Software Update: PeaZip 7.0.1

Version 7.0.1 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 improvements have been made in this release:

backend

• Pea 0.67

Code

• Various memory management, speed, responsiveness and stability optimizations
  • For archive browsing, fast mode (equivalent to previous versions default mode):
  • Up to -15% memory usage browsing archives containing large number of files
  • Up to +35% speed browsing and testing for encryption archives containing large number of files

File manager

• Added mass rename option to prepend progressive number to filenames
  • Action is available in Context menu, File manager > Rename > 1, 2, 3…
  • Items will be numbered following the current sorting order, eg name, time/date, size, extension…
• Added support for navigation with mouse buttons
  • Button3 go up
  • Button4 go forward
  • Button5 go back
• New archive browsing optimization option available in Options > Settings > General, Performance group
  • Normal, no optimization
  • Fast (default, works as “fast open routine” option in previos versions), stop pre-browsing archives containing very large number of files to preserve performance
  • Fastest, do not pre-browse archives for very fast opening, as downside this mode does not show archive information, and may non correctly list some out of standard archives
• Row select option for file / archive browser is now duplicated in context menu > Navigation for better discoverability
• Updated translations

Extraction and archiving

• Fixed: archives are tested for encryption before extraction from SendTo menu entries and from command line
• Improved detection of multipart archives for automatic deletion after extraction option
  • Alongside .001 spanning (as in 7-Zip and PeaZip) are now recognized .z01, .zx01, .rar01, .part1.rar spanning conventions followed by WinZip and WinRar

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