PeaZip 1.2

After three months of work, PeaZip 1.2 release is out; IMHO it's growing up well as an interesting project!
Below, SourceForge's "News" posts of the last two version, explaining the roadmap followed in the development.

1.2
This update is focused in enhancing archives management; a navigational browser and an alternative multiple inclusion and exclusion filtering mechanism are introduced to explore and selectively extract archive's contents.
7za, used in 1.0 and 1.1 versions as backend application to support many common archive types, is now replaced by 7z, that allows to browse/extract more archive types (ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB, ISO, LZH, RAR, RPM, Z, Nsis executables, most of OpenOffice native file formats etc) while the full supported archive types remains the same (7Z, BZ2, GZ, PEA, split, TAR, ZIP).
For archive creation, 7Z format is now set as the default one, being it the more complete and overall best archiving format supported.

1.1
This update is focused in giving the program more usability, through many UI improvements and fixes.
Windows version now runs fine also on 9x systems; most used functions as add to archive or extract here are accessible from shortcuts in SendTo menu; Windows installer now asks for optionally creating additional file associations.
For Linux is now available also a Gtk2 build (and the traditional build for Gtk1).
Both Linux versions are standalone, you just need to unpack and run them; for look and feel differences from Gtk1 and Gtk2 PeaZip build you can see this page.

PeaZip project

Published PeaZip project
   http://www.peazip.org
   http://sourceforge.net/projects/peazip
release 1.0
date 2006 11 06

"PeaZip" is the new name of the project formerly named Pea-Peach, to spot the introduction of support to many different archive and compression format along with native Pea format.

PeaZip is a general purpose file archiver, featuring compression, authenticated encryption and multi volume spanning; it is released for Windows and Linux.
Following archive/compression formats are supported through Pea executable and other open source and freely redistributable tools:

• full support: 001 (raw file split/join) 7z, 7zip sfx self extracting archives, BZip2, GZip, pea, tar, zip
• extract/browse only support: Z
  

As Pea-Peach, PeaZip is released under LGPL and the Pea file format specifications remain under PUBLIC DOMAIN.


Special thanks goes to:

• Wolfgang Ehrhardt who written and maintains a very good Delphi/Pascal crypto library, used in PeaZip and in PEA file format, you can find his works on: http://home.netsurf.de/wolfgang.ehrhardt/index.html please refer to Wolfgang Ehrhardt for all what concerns those units, (collected in "we" path in PeaZip source package).
• Igor Pavlov for providing under LGPL license his excellent 7Zip archiver, used in PeaZip (as 7za standalone console executable) to support most of mainstream file formats, along with all people developing and mantaining POSIX version of 7Zip, p7Zip. Please refer to 7Zip/p7Zip Authors for all what concerns 7za binaries, on http://www.7-zip.org and http://p7zip.sourceforge.net/
• All people on sci.crypt.* and comp.compression, for the useful answers and information provided during PEA format development.
• Wikipedia, for the quality of the articles and links provided.
• FreePascal and Lazarus teams, for developing and maintaining such a good development environment and related documentation.
• Tango Desktop Project team, for releasing under Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license many very nice looking icons, used in PeaZip Interface.

Pea-Peach project

Published Pea-Peach project http://pea-peach.sourceforge.net/ 
first public release 0.10 2006 09 16
last update 0.12 2006 09 28

Pea is a new archive format, focused on offering flexible and advanced security and integrity check features; pea file format specifications are released under PUBLIC DOMAIN.
Pea executable is the implementation of an archiver application supporting pea file format natively:
it takes files, folders and volumes as input and archives it in volumes of given sizes, supporting various integrity checks (default: CRC64), hashes (default: SHA256) and up to AES 256 in EAX mode authenticated encryption.
Pea executable is fully graphic; it can be invoked by command line and can be compiled a a library to easily use it from third parts applications, otherwise can be invoked by Peach graphic frontend.
Pea and Peach are implemented in FreePascal language and the sourcecode is released under LGPL.
The applications are free for download and distribution.

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