PeaZip project is an archiver tool that supports its native Pea archive format (featuring compression, split volumes, and flexible encryption and integrity check schemes) and other mainstream formats, with special focus on handling open formats.

Full support: 7Z, 7-Zip sfx, Bzip2, Gzip, PEA, split TAR and ZIP.

Browse/test/extract-only support for ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB, ISO, LZH, NSIS installers, OOo files, RAR, RPM, Z.

PeaZip's UI aims giving aid to the user to: edit, save and restore layout of archives (input files and folders list) to speed up definition of archiving and backup operations; save job definition, as plain text, to be used in scripts or for learning purpose; have a detailed job log after each operation.

The interface is fully skinnable (skins can be customised and saved as plain text to be re-edited as freely as possible) and uses customisable transparency.

The program doesn't need to be installed/unistalled, it can run from any path (even remote; a writeable path is recommended), however Windows version is released both as a standalone binary and as a fully automated installer/uninstaller package, allowing tight system integration to use PeaZip right from Explorer.

PeaZip acts as a graphic frontend for Pea executable (graphical) from the same Author and for Igor Pavlov's 7z executable (Myspace's 7z POSIX port under Linux), that can run in console mode or through a graphical wrapper to allow more user-friendly handling of output information.


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What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

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)