Software update: PeaZip 7.2.0

Version 7.2.0 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:

Code

• Various fixes and improvements

File manager

• Extended options to manually update edited files in archive (consistently with update dialog) in context menu > more submenu
• it is now possible to update archive and discard temp edit files (as in auto update dialog Yes/Clear option), and to discard edits without update

Extraction and archiving

• Added option to automatically close PeaZip when task completes
• Added options to save and load custom compression settings
  • Menu entries are available in main menu > Layout (in compression screen) and in compression presets context menus (in file browser and in compression screen)
  • Compression settings are saved by default to “Compression settings” folder in same path of PeaZip configuration
  • Password and keyfiles are not saved in custom compression settings, to manage passwords safely see instead main menu > Tools > Password manager
  • Volatile, context dependant variables can be saved alongside non-volatile ones, but will be lost in subsequent uses unless the custom setting is reloaded (in Options > Advanced volatile variables can be shown in italic font)
• Presets for archive creation / conversion are now rewritten to use new compression setting mechanism, new presets supersedes both old presets and favorite formats menu entries
  • Presets are saved in PeaZip\res\presets folder, in PeaZip’s program path; separately for being saved separately they are standard compression setting files and can be used as such
  • To customize an existing preset with a custom compression settings file, copy the desired custom compression settings file in presets folder, in place of one of the existing preset files
    • Optionally, editing the compression setting file is possible to change its displayed file name, the name that will be shown by PeaZip in presets menu
  • New presets: ZPAQ ultra, ZPAQ, ARC, Brotli, Zstandard
• Extended non-volatile options saved to configuration (and compression settings)
  • 7z/p7zip advanced compression options for dictionary, word, passes and block size are now remembererd
  • File spanning options are now remembered
• Improved support for ZPAQ format
  • AES256 encryption, supported by design by the format, is now enabled
  • Compression settings were optimized for better results
  • From Advanced tab of extraction screen are now supported following options
    • Restore files to original absolute paths
    • Separate extraction of all revisions of the archive
    • Overwrite existing files
  • Test operation is now enabled
  • ZPAQ is now available in presets at medium and ultra compression formats

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