PeaZip 6.2.0 Open-Source Archiving App Released with Revamped File Browser, More

PeaZip, a free and cross-platform graphical file archiver that supports extracting and compressing of over 180 archive types, including 7-Zip, FreeArc, RAR, LHA, PAQ, ISO, UPX, 7Z, ACE, CAB, ZIP, XZ, ARJ, BZ2, and TAR was recently updated to version 6.2.0.

PeaZip 6.2.0 appears to be a major release that updates the 7z backend to version 16.04 for Windows platforms, and introduces real-time display of cumulative progress when running simultaneous jobs to the GUI (Graphical User Interface) for the archiving and extraction operations.

The command-line options of PeaZip have been expanded with the addition of "-ext2simplefolder" and "-ext2simple" as "blanket" extraction commands for all backends. While the "-ext2simple" parameter can be used to specify the output path, the "-ext2simplefolder" one is used for extracting files to a new folder.

PeaZip 6.2.0 brings a visual refresh of the File Browser

The File Browser component of PeaZip received a bunch...