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Version history for PeaZip

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Changes for v7.3.0 - v7.3.2

Changes for v7.2.1 - v7.3.0

BACKEND
Pea 0.71 with PEA file format revision 1.2
CODE
Various fixes
FILE MANAGER
Added BLAKE2S and BLAKE2B hashes to
File manager's hash (for file hashing and deduplication)
File tools set of hashes
Optional hash for raw file split
Optional hash for PEA format
Added support for opening as archive modern Linux package formats: .appimage, Ubuntu's .snap, and FreeDesktop Listaller .ipk
Browser now uses smarter sorting for file/directory names
By default now PeaZip tries to open archives containing errors
Errors detected browsing the archive are now notified in status bar, even if it is possible to list archive's content
"Try to open archives contining errors" can be disabled in Options > Settings > Archive manager
Fixed some cases not allowing secure deletion and zero deletion of files
Improved deletion of temporary work files
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING
Added option to not ask confirmation for delete after archiving/extraction, in Options > Settings > Archive manager
Delete is not triggered if errors are detected
Delete is triggered after extraction only in case of complete extraction (extract all)
Added option to set archive time from most recent file in archive, for all 7z/p7zip formats
Added option to improve Brotli compression using more memory at cost of small impact on speed (archives created with this option may not be compatible with some Brotli decompressors)
Added option to improve Zstandard compression using more memory at cost of small impact on speed
Added new advanced options to custom compression settings files, keeping compatibility with setting files created with older versions
Presets were rebuilt accordingly new format
Two new presets: Medium compression with 7z fast, and Fast compression with 7Z fastest
It is now possible to cancel all tasks of a sequence in the case one of the archiving / extraction task fails
WINDOWS & LINUX INSTALLERS
(Windows) Improved installer
(Windows) Installer now available also as .msix package
(Linux) Created generic DEB and RPM packages, x86-64 native
Some binaries, i.e. FreeArc, may need IA32-libs to run

Changes for v7.2.0 - v7.2.1

BACKEND
PEA 0.70
(Linux) UPX 3.96 - updating UPX in Windows packages triggers false positives from multiple antimalware, the update was removed from Windows packages restoring UPX 3.95
CODE
Built with Lazarus 2.0.8
(Windows) Updated custom SendTo menu links for working with 32 and 64 bit systems, packed in SendTo.7z in program's path
Various fixes
FILE MANAGER
(Windows) Added SMART entry to access to system's disk diagnostic data, in application's context menu File manager > System tools
Fixed: CRC and hash values are now reported also for empty files (previously were left blank)
File tools: improved "Checksum/hash file(s)" report window, with the new context menu it is now possible to:
save each single crc or hash value to file, rightclicking on the cell of the value
save all information to file, including all CRC and hash computed
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING
Fixed: advanced compression settings was not preserved after direct creation of archive form context menu
Fixed; various issues with new advanced compression settings mechanism
(Windows) Fixed drag and drop extraction of items with names containing characters non valid for filenames
Context menu Add to 7Z and Add to ZIP now uses compression settings from PeaZip configuration rather than default compression settings, unless a specific level of compression is stated (i.e. Add to 7Z ultra)
WINDOWS & LINUX INSTALLERS
(Windows) Added context menu entries to encrypt to 7Z format (checked by default), and to add to 7Z format with fastest compression (unchecked by default)

Changes for v7.0.1 - v7.1.1

CODE
Various fixes and improvements
improved efficiency of context menu entries
improved file renaming
Updated application and antivirus automatically detected in "Open with" menu
Improved support to Windows Defender and MBAM to scan files from PeaZip archive/file browser
FILE MANAGER
Improved editing files in archive
dialog to update modified preview files now allow 3 choices
"Yes / Clear" update the archive and clear temporary preview data (as in previous versions), mimimize disk occupation and time data is left on the disk
"Yes" update the archive and let temporary preview data on disk to allow instantaneously re-opening files, not needing new extraction, in order to perform new edits
"No" discard changes clearing temporary preview data (as in previous versions)
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING
Added support for Microsoft MSIX app package and ESD image formats
WINDOWS & LINUX INSTALLERS
Improved Windows installer
new default language option is to do not change current installation language
"Add to archive" and "Extract to..." context menu entries are now optional and can be unchecked

Changes for v7.0.0 - v7.0.1

BACKEND
Pea 0.67
CODE
Various memory management, speed, responsivity and stability optimizations
For archive browsing, fast mode (equivalent to previous versions default mode):
Up to -15% memory usage browsing archives containing large number of files
Up to +35% speed browsing and testing for encryption archives containing large number of files
FILE MANAGER
Added mass rename option to prepend progressive number to filenames
Action is available in Context menu, File manager > Rename > 1, 2, 3...
Items will be numbered following the current sorting order, e.g. name, time/date, size, extension...
Added support for navigation with mouse buttons
Button3 go up
Button4 go forward
Button5 go back
New archive browsing optimization option available in Options > Settings > General, Performance group
Normal, no optimization
Fast (default, works as "fast open routine" option in previos versions), stop pre-browsing archives containing very large number of files to preserve performance
Fastest, do not pre-browse archives for very fast opening, as downside this mode does not show archive information, and may non correctly list some out of standard archives
Row select option for file / archive browser is now duplicated in context menu > Navigation for better discoverability
Updated translations
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING
Fixed: archives are tested for encryption before extraction from SendTo menu entries and from command line
Improved detection of multipart archives for automatic deletion after extraction option
Alongside .001 spanning (as in 7-Zip and PeaZip) are now recognized .z01, .zx01, .rar01, .part1.rar spanning conventions followed by WinZip and WinRar

Changes for v6.9.1 - v6.9.2

CODE
Various fixes
FILE MANAGER
(Windows) Setting language for application texts also sets language of context menu entries
this requires elevation if UAC is enabled, works both from application (Options > Language) and from installer

Changes for v6.9.0 - v6.9.1

FILE MANAGER
Configure application and file associations link replicated in Settings, Archive manager tab
Fixes in editing files in archives
Updated translations

Changes for v6.8.1 - v6.9.0

CODE
Updated links of online resources to https form
Various fixes and improvements
FILE MANAGER
Confirmation is now asked before adding, and renaming / moving files inside archives if items with same names already exists *
Files / folders added to existing archive are now added to the directory that is currently being browsed *
"Open as archive" is now the standard action for opening unknown file types with PeaZip, consistently with other file archivers
PeaZip now supports editing files in archives *
Known archive types are automatically asked to be updated when temporary preview files are modified
Auto syncing can be turned off in options General > Auto update modified files in archives
Archives can manually be synced on request from context menu More > Force update modified files in archives
This allows to try to force to sync arbitrary archive types
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING
PeaZip shows estimated remaining time for archive / extract / test operations *
WINDOWS & LINUX INSTALLERS
(Windows) improved handling of file extensions association in installation and unistallation procedures
* for archive typse supported trough 7z/p7zip backend

Changes for v6.7.2 - v6.8.0

BACKEND
Created general purpose dragdropfilesdll.dll to handle drag and drop from application to Windows 32 and 64 bit systems, built from DragDropLazarus Lazarus package (which is required only for compiling the dll), which is based on work of Angus Johnson & Anders Melander (on Delphi), and Michael Köcher / six (on Lazarus)
FILE MANAGER
(Windows) Added native drag and drop from application to system
(Windows) File copy / move / recycle operations are performed in standard GUI dialogs
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING
(Windows) New native drag and drop extraction
On native drag and drop extraction, extra level of directory nesting are automatically removed (unless browsing archive in flat or search mode)
Old custom drag and drop extraction is still available as alternative in Options > Settings > General

Changes for v6.7.1 - v6.7.2

BACKEND
In Help > About screen were added buttons to quickly remove UNACE and UNRAR plugin, if installed, which are based on closed source software and available as separate add-ons
CODE
Various fixes and improvements
FILE MANAGER
Tabs were made more visible in extraction and archiving screens, launcher, etc
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING
When multiple tasks are running, current and overall progress bars are both shown on the bottom of the launcher window
Launcher window can now be sent in background to system tray
tray icon shows progress of current task or tasks list
tray icon context menu allows to pause and stop current task(s), and explore input and output path

Changes for v6.7.0 - v6.7.1

BACKEND
Updated to 7z 19.00
CODE
Recompiled with Lazarus 2.0
Various fixes
FILE MANAGER
Drag and drop extraction results in hiding the main form, consistently to behavior from Extraction and Archiving screens
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING
Extraction: "Smart new folder" option improves and replaces "Remove redundant directory" option
if the new folder contains a single object (file or folder), content is copied outside and the extra folder is removed (removes extra folder layer and preserves original names of archived folders), if copying the content outside the new folder fails, the content is kept in the new folder
smart extraction is meant to guarantee that a single item is extracted, to avoid flooding target directory of multiple unexpected items, and that no unneeded level of directory nesting is added
Improved GUI feedback during preliminary steps of archives conversion and "TAR before" procedures
Improved GUI feedback running option to delete original sources
Improved information shown about running archiving / extraction tasks
WINDOWS & LINUX INSTALLERS
(Windows) Extraction from context menu results in a single queue consistently with behavior from Extraction screen, and consistently with archiving from context menu
(Windows) "Extract here (to new folder)" context menu entry now enforces creation of new folder level (disable smart new folder)
(Windows) "Extract here (smart)" context menu entry (new) enforces using smart new folder option
this item is now flagged by default during installation in place of "Extract here (to new folder)"- can be changed during installation

Changes for v6.6.0 - v6.6.1

BACKEND
Updated backend to UPX 3.95
CODE
Various fixes
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING
Added option to force extraction of unknown file types with PeaZip
check "Extract unsupported file types" option on Advanced tab of extraction screen
check "PeaZip" to force using PeaZip as extractor (default), uncheck "PeaZip" to define a custom extractor
Fixed issue in extraction of ACE files (unace plugin is required, no need to re-download / re-install the existing plugin)
Fixed issues preventing tasks being launched from Console tab in some cases
Working path can be now set to output, temp, custom (user defined directory), or none

Changes for v6.5.0 - v6.5.1

BACKEND
(Windows) 7z 18.01 to fix CVE-2017-17969 and CVE-2018-5996 vulnerabilities in the 17.x backend
CODE
Updated Wolfgang Ehrhardt's libraries aes_2017-11-17, crc_hash_2018-01-01, fca_2017-11-17, serpent_2017-11-17, tf_2017-11-17, util_2018-01-01
Updates to compile with Lazarus 1.8.0 IDE (change to TShellTreeView Path, workaround for TImageList Clear)

Changes for v6.4.1 - v6.5.0

BACKEND
(Windows) 7z 17.01 beta
(Windows) zpaq 7.15
UPX 3.94
FILE MANAGER
Updated GUI and themes
Can now move and rename objects inside existing archives (7z/p7zip supported formats)
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING
Added option to force browsing of archives containing errors (default off)
Added option to show which options are volatile (context dependent) rather than persistent
Improved archive conversion
"Change password" switch (default off) asks to provide a new password to be applied to converted archive(s), otherwise current password (if any) will be applied - decompression stage test current password for each input archive, asking new password in case of error
Improved support for WIM format
in archiving and extraction interfaces, Advanced tab, were added options to operate including NT security information and NTFS Alternate Data Stream
file manager shows SHA-1 hash value for items in WIM archives
Scheduled deletion after archiving/extraction will not be performed if errors are detected
CODE
Privacy directive is available as GUI option
0 default, no password request
1 application asks for password when starts, skippable
2 application asks for password when starts, not skippable (password or keyfile must be provided)
Updated Wolfgang Ehrhardt's crypto library units
crc_hash_2017-06-04
fca_2016-05-01
util_2017-06-04
Various fixes and improvements

Changes for v6.4.0 - v6.4.1

CODE
Added experimental privacy_mode directive (at current state can be changed only from configuration file, or hardcoded at compile time)
meant to help users not forgetting to provide a password when working on sensitive data
0 default, no password request
1 application asks for password when stars, skippable
2 application asks for password when starts, not skippable (password or keyfile must be provided)
FILE MANAGER
Rightclicking on file manager's column header shows context menu for
customizing columns
applying on the fly checksum/hash, search for duplicates, and set algorithm for those two functions
save GUI content as tab-separated TXT file
Clicking the style icon on the right of the status bar shows menu of presets for file manager
Style icon now changes reflecting the style applied to the file manager
New "Navigation bar" entry in status bar menu show/hide side navigation bar
(Windows) Drag and drop information floyout changes alpha blending level when a valid drop target is detected
Some keyboard shortcuts were updated
Shift+Ctrl+N create new folder
Ctrl+N extract to new folder
Shift+Del quick delete (do not sent to recycle bin)
Ctrl+Del secure delete
Alt+Enter properties
Various improvements in archive browsing
Various improvements of UI usability with custom system colors
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING
During archive update only relevant options are shown, allowing to set password and to change action (add, update, freshen, sync)
WINDOWS INSTALLER
Improved Windows installer and re-configuration wizard
Added system's context menu hotkeys for most used entries
A add to archive (with options)
7 directly add to new 7Z archive
Z directly add to new ZIP archive
O attempt to open any file as archive
B browse path with PeaZip
E extract (with options)
H directly extract here
N directly extract here to new folder

Changes for v6.3.1 - v6.4.0

BACKEND
pea 0.61
crc/hash marks duplicate files
shows number of copies found
to find duplicates, value of best checksum or hash algorithm is checked
(PeaUtils GUI) secure delete removes items from list if successfully erased
(Linux x86-64) p7zip 16.02
CODE
Various fixes, visual updates and code cleanup
FILE MANAGER
Added tabbed browsing
Tab bar is toggled from "Tab bar" entry available in from main menu > Organize, and in address bar and tab bar context menus
Tab bar is also shown clicking on "Open in a new tab" in context menu
Tabs can be added, deleted, moved, and resized
Added rename options (context menu, File manager > Rename) : prepend and append parent directory name
Improved rename dialog (F2)
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING
Added option to archive and extract using relative, full, or absolute paths (non-persistent value, in advanced options) for 7z / p7zip supported archive formats
Improved archive conversion
If "Add each object to a separate archive" is checked (default), no extra root foder is added to the converted archive (supported for conversion toward all 7z/p7zip formats)
If the option is unchecked (consolidate multiple archives into one), it is added an extra folder with archive name to keep content separated

Changes for v6.2.0 - v6.3.0

CODE
Improved DPI awareness
New command line directive "-peaziplanguage" to programmatically change application's localization
second parameter is the name of the localization file, proper localization directory "lang" is resolved by the program
example: peazip.exe -peaziplanguage it.txt
please note if other instances of PeaZip are open, they will overwrite language in configuration when they close
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING
Added hamburger menu button in tabs bar to provide alternative access to archiving/extraction context menu
Improved archive creation screen
Added installer-mode sfx modules for 7z (advanced options tab)
Replicated archiving action options in main options page (7z/p7zip supported types)
Provided new update options: update only items already in archive (ignore extra items on disk), and synchronize archive with content on disk (remove items from archive if removed from disk)
WINDOWS INSTALLER
Improved Windows installer
Archiving, extraction, browsing, and tools groups are now divided by separators for ease of use
"CRC, hash and file tools" (PeaUtils) was added as default entry
Localization can now be set from installer

Changes for v6.0.3 - v6.1.0

FILE MANAGER
Archive directory tree is shown in navigation sidebar while browsing an archive (above Bookmarks) and can be used for navigation or quick exploration of archive directory structure
Added Expand/collapse archive tree toggle in quick history menu, allowing quick inspection of directory structure inside the archive
In-archive breadcrumb improved, now showing list of directories from nodes dropdown menu, consistently with filesystem breadcrumb section
File browser now shows .exe icons on Windows
Can now set starting directory in Options > Settings > Advanced: last visited (default), computer's root, desktop, home, custom (user selected directory)
Fixed showing directories even if omitted in archive TOC
Fixed sorting files without extensions
Various fixes and improvements

Changes for v5.9.1 - v6.0.0

BACKEND
Pea 0.53
file management functions now accepts as input Unicode file/dir names
report can now be displayed as table and as non tabbed clipboard text
PEA format now can handle Unicode file/dir names
(Windows) 7z updated to 15.14
CODE
Recompiled with Lazarus 1.6.0/FPC3
native full support for Unicode filenames superseding PeaZip 5.8/5.9 internationalization mechanism based on internal UTF-8 encoding
Major code cleanup
Remove all now-unnecessary codepage-handling code
Removed all Windows 9x related code
Removed legacy code for pre-XP NT family systems, all features compatible with XP/2003 API will still work on those platforms
Transparence does no longer rely on Windows-only method and is available on any target OS
Various fixes and improvements
FILE MANAGER
Improved navigation bar and menus
New themes "Ten", Win9x/2K inspired "Classic", and XP inspired "Experience"
"Ten" theme is now default
All previous themes "Seven" and "Firecrystal" are still featured (select theme from Options > Setting > Themes)
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING
Can now delete (recycle, quick, zero, secure) the open archive
Can now add directory to extraction; the path is recursively expanded to find archives to queue to extraction procedure
action is available from:
Extract (button and app's context menu)
Extract... entry in system context menu and SendTo menu
-ext2main from command line
Can now test archive files inside directories
Support sorting by extension for solid 7z compression (default on)
WINDOWS INSTALLER
Convert existing archives now optionally available in context menu and SendTo menu

Changes for v5.8.0 - v5.8.1

BACKEND
(Windows) Updated to 7z 15.09
FILE MANAGER
Improved file rename
added option to mass-rename adding timestamp
easy rename clicking already selected item
rename dialog shows quick editing options: lowercase, uppercase, add timestamp
Various aspect improvements
more elements follows the system color scheme
improved aspect of Address and Search bar
added reset search button in Search Bar
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING
Improved UTF-8 support in Windows
can now correctly browse 7z-backend supported archives with UTF-8 characters in path/file name
can now drag and drop (from filesystem and from archives) to target with UTF-8 characters in path name
can now perform all delete operations (send to recycle bin, fast delete, zeroing, secure delete) on files/folders with UTF-8 characters in path/file name
can now copy and move files with UTF-8 characters in path/file name
cannot yet copy directories, or copy file over itself if UTF-8 characters are involved in the command
188 file extensions supported
Added support for EXT2, EXT3 and EXT4 filesystem image files (usually IMG extension), and multi-volume VMDK disk images

Changes for v5.7.2 - v5.8.0

BACKEND:
(Windows) Updated to 7z 15.07, adding support to QUEMU, VirtualBox, and VMWare virtual machine's disk image formats
CODE:
"Free Software compliance" directive (Options > Advanced, previosly named LIBRE_DIRECTIVE) can be either set in configuration or hardcoded at compile time (HLIBRE_DIR const)
1 allow only use of Free Software components 2 allow only use of Free Software components and open archive formats (not encumbered by patents for read nor for write)
Various fixes
FILE/ARCHIVE MANAGER:
(Windows) Improved UTF-8 support
PeaZip can now create and extract archives with UTF-8 filenames, both from application and from system context menu
browsing archives with UTF-8 filenames is possible but it is still under development (warning icon is displayed)
console tab shows if action can be exported as script ANSI-safe (can run on legacy systems regardless the encoding), codepage-safe (can run on legacy systems with same codepage of original device), or if requires full UTF-8 environment (system, command/script interpreter)
Some file management functions now supports UTF-8 filenames
Improved password management
If password is set to not being kept for the entire session, it is cleared after every operation (archiving, extraction, browsing the filesystem) except while browsing archive file, as password may be needed for listing the archive content
Number of files/folders selected for cut/copy is displayed in Clipboard panel and in status bar's hint
188 file extensions supported:
Added support for CPGZ, GPT (GUID Partition Table), QCOW2 QUEMU image, VMDK VMWare Virtual Machine Disk, VDI Oracle VirtualBox Virtual Drive Image

Changes for v5.7.0 - v5.7.1

PeaZip 5.7.1 improves the address breadcrumb, now displaying also in-archive paths for quick navigation, introduces support for creation of split self-extracting archives, and updates file spanning pre-sets adding 25BG Blu-Ray support.
The release comes with 7z 15.05 backend (9.38.1 on Linux), and UNRAR5 plugin available both for Windows and Linux.
Under the hood, the application was compiled with updated math/crypto libraries, using Lazarus 1.4.0 IDE; Windows installer was built with InnoSetup 5.5.6 unicode version, and updated to improve integration with Windows 10 and 8.1 systems.
183 file extensions are now supported.

Changes for v5.6.1 - v5.7.0

BACKEND
(Linux) Added read only support (list, test, extract) to RAR5 format through RarLab-based unrar-nonfree; due the non-OSI compatible unrar restriction the software is available as separate plugin on Add-Ons page of PeaZip website
(Linux) Updated p7zip backend to 9.38.1 beta
(Windows) Updated 7z backend to 15.05 beta
CODE
Updated IDE to Lazarus 1.4.0
Updated libraries: crc_hash_2014-08-25, util_2015-05-04
Various fixes and updates
FILE MANAGER
Improved management of plug-ins
In About screen, missing and installed plugin are repported, and it is shown a link for checking plugin and addon online
When opening an archive format (ACE, RARv5) requiring a plugin, user is informed if the plugin is missing, and how to download it
Information popup is limited to one per plugin type per session

Changes for v5.5.3 - v5.6.0

BACKEND
Added full read/write support to BCM file compressor
Updated to ZPAQ 7.05
improved support, now it is possible to add content to existing zpaq archive
FILE MANAGER
Archive selection dialogs improved with custom filters for common archive types
File submenu improved with direct links to update, convert and extract archives
new hotkeys: Shift+F5 add selected to archive, Ctrl+F5 extract selected, Alt+F5 extract archive (opens archive selection dialog)
Tray icon menu improved with direct links to update, convert and extract archives
Improved dialog for setting custom applications and scripts, moved in Options
Fixed custom applications not found in some cases on Win64 systems
both 32 and 64 bit program paths are scanned, 64 bit version have the priority
Improved Help and About screens
F4 now shows navigation menu, jump to archive/computer root moved to Ctrl+Shift+F4
Alt+0 toggle application's tool bar
Various improvements and fixes
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING
PeaExtractor 1.1 code merged in pealauncher component
Created default location to save archive layout files
Non-verbose mode for archive conversion (default option)
182 file extensions supported
added full read/write support to BCM compression format

Changes for v5.5.2 - v5.5.3

BACKEND
(Windows) Updated to 7z 9.38 beta
FILE MANAGER
Improved application's context menu and navigation menu
Improved address breadcrumb: separator icons can now be clicked to display directories in the selected node
Various fixes

Changes for v5.5.1 - v5.5.2

5.5.2 release introduces new 7z 9.35 beta back-end for handling mainstream archive formats, with newer LZMA2 now replacing LZMA as default .7z format default compression algorithm.
Scanning files (outside and inside archives) improves extending support to more anti-virus and anti-malware solutions

Changes for v5.5.0 - v5.5.1

FILE MANAGER
(Windows) Added support for scanning with Windows Defender
Information column, when browsing files, shows a note about file types which can be handled through PeaZip
'+' known archive file type, open with double click
'.' known file type usually not handled as archive, open with context menu "Open as archive" (i.e. MS Office files)
Improved links to online resources
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING
While operating, Pause button is highlighted instead of Stop by default, to prevent unaware click canceling running tasks
Fixed extraction to new folder from application's drag and drop context menu
WINDOWS INSTALLER
New installation mode: "Update only" install new program's files and keeps existing system integration unchanged (file association, context menu, send to menu)
Installer shows link to Help and FAQ pages
ISO files are not associated to PeaZip by default, to avoid overriding system's defaults unless explicitly requested by user
Configure system integration tool starts Custom installation mode by default, to prompt user all options
181 file extensions supported, added support for Microsoft's .mlc Language Interface Pack and .mui Multilingual User Interface

Changes for v5.4.1 - v5.5.0

BACKEND
PeaZip Additional Format Plugin 2, now containing also quad and balz binaries
FILE MANAGER
Image manager
Added 4K and 8K formats pre-sets in fit image to resolution
Added JPEG quality 90, 75 and 50 to Image manager pre-set context menu entries
Added TIFF, PPM, and XPM formats as image conversion options
Added to context menu (in Image manager group) common pre-set entries for resize, fit, and convert operations
New advanced rename functions (context menu): uppercase, lowercase, add string at fixed position, delete n chars at fixed position, replace/remove string (optionally case sensitive), change file extension
New file rename dropdown menu also featured in File management tool bar
New advanced selection features
Starting with same character (optionally case sensitive) of selected object
Size similar to selected object; size smaller/larger than
Date similar to selected object; current hour, day, week, month, year
Advanced selection dialog Select..., features add/subtract to current selection, available in toolbar, address bar (search group) and context menu
New Copy path feature: copy current path or selected items paths as UTF8 string for any use
Various fixes
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING
Added "Halt system after task completion" flag in Advanced compression/extraction options tab
Added option to remove single intermediate directory upon Extract to new folder operation in Options > Settings > Archive management
PeaLauncher
New task options dropdown menu in the button on the left of "Cancel", showing thread priority option and "Cancel all"
"Cancel" notification no longer trigger additional message box
New "Cancel all" function stop the sequence of following tasks
179 file extensions supported
Added support for .xzm Porteus Linux packages

Changes for v5.4.0 - v5.4.1

FILE MANAGER
New design update
New Tabs area for easier use of options screens
Improved Layout context menu in Crete/Extract screens
Path submenu in context menu for exploring bookmarked/recent paths so files/folders can be dragged to the application
Advanced submenu grouping layout/task management entries
Scan actions and Hexadecimal preview are now featured also in Test button dropdown menu
Various improvements and fixes
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING
Improved information during multiple extraction and archiving tasks
Quicker access to last used directory in Output path menu

Changes for v5.3.1 - v5.4.0

BACKEND
ZPAQ backend updated to 6.54
FILE MANAGER
New UI design
Tabs replaced by new option menu button on the bottom left corner of the form on Add, Extract, Password, Password Manager, and PeaLauncher
Tabs replaced by new side tab bar for unified Settings/Theme screen
Improved archive manager tool bar, with visible dropdown menus for quick access to archiving and test functions
Improved and simplified various menus
New navigation (bookmarks, filesystem, history, and functions) menu set as primary address bar's navigation menu
New "functions" menu mode, providing quick launcher for most used functions and A-Z functions list submenu, replaces functions button
Improved breadcrumb menu, set as secondary navigation menu (alternate navigation menu, navigation bar context menu...) replacing older menus
Improved "Open" branch in navigation bar merging Functions and Application groups
Added "most used", "last visited" and "date added" information stats to bookmarks, can be used for sorting bookmarks
Unified "Save history data" (Options > Settings) checkbox controls saving list of last accessed archives, paths, searches, and bookmarks/history stats
Updated pre-set web search and cloud services
Yandex Disk and Sharepoint are now added by default to known cloud paths
Various minor fixes and improvements
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING
Implemented flags to remove 1) original archive(s) after extraction 2) original files after archival
Always asks for confirmation during interactive tasks
Can be saved/scheduled to scripts
Apply (and remember) favorite deletion mode: recycle bin, quick delete, zeroing, secure delete

Changes for v5.3.0 - v5.3.1

Various fixes
Improved handling of double file extension when creating archives
Updated translations and Windows' context menu localization scripts

Changes for v5.2.2 - v5.3.0

BACKEND
[Windows] Updated to FreeArc 0.67 alpha
CODE
Compiled with Lazarus 1.2.0
FILE MANAGER
[W7+] Added localization for cascaded system's context menu entries
[Windows, installable] Options > Settings > Reset now also asks if the user wants to reset system integration
Bookmarks can now be sorted by name
File browser (details mode) shows icons for special paths
Find duplicate files and checksum/hash automatically switches browser to list mode to display results
Multi threading option is remembered
Navigation bar "+" button switches between navigation view and tree view
Improved treeview sidebar, showing icons for folders, disks and special paths
Function list moved to popup menu from button on the left of status bar
New multi-functional popup menu on the left of address bar, toggle between bookmarks, filesystem and history
Session history available as status bar view
Updated "Seven" theme
Various minor fixes and enhancements
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING
Console field content is now automatically valorized when Console tab is accessed
Enumerate folder content option is now set as a switch in archive creation screen
Improved inclusion filters for archive creation
"Include only" apply inclusion filter to input directories (files individually added are always archived)
"Include also" allows to freely specify extra items/filters to be archived (works as inclusion filter worked in previous versions)
inclusion and exclusion lists accepts drag and drop of items from system
New Info mode for synthetic information about archive, old Info mode remapped to "List (with details)"
New Compression profiles list, automating settings for most common compression task (i.e. best compression, fast compression, protect with password, self extracting, keep output under specified size...)
the list is available in favourite formats dropdown menu, in Add button context menu (browser) and from arrow button on the left of OK (compression screen)
New task progress bar identifies tasks that are paused (yellow) or ended in error (red)
LINUX, Qt
Recompiled with Qt bindings V2.5, compatible with Qt from 4.5 to 4.8

Changes for v5.2.1 - v5.2.2

FILE MANAGER
Added preconfigured support for OneDrive path, when applicable
Improved help system and updated documentation
F1 points to translated tutorial (if available in selected language) featuring links to online resources and local help file
Alt+F1 points to local help file (English, .pdf format)
Shift+F1 points to online Support page, which features multilingual manuals, contacts etc
Ctrl+F1 points to online FAQ page, which features question & answer type guide to common topics
Existing language files were updated to include correct links to online resources and documentation
Open with associated application: changed behavior, now open using standard system's file association, while doubleclick checks internal extended file association with uncommon formats with PeaZip before
Standalone simplified GUI linked from main menu, Tools:
PeaExtractor minimal GUI for extraction of single archives
PeaUtils minimal GUI (new) for interactive use of file management features (hash, secure delete, etc)
Various minor fixes and visual updates.

Changes for v5.1.1 - v5.2.0

BACKEND
UPX 3.91
FILE MANAGER
(Windows Vista and newer) Improved UAC integration for archiving and extraction functions
Improved file deletion modes
Added very_fast mode (single pass random data) to Secure delete
Fast mode (two pass random data) is now default mode for secure delete
Added Zero delete, deletion mode overwriting existing file with all 0
(Windows) Introduced free space deletion modes
Added Secure delete free space, overwriting with random data multiple times (same as secure file delete)
Added Zero delete free space, overwriting with all 0 to improve compressibility of filesystem (i.e. disk image backup, virtual machine optimization)
Re-introduced local help file for offline support
Various fixes and improvements
(Linux) fixed using output path as working directory
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING
"Extract all to" starts from input folder (or default extraction path, if set)
Implemented extract/archive to original input folder: multiple input files from different paths can be extracted/archived each in its own path in a single pass
177 file extensions supported
Added support for .msu (Microsoft update) and .mpp (Microsoft Project file)

Changes for v5.1.0 - v5.1.1

CODE
Recompiled with Lazarus 1.0.12
FILE MANAGER
Added Box.com default directory as recognized cloud storage
Keyboard shortcuts
Backspace keyboard shortcut correctly mapped in order to allw backspace use for editing text strings
Ctrl+Z/O/W changed to Shift+Ctrl+Z/O/W to avoid opening by mistake multiple instances to open selected objects
Fixed: title sting correctly applied when returning from extraction screen using "extract all" switch
Various minor fixes and improvements

Changes for v5.0.1 - v5.1.0

CODE
Package naming convention changed to fixed mayor.minor.revision format in order to always have 5 byte size for version string
FILE MANAGER
(Windows Vista and more recent) Added Schedule tab integrated with system Task Scheduler for ease of creating scheduled archiving/extraction (i.e. backup/restore) scripts from a single place
Improved bookmarks: when all bookmarks are deleted from application, bookmark list stays empty; when bookmarks are deleted by application reset or deleting bookmarks file, default bookmarks are listed
Various fixes
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING
Added support for .ipsw iOS devices firmware packages, 175 file extensions are now supported
WINDOWS INSTALLER
Added "Check for updates link" in installer and system integration wizard

Changes for v5.0 - v5.0.1

CODE
Compiled with Lazarus 1.0.10
Windows installer compiled with InnoSetup 5.5.3
FILE MANAGER
Added file name information in non readable archive dialog
Fixed special folders (desktop, root etc) are now translated in localization language
Fixed some untranslated strings
Fixed disabling unused keyboard shortcut in each context
Fixed don't show file browser's hint if application is not in foreground
(Windows installer, Vista and more recent) added option to reset current configuration during installation process
Various minor fixes and improvements

Changes for v4.9.2 - v5.0

BACKEND
PEA 0.44
UPX 3.09
CODE
Code cleanup
FILE MANAGER
Bookmarks branch in navigation tree moved on first position, starts by default maximized and containing common useful locations
Improved breadcrumb context menu, unified with refresh menu
features history menu
features entries to open in specified path the system's file explorer, command prompt, new instance of PeaZip, properties, and web search
features quick access to relevat filesystem paths (same as "Filesystem" menu top level)
Improved tasks wrapper (gwrap) for readability and clarity, explore input and output paths is now featured
Improved Settings: reorganized and simplified
Improved speed of adding items to archiving operations: by default directories' content is enumerated only on request (in layout's context menu)
Improved tool bars, added New folder button in file manager bar and Rename in image manager
Improved web search function for quick access to most relevant web resources
New history menu containing recently visited pats and archives, session history and breadcrumb of current path (also in archive/extraction interface)
System tools deduplicated and moved to context menu, always accessible, more tools available
(Windows Vista and more recent) Added "Open PowerShell here" function
Various fixes and improvements, including
(Windows) Added quick links to user's music, pictures, and videos folders in browsing, and archiving/extraction interfaces
(Windows) Free disk space and % displayed in standard status bar and in archiveing/axtraction interfaces
(Windows) Improved adding multiple items from context menu functions
Added support for displaying thumbnails of xpm, and pgm images
Improved accessibility to various functions like bookmarks, web search, show thumbnails, open new instance, explore path...
Uniformed various menus and submenus so same groups of functions are easier to find at first sight
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING
Fixed: extract to new folder now ignored in drag and drop operations consistently to how most file archivers work
Sizes of single input itmes in readable form
174 file extensions supported
added support to .crx Google Chrome extension, .maff Mozilla archive format, .mdf Alcohol 120 image files, and OPC files .cddx and .appv (Microsoft Application Virtualization)

Changes for v4.9.1 - v4.9.2

BACKEND
Pea updated to 0.43 release
FILE MANAGER
Enlarged small icon size
16 px icons are now shown in 20px areas (as in Vista and newer systems file explorer) to improve usability on touch devices and high resolution screens
Improved Recent menu
menu displays also folders relevant for recent activities
recent folders quick selection menu in archiving and extraction interfaces does not contain duplicate recent pats
Various minor fixes
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING
Fixed PEA format single volume size issue on Win64
Fixed "keyfile not found" issue for PEA format extraction

Changes for v4.9 - v4.9.1

CODE
Updated Wolfgang Ehrhardt's crypto library units to 2013-01-07 release
Compiled with Lazarus 1.0.8
x86_64 packages natively compiled for Windows and Linux
FILE MANAGER
Various fixes and improvements
[Linux] fixed path not found possible issue at startup
if default text file is deleted automatically switch to English
if items in recent archives are not found are automatically removed from recent list
fixed information on current directory content
default height set to multiple of medium/large icon sizes

Changes for v4.8.1 - v4.9

CODE
Compiled with Lazarus 1.0.6
FILE MANAGER
New theming engine with 16, 32, 48 and 96px icons.
New style options for decoration of image thumbnails, Options > Browser > Style
New Image manager context menu replicating main Image manager tool bar functions
New keyboard shortcuts
Backspace or Alt+left: go back
Alt+right: go forward
Alt+up: go up one level
Esc: exit compression and extraction interfaces
F4: go to root
Ctrl+F4: go to desktop
Shift+F4: go to home
Various fixes and improvements
Drag and drop information box shows destination path
Improved browser presets
Sort by name is always the secondary sorting criteria
When "Extract to new folder" option is checked it is displayed with a plus sign in "Extract" and "Extract all to" icons
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING
Context menu "Add to (format)" directly starts compression without requiring further user interaction
Context menu "Add to .ZIP" "Zip and mail" and "Add to .7Z" uses default compression settings

Changes for v4.8 - v4.8.1

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

Changes for v4.7.3 - v4.8

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

Changes for v4.7.2 - v4.7.3

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

Changes for v4.7.1 - v4.7.2

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

Changes for v4.6.1 - v4.7

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)

Changes for v4.6 - v4.6.1

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

Changes for v4.5.1 - v4.6

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

Changes for v4.5 - v4.5.1

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

Changes for v4.4 - v4.5

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

Changes for v4.3 - v4.4

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

Changes for v4.2 - v4.3

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

Changes for v4.1 - v4.2

PeaZip 4.2 brings various fixes, and continue 4.x series trend in offering more compact installer, better speed and responsiveness, and to show more information during operations.
The new release also improves support for FreeArc's ARC format, allowing creating ARC archives storing relative paths by default.

Changes for v4.0 - v4.1

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

Changes for v3.9.1 - v4.0

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

Changes for v3.9 - v3.9.1

BACKEND
Fewer FreeArc's SFX modules are now embedded by default: arc-tiny.linux.sfx, freearc.sfx, freearc-installer.sfx, freearc-tiny.sfx. If needed, other self extracting modules can still be downloaded from FreeArc's official website for free.
Main executables are no longer compressed with UPX, resulting in a bit larger disk occupation (about 7MB) but smaller installer (about 1.5 MB) and less RAM usage (each instance does no longer need to be uncompressed in memory to run)
If it is critical to reduce disk occupation, executables can be compressed with UPX through PeaZip itself
FILE MANAGER
Added history popup menu rightclicking on refresh button in address bar
Added search history popup menu rightclicking on search button in address bar
Changed low contrast text color to avoid it being the same color of default form color in Classic Windows theme for Vista/7
Minor fixes
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING
Fixed speed calculation for jobs lasting past midnight
WINDOWS INSTALLER
64 bit version has now WIN64 in application name
New icons for most common archive formats 7Z, RAR and ZIP/ZIPX

Changes for v3.8 - v3.9

FILE MANAGER
Fixed bug in saving window's height when using PeaZip from context menu
Re-introduced and improved contextual menus for toolbar buttons
Add: shows favorite formats menu to directly select the archive format
Convert: as add, but the favorite format menu starts archive conversion
Extract: shows menu to extract all and (when browsing archives) displayed or selected content
Extract all to: shows quick extraction menu
Test: shows additional functions menu
Reorganized keyboard shortcuts
Organize shortcuts, related the way file/archive browser displays content, are associated to Alt combinations
Alt+0 swap tool bar (priority to functions) and address bar (priority to navigation)
Alt+1 hide/show menu bar
Alt+2 toggle toolbar mode
Alt+3 hide/show address bar
Alt+4 toggle navigation bar
Alt+5 toggle broser mode
Alt+6 toggle
Alt+7 Toggle sorting
Ctrl+Alt+1 sort by name
Ctrl+Alt+2 sort by type
Ctrl+Alt+3 sort by size
Ctrl+Alt+4 sort by packed size
Ctrl+Alt+5 sort by date
Ctrl+Alt+6 sort by attributes
Ctrl+Alt+7 sort by crc
Alt+8 toggle status bar
Shift+Alt+0..6 jump to specific status bar view
Alt+9 configure custom applications
Quick options (Shift+Ctrl combinations): added Shift+Ctrl+O to toggle "open output path when job completes"
Common operations are associated to Ctrl combinations (unchanged)
F3 start search while in PeaZip's file browser, and system's search while in other modes (in order to search and drag files/folder to PeaZip)
Alt+F3 always start system's search
Reorganized browser's context menu and other GUI elements
explore path made more prominent, featured in main context menu (and in navigation popup menu)
select all made more prominent featured in main context menu grouped with Sort by submenu
displayed sort column in status bar, especially useful when browser is not in Details mode
Themes
added 48 px icons, used in "icons" mode (any browser's size)
added themes with embedded graphic: Seven-embedded (now default theme for all systems) and Nographic-embedded
Seven and Firecrystal themes are distributed as compressed packages, this allows faster installation deploying less files
Size submenu in Organize, for selecting size of browser's icons
small (default) small icons 16 px (in details and list mode) / large icons 64 px (in icons mode)
medium 32 px / 128 px
large 64 px / 256 px
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING
Added extraction support for ZIPX format
WINDOWS INSTALLER
Added file association for ZIPX files
Added shortcut in Start menu to reset the application to factory settings
134 file extensions supported (.zipx files)

Changes for v3.7 - v3.8

PeaZip 3.8 introduces full support for WIM and XZ archives, and features the "Extract all to..." button in the tool bar, for quick extraction of the complete archive just specifying output path rather than using the complete confirmation/options dialog.
In the new release are available context menu handlers for right button drag and drop operations from application to system.
Dragging files with right button allows to chose between move, copy, extract, extract in new folder; from within archives choices are: extract selected here, extract all here (both also in new folder).
Pea backend was updated to 0.36 version; 7z was updated to 9.22 on Windows.
A total of 133 file extensions are supported, and translations are available in 27 languages.

Changes for v3.6.2 - v3.7

FILE MANAGER
Automatic hint window on Listview to highlight data about file/folder below the mouse cursor
(Windows) Improved browser aspect in Icon mode
Improved navigation
Added breadcrumb address field displaying up to 8 parent paths
click on names to jump to parent directories
click on spacer arrows or on free space on the breadcrumb to switch to classic editable address field, leave the control to return to the breadcrumb
rightclick on the breadcrumb to show a popup menu displaying full path of parent paths (up to 8) and computer's root
Implemented fast swicthing between navigation and treeview mode navigator
Improved navigation sidebar's treeview mode (Shift+Ctrl+3), navigating a folder updates the selected foler in the treeview
Simplified address bar
Removed history button from address bar (it is featured in navigation button on the left of the address field)
Refresh placed on the right of address field
Search placed on the right of filter field
Improved sorting: sorting is possible also in non-details modes using "Sort by" menu in main menu and browser's context menu
Linked PeaZip's tracker in help menu to help users in filing bug reports and feature requests
Tool bar and Address bar can be swapped in position to give visual priority either to functions or to navigation
Themes: tool bar and address bar can be optionally themed with a texture
Web search: added menu entries to search with PeaZip Search, powered by Google Custom Search
Various minor fixes and enhancements
ARCHIVING
When creating archives containing multiple files or folders, the archive is named as the parent folder of the items, except if "add to separate archives" option is flagged.

Changes for v3.6.1 - v3.6.2

FILE MANAGER
(recommended) Improved recognition of malformed archives not explicitly listing folders' entries, now PeaZip is able to auto-switch to Flat view in order to show the full content of those archives in all tested cases
Pre-set chunk sizes for DVD and DVD-DL decreased by 1MB in order to work without problems with most burning applications
Better protection against unwanted multiple click on Ok for archiving and extraction operations
WINDOWS INSTALLER
Improved displaying information about the software to the end user
WINDOWS PORTABLE
(recommended) Packages now contain a default configuration file to allow application to run from first time in a read only path (not writable or protected by UAC) as standard user; a writable path is still recommended

Changes for v3.6 - v3.6.1

CODE
Compiled with -O3 optimizations
FILE MANAGER
File browser can now rename (Ctrl+R) multiple files at once
Fixed: correct handling of maximized window state
Fixed: navigating from the treeview updates history
Improved sorting, sort function keeps context of previously sorted columns
Middle mouse button navigate up one level
Various minor fixes and improvements
Translations updated

Changes for v3.5.1 - v3.6

BACKEND
Updated to Pea 0.34
CODE
Updated Wolfgang Ehrhardt's crypto lybrary with crc_hash_2010-12-19
FILE MANAGER
Fixed: installable version unable to update archives on Windows 64 bit
default 7z working dir (-w parameter) changed to explicitly set to use output path
if 7z working dir is set to temporary folder, let 7z determinate the appropriate path
when deleting files from a file supported through 7z backend, apply 7z working dir preference
Fixed button position and size with large fonts / high dpi
StringGrid's rows are now auto sized
Modal buttons text is now translated
Open output path moved from Options to Add and Extract interfaces for better visibility
On archive creation, if password is set and the format supports encryption, the encryption label is evidenced in green for better visibility
New option for ignoring paths for drag and drop extraction (default on)
with ignore path directive applied, extraction through 7z and freearc backends will be performed using e (extract without paths) instead of x (extract with paths), in order to extract files from the archive without recreating the parent path's directory tree on the extraction destination
with this new directive applied by default, all partial extraction operations starting from the file/archive browser (extract and open, and extraction by drag and drop), behaves uniformly trying to extract selected file(s) without recreating parent path tree
the directive is overridden if a directory is selected, as extraction without paths will lose information about directory tree below that directory
see Options > Settings, Open archive tab for fine tuning "ignore paths" directives
129 file extensions supported
Added support for .APK (Android package) and .SAR, and .IMF (IncrediMail)

Changes for v3.5 - v3.5.1

BACKEND
Updated to UPX 3.07
CODE
Updated Wolfgang Ehrhardt's crypto library units to latest available version
FILE MANAGER
Fixed: opening a password protected archive counts as password validation, so the password confirmation field inherits password field value
Fixed: "Encrypt also file names" option is ignored for formats not supporting this feature
"Encrypt also file names" flag is now remembered
Removed -x.y version suffix from language file names so next version's updates will preserved user-selected language
It is possible to select existing themes (previously loaded custom temes) with directory selection dialog

Changes for v3.4 - v3.5

BACKEND
(Windows) 7z 9.20 stable
(Windows) 7z.sfx and 7z-con.sfx modules updated to 9.20 stable version, customised with PeaZip icons
Pea 0.33, updated look and feel of the utility
FILE MANAGER
fixed some non translated text strings
fixed: don't ask for password confirmation for extraction operations
ask confirmation for archiving and browsing (password set during browsing is used by default for archiving, as in WinRAR/7-Zip); never ask for confirmation if "Show password field" flag is set
new quick extraction menu and keyboard shortcut Ctrl+0 to extract to same path of last successfull extraction operation
reorganized info mode for status bar (Ctrl+Alt+2)
themes modified in order to be released as autonomous packages
default and no graphic themes are in application's path, custom themes are in configuration path (application's path for portable versions, in user's home/application data for installable versions)
themes are distributed as compressed packages (supported: 7z, zip and rar)
custom theme packages can be created by PeaZip
for further customization: theme file can be edited as plain utf8-text, program's graphic can be edited as bitmap files, theme package is built compressing the theme directory in 7z, zip or rar format using any compression utility
(update recommended) updated web links to new PeaZip site
added Mininova as featured search engine
126 file extensions supported
added .sfs and .image

Changes for v3.3 - v3.4

BACKEND
(Windows) updated to 7z 9.17 beta
CODE
Updated units of Wolfgang Ehrhardt's crypto library
FILE MANAGER
Improved information reported by PeaLauncher, when applicable total and selected size of extraction operation reported separately
Improved indication of progress during long operation
if an operation exceeds 0.5 seconds it is shown a (simil)marquee progress bar
if an operation exceeds 0.5 seconds the refresh button is changed in stop button, allowing to stop current operation
to prevent loss of time and user's focus a fresh instance of PeaZip is started in the last directory while the old instance is handled in background
Added PanelIntro, usually not visible due to the speed of a normal startup
if startup of the program is slowed for any reason user is informed about loading progress (0 inital form status 1 configuration and theming files loaded 2 input parameters parsed and executed)
controls cannot be clicked for error until GUI is fully loaded and ready to accept user's input
some controls load faster as they aren't visible
Improved file browser
Tighter integration with extraction interface
New toolbar button on the right of "Extract", featuring a menu for
direct extraction of the whole archive (or selected archives) to most commonly used locations
check and modify most common extraction settings
New keyboard shortcuts available bot in browser and in extraction interfaces for "Extract all to..." (Ctrl+E or F12), "Extract all here" (Ctrl+Alt+E), "Extract all to Desktop" (Ctrl+Shift+E), "Extract all to Documents" (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+E); Ctrl+1..8 extract to bookmark's 1..8 path (if defined); Ctrl+9 extract to default output path (if defined).
Extraction from context menu made context sensitive, if no archive is selected the extract/test entries are disabled
Added small icons mode for file browser
Changed Toolbar modes: 3 with large and 3 with small icons (text below, text on the right, no text), and text only mode
Toolbar is now set to large mode by default for better readability of main program's function
Remapped function keys:
Ctrl+* shortcuts for status bar types remapped to Ctrl+Alt+*
Ctrl+F9 create keyfile
F12 extract all to...
Apps moved to a separate modal form, reachable in Organize menu
Theme moved to a separate form, reachable in Options menu
(Windows) Configure system integration entry now reachable in Options menu
Default language file now changed to default.txt, that can be overwritten (i.e. by hand, or by custom installers or configuration script) to start by default the application in a non-Englih language; resetting the application will then result to swicth back to the language chosen for default.txt
Rationalized themes moving some common decoration elements from separate bitmaps to non-themed graphic resources of the executable
Various minor fixes and improvements
124 file extensions supported
added .fla; use Open with... > Open as archive to open, as for other non-archive types (supported formats not originally meant to be used as classic archives)

Changes for v3.2.1 - v3.3

PeaZip 3.3 brings various fixes and an improved user interface focused in better integration with web search (optionally on multiple search engines at once) and in launching favourite applications, scripts or websites/web services from PeaZip.
7z backend was updated to 9.16 beta (Windows).
A total of 123 file extensions are supported.

Changes for v3.2 - v3.2.1

PeaZip 3.2.1 adds "All tasks" entry in System tools for launching Windows Vista//7 Master Control Panel, and a link to donate to charitable organizations suggested by PeaZip in the "Help" submenu, along project's links (the "Donation" page on this site).
File manager's toolbar can be optionally customized (fm-theme.bmp in each theme's folder), and In file manager's context menu "Misc" > "Search on the web" were added entries to search filename in torrents, uploads and eMule.
Third parts' backend applications are updated to UPX 3.05, 7z 9.15 beta and FreeArc 0.666 alpha (Windows), and p7zip 9.13 beta (Linux); Windows and Linux installers were improved.
A total of 123 file extensions are supported.

Changes for v3.1 - v3.2

PeaZip 3.2 adds "All tasks" entry in System tools for launching Windows Vista//7 Master Control Panel, and a link to donate to charitable organizations suggested by PeaZip in the "Help" submenu, along project's links (the "Donation" page on this site).
In file manager's context menu "Misc" > "Search on the web" were added entries to search filename in torrents, uploads and eMule.
Third parts' backend applications are updated to UPX 3.05, 7z 9.14 beta and FreeArc 0.666 alpha (Windows), and p7zip 9.13 beta (Linux).
A total of 123 file extensions are supported.

Changes for v3.1 Beta - v3.1

BACKEND
(Windows) 7z 9.13 beta
FILE MANAGER
Added entries to add and organize bookmarks in navigation bar
Options > Settings: click ok to accept changes or cancel to discard
Various minor updates
(Linux) Added service menus for KDE4/Dolphin
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING
Fixed: removed unsupported -mmt switch for creation of GZip archives
Last used custom application for archiving and extraction is automatically remembered
Ok and Cancel buttons can now be selected using tab in archiving and extraction interfaces, and Ok button is now automatically selected to allow confirm job simply pressing enter
In extraction/archiving interfaces click Ok to apply the changes to options and launch the job (or only to apply changes if the layout is empty), click Cancel to discard the changes and the job

Changes for v3.0 - v3.1 Beta

BACKEND
Updated 7z 9.12 (Windows)
Updated sfx modules
Support reading/writing PPMd compressed ZIP files
CODE
Updated Wolfgang Ehrhardt's libraries
FILE MANAGER
Added option to force "Open as archive" in "Open with..." menu
Added link to Google's Language Tools in "Search on the web" submenu (in application's context menu > Misc)
Allows to set working directory both for archive creation and archive preview jobs
Displays if the archive is encrypted in application's title bar
Displays if the path is inside a PeaZip's temporary path (i.e. browsing archives inside archives), higlighting in light yellow the address and search bar
Displays selected compression level in title bar in archiving interface (7z/p7zip archive types)
Improved displaying UTF-8 encoded names in archive manager (7z/p7zip)
Remember alternative exctraction action for 7z, arc and ace backends
(Windows) Added navigation links to system's recent (all Windows systems), to searches and downloads (introduced by Vista), and libraries (introduced by Seven)
(Windows) Link user's SendTo in "Settings", simplify customizing entries in this menu
Various fixes
Shift+character hotkeys canged to Shift+Ctrl+character: Shift+Ctrl+N, Shift+Ctrl+7, Shift+Ctrl+B, Shift+Ctrl+G, Shift+Ctrl+S, Shift+Ctrl+T, Shift+Ctrl+Z
Fixed behavior of Extract without paths option in extraction interface
Fixed division by zero error if a string longer than 19500 characters is provided as keyfile path or extraction path
(Windows 7) fixed "Search and drag here" entries
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING
Added option to run job windows minimized, in Options > Settings > Pea Launcher combo box
On "extract selected" (default action for extract button in toolbar, while browsing an archive) and "extract displayed" it is now possible to switch directly to "extract all" from extraction interface
WINDOWS INSTALLER
Added new optional context menu entries to directly add to 7z and zip at fastest, normal or ultra compression levels
Changed MultiSelectModel, can now select up to 100 items from context menu entries
Removed + and - prefixes in legacy context menu entries

Changes for v3.0 Beta - v3.0

FILE MANAGER
Added support to .cbr, .cbz, .cbt, .cba, .cb7, 123 file extensions supported
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING
Default naming policy option for 7z backend is now "skip existing files" as for other backend executables
Added "Ask before overwriting" mode in extraction options for 7z backend (all other options are still available: skip, auto rename extracted, auto rename existing, overwrite existing)
Custom syntax combobox default changed to "parameters, output, input"
Improved password form's text
Validatecl procedure allows > and < characters, still disallowed in checkfilename and checkfiledirname
Improved sizes detection in pealauncher
WINDOWS INSTALLER
Separate icons for 7z, rar and zip file types
Context menu item "Browse path with PeaZip" now enabled by default

Changes for v2.9.1 - v3.0 Beta

FILE MANAGER
Improved password request's and error reporting messages
All reset functions (bookmarks, open with, theme etc) collected in Options > Settings main tab
It is now possible to configure the application (file associations, context menu and SendTo menu) from Options > Settings main tab, through InnoSetup scripts (for Windows and Win64 packages), whithout need to keep the installer
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING
Faster test for password routine before direct extraction
Multiple objects per instance implemented in context menu
"Add to archive", "Add to .7z", "Add to .zip", and "Add to self-extracting archive", adding multiple files at once, are now featured
"Extract..." now schedule all selected files so they can be extracted sequentially in a single instance of PeaZip
"Convert existing archives" is now enabled by default for "custom" format
various fixes to menus directly accessing to archive/extract mode
more information available in PeaLauncher while jobs are running, Pealauncher session's options moved to "Options" tab
WINDOWS INSTALLER
Updated Windows installer (new context menu items)

Changes for v2.9 - v2.9.1

Display sizes with suffixes (and a decimal) to improve readability
Improved startup time searching unc name only for remote units
Fixes:
(Linux) fixed multiselection issues
(Linux) ignore unsupported ssw parameter for p7zip
(Windows) fixed some possible crash conditions
various fixes

Changes for v2.8.1 - v2.9

2.9 release is focused in completing the UI development process started in version 2.
It is now reported information about selected objects, it's available a navigation bar on the left of the browser, and all bars elements (menu, toolbar, address, navigation and status bar) can now be customised or hidden.
The file manager was improved, now pressing ctrl during drag and drop operations displays a context menu to chose to archive, browse, extract, copy or move selected files.
From Windows 7 the application is integrated in system's context menu in a cascaded submenu featuring icons.
Under the hood, the Windows installer was renewed and backend applications were updated: 7z 9.10, FreeArc 0.60, UPX 3.04.
A total of 118 file extensions are supported.

Changes for v2.8 - v2.8.1

2.8.x line is focused on providing a more user-friendly archive/file browser: easier file selection, history submenu, custom icons for most commons file types, detailed view or list view, remember sorting column and sorting order, remember columns widths etc...
Multiple jobs launched at once (form program's GUI) are now executed sequentially to improve disk performances, parallel execution is available as option.
Extract button, within an archive, extracts selected object; if nothing is selected extracts all displayed objects (like WinRar/7-Zip); however in application's context menu it is possible to directly select to extract all, displayed or selected objects.
In archiving interface it was added "Convert existing archives" option, to extract existing archives before compression stage.
This option, used with "Add each object to a separate archive" option enabled, performs a mass conversion of listed archives to the desired format; otherwise, with the option disabled, archive conversion is meant to consolidate input data in a single archive, improving compression efficency because it allows recompression of the original data from its uncompressed form.
2.8.1 update brings many improvements and fixes for a better overall user exeprience.
The program was tested on Windows 7 and it comes with a new icon theme (default on Windows systems) with a more familiar look and feel for Windows users.
A total of 98 file extensions are supported.

Changes for v2.7.1 - v2.8

2.8 line is focused on providing a more user-friendly archive/file browser: easier file selection (optional row selection), custom icons for most commons file types, display as detailed view or list view, remember sorting column and sorting order, remember columns widths etc...
Multiple jobs launched at once (form program's GUI) are now executed sequentially to improve disk performances, parallel execution is available as option.
Navigation menus in browser and archiving/extraction intrfaces now shows History submenu, to quickly jump to paths visited in the current session.
In archive and extraction interfaces it is possible to set a default extraction path.
Extract to new folder is now remembered as option of Extract action, rather than being a separate action.
Extract button, within an archive, extracts selected object; if nothing is selected extracts all displayed objects (like WinRar/7-Zip). However in context menu it is possible to directly select to extract all, displayed or selected objects.
In archiving interface it was added "Convert existing archives" option, to extract existing archives before compression stage.
This option, used with "Add each object to a separate archive" option enabled, performs a mass conversion of listed archives to the desired format.
Otherwise, with "Add each object to a separate archive" option disabled, archive conversion is meant to consolidate input data in a single archive, improving compression efficency because it allows recompression of the original data from its uncompressed form.
A total of 98 file extensions are supported.

Changes for v2.7 Beta - v2.7.1

2.7.1 update introduces new and updated translations, many improvements and fixes, and new keyboard shortcuts for archiving and extraction stages.

Changes for v2.6.3 - v2.7 Beta

GUI
(PeaLauncher) added option to open output directory after operation
File browser
it is now possible to force refresh inside archives
the password / keyfile can now be set once, for being used in file browser, archive creation (setting password triggers use of encryption) and archive extraction, like in WinRar; the locker icon reports if the password is set
the advanced inclusion and exclusion filters (7z backend) can now be set once (in a separate form) for archive browsing, extraction and creation
clipboard is now displayed in a panel at the bottom of file browser, like history and bookmarks
Archive creation interface: new task oriented GUI for compression, adding / dropping files and folders to archive uses the archive creation interface (like in WinRar, where adding to archive raises the archive creation dialog)
can optionally archive each input item to separate archives
can chose output path with a powerful navigator (like in former "extract to" popup menu): system's paths, bookmarked folders, recent folders
supports use of the advanced inclusion and exclusion filters (7z and FreeArc backend)
Archive extraction interface: new task oriented GUI for extraction
the advanced inclusion and exclusion filters (7z and FreeArc backend) are supported also for multiple archives at once
BACKEND
updated FreeArc to 0.51
can now create FreeArc's self extracting archives (sfx creation not jet working on Linux packages)
updated 7z to 9.06 (Windows)
open mslz, flv, swf, gnm
added backend for ZPAQ (Windows), currently supports only extraction to original absolute path
95 file extensions supported

Changes for v2.6.2 - v2.6.3

2.6.3 is a maintenance update: extends support to a total of 90 file extensions, and fixes some bugs of PeaLauncher and Pea components

Changes for v2.6 - v2.6.1

2.6 release was focused on a majour UI update (toolbar, navigation menu, bookmarks, ...); 2.6.1 update introduces various fixes and user-suggested usability improvements.
Under the hood, 7z backend was updated to 9.04 (on Windows) allowing to use the powerful LZMA2 compression algorithm, and adding support to .XZ and .VHD files; 87 file extensions are now supported for extraction.

Changes for v2.6 Beta - v2.6

85 file extensions supported
new themes
new icon for .lnk (Windows links)
(Linux) fixed nontransparent icons
fixed:
"extract all" and "ext all to" buttons for some formats
drag and drop extraction for Pea format
cp_open fixed for Windows 9x systems
it is possible to add computer's root to bookmarks
fixed sorting bookmarks grids and menus
various minor fixes and updates
UI
(Windows) it is now possible to drag items from system to bookmarks, dragging on bookmarks or history area
it is now possible to add currently browsed path to bookmarks
bookmarks menus and grid now have icons
history menus (recent) and grid now have icons
built with Lazarus 0.9.26.2
(Linux) data previously installed in /usr is now installed in /usr/local
All translations updated

Changes for v2.5.1 - v2.6 Beta

major GUI update
multi-functional bar to quickly accessto bookmarks and history, enter password, create keyfiles etc
navigation menu for quickly browse (or extract to) filesystem, bookmarks and history
new icon theme
84 file extensions supported

Changes for v2.5 - v2.5.1

7z/p7zip 4.65
auto refresh
solid 7z archives with grouping for file extension
support for compressed themes
updated localizations

Changes for v2.4.1 - v2.5

Updated Wolfgang Ehrhardt's libraries
Updated to 7z 4.64 and p7zip 4.61 (Linux)
can now extract PKWARE-AES
can now create LZMA compressed .zip archives
Text encoding
Job's definition can now be saved as utf-8 text or plain text
Extended characters in archived object's names can now be displayed (on Windows this is limited to characters included in system's console codepage; single character encodings are supported at the moment)
optionally (Tools > Settings > General (2) > Encoding) extended characters can be replaced by jolly "?" character to avoid possible issues between archive's and system's character encodings
File/archive browser:
now selects last visited path/archive (like WinRAR/7-Zip)
improved archive browser speed
recognizes .r01 and .z01 extensions as multipart archives
Reorganized browser and layout context menus
"Open"/"Extract and open"/"Preview" submenus now features 16 customisable applications (editors, players, antivirus etc) to be used as default editors overriding system's file associations
8 are in form of simple to edit application list
8 can be more complex command lines
various applications and antivirus are recognized by default
Program can now be minimized to tray icon
(Linux) program's functions can be invoked from Nautilus scripts; the scripts are provided in Freedesktop_integration folder and have to be manually copyed to Nautilus script's directory
Various fixes and improvements
Help is now available offline
PeaLauncher can now act autonomously from PeaZip for extraction functions (may help porting since it is not needed to build the more complex UI of PeaZip to access to basic extraction functions which are provided by PeaLauncher itself)
Quick extraction functions now uses PeaZip defaults rather than backend application's defaults
Reorganized "Settings" panel
New translations: Hungarian, Sinhala, Swedish

Changes for v2.4 - v2.4.1

Various fixes
7z frontend updated to 4.61 (Windows)
Quick archiving functions (add to single or multiple 7z, zip, sfx) now uses application defaults rather than backend program's defaults
Secure deletion can now erase both files and folders
Added Dutch, French, Galitian and Ukraininan translations; various translations updated

Changes for v2.3a - v2.4

New localizations and new icons are featured, drag and drop on Windows benefits of an information panel which follows the mouse, and clipboard was made more powerful and flexible, optionally allowing multiple cut/copy operations to be stored in the clipboard.
UI items, like comboboxes, were redesigned to be customizable in height to better fit different font sizes and resolutions, that will make the application more readable expecially on Debian/Ubuntu systems and on Windows with screen set at 120 DPI.
Linux installable packages are now built to place files in a more ortodox way, in /usr/share/, consequently if handling ACE archives is desired it needs new PeaZip UNACE plugin package to be downloaded and installed (update not needed for Windows users and for portable versions).

Changes for v2.2 - v2.3a

Archiving:
Added support for UDF, XAR, and DMG/HFS file types, improved support for OpenOffice file types - total 79 file extensions supported
Content and filenames encryption status is now fully inherited by new objects when adding files/folders to 7z archives
Custom file types can now be opened directly from "extract" menu entries
Fixed issues showing with ACE 1.x archives under Linux
Improved input file recognition for UPX compression (11 extensions)
Updated 7z frontend to 4.60 (Windows)
Updated Pea frontend to 0.21
Updated W.E. crypto library with package aes_2008-08-04
Usage:
Added third area to status bar showing current filesystem, or archive type plus encryption status
"Extract to new folder" flag is no longer limited to current session
Open executables/files/folders (in Windows) are now lauched in a separate processes rather than through shellexecute method (unless necessary) in order to increase parallelism and avoid possible stalls while waiting slow resources
Fixed configuration/bookmarks/rnd issues related to lack of write access for unprivileged users (Windows and Linux installable packages)
Improved file/archive browser's keyboard shorcuts:
Backspace mapped to browse previous path
More functional keys are now supported
F2 browse desktop / Ctrl+F2 home / Shift+F2 root
F3 search (recoursive) / Shift+F3 search here (non recoursive)
F4 up one level
F6 toggle browse/flat view
F7 browse most recently visited item / Ctrl+F7 second / Shift+F7 third
F8 browse first item in bookmarks list / Ctrl+F8 second / Shift+F8 third
F9 toggle extract in new folder status / Shift+F9 reset extraction path to default
F11 extract selected to
F12 extract selected here
"Quick delete" and "Secure delete" bounded to del and shift+del respectively; shift+backspace remains for "Remove from layout" event in layout composer interface and is no longer used in file/archive manager
System integration:
New "Extract..." system's menu entry to allow specify path, extraction in new folder, password and other options
On Extract here (and list/test functions) from system's menus, now PeaZip test if password is needed and if archive is not corrupted (for performance reasons only for archives smaller than 100MB)
New localizations:
Czech, German, Portuguese, Russian
Toolbar buttons' width extended to 110px to better fit text
Misc:
Added "revision" letter in program's numbering; revisions contains the same text and uses the same localization files with no need of out of order loading as different version does
New function to display environment variables
Fixed possible cases of "Access violation" message on exit occourring on some configurations

Changes for v2.1 - v2.2

Release 2.2 sees the long awaited introduction of UTF-8 support, to help handling filenames with extended characters ans allow localization of the user inteface text. Translations now available are English and Italian, hopefully more will come with the help of the community: you can mail me localized language file to be included in future updates, see "Translations" chapter in documentation (or ask on the forum) if you are willing to contribute your translation. User experience was also improved, adding bookmarks, making the address bar editable, improving PeaLauncher, introducing the new NuoveXT theme and many other fixes and improvements. Under the hood, crypto libraries in use were updated, p7zip 4.48 is now supported on Linux, UPX was updated to 3.03 and it was added support for the highly efficient BALZ compression format, to a total of 72 file extensions supported by PeaZip 2.2.

Changes for v2.0 - v2.1

Added support for LZMA archives; currently supported formats: 71 extensions grouped in 43 families;
Improved support for large archives: if browsing takes too much time/memory (customisable amount), it stops allowing the user to narrow the selection using in-archive search and filter functions;
Removed winxpstyle.lpk dependency to allow project's build with standard out-of-the-box Lazarus install
Updated W.E. library with util_2008-03-30 package
Updated 7z backend to 4.58
(Windows) "Run as different user" (Tools) to start the application with alternate credentials and environment
(Windows) "System tools" submenu (Tools): access to system's defrag, disk cleanup, disk management, control panel, computer management and task manager
(Windows) Extraction by drag and drop from application to system (requires Address bar to be let enabled in file explorer); this custom drag and drop function doesn't need to copy files to temp folder on drag to system operations
Archive browser interface transformed in general purpose file manager (navigate in archive and in filesystem) interface
File tools menu featured in file browser interface
Robust file/folder copy through system's robocopy (Vista and 2008 Server, xcopy on previous systems back to Windows 2000)
Startup interface can be chosen in Settings (file/archive browser, archive creation main control panel)
Archive browser autoswitches to flat view mode (7z supported types) if needed.
Allows use of keyfiles for all formats supporting encryption: prepend to password the SHA256 hash of the keyfile (no size limit) encoded in Base64 (RFC 4648)
note: archives encrypted with keyfile can be extracted, providing the keyfile, by PeaZip or any application using the same convention, or simply entering the hash as part of the password.

Changes for v1.11b - v2.0

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

Changes for v1.11 - v1.11b

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.

Changes for v1.10 - v1.11

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.

Changes for v1.9.3 - v1.10

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

Changes for v1.9.2 - v1.9.3

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

Changes for v1.9.1 - v1.9.2

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.

Changes for v1.9 - v1.9.1

Release 1.9.1 is focused on continuing the 1.9.* series trend toward a more powerful but at the same time cleaner and more intuitive UI. UNACE support was moved to external plugin in order to let the base package containing only free open ource software released under OSI-approved licenses. Support for PAQ8O and LPAQ1 was added, and 7z/p7zip frontend was updated to use, respectievly, 4.55 and 4.53 versions, bringing to 58 the total number of file extensions supported for extraction.

Changes for v1.8.2 - v1.9

Release 1.9 introduces several updates, new functions and interface enhancements over 1.8 series, based on feedback collected on previous 1.8 release series, featuring a substantially renewed user interface driven to a cleaner design and better usability. The layout composer and the archive browser were improved, introducing multiple selection, AZ/ZA sorting, better designed popup menus, options organized in a tabs, archive browsing navigation bar, recent archive's history and many other under the hood usability improvements; see change log for a detailed description

Changes for v1.8.1 - v1.8.2

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.

Changes for v1.8 - v1.8.1

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.

Changes for v1.7 - v1.8

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.
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.

Changes for v1.6 - v1.7

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.

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