Software update: PeaZip 2.6.1

Version 2.6.1 of PeaZip was released on Friday. PeaZip is an open source licensed archiving program that seeks to differentiate itself from the competition by specializing in security. Encrypting data is therefore the spearhead of our own pea format. The program 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. Here’s what’s changed in this release:

Changes in version 2.6.1

• 87 file extensions supported
• (Windows) 7z backend updated to 9.04
  • Added LZMA2 compression in 7z format
  • Read .XZ files
  • Read .VHD files (Microsoft Virtual PC disk images)
• It is now possible to define a custom desktop folder in Settings
  • (Linux) this change fixed possible access violation message at the first run of the application, while the application attempts to open a system dialog to set desktop folder (only on non-English installations, on distributions not using “Desktop” name for desktop folder )
  • Removed deletion functions from archive layout interface, del remapped to remove item from layout
• Various fixes
  • Fixed a bug in dragging items to bookmarks (bookmarks bar was raised even if it was hidden)
  • Now size of multipart archive is reported correctly in PeaLauncher
  • Fixed password input using extract here from context menu
  • (Linux, Qt) moved libqt4intf.so in PeaZip’s path (as in portable version) and created links into /usr/lib, /usr/lib32 and /usr/local/lib
  • Some fixes for Windows 9x systems; please note that some of the backend application may not run properly on Windows 9x, and the frontend too may behave unexpectedly on some configurations since it is not possible to test it on many different 9x machines.