PeaZip

PeaZip 9.7.1 provides bug fixes and updated language files.

9.7 line is primarily meant to update app's foundations: sources are now built with Lazarus 3.0, Windows dark mode is now fully supported, and a native Linux aarch64 version is now available.

The scripting generation engine is improved, and the app now supports Brotli 1.1.0 and Zstd 1.5.5 backend.

PeaZip 9.7.0 release is primarily meant to update app's foundations: sources are now built with Lazarus 3.0, Windows dark mode is now fully supported, and a native Linux aarch64 version is now available.

Themes and scripting generation engine are improved, and the app now supports Brotli 1.1.0 and Zstd 1.5.5 backend.

PeaZip 9.6.0 introduces Profiles to separately store all configuration data (including preferences, bookmarks, custom apps, password manager, etc) for different users, or for different purposes, or to easily export the profile to another machine.
The application comes with enhanced GUI - with new optional compact sidebar, better smart sorting, new tab styles - and many under the hood improvements as improved extraction, and better handling of ARC files, and of archives containing errors in TOC.
This release also improves the ability to self-check the integrity of its binaries, including also libraries (.dll, .so, etc) and sfx modules.

PeaZip 9.5.0 brings many under the hood improvements: enhanced performances, can use binaries in system paths, and new batch command switches for archive creation.

A quicker Fast archive browsing mode is now available, and opening speed for large archives was improved in all browsing modes.

Main theme icons were updated, file manager can now remember open tabs, and reopen last closed tab, and it is now possible to quickly change ZIP filenames encoding from the archive browser.

A total of 234 file extensions can now be opened as archives by PeaZip.

PeaZip 9.4.0 introduces support for adding, editing, and removing archive-level comments in RAR and ZIP/ZIPX files, interactively (Alt+M) and from batch scripts, on single or multiple archives at once even of mixed types.

It is now possible to directly add files and folders to archives in Brotli, BZip2, GZip, TAR, WIM, XZ, Zstd, and Zpaq formats (from command line, Automator scripts, .desktop files, and context menu items), and it was updated the (peazip)/res/share/batch folder containing scripting and system integration examples.

A total of 234 file extensions can now be opened as archives by PeaZip, with the addition of Apple iWork file formats.

PeaZip 9.3.0 improves the archive / file manager, adding the ability to display file-level comments in archives, and showing if current archive type can be edited.
Free space is now checked before archiving and extraction tasks.
It is now possible to manually set the Rar.exe or equivalent binary for RAR creation, to improve support for that function on Wine and other non-Windows based alternatives.
7z backend is updated to 23.01, and Pea to 1.13 release.
Themes are improved with new Contrast setting, and being now able to customize icons for archive types.

PeaZip 9.2.0 improves the GUI with more customization options for address bar and tab bar, and re-organizes support section, with easier access to online resources, documentation, issue tracker, and to settings relevant to privacy and security.
Under the hood the support for editing non-canonical archive types was improved, and it is now possible to try different methods to manage unsupported file types.
On Windows, McMilk codecs and sfx modules were updated, to support extra compression methods for .7z format (Brotli, FLZMA2, Lizard, Zstandard...), and on all platforms it is now possible to set an alias for 7z / p7zip backend to easily switch between alternative binaries.

PeaZip 9.1.0 brings a major restyle in application's look & feel and themes, and many usability improvements for the file manager, and archiving / extraction screens.
The scripting engine was refined, with the ability to adapt the syntax for a specific 7z version at runtime, and to export archive conversion tasks as scripts.
Support for TAR, Brotli, and Zstandard formats was improved.
A new PeaZip Portable package for BSD systems on x86_64 architecture is now available.

PeaZip 9.0.0 completes the GUI evolution of 8.x line, both with look&feel updates and with under the hood improvements, making the application easier to customize and adapt to different needs and environments.
Plugin are now simpler to install, support for PAQ and ZPAQ formats support is improved, more options are available for 7z/p7zip backend, and the application can now extract compressed TAR archives in a single step.
A total of 230 file extensions can now be opened as archives by PeaZip, with the addition of .pmdx, .pmvx, .tmdx, and .prdx SoftMaker Office files.

PeaZip 8.9.0 release completes the progress towards the upcoming 9.x line, with many updates both for the UI and under the hood.
Amongst the many improvements, a progress bar is now visible when opening archives, and theming engine was updated to make the application easier to integrate with different desktop environments.
The archive creation / extraction menu was revamped to make easier to add bookmarked or previously visited files and folders, and a new "Add to separate archives" entry is available in app's context menu.
Updated backends: Pea 1.10.

PeaZip 8.8.0 release completes the evolution of the GUI started in previous releases, providing more customization options to better integrate the application in different environments.
It is now possible to automatically test archives after creation, and to propagate Zone.Identifier stream on Windows when extracting archives.
TAR format support was improved, with option to follow pax or gnu standard, and to save owner/group ids and names (on Linux).
Updated backends: 7z 22.01, Pea 1.09.