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PeaZip 9.7 is primarily meant to update app's foundations:
sources are now built with Lazarus 3.0, Windows dark mode is now fully
supported, and a native Linux aarch64 version is now available.<br>
The scripting generation engine is improved, and the app now supports
Brotli 1.1.0 and Zstd 1.5.5 backend.<br>
9.7.1 release is a bug fix update over the previous version.<br>
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A total of 234 file extensions can now be opened as archives by PeaZip.<br>
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Translations are
available in over than 30 languages, any help is welcome to translate
PeaZip
to new languages and to maintain current localizations up to date, so
please consider taking the time to give a look to <a
href="https://github.com/giorgiotani/PeaZip-Translations">translations
repository</a>
for newer language files and for any resource useful for translators.<br>
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<h3><big><span style="font-weight: bold;">SHA256 hash
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packages</span></big></h3>
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href="https://github.com/peazip/PeaZip/releases/download/9.7.1/SHA256.txt">SHA256.txt</a>
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<div style="text-align: right;">2022 12 18 ..
CURRENT </div>
<br>
2024 02 14<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">9.7.1<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">CODE<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Added "Requires restarting
PeaZip" hint missing in some controls<br>
Created SHA256.txt file containing SHA256 hash of each package in the
release<br>
Fixed Options links, now always open General tab as expected<br>
Fixed restart loop switching off history checkbox, improved code
against occurrence of similar issues<br>
Fixed symbol lookup error experienced in some Linux ditributions with
Qt5 packages<br>
Fixed usupported compression method eoor experienced extracting source
package using some unzip utilities<br>
</div>
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FILE MANAGER<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Updated
translations <br>
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2024 02 11<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">9.7.0
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">BACKEND<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Brotli 1.1.0<br>
Pea 1.17<br>
Zstd 1.5.5<br>
7z 24.01 beta successfully tested, but not
included as backend due its beta status<br>
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CODE<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Compiled with Lazarus 3.0,
but still compatible with Lazarus 2.x line<br>
Improved loading of translations<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Can now load language files
encoded as UTF8, and as UTF8-BOM (preferred)<br>
Improved support for old translation files not matching with
application's version<br>
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Various fixes<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Fixed -ext2simple bug, the
switch is now properly working<br>
Fixed Qt5 seection issue, the file browser in details mode is now set
to row selection<br>
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FILE MANAGER<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span
style="font-weight: bold;">Smart filename sorting</span> can now be
turned on/off form Options > Organize<br>
(Windows) PeaZip now supports the Windows 10 and newer systems <span
style="font-weight: bold;">Dark Mode</span> using zamtmn
metadarkstyle.lpk, thanks to user contributed pull request 114. <br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Classic dark themes / high
contrast mode is still supported on all Windows systems<br>
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(Themes) Improved "Button" alternative Tab style<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Vertical tabs in Options
screen are now themed accordingly to theme's tab style<br>
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EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Improved the scripting
generation engine:<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">In Console tab af archiving
and extraction screens it is now available a new option for the
scripting engine to<span style="font-weight: bold;"> use strdin/stdout
pipe for creation and extraction of compressed TAR archives</span>, so
no intermediate TAR file needs to be saved on disk during those
operations<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">This option does not apply
to the GUI app itself (which launches the operations as distinct single
processes), but only to scripts generated by the application, which can
be saved to run independently in console instances<br>
The option applies only to formats handles through 7z / p7zip backend<br>
For extraction operation, the option applies only a single or multiple
archives are sent to extraction scren, not while brosing a single
archive (either for partial or total extraction)<br>
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<div style="margin-left: 40px;">(Linux) It is now available
PeaZip Portable for <span style="font-weight: bold;">aarch64 Linux, t</span>he
first test release was released built on previous version's code<br>
(Windows) Improved <span style="font-weight: bold;">Windows 11
mini-context menu</span> entries, now displaying correct PeaZip icons;
sample scripts to integrate PeaZip with W11 mini-context menu are
available in the app inside the subfolder
(peazip)\res\share\batch\Windows\Windows 11 mini context menu<br>
(Windows) Packages and configuration wizard built with InnoSetup
6.2.2 <br>
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</div>
<br>
2023 12 17<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">9.6.0<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">BACKEND<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Pea 1.16<br>
</div>
<br>
CODE<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">(Windows) All context menu
translation .reg scripts in (peazip)\res\share\lang-wincontext folder
are now encoded as UTF-16 LE<br>
All scripts are now exported as UTF-8 encoded files, without BOM<br>
Improved <span style="font-weight: bold;">integrity self-checking of
app</span>'s binaries<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Libraries (.dll, .so, etc)
and sfx modules are now checked (as for executables, matching SHA256
hash values with whitelisted known values)<br>
(Windows) dragdropfilesdll.dll is now automatically checked at
application's startup<br>
</div>
</div>
<br>
FILE MANAGER<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Improved file / archive
manager<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Added an icon-only <span
style="font-weight: bold;">Compact sidebar</span> displaying links to
most commonly used system paths<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Compact side bar can be set
visible / hidden separately from the main Side bar<br>
The Compact side bar is mainly meant for use when Side bar is hidden or
in tree view mode<br>
</div>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Improved browsing archives
with some specific TOC issues (duplicated entries for same item,
duplicates names with different cases)<br>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Improved smart sorting of
file names<br>
</div>
Improved theming<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">All alternative tab styles
(Button, Links, and Tabs) can now ne either centered or left aligned<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Link tab style</span> is
now rendered with graphic as the other styles<br>
</div>
Introduced <span style="font-weight: bold;">profiles </span>to store
all configuration data (everything in conf path - except Profiles
subfolder) to be loaded / saved in a single pass, either for different
users or for different purposes, or to easily export all the conf data
to another machine<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Profiles are stored as
*.profile.7z archives in "Profiles" subfolder in conf path and can be
optionally encrypted with password/keyfile<br>
It is possible to load / save profiles from main menu, Options<br>
</div>
Various fixes and improvements<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Fixed breadcrumb issues in
full screen and immersive modes<br>
Improved handling <span style="font-weight: bold;">encrypted ARC files</span><br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Browsing ARC archive with
encrypted filenames now correctly triggers password request<br>
Extraction from context menu now correctly triggers password request,
and can be terminated by the user if wrong password is provided<br>
Input name and path is now correctly reported during archiving /
extraction / list / test operations<br>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<br>
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Improved <span
style="font-weight: bold;">archives extraction</span>, "Extract then
move to destination" is not applied when extracting to new folder, as
naming conflict analysis is not needed<br>
</div>
<br>
</div>
</div>
<br>
2023 10 22<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">9.5.0<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">BACKEND<br>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: 80px;">Pea 1.15 from checksum/hash
screen context menu can now save selected CRC or hash values for all
listed files, compatible with Coreutils sha256sum and similar utilities<br>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><br>
CODE<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Improved memory management
and listing algorithm<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Updated <span
style="font-weight: bold;">Browser optimization</span> levels to more
efficiently scale for browsing archives containing a very large number
of items; for 256K items archive as reference:<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;"> Up to -10% memory
usage (in Always pre-parse mode)<br>
Up to +25% browsing speed (in Normal browsing mode), up to +50%
browsing speed (in Always pre-parse mode)<br>
New quicker Fast browsing mode with pre-parsing applied only if
errors are detected opening the archive<br>
</div>
Up to +60% speed for tasks working on multiple separate small
archives<span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></div>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">7z alias</span> is now
applied also when using system's binary<br>
It is now possible <span style="font-weight: bold;">use binaries in
system paths</span> (e.g. as found in $PATH) for all supported
Operating Systems<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">The option can be set for
7z / p7zip backend only, or for all backend binaries<br>
The option can be hardcoded at compile time with HSYSBIN constant, 0
(default) means the value is not hardcoded and the option is read from
configuration<br>
The option does not apply to specific binaries which are meant to
remain in app's own path: peazip binary itself, pea, PeaZip
configuration wizard (Windows), and legacy binaries in unace and urar5
plugins<br>
</div>
Improved <span style="font-weight: bold;">batch command switches</span>
for archive creation<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Added -add2arc,
-add2sfxarc, and -add2rar switches (usable in batch scripts, context
menus, .destop files, Automator scripts) to directly add items to ARC,
self extracting ARC, and RAR archive (needs WinRar rar.exe or
equivalent being available in the system)<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Those switches can be used
in .reg files in the add2multi* form<br>
</div>
Removed legacy code for functions of -add2* and -add2separate* switch
groups<br>
</div>
Various fixes and improvements<br>
</div>
<br>
FILE MANAGER<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Adder quicker control to <span
style="font-weight: bold;">change ZIP filenames encoding</span><br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Codepage can be selected
from a list in main menu Options > Text
encoding, from file manager's context menu, and from archiving /
extraction context menus<br>
The last item in list "Text encoding..." brings to Settngs, Advanced
tab which shows all text encoding options<br>
Improved detection of empty archives<br>
</div>
Improved <span style="font-weight: bold;">tabbed browsing</span><br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Added option to Save tabs
(switch in tab bar context menu)<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">If the option is checked
open tabs will be saved on exit and re-loaded when the application is
opened again<br>
It is now possible to define at compile time the maximum number of
allowed tabs with MAXTABN constant<br>
</div>
Can now reopen last closed tab<br>
</div>
Updated <span style="font-weight: bold;">main theme</span> and default
system icons<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">main theme now shows
extension text into image of most common archive formats (7Z, RAR, ZIP)<br>
main-noextension theme and system icon pack are now available
separately from Themes and Icons repository<br>
</div>
</div>
<br>
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Fixed working dir parameter
for ARC format, some forms of the address were previously not properly
supported by the backend<br>
Improved <span style="font-weight: bold;">task scheduler</span> with
better usability of the Pause button when
running multiple fast tasks<br>
Improved extraction context menu, more elements are now available when
extracting items from archives, previously those elements were
available only when extracting entire single or multiple archives<br>
<br>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<br>
2023 08 19<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">9.4.0<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">BACKEND<br>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: 80px;">Pea 1.14<br>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><br>
CODE<br>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: 80px;">Expanded and re-organized
(peazip)/res/share/batch directory with <span
style="font-weight: bold;">scripting and system integration examples</span><br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">New sample scripts and
system integration items are now available for directly creating
archives in main supported formats, and for adding/removing comments to
archive<br>
Scripts are now sorted in "bat" and "sh" subfolders<br>
Windows Sendto links and .reg files for context menu entries are now
collected in "Windows" subfolder<br>
</div>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><br>
FILE MANAGER<br>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: 80px;">Added support to <span
style="font-weight: bold;">Apple iWork IWA file formats</span>,
.numbers, .pages, .key (Keynote)<br>
When "Try to open archives with errors" flag is set, errors are
suppressed only for listing operations, so the app can now display
error messages when previewing a file (e.g. wrong password)<br>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><br>
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING<br>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: 80px;">Added pre-set split size
for Blu-Ray DL, XL3, XL4<br>
Added function to <span style="font-weight: bold;">add, edit, remove
archive-level comment in RAR and ZIP/ZIPX files<br>
</span>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Keyboard shortcut for
comment editor is Alt+M<br>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Comment can be set for the
archive being browsed, or for one or multiple archives at once (even of
mixed types), in this case the same comment is set for all the selected
archives<br>
Comment can be manually edited or loaded from text file (selected from
dialog or dragged on the form), and can be saved to text file for
future use<br>
Comment con contain UTF8 characters and are limited to 64 KB for all
formats (RAR standard would allow 256KB comments but some Rar.exe
versions does not support 64K+ comments), please note some other
archive managers may not support UTF8 comments, or such large comments<br>
RAR comments limitations<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Writing comments to RAR
archive requires Rar.exe or equivalent installed on the system, reading
comments does not require Rar.exe<br>
Cannot currently read comment from multi volume RAR archives, and from
legacy RAR4 archives (but new comment can be written)<br>
</div>
ZIP/ZIPX comments limitations<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Consistently with 7-Zip and
WinRar, comments are not supported for spanned multi-volumes ZIP/ZIPX
archives<br>
</div>
It is possible to set comment from command line scripts with
following syntax:<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;"> peazip -setcomment
commentstring archive1..n<br>
peazip -setcommentf commentfile archive1..n<br>
peazip -removecomment archive1..n<br>
</div>
</div>
New switches to <span style="font-weight: bold;">directly add files
and folders to Brotli, BZip2, GZip, TAR, WIM, XZ, Zstd, and Zpaq format
archive</span>, with latest options saved for selected format<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Directly add files and
folders to archive in the specified format, with latest options used
for that format (-add2zpaq switch sets last used *PAQ format), TAR is
automatically applied when folders and/or multiple files are sent to
formats which supports single file compression (Brotli, BZip2, Gzip,
XZ, Zstd)<br>
Syntax: peazip (-add2brotli -add2bzip2 -add2gzip -add2tar -add2wim
-add2xz -add2zstd -add2zpaq) file1..n<br>
If no input file or folder is provided after the switch, the archive
creation screen remains open for input<br>
The switches can be used in scripts, and for system integration (links,
.desktop files, Automator scripts)<br>
Same switches in -add2multi* form can be used to integration with
Windows registry<br>
</div>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><br>
INSTALLERS<br>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: 80px;">(Windows) Add to GZ, XZ,
and Zstd are now available as choices in Context menu entries screen<br>
(Windows) A single re-configuration wizard now works for Win32 and
Win64 packages <br>
</div>
</div>
<br>
2023 06 25<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">9.3.0<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">BACKEND<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">7z 23.01 (Linux, macOS,
Windows)<br>
Pea 1.13<br>
</div>
<br>
FILE MANAGER<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">(macOS) Fixed conditional
startup actions on input (open, extract, extract here...)<br>
Added column to <span style="font-weight: bold;">display file-level
comment</span> in archives (default hidden)<br>
While browsing an archive, the information popup (clicking on status
bar) shows if the archive type can be edited in PeaZip<br>
Updated Themes<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Added <span
style="font-weight: bold;">contrast </span>setting to Themes<br>
Theme packages now contains customizable, 32 bit PNG icons for archive
file types<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Alternative themes with <span
style="font-weight: bold;">different icons for archive types</span>
are available selecting Custom in Theme dropdown menu<br>
New system icons packages are available to change system icons
accordingly to themes, anyway icon files from theme packages can be
used for system integration on Operating Systems accepting icons in PNG
format<br>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<br>
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Added checkbox to manually
set RAR binary for Custom / RAR compression format<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">This setting will allow
Windows users to locate WinRar Rar.exe executable more flexibly than
automatic search, and non-Windows users to set up RAR compression using
Wine or other alternatives<br>
</div>
(Windows) Work path free space is reported in archiving and extraction
screens info box, clicking on the status bar<br>
(Windows) <span style="font-weight: bold;">Free space on output path
and work path</span> (if applicable) is checked before starting
archiving and extraction operation, and user is warned if free space
may not be enough<br>
Fixes<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Fixed crash if the app is
forced to extract to a read only path<br>
Working directory for ARC compression is now changed accordingly to
7z/p7zip backend working directory<br>
Correct handling of .tar extension in output file name upon extraction
to new folder, if item with same name exists in the destination<br>
</div>
</div>
<br>
</div>
</div>
<br>
2023 04 23<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">9.2.0<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">BACKEND<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">(Windows) updated McMilk <span
style="font-weight: bold;">7z
codecs</span> v1.5.4r4: Zstandard v1.5.4, Brotli v.1.0.9, LZ4 v1.9.4,
LZ5
v1.5, Lizard v1.0, Fast LZMA2 v1.0.1<br>
(Windows) updated <span style="font-weight: bold;">7z sfx modules</span>
using ones from McMilk's 7z fork
v1.5.4r4, supporting extra compression methods<br>
Can now use zpaqfranz https://github.com/fcorbelli/zpaqfranz as
alternative backend for .zpaq format<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">To use an alternative zpaq
fork rename the binary as zpaq and replace the zpaq binary in
(peazip)/res/bin/zpaq/ directory<br>
</div>
</div>
<br>
CODE<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">(macOS) Fixed open custom
applications<br>
Fixed compression method is now saved accordingly for 7z sfx format and
7z format<br>
Re-organized Help section with quicker access to online updates,
Plugins, Themes, and Translations<br>
Privacy and Security section in main Settings tab, collecting all
relevant functions, including Updates<br>
</div>
<br>
FILE MANAGER<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Minor modification to
themes and icons<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Address filed can now set
window color plus button color (new), window color plus accent color,
button color (default), and accent color<br>
New <span style="font-weight: bold;">Compact mode</span> for the tool
bar, tool bar icons (for archive manager,
file manager, and image manager) are showm on the right of the address
bar while the tool bar is hidden<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Themes </span>were updated<br>
In (peazip)/res/share/icons are now available alternative Windows icons
with extensions, can be useful if file extensions are hidden on the
host system<br>
</div>
New options in Main menu, Organize<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span
style="font-weight: bold;">Tab bar</span> can now be swapped
with Address bar to be shown on the top (as common on Windows file
managers) or on the bottom (as common on Linux and macOS file managers)<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Breadcrumb </span>bar can
be shown as plain text address field, KDE/Windows
file managers -like breadcrumb (default), classic Gnome Files -like,
Gnome 4 -like, and macOS Finder -like.<br>
</div>
</div>
<br>
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Can now set a custom <span
style="font-weight: bold;">alias
name for 7z / p7zip</span> binary, to make easier to use an alternative
backend, in Options > Settings, Advanced tab<br>
Improved "<span style="font-weight: bold;">Edit non-canonical archive
types</span>" (Options > Settings,
Archive manager tab), provided the target file structure can be
actually read/write supported<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Can now edit existing files
in non-canonical archives<br>
Can now keep browsing files opened as archives after edits<br>
Fixed: adding/updating files in non-canonical archives now targets the
intended subfolder inside the archives<br>
Fixed: (Windows) non-canonical archives without extension can now be
edited<br>
The option is now applied to unknow file types only, to avoid editing
known formats not supporting the operation<br>
The option now allows to treat non-canonical archives as 7Z, ZIP
(default), TAR, or WIM files, to support even more derivate container
formats<br>
</div>
</div>
<br>
INSTALLERS<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Added Convert scripts and
context menu entries for all platforms in (peazip)/res/share/batch path<br>
</div>
<br>
</div>
</div>
<br>
2023 02 26<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">9.1.0<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">BACKEND<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Improved Backend binaries
option group in Options > Settings, Advanced tab<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Added option to <span
style="font-weight: bold;">adapt the syntax for a specific 7z version</span>
at runtime, syntax can now be set to 21.07 release (avoiding switches
introduced later), in order to improve portability of the app to
platform not having latest 7z build available, or when it is preferred
to adhere to an older syntax to maintain compatibility with legacy
systems<br>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Option to use the system's
version of 7z backend, rather than the one provided by PeaZip package,
is now supported on all non-Windows systems; a binary or a link named
7z in system's paths is required for this feature<br>
</div>
Pea 1.12<br>
</div>
<br>
CODE<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Various fixes and code
clean-up, improved support for BSD systems<br>
</div>
<br>
FILE MANAGER<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">General usability improved
with easier to spot <span style="font-weight: bold;">open in a new tab</span>,
<span style="font-weight: bold;">open in a new window</span>
controls, made easier to open console in current path, and made easier
to access to clipboard content<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Improved smart filename
sorting<br>
Improved <span style="font-weight: bold;">search in archive</span>s,
Simple search directive (can be toggled on / off from Organize menu)
now applies globally for searches in archives as well as in the
filesystem<br>
Simplified <span style="font-weight: bold;">finding duplicate files</span>
and calculating files hash/checksums in the file browser<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">In Options > Settings,
File manager tab it is now possible to set the file deduplication mode,
fast (default) or complete file content parsing<br>
</div>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Updated layout for options
in all screens (archiving, extraction, settings...)</div>
New "Enlarge file browser icons" switch in main menu, Organize to use
larger icons in all modes of the file browser<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Updated Themes</span> and
graphic<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Themes screen layout
simplified with less frequently used settings moved in Advanced group<br>
Zooming option can now both reduce and increase size of graphic elements<br>
Major restyle of themed and non-themed icons to better match the UI of
modern systems<br>
Updated all Theme packages<br>
</div>
<br>
</div>
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Adding files in
subdirectories of existing archives now displays the internal
(in-archive) destination path in confirmation dialog<br>
Can now <span style="font-weight: bold;">export as CLI scripts the
archive conversion tasks</span> defined in the GUI<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">"Archive conversion scripts
allow user's interaction" (default on) in Options > Settings >
Archive manager, Archive group, allows to interactively customize
conversion tasks saved as scripts when launched, otherwise the task
will run as batch requiring no interaction and applying current
application's settings<br>
</div>
Improved archiving and extraction screens<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">"Extract then move to
destination" setting moved to main extraction screen for better
visibility<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Added link to working
folder settings (in Settings, General) on the right of the control<br>
</div>
Set default output path for archiving and extraction moved in archiving
and extraction context menus for better visibility<br>
</div>
Improved <span style="font-weight: bold;">responsivity of Windows
context menu</span>, 15 - 40% faster than 9.0.0 release<br>
Improved auto extraction of compressed <span style="font-weight: bold;">TAR
</span>archives<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Added progress bar for the
auto-untar step after de-compression<br>
Auto-untar step is cancelled if the task ends in error or is cancelled<br>
Fixed auto-untar function when extracting multiple archives at once<br>
</div>
Improved support for <span style="font-weight: bold;">Brotli </span>and
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Zstandard</span><br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Can now set option to force
overwriting existing files from extraction screen<br>
Fixed extraction of Zstd files with long distance matching (windowLog
> 27)<br>
Maximize Zstandard compression option now sets --long=31 instead of
--long=27<br>
</div>
New option to <span style="font-weight: bold;">exclude empty
directories</span> form archiving and extraction operations (7z /
p7zip) in Options > Settings > Archive manager<br>
</div>
<br>
INSTALLERS<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">New PeaZip <span
style="font-weight: bold;">Portable package for BSD</span> systems
(GTK2, x86_64)<br>
(Linux) Updated<span style="font-weight: bold;"> KDE 5 Dolphin service
menus</span> in (peazip)/res/share/batch/freedesktop_integration
directory<br>
(Windows) New actions for Windows 11 mini context menu in
(peazip)/res/share/batch/Windows 11 mini context menu directory<br>
</div>
<br>
</div>
</div>
<br>
2022 12 18<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">9.0.0<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">BACKEND<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Pea 1.11<br>
<br>
</div>
CODE<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Fixes, clean up of
legacy code<br>
Improved progress bar<br>
Improved speed and memory usage<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">about 10% faster using 10%
less memory opening 250K items archive<br>
about 3x faster adding files to archiving / extraction layout from some
method which were previously poorly performing (e.g. drag and dropping
files to archive)<br>
removed performance bottleneck on selection of large group of items in
the browser<br>
</div>
</div>
<br>
FILE MANAGER<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">GUI better adapts to size
and preference changes<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Address breadcrumb adapts
the number of displayed items on the width of the application window to
improve usability<br>
If the Tool Bar is hidden, main functions (add, extract, test/list
submenu) are shown on the right side of the Address Bar alongside Style
menu<br>
From main menu > Organize it is now possible to set "<span
style="font-weight: bold;">Sort dirs before files</span>" (as common
on Windows file managers) or not (as common on macOS and Gnome)<br>
</div>
Selecting one of the available tool bars (archive manager, file
manager, image manager) restores its visibility if the Tool bar is
hidden<br>
Style menu "..." on the right of the tool / address bar now can
alternatively display the main menu in form of popup menu<br>
Navigation menu can now toggle side bar (navigation, treeview, hide),
and display Headers context menu<br>
Add and Extract actions are now featured at the top level of "Open"
group in side menu and of "Open" submenu in navigation bar<br>
</div>
<br>
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Added new options for
7z/p7zip backend<br>