FYI. PeaZip Portable 7.3.2 (file archiver) Released for the PA Platform, courtesy of PortableApps.com.
PeaZip v7.4.0 Released (August 23, 2020) Website (GitHub) Changelog Spoiler: Changes v7.4.0 2020 08 23 7.4.0 BACKEND PEA 0.73 (Windows) Tino Reichardt (mcmilk) codecs for .7z format v1.4.5r2 CODE Various fixes Online resources pointing to new web space on GitHub FILE MANAGER Added shortcuts to set archiving/conversion and extraction options, from context menu and from Options > Archive manager screen Added button to change case on the fly for checksum/hash (when encoded hex or lsbhex) GUI refresh Added main menu shortcuts to toggle most common browser's layout options: side bar, tool bar, tab browser bar Modified aspect of address bar and tab bars EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING 7Z (Windows) Added support for Tino Reichardt (mcmilk) codecs for .7z format 7Z archives can now be created using also Brotli, Fast-LZMA2, Lizard, LZ4, LZ5, and Zstandard compression algorithms in addition to traditional ones 7Z archives created using those extra algorithms can be extracted by PeaZip or Reichardt's 7-Zip fork, cannot be extracted by plain 7-Zip or p7zip without using Reichardt's codecs Compression presets 11 and 12 changed from tar.br and tar.zst to 7z format with Brotli and Zstd compression respectivelyARC Added options to add recovery records and repair archive, from "Test" dropdown in tool bar and in "More" group in context menuRAR (Windows) Improved creation support using Rar.exe, if featured in the system, introduced as prototype in previous release Other than in WinRar's application path Rar.exe is now searched also in PeaZip's directory, in case user wants to copy the exe here for portability: it is sufficient to copy Rar.exe from WinRar's path to PeaZip or PeaZip Portable application's path, or in said path into res\ folder, or in a subfolder named res\rar or res\unrar: any of those locations is supported Add to separate archives and Archive to original path options enabled for RAR backend New RAR-specific options supported RAR archive header encryption is now possible RAR archives can be locked Can now set recovery records percentage Can now set archive time to: current system time, original archive time, most recent item in archiveIt is now possible to save RAR compression settings in custom compression settings profiles RAR compression preset is now available, it is shown only if Rar.exe is detectedIt is now possible to update, edit, rename, and delete files in existing RAR archives Application title will now display if archive is RAR4 or RAR5, and if it is locked Added options to lock archive, add comment, add recovery records, repair archive, from "Test" button dropdown in tool bar and in "More" group in context menuZIPX .zipx archives are now write supported and can now be edited (add, delete, rename items in existing archives) It is now possible to optionally to switch to .zipx extension if a method different than Deflate/Deflate64 is set for zip compression, accordingly to WinZip's definition of zipx format Please note that are currently supported, for reading and writing, following compression methods defined in zipx standard: Bzip2, LZMA, LZMA2, PPMd; currently WavPack, JPEG and MP3 preprocessors are unsupported (both for reading and writing) unless proper codecs are separately installed (cannot be added to PeaZip packages due closed source nature of those codecs)Repair archive function, for RAR and ARC files, is available in PeaZip's file manager also before opening the archive, in case the specific damage does not allow to successfully browse the archive
PeaZip v7.4.1 Released (September 8, 2020) Website (GitHub) Changelog Spoiler: Changes v7.4.1 2020 09 08 7.4.1 BACKEND Pea 0.74 Introduced PEA format revision 1.3, supporting multiple cascade authenticated encryption, each cipher with 256 bit key, in EAX mode: AES+Twofish+Serpent, Twofish+Serpent+AES, Serpent+AES+Twofish Fixed a bug preventing extraction of PEA archives in case of naming conflicts CODE Fixed Fast-LZMA2 dictionary sizes Fixed error 127 erroneously raised in some cases FILE MANAGER Improved directories smart sorting in file manager Improved tabs closing last tab collapses tab bar mouse middle button closes tab WINDOWS & LINUX INSTALLERS 7Z (Windows) Fixed context menu entry "CRC, hash and file tools", now pointing by default to "Checksum/hash (common algorithms)" consistently to all other calls form PeaZip
PeaZip v7.4.2 Released (October 5, 2020) Website (GitHub) Changelog Spoiler: Changes v7.4.2 2020 10 05 BACKEND (Linux) p7zip 16.02 superseded by sznick/p7zip fork 17.02, not available for legacy 32 bit platforms added support for FLZMA2, LZ4, and Zstd compression algorithms in .7z format algorithm selection dropdown is now common to all platforms, unsupported algorithms for one platform are preceeded with / (currently unsupported /Brotli, /Lizard, and /LZ5 on linux) CODE Various fixes FILE MANAGER (Windows) File manager now displays icons for exe files for better usability, using a separate thread; previously the feature was enabled only if browser was set to show thumbnails In-archive "Extract and open with PeaZip" and "Preview with PeaZip" now forces trying to open file as archive, as in "Open as archive" menu entry EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING (Windows) Drop target window is locked, as in WinRar, until drag and drop operation is completed If password contains characters that can be troublesome if used in scripts (i.e. quotes) it is now possible to interactively enter password in console to create / extract archive types handled through 7z/p7zip, ARC, and RAR backends
PeaZip v7.5.0 Released (November 13, 2020) Website (GitHub) Changelog Spoiler: Changes v7.5.0 2020 11 13 7.5.0 CODE Various fixes FILE MANAGER Create new folder is now also available for 7Z/p7Zip and RAR supported archive types Improved file renaming routines added function to cutting file names at specified lengtt added function to replace / remove non-ASCII characters all quick rename functions (lowercase, replace string, etc...) are now also available when browsing 7Z/p7zip and RAR supported archive typesUpdated icons in embedded theme and added icons to distinguish common archive types Updated Ten themeEXTRACTION and ARCHIVING Added "Extract everything for special file types" (to 7Z-supported archive types) to optionally extract the entire archive (or current path) to preview special filetypes which usually needs external data to properly run, in example .html, .bat, and .exe files From Options > Settings > Archive manager, Extract group is possible to customize "Extract everything for..." behavior Never use special preview, Ask, Always (default) Extract entire archive (default) or Extract displayed items only (items in current path, or matching search filters) which can be faster than extracting the entire archiveArchive timestamp preservation directive is now also applied to rename and delete operations (previously only for add / update) Options > Settings > Archive manager, Extract group: added option to auto close PeaZip after extraction if no browsing actions took place (default off), useful in example if a downloaded file was opened for quick inspection before extraction Options > Settings > General (Windows): added options for locking or hiding target window during drag and drop operations, by default target window is hidden and locked while the operation is running Out of the box default compression levels are set to fast for ZIP and 7Z formats compared to previous ZIP normal default, ZIP fast is over 400% faster providing 2% worse compression ratio, and 7Z fast is 25% faster providing 3% better compression ratio compared to previous 7Z normal default, 7Z fast is 500% faster providing 5% worse compression ratio please note compression levels and compression presets works as usual, the new settings are meant only to provide novice users better performance balance for general purpose tasksModified existing preset scripts 10 from faster zip to fast zip 12 (Linux) from .tar.zst to .7z using Zstandard compression (which requires single pass)Test mode always show details about single files in archive WINDOWS & LINUX INSTALLERS (Windows XP) additional 7z codecs introduced in 7.4 line, incompatible with Windows XP, are deactivated when installed on XP machines, consequently the error messages are no longer triggered when using 7z backend
PeaZip v7.6.0 Released (December 15, 2020) Website (GitHub) Changelog Spoiler: Changes v7.6.0 2020 12 15 7.6.0 BACKEND (Winodws, ReactOS) McMilk codecs in 7z\Codecs path are now automatically checked at PeaZip startup, in order to disable them (moving in 7z\Codecs\bk) on systems not capable to run them (as XP or ReactOS), and re-enable them on other systems; this works for both Portable and installable packages without requiring manual intervention CODE Various fixes FILE MANAGER (in left navigation panel) Archive treeview is now automaticaly updated accordingly to browsing in file manager area This option can be fine tuned in Options > Settings > Archive managerVarious usability improvements Can now set current path as default archiving or extraction path Options > Settings > General, Advanced, and Archive manager tabs reorganized Improved and updated themes, and simplified Theme tab EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING Improved handling ZIP files with code pages different than local Can now customize code page for reading/writing filenames in ZIP archives, from Options > Settings, Advanced tab it is possible to set: Local code page, then UTF-8 for sysmbols outside local code page (default) Force UTF-8 for non-ASCII characters Force local code page Use a custom code page: an arbitrary code page can be entered by user (the host machine needs to support the code page to run the tasks, otherwise tasks can be saved as scripts and run on different machines)Text encoding entry is now accessible also from application's file browser context menu, and in Archiving and Extraction screens context menusWithin PeaZip file manager it is now possible to use copy/paste shortcuts Ctrl+C (or Ctrl+X) / Ctrl+V to extract items from archives to filesystem If clipboard is set to keep multiple selection operations at once: Copy/paste extraction is possible form multiple archives at once It is also possibile to mix cut/paste and extraction operationsExtraction targets the file system, it is not currently possible i.e. to directly paste compressed items from archive A to archive B
PeaZip v7.7.0 Released (January 8, 2021) Website (GitHub) Changelog Spoiler: Changes v7.7.0 2021 01 08 7.7.0 BACKEND (Linux) Can now optionally use system p7zip, if installed, from Options > Settings, General tab requires p7zip-full (or equivalent package) to be installed in order to have a 7z binary compatible with PeaZip's requirements in terms of syntax and features CODE Various fixes FILE MANAGER Added shortcut Ctrl+W to close window, consistently with conventional use in WinRar and Windows file explorer Improved control over temporary work directory, used when the archive is created or edited, during drag and drop extraction (Windows), and content preview Output: faster as no copy to destination is needed, more secure as no content is unpacked/decrypted outside of the intended destination path Output, preview in user's temp User's temp (as conventionally used by most applications): in case of failure for any reason, user's temp folder is the single place to look for orphaned data and can be safely cleaned None, user's temp if needed: allows exceptions to perform drag and drop extraction and preview using user's temp None: no exceptions allowed, no temporary work data is saved, this does not allow to perform neither drag and drop extraction nor preview, as archive content can't be transparently unpacked and passed to system's drag & drop handler, nor to the associated application EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING Added read support to .appxbundle format
PeaZip 7.7.1 released February 12, 2021 Download | Changelog PeaZip Portable 7.7.1 (file archiver) Released for the PA Platform, courtesy of PortableApps.com.
FYI. PeaZip Portable 7.9.0 (file archiver) Released for the PA Platform, courtesy of PortableApps.com.
FYI. PeaZip 8.0.0 Released Jun 10, 2021 | Release Notes Also: PeaZip Portable 8.0.0 (file archiver) Released for the PA Platform, courtesy of PortableAps.com.
PeaZip 8.1.0 Released (July 24, 2021) Website (GitHub) Changelog Spoiler: Changes 8.1.0 2021 07 24 8.1.0 BACKEND Pea 1.02 Improved speed of hex preview function, updated secure delete functionZstd 1.50 (Windows) Tino Reichardt codecs for 7z v1.5.0r1 updates codecs to Brotli 1.0.9, FLZMA2 1.0.1, Lizard 1.0, LZ4 1.9.3, LZ5 1.5, Zstandard 1.5.0(Linux) szcnick p7zip 17.04: introduces support for Brotli, Lizard, LZ5 updates LZ4 1.9.3 and zstd 1.4.9 on Linux systems Brotli and Zstandard presets now points to single step compression in 7z using Brotli or Zstd compression (tar.br and tar.zst presets are still available as alternative)(Windows) added support for system's Extrac32 as alternative CAB extraction engine Extrac32 backend be enabled in Options > Settings, Advanced tab CAB will be still listed/tested using 7z backend, Extrac32 (if enabled) will be used for for extraction operations CODE Various fixes Improved performances working with archives containing large number of items (files, folders) on 64K items archive 50% speed increase, -25% RAM usage on 128K items archive 2x speed increase, -25% RAM usage on 256K items archive 4x speed increase, -35% RAM usage improved speed for listing archives, also minor speed improvements for test, archive and extract operations involving a large number of files FILE MANAGER Added new user-provided themes: KDE Breeze, Oxygen Improved browsing archives: clicking on root in breadcrumb bar now simply lists root content, while pressing refresh (F5) re-opens the archive, fully re-parsing the content In case of spanned archive, the number of volumes actually found in current path (as required by PeaZip for extraction) is shown in application's title bar and status bar Improved Settings More flexible Browser optimization in General tab, Performances group Reorganized various settings for better readabilityUpdated translations EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING Added support (as container files) to .whl Python archives and .gem Ruby gem archives Added option to extract all, selected or displayed items to extraction dropdown menu, replicating Extract button context menu Added actions to Test all, selected or displayed items in Test button context menu Improved archive conversion procedure Extraction stage is now shown as a single sequence of tasks, and main screen is hidden to reduce visual clutter If errors are encountered in extraction stage it is reported to user, so conversion can be stopped (to correct errors) or continued if desiredImproved extraction command line creation: when all items are selected switch to a more compact command line using filters rather than item's list WINDOWS & LINUX INSTALLERS Windows installer now supports command line parameter to set language during installation language can be declared as last parameter, with or without "/" prefix to identify the language please check the name of the language file in PeaZip\res\lang\ directory
FYI. PeaZip Portable 8.1.0 (file archiver) Released for the PA Platform, courtesy of PortableApps.com.
PeaZip 8.2.0 Released (September 12, 2021) Website (GitHub) Changelog Spoiler: Changes 8.2.0 2021 09 12 8.2.0 BACKEND (Linux) Upodated Brotli to 1.0.9 version (Linux) Added read support (browse / test / extract) to Lzip .lz file type Added support for .apkm, .apks, and .aab packages Android package formats CODE (Linux) maximum length of CL generated on Linux systems is now increased to 128 K characters in contrast to much more limited 32 K characters allowed on Windows systems About screen now displays information about widget set and CPU architecture of the build for better troubleshooting Improved command line usage New res\batch\ folder containing sample scripts pointing to main app functions to help portabilize and deploy the application on multiple environments: the directory contains sample .bat scripts (Windows), SendTo menu links (Windows), freedesktop_integration examples (Linux) and will expand in future.Fixed -add27z, -add2zip and related switches: when multiple items are passed the archive is named accordingly the directory name of first item, as in the GUI version of the same action New -ext2here, -ext2folder (alias -ext2smart), -ext2newfolder switches for CL, executing single or multiple tasks as a single sequence of extract here, extract here smart folder, and extract here to new folder respectively Extraction to new folder can now be forced to use smart folder option (-ext2folder, alias -ext2smart) or to not use it (-ext2newfolder) With new extraction functions extraction of multiple items can run in a single instance without stealing the focus each time the next task in sequence is started SendTo links to extraction functions are updated to use those new functions for better handling of queues of multiple tasks, now matching features provided by context menu entries but with advantages of being cross platform, not suffering artificial limitation of input items number, and being much more faster and cpu/memory efficient in receiving input list from system to application Previous version of same switches, not running as a single instance queue, are available with "_" suffix, i.e. -ext2here_; in this way existing scripts does not need to be updated to benefit of new functions, but can be easily adapted to use old version of the switches if preferredImproved generation of more compact command lines from GUI, with better detection of cases of automatic switch to "extract all" Various fixes Fixed breadcrumb for "Open unit as archive" in context menu, File manager > System tools Fixed deselecting "TAR before" and selecting "Add each object to a separate archive" it is now possible to create multiple archive at once for types such as bz2, br, gz, zst FILE MANAGER (Linux) Improved system directories shown by default in navigation tree on the left of file manager (Linux) Updated list of apps automatically detected for Open with submenu; apps and scripts can be customized in Options > Settings, Applications tab (Linux) Enabled System tools submenu in context menu > File manager (Windows) Improved and re-organized System tools submenu in context menu > File manger Improved archive browser Added Method column to display compression/encryption method for each single object (this column is enabled by default) Added Created and Accessed timestamps columns in addition to existing Modified timestamp column (those columns are disabled by default) The new columns can be enabled/disabled from columns header's context menu, and from main menu > Organize > Browser > Columns; if enabled, those columns are automatically shown browsing archives and hidden browsing the fileystem Folders in 7z/p7zip archives now show number of contained folders, files, and total uncompressed size (displayed in same column of files' checksums) This feature is limited on basis of the number of items contained in the archive, and can be tuned from "Browser optimization" dropdown menu in Options > Settings, General tab Performances groupNew Ctrl+Alt+A link to autoadjust file browser columns Themes: added "Presets" link on the right of Application accent color picker, allowing to quickly customize both application and text accent colors accordingly to common color themes of reference Operating Systems e.g. Mint, Ubuntu, Windows EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING Added XZ (Linux, Windows) and Zstd (Linux) as optional algorithms for ZIP/ZIPX compression, from Advanced tab in archiving / conversion screen Improved extraction Added option to skip testing for encryption on extraction, suppressing password requests Improved Interactive extraction option Empty folder is now removed in case of error with Extract to new folder Naming policy dropdown menu is enabled with "Interactive extraction", allowing to resolve issues of conflicting filenames in the same archive New "Keep files" link in extraction progress windows in case of errors "Interactive extraction", allows to preserve extracted files which would be otherwise automatically deletedNew "Store all timestamps" option (checked by default) is available in Archiving / Conversion screen If this option is active, created, modified, last access time are saved to archive rather than modified timestamp only; formats supporting this feature are: 7Z, RAR, ZIPImproved raw file spanning, it is now possible to submit multiple separate input files at once to be split to specified size Improved support for .xxxaa spanned files from Unix/Linux split command New option for default behavior at application startup: Extract all here (smart new folder) This option can be set from Options > Settings > Archive manager Doubleclicking on an a file of associated type, or clicking Open from context menu on a group of selected files associated with PeaZip, the selected action is performed Available actions: Open (default), Open as archive (force trying to open file as archive), Extract (showing options and confirmation screen), Extract all here, Extract all here (smart new folder) WINDOWS & LINUX INSTALLERS (Windows) SendTo menu entries use new extraction functions, more efficient for handling queues of multiple tasks, and "Extract here (smart new folder)" replaces "Extract here (in new folder)" With this update SendTo functions provides same features provided by context menu entries, but much more faster and efficient and without artificial limitation in terms of number of input items(Linux) Improved Linux installers install the app in /opt/peazip directory (non capitalized) configuration files are saved in .PeaZip directory in user's home as in previous releases link peazip binary in /usr/bin place peazip.desktop file in /usr/share/applications place peazip.png icon in /usr/share/icons, /usr/share/pixmaps for DEB packages optional .desktop files and icons are available in (peazip)/res/batch/freedesktop_integration to provide direct access to specific functions even on DE not supporting Actions (DEB) place machine readable copyright file in /usr/share/doc/peazip (DEB) packages are now named following Debian naming standard; all other packages - Windows, Linux, portable - follows RedHat naming standard
PeaZip 8.2.0 File Archiver may keep extracted files when errors are encountered September 13, 2021 https://www.ghacks.net/2021/09/13/p...-extracted-files-when-errors-are-encountered/
PeaZip 8.3.0 Released (November 14, 2021) Website (GitHub) Changelog Spoiler: Changes 8.3.0 2021 11 14 8.3.0 BACKEND (Linux) Total max length of command scripts generated by the application can be customized from 32KB to 2MB from Options > Settings > General, Performances (Linux) szcnick/p7zip regressed from 17.04 to 17.02 due a possible bug handling some zip files different versions / branches of p7zip (provided same syntax is employed) can be used simply replacing binaries in (peazip)res/bin/7z pathUpdated to pea 1.04 To improve portability of PeaZip to multiple operating systems and architectures, app's folder is now structured as follows: Application's root folder contains pea and peazip binaries (and dragdropfiles.dll on Windows), architecture-specific, compiled from src package /res directory, contains resources divided by type /res/portable (empty) file, marks the package as portable: if missing, the application woks as installable package and rearches for configuration in user's path (depending on the host system) /res/bin directory contains third party architecture specific binaries, should be replaced with binaries for the apporpriate target architecture; on Windows it also contains PeaZip configuration wizard executabòe /res/share directory contains non architecture specific resources such as texts, media, licenses, documentation (license and notes about binaries has been moved here in note subdiorectory), it could be simply copied as is for any PeaZip package on any system /res/conf directory contains user specific configuration filesOn installable packages res/conf is written to appropriate user specific path, and installers take care to replace /res/bin and /res/share with links to directories placed in appropriate paths depending on the target systemCODE (Linux) Improved compliance with Open Desktop specifications: configuration is now saved in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/peazip directory; if $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is not defined configuration is saved to $HOME/.config/peazip To import existing configuration simply copy content of $HOME/.PeaZip directory to the new locationGitHub: Merged ACTom's "Initial support for MacOS #25" Various fixes Fixed possible error with progress bar Fixed possible error not asking password opening some encrypted archives, and reduced false positive cases in which it the application suggested to provide a password Fixed error reporting information about multi volume archives Fixed error in file manager selecting files with same characteristics of selected item (Windows) Fixed issue not showing system's file properties dialog in some casesFILE MANAGER (Linux) Shortcuts to /media, /run/media, and /mnt (if not empty) are now featured in navigation tree, under filesystem group (Linux) Improved automatically configuring XFCE apps alternatives in "Open with" menu: Mousepad, Midori, Parole, Ristretto (Linux) Fixed theming issues with GTK2 Column header's context menu is now accessible alternatively right-clicking the status bar Improved theming Added Color temperature option, to adapt application to DE using warmer or colder colors Added Highlight tabs option (default on) highlighting rows or columns containing tabs with alternate colorOptions > Settings > General, Privacy / Reset group, Working directory is now set to system's temp by default (consistently with most applications of this type) Working directory label can now be clicked to explore path (unless it is set to output, which is variable), in order to make easier for the user to verify if for any reasons there are left orphaned files All PeaZip's temporary work files and dirs are now collected in peazip-tmp subdirectory of work path (unless it is set to output) for same reason of making easier to spot and remove orphaned files All PeaZip's temporary work files and dirs now contains p*tmp string for making easier to find them regardless the tools employedOptions > Settings > General, Privacy / Reset group now allows to silently skip deletion of locked temporary work files (default on, consistently with behavior of most applications of this type); temp work files can then be optionally deleted separately: Automatically from Reset link, and if reset fails the folder is opened for soliciting manual deletion (regardless the option to silently skip locked files during normal operations) Manually clicking on Working directory label and using standard system's toolsOptions > Settings > File manager now allows to set the multiple-byte unit: binary, 1024 (IEC kibibyte), or decimal, 1000 (IEC kilobyte), or none (exact byte size) Options > Settings > File manager now allows to customize the list of preferred algorithms for calculating file checksum and hashes; all preferred algorithms in the list will be performed in a single step when it is required to checksum / hash files. EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING Added Deflate and Deflate64 compression options to 7z format Improved -ext2here, -ext2folder (-alias -ext2smart), and -ext2newfolder functions adding command line options: -i ignore delete original archive after extraction settings -o output directory in next parameter -p password in next parameter WINDOWS & LINUX INSTALLERS (Windows) Improved installer "Extract here (in new folder)" entry is now featured by default both in context menu and SendTo menu Fixed additional extraction entries not showing up on some cases Installation folder selection screen is now available also running "Configure PeaZip" wizard from the application, for Portable versions this allows to easily integrate with host system(Linux) Improved DEB and RPM installers with better compliance with Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, separating architecture specific and non-architecture specific resources
PeaZip 8.3 Open-Source Archive Manager Brings Better Xfce Integration, New Linux Features November 14, 2021 https://9to5linux.com/peazip-8-3-op...gs-better-xfce-integration-new-linux-features
FYI. PeaZip Portable 8.4.0 (file archiver) Released for the PA Platform, courtesy of PortableApps.com.
