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# Open Source File Archiver Utility PeaZip Releases Version 9.0
- URL: https://itsfoss.com/news/peazip-9-0-release/
- Published: 2022-12-19T11:21:19.000Z
- Updated: 2023-01-02T04:51:07.000Z
- Description: The free and open-source file archiver utility adds a ton of refinements with this upgrade.
- Author: Sourav Rudra
- Tags: Application Releases, News, #Import 2025-11-08 21:15

PeaZip is an **open-source, cross-platform file archiver utility** that supports over 200 archive formats.

It is a good utility to have installed on your Linux system if you want something that can easily handle most archiving tasks.

Now, with a recent update, PeaZip has become even better.

Let me take you through the release highlights.

## 🆕 PeaZip 9.0: What's New?

![peazip 9.0](https://itsfoss.com/content/images/2022/12/PeaZip_9.0.png)

This release marks an essential step in PeaZip's development, with new features and overhauls implemented. Some of the highlights include:

- **Improved User Interface.**
- **Enhanced Support for Various Formats.**
- **Performance Improvements.**
- **New options for 7z/p7zip backend.**
- **Improvements to Plugins.**

### 🎨 Improved User Interface

![peazip 9.0 popup menu](https://itsfoss.com/content/images/2022/12/PeaZip_9.0_Popup_Menu.png)

The File Manager interface is now much more intuitive and can adapt according to changes in size and preferences. 

It also features a new pop-up menu that can be accessed from the '**Style**' menu at the top-right of the interface, which contains many options to change the behavior and appearance of PeaZip.

### Enhanced Support for Various Formats

The support for [ZPAQ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZPAQ?ref=itsfoss.com), [\*PAQ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAQ?ref=itsfoss.com) and [TAR](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar%5F%28computing%29?ref=itsfoss.com) formats has been improved. 

**In the case of ZPAQ:** The zpaq archives have been tested for encryption and will ask for a password when opening, extracting, or converting such a file (if required).

Additionally.

Whenever a .zpaq file is opened or extracted, zpaq-specific options are shown in the extraction screen, avoiding going to the 'Advanced tab.'

You can also extract zpaq archives to absolute, full, or relative paths.

**For PAQ:** It is now possible to preview the contents of a paq8 archive, even if there is only a single file in the archive.

**In the case of TAR:** The generation of scripts with the 'TAR before' option has been improved, and compressed TAR archives can now be extracted in a single step (atomic tar extraction) (which is optional).

### 🛠️ Performance Improvements

![peazip 9.0 about](https://itsfoss.com/content/images/2022/12/PeaZip_9.0_About.png)

PeaZip 9.0 has performance improvements in the following sectors:

- It is now 10% faster in opening archives of more than 250,000 items while also using 10% less memory.
- Adding files for archiving/extraction using the drag and drop method is now three times faster than before.
- A performance bottleneck was removed during the selection of a large group of items in the file browser.

### New options for 7z/p7zip backend

Various options were added for the 7z/p7zip backend that include:

- Option for modifying the last access time of input files.
- Option to limit the maximum usable memory during compression.
- Option to disallow the following symbolic links/hard links for WIM and TAR archives.

💡

These options are unavailable on macOS because it uses an older version of 7z.

### Improvements to Plugins

PeaZip plugins are now provided as tar archives; you can install a plugin by extracting the content to (PeaZip)/res/bin/ directory.

That's it? 🤔

Well, no. There are a couple more technical changes. You can refer to the [release notes](https://peazip.github.io/changelog.html?ref=itsfoss.com) if you want to dive deep into those.

## Download/Install PeaZip 9.0

For Linux, PeaZip is provided in various forms, such as **DEB, RPM**, a portable binary, and alternative packages with two distinct flavors, QT5 and GTK2\. A Flatpak is also available.

You can head to its download page to learn about the options.

[PeaZip 9.0](https://peazip.github.io/peazip-linux.html?ref=itsfoss.com)