PeaZip 7-Zip based free zip software

2013 01 31

4.8.1

FILE MANAGER

Added shared sync folders to predefined system paths for navigation, extraction and compression, automatically detected: Dropbox, Google Drive, SkyDrive, Ubuntu One
Bar toggling buttons (tools, address, navigation) now displays context menu on click for faster switching and better discoverability of alternative bars
Navigation menus were uniformed and was reduced duplication of navigation features
Details view now by default without thumbnails for more speed and lower resource usage, quicker switching to icons and images mode in Status bar
Improved bookmarking

Any file type can be bookmarked, bookmarked non-archive files are opened with associated applications
Bookmarks can be added by drag and drop from the system and from PeaZip

Status bar

Two icons for faster and more intuitive switching details / icons and pictures styles
Password / Keyfile icon on the right side, alongside other icons
One click button to close advanced views (bookmarks, clipboard, etc) and return to status bar
Reduced amount of information displayed on right side about navigation and selection, for better focus on important information

Address bar

Address filed / search filed separator can now be adjusted
Search context menu displayed clicking on search button
Refresh context menu displays refresh, history and recent archives
Improved switching from breadcrumb to classic address field

Minor visual enhancements, tool bar buttons with text on the side by default for better use of vertical space
Various minor fixes

EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING

Set password control displayed as button and moved in output parameters area for better visibility
Reorganized Extraction and Archiving status bar information

Context menu button in Archiving and Extraction status bar on the left of confirmation button

Favourite archive formats context menu in Archiving interface launches directly compression/conversion in the selected format
Extract here / to new folder context menu in Extraction interface launches direct extraction

Uniformed password information, with same colour code representation of password strength as in Password dialog

WINDOWS INSTALLER

Fixed some issues of cascaded menu

limited maximum number of cascaded menu items as some systems does not handle correctly more than 16 elements
for filetypes not associated with PeaZip all the extraction actions are now featured on the bottom of the menu

2012 11 23

4.8

FILE MANAGER

Image manager, handles BMP, JPEG, PNG and TIFF images

rotate, flip, mirror
crop
transform: resize/fit to, and convert in a single passage

Functions side bar: quick acess to alphabetically sorted most commonly used functions of the program
Presets in Organize menu collects most common browser's settings, featured also in Organize group in context menu and in status bar

Browser's presets can be toggled with Alt+6, Sorting is now toggled with Alt+5

Updated themes and PeaLauncher icon
Various minor fixes and enhancements

EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING

Improved mail integration

Send by mail option featured in main archive creation/conversion tab
Send by mail by default now does not keep a copy of the sent archive on the filesystem

Added Keep archive switch to optionally save on the filesystem archives sent by mail
Added -add2multi7zmail and -add2multizipmail switches (for context menu entries) to copress and mail
Added "Zip and mail" context menu entry, enabled by default, in context menu install screen

Added WIM to quick format selection menus
Fixed Convert quick format selection popup menu when browsing archives, only formats suitable for conversion procedure are presented
Fixed opening with custom application inside ARC format
PeaLauncher minimized status is inherited by following instances, in order to not steal focus when multiple instances are operating in background
Previewing archived files with PeaZip sets the temporary copy read only, so the user is presented "save as" dialog if files are changed

WINDOWS INSTALLER

New installation option "No system integration", avoids menu entries and file associations
Default, Custom and No system integration options are now available in the Options > System integration wizard

2012 10 28

4.7.3

171 file extensions supported: added explicit support for Open Packaging Conventions file formats (Windows 8 .appx, AutoCAD .dwfx, .xps, etc)
Fixed: it is now possible to disable multithreading for 7z backend
New high resolution Windows icon for the application
Updated Spanish, and Galician translations

2012 09 18

4.7.2

BACKEND

ZPAQ updated to 4.04

FILE MANAGER

Fixed: corrected some extraction jobs not being launched from "Console" tab reporting illegal character in job definition
Re-introduced by default "Extract here" and "Extract here (to new folder)" in SendTo menu
Start with no selection so "Add", "Convert", and "Extract" starts a new empty layout by default
Minor: full screen and Immersive shortcuts listed in Organize > Dock; bars color changed to clForm in themes (better integrates in Windows 8 UI); improved layout of Settings form for better support variable sized fonts

EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING

Fixed: Two-factor authentication not enabled for self executable archives, only the password is applied as sfx module supports only password authentication

PeaLauncher shows the name of the archive in form title during extraction

2012 08 21

4.7.1

Updated translations
Various fixes and UI enhancements

Improved Advanced filters form

Improved Console tab in extraction and archiving interfaces

Uniformed Button Panels design over the application

2012 08 13

4.7

FILE MANAGER

Quick approximate calculation of possible compression in Archive creation interface and with List function
Calculation of password strength in password form
Random password generation (Ctrl+F9) can optionally create password containing symbols alongside mixed case characters and numbers
(Windows) Added "Move to recycle bin" deletion mode, default action pressing Del key; quick deletion moved to Ctrl+Del shortcut
Various minor improvements

Show thumbnails flag featured in quick browser organization menus (in context menu and status bar)
Open as archive featured in Open with dropdown menu in File manager bar

EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING

Added semaphore to improve performances, optimize system's resource usage, and increase reliability operating on multiple instances launched from system's context menu

"Extract here" and "Extract here (in new folder)" function uses semaphore to schedule one job at time, password requests are prompted at once to optimize user's time usage and don't interrupt scheduler's work
"Extract to..." function, that already creates a single job queue, can operate in parallel to the semaphore when it is needed by the user to launch other independent jobs

Main extraction parameters are reported in extraction interface's form caption and on drag and drop information box

158 file extensions supported (added .tb2)

2012 07 11

4.6.1

Added context menu to all "+" areas to quickly customize all function bars
Updated translations
Minor fixes

2012 06 13

4.6

BACKEND

Pea backend updated to 0.40
UPX backed updated to 3.08

CODE

Updated used Wolfgang Ehrhardt's crypto libraries with packages crc_hash_2012-03-27, ppch_2012-03-27, and util_2012-03-27

FILE MANAGER

Added "Recent archives" group in Navigation bar
Added quick link to "Users" folder in Filesystem group (in Navigation bar and navigation menus)
Improved quick jump context menu (Navigation bar, breadcrumb), now displaying first 4 bookmarks and first 4 recent archives for quick access
Improved address bar dropdown menu bar
Improved application toolbar

Added secure delete and properties buttons to archive manager toolbar, improved additional functions drop down menu
New file manager toolbar containing buttons of most common file management features
"+" icon on the right of the toolbar area toggles archive manager and file manager toolbars, consistently with navigation and status bar

Improved handling of Pea file format and of utilities provided through Pea backend

PEA/UNPEA operations now takes password/keyfile from PeaZip consistently with other formats
Pea format volume check algorithm is now set in context sensitive way with PeaZip GUI, if password is set AES EAX256 encryption is used, else SHA hash is used
Pea executable auto closes if no error is encountered, improving its use for chained operations: PEA/UNPEA, file split/join, secure delete

Improved saving resource usage when displaying several thousands of items, update intervals are better scaled
Updated themes
Fixed: dynamically loading SHMultiFileProperties to allow running the application on Windows 2000 and previous systems
Various minor fixes and improvements

Added switches -add2archive-add add to existing archive (if found) and -add2archive-update as previous switch, but updates only if files in archive are older
Improved browsing UNC paths
Improved displaying file types and icons inside some types of archive
Reorganized System tools submenu

157 extensions supported: added support for IMA, IMG and IMZ disk images, and AIR Adobe installer files

2012 05 10

4.5.1

Added support for Open Office 1.x fils (SX*/ST*), PCV MozBackup files, BSZ (BS Player), RMSKIN (Rainmeter), WSZ/WAL (Winamp), and WMZ (Windows Media Player) skin files
Fixed untranslated strings in UI
Fixed bug in navigating non mapped network paths from the breadcrumb

2012 04 10

4.5

FILE MANAGER

Added keyboard shortcuts

Ctrl+Alt+F3 (web search form) and Shift+Alt+F3 (web search on peazip.org)
Ctrl+F5 (open path) Shift+F5 (open archive)

(Windows) New quick window docking menu: send PeaZip to the four sides and angles of the desktop with Ctrl+Alt+arrow

(Windows) Added "Properties" dialog in context menu
Added switches

-add2multiseparate: start a single instance, add multiple input to archive, each to separate archive
-add2multisplit (replaces add2split): start a single instance, add multiple input to file split (consolidate in tar if it is not a single file)
-ext2browseasarchive: force opening the file as archive

(Windows) Added "Check for updates" feature in help group
Fixed display the application in foreground when started
(Windows) Improved startup times in slow network environment

By default, does not get mapped network drives information

If set to get information, in case of failure the switch is ignored for the session, and then tried again in next sessions

Improved "Save job definition"

Featured as context menu in archiving and extraction interfaces
(Windows) by default saves as .bat file with default system's character encoding, so the script can be directly executed

It is now possible to save job definition for extracting multiple files at once
It is now possible to save job definition for archiving each input item to separate archives
Job definition scripts are saved by default in PeaZip's applications data path (user specific for installable version)

Improved file split/join features

(Windows) Split file featured by default in system context menu
Split is by default a favourite format (Add button's context menu, Archive interface)
Re-introduced file split/join entries in File tools submenu
Selecting Split format automatically switches volume size to Custom
Fixed a graphic glitch in displaying file split buttons
No checksum by default, consistently with default behavior of other file split utilities

Improved file/archive manager

Improved context menu, now divided in 3 functional areas

Archive management (top) add, extract, test, password...
Navigation (middle) navigation and organization features (browser mode, sorting, select)
File management (bottom) open with, rename, delete, properties...

Improved status area

Status area displays a quick switch button between views (same as Alt+8)
Status bar and Details bar displays basic controls to customize browser type and size
Improved Details view

Improved toolbar area, buttons are auto sized for optimal placement
Improved navigation bar

More prominence given to Open path, Open archive, and Search and drag here, moved in a top level branch expaneded by default
Application menu opens selected objects with chosen application, launches the application if nothing is selected
Added quick jump context menu to navigation bar (same popup menu as for the root of breadcrumb in the address bar)

Improved Web search adding search in Google+ and SourceForge

WINDOWS INSTALLER

(Windows 7+) Added option to use non-cascaded menu as alternative to default cascaded menus (flag Custom during installation, or run System integration wizard)
Added -ext2browseasarchive "Open as archive" action for any file type
Added "Extract archives" to any file type when the menu is cascaded, as quick shortcut to open extraction interface (accepts dropping files) or fallback if an archive type is not associated with PeaZip for any reason
Removed emergency Start menu link "Reset PeaZip", moved as .bat in PeaZip's /res folder
SendTo menu by default features Add, Extract, Open as archive, and Browse path with PeaZip entries

2012 01 29

4.4

FILE MANAGER

136 file extensions supported (added .oxt file format)
Fixed integration of PEA format with context menu
Fixed untranslated text in Password form
Improved extraction against unintended automatic extraction without paths: when extracting while browsing in flat mode the ignore paths directive is overridden
Improved deleting directories, first retry automatically (in case files temporarily locked by the system or resident software during the first attempt), then ask user about possible locked files
Improved -peazipreset switch for selective removal of configuration and of customizations (Applications, Bookmarks, and Password manager)
It is now possible to use only keyfiles for encryption (alongside only password, or both), consistently with Password manager encryption
Password manager shows up to date dropdown menu in Password form each time it is updated

EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING

Archiving and extraction interfaces were made simpler to read and use

Input area is now in the top side of the form in the first tab, output area (with output name and most important options) is in the bottom area
Removed redundant information and graphic
Improved aspect with larger fonts, and on Linux
In archiving interface compression level option was added in the first tab, and output name fild can be directly edited (changing archive type and using dialog displays standard name suggestion, as in previous versions)

WINDOWS INSTALLER

By default now only "Add to archive" and "Browse path with PeaZip" are created in SendTo menu

2011 12 26

4.3

BACKEND

Added support to open as archive EPUB ebook file format, a total of 135 file extensions are supported - formats usually not handled as archives can be opened from PeaZip's context menu "Open as archive" rather being associated with the application directly, which would be inconvenient for most users.

FILE MANAGER

Address field can now be set to be viewed as breadcrumb (default) or string, with "Show address as breadcrumb" flag in address bar navigation dropdown menu
Improved password management

Flag "Keep password for current session" (default) in password form, to remember password and keyfile for the current session; unflagging this option password and keyfile are kept until a new archive is browsed

Fixed bug in keeping "Show password" flag

Keyfile field now accepts paste and free edit

Password manager

passwords list (may even contain keyfiles name, if desired) can be saved with authenticated encryption and optional two factor authentication
a default password is used unless the user sets password and/or keyfile, recommended to keep privacy of data saved in the password manager
once password/keyfile is set, authentication will be required before accessing data from password manager
password list is shown in password form, in the dropdown menu on the left of password filed (when selected, are automatically applied to confirmation field)
password and notes can also be copied and pasted where needed, i.e. password manager can be used to store passwords for other applications, websites, etc
password list can be exported

as plain text file, containing unencrypted data, for any use
as encrypted file, for backup

a password list's .bak file can be manually imported back as password manager file, renaming it as pm (no extension) and copying it to PeaZip's configuration path (linked in Options > Settings); this file will have the same content and password it had when it was originally saved. This mechanism in example allows to roll back to a previous password list, or maintain various off line password lists, or exchange protected password lists with other users or other machines

Improved search

It is now possible to set search recursivity from search popup menu
It is now possible to set default for search recursivity

Fixed: create ARC with relative paths fails if path contains space
Open as archive moved to root level of file browser context menu for better visibility

2011 11 20

4.2

FILE MANAGER

Immersive mode for file browser (full screen, no window border), toggle with Ctrl+F11 (option is volatile, not saved in configuration, it is just meant for enhancing browsing space on request)
Improved custom applications menus

allows 8 more applications, links or scripts
automatically detects recent AVG versions, Microsoft Security Essentials, Google Chrome

Improved thumbnail viewer

does not rebuild thumbnails when sorting
free memory changing small/large icon size

Fixed: (Windows) browsing computer's root may fail at application startup
Fixed: (Windows) loading list of objects from system context menu may not work under some conditions, only the first time application runs in a session
Fixed: descending sorting is now remembered
Fixed: correct size is now reported in status bar for selected items over 2GB
Various minor fixes and improvements

EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING

ARC format, now archiving relative paths by default, optionally absolute paths can be stored (advanced options tab in archive creation interface)
More information dispayed in report tab during operation: completed strings are displayed

WINDOWS INSTALLER

Reduce packages size

some superseeded formats' programs (lpaq1/5, paq8f/jd/l) moved to external plugin
uses uncompressed Winodws icons (package compression is more efficient)

2011 10 22

4.1

BACKEND

Pea 0.39

CODE

Optimized installer, help file is now by default online, users save it locally only if desired

FILE MANAGER

File tools

Checksum/hash (selected/displayed) files fully integrated in file manager, algorithm can be selected from a wide array of 15 algorithms: Adler32, CRC16/24/32/64, eDonkey, MD4, MD5, Ripemd160, SHA1, SHA224/256/386/512, Whirlpool512

Fast duplicate finder (selected/displayed) fully integrated in file manager, can find duplicate files in directories or search filters, uses the algorithm selected for Checksum/hash function

Split/Join file entry hidden in File tools submenu, as the features are fully integrated in Add/Extract

Fixed: quick and secure delete functions can now operate on read only files (Windows)

Improved handling potentially lengthy job interacting with file manager

checksum, find duplicates and rename displays progress in title bar, and have an uniform activity indicator (progress bar in address bar), and uniform model for stopping (stop button in address bar)

Improved address bar

Added history context menu to back and forward icons

Added computer's root icon in address bar's breadcrumb

Added context menu with synthetic quick jump list (most common filesystem paths and bookmarks 1..8) to computer's root icon

Keyboard shortcuts

Ctrl+F2 copy to
Shift+F2 move to
Ctrl+F4 browse computer root (Ctrl+U removed)
Shift+F4 browse desktop
F7 add to bookmarks
Ctrl+F7 open in a new instance of PeaZip
Shif+F7 open command prompt in selected path
Alt+F7 explore selected path
Advanced filters shortcut changed to Shift+F9
Ctrl+F10 run as different user
Alt+F10 run as administrator
F11 toggle maximized mode

Rename single or multiple selected files using middle mouse button
Search

Searching from filter field now apply recursivity, if set, as searching with F3

Simple search mode in Organize menu (optional, flagged by default) for easier searches

Various speed and responsiveness improvements
(Windows Vista and newer) UAC integration: main menu Options > Run as administrator (Alt+F10) to perform operations requiring elevated permission
(Linux) fixed problem in Ctrl+A to select all

EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING

Archiving path is cheched if accessible and writeable before attempting to write the output file
More information given in the graphic wrapper during extraction/archiving operations

2011 09 19

4.0

FILE MANAGER

(Windows) File manager shows image thumbnails and information about graphic files, only while browsing/searching the filesystem

thumbnails does not get stored

thumbnails calculation generates a set of 4 dedicated threads, if folder or search filter is changed a new set of threads is created and old threads are stopped as soon as possible (file level and thread level granularity: each thread can be stopped separately, at the completition of each image)

Organize > Show picture thumbnails in main menu toggle the feature on/off

No file is selected when an archive is opened (generally, anytime listing root level of the archive), so by default extract button performs "extract all"
F2 remapped to rename file(s) as in Windows' file explorer

Unchanged: Ctrl+F2 browse desktop, Shift+F2 browse computer root, Ctrl+Shift+F2 browse archive's root

EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING

PeaLauncher improved as standalone application, at startup accepts drag and drop of a single archive to be extracted (or alternatively it can start file selection dialog)
Elapsed time string shows minutes and seconds if the job takes more than one minute

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