Software update: PeaZip 7.7.0

Version 7.7.0 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

• (Linux) Can now optionally use system p7zip, if installed, from Options > Settings, General tab
  • requires p7zip-full (or equivalent package) to be installed in order to have a 7z binary compatible with PeaZip’s requirements in terms of syntax and features

Code

• Various fixes

File Manager

• Added shortcut Ctrl+W to close window, consistently with conventional use in WinRar and Windows file explorer
• Improved control over temporary work directory, used when the archive is created or edited, during drag and drop extraction (Windows), and content preview
  • Output: faster as no copy to destination is needed, more secure as no content is unpacked/decrypted outside of the intended destination path
  • Output, preview in user’s temp
  • User’s temp (as conventionally used by most applications): in case of failure for any reason, user’s temp folder is the single place to look for orphaned data and can be safely cleaned
  • None, user’s temp if needed: allows exceptions to perform drag and drop extraction and preview using user’s temp
  • None: no exceptions allowed, no temporary work data is saved, this does not allow to perform neither drag and drop extraction nor preview, as archive content can’t be transparently unpacked and passed to system’s drag & drop handler, nor to the associated application

Extraction and archiving

• Added read support to .appxbundle format