PeaZip has released version 10.1 of its open-source file archiving software, enhancing its resilience against password-guessing attacks. This update comes just two weeks after the launch of PeaZip 10 and incorporates significant backend improvements by updating to Pea 1.21. The latest version has adopted scrypt KDF as the default option, replacing PBKDF2, which bolsters security by increasing memory usage to as much as 1GB per instance.
According to the developers, "Scrypt is now the default KDF for all cascaded encryption modes," allowing users to configure it from a minimum of 64MB to a maximum of 1GB, depending on their needs.
In addition to security enhancements, PeaZip 10.1 features an upgraded graphical user interface (GUI) with a more intuitive navigation bar, including a compact sidebar mode. Users can now effortlessly drag and drop extract items, even in compact view mode. Other improvements include full alpha transparency support for themes and icons, an option to underline and highlight navigation breadcrumbs, and also better accessibility of the file browser’s column header menu.
The latest release also refines compression presets, addresses issues with directory copy/move operations on Unix-like systems, and corrects the extraction options to function properly in console mode.
For further information regarding the new features and improvements, users can consult the full changelog. The software is available for download at the official website with ready-to-use binaries for both 64-bit and ARM64 Linux systems.