PeaZip free archiver Change log

Change log

• 2008 03 21
• PeaZip 2.0
• Added support for lpaq8 (read/write), u3p (read only)
• Added support for custom formats, allowing to archive / extract using arbitrary backend utilities
  
• General:
• Added "Search and drag here" option (open system search panel, user can drag found items to archive or layout)
• Gwrap evolved in PeaLauncher
• new PeaLauncher mode showing both GUI and console
• New "Console" tab, allowing to fine tune, save and launch archiving / extraction jobs without modifying the job defined in GUI frontend
• New keyboard shortcuts (see documentation)
  
• Archive creation:
• By default remember last used compression format
• Enabled doubleclick to open file/dirs (in system's file browser) from archive layout
• Explicitely listed "Self-extracting" as format
• Option to append timestamp to archive name
• Pea format no longer needs counter extension if archive is not spanned
• Archive extraction
• "extract selected to" using middle mouse button
• Extract / extract to / test toolbar buttons: new popup menu to apply the action to displayed or selected objects
• Improved prebrowse, now checking number of objects rather than size of the archive, to speed up opening populated archives
  
• Remember rename/overwrite policy for each format
  
• File tools
• Customizable erase file passes (2..16)
• Fixes:
• Resolved possible crash condition on some Windows systems while calling opendialogs (Lazarus Bugtracker ID 0010409, patch proposed by Chris Rorden);
• Resolved bug of application randomly not showing up if ProcessMessages was called when application's windows was not yet visible;
• Code cleanup, IFDEF redesigned to allow easier porting, transparency made available for Win64
• various fixes and improvements
• 2008 03 15
• PeaZip 1.11b (Windows only)
• Original lpaq1 and lpaq5 executables were compressed with upack and could lead to false positive detection from some antivirus products, so they were recompiled from sources and compressed with UPX instead than with upack to avoid this annoyance. PeaZip and PeaZip Portable packages for Windows were consequently rebuilt (1.11b release) with new lpaq executables.
  
• 2008 02 14
• PeaZip 1.11
• Updated PeaZip 1.11 for Linux to fix bug 1893364 (' characters in passwords); Windows version is not affected by this bug.
  
• 2008 01 28
  
• PeaZip 1.11
  
• added full support for FreeArc format: create, extract, browse (flat), test, recover archives;
• new checksum / hash tool for multiple files at once, supports: Adler32, CRC16/24/32/64, eDonkey/eMule, MD4/MD5, Ripemd160, SHA1/224/256/384/512, Whirlpool512;
  
• updated UPX frontend to 3.02;
• updated p7zip frontend to 4.57 (Linux version)
  
• various fixes and improvements
• CRC field added to archive browser
• Fixed a condition which could bring 1.10 version to not show up application's window at application startup.
• 2007 12 08
• PeaZip 1.10
  
• recompiled with Lazarus 0.9.24
• fixed GTK2 visualization bug showing on some Linux distributions
• allowed "create new folder" during output path selection in Windows
• various optimizations (FreePascal version is updated)
  
• 7z frontend updated from 4.56 beta to 4.57 stable (Windows)
• drag and drop:
• from system to main panel
  
• from system to archive creation interface
• from system to archive browsing interface:
• modify archive if allowed for the archive type (add files and folders)
• alternatively open as new archive
• various fixes, improvements and code cleanup
• 2007 11 02
• PeaZip 1.9.3
  
• Added control on open for preview files in archives;
• Added full support to LPAQ5 format;
• Improved selection options (by date, size, packed size, type, attributes), web search and recent list, more recently opened objects displayed first;
• New "file compare" tool: byte to byte compare two files
• Optimized archive browsing speed
• Quick wipe, compare and extract to quick functions
• Updated 7z frontend to 4.56
• Updated Tango and CrystalC themes, updated crypto library in use;
• Various fixes
• Fixed file/dir size issues, now max file size supported by the GUI is 2^64, qword (max is 2^31, signed integer, for files and dirs)
• Work in progress animation during processes in peazip (history button in archive browser) and gwrap 
• 2007 10 06
• PeaZip 1.9.2
• Improved theming and user interface, introduced (and set as default) CrystalC theme, inspired by Everaldo's Crystal and Crystal Clear themes (LGPL), as alternative to classic Tango-inspired theme;
  
• Uniformed "format options" GUI in Create archive interface > Options tab;
• p7zip forntend updated to 4.55 version (Linux);
• Conf file commented (human readable);
  
• Gwrap
• added faster response mode, allowing to pause and resume jobs and change process priority;
• Pea
• added file wipe utility (secure file deletion), accepting multiple filenames as input;
• Fixes:
• "extract" functions now authomatically extracts content always out of PeaZip's temporary folder;
• Run with associated and custom application now are compatible with more applications;
• W.Ehrhardt's SHA512 unit 3.21 hotfix;
  
• various minor fixes and improvements.
• 2007 09 08
• PeaZip 1.9.1
  • added LPAQ1 compression format, full support;
  • added PAQ8O archive format, full support;
  • improved file recognition, 58 extensions are now handled;
  • UNACE moved as a plugin (not hosted on SourceForge): now the base package contains only open source software released under OSI-approved licenses;
  • updated 7z frontend to 4.55, p7zip to 4.53;
  • code cleanup, various minor fixes and improvements (.quad uncompressed size, layout composer size when adding objects larger than 4GB etc);
  • added menu entries for split/join files without passing for most comprehensive create archive/open archive interface;
  • improved theming and icons, now all graphic is skinnable;
  • archive browser:
    • improved extraction path handling, "extract to" functions changes default extraction path for current session so all extraction related operations are performed in the last user-provided path;
    • added "Extract all to" button to toolbar;
    • improved archives handling, password field is higlighted when archive encryption is detected;
    • improved context menu:added Info entry, "preview" and "extract and run" transformed in submenus, added "reset extraction path" and "extract to new folder" switch;
• 2007 08 10
• PeaZip 1.9
• New tabular look, updated graphic;
• New theming scheme (3 colors only, custom icon's folder, all graphics but imglist and buttons is now customizable);
• Enabled multiple selection in archive layout composer and archive browser (selection as in previous versions available as option);
• AZ/ZA sorting clicking on column's header for layout composer and archive browser;
• Added (optional) recent archives history, only for archives create/opened from main window;
• Added search on the web functions (archive and open interfaces);
  
• Added benchmark tool;
• Options tabs reorganized (general, create and open tabs);
• Updated 7z frontend to 4.51;
• Updated UPX frontend to 3.01;
• Updated we crypto and checksum/hash libraries in use;
• Updated gwrap executable (new look, supports benchmark mode);
• Updated Pea executable (allows interactive input for split if size is not specified);
• Archive:
• Added exclusion filters wich can be saved in archive's layout (works with 7z binary, otherwise are disabled);
• Added customizable solid block size (.7z format);
• Added DVD DL preset volume size; DVD and DVD DL sizes corrected according to Wikipedia information;
• Added quick selection between favourite formats as customizable popup menu;
• Last used compression method is saved in details to defaults (for 7z binary, .7z and .zip formats);
• 'Compress files open for writing' saved to conf (all formats supported through 7z binary);
• 'Encrypt filenames' function (.7z format) saved to conf;
• Open:
• New archive browser toolbar, reorganized as complete navigation bar;
• Added option to not give detailed information if archive is over a given MB size (much more faster for archives containing many objects);
• Added options to ignore paths for selected and dispayed objects;
• Added Test (all) button;
• Added popup menu to save command line applying the action to all, displayed or selected objects;
• Doubleclick and 'Extract and open' functions are more customizable;
• Archive browser's popup menu:
• Added Preview function to extract and open a file or a folder in a temporary working directory in output path (deleted closing the application or opening another archive);
• Added test and list submenus;
• Extract and Extract to entries gives information about output path and about status of 'extract to a new folder' option.
• 2007 07 17
• PeaZip 1.8.2
• Updated 7z frontend to 4.49 release;
• Fixed gwrap diplay issue with zero or not known size objects.
• Fixed PeaZip issue saving window size;
• Fixed filetype recognition for UPX frontend.
• 2007 07 10
• PeaZip 1.8.1
• Updated 7z frontend to 4.48 release;
• Create archive: now archives are named, as default, after selected object;
• Linux version: fixed issue with Gnome desktop environment passing %20 instead of space character in filenames;
• Available also as DEB package.
• 2007 06 14
• PeaZip 1.8
• Linux packages updated: execute permission corrected for all binaries.
  
• 2007 06 10
• PeaZip 1.8
• Linux packages updated to use p7zip 4.47.1 instead of 4.47.
  
• 2007 06 08
• PeaZip 1.8
• New:
  
• Updated frontend to use 7z 4.47 beta, adding support for archiving open for writing files, fast Deflate and Deflate64, read/write AES encrypted ZIP files (WinZip AE standard);
• Added read support for ACE archives;
• Added read support for SLP (Stampede Linux package);
• Added suggest password function to generate 4-64 character random passwords (in create keyfile panel);
• Added "Extract to..." entries in archive browser's context menu to allow quick extracion of all archive, or displayed content, or selected object(s) to arbitrary path;
  
• Doubleclick action in archive browser is now customizable (just extract the item, extract and open the output path, extract and run...);
• New tabular layout for graphic wrapper, with compression ratio and speed (logarithm) graphics;
  
• Added "Halt system when job finishes" option to job's graphic wrapper.
• Naming convention change: package-version.subversion.(bin/src/doc).SYSTEM.WIDGETSET.architecture
  
• On SourceForge installable and portable packages are now separated in two distinct groups.
  
• Fixes:
• Fixed archive output name in save dialog, now displayed wit extension;
• Fixed some issues in options handling in 7z frontend;
  
• Code cleanup; moved p7z to 7z path, removed many conditional sections unifying Win and *x syntax;
• Open file, path or URL from PeaZip features ported to Linux (using Gnome or KDE);
• Linux version: resolved some GUI issues on GTK2 (checkbox click behaviour, replacing onclick with onchange on Linux) and GTK1 (shapes overlapping with other objects);
• Other minor fixes.
• 2007 05 18
• PeaZip 1.7
• Released generic Linux RPM package PeaZip-1.7-2.i586.rpm, based on PeaZip1.7_Linux_x86_GTK2.tar.gz, installs PeaZip in /usr/bin/peazip/ path.
• 2007 05 14
• PeaZip 1.7
• New:
  
• Frontend for QUAD 1.12 and UPX 3.0;
• Windows installer now can create context menu entries alongside the usual SendTo links;
• Linux versions reduced of about 4 MB of uncompressed space due to compression with UPX of gwrap and pea binaries (from about 14 to about 10 MB);
  
• Added keyboard shortcuts to create archive and browse archive interfaces;
• Added -add2zipmail, -add2sfx7zmail and -add27zmail quick functions to send archives to compatible mail client;
• Updated information texts and links, changed button text and window title during archive definition;
• Updated Pea executable look and feel (Pea 0.13).
  
• New options:
• Save default compression/extraction paths;
• Save archive browser settings;
  
• Fixes:
• Patched PAQ8* executables for a known problem on Windows Vista only;
• Fixed bug in saving default archiving format;
• Fixed bug in handling relative filenames.
• 2007 04 12
  • PeaZip 1.6 (updated PeaZip1.6_Win32.exe, _source.zip and _documentation.zip)
    
    • quik links parameters to send input to separate archives corrected in -add2separate7z and -add2separatezip
      
• 2007 04 10
  • PeaZip 1.6
    • New features:
      
      • new graphic and icons, better layout for some GUI elements like password fields;
        
      • last used compression settings are now automatically saved;
      • password is asked, if missing, when extracting, listing or testing an encrypted archive;
      • created quick functions to add each input object to a separate zip or 7z archive;
      • job's graphic wrapper now:
        • displays (approximate) progress bar;
        • allow stopping jobs;
        • allow auto closing the form after the job completes;
        • features a button to open output path (Windows only);
          
      • frontend for QUAD 1.11 compressor;
      • enabled read support for PET, PUP, PK3 and PK4 files;
      • Windows installer allows to customize file associations for each extension and to define which links to quick functions are to be created in SendTo menu;
    • New options:
      • auto close job's graphic wrapper when job ends, default off; may be overridden from the graphic wrapper for each job;
        
      • disable information-level messages, default on;
      • show password field's text (to avoid entering password confirmation), default off;
    • Fixes:
      • "tar before"
        • the option automatically updates when adding objects to archive;
        • some rare freeze condition fixed;
• 2007 03 19
• PeaZip 1.5
• Updated PAQ compressors frontend and added support to PAQ8L;
  
• Updated QUAD compressor frontend and replaced QUAD 1.07 with 1.09;
  
• Fixed "Extract and..." functions if a directory is selected (extract the whole directory, always keeping paths);
• Fixed bug of dynamic update of comboboxes in Linux version: now also in Linux is possible to choose fine grained compression options for 7z supported formats);
• Recompiled PeaZip and Pea using W.E.'s crc_hash_2007-03-07 unit;
• New PeaZip's archive multi-resolution icon for Windows, including 256*256 icon for Windows Vista, inspired by Tango generic archive's icon.
  
• 2007 03 05
  
• PeaZip 1.4
• Support improvements:
• Input objects can be archived in TAR format before being sent to any other archiver/compressor;
• Strip and UPX compression frontend added to reduce size of executables;
• Added full support to Ilia Muraviev's QUAD compression format.
• Executables recompiled using W. Ehrhardt's crc_hash_2007-02-14 updated source package.
• FreeDesktop integration package (instructions and .desktop files) is now part of PeaZip and is included in all Linux packages.
  
• Various fixes and enhancements:
• More neutral color theme adopted by default;
• "Create KeyFile" moved as subfunction in create archive interface, and "About" as subfunction in main panel;
• Window state (size, position) saved on exit;
• Job log popup (console mode) made optional (default on);
  
• Double click to extract and open archived object in archive browser interface;
• Added "Extract and open with" context menu (for Windows only) for create archive and archive browser interfaces;
• "Extract and open" and "Extract and open with" functions can extract objects directly to archive's path (default), or, optionally extract object preserving full path structure from archive;
  
• Added shortcut functions for:
• adding object to archive (opening create archive interface);
• opening multiple, composite archives in archive browser interface (in separate instances of PeaZip);
• In Windows, shortcut functions are created in SendTo path in order to resolve issues of Vista with subfolders in SendTo path;
• Fixed: batch loading of objects from shorthcut functions not longer stops encountering non supported objects.
• 2007 02 02
• PeaZip 1.3
• For 7z-supported archive types it is introduced in-archive support for "Add" (or update) and "Delete" operations;
• Introduced full support (creation, flat browsing and extraction) to PAQ8F and PAQ8JD archives through frontend to multiple PAQ compression utilities;
• W. Ehrhardt's sources updated with util_2007-01-26.zip package;
  
• Minor enhancements and fixes, notably:
  
• "Open with" dialog in Windows if "Extract and run" operation encounters an unknown filetype;
• File extension not stripped when creating BZip2 archives.
• 2007 01 23
• PeaZip 1.2 (revision b):
• PeaZip and Pea binaries recompiled using W. Ehrhardt's whirl512 unit version 0.33 21.01.07;
• Fixed extraction of archived objects with names beginning with '.' through 7z binary.
  
• 2007 01 20
• PeaZip 1.2
• various functional UI improvements:
• navigational browser to explore and selectively extract archive's contents;
• optional falt mode for the archive browser;
  
• advanced multiple inclusion and exclusion filtering mechanism in alternative to archive browsing for selective extraction of contents;
• save job definition feature extended also to the graphic wrapper;
  
• various usability and look&feel enhancements;
  
• 7z replaces 7za as backend archiver application to support more types of common archive formats; now PeaZip handles:
  
• full support: 7Z, BZ2, GZ, PEA, split, TAR, ZIP;
• browse/extract only support: ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB, ISO, Java archives, LHA, LZH, some MSI, Nsis exe, OOo file formats, RAR, RPM, Z.
• 2006 12 04
  • PeaZip 1.1
    • executables built with Lazarus 0.9.20;
    • built Linux versions (x86) for GTK1 (tested on GTK1.2) and GTK2 (tested on GTK 2.8);
    • built Windows standalone and installable versions, tested on 98, 2000 and XP;
      
    • Windows installer: the program is now installed in "Programs" path with shortcuts in "SendTo"; setup creates by default file association only with .pea and .001 (split file's first volume) formats and asks to optionally associate other filetypes (.7z, .bz2, .gz, .tar, .Z, .zip) with PeaZip;
    • shell integration: created shortcut in "SendTo" to send files and folders to PeaZip, and multiple shortcuts with fixed paramstr(1) to quick access to most used PeaZip functions:
      • add to archive (.7z, .pea, .zip types) or self-extracting archives (7z compressed);
      • encrypt files and folders (.pea encrypted archive);
      • split file;
      • "extract here" and "extract to new folder here", allowing parallel extraction of multiple archives (of different types) at once;
      • test and list archive(s), allowing parallel testing or listing of multiple archives of composite types at once;
        
    • fixed some Windows 9x-specific issues: the code about disabling transparency support for that platform doesn't longer rise errors; TSpinEdit component behaves correctly;
      
    • "Archive" features:
      • UI improvements: single step to archive, introduced "Passes" option in 7za frontend (Deflate, Deflate64 and BZip2), changed "fast" and "fastest" settings in 7za frontend (Deflate and Deflate64) for high speed compression, customised icons of 7-zip's sfx modules;
      • resolved issues: in Linux version is now possible to choose compression level parameter (7za frontend); changing archive type no longer reset custom archive name, raw file split no longer loose original file extension;
    • "Open" features:
      
      • introduced filters support for selective partial extraction (or listing) of content from 7za-supported archives;
        
      • UI improvements: created [#] label to quick listing archive's content (7za archives only), extract to new folder yes/no option (7za frontend) promoted to a separate option group, output selection now uses a folder selection dialog.
• 2006 11 06
• PeaZip 1.0
• Pea-Peach project renamed in PeaZip project to spot the shift of focus toward a more general purpose free archiving utility;
• created frontend and graphic wrapper for Igor Pavlov’s 7za (and Myspace's POSIX port of 7za), introducing full support to 7z, BZip2, GZip, Tar and Zip format and browse/extract support to Z format;
• various interface improvements; used some icons from Tango Project.
  
• 2006 10 02
  
• Pea-Peach release 0.12: [update recommended]
  
• bugfix: CRC64 was partially saved (only last 32 bit) now fixed, update recommended;
• new feature: Peach can now save job definition scripts;
• Windows _all and _2K-XP packages unified in a single build for all Win32 versions (as .zip package and as executable installer), Linux GTK1 build released as .tar.gz;
  
• minor fixes and interface improvements;
• built with Lazarus 0.9.18.
  
• 2006 09 20
  
• Pea-Peach release 0.11:
  • UnPEA procedure is now able to extract whole disks from a .pea archive;
    
  • improved random number generation keeping a persistent source of randomness trough sessions;
  • minor fixes and improvements.
    
• 2006 09 16
• First public release of Pea-Peach project: open source, free archiving utility for handling PEA archives and to split/join files; Pea 0.10, Peach 0.10; PEA file format 1.0