Version history PeaZip

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Changes from v2.3a -> v2.4

• New localizations and new icons are featured, drag and drop on Windows benefits of an information panel which follows the mouse, and clipboard was made more powerful and flexible, optionally allowing multiple cut/copy operations to be stored in the clipboard.
• UI items, like comboboxes, were redesigned to be customizable in height to better fit different font sizes and resolutions, that will make the application more readable expecially on Debian/Ubuntu systems and on Windows with screen set at 120 DPI.
• Linux installable packages are now built to place files in a more ortodox way, in /usr/share/, consequently if handling ACE archives is desired it needs new PeaZip UNACE plugin package to be downloaded and installed (update not needed for Windows users and for portable versions).

Changes from v2.2 -> v2.3a

• 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

Changes from v2.1 -> v2.2

• Release 2.2 sees the long awaited introduction of UTF-8 support, to help handling filenames with extended characters ans allow localization of the user inteface text. Translations now available are English and Italian, hopefully more will come with the help of the community: you can mail me localized language file to be included in future updates, see "Translations" chapter in documentation (or ask on the forum) if you are willing to contribute your translation. User experience was also improved, adding bookmarks, making the address bar editable, improving PeaLauncher, introducing the new NuoveXT theme and many other fixes and improvements. Under the hood, crypto libraries in use were updated, p7zip 4.48 is now supported on Linux, UPX was updated to 3.03 and it was added support for the highly efficient BALZ compression format, to a total of 72 file extensions supported by PeaZip 2.2.

Changes from v2.0 -> v2.1

• 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.

Changes from v1.11b -> v2.0

• 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

Changes from v1.11 -> v1.11b

• 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.

Changes from v1.10 -> v1.11

• 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
• updated p7zip frontend to 4.57 (Linux version) 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.

Changes from v1.9.3 -> v1.10

• recompiled with Lazarus 0.9.24
• fixed GTK2 visualization bug showing on some Linux distributions
• allowed "create new folder" during output path selection in Windows
• various optimizations (FreePascal version is updated) 7z frontend updated from 4.56 beta to 4.57 stable (Windows) drag and drop:
• from system to main panel
• from system to archive creation interface
• from system to archive browsing interface:
• modify archive if allowed for the archive type (add files and folders)
• alternatively open as new archive various fixes, improvements and code cleanup

Changes from v1.9.2 -> v1.9.3

• Added control on open for preview files in archives;
• Added full support to LPAQ5 format;
• Improved selection options (by date, size, packed size, type, attributes), web search and recent list, more recently opened objects displayed first;
• New "file compare" tool: byte to byte compare two files
• Optimized archive browsing speed
• Quick wipe, compare and extract to quick functions
• Updated 7z frontend to 4.56
• Updated Tango and CrystalC themes, updated crypto library in use;
• Various fixes
• Fixed file/dir size issues, now max file size supported by the GUI is 2^64, qword (max is 2^31, signed integer, for files and dirs)
• Work in progress animation during processes in peazip (history button in archive browser) and gwrap

Changes from v1.9.1 -> v1.9.2

• Improved theming and user interface, introduced (and set as default) CrystalC theme, inspired by Everaldo's Crystal and Crystal Clear themes (LGPL), as alternative to classic Tango-inspired theme;
• Uniformed "format options" GUI in Create archive interface > Options tab;
• p7zip forntend updated to 4.55 version (Linux);
• Conf file commented (human readable);
• Gwrap
• added faster response mode, allowing to pause and resume jobs and change process priority;
• Pea
• added file wipe utility (secure file deletion), accepting multiple filenames as input;
• Fixes:
• "extract" functions now authomatically extracts content always out of PeaZip's temporary folder;
• Run with associated and custom application now are compatible with more applications;
• W.Ehrhardt's SHA512 unit 3.21 hotfix;
• various minor fixes and improvements.

Changes from v1.9 -> v1.9.1

• Release 1.9.1 is focused on continuing the 1.9.* series trend toward a more powerful but at the same time cleaner and more intuitive UI. UNACE support was moved to external plugin in order to let the base package containing only free open ource software released under OSI-approved licenses. Support for PAQ8O and LPAQ1 was added, and 7z/p7zip frontend was updated to use, respectievly, 4.55 and 4.53 versions, bringing to 58 the total number of file extensions supported for extraction.

Changes from v1.8.2 -> v1.9

• Release 1.9 introduces several updates, new functions and interface enhancements over 1.8 series, based on feedback collected on previous 1.8 release series, featuring a substantially renewed user interface driven to a cleaner design and better usability. The layout composer and the archive browser were improved, introducing multiple selection, AZ/ZA sorting, better designed popup menus, options organized in a tabs, archive browsing navigation bar, recent archive's history and many other under the hood usability improvements; see change log for a detailed description

Changes from v1.8.1 -> v1.8.2

• 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.

Changes from v1.8 -> v1.8.1

• 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.

Changes from v1.7 -> v1.8

• 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.
• 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.

Changes from v1.6 -> v1.7

• 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.

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