Software-update: PeaZip 2.7 bèta

Donderdag is er met versienummer 2.7 een bètarelease van PeaZip uitgebracht. Dit archiveringsprogramma wordt onder een opensource-licentie beschikbaar gesteld en probeert zich van de concurrentie te onderscheiden door zich te specialiseren in veiligheid. Het versleutelen van data is dan ook het speerpunt van het eigen pea-formaat. Het programma kan 7z-, bz2-, gz-, paq/lpaq-, pea-, quad-, tar-, upx- en zip-bestanden creëren en diverse bestandsformaten uitpakken, waaronder ace, arj, cab, deb, iso, lha, rar en rpm. In versie 2.7 zijn de volgende veranderingen en verbeteringen doorgevoerd:

GUI

• (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 (sfx creation not jet working on Linux packages)
• updated 7z to 9.06 (Windows)
  • open mslz, flv, swf, gnm
• added backend for ZPAQ (Windows), currently supports only extraction to original absolute path

NOTE

• 95 file extensions supported