May 10th, 2012· 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
April 10th, 2012FILE 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
January 29th, 2012FILE 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
December 26th, 2011BACKEND:
· 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
November 21st, 2011FILE MANAGER:
· Immersive mode for file browser (full screen, no window border), toggle with Ctrl+F11 (option is volatile, not saved in configuration, it is just meant for enhancing browsing space on request)
Improved custom applications menus:
· allows 8 more applications, links or scripts
· automatically detects recent AVG versions, Microsoft Security Essentials, Google Chrome
Improved thumbnail viewer:
· does not rebuild thumbnails when sorting
· free memory changing small/large icon size
· Fixed: (Windows) browsing computer's root may fail at application startup
· Fixed: (Windows) loading list of objects from system context menu may not work under some conditions, only the first time application runs in a session
· Fixed: descending sorting is now remembered
· Fixed: correct size is now reported in status bar for selected items over 2GB
· Various minor fixes and improvements
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING:
· ARC format, now archiving relative paths by default, optionally absolute paths can be stored (advanced options tab in archive creation interface)
· More information dispayed in report tab during operation: completed strings are displayed
WINDOWS INSTALLER:
· Reduce packages size: some superseeded formats (lpaq1/5, paq8f/jd/l) moved to external plugin
· uses uncompressed Winodws icons (package compression is more efficient)
October 22nd, 2011BACKEND:
· 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
September 22nd, 2011FILE 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
August 28th, 2011BACKEND:
· 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
August 1st, 2011FILE 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)
June 12th, 2011BACKEND:
· (Windows) 7z updated to 9.22 beta
· Pea 0.36
CODE:
· Added a constant switch COMPQT to fix some visual and functional problems compiling the application for Qt on Linux, default is 0, if experiencing problems with the compiled binary set it to 1 for better results on Qt on Linux
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING:
· Added write support for WIM and XZ formats
· Added context menu handlers for right button drag and drop operation from application to system
· from file browser: move, copy, extract, extract in new folder
· from within archives: extract selected here, extract all here (both also in new folder)
· Added "Extract all to..." button on toolbar
· Fixed adding files to existing archives through "Add" procedure
· Fixed updating archive content in application window bar after delete operations
· Fixed browsing files with .bz extension and its variants
· Fixed creating new folder if folder with same name exists, in extraction and archive conversion
· Fixed restoring archive content in application window bar after exiting "Extract" procedure
· Fixed show correct path in the breadcrumb when opening and empty or non readable archive
· Various minor fixes
WINDOWS INSTALLER:
· Used InnoSetup ANSI version to keep compatibility with 9x systems
· 133 file extensions supported (improved support for .bz2 variants; .ipa files)
April 6th, 2011CODE:
· Compiled with -O3 optimizations
· Compiled with Lazarus 0.9.30, done preliminary code cleanup to improve compatibility with 0.9.31 and following releases
· Replaced TNotebook (deprecated) with TPageControl
· File manager related functions moved from pea_utils (dependent on crypto library) to list_utils (not dependent on the crypto library)
· Moved application's initialization code from FormCreate to FormShow event
· Updated *_utils units to introduce new features for improving and customizing the application
· Used pure pascal replacement for crc_hash library units
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.
February 27th, 2011FILE MANAGER:
· 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
February 10th, 2011CODE:
· 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
December 26th, 2010BACKEND:
· 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)
December 13th, 2010BACKEND:
· 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
November 26th, 2010BACKEND:
· 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 MANAGERP:
· 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
October 25th, 2010BACKEND:
· (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)
September 15th, 2010BACKEND:
· (Windows) updated to 7z 9.16 beta
FILE MANAGER:
· improved capability of launching favourite programs and websites from file browser
· "Open..." group in navigation menu to launch most common operations (such as open file or directory) and favourite applications and websites
· new "Run" entry to type and launch arbitrary programs or websites
· new "Web search" dialog for launching single or multiple searches at once
· added alternative command for advanced applications/scripts group, to be executed if no parameter is received
· updated integration with Avira and Virustotal
· (Windows) improved aspect of drag and drop information panel
· (Windows Vista/7) improved desktop recognition
· (Windows) improved handling of non accessible mapped units
· if the operation takes more time than expected, following remote unit tests are skipped
· added an option to skip testing mapped units in Options > General (2), which is automatically set when the previous case applies
· improved recognition of malformed archives (not containing entries for directories), which triggers to switch to flat browsing mode in order to show all objects
· toggle flat/browse mode icon is prompted in the taskbar to speed up "show all" inside archives
· added link to PeaZip's folder in Options > Settings > General (1)
· themes were updated
· fixed browsing of .Z files
· fixed setting preferred applications brings to correct options page
June 30th, 2010BACKEND:
· (Windows) 7z 9.15 beta
FILE MANAGER:
· fixed browsing some types of split compressed files, i.e. .bz.001
· fixed preserving/removing original file extension in archive name accordingly to archive type
· added optional theming image for file manager's toolbar
WINDOWS INSTALLER:
· fixed: the installer now removes older versions' language files during the installation
June 14th, 2010BACKEND :
· UPX 3.05
· 7z 9.14 beta (Windows)
· p7zip 9.13 beta (Linux)
· FreeArc 0.666 alpha (Windows)
FILE MANAGER :
· (Windows Vista and 7) Added "All tasks" entry in System tools
· Added link to donate to charitable organizations suggested by PeaZip in the "Help" submenu, along project's links
· In context menu's Misc > Search on the web added entries to search filename in torrents, uploads and eMule
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING :
· Options > Settings > General (2): added flag for 7z/p7zip's -mcu to use UTF8 encoding inside ZIP archives for file names that contain non-ASCII symbols
·
Various minor updates
May 3rd, 2010· 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
· 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
April 12th, 2010BACKEND:
· 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
February 20th, 2010FILE 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
February 10th, 2010FILE 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)
January 26th, 2010· Display sizes with suffixes (and a decimal) to improve readability
· Improved startup time searching unc name only for remote units
Fixes:
· fixed some possible crash conditions
· various fixes
January 18th, 2010FILE MANAGER:
· (Windows) Added reference SendTo items in PeaZip's path to simplify customizing installation, to share those items between users, and to use this type of system integration for PeaZip Portable
· (Windows) New default icon library with icons from Seven theme
· Various fixes
WINDOWS INSTALLER:
· (Windows 7) Cascaded context menu with icons, since in Windows 7 and later cascading menu implementation is supported through registry settings, which is now recommended over COM methods
· Various fixes
January 6th, 2010· 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.
· 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.
December 3rd, 2009· (Windows 7) Fixed drag and drop on Windows 7
· (Linux) Fixed a bug which on some circumstances crashed the application while opening an archive on startup
· New navigation menu entry for Public documents for Windows Vista/7
· New theme for providing a more intuitive and familiar look and feel to Windows users
· New icons for databases, vector graphic, palette graphic, and icons/cursors
· Improved password form's exception handling
· Reset button to clear the search filter and refresh the file browser applying the non filtered non recoursive listing
· Added "Recent archive" panel to status bar
· Added "Explore path with PeaZip", "Explore path" and "Open command prompt here" entries to History and Recent panels' context menu
· Various minor updates and fixes
Keyboard shortcuts:
· Ctrl+A becomes shortcut to "Select all"
· Ctrl+L becomes shortcut to "Extract all"
November 20th, 2009· FILE MANAGER
· Item's height autosizes to fit system's DPI and fonts' size
New keyboard shortcuts:
· Ctrl+N create new folder
· Ctrl+R rename file
· Ctrl+U up to computer's or archive's root level
· Navigation menu
· History menu is now replicated in navigation menus
· Navigation menu in browser's context menu was grouped in a single entry
· Navigation menus now contains only navigation related entries: "Add to bookmarks" is now featured in "Misc" group in all context menus of the application
· Search
· recursivity option is remembered for the current session
· search dialog can optionally be directly raised with recursivity is unflagged (Ctrl+F3) or flagged (Shift+F3)
· Bookmarks panel: added "Explore path with PeaZip", "Explore path" and "Open command prompt here" entries in bookmarks' panel menu
· EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING
· Archiving and extraction interfaces now shows "Use advanced filters" switch
· It is possible to execute archiving/extraction jobs with no items in layout, if advanced filters are in use
· History menu replicated in archiving/extraction navigation menus allows to quickly select paths visited in current session from archive/extract interfaces
· It is now possible to set custom default output path for archiving operations (like for extraction operations), and it is now possible to go from file browser to empty extraction interface (i.e. to add archives to be extracted by drag and drop) clicking on Extract button with no archive selected, likewise to what is possible for going to empty archiving interface
November 10th, 2009· FILE MANAGER
· New file manager based on ListView
· easier selection (optional row selection)
· sorting column and a/z order are remembered
· alternative Details and List browser style
· customizable icons for most common file types
· Can now open MBR, FAT and NTFS units as archive (experimental) through 7z backend, to display objects hidden by the system at any level (file browser is yet independent from system's file explorer API, but still rely on system's Find* API)
· (Windows) Faster file copy, copy in restartable mode (default off) can be set in Options > Settings
· Updated "Open with..." presets to scan files with new AVG9
· EXTRACT, CONVERT and ARCHIVE
· Convert archives, accepts both archives and non-archives, existing archives are extracted before compression stage
· used with "Add each object to a separate archive" option (defaults) it performs a mass conversion of listed archives to the desired format
· otherwise it consolidates multiple input archives in a new archive of the desired format, and can improve compression efficency due to extraction and recompression of existing archives
· Multiple jobs launched at once (form program's GUI) are now executed sequentially, parallel execution is available as option
· Extract to new folder option is now remembered
· Can set a default extraction path (from extraction form, quick path selection menu which is called from button on the left of the extraction path address)
· Extract button, within an archive, extracts selected object; if nothing is selected extracts all displayed objects (like WinRar/7-Zip).
· 98 file extensions supported (MBR, FAT, NTFS)
· Recompiled with Lazarus 0.9.28.2
· All translations updated
October 20th, 2009· Recompiled with Lazarus 0.9.28 / FPC 2.2.4
· Updated to Pea 0.28
FILE MANAGER:
· Fixed: it is now possible to use keyboard shortcut for go back and go up when browsing any archive type
· Fixed: it is now possible to open with custom applications items in subfolders of archives
· Fixed: it is now possible to scan selected items with AVG (inside archives or in the filesystem) - the old non working command can be fixed using reset in Options > Settings > Open with... tab
· Full path column now is shown only in flat view, to reduce the amount of displayed information in browsing mode
· Fixed (Vista and more recent systems): robocopy does no longer changes destination folders attributes accordingly to input folder while copying files
· Various minor fixes and improvements (better sorting, faster translation, simpler message on archive browsing error)
EXTRACTION:
New keyboard shortcuts for extraction:
· Ctrl+Alt+Enter start archive(s) extraction, as Ok button
· Shift+Backspace cancel archive(s) extraction, as Cancel button
· Shift+N toggle extract in new folder on/off
ARCHIVING:
· Fixed: "Add to separate archives" automatically unchecked when using add to archive mode
· Fixed: clicking on file name dialog now always starts the dialog in the currently selected directory
New keyboard shortcuts for archiving:
· Ctrl+Alt+Enter start archive(s) creation, as Ok button
· Shift+Backspace archive(s) creation, as Cancel button
· Shift+7 change archive type to 7z, +B to bz2, +G to gz, +S to 7z-sfx, + T to tar, +Z to zip
September 15th, 2009· BACKEND
· (Windows) updated to 7z 9.07
· FILE MANAGER
· Fixed: issue in remembering last output path used for extraction
· Fixed: issue in dropping items to bookmarks (showing on Windows only)
· Fixed: incorrect size for files larger than 4GB (showing on Windows only) - to compile sources in Lazarus 0.9.26.2 the IDE needs to be patched: http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=14472
· Fixed: PeaLauncher issue in exploring output path, if it is a folder (showing on Windows only)
· Fixed: restored behaviour of open/preview with "PeaZip (new instance)", to attempt to open any file type as an archive
· Added copy to, move to, quick and secure deletion, explore and open command prompt here into file manager's toolbar dropdown menu
· Back, fwd and up buttons now have a rightclick popupmenu to browse 8 more recent history entries
Drag and drop to application:
· disabled dropping to non browseable archive (corrupted, or content is protected by unknow passord)
· disabled dropping to "Settings" panel
· when dropping a single supported non-archive type file into the file browser (i.e. an executable or an Office file),show add to archive instead of choiche dialog
· (Windows) potentially slow operation of querying for units was moved after GUI creation and launch of quick functions
· Various minor fixes and improvements
· EXTRACTION
· After extraction by drag and drop the output path is now reset to archive's path, and drop path is saved as last used, as for all other extraction operations
· For extractions performed during preview operation, the default output path is automatically moved out of the PeaZip's temporary folder
· Output path dialog now starts from archive's path by default
· Output path field is now writeable to allow manual editing or pasting paths from other file managers
· When browsing a single archive, extraction checks if password is needed, as happens for drag and drop extraction under the same condition
· ARCHIVING
· Enabled Ctrl+V to add objects to archives (from PeaZip's clipboard)
· For ease of use, it is now disabled changing output when archiving in archive update mode
· LPAQ8 can now be selected as compression format from *PAQ entry
· WINDOWS INSTALLER
· Context menu's extraction entries are now featured only for common archive types; by default PeaZip now creates 1 entry for files and folders and 4 for known archive types
· New entries in SendTo: browse path with Peazip and open command prompt here
· ZIP files are re-associated with Compressed Folder Windows' utility when PeaZip is uninstalled
· (Linux) updated .desktop files (KDE) and Nautilus scripts (Gnome) to send input to new extraction interface
· 95 file extensions supported
· Added missing text txt_2_7_oop and txt_2_7_experimental to language file (update of localizations created for beta is needed)
August 28th, 2009GUI:
· (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
· updated 7z to 9.06
· open mslz, flv, swf, gnm
· added backend for ZPAQ, currently supports only extraction to original absolute path
· 95 file extensions supported
July 15th, 2009· added support for MS Office Template file types (a total of 90 file extensions are now supported)
PeaLauncher:
· fixed bug in exploring paths containing spaces
· fixed bug in exploring paths in full mode (when PeaLauncher is used as standalone application)
· standardized ok and cancel buttons' position and icons
Pea:
· fixed bug refusing chunck size bigger than maxint from command line
· fixed possible looping of application after internal_error procedure
June 12th, 2009· [update recommended]
· p7zip backend updated to 9.04 (Linux)
tightened sanitization of input strings in PeaZip GUI, as security fix against a class of possible attacks based on code injection (ref: http://secunia.com/advisories/35352/ http://milw0rm.com/exploits/8881 original submission: http://retrogod.altervista.org/). To attack previos releases an attacker could build archives containing objects with nonvalid filenames, containing concatenated commands in the filename "hidden" to the user by making the filename very long with spaces to trick users in non reading the latter part of the name. If unaware users had downloaded such archive and doubleclicked or otherwise opened the archived file entry containing the concatenated command, would have put in execution the command (with current user rights). Fixes:
check file/dir names for:
· non-allowed characters (0..31)
· reserved characters
· reserved file names
· unusual spacing (5 consecutive or more, like in 7-Zip GUI), as may be intended to trick user hiding real filename
check command string immediately before execution for:
· non-allowed characters
· reserved characters for command concatenation (|), not used by PeaZip GUI
· unusual spacing
June 5th, 2009· 87 file extensions supported
· removed deletion functions from archive layout interface, del remapped to remove item from layout
(Windows) 7z backend updated to 9.04:
· added LZMA2 compression in 7z format
· read .XZ files
· read .VHD files (Microsoft Virtual PC disk images)
it is now possible to define a custom desktop folder in Settings:
· (Linux) this change fixed possible access violation message at the first run of the application, while the application attempts to open a system dialog to set desktop folder (only on non-English installations, on distributions not using "Desktop" name for desktop folder)
various fixes:
· fixed a bug in dragging items to bookmarks (bookmarks bar was raised even if it was hidden)
· now size of multipart archive is reported correctly in PeaLauncher
· fixed password input using extract here from context menu
· (Linux, Qt) moved libqt4intf.so in PeaZip's path (as in portable version) and created links into /usr/lib, /usr/lib32 and /usr/local/lib
· some fixes for Windows 9x systems; please note that some of the backend application may not run properly on Windows 9x, and the frontend too may behave unexpectedly on some configurations since it is not possible to test it on many different 9x machines.
May 4th, 2009· 85 file extensions supported
· built with Lazarus 0.9.26.2
· All translations updated
new themes:
· new icon for .lnk (Windows links)
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:
· 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
April 6th, 2009· 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
February 26th, 2009· 7z/p7zip 4.65
· auto refresh
· solid 7z archives with grouping for file extension
· support for compressed themes
· updated localizations
November 10th, 2008· GUI
· Allowed proportional toolbar buttons as option to allow fit longer text of some localizations
· Autosized or optionally custom sized height for UI items, to fix visual issues with certain default setting of font size / window decorations (i.e. Ubuntu Linux, Windows at 120 DPI)
· (Windows) Drag and drop form (transparent) follows the mouse and shows source, destination and content being dragged
· Esc remapped to cancel current selection and cut/copy/past operations, and to stop drag and drop operations on Windows
· New icons for unsupported files, executables/installers and MSOffice/OpenOffice files (which are opened with system's associated action by default); icons are made transparent on Cut operation
· Archive manager
· Files and folders being added to archive's layout are displayed in application's windows title bar
· If the archive is in a read only path, preview are transparently done using a temporary work path accessible to current user, and "Extract here" popup directory selection dialog to chose a writeable path
· File manager
· (Windows) Added shortcuts to user's document folder path
Cut/copy/paste clipboard:
· clipboard content shown in Options" Panel in file browser
· single items can be removed from clipboard to further refine the selection
· option to keep in clipboard multiple (and mixed) cut/copy operations
· (Windows) Improved system's paths recognition if methods based on environment variables fails, including the case of username containing extended characters
· File/folders list and info functions implemented as part of PEA, so will run in parallel in a separate process
· More info about machine and filesystem in I/O panel
· Simple hexadecimal preview implemented in PEA
· Updated web search functions: search in Google video, Wiktionary, Commons, Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikinews, Yahoo and Yahoo answers
· Misc
· Built with Lazarus 0.9.26
· (Linux) Installable packages now places PeaZip folder in /usr/share/ (it needs new PeaZip UNACE plugin package)
January 28th, 2008· 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
· 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
June 11th, 2007· - added read support for ACE archives;
· - 7z frontend is updated to use 7z 4.47, which provides several
· enhancements, like: read/write support for AES encrypted ZIP archives,
· fast and multithreaded Deflate compression, ability to compress open for
· writing files (very useful performing backup jobs);
· - new function to generate random 4-54 characters password;
· - new option to halt system at job completition;
· - customizable action for doubleclick in archive browser;
· - Linux version now is able to open files/dirs/URLs;
· - Linux installable packages now also provide system integration for Gnome
· and KDE.
May 14th, 2007· New: Frontend for QUAD 1.12 and UPX 3.0;
· New: Windows installer now can create context menu entries alongside the usual SendTo links;
· New: 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: Save default compression/extraction paths;
· New: Save archive browser settings;
· Patched PAQ8* executables for a known problem on Windows Vista only;
· Fixed bug in saving default archiving format;
· Fixed bug in handling relative filenames.
April 10th, 2007New features:
· new graphic and icons, better layout for some GUI elements like password fields;
· last used compression settings are now automatically saved;
· password is asked, if missing, when extracting, listing or testing an encrypted archive;
· created quick functions to add each input object to a separate zip or 7z archive;
job's graphic wrapper now:
· displays (approximate) progress bar;
· allow stopping jobs;
· allow auto closing the form after the job completes;
· features a button to open output path (Windows only);
· frontend for QUAD 1.11;
· enabled read support for PET, PUP, PK3 and PK4 files;
· Windows installer allows to customize file associations for each extension and to define which links to quick functions are to be created in SendTo menu;
New options:
· auto close job's graphic wrapper when job ends, default off; may be overridden from the graphic wrapper for each job;
· disable information-level messages, default on;
· show password field's text (to avoid entering password confirmation), default off;
Fixes:
· "tar before"
· the option automatically updates when adding objects to archive;
· some rare freeze condition fixed;
January 22nd, 2007· New archive browser interface;;
· extended support to more archive formats;
· various minor UI improvements
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