Software update: PeaZip 5.3.0

Version 5.3.0 of PeaZip has been released. This archiving program is made available under an open source license and downloads are available for Windows and Linux. The program aims to distinguish itself from the competition by specializing in safety. Encrypting data is therefore one of the main functions of the proprietary system 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

• [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 (ie best compression, fast compression, protect with password, self extracting, keep output under specified size…)
  • the list is available in favorite 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

The following downloads are available:
PeaZip for Windows (32bit)
PeaZip for Windows (64 bit)
PeaZip portable
PeaZip for Linux
PeaZip add-ons