PeaZip 9.2.0

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

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

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 9.9.0

PeaZip 9.9.0 completes the evolution of 9.x line and sets the starting point for the upcoming 10.x releases, adding internal drag and drop extraction, from file browser to any folder in left sidebar - which shows 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 8.9.0

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

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.

PeaZip 8.7.0

PeaZip 8.7.0 release comes with a simpler to use interface with re-organized options, improved file manager, and refreshed themes.
Sources package was re-organized for better usability.
Updated backends: Pea 1.08, and 7z 22.00.

PeaZip 8.6.0

PeaZip 8.6.0 release comes with new themes and improved, easier to customize UI layout.
It is now possible to use custom compression pre-sets (either built-in or user defined) from command line and scripts, and to set immediate execution for custom compression pre-sets.
Updated backends: Pea 1.07, and (Linux) Zstd 1.5.2.

PeaZip 8.5.0

PeaZip 8.5.0 release improves the packages for macOS platform, with macOS-style keyboard shortcuts, integration with macOS context menu, full support to "move to trash" deletion (both from file manager, and after compression / extraction operations), and support for Brotli, Zpaq, and Zstandard backends. macOS system integration is fully scriptable through Automator .workflow scripts, see sample service menus in (peazip)/res/share/batch folder.

File manager was improved, and now allows more alternative styles (large list and large details) on Linux.

It is now possible to optionally integrate PeaZip in Windows 11 mini-context menu from .reg scripts in (peazip)/res/share/batch folder.
This release improves scripting, usage of layouts (files defining advanced inclusion and exclusion filters, and optionally input list), and updates compression settings.

Updated backends: 7z 21.07, Pea 1.06, and Zstd 1.5.2.

PeaZip 8.4.0

PeaZip 8.4.0 is the first release providing experimental native packages for Darwin / macOS platform, built for aarch64 M1 Apple Silicon SoC, and Intel x86_64.
This release brings fixes, improvements in management of temporary files, option to stop test batches only if errors are detected, and new language selection control.
A new alternative benchmark is available, based on integer and floating point arithmetic, testing single core and multi core performances.
PeaZip now comes with updated backends: Pea 1.05, and 7z 21.06, which is now employed on all platform.
On Linux, 7z backend replaces p7zip, which is still fully supported as alternative.

New peazip-x.y.z.pack package is meant to help developers to create packages of PeaZip for various package management systems (e.g. DEB, RPM), containing packages' directories from last build.
It does not replaces or duplicates the function of sources package peazip-x.y.z.src, as it is simply meant to help packaging the application for a specific distribution system, rather than compiling and building the binaries of the application.