Software update: PeaZip 7.0.0

Version 7.0.0 of PeaZip has been released. This archive utility is 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. Encryption of data is therefore one of the main functions of the proprietary 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 enhancements have been made in this release:

Backend

• PEA 0.66

File Manager

• Added option to automatically open tar archive inside tar. * Compressed files
  • Option is on by default, can be set in Options> Settings> Archive manager
• Drag & drop can now be hot swapped between standard and custom mode while using the application
• Improved finding duplicate files, both with crc / hash and quick duplicate check: Info column shows “D” for duplicate for each copy of file with same digest value, except the last copy found
  • Sorting files for Info column allows to quickly select (and delete) duplicate items
  • Sorting files for checksum / hash column allows to easily compare identical files as in previous versions
• New function to analyze content of folders in file browser (from column header menu)
  • Info column marks empty folders with “E”
  • Checksum / hash column shows content of folders: number of directories, number of files, and total size
• New scaling mechanism for better support of high DPI in PeaZip and Pea executables
  • UI elements are scaled at run time at discrete steps zooming up to 10x of design time size, using Lazaruz LCL scaling
  • Graphic is scaled accordingly at run time, accepting arbitrarily sized graphic sources
    • Embedded 16 and 32 pixel icons are currently provided with 3x definition (48 and 96 pixel respectively) to provide high quality graphic up to 300% scaling
    • New themes for PeaZip version 7+ uses 8 or 32 bit PNG with transparency, and currently provides 16 and 32 pixel icons upscaled to 3x definition
• New Windows icons for menus and file types; new icons allows to better distinguish supported file types, at large and small resolutions
• When a single file of unsupported format is passed as parameter, the application lets the user decide if to try to open it as archive or to add it to new archive
• Various fixes
  • Fixed System benchmark tool

Extraction and Archiving

• Improved progress bar accuracy
• Option to delete input files after task completion is now globally applied to all archiving / extraction functions
  • Also batch version of direct archiving / extraction functions now apply the deletion on completion policy accordingly to the application’s configuration
  • Alternative versions of batch commands are now available in order to explicitly ignore deletion on completion policy, with “i” appended after function name: -add2peai, -add2crypti, -add27zi, -add27zmaili, -add2separate7zi, -add2sfx7zi, -add2sfx7zmaili, -add2zipi , -add2zipmaili, -add2separatezipi, and -ext2herei, -ext2folderi, -ext2toi, ext2tofolderi, -ext2simplei, -ext2simplefolderi
• Fixed and improved -add2split batch command, can now accept multiple input files and folders (if more than one file is passed as input it will be consolidated in a tar archive)

Windows & Linux Installers

• Improved Windows 32 and 64 bit installers
  • Added shortcuts to selectively start PeaZip in add, extract or open mode
    • Shortcuts are saved in application’s entry in Start Menu, and in program’s path, and can be freely moved / copied for ease of use
  • By default now the installer associate files and create menu entries for all users (local machine)
    • New “Install for current user only” checkbox, unchecked by default, to run the installer for current user only
  • Various fixes and removal of legacy code

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