Releases: peazip/PeaZip
PeaZip 10.6.1
PeaZip 10.6.0
PeaZip 10.6.0 overhauls the file/archive browser introducing dynamic virtual mode, which improves performances when displaying a large number of items at once.
Archive pre-parsing is improved, show/hide hidden files is made easier, and Settings now features a search function.
Non-Windows builds can now automatically locate RAR binary (if available), and use alternative 7z fork to support Brotli, Lizard, LZ4, LZ5, Zstd additional codecs for .7Z format.
Backed are updated to 7z 25.01, Pea 1.26, and Zpaqfranz, which replaces Zpaq keeping full compatibility.
Sources are compiled with Lazarus 4.2, and are still compatible with Lazarus 3.x and 2.x.
UPDATE 2025 08 09: Windows packages were repacked on the fly, and SHA256.txt updated accordingly
- Zpaqfranz 62.5 replaces 61.6 which triggered false positives on some AV
- some of the sfx modules for 7z and Arc were removed for the same reason
- PeaZip 32 bit (legacy packages) were stripped of all offending binaries
Improvements in speed to display the content of large archives due to optimizations introduced in 10.5 and 10.6 releases, benchmark on archives containing 25K items, 250K items, and 25K items in the same directory
PeaZip 10.5.0
PeaZip 10.5.0 brings a major update in the file manager, boosting archive browsing perfomances, improving archive editing, adding new functions to prevent running a custom list of file extensions without confirmation, and to hide or show hidden files.
On macOS all file browser styles and icon sizes are now available as on other platforms.
On Windows it is now possible to explore NTFS Alternate Data Streams to gather additional information on files, including a dedicated tools to batch scan the input for Zone.Identifier (Mark of The Web) to detect files coming from remote systems.
Sources are compiled with Lazarus 4.x, and are still compatible with Lazarus 3.x and 2.x.
PeaZip on macOS, file browser set to large icons
PeaZip 10.4.0
10.4.0 release is focused on fixes, smarter error handling, and providing overall smoother user experience.
The app now automatically adapt icons and accent colors to Light / Dark mode.
New v.6 Themes better integrate app's look&feel with different system's styles and color schemes.
Backend were updated to Pea 1.24 and Zstd 1.5.7.
Default theme, auto adapted to dark mode
Tux-dark v.6 theme with modern style applied
PeaZip 10.3.0
PeaZip 10.3.0 improves various archive managing functions, as handling archives containing errors, automatic browsing of compressed TAR archives, displaying task progress, saving reports, and context menu integration in Gnome and KDE.
The new Style submenu allows to customize the look&feel of app's file/archive manager with a single click choosing between 4 pre-set layouts (Minimal, Classic, Modern, Postmodern).
Read the full changelog
Modern Style
Postmodern Style
Context menu integration in Gnome and KDE
PeaZip 10.2.0
PeaZip 10.2.0 enhances detection of issues in archives, improves displaying archive comments, and adds GUI support for Brotli and Zstandard maximum compression settings.
7z is updated to 24.09, and PEA to 1.22 which introduces hybrid KDF mode, employing both PBKDF2 and Scrypt to increase resiliency against dictionary and brute force password-recovery attacks.
On Linux systems Qt6 packages replace Qt5 ones, and Flatpak is now built for Wayland, with X11 fallback.
PeaZip built on Qt6, Tux theme, Gnome-styled breadcrumb
PeaZip 10.1.0
PeaZip 10.1.0 provides fixes, updates compression pre-sets, improves the breadcrumb and the navigation side bar, and updates Themes and icons supporting alpha transparency.
Pea 1.21 backend now supports scrypt KDF to improve resilience to password guessing attacks, increasing memory cost up to 1GB per instance.
PeaZip 10.1 on Windows dark mode, compact tool bar and side bar, underlined breadcrumb, icon mode
PeaZip 10.0.0
PeaZip 10.0.0 provides a revamped GUI engine, updates menus, compression pre-sets (TAR.GZ, TAR.XZ, TAR.ZST), and Themes.
File tools menu can now directly save save checksum/hash reports in a format compatible with GNU Coreutils, and allows to search hash values online - i.e. for matching with known values, for detection of know malware, etc.
Backends are updated to 7z 24.08, and Pea 1.20.
PeaZip running on Windows, dark mode, showing large icons
PeaZip 9.9.1
PeaZip 9.9.1 is a minor update, mainly meant to check and update the GitHub repository, providing up to date translations and some fixes.
PeaZip 9.9.x introduces internal drag and drop extraction, from file browser to any folder in left sidebar (which displays Bookmarks, History, and filesystem treeview). File browser is improved (better UAC elevation, and password testing), archive/extraction progress windows is revamped, and quick archive extraction link is now available on the right of the toolbar.
PeaZip 9.8.0
PeaZip 9.8.0 brings new Themes, improved flat mode (optionally display all archive's content at once), and adds the ability to directly extract all or selected items to any path in bookmarks, history or breadcrumb without further confirmation.
Direct extraction is implemented in "Extract to" group of app's context menu, and it is also available in as command line switches for scripts and for system integration (context menus, SendTo items, .desktop files, Automator scripts).
