Software Update: PeaZip 6.5.0

Version 6.5.0 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) 7z 17.01 beta
• (Windows) zpaq 7.15
• UPX 3.94

File manager

• Updated GUI and themes
• Can now move and rename objects inside existing archives (7z/p7zip supported formats)

Extraction and archiving

• Added option to force browsing of archives containing errors (default off)
• Added option to show which options are volatile (context dependent) rather than persistent
• Improved archive conversion
  • “Change password” switch (default off) asks to provide a new password to be applied to converted archive(s), otherwise current password (if any) will be applied – decompression stage test current password for each input archive, asking new password in case of error
• Improved support for WIM format
  • in archiving and extraction interfaces, Advanced tab, were added options to operate including NT security information and NTFS Alternate Data Stream
  • file manager shows SHA-1 hash value for items in WIM archives
• Scheduled deletion after archiving/extraction will not be performed if errors are detected

Code

• Privacy directive is available as GUI option
  • 0 default, no password request
  • 1 application asks for password when starts, skippable
  • 2 application asks for password when starts, not skippable (password or keyfile must be provided)
• Updated Wolfgang Ehrhardt’s crypto library units
  • crc_hash_2017-06-04
  • fca_2016-05-01
  • util_2017-06-04
• Various fixes and improvements

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