows) updated McMilk 7z codecs v1.5.4r4: Zstandard v1.5.4, Brotli v.1.0.9, LZ4 v1.9.4, LZ5 v1.5, Lizard v1.0, Fast LZMA2 v1.0.1
• (Windows) updated 7z sfx modules using ones from McMilk’s 7z fork v1.5.4r4, supporting extra compression methods
• Can now use zpaqfranz https://github.com/fcorbelli/zpaqfranz as alternative backend for .zpaq format
  • To use an alternative zpaq fork rename the binary as zpaq and replace the zpaq binary in (peazip)/res/bin/zpaq/ directory

Code

• (macOS) Fixed open custom applications
• Fixed compression method is now saved accordingly for 7z sfx format and 7z format
• Re-organized Help section with quicker access to online updates, Plugins, Themes, and Translations
• Privacy and Security section in main Settings tab, collecting all relevant functions, including Updates

File manager

• Minor modification to themes and icons
  • Address filed can now set window color plus button color (new), window color plus accent color, button color (default), and accent color
  • New Compact mode for the tool bar, tool bar icons (for archive manager, file manager, and image manager) are shown on the right of the address bar while the tool bar is hidden
  • Themes were updated
  • In (peazip)/res/share/icons are now available alternative Windows icons with extensions, can be useful if file extensions are hidden on the host system
• New options in Main menu, Organize
  • Tab bar can now be swapped with Address bar to be shown on the top (as common on Windows file managers) or on the bottom (as common on Linux and macOS file managers)
  • Breadcrumb bar can be shown as plain text address field, KDE/Windows file managers -like breadcrumb (default), classic Gnome Files -like, Gnome 4 -like, and macOS Finder -like.

Extraction and archiving

• Can now set a custom alias name for 7z / p7zip binary, to make easier to use an alternative backend, in Options > Settings, Advanced tab
• Improved “Edit non-canonical archive types” (Options > Settings, Archive manager tab), provided the target file structure can be actually read/write supported
  • Can now edit existing files in non-canonical archives
  • Can now keep browsing files opened as archives after edits
  • Fixed: adding/updating files in non-canonical archives now targets the intended subfolder inside the archives
  • Fixed: (Windows) non-canonical archives without extension can now be edited
  • The option is now applied to unknow file types only, to avoid editing known formats not supporting the operation
  • The option now allows to treat non-canonical archives as 7Z, ZIP (default), TAR, or WIM files, to support even more derivative container formats

Installers

• Added Convert scripts and context menu entries for all platforms in (peazip)/res/share/batch path