Software Update: PeaZip 7.1.0

Version 7.1.0 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 improvements have been made in this release:

backend

• Added Brotli 1.0.7 backend
• Added Zstd 1.4.4 backend
• Pea 0.68

Code

• Various fixes and improvements

File Manager

• Added “Type here to search in current path” hint to address bar to make this feature more esaily discoverable
• Added compression method information when browsing archives supported through 7z/p7zip backend
• Improved file rename
  • Added option to rename only files
  • Improved hints about rename functions in confirmation dialogs
• Improved management of compressed TAR files
  • Brotli, LPAQ, QUAD/BALZ/BCM, and Zstandard backed now supports previewing compressed TAR files
  • Same formats now supports option to auto open compressed TAR archive (previously applied only to formats supported through 7z/p7zip backend)
  • Same formats now supports smart extraction feature

Extraction and archiving

• Added read / write / test support for Brotli (.br) and Zstandard (.zst) files
• Added more dictionary size options for LZMA / LZMA2
• Added compression preset (“Add” button’s dropdown menu) for ZIP, Bzip2 method, fast compression
• Improved direct extraction from PeaZip’s file browser
  • Context menu and Extract dropdown menu now features: extract all here, extract all here smart, extract all here to new folder
  • Reduced duplication of destinations in Extract dropdown menu
  • Extract all to moved to More group in context menu
  • keyboard shortcuts:
    • extract all here Ctrl+Alt+Shift+E
    • extract all here smart Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S
    • extract all here to new folder Ctrl+Alt+Shift+N
• Instantaneous compression ratio % is shown while running 7z/p7zip compression tasks

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