Software Update: PeaZip 6.0.0

Version 6.0 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

• 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

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