Written for Peazip by Giorgio tani on 2026-04-06

PeaZip 11.0.0 is ready for download! https://peazip.github.io

WHAT'S NEW

PeaZip reaches major release 11.0.0, which consolidates the 10.x line evolution with bugfixes, code cleanup, and file / archive manager improvements.
The new release speeds up archive browsing, enhances Bookmarks and internal drag and drop (it is now possible to drag&drop items to Tabs and Breadcrumb bar), improves zoom and fractional scaling, supports alternative rendering styles for icons, adds new functions for batch archives testing and password entropy rating.
Backend are updated to 7z/p7zip 26.00 and Pea 1.30.
Sources are compiled with Lazarus 4.2, and are still compatible with Lazarus 3.x and 2.x.

A total of 242 file extensions are supported for being opened as archives.

WHAT IS PEAZIP

PeaZip is an Open Source (LGPLv3), cross-platform (BSD, Linux, macOS, Windows) archive manager and file manager utility, written with Lazarus / FreePascal IDE, which works as a GUI command line scripts generation engine for 7z/p7zip, Brotli, Zpaq, Zstd and other open source CLI archiving and compression tools.

This allows either to:
- use PeaZip as an interactive GUI application, as alternative to WinRar, WinZip, 7-Zip and similar apps), or
- use PeaZip to save tasks as batch CLI scripts for later use (for fine tuning beyond GUI's capabilities, learning the syntax, or re-use and automation purposes) to make easier to create and edit batch archiving / backup / unarchiving tasks.

Create (compress to): 7Z, Brotli, BZip2, GZip, PAQ, PEA, RAR (if Rar.exe or equivalent is available), TAR, WIM, XZ (LZMA2), ZIP, Zstd files, SFX self-extracting archives, and spanned archives (001 split files)

Open, browse, decompress / extract: RAR, ACE, APPX, APK, ARJ, CAB, DMG, IPA, ISO, JAR, LHA, MSI, UDF, ZIPX files and many more...
PeaZip can also try to open as archives arbitrary file types, if the structure is based on known standards, to access to internal resources.

Built-in archive conversion: convert or consolidate existing archives, from any read-supported to any write-supported type, e.g .rar to .zip or .7z conversion.

The program provides strong encryption with optional two factor authentication (encrypt with password and keyfile) for any supported format implementing encryption, encrypted password manager, random password / keyfile generation, secure data deletion, hashing and checksum functions, tabbed browsing, bookmarks, thumbnails and image viewer, and search inside archives.

NOTE

It is now necessary to add "metadarkstyle" package to the IDE before compiling "peazip" and "pea" binaries, which can be scripted as:

lazbuild --add-package (peazip sources path)/dev/metadarkstyle/metadarkstyle.lpk

RESOURCES

FAQ https://peazip.github.io/peazip-help-faq.html
Online Tutorial https://peazip.github.io/peazip-help.html
Change log https://peazip.github.io/changelog.html
Donations: https://peazip.github.io/donations.html
RSS Feeds https://github.com/peazip/PeaZip/releases.atom
PeaZip on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/peazip.bsky.social
PeaZip on Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/PeaZip/
PeaZip on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PeaZip

Translations are available in more than 40 languages, help is welcome to translate the application to new languages and maintain current localizations, so please give a look to translations page https://github.com/giorgiotani/PeaZip-Translations/releases

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