PeaZip 10.5.0

BACKEND

• Pea 1.25

CODE

• Code cleanup
• Fixes
  • Fixed "Auto open TAR archive" triggering errors when opening some archives for browsing
  • Fixed breadcrumb navigation which failed for some archives
  • Fixed dialog type when setting Custom binary in archiving and extraction screens
  • Fixed archive listing warning icon, the icon is now properly re-set when password request is prompted opening the archive (encrypted filenames)
  • Various fixes
• Recompiled with Lazarus 4.0, compatibility kept with Lazarus 3.x and 2.x
  • (macOS) alternative file manager styles and sizes are now available, cursor icon is now correctly handled
  • recompiled dragdropfiles.dll for Windows 64 bit and 32 bit
• Updated W11 mini-context menu entries in (peazip)/res/share/batch/Windows

FILE MANAGER

• Added hints to Settings tabs, showing tab's subsections and suggesting most prominent switches featured in the tab
• Added option to search SHA256 hash value on Jotti VirusScan to check if the selected file matches with known malware
• Added warning before running file types containing active content, in order to improve security of the archive/file browser, from Options, Settings, File manager tab
  • it is possible to set a custom list of extensions to better fit user's security model (the default list is tailored for the different supported Operating Systems)
  • it is possible to set this function for Archive manager (default, when browsing archives only), File manager (when browsing the filesystem, not inside archives), both or none
• Can now toggle "Show hidden files and folders in the filesystem" on/off (default on) from Options > Settings, File manager tab
  • hidden files have Hidden attribute in Windows, start with . character on non-Windows systems
  • this setting only applies when browsing the filesystem, will not hide content inside archives
• Improved files and archives browsing
  • Improved speed and RAM usage opening archives, optimizing some performance critical routines: -60% time on 25K items archive (-12% memory), -25% time on 250K items archive (-25% memory), -5% time to display 25K items in the same view (-8% memory)
    • Optimized parsing archive content for errors, anomalies, and omissions, over x2 performances
    • Optimized representation of archive content in side bar treeview, approx x2 performances
    • Optimized performances of the file manager
      • General optimizations of sorting routines, memory intensive operations, file manager update, with various degree of performances improvement
      • De-duplicated file manager update when parsing archives, approx x2 performances when applicable
    • Optimization of pipe communication routines with performances improvements on execution of browsing and other types of tasks
  • Improved representation of archives with complex structures
  • Improved editing archives and preventing attempts of unsupported operations
• Improved filenames smart sorting
• "Open as archive" function is now enabled also from within archives, so it is possible to explicitly ask to preview a compressed file trying to handle it as archive/container
• Reorganized and de-duplicated the Functions sub-menu of Open menu (in navigation sidebar, and breadcrumb button dropdown menu) which shows most used app's function sorted alphabetically
  • this sub-menu is now available also from the main context menu
• Reorganized alternative main context menus
  • Ctrl + RightClick shows Breadcrumb menu (unchanged)
  • Shift + RightClick shows History menu, which now shows both history and session history sections
  • Ctrl + Shift + RightClick shows Bookmarks menu (new)
• Simplified pre-parse "Browser optimization" setting in Options > Settings, Performance group
• (Linux) Added System tools entries
• (Windows) Added functions to display NTFS Alternate Data Streams and Zone Identifier (Mark of The Web) for the selected file
  • please note NTFS Alternate Data Streams metadata requires the input file being stored on a NTFS filesystem
  • this function is available from main menu File manager > System tools
• (Windows) Added function to check for Mark of The Web in selected files (and, recursively, in selected folders), or for currently open archive file
  • this function is available as first entry in the Test dropdown menu in tool bar, and from main menu File manager > File tools submenu in file manager and in archiving / extraction screens
  • this function is based in NTFS Alternate Data Streams metadata and requires the files/folders being stored on a NTFS filesystem
  • this function is recommended before archiving, opening or extracting files, allows to detect if at least one of the input files comes from a remote system and therefore contains the Zone Identifier (Mark of The Web) in its Alternate Data Streams metadata
  • the slower "full report" variant of the function (in File tools submenus only) tests all input files and displays which ones have the MoTW and which one doesn't

EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING

• Improved handling of NTFS Alternate Data Streams, including Zone Identifier (Mark of The Web)
  • Added note in the info box in archive creation screen (clicking on input details in the status bar) to highlight formats which support storing NTFS Alternate Data Streams in archives created locally
  • NTFS Alternate Data Streams are now stored (and propagated on extraction) by default for RAR and WIM formats, even for archives created locally
  • As in previous versions, Mark of The Web is also propagated on extraction for all formats handled through 7z backend for downloaded archives
  • Please note Alternate Data Streams, including Zone Identifier (Mark of The Web), relies on NTFS filsystem features and are not portable on different filesystems
• Improved task progress window: text layout auto optimizes, better CPU efficiency of GUI for Test tasks