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.
SHA256 hash of 8.4.0
release packages
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peazip-8.4.0.WIN64.exe
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peazip-8.4.0.WIN64.msi
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peazip-8.4.0.WINDOWS.exe
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2021 06 10 ..
CURRENT
2021 12 15
8.4.0
BACKEND
Pea 1.05
7z 21.06 (console) used by default on Darwin/macOS, Linux, and Windows
p7zip,
and szcnick's p7zip (fork of p7zip) syntax is fully supported and can
be used as alternative replacing (peazip)/res/bin/7z/7z binary
CODE
Fixed issues when temporary
work path is set to user's temp
(Windows) Fixed unnecessary
confirmation message for non existing output directory
Fixed smart extraction not able to remove extra level of nesting
FILE MANAGER
Added single and multi core
performances benchmark, in main menu Tools > System benchmark (pea)
The benchmark performs
integer and floating point arithmetic operations
Benchmark result unit is arbitrary and only meant to allow comparison
between different platforms
For reference 2020 MacBook
Air M1 score is 100 (single core) and 515 (multi core) for aarm64 build
(Darwin/macOS, Linux) File
manager columns' menu is available
righclicking status bar
(Darwin/macOS) Improved file manager
Added links to Volumes,
Applications, and System/Applications in navigation treeview
Added auto-configured custom apps for "Open with" submenu
Added macOS-specific funtions in context menu, File Manager > System
tools: Launchpad, Activity monitor, System preferences, Disk utility
Open command prompt here function now working
PeaUtils launching from PeaZip now working
Run function now working
Language can now be changed from dropdown menu from General settings
tab (main menu, Options > Settings)
Previous method allowing to
manually select the language file is still available from the link
before the dropdown menu
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING
New option to not stop
sequences of archive test tasks unless an error is encountered
From main menu, Options
> Settings, Advanced tab set "Stop to inspect report for error,
list" instead of default value "Stop to inspect report for error, list,
test"
With this setting, a
successful archive test closes on completion unless an error is foud in
the archive and test fails, in which case error message (and full
report) is shown to user and needs to be dismissed before continuing
with following test in sequence
Improved management of temporary work files
7z/p7zip work files during
compression are now inside peazip-tmp subpath, if work directory is set
to Custom or User's temp
2021 11 14
8.3.0
BACKEND
(Linux) Total max length of
command scripts generated by the application can be customized from
32KB to 2MB from Options > Settings > General, Performances
(Linux) szcnick/p7zip regressed from 17.04 to 17.02 due a possible bug
handling some zip files
different versions /
branches of p7zip (provided same syntax is employed) can be used
simply replacing binaries in (peazip)res/bin/7z path
Updated to pea 1.04
To improve portability of PeaZip to multiple operating systems and
architectures, app's folder is now structured as follows:
Application's root folder
contains pea and peazip binaries (and dragdropfiles.dll on Windows),
architecture-specific, compiled from src package
/res directory, contains resources
divided by type
/res/portable (empty) file,
marks the package as portable: if missing, the application woks as
installable package and rearches for configuration in user's path
(depending on the host system)
/res/bin directory contains third
party architecture specific binaries, should be replaced with binaries
for the apporpriate target architecture; on Windows it also contains
PeaZip configuration wizard executabòe
/res/share directory contains non
architecture specific resources such as texts, media, licenses,
documentation (license and notes about binaries has been moved here in
note subdiorectory), it could be simply copied as is for any PeaZip
package on any system
/res/conf directory contains user
specific configuration files
On installable packages res/conf is written to appropriate user
specific path, and installers take care to replace /res/bin and
/res/share with links to directories placed in appropriate paths
depending on the target system
CODE
(Linux) Improved compliance
with Open Desktop specifications: configuration is now saved in
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/peazip directory; if $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is not defined
configuration is saved to $HOME/.config/peazip
To import existing
configuration simply copy content of $HOME/.PeaZip directory to the new
location
GitHub: Merged ACTom's "Initial support for MacOS #25"
Various fixes
Fixed possible error with
progress bar
Fixed possible error not asking password opening some encrypted
archives, and reduced false positive cases in which it the application
suggested to provide a password
Fixed error reporting information about multi volume archives
Fixed error in file manager selecting files with same characteristics
of selected item
(Windows) Fixed issue not showing system's file properties dialog in
some cases
FILE MANAGER
(Linux) Shortcuts to
/media, /run/media, and /mnt (if not empty) are now featured in
navigation tree, under filesystem group
(Linux) Improved automatically configuring XFCE apps alternatives in
"Open with" menu: Mousepad, Midori, Parole, Ristretto
(Linux) Fixed theming issues with GTK2
Column header's context menu is now accessible alternatively
right-clicking the status bar
Improved theming
Added Color temperature option, to adapt
application to DE using warmer or colder colors
Added Highlight tabs option
(default on) highlighting rows or columns containing tabs with
alternate color
Options > Settings > General, Privacy / Reset group, Working
directory is now set to system's temp by default (consistently with
most applications of this type)
Working directory label can
now be clicked to explore path (unless it is set to output, which is
variable), in order to make easier for the user to verify if for any
reasons there are left orphaned files
All PeaZip's temporary work files and dirs are now collected in
peazip-tmp subdirectory of work path (unless it is set to output) for
same reason of making easier to spot and remove orphaned files
All PeaZip's temporary work files and dirs now contains p*tmp string
for making easier to find them regardless the tools employed
Options > Settings > General, Privacy / Reset group now allows to
silently skip deletion of locked temporary work files (default on,
consistently with behavior of most applications of this type); temp
work files can then be optionally deleted separately:
Automatically from Reset
link, and if reset fails the folder is opened for soliciting manual
deletion (regardless the option to silently skip locked files during
normal operations)
Manually clicking on Working directory label and using standard
system's tools
Options > Settings > File manager now allows to set the
multiple-byte unit: binary, 1024 (IEC kibibyte), or decimal, 1000 (IEC
kilobyte), or none (exact byte size)
Options > Settings > File manager now allows to customize the
list of preferred algorithms for calculating file checksum and hashes;
all preferred algorithms in the list will be performed in a single step
when it is required to checksum / hash files.
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING
Added Deflate and Deflate64
compression options to 7z format
Improved -ext2here, -ext2folder (-alias -ext2smart), and -ext2newfolder
functions adding command line options:
-i ignore delete original
archive after extraction settings
-o output directory in next parameter
-p password in next parameter
WINDOWS & LINUX INSTALLERS
(Windows) Improved installer
"Extract here (in new
folder)" entry is now featured by default both in context menu and
SendTo menu
Fixed additional extraction entries not showing up on some cases
Installation folder selection screen is now available also running
"Configure PeaZip" wizard from the application, for Portable versions
this allows to easily integrate with host system
(Linux) Improved DEB and
RPM installers with better compliance with Filesystem Hierarchy
Standard,
separating architecture specific and non-architecture
specific resources
2021 09 12
8.2.0
BACKEND
(Linux) Upodated Brotli to 1.0.9 version
(Linux) Added read support (browse / test / extract) to Lzip .lz file type
Added support for .apkm, .apks, and .aab packages Android package
formats
CODE
(Linux) maximum length of
CL generated on Linux systems is now increased to 128 K characters in
contrast to much more limited 32 K characters allowed on Windows systems
About screen now displays information about widget set and CPU
architecture of the build for better troubleshooting
Improved command line usage
New res\batch\ folder containing sample scripts
pointing to main app functions to help portabilize and deploy the
application on multiple environments: the directory contains sample
.bat scripts (Windows), SendTo menu links
(Windows), freedesktop_integration examples (Linux) and will expand in
future.
Fixed -add27z, -add2zip and related switches: when multiple items are
passed the archive is named accordingly the directory name of first
item, as in the GUI version of the same action
New -ext2here, -ext2folder (alias -ext2smart), -ext2newfolder switches
for CL, executing single or multiple tasks as a single sequence of
extract here, extract here smart folder, and extract here to new folder
respectively
Extraction to new folder
can now be forced to use smart folder option (-ext2folder, alias
-ext2smart) or to not use it (-ext2newfolder)
With new extraction functions extraction of multiple items can run in a
single instance without stealing the focus each time the next task in
sequence is started
SendTo links to extraction functions are updated to use those new
functions for better handling of queues of multiple tasks, now matching
features provided by context menu entries but with advantages of being
cross platform, not suffering artificial limitation of input items
number, and being much more faster and cpu/memory efficient in
receiving input list from system to application
Previous version of same switches, not running as a single instance
queue, are available with "_" suffix, i.e. -ext2here_; in this way
existing scripts does not need to be updated to benefit of new
functions, but can be easily adapted to use old version of the switches
if preferred
Improved generation of more compact command lines from GUI, with better
detection of cases of automatic switch to "extract all"
Various fixes
Fixed breadcrumb for "Open
unit as archive" in context menu, File manager > System tools
Fixed deselecting "TAR before" and selecting "Add each object to a
separate archive" it is now possible to create multiple archive at once
for types such as bz2, br, gz, zst
FILE MANAGER
(Linux) Improved system
directories shown by default in navigation tree on the left of file
manager
(Linux) Updated list of apps automatically detected for Open with
submenu; apps and scripts can be customized in Options > Settings,
Applications tab
(Linux) Enabled System tools submenu in context menu > File manager
(Windows) Improved and re-organized System tools submenu in context
menu > File manger
Improved archive browser
Added Method column to display
compression/encryption method for each single object (this column is
enabled by default)
Added Created and Accessed timestamps columns in
addition to existing Modified timestamp
column (those columns are disabled by default)
The new columns can be enabled/disabled from columns header's context
menu, and from main menu > Organize > Browser > Columns; if
enabled, those columns are automatically shown browsing archives and
hidden browsing the fileystem
Folders in 7z/p7zip archives now show
number of contained folders, files, and total uncompressed size
(displayed in same column of files' checksums)
This feature is limited on
basis of the number of items contained in the archive, and can be tuned
from "Browser optimization" dropdown menu in Options > Settings,
General tab Performances group
New Ctrl+Alt+A link to autoadjust file browser columns
Themes: added "Presets" link on the right of Application accent color
picker, allowing to quickly customize both application and text accent
colors accordingly to common color themes of reference Operating
Systems e.g. Mint, Ubuntu, Windows
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING
Added XZ (Linux, Windows) and Zstd (Linux) as optional algorithms
for ZIP/ZIPX compression, from Advanced tab in archiving / conversion
screen
Improved extraction
Added option to skip
testing for encryption on extraction, suppressing password requests
Improved Interactive extraction option
Empty folder is now removed
in case of error with Extract to new folder
Naming policy dropdown menu is enabled with "Interactive extraction",
allowing to resolve issues of conflicting filenames in the same archive
New "Keep files" link in
extraction progress windows in case of errors "Interactive extraction",
allows to preserve extracted files which would be otherwise
automatically deleted
New " Store all timestamps"
option (checked by default) is available in Archiving / Conversion
screen
If this option is active,
created, modified, last access time are saved to archive rather than
modified timestamp only; formats supporting this feature are: 7Z, RAR,
ZIP
Improved raw file spanning, it
is now possible to submit multiple separate input files at once to be
split to specified size
Improved support for .xxxaa spanned files from Unix/Linux split command
New option for default behavior at
application startup: Extract all here (smart new folder)
This option can be set from
Options > Settings > Archive manager
Doubleclicking on an a file of associated type, or clicking Open from
context menu on a group of selected files associated with PeaZip, the
selected action is performed
Available actions: Open (default), Open as archive (force trying to
open file as archive), Extract (showing options and confirmation
screen), Extract all here, Extract all here (smart new folder)
WINDOWS & LINUX INSTALLERS
(Windows) SendTo menu
entries use new extraction functions, more efficient for handling
queues of multiple tasks, and "Extract here (smart new folder)"
replaces "Extract here (in new folder)"
With this update SendTo
functions provides same features provided by context menu entries, but
much more faster and efficient and without artificial limitation in
terms of number of input items
(Linux) Improved Linux installers
install the app in /opt/peazip directory (non
capitalized)
configuration files are saved in .PeaZip directory in user's home as in
previous releases
link peazip binary in /usr/bin
place peazip.desktop file in /usr/share/applications
place peazip.png icon in /usr/share/icons,
/usr/share/pixmaps
for DEB packages
optional .desktop files and icons are available in
(peazip)/res/batch/freedesktop_integration to provide direct access to
specific functions even on DE not supporting Actions
(DEB) place machine readable copyright file in /usr/share/doc/peazip
(DEB) packages are now named following Debian naming standard; all
other packages - Windows, Linux, portable - follows RedHat naming
standard
2021 07 24
8.1.0
BACKEND
Pea 1.02
Improved speed of hex
preview function, updated secure delete function
Zstd 1.50
(Windows) Tino Reichardt codecs for 7z
v1.5.0r1
updates codecs to Brotli
1.0.9, FLZMA2 1.0.1, Lizard 1.0, LZ4 1.9.3, LZ5 1.5, Zstandard 1.5.0
(Linux) szcnick p7zip 17.04:
introduces support for
Brotli, Lizard, LZ5
updates LZ4 1.9.3 and zstd 1.4.9
on Linux systems Brotli and Zstandard presets now points to single step
compression in 7z using Brotli or Zstd compression (tar.br and tar.zst
presets are still available as alternative)
(Windows) added support for system's Extrac32
as alternative CAB extraction engine
Extrac32 backend be enabled
in Options > Settings, Advanced tab
CAB will be still listed/tested using 7z backend, Extrac32 (if enabled)
will be used for for extraction operations
CODE
Various fixes
Improved performances
working with archives containing large number of items (files, folders)
on 64K items archive 50%
speed increase, -25% RAM usage
on 128K items archive 2x speed increase, -25% RAM usage
on 256K items archive 4x speed increase, -35% RAM usage
improved speed for listing archives, also minor speed improvements for
test, archive and extract operations involving a large number of files
FILE MANAGER
Added new user-provided themes: KDE Breeze, Oxygen
Improved browsing archives: clicking on root in breadcrumb bar now
simply lists root content, while pressing refresh (F5) re-opens the
archive, fully re-parsing the content
In case of spanned archive, the number of volumes actually found in
current path (as required by PeaZip for extraction) is shown in
application's title bar and status bar
Improved Settings
More flexible Browser
optimization in General tab, Performances group
Reorganized various settings for better readability
Updated translations
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING
Added support (as container
files) to .whl Python archives and .gem Ruby gem archives
Added option to extract all, selected or displayed items to
extraction dropdown menu, replicating Extract button context menu
Added actions to Test all, selected or displayed items in Test button
context menu
Improved archive conversion
procedure
Extraction stage is now
shown as a single sequence of tasks, and main screen is hidden to
reduce visual clutter
If errors are encountered in extraction stage it is reported to user,
so conversion can be stopped (to correct errors) or continued if desired
Improved extraction command line creation: when all items are selected
switch to a more compact command line using filters rather than item's
list
WINDOWS & LINUX INSTALLERS
Windows installer now
supports command line parameter to set
language during installation
language can be declared as
last parameter, with or without "/" prefix
to identify the language please check the name of the language file in
PeaZip\res\lang\ directory
2021 06 10
8.0.0
BACKEND
PEA 1.01
Added exit codes to
functions for easier integration with third
party software and scripts
Running PEA in batch_report and hidden_report mode automatically
saves task log without further user interaction
Fixed: hidden and hidden_report modes do not flash the GUI before
hiding it
Updated online documentation at
https://peazip.github.io/pea_help.pdf
CAB (Windows)
Selecting custom format
(and deselecting RAR checkbx, if selected)
in Advanced tab it is now available "CAB" preset in custom executable
dropdown menu, to
use Windows' makecab.exe
utility (which accepts single files as input)
CODE
Various fixes and
improvements
FILE MANAGER
Added support for .xappx,
and various Open Packaging Conventions
filetypes (.3mf, .vsdx, .mmzx, .aasx, .slx, .scdoc) files, 218 file
extensions supported
by default support is
read only, to enable write support check
"Edit non-canonical archive types" in main menu, Options > Settings
> Archive manager
Added text completion for
search field
Checksum/hash files can now be set to perform a single algorithm
(faster), by default SHA256
Performing all algorithms
at once, or all common algorithms at
once, is available as option in Option > Settings > File manager
Dragging a single archive file on file manager screen, the archive is
now opened without requiring further interaction
Improved preview and open with functions
If nothing is selected,
preview takes current directory as input
To avoid confusion with "Preview" actions submenu, "Extract and
open with" sumbenu can now be enabled / disabled from Options >
Setings > Archive manager
Improved random password
generator in main menu, Tools > Create
random password / keyfile
Default length is now 12
characters
Quote characters ' and " are avoided to keep the password
console-friendly regardless the character escaping abilities of the
scripting environment that will be employed by the user
Improved smart sorting of file names
Improved status bar
Browser modes "Details" and
"Icons and images" can now be
selected with a single click from icons on status bar
Style dropdown menu button
on the left of browser modes icons, on status bar, allows to set most
common UI settings fro a single, easily visible
place:
set tool bar to archive
manager, file manager, images manager
toggle tab bar on/off
toggle row select on/off
set browser preset modes
set themes
set side bar to navigation panel, treeview, or hidden
Style menu entries
are replicated also in context menu,
Navigation submenu
I mproved support for non-canonical
archive types (containers, disk
images, installers...) with new options in main menu, Options >
Settings > Archive manager
"Browse non-canonical
archive types" (default on) set those file
types to be opened for browsing on doubleclcik in PeaZip file manager;
unchecking this option those file types will be opened with associated
application but can still be browsed on demand (as any arbitrary file
type) using "Open file as archive" menu entry
"Convert non-canonical archive types" (default off) will treat
those file types as archives in Conversion process (extract and
recompress them), otherwise those files will be left unchanged and
simply compressed in the desired format
Improved theming: can now optionally display grids with alternate color
for better readability
Replicated link to Text encoding settings in main menu, Options;
extended hint for custom codepage
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING
Added "Force typing
passwords interactively" option in password screen
that forces to always type password in the native backend interface
This option allows to create scripts that will
require operator
to enter the password interactively rather than running
unattended
Zpaq backend does not support this option
Backends not supporting encryption are not affected by this option
Please note this option forces console mode for backend utilities
(except PEA, which is a graphic application)
With this option enabled PeaZip cannot browse archives with
encrypted name of files (encrypted toc), but it is anyway possible to
list/test/extract them
Can now edit existing 7Z-compressed sfx archives
Improved "TAR before" option, which saves multiple input to TAR archive
before compression step
Option to delete original
files now works whith "TAR before"
option enabled
Tasks with "TAR before" option enabled can now be saved as
command line
It is now possible to customize the
default action to perform when a
file type associated with PeaZip is double-clicked on the system
(or
any time a single file is sent as input to PeaZip)
In main menu, Options >
Settings > Archive manager "Default
action on start-up" can be set to
Open, default
Open as archive, force trying to open any arbitrary file type as
archive
Extract..., show full extraction screen to enter password and
change options before confirming extraction
Extract here, immediately start extraction with default
parameters
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project development change log. Hash of current version's published
packages. Bug fixes, implementatio of new
software's features, release
notes, history of previos version's change logs.
Topics: release notes,
hash of packages, change log, history of changes
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