Software update: PeaZip 2.8

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After last Friday’s beta, the final release of version 2.8 of PeaZip has now been released. This archiving program is available under an open source license and tries 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. Since the beta, the following changes and improvements have been made:

File manager

  • Item’s height autosizes to fit system’s DPI and fonts’ size
  • New keyboard shortcuts:
    • Ctrl+N create new folder
    • Ctrl+R rename file
    • Ctrl+U up to computer’s or archive’s root level
  • Navigation menu
    • History menu is now replicated in navigation menus
    • Navigation menu in browser’s context menu was grouped in a single entry
    • Navigation menus now contains only navigation related entries: “Add to bookmarks” is now featured in “Misc” group in all context menus of the application
  • Search
    • Recursivity option is remembered for the current session
    • Search dialog can optionally be directly raised with recursivity is unflagged (Ctrl+F3) or flagged (Shift+F3)
  • Bookmarks panel: added “Explore path with PeaZip”, “Explore path” and “Open command prompt here” entries in bookmarks’ panel menu

Extraction and archiving

  • Archiving and extraction interfaces now shows “Use advanced filters” switch
  • It is possible to execute archiving/extraction jobs with no items in layout, if advanced filters are in use
  • History menu replicated in archiving/extraction navigation menus allows to quickly select paths visited in current session from archive/extract interfaces
  • It is now possible to set custom default output path for archiving operations (like for extraction operations), and it is now possible to go from file browser to empty extraction interface (ie to add archives to be extracted by drag and drop) clicking on Extract button with no archive selected, likewise to what is possible for going to empty archiving interface

Version number 2.8
Release status Final
Operating systems Windows 7, Windows 7 x64, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP x64, Windows Server 2003 x64, Windows Vista, Windows Vista x64, Windows Server 2008
Website SourceForge
Download http://peazip.sourceforge.net/index.html
File size 5.31MB
License type GPL
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