Download PeaZip 9.4.0

Version 9.4.0 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

• 7z 23.01 (Linux, macOS, Windows)
• Pea 1.13

FileManager

• (macOS) Fixed conditional startup actions on input (open, extract, extract here…)
• Added column to display file-level comment in archives (default hidden)
• While browsing an archive, the information popup (clicking on status bar) shows if the archive type can be edited in PeaZip
• Updated Themes
  • Added contrast setting to Themes
  • Theme packages now contains customizable, 32 bit PNG icons for archive file types
    • Alternative themes with different icons for archive types are available selecting Custom in Theme dropdown menu
    • New system icons packages are available to change system icons accordingly to themes, anyway icon files from theme packages can be used for system integration on Operating Systems accepting icons in PNG format

Extraction and archiving

• Added checkbox to manually set RAR binary for Custom / RAR compression format
  • This setting will allow Windows users to locate WinRar Rar.exe executable more flexibly than automatic search, and non-Windows users to set up RAR compression using Wine or other alternatives
• (Windows) Work path free space is reported in archiving and extraction screens info box, clicking on the status bar
• (Windows) Free space on output path and work path (if applicable) is checked before starting archiving and extraction operation, and user is warned if free space may not be enough
• Fixes
  • Fixed crash if the app is forced to extract to a read only path
  • Working directory for ARC compression is now changed accordingly to 7z/p7zip backend working directory
  • Correct handling of .tar extension in output file name upon extraction to new folder, if item with same name exists in the destination