PeaZip 10.8 has been released, marking a significant update to this open-source, cross-platform file archiver utility based on 7-Zip, p7zip, Zstandard, and FreeArc. This update arrives about six weeks after version 10.7 and focuses primarily on enhancing how users can preview files within archives.
The new version introduces the capability to use the built-in image viewer for several archive types beyond just the previously supported 7z/p7zip, allowing this feature for ARC, BCM, Brotli, and Zstandard formats. Users can now access preview options through the context menus, and the image viewer will automatically adjust to the size of the on-screen image when exiting full-screen mode.
In addition to these enhancements, PeaZip 10.8 has added new custom themes, named line-dark and tux-alt-dark, and improved the analysis of archive headers by utilizing “magic bytes” for better file information display.
Other noteworthy updates include the ability to log commands generated by the scripting engine, a -rv option for multipart RAR archives, and the ability to hide the task progress window during small workloads. Improvements to compression presets, atomic extraction for TAR archives, and expanded language selection have also been made. The backends have been upgraded to include Pea 1.28 and Brotli 1.2.0.
Bug fixes have been addressed in this release, and users interested in a detailed list of changes can refer to the changelog. PeaZip 10.8 is available for download from the official website as ready-to-use binaries featuring both GTK and Qt interfaces. Alternatively, it can be installed as a Flatpak app from Flathub.