A new version of PeaZip has been released. PeaZip is a free file archiver utility and rar extractor for Windows and Linux, work with 200+ archive types and variants (7z, ace, arc, bz2, cab, gz, iso, paq, pea, rar, tar, wim, zip, zipx...), handle spanned archives (001, r01, z01...) and support multiple archive encryption standards.
PeaZip 8.4.0
PeaZip 8.4.0 is the first release providing experimental native packages for Darwin / macOS platform, built for aarch64 M1 Apple Silicon SoC, and Intel x86_64.
This release brings fixes, improvements in management of temporary files, option to stop test batches only if errors are detected, and new language selection control.
A new alternative benchmark is available, based on integer and floating point arithmetic, testing single core and multi core performances.
PeaZip now comes with updated backends: Pea 1.05, and 7z 21.06, which is now employed on all platform.
On Linux, 7z backend replaces p7zip, which is still fully supported as alternative.
