Software update: PeaZip 7.3.0

Version 7.3.0 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

• Pea 0.71 with PEA file format revision 1.2

Code

• Various fixes

File Manager

• Added BLAKE2S and BLAKE2B hashes to
  • File manager’s hash (for file hashing and deduplication)
  • File tools set of hashes
  • Optional hash for raw file split
  • Optional hash for PEA format
• Added support for opening as archive modern Linux package formats: .appimage, Ubuntu’s .snap, and FreeDesktop Listaller .ipk
• Browser now uses smarter sorting for file/directory names
• By default now PeaZip tries to open archives containing errors
  • Errors detected browsing the archive are now notified in status bar, even if it is possible to list archive’s content
  • “Try to open archives continuing errors” can be disabled in Options > Settings > Archive manager
• Fixed some cases not allowing secure deletion and zero deletion of files
• Improved deletion of temporary work files

Extraction and archiving

• Added option to not ask confirmation for delete after archiving/extraction, in Options > Settings > Archive manager
  • Delete is not triggered if errors are detected
  • Delete is triggered after extraction only in case of complete extraction (extract all)
• Added option to set archive time from most recent file in archive, for all 7z/p7zip formats
• Added option to improve Brotli compression using more memory at cost of small impact on speed (archives created with this option may not be compatible with some Brotli decompressors)
• Added option to improve Zstandard compression using more memory at cost of small impact on speed
• Added new advanced options to custom compression settings files, keeping compatibility with setting files created with older versions
  • Presets were rebuilt accordingly new format
  • Two new presets: Medium compression with 7z fast, and Fast compression with 7Z fastest
• It is now possible to cancel all tasks of a sequence in the case one of the archiving / extraction task fails

Windows & Linux Installers

• (Windows) Improved installer
• (Windows) Installer now available also as .msix package
• (Linux) Created generic DEB package, x86-64 native
  • Some binaries, ie FreeArc, may need IA32-libs to run

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