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PeaZip is an OS-portable archiver tool (released for Windows and Linux); it supports its native Pea archive format (featuring compression, splitting and flexible encryption and integrity check schemes) and other mainstream formats, with special focus on handling open formats.
Supports 7Z, 7-Zip sfx, ARJ, BZip2, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB, GZip, ISO, JAR, LHA, LZH, NSIS, OOo, PAQ, PEA, QUAD, RAR, RPM, split, TAR, Z, ZIP.
PeaZip doesnt follow the Explorer-like interface paradigm; the interface is more similar to a CD/DVD-burner application, allowing the user to:
- 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 any script language);
- 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 doesnt need to be installed/uninstalled, 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.
What's New in version 2.2:
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. |
