PeaZip

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PeaZip
Software Details:
Version: 6.6.0 updated
Upload Date: 22 Jun 18
Developer: Giorgio Tani
Distribution Type: Freeware
Downloads: 191

Rating: nan/5 (Total Votes: 0)

PeaZip is a cross-platform graphical application that has been designed to act as an archiving utility based on the 7-Zip open source file archiver. It handles mainstream archive formats and works on Linux and Windows operating systems.

Supports a wide range of archive types

The application supports and allows users to create a wide range of archive types, including 7Z, ARC, BZ2, GZ, *PAQ, PEA, QUAD/BALZ, TAR, UPX, WIM, XZ, and ZIP. Additionally, it can extract over 50 archive types, including ACE, ARJ, CAB, DMG, ISO, LHA, RAR, UDF, ZIPX, and much more.

Under the hood

Under the hood, the application is localized in over 30 languages, and comes with numerous archive management features for creating, extracting, and converting some of the most popular archive formats.

Easy to use GUI

Its easy-to-use GUI (Graphical User Interface) provides users with drag & drop support and context menu integration, strong encryption, duplicate finder, ability to save backup scripts and high speed compression ratios.

Features at a glance

Another interesting feature is the ability to create, convert and extract multiple archives at once, which makes this application a real candidate for the best archiving utility on UNIX/Linux operating systems. Creating self-extracting archives, splitting and joining files, calculating hashes, exporting job definitions as scripts, and finding duplicate files is also possible with this program.

Supports a wide range of encryption technologies

We should also mention the fact that PeaZip features strong encryption with two factor authentication, secure deletion of archives, an encrypted password manager, and decrypts AES encrypted PKZip files. The application supports AES256 encryption for 7-Zip archives, ZipCrypto and WinZip AES256 AE encryption for ZIP archives, FreeARC AES256, Twofish256, Blowfish and Serpent256 encryption for ARC archives, and AES256 EAX authenticated encryption for PEA archives.

Bottom line

All in all, the application proves to be a universal and extremely handy archive manager tool, especially on the Microsoft Windows operating system. On Linux, you should use the default archive manager of your distribution.

What is new in this release:

  • BACKEND:
  • Updated to 7z 18.05
  • patches CVE-2018-10115 vulnerability
  • patches bug on some Windows 10 versions working incorrectly with Large memory pages
  • improves performances
  • FILE MANAGER:
  • Added new fast function for hinting possible duplicates
  • Possible duplicates shows exactly same size, and same CRC32 calculated on sample(s) of file's data
  • For files up to 64 KB data it is sampled a 32 KB region at the beginning of the file
  • For files larger than 64 KB a second 32KB region is sampled after the half of the file
  • Added option to reset search history in search menu
  • Various fixes and improvements
  • EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING:
  • New option "Try to edit non explicitly supported file types" in Options > Settings > Archive manager
  • off by default in order to protect from modification files outside known supported extensions
  • if on, allows to try to add/update and remove files form files not usually employed as archives, but structurally based on archive types such as Java jar, MS Office and OOo files, etc

What is new in version :

  • BACKEND:
  • (Windows) 7z 17.01 beta
  • (Windows) zpaq 7.15
  • UPX 3.94
  • FILE MANAGER:
  • Updated GUI and themes
  • Can now move and rename objects inside existing archives (7z/p7zip supported formats)
  • EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING:
  • Added option to force browsing of archives containing errors (default off)
  • Added option to show which options are volatile (context dependent) rather than persistent
  • Improved archive conversion
  • "Change password" switch (default off) asks to provide a new password to be applied to converted archive(s), otherwise current password (if any) will be applied - decompression stage test current password for each input archive, asking new password in case of error
  • Improved support for WIM format
  • in archiving and extraction interfaces, Advanced tab, were added options to operate including NT security information and NTFS Alternate Data Stream
  • file manager shows SHA-1 hash value for items in WIM archives
  • Scheduled deletion after archiving/extraction will not be performed if errors are detected
  • CODE:
  • Privacy directive is available as GUI option
  • 0 default, no password request
  • 1 application asks for password when starts, skippable
  • 2 application asks for password when starts, not skippable (password or keyfile must be provided)
  • Updated Wolfgang Ehrhardt's crypto library units
  • crc_hash_2017-06-04
  • fca_2016-05-01
  • util_2017-06-04
  • Various fixes and improvements

What is new in version 6.4.1:

  • CODE:
  • Added experimental privacy_mode directive (at current state can be changed only from configuration file, or hardcoded at compile time)
  • meant to help users not forgetting to provide a password when working on sensitive data
  • 0 default, no password request
  • 1 application asks for password when stars, skippable
  • 2 application asks for password when starts, not skippable (password or keyfile must be provided)
  • FILE MANAGER:
  • Rightclicking on file manager's column header shows context menu for
  • customizing columns
  • applying on the fly checksum/hash, search for duplicates, and set algorithm for those two functions
  • save GUI content as tab-separated TXT file
  • Clicking the style icon on the right of the status bar shows menu of presets for file manager
  • Style icon now changes reflecting the style applied to the file manager
  • New "Navigation bar" entry in status bar menu show/hide side navigation bar
  • (Windows) Drag and drop information floyout changes alpha blending level when a valid drop target is detected
  • Some keyboard shortcuts were updated
  • Shift+Ctrl+N create new folder
  • Ctrl+N extract to new folder
  • Shift+Del quick delete (do not sent to recycle bin)
  • Ctrl+Del secure delete
  • Alt+Enter properties
  • Various improvements in archive browsing
  • Various improvements of UI usability with custom system colors
  • EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING:
  • During archive update only relevant options are shown, allowing to set password and to change action (add, update, freshen, sync)
  • WINDOWS INSTALLER:
  • Improved Windows installer and re-configuration wizard
  • Added system's context menu hotkeys for most used entries
  • A add to archive (with options)
  • 7 directly add to new 7Z archive
  • Z directly add to new ZIP archive
  • O attempt to open any file as archive
  • B browse path with PeaZip
  • E extract (with options)
  • H directly extract here
  • N directly extract here to new folder

What is new in version 6.4.0:

  • Backend:
  • pea 0.61
  • crc/hash marks duplicate files
  • shows number of copies found
  • to find duplicates, value of best checksum or hash algorithm is checked
  • (PeaUtils GUI) secure delete removes items from list if successfully erased
  • (Linux x86-64) p7zip 16.02
  • Code:
  • Various fixes, visual updates and code cleanup
  • File manager:
  • Added tabbed browsing
  • Tab bar is toggled from "Tab bar" entry available in from main menu > Organize, and in address bar and tab bar context menus
  • Tab bar is also shown clicking on "Open in a new tab" in context menu
  • Tabs can be added, deleted, moved, and resized
  • Added rename options (context menu, File manager > Rename) : prepend and append parent directory name
  • Improved rename dialog (F2)
  • Extraction and archiving:
  • Added option to archive and extract using relative, full, or absolute paths (non-persistent value, in advanced options) for 7z / p7zip supported archive formats
  • Improved archive conversion
  • If "Add each object to a separate archive" is checked (default), no extra root foder is added to the converted archive (supported for conversion toward all 7z/p7zip formats)
  • If the option is unchecked (consolidate multiple archives into one), it is added an extra folder with archive name to keep content separated

What is new in version 6.3.1:

  • Code:
  • Various fixes
  • File manager:
  • Minor visual updates

What is new in version 6.3.0:

  • CODE:
  • Improved DPI awareness
  • New command line directive "-peaziplanguage" to programmatically change application's localization
  • second parameter is the name of the localization file, proper localization directory "lang" is resolved by the program
  • example: peazip.exe -peaziplanguage it.txt
  • please note if other instances of PeaZip are open, they will overwrite language in configuration when they close
  • EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING:
  • Added hamburger menu button in tabs bar to provide alternative access to archiving/extraction context menu
  • Improved archive creation screen
  • Added installer-mode sfx modules for 7z (advanced options tab)
  • Replicated archiving action options in main options page (7z/p7zip supported types)
  • Provided new update options: update only items already in archive (ignore extra items on disk), and synchronize archive with content on disk (remove items from archive if removed from disk)
  • WINDOWS INSTALLER:
  • Improved Windows installer
  • Archiving, extraction, browsing, and tools groups are now divided by separators for ease of use
  • "CRC, hash and file tools" (PeaUtils) was added as default entry
  • Localization can now be set from installer

What is new in version 6.2.0:

  • BACKEND:
  • (Windows) Updated 7z backend to 16.04
  • Pea 0.58
  • FILE MANAGER:
  • Can now save list of items being browsed to TXT file, Navigation > Save as TXT
  • Reorganized keyboad shortcuts
  • Ctrl+O open selected item as archive
  • Ctrl+D toggle bookmarks panel
  • Ctrl+H toggle history panel
  • Ctrl+Alt+H toggle session history panel
  • Separated Add and Convert dropdown menus
  • Single "Extract" button for simplicity - quick extraction action/options are now all featured in Extract button dropdown menu
  • Browser, and archive/extraction screens, shows "filter" icon when advanced filters are set
  • Updated Ten teme
  • EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING:
  • Archiving and extraction screens shows cumulative progress bar when executing multiple operations
  • Improved command line options
  • added -ext2simple and -ext2simplefolder as "blanket" extraction command for all backend, first parameter specify output path; password is asked interactively (GUI); "folder" variant extracts to new folder
  • Various fixes

What is new in version 6.1.1:

  • Backend:
  • (Linux) p7zip updated to 16.02
  • Pea 0.56
  • File manager:
  • Settings, archiving, and extraction screens made scrollable for better readability
  • Various minor improvements and fixes
  • File tools
  • CRC64 now is included in set of default algorithms
  • default algorithm for the browser can now be set from context menu File manager > File Tools
  • Extraction and archiving:
  • Password button moved on the right of output dialog for better visibility
  • Some options were moved to Advanced options panels for archiving and extraction
  • "Use advanced filters" moved to Advanced options panel (archiving and extraction)
  • "Enumerate folder content" and "Add timestamp to archive name", plus timestamp format option, moved to Advanced options panel (archiving)
  • Some options, previously volatile, are now saved to configuration
  • "Delete after archiving / extraction" option is now remembered, but user will always be warned by confirmation prompt before proceeding, in order to avoid accidental deletion
  • "Add timestamp to archive name" (archiving) is now remembered

What is new in version 6.1.0:

  • File manager:
  • Archive directory tree is shown in navigation sidebar while browsing an archive (above Bookmarks) and can be used for navigation or quick exploration of archive directory structure
  • Added Expand/collapse archive tree toggle in quick history menu, allowing quick inspection of directory structure inside the archive
  • In-archive breadcrumb improved, now showing list of directories from nodes dropdown menu, consistently with filesystem breadcrumb section
  • File browser now shows .exe icons on Windows
  • Can now set starting directory in Options > Settings > Advanced: last visited (default), computer's root, desktop, home, custom (user selected directory)
  • Fixed showing directories even if omitted in archive TOC
  • Fixed sorting files without extensions
  • Various fixes and improvements

What is new in version 6.0.3:

New in PeaZip 6.0.0 (February 27th, 2016)

What is new in version 6.0.0:

  • Backend:
  • Pea 0.53
  • file management functions now accepts as input Unicode file/dir names
  • report can now be displayed as table and as non tabbed clipboard text
  • PEA format now can handle Unicode file/dir names
  • (Windows) 7z updated to 15.14
  • Code:
  • Recompiled with Lazarus 1.6.0/FPC3
  • native full support for Unicode filenames superseding PeaZip 5.8/5.9 internationalization mechanism based on internal UTF-8 encoding
  • Major code cleanup
  • Remove all now-unnecessary codepage-handling code
  • Removed all Windows 9x related code
  • Removed legacy code for pre-XP NT family systems, all features compatible with XP/2003 API will still work on those platforms
  • Transparence does no longer rely on Windows-only method and is available on any target OS
  • Various fixes and improvements
  • File manager:
  • Improved navigation bar and menus
  • New themes "Ten", Win9x/2K inspired "Classic", and XP inspired "Experience"
  • "Ten" theme is now default
  • All previous themes "Seven" and "Firecrystal" are still featured (select theme from Options > Setting > Themes)
  • Extraction and archiving:
  • Can now delete (recycle, quick, zero, secure) the open archive
  • Can now add directory to extraction; the path is recursively expanded to find archives to queue to extraction procedure
  • action is available from:
  • Extract (button and app's context menu)
  • Extract... entry in system context menu and SendTo menu
  • -ext2main from command line
  • Can now test archive files inside directories
  • Support sorting by extension for solid 7z compression (default on)
  • Windows installer:
  • Convert existing archives now optionally available in context menu and SendTo menu

What is new in version 5.9.0:

  • Release 5.9.0 improves file management and analysis functions (secure delete, free space delete, hashing, listing optionally showing file header/EOF area), updates 7z backend to last stable 15.12 (Windows) and p7zip to 15.09 (Linux), allowing RAR5 extraction on Linux systems without need of additional plugin.
  • Application loading process was updated to make it more resilient to errors.
  • Linux installers were built containing only main PeaZip executables and p7zip in order to reduce dependencies of the main package, allowing separate installation of other backend binaries plugin.

What is new in version 5.7.2:

  • PeaZip 5.7.2 comes with 7z 15.06 and can now browse and extract new RAR5 file format; UNRAR5 plugin based on RarLab's implementation is still supported as alternative extraction option.

What is new in version 5.6.1:

  • BACKEND:
  • Added read only support (list, test, extract) to RAR5 format through RarLab's unrar
  • currently the plugin is available only for Windows or Wine/ReactOS, Linux version will be analyzed and tested for future updates
  • due the non-OSI compatible unrar restriction (even if the software provides sources and is royalty-free) the software is available as separate plugin on Add-Ons page
  • due the different syntax between RarLab's unrar and 7z/p7zip's unrar, following differences apply when handling RAR5 format
  • recursivity with advanced filters is always enabled
  • renaming options always rename the file being extracted
  • CODE:
  • Added LIBRE_DIRECTIVE option to disallow any call to software which is non-free under OSI definition
  • if set to 0 (permissive) PeaZip will use all available backend, both free-as-in-freedom and royalty-free
  • if set to 1 (flexible) PeaZip will disallow any call to royalty-free but non free-as-in-freedom backend, currently: unace and unrar binaries
  • if set to 2 (strict) PeaZip will disallow calls even in case of dubious status, currently apply to unrar functions in 7z/p7zip due to non-reversibility clause
  • Various minor fixes

What is new in version 5.6.0:

  • Backend:
  • Added full read/write support to BCM file compressor
  • Updated to ZPAQ 7.05
  • improved support, now it is possible to add content to existing zpaq archive
  • File manager:
  • Archive selection dialogs improved with custom filters for common archive types
  • File submenu improved with direct links to update, convert and extract archives
  • new hotkeys: Shift+F5 add selected to archive, Ctrl+F5 extract selected, Alt+F5 extract archive (opens archive selection dialog)
  • Tray icon menu improved with direct links to update, convert and extract archives
  • Improved dialog for setting custom applications and scripts, moved in Options
  • Fixed custom applications not found in some cases on Win64 systems
  • both 32 and 64 bit program paths are scanned, 64 bit version have the priority
  • Improved Help and About screens
  • F4 now shows navigation menu, jump to archive/computer root moved to Ctrl+Shift+F4
  • Alt+0 toggle application's tool bar
  • Various improvements and fixes
  • Extraction and archiving:
  • PeaExtractor 1.1 code merged in pealauncher component
  • Created default location to save archive layout files
  • Non-verbose mode for archive conversion (default option)

What is new in version 5.5.3:

  • BACKEND:
  • (Windows) Updated to 7z 9.38 beta
  • FILE MANAGER:
  • Improved application's context menu and navigation menu
  • Improved address breadcrumb: separator icons can now be clicked to display directories in the selected node
  • Various fixes

What is new in version 5.5.2:

  • BACKEND:
  • (Windows) Updated to 7z 9.35 beta
  • LZMA2 is the new default algorithms for .7z format
  • defaults updated accordingly new reference settings for 7z
  • new 7z version drops support for Windows 9.x, which remains supported by PeaZip 5.5.1 and previous
  • FILE MANAGER:
  • (Windows) Improved on demand scanning integration, up to 8 concurrent antivirus / antimalware, both in-archive (compressed files) and in filesystem
  • Added support for Avast Pro / Internet Security, ClamWin, Comodo Cleaning Essentials, ESET NOD32 / Smart Security
  • EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING:
  • Added hint overlays on extraction and archiving screens, overlays are replaced by standard popup hints when clicked, and when some input files are already selected

What is new in version 5.5.1:

  • FILE MANAGER:
  • (Windows) Added support for scanning with Windows Defender
  • Information column, when browsing files, shows a note about file types which can be handled through PeaZip
  • '+' known archive file type, open with double click
  • '.' known file type usually not handled as archive, open with context menu "Open as archive" (i.e. MS Office files)
  • Improved links to online resources
  • EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING:
  • While operating, Pause button is highlighted instead of Stop by default, to prevent unaware click canceling running tasks
  • Fixed extraction to new folder from application's drag and drop context menu
  • WINDOWS INSTALLER:
  • New installation mode: "Update only" install new program's files and keeps existing system integration unchanged (file association, context menu, send to menu)
  • Installer shows link to Help and FAQ pages
  • ISO files are not associated to PeaZip by default, to avoid overriding system's defaults unless explicitly requested by user
  • Configure system integration tool starts Custom installation mode by default, to prompt user all options
  • 181 file extensions supported, added support for Microsoft's .mlc Language Interface Pack and .mui Multilingual User Interface

What is new in version 5.5.0:

  • BACKEND:
  • PeaZip Additional Format Plugin 2, now containing also quad and balz binaries
  • FILE MANAGER:
  • Image manager
  • Added 4K and 8K formats pre-sets in fit image to resolution
  • Added JPEG quality 90, 75 and 50 to Image manager pre-set context menu entries
  • Added TIFF, PPM, and XPM formats as image conversion options
  • Added to context menu (in Image manager group) common pre-set entries for resize, fit, and convert operations
  • New advanced rename functions (context menu): uppercase, lowercase, add string at fixed position, delete n chars at fixed position, replace/remove string (optionally case sensitive), change file extension
  • New file rename dropdown menu also featured in File management tool bar
  • New advanced selection features
  • Starting with same character (optionally case sensitive) of selected object
  • Size similar to selected object; size smaller/larger than
  • Date similar to selected object; current hour, day, week, month, year
  • Advanced selection dialog Select..., features add/subtract to current selection, available in toolbar, address bar (search group) and context menu
  • New Copy path feature: copy current path or selected items paths as UTF8 string for any use
  • Various fixes
  • EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING:
  • Added "Halt system after task completion" flag in Advanced compression/extraction options tab
  • Added option to remove single intermediate directory upon Extract to new folder operation in Options > Settings > Archive management
  • PeaLauncher
  • New task options dropdown menu in the button on the left of "Cancel", showing thread priority option and "Cancel all"
  • "Cancel" notification no longer trigger additional message box
  • New "Cancel all" function stop the sequence of following tasks
  • 179 file extensions supported:
  • Added support for .xzm Porteus Linux packages

What is new in version 5.4.1:

  • Tabs for the new UI
  • Improved Compression and Extraction menus
  • New Path submenu to explore last used directories and drag and drop items from system to application

What is new in version 5.4.0:

  • Release 5.4.0 brings a major refresh in GUI design, in order to speed up user's work flow, and make easier to discover useful functions (as new quick archiving/compression pre-sets) and most relevant information.
  • It is now possible to automatically remove original files after archival, and to remove original archives after extraction, with customizable deletion procedure (recycle, quick / zero / secure delete), that can also be added to exported scripts / scheduled tasks.
  • Alongside many other improvements and updates, ZPAQ backend was updated to 6.54.
  • PeaZip 5.x family introduced a major code and design cleanup: improved navigation menus, faster add to archive routine, improved inclusion/exclusion advanced filters, new synthetic archive information function, improved UAC integration, localized Windows context menu.
  • New features includes: Schedule tab in Archive/Convert and Extract interfaces (integrated with Windows Vista/7/8/8.1 Task Scheduler), new secure deletion of free space and new zero deletion mode (overwriting files/free space with all 0), standalone GUI for basic archive extraction (Tools > PeaExtractor) and for basic file management tasks (Tools > PeaUtils), pre-set compression profiles for single-click switching between most common compression task, i.e. best compression, fast compression, protect with password, create self extracting archive, keep output under a specified size for mail attachment, etc.
  • 178 file extensions are supported.

What is new in version 5.3.1:

  • Various fixes
  • Improved handling of double file extension when creating archives
  • Updated translations and Windows' context menu localization scripts

What is new in version 5.3.0:

  • BACKEND:
  • [Windows] Updated to FreeArc 0.67 alpha
  • CODE:
  • Compiled with Lazarus 1.2.0
  • FILE MANAGER:
  • [W7+] Added localization for cascaded system's context menu entries
  • [Windows, installable] Options > Settings > Reset now also asks if the user wants to reset system integration
  • Bookmarks can now be sorted by name
  • File browser (details mode) shows icons for special paths
  • Find duplicate files and checksum/hash automatically switches browser to list mode to display results
  • Multi threading option is remembered
  • Navigation bar "+" button switches between navigation view and tree view
  • Improved treeview sidebar, showing icons for folders, disks and special paths
  • Function list moved to popup menu from button on the left of status bar
  • New multi-functional popup menu on the left of address bar, toggle between bookmarks, filesystem and history
  • Session history available as status bar view
  • Updated "Seven" theme
  • Various minor fixes and enhancements
  • EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING:
  • Console field content is now automatically valorized when Console tab is accessed
  • Enumerate folder content option is now set as a switch in archive creation screen
  • Improved inclusion filters for archive creation
  • "Include only" apply inclusion filter to input directories (files individually added are always archived)
  • "Include also" allows to freely specify extra items/filters to be archived (works as inclusion filter worked in previous versions)
  • inclusion and exclusion lists accepts drag and drop of items from system
  • New Info mode for synthetic information about archive, old Info mode remapped to "List (with details)"
  • New Compression profiles list, automating settings for most common compression task (i.e. best compression, fast compression, protect with password, self extracting, keep output under specified size...)
  • the list is available in favourite formats dropdown menu, in Add button context menu (browser) and from arrow button on the left of OK (compression screen)
  • New task progress bar identifies tasks that are paused (yellow) or ended in error (red)
  • LINUX, Qt:
  • Recompiled with Qt bindings V2.5, compatible with Qt from 4.5 to 4.8

What is new in version 5.2.2:

  • FILE MANAGER:
  • Added preconfigured support for OneDrive path, when applicable
  • Improved help system and updated documentation:
  • F1 points to translated tutorial (if available in selected language) featuring links to online resources and local help file
  • Alt+F1 points to local help file (English, .pdf format)
  • Shift+F1 points to online Support page, which features multilingual manuals, contacts etc
  • Ctrl+F1 points to online FAQ page, which features question & answer type guide to common topics
  • Existing language files were updated to include correct links to online resources and documentation
  • Open with associated application: changed behavior, now open using standard system's file association, while doubleclick checks internal extended file association with uncommon formats with PeaZip before
  • Standalone simplified GUI linked from main menu, Tools:
  • PeaExtractor minimal GUI for extraction of single archives
  • PeaUtils minimal GUI (new) for interactive use of file management features (hash, secure delete, etc)
  • Various minor fixes and visual updates.

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