PeaZip 10.1.0

PeaZip 10.1.0 provides fixes, updates compression pre-sets, improves the breadcrumb and the navigation side bar, and updates Themes and icons supporting alpha transparency.

Pea 1.21 backend now supports scrypt KDF to improve resilience to password guessing attacks, increasing memory cost up to 1GB per instance.

PeaZip 10.1 on Windows dark mode, compact tool bar and side bar, underlined breadcrumb, icon mode

PeaZip 10.0.0

PeaZip 10.0.0 provides a revamped GUI engine, updates menus, compression pre-sets (TAR.GZ, TAR.XZ, TAR.ZST), and Themes.
File tools menu can now directly save save checksum/hash reports in a format compatible with GNU Coreutils, and allows to search hash values online - i.e. for matching with known values, for detection of know malware, etc.
Backends are updated to 7z 24.08, and Pea 1.20.

PeaZip running on Windows, dark mode, showing large icons

PeaZip 9.9.1

PeaZip 9.9.1 is a minor update, mainly meant to check and update the GitHub repository, providing up to date translations and some fixes.

PeaZip 9.9.x introduces internal drag and drop extraction, from file browser to any folder in left sidebar (which displays Bookmarks, History, and filesystem treeview). File browser is improved (better UAC elevation, and password testing), archive/extraction progress windows is revamped, and quick archive extraction link is now available on the right of the toolbar.

PeaZip 9.8.0

PeaZip 9.8.0 brings new Themes, improved flat mode (optionally display all archive's content at once), and adds the ability to directly extract all or selected items to any path in bookmarks, history or breadcrumb without further confirmation.

Direct extraction is implemented in "Extract to" group of app's context menu, and it is also available in as command line switches for scripts and for system integration (context menus, SendTo items, .desktop files, Automator scripts).

PeaZip 9.7.1

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

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

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.

UPDATE: peazip_portable-9.6.0.LINUX.GTK2.aarch64.tar.gz is now available for aarch64 Linux systems. This is the first native build targeting this architecture, please report any issue and suggestion to improve the package for the future releases.

PeaZip 9.5.0

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

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

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.