Software Update: PeaZip 6.9.0

Version 6.9.0 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:

Code

• Updated links of online resources to https form
• Various fixes and improvements

File manager

• Confirmation is now asked before adding, and renaming / moving files inside archives if items with same names already exists *
• Files / folders added to existing archive are now added to the directory that is currently being browsed *
• “Open as archive” is now the standard action for opening unknown file types with PeaZip, consistently with other file archivers
• PeaZip now supports editing files in archives *
  • Known archive types are automatically asked to be updated when temporary preview files are modified
    • Auto syncing can be turned off in options General > Auto update modified files in archives
  • Archives can manually be synced on request from context menu More > Force update modified files in archives
    • This allows to try to force to sync arbitrary archive types

Extraction and archiving

• PeaZip shows estimated remaining time for archive / extract / test operations *

Windows & Linux installers

• (Windows) improved handling of file extensions association in installation and unistallation procedures

* for archive typse supported through 7z/p7zip backend

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