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Current release

2009 11 06

2.8.beta

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

2.x releases - 20080321 .. present

2009 10 20

2.7.1

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

2009 09 15

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)

2009 08 27

2.7.beta

(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

95 file extensions supported

2009 07 14

2.6.3

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

2009 06 12

2.6.2 [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

2009 06 05

2.6.1

87 file extensions supported
(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)

removed deletion functions from archive layout interface, del remapped to remove item from layout
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.

2009 05 04

85 file extensions supported
new themes

new icon for .lnk (Windows links)

(Linux) fixed nontransparent icons

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

(Windows) 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

built with Lazarus 0.9.26.2
(Linux) data previously installed in /usr is now installed in /usr/local
All translations updated

2009 04 14

2.6.beta

Linux packages compiled for Qt widgetset

2009 04 06

2.6.beta

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

2009 02 26

2.5.1

7z/p7zip 4.65
auto refresh
solid 7z archives with grouping for file extension
support for compressed themes
updated localizations

2009 01 28
- 2.5
2008 11 27
- 2.4.1
  - Various fixes
  - 7z frontend updated to 4.61 (Windows)
  - Quick archiving functions (add to single or multiple 7z, zip, sfx) now uses application defaults rather than backend program's defaults
  - Secure deletion can now erase both files and folders
  - Added Dutch, French, Galitian and Ukraininan translations; various translations updated
2008 11 10
- 2.4
  - 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)
2008 09 23
- 2.3 a
  - Archiving:
    - Added support for UDF, XAR, and DMG/HFS file types, improved support for OpenOffice file types - total 79 file extensions supported
    - Content and filenames encryption status is now fully inherited by new objects when adding files/folders to 7z archives
    - Custom file types can now be opened directly from "extract" menu entries
    - Fixed issues showing with ACE 1.x archives under Linux
    - Improved input file recognition for UPX compression (11 extensions)
    - Updated 7z frontend to 4.60 (Windows)
    - Updated Pea frontend to 0.21
    - Updated W.E. crypto library with package aes_2008-08-04
  - Usage:
    - Added third area to status bar showing current filesystem, or archive type plus encryption status
    - "Extract to new folder" flag is no longer limited to current session
    - Open executables/files/folders (in Windows) are now lauched in a separate processes rather than through shellexecute method (unless necessary) in order to increase parallelism and avoid possible stalls while waiting slow resources
    - Fixed configuration/bookmarks/rnd issues related to lack of write access for unprivileged users (Windows and Linux installable packages)
    - Improved file/archive browser's keyboard shorcuts:
      - Backspace mapped to browse previous path
      - More functional keys are now supported
        
        F2 browse desktop / Ctrl+F2 home / Shift+F2 root
        
        F3 search (recoursive) / Shift+F3 search here (non recoursive)
        
        F4 up one level
        
        F6 toggle browse/flat view
        
        F7 browse most recently visited item / Ctrl+F7 second / Shift+F7 third
        
        F8 browse first item in bookmarks list / Ctrl+F8 second / Shift+F8 third
        
        F9 toggle extract in new folder status / Shift+F9 reset extraction path to default
        
        F11 extract selected to
        
        F12 extract selected here
      - "Quick delete" and "Secure delete" bounded to del and shift+del respectively; shift+backspace remains for "Remove from layout" event in layout composer interface and is no longer used in file/archive manager
  - System integration:
    - New "Extract..." system's menu entry to allow specify path, extraction in new folder, password and other options
    - On Extract here (and list/test functions) from system's menus, now PeaZip test if password is needed and if archive is not corrupted (for performance reasons only for archives smaller than 100MB)
  - New localizations:
    - Czech, German, Portuguese, Russian
    - Toolbar buttons' width extended to 110px to better fit text
  - Misc:
    - Added "revision" letter in program's numbering; revisions contains the same text and uses the same localization files with no need of out of order loading as different version does
    - New function to display environment variables
    - Fixed possible cases of "Access violation" message on exit occourring on some configurations
2008 08 12
- PeaZip 2.2
2008 05 21
- PeaZip 2.1
  - Added Windows 64 packages:
    - peazip-2.1.bin.WIN64.exe
    - peazip_portable-2.1.bin.WIN64.zip
2008 05 19
- PeaZip 2.1
  - Added support for LZMA archives; currently supported formats: 71 extensions grouped in 43 families;
  - Improved support for large archives: if browsing takes too much time/memory (customisable amount), it stops allowing the user to narrow the selection using in-archive search and filter functions;
  - Removed winxpstyle.lpk dependency to allow project's build with standard out-of-the-box Lazarus install
  - Updated W.E. library with util_2008-03-30 package
  - Updated 7z backend to 4.58
  - (Windows) "Run as different user" (Tools) to start the application with alternate credentials and environment
  - (Windows) "System tools" submenu (Tools): access to system's defrag, disk cleanup, disk management, control panel, computer management and task manager
  - (Windows) Extraction by drag and drop from application to system (requires Address bar to be let enabled in file explorer); this custom drag and drop function doesn't need to copy files to temp folder on drag to system operations
  - Archive browser interface transformed in general purpose file manager (navigate in archive and in filesystem) interface
    - File tools menu featured in file browser interface
    - Robust file/folder copy through system's robocopy (Vista and 2008 Server, xcopy on previous systems back to Windows 2000)
  - Startup interface can be chosen in Settings (file/archive browser, archive creation main control panel)
  - Archive browser autoswitches to flat view mode (7z supported types) if needed.
  - Allows use of keyfiles for all formats supporting encryption: prepend to password the SHA256 hash of the keyfile (no size limit) encoded in Base64 (RFC 4648)
    - note: archives encrypted with keyfile can be extracted, providing the keyfile, by PeaZip or any application using the same convention, or simply entering the hash as part of the password
2008 03 21
- PeaZip 2.0
  - Added support for lpaq8 (read/write), u3p (read only)
  - Added support for custom formats, allowing to archive / extract using arbitrary backend utilities
  - General:
    - Added "Search and drag here" option (open system search panel, user can drag found items to archive or layout)
    - Gwrap evolved in PeaLauncher
      - new PeaLauncher mode showing both GUI and console
    - New "Console" tab, allowing to fine tune, save and launch archiving / extraction jobs without modifying the job defined in GUI frontend
    - New keyboard shortcuts (see documentation)
  - Archive creation:
    - By default remember last used compression format
    - Enabled doubleclick to open file/dirs (in system's file browser) from archive layout
    - Explicitely listed "Self-extracting" as format
    - Option to append timestamp to archive name
    - Pea format no longer needs counter extension if archive is not spanned
  - Archive extraction
    - "extract selected to" using middle mouse button
    - Extract / extract to / test toolbar buttons: new popup menu to apply the action to displayed or selected objects
    - Improved prebrowse, now checking number of objects rather than size of the archive, to speed up opening populated archives
    - Remember rename/overwrite policy for each format
  - File tools
    - Customizable erase file passes (2..16)
  - Fixes:
    - Resolved possible crash condition on some Windows systems while calling opendialogs (Lazarus Bugtracker ID 0010409, patch proposed by Chris Rorden);
    - Resolved bug of application randomly not showing up if ProcessMessages was called when application's windows was not yet visible;
    - Code cleanup, IFDEF redesigned to allow easier porting, transparency made available for Win64
    - various fixes and improvements

1.x releases - 20061106 .. 20080315

2008 03 15
- PeaZip 1.11b (Windows only)
  - Original lpaq1 and lpaq5 executables were compressed with upack and could lead to false positive detection from some antivirus products, so they were recompiled from sources and compressed with UPX instead than with upack to avoid this annoyance. PeaZip and PeaZip Portable packages for Windows were consequently rebuilt (1.11b release) with new lpaq executables.
2008 02 14
- PeaZip 1.11
  - Updated PeaZip 1.11 for Linux to fix bug 1893364 (' characters in passwords); Windows version is not affected by this bug.
2008 01 28
- PeaZip 1.11
2007 12 08
- PeaZip 1.10
2007 11 02
- PeaZip 1.9.3
2007 10 06
- PeaZip 1.9.2
2007 09 08
- PeaZip 1.9.1
  - added LPAQ1 compression format, full support;
  - added PAQ8O archive format, full support;
  - improved file recognition, 58 extensions are now handled;
  - UNACE moved as a plugin (not hosted on SourceForge): now the base package contains only open source software released under OSI-approved licenses;
  - updated 7z frontend to 4.55, p7zip to 4.53;
  - code cleanup, various minor fixes and improvements (.quad uncompressed size, layout composer size when adding objects larger than 4GB etc);
  - added menu entries for split/join files without passing for most comprehensive create archive/open archive interface;
  - improved theming and icons, now all graphic is skinnable;
  - archive browser:
    - improved extraction path handling, "extract to" functions changes default extraction path for current session so all extraction related operations are performed in the last user-provided path;
    - added "Extract all to" button to toolbar;
    - improved archives handling, password field is higlighted when archive encryption is detected;
    - improved context menu:added Info entry, "preview" and "extract and run" transformed in submenus, added "reset extraction path" and "extract to new folder" switch;
2007 08 10
- PeaZip 1.9
  - New tabular look, updated graphic;
  - New theming scheme (3 colors only, custom icon's folder, all graphics but imglist and buttons is now customizable);
  - Enabled multiple selection in archive layout composer and archive browser (selection as in previous versions available as option);
  - AZ/ZA sorting clicking on column's header for layout composer and archive browser;
  - Added (optional) recent archives history, only for archives create/opened from main window;
  - Added search on the web functions (archive and open interfaces);
  - Added benchmark tool;
  - Options tabs reorganized (general, create and open tabs);
  - Updated 7z frontend to 4.51;
  - Updated UPX frontend to 3.01;
  - Updated we crypto and checksum/hash libraries in use;
  - Updated gwrap executable (new look, supports benchmark mode);
  - Updated Pea executable (allows interactive input for split if size is not specified);
  - Archive:
    - Added exclusion filters wich can be saved in archive's layout (works with 7z binary, otherwise are disabled);
    - Added customizable solid block size (.7z format);
    - Added DVD DL preset volume size; DVD and DVD DL sizes corrected according to Wikipedia information;
    - Added quick selection between favourite formats as customizable popup menu;
    - Last used compression method is saved in details to defaults (for 7z binary, .7z and .zip formats);
    - 'Compress files open for writing' saved to conf (all formats supported through 7z binary);
    - 'Encrypt filenames' function (.7z format) saved to conf;
  - Open:
    - New archive browser toolbar, reorganized as complete navigation bar;
    - Added option to not give detailed information if archive is over a given MB size (much more faster for archives containing many objects);
    - Added options to ignore paths for selected and dispayed objects;
    - Added Test (all) button;
    - Added popup menu to save command line applying the action to all, displayed or selected objects;
    - Doubleclick and 'Extract and open' functions are more customizable;
    - Archive browser's popup menu:
      - Added Preview function to extract and open a file or a folder in a temporary working directory in output path (deleted closing the application or opening another archive);
      - Added test and list submenus;
      - Extract and Extract to entries gives information about output path and about status of 'extract to a new folder' option.
2007 07 17
- PeaZip 1.8.2
  - Updated 7z frontend to 4.49 release;
  - Fixed gwrap diplay issue with zero or not known size objects.
  - Fixed PeaZip issue saving window size;
  - Fixed filetype recognition for UPX frontend.
2007 07 10
- PeaZip 1.8.1
  - Updated 7z frontend to 4.48 release;
  - Create archive: now archives are named, as default, after selected object;
  - Linux version: fixed issue with Gnome desktop environment passing %20 instead of space character in filenames;
  - Available also as DEB package.
2007 06 14
- PeaZip 1.8
  - Linux packages updated: execute permission corrected for all binaries.
2007 06 10
- PeaZip 1.8
  - Linux packages updated to use p7zip 4.47.1 instead of 4.47.
2007 06 08
- PeaZip 1.8
  - New:
    - Updated frontend to use 7z 4.47 beta, adding support for archiving open for writing files, fast Deflate and Deflate64, read/write AES encrypted ZIP files (WinZip AE standard);
    - Added read support for ACE archives;
    - Added read support for SLP (Stampede Linux package);
    - Added suggest password function to generate 4-64 character random passwords (in create keyfile panel);
    - Added "Extract to..." entries in archive browser's context menu to allow quick extracion of all archive, or displayed content, or selected object(s) to arbitrary path;
    - Doubleclick action in archive browser is now customizable (just extract the item, extract and open the output path, extract and run...);
    - New tabular layout for graphic wrapper, with compression ratio and speed (logarithm) graphics;
    - Added "Halt system when job finishes" option to job's graphic wrapper.
  - Naming convention change: package-version.subversion.(bin/src/doc).SYSTEM.WIDGETSET.architecture
  - On SourceForge installable and portable packages are now separated in two distinct groups.
  - Fixes:
    - Fixed archive output name in save dialog, now displayed wit extension;
    - Fixed some issues in options handling in 7z frontend;
    - Code cleanup; moved p7z to 7z path, removed many conditional sections unifying Win and *x syntax;
    - Open file, path or URL from PeaZip features ported to Linux (using Gnome or KDE);
    - Linux version: resolved some GUI issues on GTK2 (checkbox click behaviour, replacing onclick with onchange on Linux) and GTK1 (shapes overlapping with other objects);
    - Other minor fixes.
2007 05 18
- PeaZip 1.7
  - Released generic Linux RPM package PeaZip-1.7-2.i586.rpm, based on PeaZip1.7_Linux_x86_GTK2.tar.gz, installs PeaZip in /usr/bin/peazip/ path.
2007 05 14
- PeaZip 1.7
  - New:
    - Frontend for QUAD 1.12 and UPX 3.0;
    - Windows installer now can create context menu entries alongside the usual SendTo links;
    - 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 options:
    - Save default compression/extraction paths;
    - Save archive browser settings;
  - Fixes:
    - Patched PAQ8* executables for a known problem on Windows Vista only;
    - Fixed bug in saving default archiving format;
    - Fixed bug in handling relative filenames.
2007 04 12
- PeaZip 1.6 (updated PeaZip1.6_Win32.exe, _source.zip and _documentation.zip)
  - quik links parameters to send input to separate archives corrected in -add2separate7z and -add2separatezip
2007 04 10
- PeaZip 1.6
  - New 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 compressor;
    - 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;
2007 03 19
- PeaZip 1.5
2007 03 05
- PeaZip 1.4
  - Support improvements:
    - Input objects can be archived in TAR format before being sent to any other archiver/compressor;
    - Strip and UPX compression frontend added to reduce size of executables;
    - Added full support to Ilia Muraviev's QUAD compression format.
  - Executables recompiled using W. Ehrhardt's crc_hash_2007-02-14 updated source package.
  - FreeDesktop integration package (instructions and .desktop files) is now part of PeaZip and is included in all Linux packages.
  - Various fixes and enhancements:
    - More neutral color theme adopted by default;
    - "Create KeyFile" moved as subfunction in create archive interface, and "About" as subfunction in main panel;
    - Window state (size, position) saved on exit;
    - Job log popup (console mode) made optional (default on);
    - Double click to extract and open archived object in archive browser interface;
    - Added "Extract and open with" context menu (for Windows only) for create archive and archive browser interfaces;
    - "Extract and open" and "Extract and open with" functions can extract objects directly to archive's path (default), or, optionally extract object preserving full path structure from archive;
    - Added shortcut functions for:
      - adding object to archive (opening create archive interface);
      - opening multiple, composite archives in archive browser interface (in separate instances of PeaZip);
    - In Windows, shortcut functions are created in SendTo path in order to resolve issues of Vista with subfolders in SendTo path;
    - Fixed: batch loading of objects from shorthcut functions not longer stops encountering non supported objects.
2007 02 02
- PeaZip 1.3
  - For 7z-supported archive types it is introduced in-archive support for "Add" (or update) and "Delete" operations;
  - Introduced full support (creation, flat browsing and extraction) to PAQ8F and PAQ8JD archives through frontend to multiple PAQ compression utilities;
  - W. Ehrhardt's sources updated with util_2007-01-26.zip package;
  - Minor enhancements and fixes, notably:
    - "Open with" dialog in Windows if "Extract and run" operation encounters an unknown filetype;
    - File extension not stripped when creating BZip2 archives.
2007 01 23
- PeaZip 1.2 (revision b):
  - PeaZip and Pea binaries recompiled using W. Ehrhardt's whirl512 unit version 0.33 21.01.07;
  - Fixed extraction of archived objects with names beginning with '.' through 7z binary.
2007 01 20
- PeaZip 1.2
  - various functional UI improvements:
    - navigational browser to explore and selectively extract archive's contents;
    - optional falt mode for the archive browser;
    - advanced multiple inclusion and exclusion filtering mechanism in alternative to archive browsing for selective extraction of contents;
    - save job definition feature extended also to the graphic wrapper;
  - various usability and look&feel enhancements;
  - 7z replaces 7za as backend archiver application to support more types of common archive formats; now PeaZip handles:
    - full support: 7Z, BZ2, GZ, PEA, split, TAR, ZIP;
    - browse/extract only support: ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB, ISO, Java archives, LHA, LZH, some MSI, Nsis exe, OOo file formats, RAR, RPM, Z.
2006 12 04
- PeaZip 1.1
  - executables built with Lazarus 0.9.20;
  - built Linux versions (x86) for GTK1 (tested on GTK1.2) and GTK2 (tested on GTK 2.8);
  - built Windows standalone and installable versions, tested on 98, 2000 and XP;
  - Windows installer: the program is now installed in "Programs" path with shortcuts in "SendTo"; setup creates by default file association only with .pea and .001 (split file's first volume) formats and asks to optionally associate other filetypes (.7z, .bz2, .gz, .tar, .Z, .zip) with PeaZip;
  - shell integration: created shortcut in "SendTo" to send files and folders to PeaZip, and multiple shortcuts with fixed paramstr(1) to quick access to most used PeaZip functions:
    - add to archive (.7z, .pea, .zip types) or self-extracting archives (7z compressed);
    - encrypt files and folders (.pea encrypted archive);
    - split file;
    - "extract here" and "extract to new folder here", allowing parallel extraction of multiple archives (of different types) at once;
    - test and list archive(s), allowing parallel testing or listing of multiple archives of composite types at once;
  - fixed some Windows 9x-specific issues: the code about disabling transparency support for that platform doesn't longer rise errors; TSpinEdit component behaves correctly;
  - "Archive" features:
    - UI improvements: single step to archive, introduced "Passes" option in 7za frontend (Deflate, Deflate64 and BZip2), changed "fast" and "fastest" settings in 7za frontend (Deflate and Deflate64) for high speed compression, customised icons of 7-zip's sfx modules;
    - resolved issues: in Linux version is now possible to choose compression level parameter (7za frontend); changing archive type no longer reset custom archive name, raw file split no longer loose original file extension;
  - "Open" features:
    - introduced filters support for selective partial extraction (or listing) of content from 7za-supported archives;
    - UI improvements: created [#] label to quick listing archive's content (7za archives only), extract to new folder yes/no option (7za frontend) promoted to a separate option group, output selection now uses a folder selection dialog.
2006 11 06
- PeaZip 1.0
  - Pea-Peach project renamed in PeaZip project to spot the shift of focus toward a more general purpose free archiving utility;
  - created frontend and graphic wrapper for Igor Pavlov’s 7za (and Myspace's POSIX port of 7za), introducing full support to 7z, BZip2, GZip, Tar and Zip format and browse/extract support to Z format;
  - various interface improvements; used some icons from Tango Project.

0.x releases - 20060916 .. 20061002

2006 10 02
- Pea-Peach release 0.12: [update recommended]
2006 09 20
- Pea-Peach release 0.11:
  - UnPEA procedure is now able to extract whole disks from a .pea archive;
  - improved random number generation keeping a persistent source of randomness trough sessions;
  - minor fixes and improvements.
2006 09 16
- First public release of Pea-Peach project: open source, free archiving utility for handling PEA archives and to split/join files; Pea 0.10, Peach 0.10; PEA file format 1.0

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