Software update: PeaZip 6.4.1

Version 6.4.1 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:

Code

• Added experimental privacy_mode directive (at current state can be changed only from configuration file, or hardcoded at compile time). This is meant to help users not forgetting to provide a password when working on sensitive data
  • 0 default, no password request
  • 1 application asks for password when stars, skippable
  • 2 application asks for password when starts, not skippable (password or keyfile must be provided)

File manager

• Rightclicking on file manager’s column header shows context menu for
  • customizing columns
  • applying on the fly checksum/hash, search for duplicates, and set algorithm for those two functions
  • save GUI content as tab-separated TXT file
• Clicking the style icon on the right of the status bar shows menu of presets for file manager
  • Style icon now changes reflecting the style applied to the file manager
• New “Navigation bar” entry in status bar menu show/hide side navigation bar
• (Windows) Drag and drop information floyout changes alpha blending level when a valid drop target is detected
• Some keyboard shortcuts were updated
  • Shift+Ctrl+N create new folder
  • Ctrl+N extract to new folder
  • Shift+Del quick delete (do not sent to recycle bin)
  • Ctrl+Del secure delete
  • Alt+Enter properties
• Various improvements in archive browsing
• Various improvements of UI usability with custom system colors

Extraction and archiving

• During archive update only relevant options are shown, allowing to set password and to change action (add, update, freshen, sync)

Windows installer

• Improved Windows installer and re-configuration wizard
• Added system’s context menu hotkeys for most used entries
  • A add to archive (with options)
  • 7 directly add to new 7Z archive
  • Z directly add to new ZIP archive
  • O attempt to open any file as archive
  • B browse path with PeaZip
  • E extract (with options)
  • H directly extract here
  • N directly extract here to new folder

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