A new version of PeaZip, a popular free, open-source archive manager for Windows, macOS, and Linux, is available to download.
PeaZip 9.7 is the first release to offer a native build for AArch64/ARM64 Linux. This means anyone can now use PeaZip on devices like the Raspberry Pi 4 & 5, the PineBook Pro, Lenovo X13s Gen 1, and similar.
Although experimental testing and community-based ports of PeaZip for ARM have been available in the past PeaZip 9.7 is the first formal, native, official, etc build — though it’s provided as a portable build only (i.e. not a DEB or RPM).
Also improved in this release is PeaZip’s scripting generation engine, which gains an option to use strdin/stdout pipe for making and extracting TAR archives. This doesn’t affect the GUI app (which most people use) rather scripts generated using the app but run independently.
Additionally, PeaZip 9.7 supports Brotli 1.1.0 and Zstd 1.5.5 backends; allows smart filename sorting in the file browser to be turned on/off; improves the loading of translations; and fixes an Qt5 selection issue.
Visually, PeaZip offer an improved “button” alternative tab style, with vertical tabs in Options screen themed according the selected theme tab style.
See the official PeaZip changelog for more more details.
Download PeaZip 9.7
You can download PeaZip 9.7 from the project website or from the assets listed on the the GitHub releases page for this release.
Both places provides installers for Windows, macOS, and Linux, with the latter offering DEB installers for Ubuntu.
Alternatively, PeaZip is available on Flathub.
Why use PeaZip?
Ubuntu offers the File Roller archive manager by default (and the Nautilus file manager is able to perform basic extract and compressing for certain formats natively). For most of us, that’s all we’ll ever need.
But those with advanced needs will find PeaZip provides a solid alternative to preinstalled options, especially for those needing to work with less-common archive formats or tackle more advanced tasks that may benefit from scripting or batch handling.
PeaZip supports ZIP, RAR, TAR, ZST, and 7z archives (among many others); passwords and AES encryption; the ability to split and merge archives; batch processing; a file browser to look within archives prior to extraction; and excellent performance even on lower-end devices.
In short, PeaZip is powerful, open-source tool archive manager that’s well worth trying out if you find other options lacking.