PeaZip 10.5.0 brings a major update in the file manager, boosting
archive browsing performances, improving
archive editing, adding new
functions to open file as archive
from within archives, to prevent running a custom list of file
extensions without confirmation, and to hide or show hidden files.
On macOS all file browser styles and icon sizes are now available as on
other platforms.
On Windows it is now possible to explore NTFS Alternate Data Streams to
gather additional information on files, including a dedicated tools to
batch scan the input for Zone.Identifier (Mark of The Web) to detect
files coming from remote systems.
In addition, the option to include the Zone.Identifier metadata in
archives is now
enabled by default for all formats supporting it (RAR, WIM).
Backend were updated to Pea 1.25.
Sources are compiled with Lazarus 4.x, and are still compatible
with Lazarus 3.x and 2.x.
A total of 242 file extensions can now be opened as archives 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
repository
for newer language files and for any resource useful for translators.
SHA256 hash
of packages
Hash values of each package are now published in the SHA256.txt file in
each release on GitHub.
You can check hash values of current release in SHA256.txt
10.5.0.
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2024 10 26 ..
CURRENT
2025 06 15
10.5.0
BACKEND
Pea 1.25
CODE
Code cleanup
Fixes
Fixed "Auto open TAR
archive" triggering errors when opening some archives for browsing
Fixed breadcrumb navigation which failed for some archives
Fixed dialog type when setting Custom binary in archiving and
extraction screens
Fixed archive listing warning icon, the icon is now properly re-set
when password request is prompted opening the archive (encrypted
filenames)
Various fixes
Recompiled with Lazarus 4.0,
compatibility kept with Lazarus 3.x and 2.x
(macOS) alternative file manager styles and
sizes are now available, cursor icon is now correctly handled
recompiled dragdropfiles.dll for Windows 64 bit and 32 bit
Updated W11 mini-context menu entries in
(peazip)/res/share/batch/Windows
FILE MANAGER
Added hints to Settings
tabs, showing tab's subsections and suggesting most prominent switches
featured in the tab
Added option to search SHA256 hash value on Jotti VirusScan to check if
the selected file matches with known malware
Added warning before
running file types containing active content, in order to
improve security of the archive/file browser, from Options, Settings,
File manager tab
it is possible to set a
custom list of extensions to better fit user's security model (the
default list is tailored for the different supported Operating Systems)
it is possible to set this
function for Archive manager (default, when browsing archives only),
File manager (when browsing the filesystem, not inside archives), both
or none
Can now toggle " Show hidden files and
folders in the filesystem" on/off (default on) from Options >
Settings, File manager tab
hidden files have Hidden
attribute in Windows, start with . character on non-Windows systems
this setting only applies
when browsing the filesystem, will not hide content inside archives
Improved files and
archives browsing
Improved speed and RAM
usage opening archives, optimizing some performance critical routines:
-60% time on 25K items archive (-12% memory), -25% time on 250K items
archive (-25% memory), -5% time to display 25K items in the same view
(-8% memory)
Optimized parsing archive
content for errors, anomalies, and omissions, over x2 performances
Optimized representation of archive content in side bar treeview,
approx x2 performances
Optimized performances of the file manager
General optimizations of
sorting routines, memory intensive operations, file manager update,
with various degree of performances improvement
De-duplicated file manager
update when parsing archives, approx x2 performances when applicable
Optimization of pipe communication routines with performances
improvements on execution of browsing and other types of tasks
Improved representation of archives with complex structures
Improved editing archives and preventing attempts of unsupported
operations
Improved filenames smart sorting
"Open as archive" function is now enabled also from within archives, so
it is possible to explicitly ask to preview a compressed file trying to
handle it as archive/container
Reorganized and de-duplicated the Functions
sub-menu of Open menu (in navigation sidebar, and breadcrumb
button dropdown menu) which shows most used app's function sorted
alphabetically
this sub-menu is now
available also from the main context menu
Reorganized alternative main context menus
Ctrl + RightClick shows
Breadcrumb menu (unchanged)
Shift + RightClick shows History menu, which now shows both history and
session history sections
Ctrl + Shift + RightClick shows Bookmarks menu (new)
Simplified pre-parse "Browser optimization" setting in Options >
Settings, Performance group
(Linux) Added System tools entries
(Windows) Added functions to display NTFS
Alternate Data Streams and Zone
Identifier (Mark of The Web) for the selected file
please note NTFS Alternate
Data Streams metadata requires the input file being stored on a NTFS
filesystem
this function is available
from main menu File manager > System tools
(Windows) Added function to check for
Mark of The Web in selected files (and, recursively, in selected
folders), or for currently open archive file
this function is available
as first entry in the Test dropdown menu in tool bar, and from main
menu File manager > File tools submenu in file manager and in
archiving / extraction screens
this function is based in
NTFS Alternate Data Streams metadata and requires the files/folders
being stored on a NTFS filesystem
this function is
recommended before archiving, opening or extracting files, allows to
detect if at least one of the input files comes from a remote system
and therefore contains the Zone Identifier (Mark of The Web) in its
Alternate Data Streams metadata
the slower "full report"
variant of the function (in File tools submenus only) tests all input
files and displays which ones have the MoTW and which one doesn't
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING
Improved handling of NTFS Alternate Data
Streams, including Zone Identifier (Mark of The Web)
Added note in the info box
in archive creation screen (clicking on input details in the status
bar) to highlight formats which support storing NTFS Alternate Data
Streams in archives created locally
NTFS Alternate Data Streams
are now stored (and propagated on extraction) by default for RAR and
WIM formats, even for archives created locally
As in previous versions,
Mark of The Web is also propagated on extraction for all formats
handled through 7z backend for downloaded archives
Please note Alternate Data
Streams, including Zone Identifier (Mark of The Web), relies on NTFS
filsystem features and are not portable on different filesystems
Improved task progress window: text layout auto optimizes, better CPU
efficiency of GUI for Test tasks
2025 04 14
10.4.0
BACKEND
Zstd 1.5.7
Pea 1.24
CODE
Expanded script samples for
CLI usage and system integration in (peazip)/res/share/batch
Legacy code cleanup
Various fixes
Fixed compact side bar
being invisible at lower zoom levels
Fixed drag and drop operations failing for some formats
Fixed script generation (Advanced tab) when "TAR before" and "Delete
files after archiving" options are both in use
FILE MANAGER
Added alternative context menus for quick
navigation in file/archive manager
Ctrl+RightClick shows
breadcrumb context menu
Shift+RightClick shows session history context menu
Ctrl+Shift+RightClick shows navigation context menu
Can now sort items in the Password Manager
File browser popup now provides more information fields: attributes,
compression/encryption method, content (compressed folders), object
level comments, creation and last accessed time (compressed files and
folder, if set), full path (in search and flat mode)
New "90s" style in "..." >
Style menu providing a simple old-school
layout with treeview sidebar
Embedded theme will now automatically
adapt to light / dark mode changing icons and accent colors
Updated to Themes v.6
All in-app icons can now be
customized in order to create themes optimized for different system
color schemes, not limited to light or dark but also alternative color
palettes (grey, cold/warm colors etc...)
New mac-dark, main-dark, ten-dark, and tux-dark available as custom
themes, meant to improve app aspect on systems in dark mode (more
alternative v.6 themes are available from the Custom entry)
The app can use older revision themes down to v.3, but it is
recommended to update old theme packages (suggestion: new themes can be
used as template for icons missing in previous versions of themes)
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING
(7z backend) By default symlinks are stored as links,
option available in Advanced tab of archive creation screen
Added error check to avoid automatic deletion of the intermediate tar
archive if the compression step fails with "Delete files after
archiving" option enabled
2025 02 22
10.3.0
BACKEND
Pea 1.23
CODE
project_pea and
project_peach updated to optimization and debugging project-level
options recommended for Lazarus 3.x line
Optimized app startup reducing 25% time and 20% memory usage
Various fixes
FILE MANAGER
Auto browse TAR inside compressed
TAR archives now can be limited to max size (100 MB, 1 GB, 10 GB,
Always) in order to avoid automatic time consuming operation
Can now save list of files/search results as csv (with , and ;
separator), tsv, and txt
Improved "Analyze content of folders" function, now reporting content
size in separate column to allow sorting for smallest/largest folder
Improved handling archives
with errors, or containing extra data, i.e. container formats
which are variants of archive formats
With Options > Settings
> Archive manager, "Browse non-canonical archive types" option
flagged (default) the app will always try to open for browsing such
archives
Unflagging this option
stops the app from browsing archives if errors are detected, which may
be more safe, but is less flexible in terms of handling/recovering data
More cases of warnings and
errors are recognized and shown (warning icon in the navigation bar)
for file formats supported through the 7z/p7zip backend
Smart new folder toggle is now reachable also from quick extraction
dropdown menu
Style submenu in "..." style menu allows to quickly change app's file
manager GUI applying multiple customizations at once to fit one of the pre-set styles: Minimal, Classic,
Modern, and Postmodern
Updated Themes to
customize more items (menu dropdown, breadcrumb separator, settings
icon), legacy themes are still supported
New Tux-Alt theme for
alternative look&feel on Linux systems
(Windows) Improved rendering of exe files' icons
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING
Improved displaying
information in the task progress window and in the archive creation /
extraction screen title
Improved managing non-ASCII characters in passwords
Added warning to prevent
creation of archives using non-ASCII characters if not supported by the
format (or otherwise not supported due to technical limitations)
Fixed Windows drag and drop
extraction not correctly communicating non-ASCII characters in
passwords through pipe
When directly sending items to compression without confirmation, file
spanning (if set) is automatically disabled for the current operation
Added support for VmWare .ova
files, and Minecraft archive
file types
.mcaddon, .mcmeta, .mcpack, .mcproject, .mcstructure, .mctemplate,
.mcworld (242 file extensions supported)
INSTALLERS
(Linux) Qt6 installable
packages updated to
create needed links to libQt6Pas.so out of the box
(Linux) Updated information for context
menu integration for Gnome and KDE in
(peazip)/res/share/batch/freedesktop_integration
sh scripts to automate
context menu integration now available in KDE-servicemenus and
Nautilus-scripts subfolders
2025 01 01
10.2.0
BACKEND
7z 24.09, with new
dictionary size defaults for LZMA/LZMA2
Pea 1.22 introducing hybrid KDF
to further increase the resilience of the KDF stage of triple cascaded
encryption, requiring multiple unrelated optimizations to mount an
hardware accelerated attack on the KDF
CODE
Fixes, updated documentation
FILE MANAGER
Archives of suitable types
(RAR, ZIP, ZIPX) are automatically tested for comment when opened, if archive
comment is found, "COMMENT" note is displayed in the status bar
Move the mouse over the
"COMMENT" note to display the comment as hint
Click the "COMMENT" note to open the comment editing screen
Alt+M keyboard shortcut is always available as usual to directly open
the comment editing screen for one or multiple archives at once
Improved detection of issues in archives, for
archive types browsed with 7z/p7zip frontend
If warnings are issued a
warning icon is displayed in the address bar for better visibility,
alongside the classic textual warning message in the status bar of
previous versions
If further details are available, they will be visible clicking the
warning icon in the address bar or the textual warning message in the
status bar
Improved keyboard shortcuts
Updated app icon to unify look & feel on all supported platforms
Updated Tux theme to improve aspect with dark mode / dark themes
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING
Brotli -q 11 and Zstd --ultra -22 compression levels
enabled in the GUI
It is now possible to manually delte input files / folders at the end
of tasks, from Options tab in the task progress window, i.e. to
directly delete a faulty archive failing the test procedure
The progress window's icon now matches the format chosen for compression
INSTALLERS
(Linux) Qt6 packages supersedes the old Qt5
packages
(Linux) GTK3-alpha package is
now available for test purpose only (Lazarus support for GTK3 is in
alpha state), see Lazarus Widgetset wiki for more information
https://wiki.freepascal.org/Widgetset
(Linux) Flatpak package is
now built for Wayland, with
fallback X11 option,
and compiled for the Qt6 widgetset
(macOS) "macOS service menus" entry in the package is now a link
pointing to the folder with same name within the installed peazip.app
package, in this way running "xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine
/Applications/peazip.app" applies the correct attributes to the
scripts, which can be correctly installed on macOS 15 and following
10.1.0
BACKEND
Pea 1.21, introduced scrypt KDF as default option to
improve resilience to password guessing attacks (increasing memory cost
per instance) over PBKDF2 implemented in previous versions
scrypt is now the default
KDF for all cascaded encryption modes, it can be set to use from 64 MB
(default) up to 1 GB memory, r set to 8, paralelism 1 to 8 (plus, the
KDF is repeated for each of the tree layers of the cascaded encryption)
CODE
Fixed "Ask before
overwriting (in console)" extraction option, now
correctly sets the app in console mode superseding other options
Fixed directory copy/move on Unix-like systems
(Windows) Fixed drag and drop bug preventing extraction towards some
file managers and third party apps, now more file managers are tested
for compatibility
(Windows) Fixed drag and drop bug failing extraction at first try on
some instances
FILE MANAGER
GUI update
Breadcrumb improvements
Highlighting of temporary
paths in the breadcrumb bar is now
consistent with Theme colors
New Theme option to optionally underline and highlight address
breadcrumb
Navigation bar improvements
Compact side bar mode is
now integrated with other navigation
bar modes (navigation, treeview, and none, which can be toggled with
Alt+4)
It is now possible to
internally drag and drop extract items to
the navigation bar even whent it is set to Compact mode
Navigation bar width is now automatically adapted to the zoom
level of the app
File browser's column header menu is now more easily accessible
from the top entry in the navigation menu
Updated Themes and icons to improve appearance on dark mode /
dark themes using alpha transparency
Use of alpha transparency is fully
supported (but not mandatory)
when designing Themes' icons, which are PGN images
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING
Updated compression pre-sets
2024 10 26
10.0.0
BACKEND
Pea 1.20, can now search hash values of files on
Google and Virustotal for detecting known malware, new command line
switches to show text preview of files, and to directly save checksum/hash results in GNU Coreutils
-compatible formats
7z 24.08
CODE
(macOS) New macOS .icns icons to customize the app
are now available in (peazip)/res/share/icons folder
(macOS) Updated Automator scripts for macOS
context menu integration,
fixed empty error message after script execution
(Windows) Improved Windows native drag and drop implementation (please
note current implementation still allows a single drag and drop
instance globally)
Attempts to launch multiple
drag and drop instances, from single or multiple instance of the
application, are now effectively stopped without issues for the running
drag and drop indtance
This limitation can be avoided using internal drag and drop extraction
(which is cross-platform) or unchecking "Use native drag and drop" in
options to switch to an alternative custom drag and drop implementation
Legacy code cleanup
Sorted tab order of UI items
Various fixes
FILE MANAGER
(Linux) Added MTP devices folder (Media Transfer
Protocol) in Filesystem section of navigation sidebar, to make easier
to access to mounted devices, i.e. Android phones / tablets
(Windows) New System settings items, specific for Windows 10 and more
recent systems Settings app, are now featured in app context menu, File
manager > System tools for W10+ systems
Expanded File tools section in file browser
context menu, archive/extract context menu, and in Test menu in tool
bar; it is now possible to
Save hash values in GNU
Coreutils compatible format
Search SHA256 hash values on Google and VirusTotal
Display Text preview of file (attempts to parse file as utf8 text,
displays linle numbers, text strings and line mumbers can be sorted
alphabetically)
Revamped GUI
Hints and tooltips can now
be turned on/off from Options > Settings, General tab
Icons used more sparingly to avoid information repetition and overload
Updated progress screen
Activity graph moved to the
button bar, in order to be visible from all tabs
Global progress bar now correctly take in account different input sizes
(archiving, conversion tasks)
Updated GUI rendering engine to be
more flexible and memory efficient (up to 30% depending on the icon
mode)
7 sizes are now available:
Small, Medium, Large, Large +, and Large ++
For details and list modes
16, 24, 32, 48, 64, 72, and 96px
For icons mode 48, 64, 72, 96, 128, 144, and 192px
Show thumbnails (filesystem only) is automatically set for any icon
sized 48px or more, and can be turned on/off for any size from main
menu, Organize
(Windows) exe icons are now scaled to fit the file browser size
All file browser styles and sizes are now supported on Linux / BSD
Special folders icons are now displayed for all modes and sizes
Updated Style menu
Shows compact side bar
moved to main menu, Organize
It is now possible to change breadcrumb style from Style menu (text
only, Windows/KDE, Gnome, macOS -style)
It is now possible to toggle file browser icons size from Style menu
(new keybowrd shortcut Alt+7)
Updated Themes and embedded icons
Mac, Main, Ten, and Tux
themes updated, new theme format does not longer need 48px icons
Updated context menu
Added menu item to explore
Trash folder, in context menu, File browser
submenu
Moved items: ZIP filename encoding is now in More submenu, File tools
is now in the root of the menu, Image manager is now in File manager
submenu
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING
From Options > Settings,
Advanced tab it is possible to set "7z / p7zip syntax level" back to
17.05 and 16.02 releases, to improve
compatibility with the syntaxt of legacy 7z / p7zip versions
Improved quick "Extract
here" link in the toolbar is now also shown when one or more
archives are selected in the file browser
Updated compression presets
Added tar.gz, tar.xz, and
tar.zst presets
Revoved some less frequently used presets, which are still available in
(peazip)/res/share/presets/alt subfolder
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