Software Update: PeaZip 7.6.0

Version 7.6.0 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

• (Winodws, ReactOS) McMilk codecs in 7zCodecs path are now automatically checked at PeaZip startup, in order to disable them (moving in 7zCodecsbk) on systems not capable to run them (as XP or ReactOS), and re -enable them on other systems; this works for both Portable and installable packages without requiring manual intervention

Code

• Various fixes

File Manager

• (in left navigation panel) Archive treeview is now automaticaly updated accordingly to browsing in file manager area
  • This option can be fine tuned in Options > Settings > Archive manager
• Various usability improvements
  • Can now set current path as default archiving or extraction path
  • Options > Settings > General, Advanced, and Archive manager tabs reorganized
  • Improved and updated themes, and simplified Theme tab

Extraction and Archiving

• Improved handling ZIP files with code pages different than local
  • Can now customize code page for reading/writing filenames in ZIP archives, from Options > Settings, Advanced tab it is possible to set:
    • Local code page, then UTF-8 for sysmbols outside local code page (default)
    • Force UTF-8 for non-ASCII characters
    • Force local code page
    • Use a custom code page: an arbitrary code page can be entered by user (the host machine needs to support the code page to run the tasks, otherwise tasks can be saved as scripts and run on different machines)
  • Text encoding entry is now accessible also from application’s file browser context menu, and in Archiving and Extraction screens context menus
• Within PeaZip file manager it is now possible to use copy/paste shortcuts Ctrl+C (or Ctrl+X) / Ctrl+V to extract items from archives to filesystem
  • If clipboard is set to keep multiple selection operations at once:
    • Copy/paste extraction is possible form multiple archives at once
    • It is also possible to mix cut/paste and extraction operations
  • Extraction targets the file system, it is not currently possible ie to directly paste compressed items from archive A to archive B