Software update: PeaZip 8.4.0

Version 8.4.0 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 changes and improvements have been made in this release:

PeaZip release notes

PeaZip 8.4.0 is the first release providing experimental native packages for Darwin / macOS platform, both aarch64 (for M1 Apple Silicon chip) and Intel x86_64. This release brings fixes and improvements (management of temporary files, test batches, and language selection), a new alternative benchmark (single and multi core, based on integer and floating point arithmetic) and comes with updated backends: Pea 1.05, and 7z 21.06 , which is now employed on all platform; on Linux packages, 7z replaces p7zip, which is still fully supported as alternative backend.

A total of 225 file extensions can now be managed by PeaZip.

Translations are available in over than 30 languages, any help is welcome to translate PeaZip to new languages ​​and to maintain current localizations up to date, so please consider taking the time to give a look to translations directory for newer language files and for any resource useful for translators.