PeaZip 8.3.0

PeaZip 8.3.0 adds Deflate and Deflate64 options for .7z format, improves theming, command line usage, management of preferred checksum/hash algorithms list, and management of temporary work files,
The release is focused on improving the support for Linux, and to make easier to port or package the application in environments mandating a precise filesystem hierarchy structure, separating architecture-dependent binary resources from other types of rersounces packaged with the application.
Full list of changes and fixes is available at https://peazip.github.io/changelog.html

PeaZip 8.2.0

PeaZip 8.2.0 is focused on improving use from command line and scripts, and introduces (peazip)/res/batch folder which contains sample scripts and system integration files both for Linux and Windoes (SendTo and freedesktop_integration folders are moved here).
The archive manager is now capable of optionally displaying compression/encryption method, and modified, created, accessed timestamps for each item in archive, and to display number of items contained in each folder.
It is now possible to chose to keep extracted files even in case errors occurred during the extraction, and working with spanned files was improved.
Smart extraction is now available as default action to take at program's startup, alongside Open, Open as archive, Extract (full), Extract here.
This release also improves user experience on Linux systems improving the automatic configuration of applications for "open with" actions, and displaying more system's paths in the file manager.
DEB and RPM installers are extensively updated, with application now being installed in /opt/peazip.
Backend were updated to Brotli 1.0.9 (Linux).
A total of 225 file extensions can now be managed by PeaZip, with addition of .apkm, .apks, and .aab Android package formats, and of Lzip .lz (supported on Linux versions only).

PeaZip 8.1.0

PeaZip 8.1.0 is focused on tuning performances, opening large archives faster and using less RAM - sample archive containing 256K items opens 4x faster with -35% RAM usage.
Archive conversion procedure is improved, new user-provided themes are available, and on Windows systems Extract32 own utility can be set as alternative extractor for CAB files.
Backend were updated to Pea 1.02, Zstd 1.50, Tino Reichardt's 7Z codecs 1.5.0r1 (Windows), and szcnick p7zip 17.04 (Linux) which supports Brotli, Lizard, and LZ5 as the Windows counterpart.
Windows installer can now accept language as command line parameter.
A total of 220 file extensions are now supported by PeaZip, with addition of .whl (Python) and .gem (Ruby) container formats.

PeaZip 8.0.0

PeaZip 8.0.0 introduces many under the hood updates, improving how container type files are managed for browsing and conversion, improving use of TAR format, allowing to create scripts requiring interactively typing password, improving search, preview functions, random password generation.
GUI was updated with new style menu and icons in status bar to make easier to change look&feel on the fly - i.e. switch from list to viewer mode for previewing images.
It is now possible to customize the default action PeaZip will take opening an associated file type - open (as usual) or directly extract it.
PEA is updated to 1.01 version, which improves capabilities to run in background and interact with other applications.
On Windows systems, makecab.exe can now be easily used from PeaZip, as pre-set available in Advanced tab of custom archive type screen.
A total of 218 file extensions can now be managed by PeaZip, with addition of .xappx format, and various Open Packaging Conventions filetypes (.3mf, .vsdx, .mmzx, .aasx, .slx, .scdoc).

PeaZip 7.9.0

PeaZip 7.9.0 introduces PEA 1.00, improves temporary files management, enhances GUI usability allowing to customize items spacing and zoom, and improves ZPAQ support, automatically removing extra nesting levels on extraction.
On Linux systems, interactive extraction is now enabled by default, and Qt5 DEB and RPM packages are now available alongside Portable package.

PeaZip 7.8.0

PeaZip 7.8.0 introduces interactive extraction, improves preview, improves drag and drop on Windows, and provides a new Qt5 release on Linux.

PeaZip 7.7.1

PeaZip 7.7.1 introduces fixes, improves handling of special characters.

PeaZip 7.7.0

Release 7.7.0 introduces fixes and improves control over temporary work data.
On Linux it is now possible to use system's p7zip package rather the one provided with PeaZip packages.

PeaZip 7.6.0

PeaZip 7.6 brings fixes and usability improvements, with settings and themes reorganized for clarity, and archive treeview automatically updated when browsing archive content.
It is now possible to use arbitrary custom code page for file names encoding in ZIP archives, and within PeaZip file manager it is now possible to extract items form archives simply using copy/paste keyboard shortcuts.

PeaZip 7.5.0

PeaZip 7.5 introduces new icons to better distinguish main archive types, and brings several improvements for archive management.
New features: extract everything in the archive (or in current path, or search filter) to correctly preview special file types (i.e. executables, html files, multi volume spanned archives), create new folders in existing archives, and option to auto close PeaZip after extraction if no browsing took place - useful in example to quickly preview a downloaded file and having the application to auto close right after extraction.
ZIP and 7Z default compression levels are now set to fast and runs over 4x faster than at normal compression level, with minor impact on compression ratio. This is only meant to offer speed/compression trade-off more fit to general purpose use, compression levels and compression presets works as usual, only the initial default is changed.