PeaZip 10.6.0

BACKEND

• Updated 7z 25.01
• Updated Pea 1.26
• (Windows) Updated McMilk codecs to 24.09-v1.5.7-R1
  • (Linux, macOS) Added T.Yamada cielavenir/p7zip 24.09.1 fork to support Brotli, Lizard, LZ4, LZ5, Zstd additional codecs for .7z format
  • From Options > Settings, Advanced tab set "7z / p7zip alias" to "7zalt" to use this alternative implementation and support extra codecs for .7z format
• Updated Zpaq interface to support Zpaqfranz as default binary, keeping compatibility with Zpaq 7.x

CODE

• Built with Lazarus 4.2, compatible with Lazarus 3.x and 2.x
• Added Nemo actions for context menu integration in Cinnamon based Desktop Environments, in (peazip)res/share/batch/freedesktop_integration

FILE MANAGER

• Added Documents directory to default Bookmarks
• Added Search function to Options > Settings screen, to quickly find option groups and most used settings
• File browser was updated introducing dynamic virtual mode for the ListView component, boosting performances when browsing directories and archives containing a very large number of items (or using flat view on a very large number of items)
  • performances gains depend on the widgetset: opening a zip archive containing 25K items in the root directory is now over x6 faster on Windows, over x30 faster on macOS, near to x2 faster on Qt6 (which is the fastest widgetset in non-virtual mode), negligible / variable impact on GTK2 and GTK3
  • virtual mode is dynamically enabled and disabled over a threshold number of items displayed at once
    • this value and can be set (or virtual mode can be deactivated) from Options > Settings, Performances group
    • the default value depends on the widgetset: 8K for Windows, Always for macOS (which has biggest performances gain), 16K for Qt6 (most efficient in classic mode), disabled for other widgetsets
    • (macOS) due to current limitation of the implementation on the Cocoa widgetset, the virtual mode should either be always on (Always, default) or off (No)
  • virtual mode currently introduces some limitations in the archive browser, mainly:
    • disable showing exe icons and images thubnails (Windows, browsing the filesystem)
    • disable dynamic content filter typing in the address bar
    • disable item rename with mouse click, rename is only reached from F2 or from menu
  • various other minor performances improvements
• Fixes
  • Sizes of multipart archives are now reported correctly in the progress screen
• Improved archive pre-parsing
  • if the archive content exceeds the limitations of the current browser optimization level, it is applied an alternative quick pre-parsing procedure which can reconcile most of the common issues which can be found in archive's table of content
• Option "Keep password/keyfile for current session" is now unchecked by default, in this way password/keyfile is automatically re-set each time a new archive in accessed, as in most other archive managers
• Toggle "Show hidden files (in the filesystem)" moved from settings to main menu, Organize for ease of use
  • keyboard shortcut Ctrl+. or Command+. on macOS
• (BSD, Linux) Added alternative icons (48px and svg) for system integration in (peazip)res/share/batch/freedesktop_integration/alternative-icons
• (BSD, Linux, macOS) PeaZip can now automatically check if rar binary is available in the system, to auto enable creation of RAR files
• (BSD, Linux, macOS) Status bar hint box in file browser and archiving/extraction screens now reports free disk space, and % on total disk space

EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING

• Added option to limit the number of threads for Zpaq, in Advanced tab of archive creation screen
• Updated compression pre-sets (reached from dropdown menu on the right of Add button)