Software update: PeaZip 5.4.0

Version 5.4.0 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

• ZPAQ backend updated to 6.54

File manager

• New UI design
  • Tabs replaced by new option menu button on the bottom left corner of the form on Add, Extract, Password, Password Manager, and PeaLauncher
  • Tabs replaced by new side tab bar for unified Settings/Theme screen
  • Improved archive manager tool bar, with visible dropdown menus for quick access to archiving and test functions
  • Improved and simplified various menus
    • New navigation (bookmarks, filesystem, history, and functions) menu set as primary address bar’s navigation menu
    • New “functions” menu mode, providing quick launcher for most used functions and AZ functions list submenu, replaces functions button
    • Improved breadcrumb menu, set as secondary navigation menu (alternate navigation menu, navigation bar context menu…) replacing older menus
  • Improved “Open” branch in navigation bar merging Functions and Application groups
• Added “most used”, “last visited” and “date added” information stats to bookmarks, can be used for sorting bookmarks
• Unified “Save history data” (Options > Settings) checkbox controls saving list of last accessed archives, paths, searches, and bookmarks/history stats
• Updated pre-set web search and cloud services
  • Yandex Disk and Sharepoint are now added by default to known cloud paths
• Various minor fixes and improvements

Extraction and archiving

• Implemented flags to remove 1) original archive(s) after extraction 2) original files after archival
  • Always asks for confirmation during interactive tasks
  • Can be saved/scheduled to scripts
  • Apply (and remember) favorite deletion mode: recycle bin, quick delete, zeroing, secure delete

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